Senator Lindsey Graham, the Republican presidential candidate who always seemed to be having the most fun (when he wasn’t calling for World War III), announced on Monday that he would end his White House bid after his peculiar combination of barroom jocularity and extreme hawkishness failed to attract voters.
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“Today I am suspending my campaign”, Graham says in the video, which includes implicit criticism of the Republican field that he is abandoning. “And this idea of killing every man, woman and child in the Middle East does not make us safer”, Graham said. Graham tried to borrow his buddy John McCain’s campaign blueprint, hitting the New Hampshire town-hall circuit in hopes that his folksy charm and his arsenal of one-liners would build a following.
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Mr Graham said he had run a “campaign we can be proud of”. He never garnered more than 2 percent in national polls and was even excluded from a Fox Business Republican Debate in November because his poll numbers were too low. Like many other GOP Presidential hopefuls, Senator Graham’s campaign was never able to catch fire like extremist frontrunner Donald Trump’s.
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McCain said in a statement Monday that with Graham’s exit, “Republicans lost our most qualified, thoughtful, fearless and honest presidential candidate, not to mention our candidate with the best…sense of humor”. With Graham out, influential South Carolina Republicans who have been loyal to him can begin making new choices among the remaining candidates.
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.
He made the official announcement in an email to supporters and Youtube video posted Monday morning.
Graham announced his candidacy in June.
“I have seen Americans partner with people in the region and that’s the way forward”.
He cited that most of his former competitors for the nomination now recognize that more US troops are needed on the ground in Iraq and Syria to defeat the Islamic State group.
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Graham hails from SC, a conservative southeastern state that holds the third presidential primary of the nominations contest, on February 20 after Iowa and New Hampshire. He is now serving his third term in the US Senate. “I can not tell you how frustrating it has been to have spent all this time and effort preparing myself to be commander-in-chief and to be put at the “kiddie table”.
