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The transformation of Lindsey Graham
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At the 2012 Republican National Convention, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a champion of bipartisan immigration reform, warned his party they had a problem.
“We’re not generating enough angry white guys to stay in business for the long term,” he said.
Now, his very political survival could turn on the efforts he has since made to tie himself to a voting bloc he once dismissed.
Over the past few years, the third-term senator jettisoned that conciliatory political persona and hitched his wagon to President Trump’s fiery star. But he is now embroiled in the battle of his career against Jaime Harrison, a former state party chair trying to be the first Black Democrat elected to the Senate from the Deep South.
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Related:
- Democratic candidate challenging Sen. Lindsey Graham raises record $57 million
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