And just last week Biden called McCaskill the “most principled person in the United States Senate.”
Via Beltway Confidential:
Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., had to apologize after she dismissed a negative campaign ad by wrongly denouncing the people who spoke out against her for “pretend[ing] like they were Missourians,” when in fact they were “concerned” constituents.
“They went out an hired some actors to pretend like they were Missourians,” McCaskill said when talking about an Americans for Prosperity ad. “I don’t know they’re actors, but I certainly didn’t see them identifying themselves as Missourians.”
It turns out, McCaskill was wrong. “We are all Missourians in that commercial,” Linda Becker, who appeared in the ad, told the St. Louis Fox-affiliate, KTVI. “We’re not actors, none of us are professionals, we just are concerned taxpayers, and we’ve been taxed enough already and we want to see a change.” Becker told Fox that she got into the ad through Tea Party connections.