McCaskill Demands Opponent Investigate Project Veritas Videos

By Tom Knighton

(AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Claire McCaskill is apparently smarting from the Project Veritas videos that surfaced, showing her to not be the moderate Democrat she likes to portray herself as. After all, they’re certainly not helping her campaign in a deeply red state like Missouri.

Now, she’s demanding her opponent investigate the videos.

U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign is demanding Attorney General Josh Hawley open a fraud investigation into hidden-camera videos released this week by a nonprofit run by conservative activist James O’Keefe.

The videos show O’Keefe’s Project Veritas Action Fund going undercover to secretly interview members of McCaskill’s campaign. The group, a 501c4 nonprofit, advertised the videos as proof that McCaskill, a Democrat, has been hiding her views on guns and abortion from Missouri voters.

McCaskill and Hawley, a Republican, are in a tight election race that could help determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.

David Kirby, McCaskill’s campaign manager, said in a conference call with reporters on Wednesday that there is reason to believe Project Veritas committed fraud that violated the state’s merchandising practices act.

That law prohibits deceptive business practices and is enforced by the attorney general’s office.

Kirby said the videos were captured under false pretenses and misrepresentations, “which under …Read the Rest

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