LAS VEGAS — After being called out by New Hampshire’s Democratic governor, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid offered a sarcastic apology for saying the state shouldn’t get the first presidential primary.
Reid told reporters and political strategists Monday that both New Hampshire and Iowa are not as demographically representative of the United States as a whole as Nevada is.
“Let me get something out of the way real quick,” Reid told reporters at the Wynn hotel at the start of his press conference in Las Vegas shortly before the first Democratic debate. “Last night I said that I was very happy to work to get the system changed, because I thought it was wrong that the states of Iowa and New Hampshire were the ones deciding who we were going to have running for president.”
New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan and Sen. Jeanne Shaheen called on their fellow Democrat to retract his comments, but the senator did not seem to feel any remorse.
“New Hampshire is heavily populated and loaded with a lot of minorities,” Reid cracked. “So I apologize.”
