Claire McCaskill
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Oct 16, 2026
Evan BarkerGUEST
So Missouri was still a bellwether state.
Evan BarkerGUEST
We had Claire McCaskill as senator.
Evan BarkerGUEST
It was not the deep red state that it is now.
Evan BarkerGUEST
It was very, very different back then.
Nate CohnGUEST
When Donald Trump helped Republicans win red states in the 2018 midterm, he was popular in Texas when Ted Cruz won.
Nate CohnGUEST
He was popular in Missouri when they could bring down a Claire McCaskill.
Nate CohnGUEST
Donald Trump is not popular in these red states today, and as a result, the, the floor underneath Republican candidates is, at least right now in the polls, it's not there, and they are falling much farther than you would ordinarily think they could.
Michael BarbaroHOST
So to bring it back to strategy, what you're all saying is that a hugely important part of the Republican strategy here has to be turning out their voters, at least the ones who haven't turned against them or the President.
Dana LoeschHOST
But Barack Obama, the difference is that there were people who absolutely refused to campaign with him.
Dana LoeschHOST
And one of those, because Barack Obama was kryptonite, one of them, if you guys remember, was Claire McCaskill.
Dana LoeschHOST
And I'll never forget this, because this is before we had moved from St. Louis to Dallas.
Dana LoeschHOST
This is before we left.
Dana LoeschHOST
And I distinctly remember Claire McCaskill refused... to have him at any, any of her events because she was so worried that his popularity or his unpopularity was going to rub off on her.
Dana LoeschHOST
She tried for office so many times and they were, I mean, she was getting made fun of for it because she abs, she had a big, I'll never forget cause I protested and I was down literally downtown protesting it.
Dana LoeschHOST
She had this big, um, fundraiser, and I can't remember, it was like one of those $20,000 a plate fundraisers.
Dana LoeschHOST
And he at first there was like a little press hiccup where his team kind of intimated that she that he was going to like help fundraise for these candidates.
Jack WindsorHOST
Republicans rally to him, nominate him, and in November, I face the opponent I picked.
Jack WindsorHOST
Claire McCaskill ran this play in Missouri in 2012.
Jack WindsorHOST
Her campaign boosted Todd Akin, the weakest Republican in the field.
Jack WindsorHOST
He won the primary, she beat him in November, and she bragged about it in writing.
Joel AndersonHOST
Yep.
Bryan CurtisHOST
Todd Akin, 2012 Senate against Claire McCaskill in Missouri.
Bryan CurtisHOST
You remember this?
Joel AndersonHOST
Oh.
Chandler HaynesGUEST
And our majorities have grown and grown and grown over the years until it's gotten to a point where we've successfully driven Democrats out of every position of relative power or real power in the state.
Chandler HaynesGUEST
Claire McCaskill was the last, you know, federal elected Democrat in 2018.
Chandler HaynesGUEST
And what was, when did Fitz kick-
Elijah HaahrHOST
Nicole Galloway
Chris HayesHOST
That's how Donald Trump and his family, the whole administration family, not just the relations, are feeding from the full trough while you're paying 4.50 for a gallon of gas.
Chris HayesHOST
Faiz Shakir serves as a Senior Advisor to Senator Bernie Sanders, as Executive Director of the progressive media organization More Perfect Union, former Democratic senator from Missouri, Claire McCaskill, is an MSNBC political analyst, and they both join me now.
Chris HayesHOST
I mean, first of all, just, Claire, let's just start on the details of the Kimberly Guilfoyle story.
Chris HayesHOST
My f- my favorite is when you're texting...
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Chris HayesHOST
It used to be a cliche, but is no longer a cliche because [laughs] these people are so obviously not animated by that, by that spirit.
Chris HayesHOST
It's, it, it, it couldn't be any more evident.
Chris HayesHOST
Faiz Shakir, Claire McCaskill, what a pleasure.
Chris HayesHOST
Thank you both.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
He is president of the National Action Network.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
And former US senator MSNOW political analyst, Claire McCaskill, is here with us as well.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Willie, we had a lot of, lot of debates last night.
Mika BrzezinskiHOST
Ooh, it was-
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Joe ScarboroughHOST
Uh, uh, his Islamoph- phobia was, was, uh, laced throughout his comments.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
Uh, but it, it just didn't work, and it didn't work in part because it was halting.
Joe ScarboroughHOST
But there's a second reason it didn't work, Claire McCaskill, and, uh, El-Sayed was very good, going back to actually the issues that do matter here.
Claire McCaskillPANELIST
Mm-hmm.
Alicia MenendezHOST
There's not much meat on that bone.
Alicia MenendezHOST
With the midterm elections on the line, let's bring in former Democratic senator and MS Now political analyst Claire McCaskill, the Travis County, Texas Democratic Party chair and former director of voter expansion Luke Worford, and our own MS Now White House reporter Laura Barron-Lopez.
Alicia MenendezHOST
Claire, uh, this is how The New York Times summed up whatever that rally was.
Alicia MenendezHOST
Trump talked a lot about the border, and Democrats, and himself.
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Alicia MenendezHOST
But it's worth noting, even when the White House supposedly restored access, it has continued to block both CNN and Politico from carrying out pool duties.
Alicia MenendezHOST
White House lawyers argue the ban, suddenly announced by Trump two weeks ago, was due to national security reasons, an argument undermined at every turn by a president who rants against the negative news coverage he receives.
Alicia MenendezHOST
And in today's hearing, DOJ said they wanted to, quote, "Drive home the point that it's really the president making these decisions." I wanna bring in Melissa Murray, MS Now legal analyst and former law clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, former senator Claire McCaskill, and Laura Barron-Lopez.
Alicia MenendezHOST
They are both back with me.
Jeff SmithGUEST
Um, not something that's, you know, typical in Missouri politics.
Jeff SmithGUEST
Claire McCaskill did it to Bob Holden back in 2004.
Jeff SmithGUEST
M- you know, narrowly won the primary and narrowly lost the general.
Jeff SmithGUEST
So we haven't seen anyone do it and pull it off and win both a primary and a general.
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