Harry Reid: Trump Is Just the ‘Natural Evolution’ of Republican Rhetoric

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid declared on the Senate floor today that Donald Trump did not become the nominee of the Republican party due to “some mistake,” but is, in fact, “the natural evolution of a party that spent eight years honing a platform that is anti-immigrant and anti-woman, anti-Obama and anti-working people.”

Reid said that Trump has been taking all his cues from the GOP as they “embraced the darkest elements of their party” and “followed the party’s example” by treating women “with disdain.”

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And then he got in a very direct swipe at his colleagues:

“Republican senators need to stop waffling about Donald Trump. Not going to the convention doesn’t take away the fact that he hear is the Republican nominee… Republican senators need to say whether they’re gonna vote for this guy.”

Watch above, via C-SPAN 2.

[h/t The Hill]
[image via screengrab]

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