What Lindsey Graham Has in Common With Vikki Carr
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina and U.S. 2016 presidential candidate, points and speaks during The Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa, U.S., on Saturday, July 18, 2015.
Photographer: Daniel Acker/BloomberA couple of the jokes John McCain told on the campaign trail in New Hampshire this weekend were old favorites from his own presidential runs in 2000 and 2008. But they got big laughs anyway during the senator’s nostalgic weekend return to the Granite State, where he won the primary twice and was back to ask for “at least some serious consideration” for his former protégé and fellow hawk, Lindsey Graham, who sits near the bottom of the latest Wall St. Journal/NBC News poll with less than 1 percent support.
As soon as they arrived at a VFW picnic in Littleton, a few veterans came over to thank Graham for defending McCain when Donald Trump suggested that the former POW wasn’t a true hero because he’d gotten captured by the North Vietnamese in the first place. “Easiest thing I ever did,’’ Graham told them.