McCaskill: Hillary Getting ‘Negative Coverage’ Only Because She’s ‘in the Lead’

SMERCONISH: “Final question, do you think that Vice President Biden would be seriously considering a run if he didn't think that there were some significant questions that she still needed to answer?” 
MCCASKILL: “I -- here's what I honestly believe. I believe that if Hillary Clinton had originally said "I'm not going to run" and Joe Biden was out there campaigning, they would all be picking apart Joe Biden. All the headlines would be about Joe Biden's gaffe or Joe Biden this. Or Joe Biden and Osama Bin Laden. And then maybe the press would be saying, well, maybe Hillary Clinton is reconsidering and maybe she'll be running now. I think this is a function of whoever is in the lead is the one that gets all the negative focus on them. And therefore there is a certain kind of reaction that may be somebody else is better. At the end of the day, I obviously support Hillary Clinton, but I also believe that Joe Biden will not run.” 
SMERCONISH: “Senator McCaskill, thank you so much for being here.” 
MCCASKILL: “Thank you, Michael.”