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Trump Hangs Lindsey Graham Out To Dry At Rally
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8:47Now PlayingDonald Trump almost completely abandons Lindsey Graham on stage during his South Carolina rally after Trump supporters lash out at him. John Iadarola and Francesca Fiorentini break it down on The Damage Report.
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Lindsey Graham to the Trump Supporters Mercilessly Booing Him“Thank You Very, Very Much”
"Lindsey Graham is one of Donald Trump’s most subservient lackeys in the Senate: He golfs with the former president. He does his bidding on Capitol Hill. He’s even willing to go on television with hot tears in his eyes to solicit donations for Trump’s legal defense. But that over-the-top allegiance doesn’t seem to cut it for some of Trump’s most ardent supporters, who booed the Republican senator during a MAGA rally in South Carolina over the weekend—forcing the former president to offer a defense of Graham almost as humiliating as the jeers themselves.
“We’re going to love him,” Trump said of Graham at South Carolina's Pickens rally Saturday, as his supporters booed the senator in his home county at the mere mention of his name. “I know it’s half and half, but when I need some of those liberal votes, he’s always there to help me get them. We’ve got some pretty liberal people, but he’s good. We know the good ones.”
It was an embarrassing display for Graham, a loyalist who is nonetheless distrusted by MAGA die-hards over his characterization of Trump in the 2016 cycle as a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” and a “kook” and especially over his reported suggestion that Capitol police should have shot January 6 rioters “all in the head.” But it was made all the more mortifying by Trump, whose defense of Graham basically amounted to the South Carolina senator’s value as an asset: “He’s there when you need him,” Trump told the crowd, responding to boos with a vow to get Graham “straightened up.”"
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