Senator Lindsey Graham predicted on Sunday that the Republican Party’s votes to condemn former President Trump in his Senate impeachment trial will give his daughter-in-law Lara Trump an advantage in the Senate race in North Carolina.
“The biggest winner in all of this impeachment trial is Lara Trump,” Graham of South Carolina said on Fox News Sunday.
“My dear friend Richard Burr, whom I like and have been friends with for a long time, has just made Lara Trump the almost certain nominee for the Senate seat in North Carolina to replace him if she runs, and I will certainly be with her because it represents the future of the Republican Party, ”he said.
Burr, who said he will not seek re-election in 2022, was among seven Republican senators who voted with Democrats to condemn Trump for inciting his supporters on January 6 to invade the Capitol.
But the 57-43 vote was insufficient because 67 senators are needed to condemn.
“The evidence is convincing that President Trump is guilty of inciting an insurrection against a co-equal branch of the government and that the accusation reaches the level of high crimes and misdemeanors,” Burr said in a statement on Saturday. “So I voted to condemn.”
Lara Trump, wife of the son of former President Eric Trump, is considering joining the North Carolina race in 2022.
She was born in Wilmington, NC, and graduated from North Carolina State University.
Trump, 38, was a replacement for his father-in-law’s 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns.
A December poll on the 2022 race in North Carolina shows that Lara Trump would be an immediate vanguard in the Republican primaries.
She led former governor Pat McCrory 24-23 percent among Republicans and voters with a Republican inclination, according to the BUSR / UNLV Lee Business School poll – but 39 percent were undecided.