With Claire McCaskill joining her far left colleagues in demanding that President Trump’s nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch, garner 60 votes to break a Democrat filibuster, the NRSC released a new radio ad in Missouri titled “Hypocrite.”
The NRSC ad reminds Missouri voters of the standard set by Claire McCaskill just months ago, when she argued that the Constitution required the Senate to give an up-or-down vote to all Supreme Court nominees. But now that a Republican is in the White House, Democrats are threatening to block the nominee, and McCaskill has voiced her support for her far left colleagues’ demand that Gorsuch reach a 60-vote threshold to overcome their filibuster. Missouri voters will be watching as McCaskill answers her own question on Supreme Court nominations, “How big of a hypocrite am I going to be?”
This is the first paid effort by the NRSC in Missouri for the 2018 Cycle and is part of an aggressive national paid media campaign targeting Red State Democrats.
Click HERE to listen to the ad.
“Claire McCaskill must decide whether she will meet her own standard of requiring an up-or-down vote for Supreme Court nominees or instead stand with Elizabeth Warren and the far left in their filibuster of Judge Neil Gorsuch,” said NRSC Communications Director Katie Martin. “In a landslide, Missourians voted for a new direction in Washington, but all Claire McCaskill and her liberal colleagues in Washington have to offer is obstruction and political games.”
Script:
MALE ANNCR: The Supreme Court has a vacancy.
President Trump has a nominee.
And Senator McCaskill has a question:
FEMALE ANNCR: I mean, how big of a hypocrite am I going to be?
MALE ANNCR: That’s right. Those are McCaskill’s own words.
FEMALE ANNCR: How big of a hypocrite am I going to be?
MALE ANNCR: You see, last year, before Trump won, Claire McCaskill insisted that a Supreme Court nominee was entitled to an up or down vote in the Senate.
FEMALE ANNCR: The Constitution says the senate shall advise and consent and that means having an up or down vote.
MALE ANNCR: But now McCaskill’s Democrats want to block Judge Neil Gorsuch without having an up or down vote.
FEMALE ANNCR: How big of a hypocrite am I going to be?
MALE ANNCR: Call Claire McCaskill. Tell her not to be a hypocrite at all. Vote YES on Judge Gorsuch.
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