2024 ELECTIONS

Lindsey Graham vents about Trump’s debate performance: ‘A missed opportunity’

He had some advice for the former president. (From the Bush Faction)

Trump offered no such answer. And Graham made no effort to hide his disappointment.

He was hardly the only Republican alarmed by the former president’s bait-taking and persistent inability to turn the conversation back to issues like inflation and President Joe Biden. It’s just that Graham, as is his wont, says in public what many in his party will only murmur in private.

Emerging from behind a curtain after holding an extensive off-air conversation with Fox News personality Sean Hannity out of earshot, the ever-plotting Republican senator unspooled a shorthand for what he thought Trump should do if there’s another debate.

“Tighten up,” Graham said before offering advice as though Trump was standing beside him: “’What I did, what you got and where we’re at.’”

Pining for what could have been, he added: “What I was hoping for was: ‘When I left we had the most secure border in 40 years, mortgage rates were below three percent, gas was $1.87, the Abraham Accords, energy independent, you screwed it all up.’”

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