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McCaskill ‘Ready to Do a McCain’

By Niels Lesniewski and Thomas McKinless

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“Every once in a while I am ready to do a ‘McCain’ on these guys,” Sen. Claire McCaskill said Wednesday, summing up her level of frustration with the operators of Backpage.com, a classified ad website that’s become infamous as a marketplace for human trafficking. Sen. John McCain, the Arizona Republican known at times for his temper, said after the Missouri senator’s quip that ”someone is calling the kettle black.”

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