Answer:
Lincoln said:
"I am glad I made the late race. It gave me a hearing on the great and durable questions of the age, which I could have had in no other way; and though I now sink out of view, and shall be forgotten, I believe I have made some marks which will tell for the cause of civil liberty long after I am gone."
-Lincoln After Losing 1858 Senate Race
A.its should be the correct answer because it’s is the short form of it is.
Counter claim disagrees with with a position.
They go against someone's claim to prove that person wrong.
Its C the other answers dont fit the context