Graham: There Is a ‘Dark Side’ To Trump but Also ‘Some Magic’ That I Am Trying To ‘Harness’
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is saying there is a “dark side” to former President Donald Trump , but also “magic there” that he is trying to “harness.” “What I’m tryin’ to do is just harness the magic,” Graham told…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is saying there is a “dark side” to former President Donald Trump, but also “magic there” that he is trying to “harness.”
“What I’m tryin’ to do is just harness the magic,” Graham told Axios’ Jonathan Swan in a recent interview. “To me, Donald Trump is sort of a cross between Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and P.T. Barnum.”
The South Carolina lawmaker added, “He could make the Republican Party something that nobody else I know can make it.”
Graham noted that while Trump could apparently make the Republican Party “bigger,” he could also “destroy it.”
“He can make it bigger. He can make it stronger. He can make it more diverse. And he also could destroy it.”
Watch Graham’s interview below:
Before Trump garnered the Republican Party’s presidential nomination in the 2016 election, Graham criticized him. But, after Trump defeated Hillary Clinton, Graham embraced Trump, as Axios noted.