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New attack ad rips Claire McCaskill for ‘misleading’ RV tour

By Emily Jashinsky

Published July 12, 2018 1:52am ET

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New attack ad rips Claire McCaskill for ‘misleading’ RV tour — Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., was forced to come clean on Tuesday after falsely claiming she was being treated for breast cancer when the Senate voted on the Ensuring Patient Access and Effective Drug Enforcement Act in 2016 and "did not go along" with it. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) | Alex Brandon

A broken drawer on Sen. Claire McCaskill’s, D-Mo., RV is now fueling her persistent private plane problem to the tune of seven figures in Missouri.

After the Democratic incumbent was caught taking her private plane between stops on what her campaign billed as an RV tour of her state last month, McCaskill came clean, explaining, “I was on the RV so much that the broken drawer drove me crazy.”

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