Chip Somodevilla/GettyLAS VEGAS—Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) says he wishes that Al Franken, the embattled ex-senator, would take another run for public office, but suspects he won’t do so. “I wish he would,” Reid told The Daily Beast in an interview earlier this month. “But I don&
LAS VEGAS—Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he wishes that Al Franken, the embattled ex-senator, would take another run for public office, but suspects he won’t do so.
Reid has made no secret of his belief that Franken was pushed out of his Senate seat unfairly amid multiple allegations inappropriate behavior toward women and more general sexual impropriety. “He got a bad deal,” Reid said, speaking from his office at the UNLV Law School. Reid and Franken served together from 2011 through Reid’s retirement in 2016.
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