A South Carolina newspaper has pointed out that the senior Republican US Senator from South Carolina has voted AGAINST his party leader, Donald Trump FIVE TIMES….
Hmmmm?
Could THAT be that ole Lindsey is actually in a tough race and Trump’s numbers are dropping like a stone 4 months out and Graham is looking out for HIMSELF?….He isn’t the only Republican US Senator will close polling numbers going into the election….
If so?
Will he have company soon?
Sen. Lindsey Graham has publicly opposed President Donald Trump five times in the past few weeks — including a new rebuke Monday — an unusual torrent of dissent from one of the president’s top allies in Washington just months before the South Carolina Republican faces a tough reelection challenge.
Since June 20, Graham has blocked a Trump U.S. attorney nominee, criticized Trump’s decision to put a temporary freeze on visas for foreign workers, split with the president about face masks during the coronavirus pandemic and pressed the administration for information about alleged Russian bounties on American soldiers.
Monday, Graham was at odds with Trump after the president alleged in a Twitter post that an apparent noose found last month in the Talladega Superspeedway garage of Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, was a “HOAX,” and called on Wallace to apologize to his NASCAR colleagues.
Graham, speaking to Fox News Radio, said Wallace being upset about the noose “made perfect sense to me.”
“I don’t think Bubba Wallace has anything to apologize for,” Graham said, adding that “you saw the best in NASCAR. When there was a chance that it was a threat against Bubba Wallace, [the drivers] all rallied to Bubba’s side. I would be looking to celebrate that kind of attitude more than being worried about it being a hoax.”
The FBI investigated the incident last month, concluding that the noose had been in the garage since last year and, accordingly, Wallace was not the victim of a hate crime.
Graham also addressed NASCAR’s recent decision to ban the Confederate flag at its events, saying that “if you’re in business, the Confederate flag is not a good way to grow your business.”
The senator has been a strong ally and personal friend of Trump, defending the president in several high-profile moments over the last four years.
Graham was one of the most outspoken Senate supporters of Brett Kavanaugh, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by Trump, during hearings that featured sexual assault allegations against the nominee. Graham declared during the process that Kavanaugh “has nothing to apologize for.” The senator also defended Trump amid impeachment hearings in the House, calling the process “a bunch of BS.”
The two golfed together at the Trump National Golf Club in Potomac Falls, Virginia, last month.
The White House declined to comment on Graham’s recent opposition to the president. Kevin Bishop, Graham’s communications director, told The State that the senator “agrees with President Trump a large percentage of the time, but when he doesn’t he has not been shy about speaking out.”
Back home, Graham is opposed by a well-funded challenger: Jaime Harrison, a former South Carolina Democratic Party chairman…
Sure he’s looking out for himself.
Graham is catching some flak among some Republicans along the coast ,where there exists a small,yet significant number of younger Republican “leaners “who have been increasingly moving away from the GOP over Trump.Many of these types switched over and supported Democrat Joe Cunningham in his upset Congressional victory in 2018.
Graham will likely still win as I outlined earlier this week, but why take chances?
Trump asking Graham ‘what’s up’…How come U ain’t messing with Obama to balance me worrying about the NYC DA?
President Donald Trump took a swing at Sen. Lindsey Graham on Thursday in the aftermath of two Supreme Court decisions involving his closely held financial records, lamenting that the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and close Trump ally was not doing enough to target the president’s political foes.
Trump’s tweets came after a Supreme Court decision upheld a Manhattan grand jury subpoena seeking his tax returns and other financial documents as part of a criminal investigation into the practices of the Trump Organization. In response, Trump complained that former President Barack Obama was not receiving enough scrutiny over his administration’s decision to open up a counterintelligence investigation into alleged ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian government in 2016…
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More Graham movement… Is he smoothing the way to deal with a President Biden ?
Geoff Bennett
Lindsey Graham: “I like Joe Biden. … He’s, in my view, a figurehead of the most radical movement in American history that’s coming from AOC and that crowd. … My differences with Joe Biden are political, and they’re real, they’re wide and they’re deep, but he’s a fine man.”
Jack?
Ur view on ur US Senator seemingly saying nice things about Biden and increasing disagreeing with his party leader on masks, virus and few other things?