Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said the Republican Party has gotten the exact nominee it deserves, and it is time it stops ‘waffling’ on Donald Trump.
“No one should be shocked. Hillary Clinton is going to be the Democratic nominee. I support Hillary Clinton. I’m not hiding from that. Republican senators need to stop waffling about Donald Trump,” Reid said. “Not going to the convention doesn’t take away the fact that he’s the Republican nominee. I hear a number of Republican senators say I’m not going to the convention well, that solves the problem doesn’t it?”
Trump’s nomination has revealed a schism within the GOP as some Republican lawmakers have outright said they won’t support him while others have said they are still on the fence. Just a week after Trump became the presumptive nominee, this is the first week GOP lawmakers are back in Washington and will be expected to take a stand on Trump.
From the floor, Reid unleashed, tying rank-and-file members to their nominee, a strategy that is expected to be deployed in Senate races across the country this fall.
“Republican senators need to say whether they’re going to vote for this guy. The Republican Party’s chickens have come home to the roost in the form of Donald Trump,” Reid said.
