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Graham Hopes Trump Stays ‘Leader’ of GOP, Says Enemies Will ‘Get Erased’ If They Try to Oust Him
National Review ^ | 1/21/2020 | Brittney Bernstein

Posted on 01/21/2021 8:26:17 AM PST by Onthebrink

Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Wednesday warned fellow Republicans that if they try to “erase Donald Trump from the party, you’re going to get erased.”

“I hope people in our party understand the party itself,” he told Fox News hours after President Joe Biden was sworn-in.

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TOPICS: Government; History; Politics
KEYWORDS: 2020election; 2024election; donaldtrump
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To: SpaceBar

You know something? We want to win this. Winning means working together.

You may not like Graham, but he’s absolutely right on this.

Pay attention to the message, not the messenger. And in any case Graham has been very supportive of Trump lately, so I’d say he’s seen the light.


41 posted on 01/21/2021 9:02:54 AM PST by livius
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To: livius

You work together with people you trust, not with snakes in the grass.


42 posted on 01/21/2021 9:04:21 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: Onthebrink

Who is Lindsey Graham?


43 posted on 01/21/2021 9:05:15 AM PST by lurk ( )
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To: livius

The Senate is irrelevant right now, it’s going to take years to get control of it, if it happens.

The Rats should get more control of it in 2022, best to just allow as many of the old fart GOPers to fade into the sunset.

The hope is to get the House in 2022, and force gridlock for the last two years of this administration.


44 posted on 01/21/2021 9:05:20 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: livius
And in any case Graham has been very supportive of Trump lately

Where was he when it counted?

45 posted on 01/21/2021 9:06:42 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: SpaceBar

Every single Republican in DC is tainted.

I would just as soon vote every single one of them out, and start fresh.


46 posted on 01/21/2021 9:07:46 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Onthebrink; All

The constitutionally undefined political parties have wrecked the constitutional republic and need to be constitutionally prohibited imo.

In the meanwhile, I will be among the first to register for Trump’s so-called patriot party.


47 posted on 01/21/2021 9:09:22 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

Is he going to be on Handittome on Faux News tonight?


48 posted on 01/21/2021 9:19:42 AM PST by cp124 (They can live in there own fake reality and I will live in my reality.)
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To: Onthebrink

What lying price of trash....

Linda Gramnesty!


49 posted on 01/21/2021 9:23:46 AM PST by pacificus
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To: Onthebrink

I really think Trump hinted at some cabinet spot (AG?) in 2024 for Linda when they met a couple of weeks ago. Ever since then he has been a different man.


50 posted on 01/21/2021 9:26:51 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Onthebrink

GOP is trying to coopt the Trump trademark. Screw the pubbies.


51 posted on 01/21/2021 9:28:00 AM PST by hardspunned (Former GOP globalist stooge.)
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To: Onthebrink

52 posted on 01/21/2021 9:28:33 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

THORAZINE IS BACK!

53 posted on 01/21/2021 9:29:28 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: Onthebrink

Linda’s people are looking at the polls and telling him what they are seeing the chatter on Conservative social media. He’s known best for following behinds. I mean leading from behind.


54 posted on 01/21/2021 9:30:15 AM PST by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: BiglyCommentary

Wow,another do nothing Repub. AG, how exciting.
P.S. Linda is the same backstabbing POS he always was, and will be.


55 posted on 01/21/2021 9:31:54 AM PST by crosdaddy
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To: crosdaddy

Well if Trump can use him as a useful idiot for a while, thats fine with me.


56 posted on 01/21/2021 9:39:14 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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To: Onthebrink

An expletive I reserve for dire situations: ‘Hey Graham...”STFU”...’


57 posted on 01/21/2021 9:44:10 AM PST by SMARTY (“If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law.” Winston Churchill)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

He can’t get enough of Trump’s “athletic golf swing”.


58 posted on 01/21/2021 9:53:14 AM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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To: Joe 6-pack
>> In the leadup to the 2008 campaign, McCain pivoted to the right to try and promote his Republican bona fides. Graham has learned from his master. <<

Ummm, I hate to break the news to you, but Graham JUST got re-elected, Trump is no longer in power, and Graham won't be up again until 2026, an off-year election six years from now where whatever happens in 2024 won't affect his Senate campaign, and whatever he said in Jan. 2021 will be long forgotten.

Going your own logic, now should be the IDEAL time for him to "pivot left" and loudly divorce himself from Trump.

I certainly don't recall McCain singing George W. Bush's praises AFTER Bush was out of office, McCain had been re-elected, and Obama was the new POTUS.

59 posted on 01/21/2021 10:23:25 AM PST by BillyBoy ("States rights" is NOT a suicide pact.)
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To: Onthebrink

To all those who say that the Left is kicking our butts, and they’re not the least bit scared of us. You are just playing into exactly what they want you to believe. The people have the power. The only issue is how effectively we mobilize.

As much as Biden’s puppet masters want to go right back to Obama’s policies, keep in mind that the Democrats don’t run everything all by themselves. This is a Uniparty, and more than anything else, the Uniparty are incrementalists. Even Obama is an incrementalalist.

They prefer to push their ideas slowly, but steadily over time, and soften us up. And the Kabuki theater that the two parties engage in, where they pretend to fight each other, is a way for them to feel us out and see what were ready to accept or not accept.

This is a dance that I call the Uniparty incrementalalist 3 step..... one step forward toward progressivism (Democrat push), one step back towards Conservatism (GOP push back), and then one more step forward towards Progressivism (GOP capitulation to “compromise”). So the end result of this 3 step dance is the country winds up moving a little bit more towards progressivism. And they keep repeating this dance over and over again and slowly moving us more to the left.

But make no mistake that Trump’s Presidency moved them back several steps. And now they want to make up for lost ground. But don’t think for a minute that they are not looking over their shoulder to see how mobilized the MAGA movement is, now that Trump is no longer President.

Lindsey is a snake, but he’s a good bellwether. We shouldn’t trust him, but we should pay attention to him. His moves tell us a lot.


60 posted on 01/21/2021 10:39:15 AM PST by The Fop (God Bless Donald Trump, Frank Sinatra, Joan Rivers, and the Fightin' Rat Pack Wing of the GOP)
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