“‘That’s my problem.’”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican, spoke final week on the Vision 2024 National Conservative Forum in Charleston, S.C.
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Those have been the phrases of Senate Republican Lindsey Graham, by his personal recollection and that of former Democratic colleague Al Franken, responding in a males’s-room dialog to Franken’s comment that Graham, among the many roughly dozen and a half GOP presidential candidates in 2016, would get his vote, have been Franken a Republican.
Franken, pressured by fellow Democrats into resignation from the Senate the next yr after the publication of a photograph displaying him pantomiming intimacy with a dozing and bombproof-vest-clad fellow performer on a USO tour a decade earlier than, is visitor internet hosting “The Daily Show” this week on Comedy Central
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He had Graham on as a visitor Monday night time.
“The Al Franken wing of the Republican Party is not as big as you would think it would be,” Graham jested, including that he “peaked” in that 2016 race at 2%.
Franken, the veteran comedian and “Saturday Night Live” author who represented Minnesota within the U.S. Senate from 2009 to 2018, mentioned that on his comedy tour he’s typically requested who his funniest Senate colleague was. His response, he reported, admitting it’s not widespread with a left-leaning viewers: Graham.
There was, nonetheless, little grinning on Franken’s aspect of the desk when Graham averred (starting on the 11:58 mark within the YouTube clip beneath) that Donald Trump, the previous president, has in 2024, current authorized obstacles however, a “better than good” likelihood of successful the Republican nomination and a “50-50 chance of being president again.”
The two shook on a $20 wager over their respective predictions that President Joe Biden can be re-elected or Trump would survive a Republican main and go on to win a second, nonconsecutive time period.
They agreed that aiding Ukraine’s protection towards the unprovoked, year-old Russian invasion was good for not solely Ukraine and Western-style democracy but in addition the U.S.’s personal pursuits and that Trump and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, presumed to be planning a presidential bid, have been misguided in suggesting in any other case. “If this is not in our vital interests, what would be?” requested Graham.
Franken, showing the next morning on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” noticed that he and Graham stay mates — “kind of.” It was a benign variation on Franken’s oft-repeated line about one other Senate Republican, Ted Cruz: that he preferred Cruz than most of his Senate colleagues did, and he hated him.
Key Words (February 2019): Lindsey Graham has a solution to these asking, ‘What happened to Lindsey Graham?’
Source web site: www.marketwatch.com
