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15. Reid isn't going to formally support anybody, that's his style
Sun Sep 29, 2019, 11:54 AM
Sep 2019

You’re wrong to say he is supporting Biden.

Here’s what he had to say among other things last month:

Reid has vowed to not endorse any candidate before Nevada’s caucuses, an event slotted immediately after Iowa and New Hampshire that gives the state outsized power in the nomination process. But that doesn’t mean he’s any more filtered — or much less involved — than he was in the past.

He called the Biden campaign’s field operation in Nevada “good,” Harris’s “great,” and Warren’s “sensational.”

Reid said thinks “the world” of Biden, who he said had “very minor disagreements” with in the three-plus decades the two worked together, sidestepping past fights over Biden’s deal-making approach to politics. But he saved his warmest praise for Warren, who Reid brought into politics when he put her on a board overseeing the Wall Street bailout after the 2008 economic collapse and later backed for Senate.

“I’ve been impressed with Elizabeth. She is not hiring a bunch of pollsters and consultants. Everything she’s doing is in-house,” Reid said. “I’m not going to endorse anyone until after the caucuses but everyone has to be impressed with what she’s doing.”

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywadgw/exclusive-harry-reid-of-course-medicare-for-all-and-decriminalizing-border-crossings-are-bad-ideas
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