Democratic Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill on Wednesday issued a demand for an investigation into the fraud she says Project Veritas committed in the making of a series of “sting” videos of her re-election campaign.

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“We have reason to believe that fraud has been committed against our campaign,” McCaskill campaign manager David Kirby said.

McCaskill doubled down by suggesting during an interview that Missouri’s Republican Attorney General Josh Hawley — who also happens to be her challenger in the current race for the seat she has held since 2006 — was somehow involved in the creation of those videos.

McCaskill RESPONDS… hours before the next undercover video from her campaign will be published. Check back soon to see what your staff says in the next one, @clairecmc! pic.twitter.com/Q22NdHdgil — PVeritas Action (@PVeritas_Action) October 17, 2018

Hawley, who shared the Project Veritas videos on social media, flatly denied any involvement in either helping to create them or coordinate their release.

Let’s review last 24 hrs. 1) @clairecmc & staff caught on tape telling the truth 2) McCaskill accuses ME of fraud 3) McCaskill demands Missouri give her special prosecutor to investigate her truth telling #MOsen — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 17, 2018

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Senator, accusing people of crimes is a serious thing. If you have evidence of a crime, please come forward with it immediately. Otherwise, please stop politicizing the legal process for your reelection. #MOsen — Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) October 17, 2018

McCaskill’s campaign hedged slightly, with Kirby then saying that Hawley was “perpetrating this fraud by promoting it and encouraging it.”

McCaskill has claimed since the videos were released that she now remembers someone taking video and trying to get her to make statements on camera that were at odds with her actual positions. The campaign has not responded to questions regarding what might happen to the staffers who were caught making damaging statements.

Neither Sen. McCaskill’s campaign nor AG Hawley’s campaign responded to requests for additional comment. The two will square off in a face-to-face debate on Thursday.

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