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This is the political scene, a weekly conversation with New Yorker writers and editors about politics.

It's Friday, October 26th.

I'm Dorothy Wickenden, executive editor of The New Yorker. Today is the sixth and final episode of The Challenger's, a monthly segment devoted to the 2018 midterm races. We've been focusing on races involving

candidates, challenging establishment figures as a way to discuss upheavals outside Washington and to define issues that are shaping the futures of the two parties.

Donald Trump carried Missouri by 19 points in 2016. This year, the incumbent Democratic Senator, Claire McCaskill, is running for re-election in possibly the tightest Senate race of the midterm elections.

Her opponent, Josh Hawley, is a Trump Republican.

In a recent interview with the St. Louis Post's dispatch, when McCaskill was asked what distinguished her from Holly,

she listed her experience in a wide

range of state, local, and federal government offices and positioned herself as a solid centrist.

So I think I bring that a broad depth and breadth of knowledge that I can put to work for Missourians that my opponent doesn't

have and also my desire to work with the other party. I don't think the answer is in one party

or the other. I think the answer is through us trying to figure out places that we can find

...