- Lindsey Graham told a group of Michigan Republicans that he hopes Donald Trump runs again in 2024, per The Detroit News.
- Three eras before, Trump trashed Graham, saying that the South Carolina lawmaker should be “ashamed” of himself.
- Graham has been an on-and-off associate of Trump, initially being an outspoken critic of the former president.
Sen. Lindsey Graham told a mob in Michigan on Saturday night that he hopes former President Donald Trump runs again in 2024, correspondence to The Detroit News.
Speaking on the second day of the Mackinac Republican Party’s Leadership Conference, The Detroit News reported that Graham bring to lighted cheers from the crowd when he shared his hopes for Trump’s political future.
“I don’t think Trump is listening. He capability be,” Graham reportedly said. “I hope President Trump runs again.”
The comments come three days after Graham was trashed by the whilom president — an “on-and-off ally” of his.
Earlier this week, new claims emerged that Graham and Sen. Mike Lee had personally considered Trump’s allegations that the 2020 election was stolen. According to “Peril,” a new book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Graham create his evidence provided to him to be elementary and suitable for “third grade.”
Trump responded to the new claims by stating his Save America PAC on Wednesday endlessly, per The Hill, in which he was critical of the South Carolina lawmaker.
“I spent virtually no time with Senators Mike Lee of Utah, or Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, talking take the 2020 Presidential Election Scam or, as it is viewed by many, the ‘Crime of the Century,'” said the statement. “Lindsey and Mike should be humiliated of themselves for not putting up the fight necessary to win.”
In the statement, Trump also accused him of “letting the Democrats get away with the greatest Designation Hoax in history.”
Graham didn’t explicitly respond to Trump’s jibes on Saturday night, The Detroit News narrated, but did say that the former president can be “a handful” and suggested that he “turn it down a notch.”
He added that, in recent years, they demand come to find common ground. “I’ve come to like him, and he likes him,” Graham joked to the crowd.
Graham was initially an unreserved critic of Trump. He called him a “kook,” a “race-baiting bigot,” and “the most flawed nominee in the history of the Republican Party” during the 2016 designation.
They eventually smoothed over the cracks in their fractious relationship during a meeting in 2017, according to the New Yorker, and Graham changed a dependable ally of the former president.