Lindsey Graham Warmed To Trump, And Some Voters Feel Left In The Cold

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Lindsey Graham has won easily every time since he was first elected in 2002. But he's always relied on moderate voters — who aren't happy with how close he's grown to Trump. Now, he's in an unexpectedly tight race against Democrat Jaime Harrison.

Some South Carolina voters, like real estate agent Melinda Nicholson, are mystified by Graham moving from such a close friendship with McCain to his current friendship with Trump.

The incumbent's vocal defense of Trump prompted Democrats from around the country to make online donations to Harrison. With that national support, Harrison has been able to mount an aggressive media campaign, especially with television ads — some of them biographical, introducing himself to voters, some of them classic attack ads going after Graham.

The surge in gifts to Harrison certainly got Graham's attention. He's even used appearances on Fox News to urge viewers to contribute dollars, as he did in late September on the conservative cable network:"Every liberal in the country wants to take me out." He then spells out the address to his website, making the plea very clear.

Mike O'Connell, 54, is a police officer who describes himself as an independent who is conservative. He voted to reelect Graham, explaining,"He supports the police, I know that for sure. Supreme Court, that's a big issue, and even though I'm independent, I would prefer that Republicans hold on to the Senate."

 

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Lady G looks petite in that pic.

may the god of trump, graham, mitch, meadow, hannity let them win, may their god let trump push through with his plans to save america

It starts with holding hands. Then that magic moment when they lock eyes. Lindsey and Donnie lean slowly closer, their hearts beating faster, their lips locking. And then Trump 'grabs him by the pussy' however that works.

What infuriates me about Graham is that he will say one thing to 'mainstream' media, then go full Trumpista on Fox. Very dishonest.

JaimeHarrisonforSenate VoteBlue

Lots of help this election year from the FakeNewsMedia

nytimes washingtonpost CNN MSNBC Hopefully he loses this time. Come on ppl of SC!

SEND LENINGRAD LINDSEY & THE REST OF THE REPUBLICAN SENATORS UP FOR RE-ELECTION PACKING.. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

Vote Lindsey out.

boycottRepublicans

Time to go Lindsey!! JamieHarrisonforSenate

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Lindsey Graham has been so close to Trump that his face has morphed into looking like Trumps ass.

Actually, that isn't the correct story. Conservatives are deeply upset with him for not honoring ANY of his promises to hold the DC bureaucracy accountable. The race is tight for exactly the opposite reason you are asserting.

Proof that if you sleep with dogs you wake up with fleas

JaimeHarrisonforSenate DitchMitch

“qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent”

No he's not

Go home, Lindsey.

Graham thinks it is a positive thing for him to own a BAR where alcoholics are made, a restaurant where discrimination occurs, and a liquor store where the product of what he sells causes more harm than good. Is this guy serious?

Gotten close to trump, is and understatement, Lindsey's halfway if not further up into trumps ass, at least.

Ditch Lindsay the silly bitch!

This man does not know the meaning of words such as loyalty, ethics, and decency. How can you switch your support from Sen McCain once he passed away to Trump? I hope he loses the state (as many others might) for not being strong enough to do the right thing when the should have.

Time for a change. He's been there too long and forgets he answers to the people.

If I could, I’d move back to SC just to vote against Graham one last time.

Guess graham decided to ride the boat as it goes down!

It’s pathetic it’s “close” SouthCarolina deserves so much better than LazyLadyG

Linsey and McConnell are trumps biggest enablers. Now our country is a mess and has an out of control epidemic but Lindsey promotes and stands by this man. So let him go down with trump into early retirement 🇺🇸🌊🇺🇸

He knew damn well what he was signing up for and understood the outcome. NoTearsForLindsey

Vote him out so he’s able to live his authentic life

God, seeing that worthless sack of damp flour get thrown out would be so satisfying

VOTE HIM OUT!!!!! NO MORE LindseyGrahamSC , he is as big a Traitor as is realDonaldTrump! They ALL need to go and be put in jail for Treason! Vote for BidenHarris2020 and harrisonjaime, it's time for some fresh NEW leadership in the Senate. Out with all these GOP pigs

Send LindseyGrahamSC home! JamieHarrison2020

Can't wait for him to get voted out

LindseyGrahamSC YOU'RE FIRED!

Sashay Walkaway Lady G!

Graham wins Trump Triumphs! Hallelujah! Great day for state of South Carolina! Love Scott and Graham a great team!

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Graham has never been a Republican anyway, just a neocon.

Lady G on tenterhooks

I think South Carolina has seen enough from him especially since Trump was elected. harrisonjaime is a good and decent and honorable person. Why wouldn't any reasonable and rational person prefer that to...whatever LindseyGrahamSC is.

ByeLindsey

Donate to Jaime’s campaign here to SendLindseyHome, it’s an incredibly close race and your dollar could make the difference

SendLindseyHome Vote LindseyOut

Boot-licker from South Carolina

Thank you for reminding me to donate to Jaime again.

Go Jaime!

VOTE BLUE

VOTERS will vote him out because of his support to corp lobby and supporting non-immigrant guest worker visas, American workers will defeat him

Which he will still ultimately win.

What are you talking about. That is not why the race is in jeopardy. It’s because he doesn’t actually do anything. His main points in the debate were “I’m a republican guys! You gotta vote for me.” Typical voters have no enthusiasm for him

Hope the creep loses bigly.

Graham is a shame for United States.

LindseyGrahamSC you will lose.

Time to SendLindseyHome!

To GOP you aren't required to tell people you voted a blue down ticket! This is a race to save a nation not any party!

I wouldn't support this Log Cabin Republic if he were the last closeted gay man on earth! If his lips are moving he's lying just like his buddy Trump! And I am a proud gay woman!

