McCaskill launches rural Missouri town hall meetings in bid to stake out the middle
Source: STL Post Dispatch
"A year out from what could be the toughest election fight of her life, Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., sought to burnish her centrist credentials Friday, recounting to a crowd in this small town her efforts at bipartisan legislation in Washington, slamming over-regulation by the government and stressing that she doesn’t think America can afford a Bernie Sanders-style single-payer national health care system.
McCaskill will seek next year her third Senate term in a state that has moved sharply to the right since she first took office. Targeted as one of the most vulnerable incumbents in the nation, she is using the August Senate recess to visit more than two dozen mostly rural communities around the state to hammer home her long-cultivated political persona as a moderate with a personal history that started in what is now solid red rural Missouri.
“I’m doing these in places where I’m not that popular,” McCaskill told about 80 people who gathered for a “town hall” meeting with her at the Sullivan Senior Center in this town of about 7,000 some 65 miles southwest of St. Louis. “I really think it’s important that I go places and hear from people who don’t necessarily agree with me.”
But in fact, the audience — most of them older adults — who showed up for the open event appeared to be, if anything, to McCaskill’s left on several issues — particularly the issue of President Donald Trump."
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