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On the recordNovember 16, 2016
there were a number of bright spots on election day, but I have to say, without any question, that the one for us was in Nevada. We scored victories everyplace. The Koch brothers came to the State and publicly said: Reid has been hard on us, and we are going to teach him a lesson. I wasn't born yesterday. I knew. They really didn't frighten me. In spite of all their untold wealth, they could not affect what we had built up over the years in Nevada. We carried the State by about 30,000 votes for Hillary Clinton, which maybe in California it doesn't sound like a lot, but in South Carolina and Nevada it is a lot of votes--30,000 votes. In the Senate seat to replace me, we won by a large margin. We picked up two Democratic House seats. Out of the six Democratic House seats that were picked up in this past election, a third of them came from Nevada. We turned the assembly to a big, big majority. The State senate now has 21 members. It was 11-to-10 Republican. It is now 11-10 Democratic. To make it even better, the day after the election a Republican State senator switched to become an Independent, like Bernie Sanders and Angus King. So there is a two-vote majority there. It was really a good day for Nevada. We rejected the divisive vision of America that some had, but we also enacted some important reforms. In Nevada--the Wild West, NRA members galore--we voted to have background checks.…
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Harry Reid
Democratic · Nevada
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Nov 16, 2016

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