“I have never been more worried about the Republican Party breaking apart than I am today.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by The Hill.
Quote of the Day
“For him to win a floor fight, he’s going to need more friends, not less. And I think he’s reaching out to people, and we’ll see how that goes.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Texas Tribune, on Sen. Ted Cruz’s chances of winning the Republican nomination.
Graham Says GOP Will Likely Lose in 2016
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said the Republican party “probably will” lose the 2016 presidential race, Bloomberg reports.
Graham said that Donald Trump’s “campaign is based on xenophobia, race-baiting, religious bigotry, bringing out the worst in us. I think it would destroy my party for generations to come. We can afford to lose an election; we can’t afford to lose the heart and soul of who we are.”
He added that Sen. Ted Cruz “wouldn’t make the best president” but has the best chance.
Graham Endorses Cruz for President
Sen. Lindsey Graham told CNN that while Sen. Ted Cruz is not his preferred candidate, he’s “the best alternative to Donald Trump,” and he said he will “help Ted in every way I can.”
Graham admitted that his Senate colleague is “not well liked,” but said, “I have doubts about Mr. Trump, I don’t think he’s a Republican, I don’t think he’s a conservative, I think his campaign’s built on xenophobia, race-baiting and religious bigotry, I think he’d be a disaster for our party and as Senator Cruz would not be my first choice, I think he is a Republican conservative who I could support.”
Lindsey Graham Warms to Ted Cruz
National Review: “Graham and Cruz had a lengthy phone conversation on Thursday following Graham’s assertion that the GOP may have to unite around Ted Cruz in order to stop Donald Trump. Sources familiar with the call said the two discussed just that.”
“If anything, the existence of a dialogue between the two reveals a newfound flexibility on both sides. Many had questioned whether Cruz would make overtures to the party establishment if he came close to winning the nomination, and it at least appears he is willing to do so. Graham, for his part — after asserting earlier this week that somebody could murder Cruz on the floor of the Senate and not be prosecuted — appears to have made his peace.”
Graham Mocks the GOP Presidential Race
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) mocked all of his former rivals in the Republican presidential race, joking that his “party has gone batshit crazy,” NBC News reports.
His harshest attacks were on Ted Cruz: “If you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you.”
Quote of the Day
“He’s just generally a loser as a person and a candidate. You can’t nominate a nut job and lose and expect it doesn’t have consequences.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the AP, predicting that Donald Trump will win the Republican nomination but lose the general election.
Graham Admits Supreme Court Fight is Payback
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) admitted that the GOP’s refusal to consider any Supreme Court nominee made by President Obama “was payback for the 2013 decision by Senate Democrats to unilaterally change Senate rules to make it easier to break Republican filibusters against executive branch nominations,” the New York Times reports.
Said Graham: “This is the consequence of an abuse of power. Don’t ask for fairness if you are not going to give it.”
Graham Says GOP Will Be ‘Slaughtered’ With Trump
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that if Donald Trump is the GOP nominee, Republicans will get “slaughtered” in the November election, The Hill reports.
Said Graham: “I think he’s a kook. I think he’s crazy. I think he’s unfit for office.”
Quote of the Day
“This man accused George W. Bush of being a liar and suggested he should be impeached. This man embraces Putin as a friend. The market in the Republican primary for people who believe that Putin’s a good guy and W. is a liar is pretty damn small.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Washington Post, about Republican frontrunner Donald Trump.
Quote of the Day
“Donald Trump is the most unelectable Republican I’ve seen in my lifetime. Every problem we had in 2012, he’s made worse.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Washington Examiner.
Graham Ends Presidential Campaign
Sen. Lindsey Graham “is suspending his presidential run,” Politico reports.
“His announcement came on the same day as the deadline hit for him to remove his name from the South Carolina primary ballot, a date that had been closely watched amid speculation that the low-polling Graham would want to avoid a potentially poor performance in his own state’s contest.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“I haven’t been on the stage. There’s a cause and effect here. If you can never be seen as a top-tier candidate, it’s pretty hard.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Wall Street Journal, arguing that he should be on the main debate stage despite polling nationally at just 1%.
Graham Explains Why Trump Is Leading
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told the Boston Herald that Donald Trump is leading in the polls because nearly half of Republican primary voters hate Obama and think he is a Kenyan-born Muslim.
Said Graham: “Well there’s about 40% of the Republican primary voter who believes that Obama was born in Kenya and is a Muslim. There’s just a dislike for President Obama that is visceral. It’s almost irrational.”
He added: “I can promise you that Hillary Clinton will clean his clock.”
Graham Says Election Could Be About Rape
Sen. Lindsey Graham said that if the ultimate GOP presidential nominee wants to ban abortion under all circumstances, the election “will be about rape. It will be about the nominee of the Republican Party telling a woman who’s been raped you’ve got to carry the child of the rapist. Good luck with that,” the Washington Examiner reports.
Said Graham: “If the nominee of the Republican Party will not allow for an exception for rape and incest, they will not win.”
Graham Faces Key Deadline in South Carolina
NBC News: “South Carolina’s State Election Commission has warned the state’s Republican Party: If a candidate wants to stay off the ballot for the Feb. 20 presidential primary, they have until Dec. 21 to get out of the race.”
“It’s set a potentially critical deadline for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, who will have to weigh whether it’s worth continuing his long shot presidential bid in the face of a potentially embarrassing showing in his home state. And it has the state’s political class — many of whom have been sitting on the sidelines of the First-in-the-South primary out of loyalty to Graham — buzzing at the possibility they’ll soon be able to take sides in a competitive and lucrative presidential race.”
Bonus Quote of the Day
“No ma’am. He’s not a traitor. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing.”
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by the Tampa Bay Times, disagreeing with a supporter’s comment on President Obama.
Graham Warns of Another 9/11
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told CNN that “there is a 9/11 coming” if the United States does not play a leading role in a ground war against ISIS.
Said Graham: “The world should be at war with ISIL. I’m trying to protect America from another 9/11, and without American boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, we’re gonna get hit here at home.”
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