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Lindsey Graham drops out of 2016 GOP race
Even his rhetorical flourishes (“I am going to unleash the American military and I am going to kick their ass”) were drowned out by the Donald Trump show. “I believe we have run a campaign you can be proud of”. In an interview with CNN, Graham also highlighted the biased way the Republican debates are structured as a reason for his withdrawal.
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Lindsey Graham announced today he was ending his 2016 presidential campaign. This is the last day that Graham could opt to remove his name from the ballot for the Palmetto State primary.
A new CBS News poll showed Graham at just 1 percent in sc, and he may have been looking to avoid an embarrassing loss in his home state. Graham often touted his experience in the Middle East – he says he has made 36 trips to the region – and said the next USA president must have a deft understanding of the conflicts there.
“At the time, no one stepped forward to join me”, he added.
Graham’s campaign suspension comes after former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal withdrew earlier in the year.
Graham’s announcement may be a bow to dollar-and-cents reality: It came days before the presidential campaigns close their fundraising books for the fourth quarter of 2015; numerous campaigns are frantically engaged in year-end fundraising pleas.
In a vicious cycle, media-influenced polling numbers are used as justification to exclude less-favored candidates from prime-time presidential debates, relegating them to the so-called “undercard debates” or, as Graham himself put it, the “kiddie table”.
With Graham’s exit, the endorsement of Senator John McCain is up for grabs-and given the former G.O.P. candidate’s popularity in New Hampshire, expect dozens of candidates to suddenly begin kissing his ring.
Graham’s entry into the 2016 race never seemed quite right; he always came across as the “cat on a hot tin roof” of the GOP race. “I have offered a detailed plan to win a war we can not afford to lose and to turn back the tide of isolationism that has been rising in the Republican Party”, Graham told supporters in an email on Monday. Graham also supported both of Obama’s nominees to the Supreme Court.
In a crowded race that at one point had 17 candidates, Senator Graham was swamped by political outsiders including Mr Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, as well as fellow Republican senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul.
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The South Carolina senator has been among Trump’s fiercest critics, calling him a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” who should “go to hell”. The good news for everybody in this room is, after 36 trips to Iraq and Afghanistan, most people over there, Wolf, are not buying what ISIL’s selling.