REID CALLS REAGAN DEMOCRATS “UNEDUCATED WHITE MALES”

REID CALLS REAGAN DEMOCRATS “UNEDUCATED WHITE MALES”

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., speaks at Center for American Progress Action Fund, in Washington, Thursday, March 17, 2016. With the issue coloring this fall's contests for control of the White House and Senate, Democrats have spent weeks trying to link Senate GOP opposition to a court nominee to positions held by Donald Trump, the Republican presidential front-runner abhorred by many Republican leaders. "Merrick Garland's name hadn't even been mentioned, yet Republicans were already resolved to undermine President Obama," Reid said about McConnell's opposition. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

 

August 25, 2016

RENO, NV (AP) –

Sen. Harry Reid says Donald Trump can’t win in Nevada because there aren’t enough “uneducated white men” for him to carry the western battleground state.

The Senate Democratic leader who is retiring at the end of this year told reporters in Reno Tuesday that Nevada’s demographics have changed over the years so Trump can’t count on support from so-called Reagan Democrats who may have crossed party lines in the past.

Reid says that change – combined with his belief that Republican women are abandoning the GOP’s presidential candidate- translates into a November victory for Democrat Hillary Clinton.

He also predicts former Democratic Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto will defeat Republican Congressman Joe Heck in the race for Reid’s seat. He also says Democrats will retake control of the U.S. Senate and pick up seats in the House.

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