Dem Senate candidate: McDonald’s resignation would ‘make things worse’ at VA

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A Democratic Senate candidate in Missouri dismissed Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald’s comparison of wait times at Disney to wait times at the scandal-plagued VA as a “dumb comment” in an attack on his GOP opponent.

Jason Kander, Missouri secretary of state, blasted incumbent Republican Sen. Roy Blunt for “using veterans as props” without addressing underlying problems at the VA in a statement Tuesday.

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