“I’m a little confused why she’s the thing,” McCaskill said, according to CNN. Rep.-elect Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) has responded to a CNN report that outgoing Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) referred to her as a “shiny object,” calling the comment “disappointing.”Not sure why fmr Sen. McCaskill keeps going on TV to call me a “thing” and “shiny object,” but it’s pretty disappointing. She also reportedly referred to Hawley as a “bright shining object” during her interview with CNN. Later in the interview, McCaskill doubled down on the importance of Democrats not going “so far to the left” in nominating a candidate for president.

Source: Huffington Post December 30, 2018 00:56 UTC