Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., said Wednesday that he is so disappointed by the election of Donald Trump that he won’t be able to get over it for a “long time,” and said the country ought to spend some time re-evaluating the role the Electoral College plays in determining the outcome of the campaign.
Asked if he has truly accepted the election results, Reid said, “Of course, I accept it.”
“Whether I really have put it behind me? The answer is no,” he added. “This is something that will be with me for a very, very long time.”
Reid, who will retire at the end of the year, went on to say he supports a long-shot proposal by Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who is also leaving the Senate, to scrap the Electoral College after Hillary Clinton lost decisively to Trump in the delegate count even though Clinton won the popular vote, Reid said, by as much as 2 million votes.
“No wonder why [Boxer] did this, and she has this concern,” Reid said. “When the votes were finally tallied yesterday, we were told [Clinton] will win the election by 2 million votes. It’s unusual [that] in such a short period of time in this century, that we’ve already had two elections that in which the loser had more votes than the winner.”
