Trying to gain the upper hand (Reid) [View All]

November 16, 2006

The nonaggression pact between Nevada's two senators has hit a snag.

One day after Democrat Harry Reid was elected Senate majority leader, John Ensign became the Republican charged with taking him down.

Ensign was chosen Wednesday to head the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Its mission is to win back the Senate majority that Reid and Co. wrested away in the Nov. 7 elections.

That makes Reid the primary target of Republicans, and will likely change the relationship between two Nevadans who famously dropped their swords after a brutal 1998 campaign to work across party lines for the sake of the state.

As Ensign said Wednesday: "The only agreement Sen. Reid and I have is to not criticize each other personally."

Carl Tobias, a former UNLV law professor who watches Nevada politics from the University of Richmond in Virginia, said Republicans will surely rev up attacks on Reid.

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