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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.
If Rubio beats him badly in New Hampshire, Jeb is toast.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by the New York Times.
If you nominate Trump and Cruz, I think you get the same outcome. Whether it’s death by being shot or poisoning doesn’t really matter. I don’t think the outcome will be substantially different.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham, quoted by the New York Times.
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.
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is expected to endorse Jeb Bush for president this morning.
— Politico reports.
78%
Of South Carolina GOP voters want Sen. Lindsey Graham to drop out of the presidential race, a new Public Policy Polling survey in South Carolina finds.
As a public official, comply with the law or resign.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), in an interview with Hugh Hewitt, on the defiant Kentucky clerk who refuses to issue marriage licenses to gay couples.
I’ll beat his brains out.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by CNN, saying Donald Trump would be “a complete idiot” to run in South Carolina’s GOP presidential primary. But a new poll shows Trump leading Graham in his home state, 30% to 4%.
I never thought I’d run for president. It’s audacious until you look at the other people.
— Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), quoted by Bloomberg political writer Melinda Henneberger, on Twitter.
42
Number of floor votes Sen. Marco Rubio has missed since announcing his run in mid-April, more than a third of roll calls on the Senate floor. “Trailing not far behind him on the absentee scale are Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas). At the other end of the spectrum is Rand Paul of Kentucky, who has missed just two votes,” reports Politico.
