At a gathering for former President Donald Trump in his home state of South Carolina on Saturday, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham was booed by the crowd, and fans gave him a thumbs down as he left the stage.
“Let me tell you how to win an election, folks,” Graham told the crowd of Trump fans in Pickens, South Carolina. “You can get people who don’t always agree to agree on what’s most important.”
“My hope is that we can bring this party together, because he’s going to be our nominee,” Graham said as many people in the room softly booed. “He will be the Republican Party’s choice, and here’s what’s at stake. If they win in 2024, they will fill the Supreme Court with their own people. So we need to get up and make sure Donald Trump wins. If they win in 2024, Puerto Rico and D.C. will become states. For the rest of our lives, there will be four Democrats. They’ll get rid of the electoral college and turn this country on its head.”
“There is one Republican candidate for president who has the power to change this country. It’s Donald J. Trump. “He did it once, so he can do it again,” he said. “I’m going to help him all over the country, and I’m from South Carolina,” she said. South Carolina will go to him. This is how you get to the White House. God bless each of you. God bless the president! God bless the U.S.
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After he finished speaking, Graham paced to the left of the stage and left the room. As he did, a large group of angry Trump fans booed and gave the senator the middle finger.
Graham spoke at the gathering for about five minutes, and when he first took the stage, he was also booed.
When Graham got to the front, the boos made it hard to hear what he had to say.
“Welcome to Pickens. … “Thanks a lot,” he told her. “Well, do you want to find things you have in common?”
Graham told the crowd to calm down when the screaming didn’t stop. I think this will be fun for you. There are more Medal of Honor winners per person in Pickens County than anywhere else in the country. This state is where I was born. I live about 15 miles away.”
“This is a place where people pay taxes, fight wars, and tell you what they believe,” Graham said over the boos. “How many of you think Donald Trump did a great job as president?”
Graham’s comments about Trump got cheers from the crowd, but they quickly went back to shouting down the senator and his comments.
“Without Donald Trump, there are no Trump policies,” Graham said. “He did something that nobody else could do.”
Shortly after Graham spoke, Trump went on stage and told his fans, “We’re going to love him,” in an attempt to get them to back the senator.
In response to more boos from the crowd, Trump said, “I know, it’s 50/50. But he’s always there to help me get left votes when I need them, okay?”
“We got some pretty liberal people, but he’s good,” Trump said of Graham. “We know which ones are good. We also know which ones are bad.”
When Trump talked about Graham again later in the crowd, he got another round of boos. Trump said, “I’m going to have to work on these people.” He also said he would help Graham get re-elected if he had to.
Graham has been the senator for South Carolina since 2003. In recent years, Trump fans have criticized him for his views on a number of issues.
Graham was surrounded by about a dozen people in 2021 as he waited to board a flight from Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. They called him a “traitor” because of what he said about Trump after the 2020 election.
People yelled at Graham at the time, “You know it was set up!”
Graham’s stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, which has been going on for more than a year, has also not been popular with Trump fans and hardline conservatives.
Graham and Democratic Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut went to Kyiv last summer. Graham is a strong backer of Ukraine’s defense efforts.
During the meeting on the 134th day of the war, Zelenskyy “asked senators to support the decision to give Ukraine modern air defense systems,” according to his office.
Zelenskyy said, “First of all, we want to ask you to ask the Congress to support Ukraine in getting modern air defense systems.” “We need to make sure the sky is safe enough so that our people don’t feel afraid to live in Ukraine.”
