It’s like: 'Oh hell, we can actually win this race. Spoiler alert: That relationship didn’t end well. Lindsey Olin Graham (born July 9, 1955) is an American politician, who serves as the senior United States Senator from South Carolina, a seat he has held since 2003. "And if that means putting a Democrat in for six years until the GOP can get a better candidate, then so be it.". "The phone number for our county party HQ rings through to my cellphone, and it rings constantly. In York County, a rapidly growing part of the state that includes part of the Charlotte suburbs where Harrison will need to post a strong showing, Democrats say they’ve never seen this kind of excitement for a candidate before — and that it has shifted into high gear in the days since Ginsburg's death. Graham, meanwhile, finds himself in a tough battle with Democratic opponent Jaime Harrison, who according to a Quinnipiac poll published Wednesday is dead even with him among likely voters in their senate race. Trump has called Woodward’s book a “political hit job” while Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden said Trump’s reported comments on the pandemic were “beyond despicable” and “a dereliction of duty”, Follow David on Twitter. "Graham has always had issues with the Republican base, dating back to 2008," said Will Folks, who worked for years in Republican politics in South Carolina and now runs the state's go-to political blog, FITSNews, adding that Graham lost a meaningful number of Republican primary voters to challengers in his 2008 and 2014 re-election bids.
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How did that turn out?”, Carlson asked why Graham, who “is supposed to be a Republican” would “do something like that.”. If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say 'Lindsey Graham said, 'Let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination,'" Graham said at the time. That's the label conservatives have slapped on the new, updated—they would argue "upgraded"—South Carolina senator … Mark Sanford, a Republican, said that "it probably helps Democrats more than Republicans because they are incensed.". Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) attends a press conference announcing Senate Republicans’ opposition to D.C. statehood on Capitol Hill July 01, 2020 in Washington, DC. Meet "Lindsey Graham 2.0." Comey, whom Trump famously fired in May 2017, will be a featured witness in Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham’s investigation into the origins of the Justice Department’s Russia probe. “The day of reckoning is upon us when it comes to Crossfire Hurricane,” Graham told Fox News host Sean Hannity Wednesday night, referring to the FBI investigation into alleged links between the Trump campaign and foreign agents wishing to influence the United State’s political process. “He (Comey) will be respectfully treated but asked hard questions. Former FBI Director James Comey has agreed to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Sept. 30, appearing just a month before the presidential election as … Lindsey Graham even sat in on the first interview between Bob Woodward and the president. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has served as Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary since 2019. The president and his supporters have argued that the Mueller Report, which found Russia interfered in the election “in sweeping and systematic fashion,” was a “witch hunt” that treated Trump unfairly. “Lindsey Graham was against all of that, more than many Democrats.