Claire McCaskill Is Just Another Partisan Democrat

For Claire McCaskill, fall of 2018 is looking like the autumn of her career, almost all of which she has spent as a professional politician. She keeps telling Missouri she is a moderate, a centrist, someone who is eager to work with President Trump. As she campaigns for a third term in the Senate, polling has turned against her because the record tells another story, which is that she’s just another Democrat. She isn’t a moderate. She isn’t bipartisan. She’s a liberal.

That McCaskill is a member of the anti-Trump resistance is evident in how she has joined most of her party in abandoning the norm of quickly confirming presidential cabinet chiefs. She voted against Trump’s cabinet picks for the departments of State, Education, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, and for the CIA, the EPA, and the Office of Management and Budget.

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Kyle Smith

Kyle Smith is the film critic for the Wall Street Journal.

For Claire McCaskill, fall of 2018 is looking like the autumn of her career, almost all of which she has spent as a professional politician. She keeps telling Missouri she is a moderate, a centrist, someone who is eager to work with President Trump. As she campaigns for a third term in the Senate, polling has turned against her because the record tells another story, which is that she’s just another Democrat. She isn’t a moderate. She isn’t bipartisan. She’s a liberal.

That McCaskill is a member of the anti-Trump resistance is evident in how she has joined most of her party in abandoning the norm of quickly confirming presidential cabinet chiefs. She voted against Trump’s cabinet picks for the departments of State, Education, Treasury, and Housing and Urban Development, and for the CIA, the EPA, and the Office of Management and Budget.