“The only ‘rigged’ thing I’ve seen in this election is his mind,” Harry Reid said of Donald Trump. | AP Photo Reid says Trump's mind is 'rigged' The disavowed GOP nominee is McConnell's legacy 'whether he wants it or not,' Reid says.

HENDERSON, Nev. — Sen. Harry Reid said Wednesday that Donald Trump is “doing everything he can to make America look bad,” attacking the Republican nominee for calling into question an election that the Democrat said he hopes sinks the Republican Party.

“The only ‘rigged’ thing I’ve seen in this election is his mind,” Reid said of Trump.


Standing in a Mexican restaurant here just a few minutes from Wednesday’s debate site to do an advance pile-on, Reid said Senate Republicans own Trump and deserve to be punished for his candidacy. That includes Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), said Reid, adding he was unimpressed by the distance McConnell has tried to keep from the GOP nominee.

Trump, Reid said, is McConnell’s legacy “whether he wants it or not.”

Reid also called Sen. John McCain, the Arizonan he’s served with and called a friend for over 30 years, a disappointment — and an example of exactly what’s wrong with Republicans who are now trying to distance themselves from Trump. Responding to McCain’s comments earlier in the week saying he’d block any of Hillary Clinton’s Supreme Court nominees if she’s elected, the outgoing Senate minority leader said the comment “doesn’t speak well of him or the Republicans he’s trying to lead.”

Reid also took a shot at Sen. Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican who’s retained a slight lead in the polls in his reelection race. He insisted that Democrats haven’t given up on attacking him and defended the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee’s decision to pull spending from that race to redirect it elsewhere as just “trying to keep up with the Koch brothers.”

By not completely disavowing Trump despite condemning much of what his former presidential primary opponent has said and done, Reid charged, Rubio has “been doing a pretty good job attacking himself.”