Senate Dem Leader Harry Reid Will Not Seek Re-Election

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid has announced that he will not seek re-election in 2016, saying that he wants to leave the Senate while he's still going strong.

"I want to be able to go out at the top of my game," Reid told The New York Times. "I don't want to be a 42-year-old trying to become a designated hitter."

The Senate minority leader said that the timing of his retirement has nothing to do with his recent eye and face injuries from an exercising accident nor to being demoted from majority l