he is casting the race as a clear choice. we don t like the washington establishment. we think there needs to be a shake up on both parties. this campaign is really about that. reporter: hawley is a staunch trump supporter. the blunt mccaskill regularly launched one liners at her 38-year-old ivy league challenger. i will try not to hold his youth and inexperience against him. i can keep up. reporter: she is running on her experience yet running from the left wing of her own party. it may irritate some of you in this room that i am proud that i am a moderate. there may be people in this room that think i am not liberal enough to carry the banner of this party. reporter: you have a radio ad out saying you are not one of those crazy democrats. she works right in the middle
mayor of tallahassee. he is a total disaster. gillum is facing scrutiny for the decision to accept a ticket to see the broadway show hamilton from a group that included an undercover fbi agent. he said the fbi told him he is not the center of the corruption investigation. there are new tensions in florida ahead of the immediate terms. four bullets hit the store front of the governor s office. and mccaskil in the fight of her life with the latest radio ad. so what she was saying in that ad is that she is actually questioning actual crazy democrats.
liners at her 38-year-old ivy league educated challenger. i m going to try not to hold his youth and inexperience him. i m a missou educated lawyer and i can keep up. reporter: she s running on experience yet running from the left wing of her own party. it may irritate some of you in this room that i m proud that i m a moderate. there may be people in this room that think i am not liberal enough to carry the banner of this party. reporter: you vice president radio ad out saying that you re not one of those crazy democrats. and she is not one of the crazy democrats. she works right in the middle and finds compromise. reporter: what does that mean? the crazy democrats are the people who are getting in the face of elected officials in restaurants and screaming at them. the crazy democrats is whoever put a swastika on one of josh hawley s signs in rural missouri. that is the kind of stuff i m talking about. the extreme stuff.
somebody who is knee-jerk. some of my colleagues are knee-jerk against the president. i don t get up every day figuring out how to fight the president, i figure out how i can fight for missourians. bret: to that point you have a radio ad out now and she s not one of these crazy democrats. claire will not stand up against her own party and she s not one of those crazy democrats. who are the crazy democrats? they are the ones that walk into restaurants and scream at elected officials phases. we have a state senator here in missouri that actually advocated for the assassination of president trump. that s a crazy democrat. i don t know that i should never be uncivil. i think what most missourians want is for us to listen to each other, figure out where we can compromise, not scream in each
she s a woman who believes in other women. she s one of the republican women that i believe is going to change things for not only my home state, but for the country. she s taking the high road. she also said i m not going to pull any punches. if this guy is going to come out there and go after me, i m not going to take the same nasty route, but she s trying to be herself more than anything else. he s been contradictory, her opponent. he s been against the president. she s just being authentic. she s trying to embrace what the people want and i appreciate that. you shouldn t combat nastiness with nastiness. danielle, i ve preserved a particularly nasty ad for you. let s take a little listen to what that radio ad has to say. what do you think about what s happening in washington? our congressman, french hill, and the republicans, know that it s dangerous to change the presumption of innocence to a presumption of guilt, especially for black men. if the democrats can do that to a whea