Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday he is not concerned about new polling data that shows Republican Donald Trump surpassing Democrat Hillary Clinton in the race for the White House.
“We know polls don’t work anymore,” Reid said. “Not only in the United States, look at the world. Polls are inaccurate.”
A string of new polls show Clinton has lost a lead that was apparent in surveys earlier in July, before the FBI released a report criticizing her use of personal email accounts and a private server during her tenure as secretary of state.
Reid, D-Nev., said he feels confident Clinton will win, partly because of Trump’s actions on the campaign trail.
“I feel good about what’s going on in the country,” Reid said. “If anybody has any doubts at all, all you have to do is go back and look what Donald Trump said in the past year.”
Clinton will meet with Senate Democrats this afternoon.
Reid said the event will be “a celebration,” adding, “it seems to me that after 240 years we are going to have a woman president of the United States. We are going to have a good time.”
