Global Courant
Supporters of former President Trump booed and called South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham (R) a “traitor” at a rally in the senator’s home state on Saturday.
‘Thank you for coming. Thank you so much,” Graham said in response to a chorus of boos at the rally for the former president in Pickens, SC
“Calm down for a second. I think you’ll like this,’ he added, after waiting several minutes for the crowd to settle in vain.
Graham, who has had an on-again, off-again relationship with Trump over the years, praised the “common ground” he and the former president found on Saturday.
“It took a while to get there folks, but let me tell you what happened,” he said. “I’ve come to like President Trump and he likes himself and we have that in common. And I’m going to help him become president of the United States.”
“So let me tell you how you win an election, folks — you bring together people who don’t always agree to agree on the most important things,” Graham added. “I hope we can bring this party together because he will be our nominee.”
The South Carolina senator, whom Trump at one point called a “racist, xenophobic religious bigotry” during the 2016 campaign, became one of the president’s biggest supporters in the Senate during his administration.
Graham briefly turned against Trump after the January 6, 2021, assassination attempt on the Capitol. However, he eventually approved the former president’s 2024 bid for the White House.
The senator has recently defended Trump in the face of two indictments and said last month that the latest charges against the former president “stronger” than before.
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