Kyle Bell

Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont, one of the most senior Democratic members of the Senate, is urging Hillary Clinton to get out of the race for president.

In an interview on Vermont Public Radio, said “There is no way that Senator Clinton is going to win enough delegates to get the nomination. She ought to withdraw and she ought to be backing Senator Obama. Now, obviously that’s a decision that only she can make frankly I feel that she would have a tremendous career in the Senate.”

Leahy said he was fretting about the impact of the protracted Democratic race.

“I am very concerned,” he said. “John McCain, who has been making one gaffe after another, is getting a free ride on it because Senator Obama and Senator Clinton have to fight with each other. I think that her criticism is hurting him more than anything John McCain has said. I think that’s unfortunate.”