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In an interview that aired on Wednesday, Nevada Republican Senate candidate Sharron Angle accused her Democratic opponent, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, of ducking his responsibility for the state's abysmal economic situation.

"Understand that Harry Reid was Senate majority leader in the Bush years," Angle said in a rare interview with ABC News/Washington Post's "Top Line". "These policies that have been coming forward -- for him to say that he hasn't been responsible -- he's been responsible through several administrations. He's been there. He's been voting on these policies that have really become the problem."

Nevada's unemployment rate stood at 14.3 percent in July, far surpassing the national rate of 9.5 percent.

Nevada also suffers from the highest foreclosure rate in the nation.

Angle's comments came a day after Reid launched a new television ad, titled "Worse," which blames the nation's economic woes on Wall Street, foreign oil prices, and George W. Bush's economic policies.

Reid's ad came in response to an earlier Angle spot that faulted the Democrat for the poor economy.

"Come on," the narrator in the Reid ad says. "Sharron Angle's the one who opposed Wall Street reform, wants to protect tax breaks for companies that ship jobs overseas, and says it's not her job to create jobs."

After having his political career declared effectively dead by political prognosticators for the better part of the past year, Reid has climbed into a neck-and-neck race with Angle by relentlessly accusing the tea party-aligned Republican of having extremist views.

On "Top Line," Angle was forced to explain some of her more controversial statements, including a remark about U.S. citizens potentially taking "Second Amendment remedies" to address their concerns about the government.

Angle did not distance herself from her previous agreement with a radio host who suggested that there are "domestic enemies" in Congress.

"Certainly people who pass these kinds of policies -- Obamacare, cap and trade, stimulus, bailout -- they're certainly not friends to the free market system," Angle said.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee seized upon Angle's remark by blasting out a press release that asked whether Angle thinks Republican Nevada Senator John Ensign is a domestic enemy, since he voted for the bailout.

But now that the ad wars in Nevada have shifted to the economy, Reid once again finds himself on the defensive.

As the most powerful Democrat in the Senate, Reid cannot feasibly dissociate himself from a wildly unpopular Congress, as other Democrats running in close races have begun to do more emphatically.

Reid's argument will continue to center around the premise that if voters think things are bad now, they would find the situation far worse with Angle in Washington.