"You need to be respected by other senators if you have what it takes to be president," Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., says of presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas. McCaskill speaks in interview on former Obama adviser David Axelrod's podcast McCaskill says President Barack Obama "wasn't popular with all the other senators" but was respected; says presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., also is respected Related: Claire McCaskill Blasts 'Mr. Wu-Tang' Martin Shkreli Over Drug Pri
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