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McCASKILL: "They're caught between two worlds, Joe. What happens is, within the Oval Office and within the White House, they are tasked with running a very huge government enterprise and making sure the trains run on time, making sure that problems that bubble up are taken care of. And then there’s the campaign. And the problem is, if you just do paid advertising, even if it is highly targeted advertising on social media, it is advertising. The president himself begins to need to draw a contrast. He’s not comfortable doing that. He wants to be president. He doesn’t want to be a candidate. He wants to, you know, rise to the level of a statesman every day, that, 'I am taking care of the things you care about.' He’s got to start being a street brawler. He has got to start, every time he talks about health care, he needs to say, 'You know that Donald Trump wants to do away with it.' Every time he talks about climate change, 'You know that Donald Trump thinks windmills kill birds.' You know, he needs to do all of these things that draw the contrast between normal and off the rails, getting things done and never got anything done, drawing the West together in terms of national security and in terms of democracy, sticking together for human rights, versus a guy who thinks Putin is better than sliced bread. He needs to do that every day and he will have to do it."