Harry Reid talks Nevada political role on eve of debate
Harry Reid made it clear: Nevada, his home state, matters more than those other early voting states.
The fuss started at a Monday evening panel sponsored by the Washington Post in Las Vegas, during which Reid said he was “terribly upset about how we chose our presidents”.
Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), in the meantime, informed reporters Reid, “doesn’t perceive the New Hampshire main and why it’s so necessary to the presidential choice course of”.
“You go to Iowa. But again, it is a place that does not demonstrate what America is all about, for a lot of different reasons”. “And clearly he hasn’t been to New Hampshire”.
Reid, on Tuesday, addressed the verbal scuffle during a press conference in Nevada, jokingly telling reporters that New Hampshire “is heavily populated and loaded with a lot of minorities, my apologies”. He simply insulted the First in the Nation Primary. Reid criticized state Republicans, who tried to change Nevada’s spot in the process during the 2015 Legislature.
“Sen. Reid personally recruited Governor Hassan to abandon her current job to run for higher office (Hassan has denied that Reid personally recruited her), and his Senate Majority PAC has already spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on dishonest ads on her behalf”.
Ayotte, on Wednesday, added that supporters should help “fight back” and “stop Harry Reid”, saying that “I can’t stand the thought that someone who would disrespect our state and threaten our primary is trying to buy our Senate seat”.
“Our first-in-the-nation primary is a cherished responsibility for Granite Staters, a responsibility we hold because we invented it, and because we do it exceptionally well”, the statement said, according to WMUR Manchester.
A familiar punch-and-counterpunch ensued today, reminiscent of the partisan dust-up after RNC Chairman Reince Priebus said he would like to see a nominating calendar shakeup for the early states of Iowa and New Hampshire in 2020.