Lindsey Graham Spends Final Campaign Hours Attacking Women's Rights

Lindsey Graham is at a very high risk of losing his Senate seat, and so he fell back this weekend on one of the Republican Party's oldest tropes: Sexism. Graham told a small crowd that women have a place in society, but only if they embrace traditional roles of what conservative men believe they should be. Graham and his fellow Republicans would love to see the United States revert back to the 1930's, in more ways than one. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

Lindsey Graham Republican Senator up for reelection this year, uh, has held a seat forever. He's facing an uphill battle and that's an uphill battle that ends one way or another tomorrow. So the last day or so we've been in the final hours, technically of these campaigns and Lindsey Graham, knowing that his opponent has outraised him. I think by almost double what Graham has pulled in, uh, seeing that the polls are neck and neck, the race is now considered a toss up. Lindsay Graham went out there, spoke to a small crowd yesterday, a crowd that Donald Trump would absolutely mock if a Democrat pulled in that kind of crowd and, uh, reverted back to the old Republican staples, right? When you got nothing else to do, what do you do while you attack women's rights? Of course, and you bring back the culture war here is Lindsey Graham's final pitch to the voters of South Carolina. Take a look.

I want every young woman to know there's a place for you in America. If you're a pro-life, if you embrace your religion and you follow a traditional family structure, that you can go anywhere, young lady

That's right, ladies, if you want to be a part of society, if you want to be accepted, if you want to be accepted in society, barefoot and pregnant, standing in the kitchen, making food, traditional Christian family values. So it says Lindsey Graham, the guy who coincidentally is not married. I wonder why I wonder why Lindsey Graham can attract a woman with that kind of thinking. I wonder why they're not just lining up throwing themselves at Lindsay Graham. And I'm not trying to imply anything that others have implied. I'm just saying when you have those kinds of backwards thoughts about women, uh, it's kind of hard to find one. That's willing to say, Oh, you know what? I'll throw all my values away to, to be with this man who thinks I should have no rights. But folks, what we're witnessing here is actually, this was a good case.

Study of Republicans in general. This is what those Republican rats do when they're backed into a corner. And that is what Lindsey Graham is. He is backed into a corner. So he falls back on those old Republican staples, uh, women should be home and in the kitchen and they shouldn't have any rights to know if you don't do that. You're not a traditional family. I'm a traditional family man, even though I don't have a family, I'm so traditional. Look at me, love me. I'm just like you. We have South Carolina, Southern conservative values. Don't let the other man take those away boat for me. Lindsey, Graham has no values by the way. He is not pro-life Lindsey. Graham would send every single troop. We have enlisted in the U S military overseas to die just because Lindsey Graham loves war so much. I mean, I remember when Lindsey Graham was running for president back when we were watching those 2015 presidential debates, every question Lindsay Graham was asked whether it was about the economy. If it was about the environment, no matter what it was about Lindsey Graham would bring up terrorists overseas and we got to take them out. He absolutely drove every single thing back. Cause I wrote about it at the time, drove everything back,