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Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill Says ‘Normal People’ Can Afford Private Planes

Emily Zanotti

Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill might have sold her $2 million private plane, but she’s still trying to convince voters that it was no big deal that she used to jet back and forth from D.C. on her very own twin-engine turbo-prop. “Normal people” do it all the time.

McCaskill, who is up for re-election in 2018, has been trying to connect with the “little people” in her state, hosting a series of town halls where she insists she’s just a blue collar Missouri girl at heart, trying to represent the needs of her constituents in Congress.

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