Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid on Monday praised London voters, who last week elected Sadiq Khan, a British Muslim and son of a bus driver, and then launched into an attack on Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
“When London voters went to the polls, they refused to let Khan’s religion be the deciding factor,” Reid said. “The refused to give in to the bigotry.”
Reid called the election “an example of how a Democracy should operate, independent of fear and prejudice.”
“Many of us here in the United States would do well to learn by Sadiq Khan’s example,” he added.
Reid then tore into Donald Trump, who he called “a billionaire con man who scams working people.” Reid said Trump represents “everything Americans detest about a system that is rigged for the super rich.”
Trump denigrates women, minorities and immigrants, Reid said. “He calls women dogs and pigs and defends rape,” he said.
Reid also said the GOP is now tied to Trump, a remark that came just a few days after some Republicans, including Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said they wouldn’t attend the nominating convention in July.
“Not going to the convention doesn’t take away the fact that he is their Republican nominee,” Reid said.
