Graham had some zingers for Florida senator Marco Rubio, too, whom Graham called “the boy wonder”. “We live in the most risky, complicated times you can imagine”.
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He conjectured that if “you kill Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the Senate, nobody could convict you”, before adding that he knew “exactly when Ted is going to drop out of the race – March 12th, [because] that’s Canadian week at Myrtle Beach”.
Graham thanked House Speaker Paul Ryan for his efforts in promoting conservativism and told his Democratic colleagues that they aren’t his enemy.
Kasich later had to apologize for the gaffe after being accused of sexism. “You can’t nominate a nut job and lose and expect it doesn’t have consequences”, Graham said the billionaire businessman would lose badly in large part because of his stand on immigration. How did I lose to these guys?’ He wound up to make some amusing remarks about Donald Trump, the real estate mogul who is, improbably, the party’s front-runner. Turning to reporters, he said, “You’re going to have to ask (Trump) harder questions, and I don’t mean to turn a amusing thing into a serious thing”.
In no-holds-barred remarks at a celebratory dinner Thursday night, the SC senator and unsuccessful presidential candidate said the GOP has lost all semblance of sanity and predicted the party will suffer irrevocable losses in November if it backs Trump.
And he noted that he himself had dropped out of this year’s presidential race and promptly endorsed former Florida governor Jeb Bush, who subsequently dropped out.
Lindsey Graham appear on stage at the first round of the CNN Republican Presidential Debate in Simi Valley, California on September 16, 2015. I’m the Dr. Kevorkian of the Republican primary.
Graham was on to talk about Trump’s tax returns, calling out The Donald for exaggerating his net worth and hiding his tax returns from the American people.
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He then proceeded to put on Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” baseball cap.
