Posted on 05/17/2021 12:08:28 PM PDT by RandFan
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said on Monday that he accepts the results of the 2020 election, and urged Republicans, including former President Donald Trump, to focus on the upcoming midterm where the party wants to win back control of Congress.
“I accept the results of the election. ... 2020 is over to me, I'm ready to march on and hopefully take back the House and the Senate in 2022,” Graham told reporters in South Carolina.
Graham’s comments come as Trump has remained focused on the 2020 election, doubling down on his false claim that it was “stolen.” Trump’s legal team has lost dozens of challenges in court and GOP state officials along with former Attorney General William Barr have dismissed suggestions of widespread fraud, but that has done nothing to lower Trump’s rhetoric.
While Graham, who voted to certify the 2020 results in January, said he accepted the results, he added that he would endorse making changes to election laws heading into 2022, including tighter voter ID requirements.
“I think what we need to do is reform election systems. ... So I think it's smart to reform our laws to make sure you are who you are,” he said.
“I think there are a lot of people that feel like bad things happened in the election. ... But I think President Trump and the Republican Party needs to focus on election reform and the upcoming election,” he added.
Republican-controlled state legislatures have introduced and passed laws in the wake of Biden's win to place new restrictions on access to the ballot. State legislators this year have introduced 361 bills across 47 states that would restrict access to voting, according to a Brennan Center analysis.
While most Senate Republicans voted against challenges to Biden's Electoral College victory in Congress earlier this year — when a pro-Trump mob attacked the Capitol — they also stayed silent for week after the November election as Trump tried to cast doubt on the results in key states.
Those false claims appear to have taken hold in a significant swath of GOP voters, according to polling.
Six in 10 Republicans believe Trump's false claim that the election was “stolen” from him, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released last month. And a CBS News poll released over the weekend found that 67 percent of Republicans said that Biden wasn't the legitimate winner of the 2020 election.
Nearly half, 47 percent, also told CBS News that the party’s strategy for winning future elections should be changing voting laws.
In addition to legislation across the country, in Arizona state GOP leaders have launched an audit into the election results surrounding Phoenix, despite there being no evidence of wrongdoing.
Graham, asked about Arizona, added, “I don't know what the audit is all about in Arizona ... but I'm ready to move on.”
You’re wrong plenty was attempted to right this wrong. It’s not Linsey’s or the people’s fault it didn’t pan out the way it was expected. The system isn’t working because it’s all political theft and corrupted.
This guy is Sybil’s brother
i don’t see how Trump can still play golf with this guy?
Shut up Linseed. I don’t care what youn think.
How about a retort about how Dems never accept elections, rather than a toady response?
Lindsey , just wondering what you think I should do with your letter asking me for funds for the Senate Committee? I think you just provided an answer. You are “over for me”.
every one must understand that Lindsey graham in all probabilities was involved in some way with this happening. I dont know how aware or integrated in The plan to steal the election he was but after the election he was very absent in his support for a challenge of all the fraud. At this point the guy is in survivor mode and he is trying not to be one of the politicians that get removed in a primary from a grassroots candidate. We cant be primarying everyone that is old guard but we need to think about how involved with the deep state Lindsey is. I personally do not think the guy is anything but an opportunist but I am also commenting on some one not from my state that I might not have a grasp of what really is going on.
Are Flimsy Graham and Liz Cheney related?????
Idiot; it clearly was stolen.
Republican Party
The new Bond Girls
Pussies Galore
To fail to follow through with the investigations and audits and abandament of 75 million voters plus, and a miscarriage of justice. To fail to carry trough will be a wound to the Republican Party and nation that will forever stain the national fabric.
lindalinda may be ready to "move on" but I'm sure there are lots of FReepers that aren't.
I don’t — not until Beee-Don can be shown to have won with all the um — irregularities weeded out.
Well Linseed the rest of us don’t accept it because its a fraudulent steal! 😣
If the uniparty is allowed to get away with the steal then there will be no more legitimate elections ever again.🤬
“Hey, S.C......
When are you going to take out your trash?”
They had the opportunity in 2020. They gave Lindsay another 6 years.
I do too and Trump won the election in 2020.
Graham is lead agent number 1 in the uniparty. He won’t fight because they are all on the same team. They could easily back the Republican Senate in Arizona by simply pointing out the massive voter fraud and going to court and getting the election over turned. It can be done in the courts and as a matter of law... they don’t want the reigns back because if they did they would have to investigate the election...it was perfectly played and that is why they let the steel continue into the Senate Runoff in Georgia...George Bush said the quiet part out loud. If Trump would have conceded they would have seated the Republican Senators from Georgia and moved on without Trump...but Trump didn’t concede and you can’t have Republicans forced to look at the fraud. That is how corrupt they are all at the top. Uniparty going to Uniparty. Graham feels a built guilty but not enough expose the system... and the likely truth is that if Trump had been allowed to take his rightful place as President the previous decades of corruption would have been exposed.
(freak'n cretin)
"I accept my wife's new relationship"
Once he's done cleaning up, he's ordered to stand himself in a corner until summoned.
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