McCaskill: Bernie Attacks on Hillary Are Like ‘Fingernails on a Blackboard’ to Women

Democratic Missouri Senator and Hillary Clinton surrogate Claire McCaskill said on MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell Reports Thursday that Bernie Sanders‘s attacks on her candidate were off-putting to professional women across the country.

“I think this will take care of itself as long as the campaigns stay by and large very positive about the things we agree on and don’t go into negative attacks,” the senator said. “And calling Hillary Clinton not qualified is like fingernails on a blackboard to many women across this country. And I think Bernie probably knows that.”

“You think gender is involved?” asked host Andrea Mitchell.

But McCaskill wouldn’t go quite as far as that. “I think women who have succeeded in male-dominated fields have been used to being marginalized about whether or not they were truly qualified,” she said.

“We have a candidate for president who is the most qualified and happens to be a woman. And I think there are many women that are excited about that and for anybody to call her unqualified is hard for those women to hear,” she said.

Watch above, via MSNBC.

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