President Donald Trump implored voters on Thursday to reject Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill and to instead install a Republican in her seat who would fully back his agenda. Trump appeared at a rollicking campaign rally in Columbia, home of the state\u2019s largest university, in an airline hangar draped in American flags. It was his second rally in an 11-stop, eight-state tour designed to boost Republican turnout ahead of Tuesday\u2019s crucial midterm elections.<\/p>\n
The president, accompanied by McCaskill\u2019s Republican challenger, Josh Hawley, declared that Hawley \u201cwill be a star.\u201d Hawley, the current attorney general, sought to link McCaskill to Trump\u2019s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton, who lost the state in 2016 by nearly 19 percentage points.<\/p>\n
\u201cClaire McCaskill has spent her lifetime in politics just like Hillary,\u201d Hawley said. \u201cClaire McCaskill wanted us to call Hillary Clinton `Madam President.\u2019 On Nov. 6, we\u2019re going to call Claire McCaskill `fired.\u201d\u2019<\/p>\n
With four days to go until midterm elections that determine control of Congress, Republicans are optimistic they could make gains in the Senate, but they might struggle to maintain a majority in the House.<\/p>\n
McCaskill is among a number of vulnerable Democrats running in red states. She is a top target for Republicans seeking to expand the party\u2019s slim 51-49 edge in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n
McCaskill is pitching herself as a moderate as she seeks to hold onto her seat. She has sought to distance herself from \u201ccrazy Democrats\u201d and said in an appearance on Fox News that she supports Trump\u2019s efforts to secure the southern border. Hawley has dismissed her efforts and argues that she is not the right fit for an increasingly conservative state.<\/p>\n
Trump said that McCaskill had been \u201csaying such nice things about me.\u201d He later added: \u201cLook, the fact is, she wants to get elected, and then she\u2019s always going to vote against us, folks.<\/p>\n
A check of her record, however, shows that McCaskill votes with the president about half the time, though she has opposed him on some key issues, including his tax cuts and the recent confirmation of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.<\/p>\n
The president, who this week threatened to end a constitutional right that automatically grants citizenship to any baby born in the United States, railed against the 14th Amendment during the Thursday rally, calling it a \u201ccrazy, lunatic policy\u201d supported by Democrats.<\/p>\n
Trump said in an interview this week that he could make the change to the constitution by executive order. But most legal scholars say it would take a new constitutional amendment to alter the current one granting citizenship to anyone born in America.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Democrats want to continue giving automatic birthright citizenship to every child born to an illegal immigrant, even if they\u2019ve been on our soil for a mere matter of seconds,\u201d Trump said. \u201cHundreds of thousands of children born to illegal immigrants are made automatic citizens of the United States every year because of this crazy, lunatic policy that we can end.\u201d<\/p>\n
The non-partisan Migration Policy Institute estimates that there are more than 4 million U.S.-born children under the age of 18 who have an unauthorized immigrant parent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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