Reid leaves a parting gift for his party: A quiet and bloodless succession
Posted on AllSides March 28th, 2015
From The Left
In his eight years as the Senate's Democratic leader, Harry M. Reid earned a reputation for legislative sorcery epitomized by the way in which he muscled President Obama's health-care reform bill through the Senate.
And so, it may be fitting that the Nevadan's retirement announcement came Friday accompanied by an almost magical development: a quiet and bloodless succession.
Reid's endorsement of Sen. Charles E. Schumer (DN.Y.), makes Schumer the favorite to assume the Democratic leader's chair in 2017, forestalling a messy intracaucus battle that would have played out over the...
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