Gonna be so nice to see the senate flop control. Sweet tears of Republicans. Can't just be satisfied and make small changes but the greedy bastards don't represent everyone only their crooked policies. Reap what you sow.

I'll wait until I hear what DC male escorts have to say once they're released from their NDAs. 🙄

FakeNews

If you vote for realDonaldTrump, that means you’re ok with: 1. Racism KKK 2. Proud Boys 3. Police Brutality 4. Corruption 5. Uncontrollable Pandemic & Massive Deaths 6. Declining Womens Rights 7. Voter Suppression 8. Inequality ETC What does that say about you? SERIOUSLY!!!

FakeNews NPR going with any story that’s anti conservative with its biased agenda.

Two faced hypocrite!

This is what happens when politicians like LindseyGrahamSC abandoned their responsibilities to their constituents & the American people and enable a president who is in over his head. This is the only RedWave2020 we will see. LeadershipMatters SCSen byelindsey

Lindsey should go down with that reckless careening ship!!

What about Hunter Biden

Graham will win. He just states what he believes, not like his competitor.

Not everything is about Trump. Trump is polling much better than Graham in SC. Graham is just fake, dishonest, & hypocritical. Nobody likes him. Harrison has integrity.

Yeah a tight race according to your biased polls.

Michael Bloomberg is giving $100 million to help the Biden/Harris campaign in Florida (per WaPo).

Let's talk about Presidential pet dogs... President Reagan had Rex President Bush 43 had Barney Bush President Clinton had Buddy President Bush 45 had Miss Beazley President Obama had Bo This is the closet Trump came to owning a dog. harrisonjaime thestate postandcourier

Inexplicably? Give me a break. It’s totally explicable

Vote out Lindsey the Liar

Maybe they are tired of Lindsey Graham being scared to speak honestly like he did before.

With so much ad money democrats pacs are spending. Money talks. Money buys all our elections, why bother to vote?

Maybe they are tired of Lindsey Graham flip flopping and not willing to stand for his principles.

Maybe they are tired of Lindsey Graham a Citadel Military Academy graduate not being a southern gentleman man of his word.

Donated to Jaime at lease three times. My SC grandchildren deserve better!

Maybe they are tired of Lindsey Graham taking money for known Russian Money Launderers

Why can’t we defund the corrupt and partisan ?

There’s a short preview of “our cartoon president” and it shows lindsey freaking out lol

VoteHimOut2020

Take this home Harrison!

We want someone to represent the ppl not their party.

Graham Crackers time is up. It's all over

One of the sweetest things my ears so desperately need to hear. Flimsy is gone!!! without a trace! Hope he is joined by other members of “The Dark Side” Rumpass, Mitch = Rumps B _ _ _ _ _ .... Oh what a glorious day Nov. 3rd could be!! Help make my dream come True. Please

This is how it should work! Vote

Lindsey's about to get beaten by a Black man, which ironically is one of his most closely guarded sexual fantasies.

Oops, Harrison. Sorry.

I’m not from South Carolina but we have to kick him out. Please, for all of us that can’t, do what’s right for our country and vote Jamieson!

Its because he's close to trump, not because he's a proven, lying, hypocritical weasel.

All this STUPID violence this President continues to incite MUST END! This we are not in the 1960’s like the President wants us to be! Donald’s been a racist all his life and that’s not the problem, the problem is the people who voted him in.

Latest polls show Graham with a six point lead, still a large margin of support for him.

Come out of the closet Lindsey ?

Wrong, we are not happy with how he hasn’t supported Trump enough, particularly investigating those illegally tried to bring him down.

One theory is that the racists are slowly dying off. Even Betsy DeVos can't stop it.

SendLindseyHome

No. You are lying. It’s not even close.

Not a good sign for ordinary people.

Lindsey Graham has dug his own grave. voteJamieHarrisonSC

🌊🌊🌊Which shows that ALL Lindsey cares about is His Place in Washington, not his Constituents!🌊He'd grovel before ANYONE to keep his job!🌊 South Carolina Deserves Better!🌊🌊🌊

He needs to be voted out! Trumps lap dog! South Carolina deserves better & so does America!🇺🇸 Time for change!!

graham look like a lilleputian. DJ looks like a blow up

Jesus we Love You and Thank you

Time to go, Lindsey Graham

I am so proud of every American who has the courage and bravery and clarity to be able to finally see through the anger and confusion and put their vote on the right side of history and what’s best for basic human necessity.

Graham is 'a race baiting, xenophobic religious bigot,' based on the company he keeps.

'They hate my guts.' --Lindsey Graham Fact check: True.

Why is every story from you folks just TrumpDerangementSyndrome bullshit? So you not realize that we see it as unethical and petty? Just day after day of FakeNews 🙄 DefundNPR ElectionInterference EnemyOfThePeople

He’s sold his soul for the neon god. JaimeHarrisonforSenate SouthCarolina

Yeah, he's toast. Good riddance to any of the Big Turd's ass kissers

It’s not close. Closer than Graham would like? Yes. But when it’s all said and done Graham will have won by at least +7%

technically...he’s currently crying & whining all over the Media & the SCOTUShearings about how broke his Campaign has been... LadyG Deserves to LOSE and even better to a qualified candidate as harrisonjaime

i hope he get's humiliated. He deserves to be humiliated.

The people of SC aren’t stupid. They have a solid moral compass and know Lindsey does not represent them. It maybe the first time they vote for a Democrat, but they know country over party is what’s important.

Let's get Harrison to the finish line first, South Carolina.

It’s not the closeness. It’s the LIES AND HYPOCRISY.

harrisonjaime is going to win!

If he loses, Trump won’t care and will drop him like he does everyone else who can no longer help him.

VoteJaimeHarrisonSC!!!!

LindseyGrahamIsLosing

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