Due to continued low support, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham announced Monday that he was quitting the Republican Party’s race for the White House in 2016.
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The latest survey of the SC primary had Graham polling at just 1 percent.
Sen. Lindsey Graham of SC is ending his campaign for the GOP presidential nomination.
Graham’s interventionist foreign policy has been at the fore of his candidacy, and he has helped shape the conversation on the campaign trail, particularly when it came to national security.
In a crowded race that at one point had 17 candidates, Graham was swamped by political outsiders including Trump and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, as well as fellow Republican senators Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and Rand Paul, three higher-profile lawmakers. Yet, Graham would not join Trump in attacking Islam. He has advocated the use of USA ground troops in the Middle East to fight Islamic State forces, a stance favored by some other Republican contenders, but rejected by President Barack Obama and the Democratic presidential frontrunner, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
In South Carolina on Monday, a string of Graham supporters switched to Ohio Gov. John Kasich’s team.
But his decision to suspend his campaign on Monday could have a significant effect on the race in his home state, the third-voting state in the Republican presidential primary. Matt Moore, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, confirmed that Graham was off the ballot within 40 minutes of the announcement going public. He stated from the outset of his campaign that more US troops are needed, adding that “American soldiers will die in Iraq and eventually in Syria to protect our homeland”.
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Upon news Caitlyn Jenner had come out as transgender and a member of the Republican Party, Graham said she’s welcome in the GOP and to vote for him if her priority is national security. Perhaps it still will be as voters begin to look for the kind of serious leader who can take charge during perilous times. Even in the thick of the presidential campaign, Graham embraced his Senate role, in stark contrast to other senators who publicly downplayed their Washington ties. “I believe we have made enormous progress in this effort”.
