Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is breaking with outgoing Minority Leader Harry Reid's sharply worded rhetoric about Donald Trump's White House win.

“Senator Harry Reid's statement today attacking President-elect Trump is wrong!" Manchin said in a statement Friday. "It is an absolute embarrassment to the Senate as an institution, our Democratic party, and the nation. I want to be very clear, he does not speak for me."

ADVERTISEMENT Reid called the president-elect "a sexual predator who lost the popular vote" and argued his win bolsters hate groups and terrorists.

Manchin said Friday that Reid's comments undercut the common ground lawmakers should be trying to find after the election. Many Democrats, including Manchin, are offering Trump a tentative olive branch.

"Senator Reid’s words needlessly feed the very divisiveness that is tearing this country apart," he said. "Unfortunately, there are some who forget that at times like these it is wrong to put party and politics above our country.”