Lindsey Graham Admits That Republicans Have A LOT Of Problems

During an interview on CNN this week, Republican Senator Lindsey Graham admitted that the Republican Party has “a lot” of problems that go even “deeper than Trump.” This may be one of the first times that Graham has had a moment of clarity and reflection about the state of his own political Party. But he also makes a valid point about the GOP, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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

Apparently Republican Senator Lindsey Graham, is capable of having a little bit of self-awareness during an interview on CNN. This week, Lindsey Graham actually admitted that, okay, Trump's, Trump's got some issues, obviously as a candidate, but the Republican party in general, Lindsey Graham, admitted, uh, they've got some problems that go far deeper than Donald Trump. Now, in the correct context, his statement loses a little bit of its value, but I still think it's worth discussing. So here is what happened. Here's how the conversation went down between Lindsey Graham and CNN host Kaitlyn Collins. Collins asked him, quote, you're a close confidant of Donald Trump's. Why do you think he has struggled now that Harris is at the top of the ticket? You, you had said it would be drastically, dramatically different race. Why do you think these last two weeks have been so difficult for him as he's been up against her?

And Graham, of course, tried to, you know, downplay it and he was like, I think you're gonna see a very focused Donald Trump and a Republican effort from everybody to focus on the policy choices she's made. Which of course, as vice president, she, she actually doesn't, she doesn't get to sign any bills or, you know, do things like that. So kind of a tough sell there, bud. But you know, you do, you, he believes he's the best guy to fix the problems we have at home and abroad. And to do that, you gotta win. So I am hopeful. Our problems are personality. Their problems are policy choices that are hurting the average American and set the world on fire. If we can get our personality problems fixed, we will win this election. 'cause their policies are never gonna be fixed by them. And Collins picked up on that. She's like, hold up. Interesting to hear you say personality problems at your party's issues. Uh, obviously Donald Trump's personality, uh, Senator, let me get your take on this. And then Graham cut her off and said it's deeper than him. I promise you there we have a lot of personality problems in our party.

Yeah, I mean, I, I can't disagree with you there, Lindsay. Oh, by the way, you're one of 'em. Okay. I don't think you realize that when you said it like, oh boy, do we have some personality problems? Yeah, right at the top is you, I mean, you were the guy that went on TV and openly wept when Donald Trump was indicted. You cried on national television begging people to send Trump money after he was indicted. I'd say that's a bit of a personality problem. Honestly. I may go as far as to say that's a bit of a psychological problem in my opinion. Maybe that's something you need to work through with a therapist if you are crying because some guy you kind of like got in trouble, okay? That's not normal. It is in fact, as the Harris campaign would tell us, very weird. But yes, you've got other personality problems. You've got people like James Comer,