'Game Change' disputes Reid's Obama timeline
- 'Game Change' contradicts Reid's account of his attempts to persuade Obama to make a presidential bid. Photo: AP
A new book disputes Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's account of his attempts to persuade Barack Obama to run for president — saying they started a year earlier and played out differently than Reid has previously suggested.
"Game Change," co-authored by journalists Mark Halperin and John Heilemann, reveals that Reid was pushing Obama in the summer of 2006 to consider running for president, suggesting that Reid was concerned early on that Hillary Clinton would lose the White House and undercutting the majority leader's public stance that he was neutral in the race.
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