Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., used a private plane to travel between some stops on a three-day RV tour of her state, McCaskill confirmed Tuesday.
“I added some stops with the use of the plane, but I was on the RV so much that the broken door drove me crazy,” McCaskill said Tuesday, according to Politico. “I even lost an iPad around a corner on the RV.”
The Washington Free Beacon reported that a plane had taken a similar route to the one scheduled for the “Veterans for Claire” RV trip from May 29 to May 31, per publicly available flight information.
McCaskill dismissed the report as “election-year silliness,” pushing back on the implication she pretended she was using the vehicle.
“Anybody could have followed me. They could have seen when I got off the RV and when I went and got on the airplane,” she continued.
This is not the first time McCaskill, who is facing a tough re-election bid in 2018 to represent a state President Trump won in 2016 by 19 points, has been plagued by her air travel.
In August, she was widely mocked for suggesting it was “normal” to be able to afford a private plane, referring to a multimillion-dollar aircraft that used to belong to her husband, Joseph Shepard, before it was sold.
McCaskill also came under scrutiny in 2012 for paying for almost 90 private flights with taxpayer dollars.
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