A factor contributing to McCaskill's 6 point defeat..

[Former Dean Phillips Supporters for Haley (I guess???!?) 👁️]

You can try and nitpick about what McCaskill did, but even if she did something a bit different in one way or another, she most likely (almost certainly) would have still lost.

At the end of the day, she had a D next to her name and was running for Federal office in Missori, an increasingly deep red state with lots of rural and non-college educated white workers. That is basically a guaranteed loss at this point in the evolution of American politics, regardless of what else she might have tried to do differently.

And don't try and tell me that Kander did slightly better in a worse year overall for Dems. States do not swing uniformly - just because there was a national swing to Dems doesn't mean there was really much of one (if at all) in Missouri, and even when there is a strong national swing, some states with strong demographic counter-currents (like Missouri) can and often do resist the national swing and even swing in the opposite direction. Missouri is likely to keep trending more strongly Republican. It is headed more or less in the same direction already pioneered by its neighbor to the South, Arkansas.