By Gabriel Debenedetti, Burgess Everett
POLITICO
October 24, 2017
LAS VEGAS — The Senate is done with Harry Reid, but Harry Reid isn’t done with politics — not even a little bit.
The 77-year-old ex-Democratic Senate leader has been encouraging multiple Democrats to run for president, he acknowledged to POLITICO in an interview late last week at his work space two miles from the Las Vegas Strip. He skewered the congressional Republicans whom he blames for the rise of Donald Trump. And while insisting he’s leaving the daily tactical maneuvering in the Senate to Chuck Schumer after 34 years in Washington, Reid acknowledged dialing and texting with Democratic senators who seek his advice on how to better fight back against Trump.