Harry Reid Don’t Care If You’re Mad About His New Hampshire Diss
“I was always terribly upset about how we were choosing our presidents”, Reid said during a question-and-answer session with The Washington Post.
Reid said his own state is “representative of what America is all about”.
The ex-reality TV host noted he did not think any of the debaters were delivering a breakout performance.
“New Hampshire is heavily populated and loaded with a lot of minorities, my apologies”, he said in a meeting room at the Wynn hotel-casino in Las Vegas. Horn pointed to reports that Reid sought to recruit Hassan as a candidate for U.S. Senate to challenge Sen.
After being called out by New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid offered a sarcastic apology for saying the state shouldn’t get the first presidential primary.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), meanwhile, told reporters Reid, “doesn’t understand the New Hampshire primary and why it is so important to the presidential selection process”.
“Instead of launching more partisan attacks, the New Hampshire Republican Party should focus on the actual threat to New Hampshire’s first in the nation status from Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus”, said Ray Buckley, chairman of the New Hampshire Democratic Party.
“It is hypocritical for Gov. Hassan to call for disgraced former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to apologize for smearing our first-in-the-nation primary while continuing to welcome his strong support for her United States Senate campaign”.
Remarking on the states with the first two presidential nominating contests, Reid said Monday that there weren’t any minorities in New Hampshire and that “nobody” lives in Iowa.
“And clearly he hasn’t been to New Hampshire”, she said, according to New Hampshire Public Radio. “It would be just awful, foolish and bad for the country to start to renege on the bills we already have run up”.
Tuesday, at a news conference a few hours before Democrats debate in Las Vegas, he apologized.