Lindsey Graham says “enough, enough” about Trump’s candidacy to annul the election: “Don’t count on me”

Lindsey Graham says “enough, enough” about Trump’s candidacy to annul the election: “Don’t count on me”

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“Trump and I had a hell of a trip,” Graham said on the Senate floor on Wednesday night, after lawmakers met again after the violent upheaval of Trump supporters on Capitol Hill earlier in the day. “I hate to be like that. Oh my God, I hate it … but today all I can say is tell me. Enough. I tried to be useful.”

Graham, one of Trump’s strongest detractors when both were running for the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, became one of the president’s closest allies on Capitol Hill during his four years in office, helping him confirm several Supreme Court judges as one of the main members of the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Because Biden was projected to be the winner of the November election, Graham credited Trump’s claims that a “rigged” election led to an unfair outcome.

“If Republicans do not challenge and change the US electoral system, there will never be another Republican president elected again,” Graham said a few days after the election. “President Trump should not give in. We are reduced to less – 10,000 votes in Georgia. He is going to win North Carolina. We went from 93,000 votes to less than 20,000 votes in Arizona, where else – more votes to be counted.”

But the South Carolina Republican refused to join the Republican Party’s efforts to challenge the 2020 vote in Congress, calling them “political dodge” on Sunday.

As soon as the Capitol was cleared of protesters who broke into the building on Wednesday, several Republicans who indicated they would contest the election result condemned the violent explosion and said they would no longer object to Biden’s victory.

“I don’t believe that, that’s enough,” said Graham. “We have to end this.”

Trump also pressured Vice President Pence, who is chairing the joint session of Congress, to “get past” him, an appeal that Pence said on Wednesday that he has no intention of following.

“Vice President Pence,” said Graham, turning to Pence in the Senate chamber. “Whatever they are asking you to do you will not do, because you cannot.”

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