POLITICO: How the Harry Reid Machine May Have Killed Trump’s Chances.

Harry Reid built this. After two years of boosting voter registration among key Democratic demographics, the retiring Senate minority leader has brought turnout among Hispanics in the state to record levels. In doing so, he’s almost surely delivered the state for Hillary Clinton—and possibly with it the presidential race (Trump has only the narrowest path to 270 electoral votes without Nevada). The reality of this election is that if Clinton wins, especially if she ends up needing Nevada, it’s not a stretch to declare that Reid was the single most important person in her victory.
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A microcosm of the country, with its melting pot population and growing Latino voting bloc, Nevada signaled with its early voting turnout and record Hispanic participation that Trump has proven a better turnout driver of that demographic than anyone could have imagined—and for all the wrong reasons. It is ironic now to recall the GOP strategists behind that Republican National Committee autopsy in 2012, whose main exhortation was to reach out to minority voters lest another election be lost. As if in answer to that, GOP primary voters nominated the antithesis of its prescription.

Reid would be up for reelection this year, but opted to retire instead. It doesn’t take much imagination to picture him with a comfy post-Senate lifestyle, far beyond anything he’s actually produced — other than votes.