Donald Trump should just love Harry Reid. After all, Reid's a truth-teller, just like Trump. For example, this truth:
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said Donald Trump was a "bigot who's clearly unfit for office" Thursday during a press call with reporters where he once again called on Republicans to confirm Supreme Court Justice nominee Merrick Garland.
His larger point on this call was to remind reporters that the Republican blockade of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court means that Senate Republicans are essentially trying to hand the court to Trump, and that they could fix that perception.
Reid said Senate Republicans were leaving the vacancy open for GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump to fill.
"As radical as unfit as he is, they’re going to let Trump do that,” Reid said.
So his plan is to give them a chance to rectify that. He and fellow Democrats are talking about using a procedural maneuver—a motion to discharge—to kick the nomination out of the Judiciary Committee and on to the Senate floor. The motion requires 60 votes, which is probably out of reach. But it also forces a vote, and will force all those Republican senators fighting for their political lives to make a very difficult choice: stick with Mitch McConnell and tacitly admit they're okay with Donald Trump shaping the Supreme Court or allowing President Obama's nominee a vote.
Nice move, Harry.