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The Daily Beast tried to pin the failure of Claire McCaskill to retain her senatorial seat on Russian meddling. Angry commenters instantly cited a number of far more mundane reasons, like her trying to court Republicans.<\/p>\n
In this week\u2019s midterm elections, Missouri\u2019s incumbent Democratic Senator McCaskill lost to Republican Attorney Josh Hawley by nearly six percent, and will now depart the Senate after being there for over a decade.<\/p>\n
The Daily Beast, an outlet famously fond of finding Russian meddling wherever possible, apparently blamed Russian hackers for her defeat, tweeting a link to its July report about an alleged Kremlin plot.<\/p>\n
\nMissouri Dem Claire McCaskill, who lost to Josh Hawley tonight, was the first identified target of the Kremlin\u2019s 2018 election interference, a Daily Beast forensic analysis revealed in July https:\/\/t.co\/Jq1m0jyrTQ<\/a><\/p>\n
\u2014 The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
Sure, it was the Russians. Not McCaskill\u2019s campaign strategy, which relied on courting swing voters of the predominantly red state, with an ad assuring voters she was not \u201cone of those crazy Democrats.\u201d<\/em> Not that her opponent was a good-looking newcomer, who unlike the previous one, didn\u2019t claim<\/a>\u00a0\u201clegitimate rape\u201d<\/em> rarely leads to pregnancy.<\/p>\n
Well, people responding to DB\u2019s tweed don\u2019t seem to be buying the explanation they were offered anyway.<\/p>\n
\n\nOr maybe it was because of her politics…? Republican-light, shunned #Progressives<\/a> and takes money from special interests. Donor class tick tock.<\/p>\n
\u2014 GetRobins (@bkrobins) November 7, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nYeah,it was definitely Russia,dudes. It wasn’t at all the fact that she was proudly saying throughout the campaign how much she voted with Trump and how conservative she is.If you’re wanting a Repub & you have a choice between lite & real thing,might as well vote for the real one<\/p>\n
\u2014 🍞🌹🌻 is Kissinger & Dick next? (@truthhurts0409) November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nLeave satire for Onion.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Fox News Is Cancerous 🌹 (@andyg_live) November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
\n\nNo, I think it might of had something to do With her blaming the left contingent of her own party, and bragging about voting with Trump a majority of the time. Maybe that\u2019s the message she shouldn\u2019t have been sending.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Rudy Sandoval (@sandovalrudy922) November 8, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n
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