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Reid backs Caroline Kennedy
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Reid backs Caroline Kennedy
Posted: 05:05 PM ET
By Mark Preston
CNN Political Editor
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is backing Caroline Kennedy to replace Secretary of State-designate Hillary Clinton as the next senator from New York.

Reid told Nevada political analyst Jon Ralston on Tuesday that he personally called New York Gov. David Paterson urging him to appoint Kennedy to the seat.

“She’s 52 years old,” Reid said in an interview on Ralston’s Nevada-based television show “Face-to-Face.” “I’ve spoken to her. She was part of a vetting process for vice presidential choices for Obama. She’s lived in government and politics her whole life. I think it would be a tremendous thing. … We have a lot of stars from New York. Bobby Kennedy. Hillary Clinton. I think Caroline Kennedy would be perfect. “