Thank you, Harry Reid!
Proud to have Senator Reid on this team. https://t.co/ZWh9sGcM2T pic.twitter.com/Q3thyUCRFn
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) February 24, 2016
CNN exclusive: Harry Reid endorses Hillary Clinton
By Manu Raju, Senior Political Reporter
Wed February 24, 2016
Washington (CNN)
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid announced Wednesday in an exclusive interview with CNN that he is endorsing Hillary Clinton for president, a sign that Democratic leaders are eager to put the party’s contentious primary fight behind them.
The Nevada Democrat issued a plea for his party to consolidate behind Clinton, who has struggled to fend off an insurgent campaign from Sen. Bernie Sanders, an independent from Vermont.
“I think the middle class would be better served by Hillary,” Reid said.
“I think that my work with her over the years has been something that I have looked upon with awe. She was the first lady. She started the trend toward looking to do something about health care. She understood the issue well, she was the front on the health care during that administration,” he said.
Reid added, “I also think she’s the woman to be the first president of the United states that’s a female.”
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Congrats Hillary! Take it home next Tuesday! I live in Illinois and early voting starts March 1. I hope she can end this in March and shift over to her GOP opponent. Trump! However, I fear sanders will not leave with class. This one I hope I am wrong. He always seems so angry and kind of mean to be fully honest.
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I think you may be right about Sanders. I have liked him up until this week when he’s trotted Cornel West out to CNN to basically smear Hillary – and his campaign manager Jeff Weaver as well on MSNBC. They were both despicable tonight. They’re throwing the kitchen sink at Hillary, probably out of desperation. He does the town hall last night and then has his surrogates out the next day attacking her integrity by accusing her of “lip synching” and having 3 decades of baggage that make her unelectable and not “likable”. What jerks.
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Expected better from Sanders. Been a disappointing day.. except for the great endorsement from Sen.Harry Reid. Hillary, You are doing great. 🙂
Go Hillary!!!!
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Baggage? If by some miracle, BS were to be the nominee, the GOP would load him down with more baggage than the Titanic–and sink him like the Titanic!
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Sanders’ campaign people and his surrogates are awful. Repeating GOP talking about her is shameful – but I maybe I should expect that of someone with no loyalty to the Democratic Party.
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I think that’s exactly what it is all about – he’s really not a Democrat and has no loyalty to anyone but himself. Up until this point I thought I would vote for him if he was the nominee, but after seeing Jeff Weaver and especially Cornell West tonight, I think they’ve crossed a line. They’re going after her character and I won’t ever vote for him if this kind of smearing continues.
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I have found the Sanders’ campaign disingenuous in a number of ways. The spleen being vented over endorsements they haven’t received or pretending endorsements that never came their way is not helping Bernie Sanders the man. The nastiness of Jeff Weaver and the refusal of Bernie supporters to even accept the poll numbers (they would rather tout online polling) simply confirms to me that the campaign is running on empty. And so, we get a litany of Hillary faults, the deliberate spread of misinformation and a bunch of presumed Democrats acting and sounding like a Republican hit squad.
For myself, I’ll be so-o-o glad when Super Tuesday comes and goes. Once the results are in, only the truly crazed will insist that Sanders can still pull off the nomination. Or that the super delegates will change their minds. Or that Hillary Clinton is likely to be indicted (this a fav meme right now, even without any evidence to back it up ). Or that she’s really a Republican in disguise (this one I can’t figure out). Or that only Bernie Sanders can beat The Donald (laughable).
I realize that Sanders and Trump have whipped something up, entered the zeitgeist of dissatisfaction in the country. But both men are woefully inadequate to sit in the White House. Hillary Clinton has an enormous task ahead of her. She’ll not only be fighting for the Democratic Party. She’ll be fighting for the very soul of the country. God help us all.
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The “Hillary is about to be indicted” meme first appeared in the winter and early spring of 1996. No coincidence that was when her husband was running for his second term and GOP could see no way to beat him on the issues. So here we are 20 years and no indictment later. GOP is in the same predicament they were in then. No surprise they’re relying on the same absurd strategy. Hope springs eternal!
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I absolutely agree, Brassy. Sadly, the arguments I listed above are being used by Bernie supporters at the moment. Democrats, presumably. In fact, today I read a direct threat on a site I frequent. If Bernie Sanders is not the nominee, his supporters will blow up the Democratic Party. Crazy? Yes. They’re threatening to vote Donald Trump.
Now it’s early in the process. I guess you need to give people the opportunity to lick their wounds. But threatening total destruction is not a workable strategy. The polling numbers are the polling numbers but the St Bernard Brigade is certain the polls and/or votes are being manipulated, somehow. They want the results of Iowa and Nevada overturned because . . . Hillary won by some nefarious means.
Sad to read. Because the Republicans are the real opposition. And if it’s Donald Trump as the Republican nominee, this campaign cycle is bound to stretch the bounds of decency. Because The Donald has proven himself a loose cannon, quite comfortable in making all matter of ugly accusations and hyperbolic statements.
It’s crazy time out there.
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