Harry Reid, who led Senate Democrats for 12 years, dies at 82

• Nevada senator helped to pass Obama’s Affordable Care Act
• Reid called Trump ‘the worst president we’ve ever had’

Harry Reid, who emerged from the unforgiving political landscape of Las Vegas, Nevada, to lead the Senate Democrats for 12 turbulent years, died on Tuesday at age 82.

Reid died Tuesday, “peacefully” and surrounded by friends “following a courageous, four-year battle with pancreatic cancer,” Landra Reid said of her husband.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/28/harry-reid-senate-democrats-nevada-dies