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After over a decade of service in the united states senate, democrat clair mccaskill is bowing out. she lost her campaign to a trump favorite. attorney general josh hawly. he tried to bridge the divide between herself and trump supporters in part by distancing herself from members of her own party. >> clair is not afraid to stand up against her party. >> clair is not one of the crazy democrats. >> before she left washington, i sat down with her. >> you said you are not one of the crazy democrats. who are the state democrats? >> we have a senator who thought president trump should be assassinat...

>> i was in tennessee as all of the kavanaugh stuff was going down towards the end. there was clearly an uptick in republican interest. in the month of september before kavanaugh became a thing, the democrats are starting to profit from this idea that they could possibly win the senate. the doldrums are setting for republicans. we are going to lose the house and things don't look good. voter interest on the right was not that great. kavanaugh gave them something to believe in. in tennessee and missouri, it had the effect of putting the lid on any hope for democratic upsets. that's why it was s...

That feeds cynicism and donald trump rails against washington. this is a huge debate for the party come 2020 with how you position yourself. do you embrace the middle of the road or talk about the ig issues. >> she had advice for folks like elizabeth warren who she said couldn't win her red state. don't veer too far to the left. mccaskill's words are important. you have to leave room to tell people here's what's possible and not a dream of what i would do in a fantasy world. >> that's hard in a campaign environment. she did talk about brett kavanaugh and the impact it had on her race and wheth...

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Combined with the caravan optics with him being there every 10 minutes. >> he did not step down from the supreme court. do you think he would win that race? >> it would be much more likely. >> much more likely, she would have won if not for the kavanaugh fight. how much did kavanaugh shape things? they helped democrats to energize their base, but it could have affected things in the senate. >> tough to say. i was traveling after the kavanaugh stuff and the one thing that was tangible was fervor among republicans in the camp to get out and vote. i think it's tough to make that argument that the...