{"id":1962388,"date":"2023-07-01T16:11:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pokes-fun-at-graham-after-boos-when-we-need-those-liberal-votes-we-need-him\/"},"modified":"2023-07-01T16:12:00","modified_gmt":"2023-07-01T20:12:00","slug":"trump-pokes-fun-at-graham-after-boos-when-we-need-those-liberal-votes-we-need-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pokes-fun-at-graham-after-boos-when-we-need-those-liberal-votes-we-need-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump jokes about Graham&#8217;s booing: &#8216;We need him for liberal votes&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-pokes-fun-at-graham-after-boos-when-we-need-those-liberal-votes-we-need-him%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1962388&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former President Donald Trump Pokes Fun at Sen. Lindsey Graham<\/h2>\n<p>During a campaign stop in South Carolina on Saturday, former President Donald Trump playfully teased Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), referring to him as &#8220;half Democrat, half Republican&#8221; after the conservative senator was met with boos from the crowd.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to love him. He&#8217;s half and half. When we need those <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/klobuchar-on-justice-breyer-retirement-his-decision-but-sooner-rather-than-later-is-better\/\" title=\"Klobuchar On Justice Breyer: Retirement His Decision, But \u2018Sooner Rather Than Later\u2019 Is Better\">liberal votes<\/a>, we need him. We know the good ones. We know the bad ones, too,&#8221; Trump said as the crowd booed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the first time Trump supporters booed at the mention of Graham. Back in April, at another rally, the former president referred to Graham as &#8220;the progressive senator from South Carolina,&#8221; which also drew boos from the audience.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the boos, Trump expressed gratitude for Graham&#8217;s support and endorsement during the rally. He even jokingly asked if he could campaign for Graham during his own reelection bid in the Senate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m going to have to work on these people. He&#8217;s there when you need him,&#8221; Trump told the crowd. &#8220;Do you mind if I come down and campaign a little for you, Lindsey?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He was one of my earliest endorsements from the go, and I appreciate it, Lindsey.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Graham endorsed Trump for the Republican nomination in April, choosing him over other South Carolinians like former Gov. Nikki Haley (R-SC) and Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC). However, even with the endorsement, Graham faced boos when delivering remarks at the Pickens rally on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lindsey-graham-faces-down-torrent-of-boos-at-trump-rally-in-south-carolina\/\" title=\"Lindsey Graham confronts boos at Trump rally in SC.\">loudest boos erupted<\/a> when Graham began highlighting his relationship with the former president.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/13-gop-lawmakers-join-letter-demanding-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-apologize-to-ted-cruz-over-attempted-murder-allegation\/\" title=\"13 GOP Lawmakers Join Letter Demanding Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologize To Ted Cruz Over \u2018Attempted Murder\u2019 Allegation\">found common ground<\/a> with President Trump,&#8221; Graham said. &#8220;I [came] to like President Trump, and he likes himself, so we got that in common.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Graham explained that he supports Trump because he witnessed the former president&#8217;s unwavering fight for the United States, and because no other candidate was as feared by the left as Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The South Carolina senator also warned about the consequences if Republicans fail to win back the White House in the upcoming election. He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-pokes-fun-at-graham-after-boos-when-we-need-those-liberal-votes-we-need-him\/\" title=\"Trump jokes about Graham's booing: 'We need him for liberal votes'\">mentioned potential liberal actions<\/a> such as packing the Supreme Court, granting statehood to Puerto Rico and D.C., and abolishing the Electoral College.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s one person running for president as a Republican that has the ability to change this country. It is Donald J. Trump. He did it once, he can do it again,&#8221; Graham declared. &#8220;I&#8217;m gonna help him all over this country, and folks, I am from South Carolina. He is gonna win South Carolina. This is the pathway to the presidency. God bless you all. God bless President Trump. God bless America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Click here to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump playfully mocked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) in South Carolina, joking that the senator was a mix of Democrat and Republican. Trump acknowledged Graham&#8217;s importance in securing liberal votes when needed, despite the conservative backlash he faced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1962389,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1962388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1962388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1962388\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1962389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1962388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1962388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1962388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}