Sen. Lindsey Graham, who once joked that his fellow Republican senator, Ted Cruz, is so despised by his Capitol Hill colleagues that anyone who killed him would get away with murder, has endorsed – wait for it – Cruz for president.
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Cruz will be competing for attention. Ted Cruz after backing his own campaign, Jeb Bush and then Marco Rubio.
For that reason alone, the senator said, he might be forced to back his colleague from Texas.
Graham, who not too long ago was running against Cruz and Trump for the GOP presidential nomination, said it’s still a long shot that Cruz could beat Trump.
“You know Ted Cruz is not my favorite, by any means”, Graham told CBS Tuesday night.
“Short of a major scandal” Trump will win, explained Graham.
Graham also reiterated during the interview that he does not actually wish Cruz any harm and that his joke last week was merely that: a joke. “Please quit beating up on the Hispanic community, quit saying that most illegal immigrants are rapists and drug dealers because they’re not, try to open up the party to conservatism in a fashion that will allow us to grow”, Graham said.
“No, I’m not [seeming] to say that”.
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We’re in a demographic death spiral with Hispanics and young people and Donald Trump is not the answer to our problems. Sen. Graham went on to characterize Trump as a “race-baiting, xenophobic bigot” and predicted a Trump loss to presumptive democrat nominee Hillary Clinton.
