Claire McCaskill sat down for a freewheeling discussion with David Axelrod, a former journalist and later Democratic political consultant close to Barack Obama.
As one ad put it, "As victims cry for help, is Claire McCaskill listening?".
As McCaskill herself implied on David Axelrod's podcast, there was more to Shepard's behavior towards women than what had been reported.
"Evidently, Claire McCaskill was on the Stephen Colbert show and she denied that ad, saying that it was false. Now I didn't see [the] Stephen Colbert interview with Claire McCaskill, but I heard it talked about on the morning show the next day. And that is what prompted me - the fact that I knew to be true what this ad was saying. And then [McCaskill] is getting on national TV, on the Stephen Colbert show, and saying that it was a lie."
For one thing, the last time Claire McCaskill appeared on Stephen Colbert's show was 2015.
Murnin freely admits that when she first saw the ads calling out Shepard's behavior towards his ex-wife, she'd "Been uncomfortable with Claire McCaskill as senator for a while." Add to that the fact that this story was being pushed as part of a Republican opposition research effort operating on a specific timetable to help the party's electoral prospects.
Claire McCaskill herself once thought so; way back in 2006 she ruffled more than a few feathers in the Democratic Party when she told "Meet the Press," "I have a lot of problems with some of personal issues" and "I don't want my daughter near him."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/30/claire_mccaskill_and_a_metoo_double_standard_140442.html
As one ad put it, "As victims cry for help, is Claire McCaskill listening?".
As McCaskill herself implied on David Axelrod's podcast, there was more to Shepard's behavior towards women than what had been reported.
"Evidently, Claire McCaskill was on the Stephen Colbert show and she denied that ad, saying that it was false. Now I didn't see [the] Stephen Colbert interview with Claire McCaskill, but I heard it talked about on the morning show the next day. And that is what prompted me - the fact that I knew to be true what this ad was saying. And then [McCaskill] is getting on national TV, on the Stephen Colbert show, and saying that it was a lie."
For one thing, the last time Claire McCaskill appeared on Stephen Colbert's show was 2015.
Murnin freely admits that when she first saw the ads calling out Shepard's behavior towards his ex-wife, she'd "Been uncomfortable with Claire McCaskill as senator for a while." Add to that the fact that this story was being pushed as part of a Republican opposition research effort operating on a specific timetable to help the party's electoral prospects.
Claire McCaskill herself once thought so; way back in 2006 she ruffled more than a few feathers in the Democratic Party when she told "Meet the Press," "I have a lot of problems with some of personal issues" and "I don't want my daughter near him."
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2019/05/30/claire_mccaskill_and_a_metoo_double_standard_140442.html
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