Harry Reid Delights In GOP Senators Squirming Over Trump As Nominee

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. President Barack Obama does not support a Senate push to approve the Keystone XL oil p... Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014. President Barack Obama does not support a Senate push to approve the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas Gulf coast, White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Tuesday, hours before a scheduled vote. Republican leaders promised to take it up again next year if the Senate fails to advance the measure, or if Obama vetoes it. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) MORE LESS

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.

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  1. Yep…say it loud and proud, GOP senators–“I’m a racist, ignorant asshole who supports the racist, ignorant asshole!” come on! SAY IT! SAYYYYY IT!

  2. “The Republican Party’s chickens have come home to the roost.”

    Well, that’s the problem, isn’t it? Some of those chickens are trying to just walk away.

  3. I’m going to miss Harry Reid. This was a classic Reid smack down.

  4. Especially after they have laid a rotten egg

  5. “The Republican Party’s chickens have come home to the roost.”

    Sharron Angle is like, “Cool! I get to pay my doctor now!”

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