John Ralston

It was kind of stunning to read, even though I shouldn't have been that surprised that Reid would have done something like that. But I did save it for the acknowledgments, because I thought I should put it in perspective. Harry Reid and I had a rollercoaster of a relationship, but I think there was a mutual respect there. And I think that the main reason he was mad at me was because I wrote columns

Hän sanoi, että hänen perheensä haittasi, mutta se oli enemmän siitä, miten hän käyttäisi vaikutuksensa yrittämään auttaa lapsia eri aikoja, jopa pääsemään järjestöihin. Jos pystyn nopeasti, kun hän lopetti lopettamaan kirjan, ja minä olin loppunut vuosina ihmisiä kuten Susan McHugh, Rebecca Lam ja muut, jotta hän lopettaisi kirjan, koska hän oli kaikkein mielenkiintoinen. Hän oli yksi henkilö, jonka haluan todella kirjoittaa kirjan.

He knew it wasn't going to be hagiographic, and so I think Landra wouldn't let him do it. But finally, after he was out of office, he summoned me to his office, which of course was at the Bellagio on the Strip at that time, because he was working for MGM Resorts. And he looked at me, and I had already had some sense that he had made attempts to get me fired. He said, John, you and I have something in common. And I said, what's that, Senator? And he said, we're both survivors.

And I wanted to say to him, but I didn't because I was hoping he would do the book. No thanks to you, Senator. What I had to survive was you. It's not like we both faced off against the plague. He was the one who was trying to kill you off. I mean, that's so Harry Reid. You talk about, you know, sort of mutual respect and him or even grudging respect while he's actively trying to kill your career and remove and successfully removing you from the airwaves in Nevada.

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I know I'm not going to like everything that you write in the book. You know that this was about my family, that I didn't talk to you for so long. I don't think you're going to attack my family in the book. And so I want you to just tell the story. You're the best person to tell it. Do what you need to do. And he he never asked. He said, we don't need a contract. I don't want to see a first draft, which I wouldn't let him see anyhow. But he didn't ask for any conditions whatsoever. Just do the book. I am.

It's really sad, Rachel, that he is not alive to see the book, because I would have really, really wanted to know what his reaction to this was. I sent a copy to Landra. I have not heard from her, but I will be interested to see. You never know how family is going to react, because they want all sweetness and light, even though I am sure that his family knows everything.

Niitä asioita, joita hän teki, koska kirjoitin niistä aiemmin. Mutta olen tyytyväinen, että hän ei ole olemassa, jotta hän ei reagoida kirjasta. Minä olen todella tyytyväinen. Minä olen tyytyväinen. Minä olen tyytyväinen. Minä olen tyytyväinen.

for whatever it is he was going to object to in the book. Well, John, I would be remiss if I didn't ask you just a couple of closing questions about Nevada. I mean, you know, Reid famously built a formidable political machine in Nevada that could make or break candidates that turned Nevada blue for four straight presidential elections, starting with Obama in 2008. But of course, Nevada went for Trump in 2024.

I gotta ask if the machine still exists, if Democrats are still drafting off of what Harry Reid did in Nevada or whether they've been able to build something on their own. Are you sensing any buyer's remorse in Nevada in terms of the vote for Trump for the presidency last year?

Listen, Trump's numbers here are not good. They're not as bad as some other places, but they are not good. And we're still a purple state, but things have changed. It's not completely a coincidence, Rachel, that Trump won the state after those four successive Democratic victories. It's the first cycle after Harry Reid died. I don't think you can, presidential cycle that is, I don't think you can discount that.

Kaveri on edelleen olemassa, ihmiset joilla se kävi edelleen ovat edelleen olemassa, mutta valmistajat eivät ole olemassa, henkilö, joka pystyi laittamaan ilmaisuutta ei ole enää olemassa. Ehkä sydän ja sydän, vaikka jotkut sanoisivat, että se oli sydän sydän ja sydän demokraattisen kaverin ei ole enää olemassa, mutta he ovat edelleen tehneet hyvin.

He were devastated by losing that election to Trump, but I think there were other factors at play there that a lot of people didn't see coming, including, as you know, I detailed in the book, Harry Reid courted, exploited the Hispanic vote very well, and it's been well documented how especially young Hispanic men started to turn away

I'm not sure they could have stopped that in any way. But the state has changed too, Rachel. The Democrats used to have a very large registration lead. That has evaporated mostly because of a surge in nonpartisan registration. And it's unclear why.

who all of these people are, and I'm not sure that they've been able to pinpoint it. And now you have for the first time a Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, who's up for re-election, and this could be a litmus test in 2026, who has, the Republicans have copied what Reid did, and they've set up their own machine, and it's a pretty effective machine. And I think that Rebecca Lamb and others who run the Democratic machine here see 2026 as an opportunity to say, we're still around, it's not the Lombardo machine yet,

Juontaja Erja Hyytiäinen

The subtitle of your book is How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight. I, too, miss him. I'm one of those people who used to get handwritten notes from him and the occasional phone call from him, except I wasn't a senator, so he wasn't flattering me or wishing me happy birthday. It was always him taking issue with something that I'd gotten wrong or that I hadn't...

I had mentioned him in a way that he didn't think was exactly right to take an issue with me. He wasn't mean, but he was really pushy. And I miss that. I do. But I also miss the kind of advice...

that I think he would give even from the sidelines if he were still here. What do you think in 2026 right now, facing the kinds of challenges that we are facing right now, where I think it is, you know, we're not only thinking about midterm strategy, we're thinking about midterm existence, honestly.

What advice do you think he'd give Democrats right now about how to win what might be the most important political fight in the history of this country?