Harry Reid Sees Marco Rubio As The Next John Edwards

WASHINGTON — His admirers mostly report Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla) as a Republicans’ Barack Obama: a immature senator with a few years of service, an moving life story, and an eagerness for aloft office.

Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) sees in Rubio echoes of a opposite Democrat.

“He reminds me of John Edwards,” Reid said, referring to a former senator from North Carolina who flamed out in his run for president. “Not since any of a [personal] stuff.”

“John Edwards, when he came to a Senate, man, he was good,” Reid said. “He had been called by possibly [Al] Gore or his people that he was going to be a nominee, or during slightest that’s what he thought, OK? And he called me and told me that. When Gore chose [Joseph] Lieberman, [Edwards] was so bound on apropos a inhabitant figure that his Senate use was fundamentally over. That’s what we see in Marco Rubio.”

In an talk in his bureau on Thursdaynot even dual years ago, he called

“People wish me to dislike Ted Cruz,” Reid pronounced this time around. “I can’t dislike him. we know some people do. we know President Bush pronounced he didn’t like him. we kind of like a guy. we don’t like what he’s finished in a Senate though I’ve never ever underestimated this man.”

When a subject incited to Jeb Bush, a claimant who Democrats once suspicion was a surest gamble to emerge from a swarming Republican field, Reid seemed roughly sensitive over his plight. He pronounced he had been flipping channels on Wednesday

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