Jon Ralston
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first heard Jan 2026
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And he would never surrender, even if I may belabor the boxing metaphor, even if he was knocked down,
He knew he was going to get up to live to fight another day.
And I believe he would be very, very frustrated now about the Democrats in Washington, D.C., and he would be saying things, as he liked to say that he did, that no one else would say and be doing things that no one else would do.
Some people didn't like his tactics.
Some people didn't like his rhetoric, Rachel, but he always fought for what he believed was
was a righteous cause.
Doesn't mean everyone would agree that it was a righteous cause, and he would have fought vociferously against Donald Trump.
And I'm sorry to go on too long, but once you get me going about the book, what Harry Reid really despised as someone who really came from nothing,
This incredibly impoverished childhood was people he thought were born on third base and thought that they had hit a triple.
And he would have put Donald Trump in that category along with Mitt Romney, along with the Koch brothers and others.
And he would have no patience and he would have brooked nothing from them.
And he would go after them in the most uncertain way with the certitude that what he was doing was the right thing to do.
I think there's two components to it.
One is, as you know, no senator or congressman can do what they do without hiring great people around them to execute their plan.
And so what Reid did essentially is develop a war room, and they called it a war room, where they were not going to let anything that the administration did go unanswered.
And they even did national tours to go and fight Social Security, even though
The president obviously has the most resonant bully pulpit, and so they were at a disadvantage.
That did not stop them.
They were relentless with press releases, with press events, both in Washington and across the country.
And of course, Harry Reid also had a great partner in doing this, someone that he considered the best speaker of the House in history, and that's Nancy Pelosi, who really
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