Posted on 08/05/2021 4:18:36 AM PDT by RandFan
Recalling his experience as an attorney in St. Louis, Mark McCloskey said he hopes to represent all Missourians if he wins his U.S. Senate bid.
“As a United States Senator, I’ll represent the people of this state,” McCloskey said. “I’ll represent their opportunity through self-reliance and hard work to make something of themselves and to not ask for favors but to ask for an opportunity to succeed regardless of their background.”
McCloskey is one of several hopefuls vying for U.S. Senator Roy Blunt’s seat. Thus far, he is up against former Gov. Eric Greitens, Congresswoman Vicky Hartzler, and Attorney General Eric Schmitt for the Republican nomination.
McCloskey appeared on Sunday’s episode of “This Week in Missouri Politics” to discuss his campaign and his family’s response to last year’s protest that propelled him to the national spotlight and led to his involvement with former President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign.
He also covered his political views, decrying what he saw as an attempt from the other side of the aisle to divide the country.
“I think the thing that made this the greatest country on earth is our basic documents [declaring] that we’re free to do what we feel is correct,” he said. “Right on the seal of Missouri it says ‘united we stand, divided we fall,’ and the powers of the left are doing everything they can to divide us because they’d like to see us fall and not continue to progress.”
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As as outsider I would be inclined to support him even though I know little about him.
Very interesting...
Prior to this his gun-brandishing incident, he was a liberal, was he not?
McCloskey knows what we're up against - and he's a fighter. Prayers for this good man...
He was not. He was a big Trump supporter ($$$) in 2016. I looked at the FEC database when this question came up last year. I think there’s another guy with the same name who is a Lib.
He’s a poser. Campaign site has him posing with a John Deere and not wearing his pink polo shirt at his St Louis McMansion. Doubt he even knows how to hook up the three point hitch but wants to look like a good ole Missouri farm boy.
There’s a gal named Vicky something that has a pro Trump voting record and a guy named Billy Long who just saw Trump before announcing he’s running as well and he also has experience at the state level. Either one would be better than this politically inexperienced lawyer with his wine drunk wife.
Will he run as a Democrat? That’s his published political ideology.
Politically inexperienced personal injury lawyer. IOW, he's an ambulance chaser, the LAST thing we need in the Senate.
He was a Trump supporter in 2016.
I heard he was running. Good for him.
A small point. His house is an actual historic mansion built generations ago.
I’m no fan of trial lawyers but he’s got a brass set. Something severely lacking in the swamp.
This guy is still a leftist democrat, folks. Do not forget that.
I have no idea about that.
Sometimes a conservative is a liberal thats been mugged. I think he got mugged by the left pretty good.
Very interesting.
I would like to know more... He’s an interesting candidate
Why? What makes him interesting?
The gun brandishing and what he went through. The fact that he’s a political outsider and not your typical politician.
Senate needs more of that i.e people who have never held office like Rand in 2010
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