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Lindsey Graham

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Lindsey Olin Graham is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator from South Carolina since 2003. A member of the Republican Party, Graham has been a prominent figure in national politics, known for his work on issues such as national security, foreign policy, and judicial appointments. He has played a key role in various legislative efforts and has been an outspoken advocate for military support to Ukraine in recent years.

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Nov 22, 2020

Because the future of the country hangs in the balance.

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Nov 20, 2020

That decision needs to be made by the voters.

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Nov 17, 2020

He was right about those two things, though. In his now four years of abject humiliating sycophancy to Donald Trump, Graham has destroyed his reputation, full stop.

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Nov 17, 2020

The future of the country hangs in the ballots.

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Nov 17, 2020

Because the future of the country hangs in the balance.

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Nov 17, 2020

In his now four years of abject humiliating sycophancy to Donald Trump, Graham has destroyed his reputation, full stop.

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Nov 17, 2020

If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed, and we will deserve it.

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Nov 16, 2020

I wish he if she wins, ultimately, which they believes he believes will be decided within a month or so then he'll be willing to work with her.

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Nov 16, 2020

If Republicans don't challenge and change the U.S. election system, they will never be another Republican president elected again.

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Nov 16, 2020

The future of the country hangs in the balance.

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Nov 16, 2020

I think that's just ridiculous. If he feels threatened by that conversation, he's got a problem. I actually thought it was a good conversation.

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Nov 13, 2020

We need to do a joint committee in the Senate to analyze mail-in balloting.

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Nov 13, 2020

If we keep the Senate, we need to do a joint committee in the Senate to analyze mail-in balloting.

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Nov 10, 2020

Mitch McConnell and I need to come up with an oversight of mail-in balloting. If we don't do something about voting by mail, we're going to lose the ability to elect a Republican in this country.

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Nov 10, 2020

We win because of our ideas. We lose elections because they cheat us.

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Nov 9, 2020

It would be insane for President Trump not to look at all this stuff. I don't know if it will flip the election, but I do know this, it deserves to be looked at and this election is by no means over.

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Nov 9, 2020

And, finally, what I'm going to tell Mitch McConnell today when we get back, if we keep the Senate, we need to do a joint committee in the Senate to analyze mail-in balloting... and how it worked in 2020.

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Nov 8, 2020

I would encourage President Trump, if after all this, he does fall short, we just can't quite get there, to not let this movement die, to consider running again. Grover Cleveland came back. Donald Trump should think about it.

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Nov 5, 2020

Lindsey Graham's proposal would be radical, extreme anti-democracy, and it would violate state law because the Pennsylvania State laws already said you do it by popular vote, it would violate federal law, which says you can't make the…

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Nov 5, 2020

I think everything should be on the table. So there's the process of observing an election that's being violated. Philadelphia elections are crooked as a snake.

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Oct 26, 2020

If there's a Republican president in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination, and you could use my words against…

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Oct 19, 2020

If you're a young African-American, an immigrant, you can go anywhere in this state. You just need to be conservative, not liberal.

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Oct 13, 2020

You come out on a different side of an issue, particularly abortion. I have never been more proud of a nominee than I am of you. This is the first time in American history that we have nominated a woman who's unashamedly pro-life and…

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Oct 11, 2020

You can't demand that all of your colleagues be tested before you go to work if there's no reason.

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Oct 11, 2020

So, we're running this hearing safely has been set up CDC compliant, and we'll move forward.

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