Republican vice presidential candidate Mike Pence was unfazed Thursday by the Sen. Harry Reid’s, D-Nev., criticism for the GOP ticket. He claimed in an interview that the Senate minority leader’s remarks reveal a growing desperation among Democrats.
“I’m starting to get a whiff of desperation from the other side. It seems like the attacks are getting a little more intense. And I think that is because they sense what I sense all over this country,” the Indiana governor said in an interview on CNN.
Reid took to the floor of the Senate Thursday to assail Trump and Pence, and accused the Republican candidates of promoting the very worst sort of racism and bigotry.
“Let’s be clear about Donald Trump,” Reid told his Senate colleagues. “He’s a spoiled brat, raised in plenty, who inherited a fortune, used his money to make more money.”
“Trump is a human leech who will bleed the country and sit at his golf resort laughing at the money he has made even though working people have been — many of them hurt and ruined,” the senator said.
Pence laughed off the criticism.
“I think those remarks are beneath the dignity of the United States Senate. But it’s nothing new for Harry Reid,” he said Thursday. “I mean, we heard the same stuff kind of stuff come out of him about Mitt Romney four years ago. And he did it on the Senate floor.”
“More and more Americans every day are responding to Donald Trump’s broad-shouldered, confident vision to get this economy moving again, to rebuild our military, to make sure we have a Supreme Court that respects our Constitution. And I truly do believe that we’re on our way to a great victory in November,” Pence said.
