Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid gave Hillary Clinton his endorsement Wednesday while requesting fellow Democrats to get over the party's contentious primary fight and consolidate their support for her.
"I think the middle class would be better served by Hillary. I think that my work with her over the years has been something that I have looked upon with awe. She was the first lady. She started the trend toward looking to do something about health care. She understood the issue well, she was the front on the health care during that administration. I also think she's the woman to be the first president of the United states that's a female," Reid, the most senior Democrat in the Senate, said in an exclusive interview to CNN.
Reid had stayed neutral until now, voting as "uncommitted" in the recent Nevada caucus that Clinton won, reported The Chicago Tribune.
During the interview, Reid declined to comment on whether Clinton's closest opponent, Bernie Sanders, should drop out of the race or whether the fight for the Democratic nomination would stretch until the Democratic Convention is held in the month of July. "I don't know about that, you know I had some meetings today and I think the race is moving along very quickly so we'll have to see, we'll have to see what happens next month," Reid said, according to CBS News.
Clinton has already been endorsed by 40 of the 44 Democratic senators and is a favorite to win the Democratic Presidential Nomination.
