Has outgoing Missouri Democratic senator Claire McCaskill learned anything from her recent defeat? Maybe. As far as Claire's concerned, her party has basically written off the United States west of Pennsylvania and east of California.
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., is about to head home after losing her bid for re-election, and in defeat she's blaming her own Democratic Party for abandoning moderates.
McCaskill has represented Missouri in the Senate since 2007. During her tenure, President Obama lost Missouri twice and President Trump won it handily. McCaskill was one of 10 Senate Democrats running for re-election in states Trump won; four lost.
In an interview with Morning Edition host Rachel Martin, McCaskill characterized her loss as a "failure" of the Democratic Party "to gain enough trust with rural Americans," and she predicted her party will struggle to win other seats as long as President Trump remains in office.
"This demand for purity, this looking down your nose at people who want to compromise, is a recipe for disaster for the Democrats," she said Thursday in her Capitol Hill office. "Will we ever get to a majority in the Senate again, much less to 60, if we do not have some moderates in our party?"
The Brett Kavanaugh business didn't help.
I don't think my vote [against Kavanaugh] hurt me as much as the spectacle that occurred. There were mistakes made by my party in terms of how that was handled. I don't think that communication [from Christine Blasey Ford] to the judiciary committee should have been kept private as long as it was. The FBI deals with a lot of confidential information, and that would have absolved [judiciary committee ranking Democrat Dianne Feinstein] of the very real perception that this was an 11th-hour attempt to gut a guy.
Which it was but no matter. Claire's actually not that far off. When you've decided that the views of the folks in Flyover Country are irrelevant, evil or both, good luck winning national elections or holding on to a house of Congress for very long.
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She's learning. And if enough people keep leaving California, all of their election cheating will go towards a declining number of congressional seats.
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