COLUMBIA, S.C.: Few members of the Republican Party have taken a political journey as long as Lindsey Grahams, from ridiculing Donald Trump as a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” to becoming one of the president’s fiercest defenders in Congress, as well as a regular golf partner.
Graham has long been known to have flexible politics, and that has served him well in South Carolina for decades. But this November may be his toughest test yet as he seeks reelection and explains to voters how, as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, he will push for Trumps Supreme Court nominee on the presidents aggressive timetable, when the senator was so clearly even defiantly opposed to that approach as recently as two years ago, even demanding that he be called out for hypocrisy if he switched.
He switched.
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