... sometimes described as
America's Blond Eminenceand at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
Another Elihu Root...
's Western firewall -- Sen.
Harry Reid... the charismatic senator-for-life from Nevada, currently majority leader ...
and his allies are incensed at the maimed Democratic front-runner.
It's way too white, y'understand. They don't want it anyway. Uck. Yucky..
The campaign's recent assertion that Nevada is "still a state that is 80 percent white voters" -- in other words, a state that looks a lot like Bernie Sanders
...The only openly Socialist member of the U.S. Senate. Sanders was Representative-for-Life from Vermont until moving to the Senate for the rest of his life in 2006, assuming the seat vacated by Jim Jeffords...
' base -- is simply wrong, Reid allies claim. But more galling than that, they say, it undermines the entire rationale for the caucuses' existence: The state was pushed to the front of the election calendar eight years ago solely because Reid lobbied for better demographic representation than the overwhelmingly white early-voting states like Iowa and New Hampshire.
"Harry Reid pushed hard to move Nevada near the front of the primary calendar precisely because of its diversity," a source close to the Senate minority leader said last week after the Clinton team pushed the "white Nevada" narrative in a series of conferences calls to donors and politicians on the Hill, as well as in television interviews (Clinton operatives have since appeared to back off that argument).