{"id":2360211,"date":"2024-10-27T13:15:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-wont-call-harris-a-fascist-but-says-shes-incompetent-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T13:15:22","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T17:15:22","slug":"graham-wont-call-harris-a-fascist-but-says-shes-incompetent-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/graham-wont-call-harris-a-fascist-but-says-shes-incompetent-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham won&#8217;t call Harris a &#8216;fascist&#8217; but says she&#8217;s &#8216;incompetent&#8217; &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgraham-wont-call-harris-a-fascist-but-says-shes-incompetent-washington-examiner%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=2360211&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--><p>In a recent interview, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) expressed his views on Vice President Kamala\u200d Harris, stating he\u200d won&#8217;t label her as a &#8220;fascist&#8221; or &#8220;communist,&#8221; as former President Donald\u2064 Trump did. Instead, Graham referred to Harris as the &#8220;most liberal \u2062person ever to be dominated\u200c by a major party&#8221; and criticized her effectiveness, calling her &#8220;incompetent.&#8221; He rejected suggestions that his comments were hypocritical, \u200ddespite recent criticisms from \u2063Republican leaders regarding Democratic rhetoric&#8217;s potential connection to violence against Trump. Graham defended his \u200bposition against former Trump chief of staff John Kelly&#8217;s views, which describe Trump as\u200b fitting a &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-top-science-backed-benefits-of-strength-training\/\" title=\"The Top Science-Backed Benefits of Strength Training\">general definition<\/a> of fascist.&#8221;\u2063 He deemed Kelly&#8217;s remarks as undermining\u2062 the apolitical nature of military generals.\u200c Graham \u200bemphasized his belief that Harris would not be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-covid-19-flip-flops-a-timeline\/\" title=\"Biden\u2019s COVID-19 Flip-Flops: A Timeline\">successful president<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Graham won&rsquo;t call Harris a &lsquo;fascist&rsquo; and &lsquo;communist,&rsquo; but says she&rsquo;s &lsquo;incompetent&rsquo;<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1846015\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/lindsey-graham\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Lindsey Graham<\/a> (R-SC) declined to echo former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a>&lsquo;s criticism of Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kamala Harris<\/a> as a &ldquo;fascist&rdquo; and &ldquo;communist,&rdquo; as Republicans scrutinize Harris for agreeing with former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/news\/white-house\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">White House<\/a> chief of staff John Kelly that Trump fits the definition of a &ldquo;fascist.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;Why <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/despite-insistence-by-democrat-politicians-and-medical-elites-empirical-evidence-does-not-conclusively-show-that-masks-reduce-the-spread-of-covid\/\" title=\"Despite Insistence by Democrat Politicians and Medical Elites, Empirical Evidence DOES NOT Conclusively Show that Masks Reduce the Spread of COVID\">don&#038;rsquo<\/a>;t you ask me, do I think Kamala Harris is a fascist? No. Do I think she&rsquo;s a communist? No,&rdquo; Graham told ABC&rsquo;s <em>This Week<\/em> on Sunday. &ldquo;I think she&rsquo;s the most liberal person ever to be dominated by a major party. I think she&rsquo;s ineffective. I think she&rsquo;s incompetent.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed on whether the complaints of House Speaker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mike-johnson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mike Johnson<\/a> (R-LA) and Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/mitch-mcconnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Mitch McConnell<\/a> (R-KY) were hypocritical, with the pair saying that Democratic rhetoric has encouraged two assassination attempts against Trump&rsquo;s life, Graham repeated that he was not going to describe Harris as &ldquo;a fascist.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;She&rsquo;s just incompetent, and incapable, and would be a lousy president,&rdquo; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Graham called his relationship with Kelly &ldquo;good,&rdquo; but argued that the former four-star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/marine-corps\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Marine Corps<\/a> general is &ldquo;undermining&rdquo; a tradition of generals being &ldquo;apolitical&rdquo; by having an &ldquo;emotional&rdquo; response.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;He&rsquo;s entitled to his opinion; I just categorically reject it,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;What happened to joy on the Democratic side? They went from joy to now Trump is Hitler. That&rsquo;s desperation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In an interview that was published last week,&nbsp;Kelly, who was Trump&rsquo;s chief of staff from 2017 to 2019, told the&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;that&nbsp;Trump &ldquo;certainly falls into the general definition of fascist&rdquo; and that he once said Adolf Hitler &ldquo;did some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/officials-calling-for-investigation-into-capitol-protest\/\" title=\"Officials calling for investigation into Capitol protest\">good things<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The&nbsp;Kelly&nbsp;interview came one day after the&nbsp;<em>Atlantic<\/em>&nbsp;published a similar story about how Trump reportedly said, &ldquo;I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.&rdquo; The Trump campaign has denied that claim, quipping that&nbsp;Kelly&nbsp;has &ldquo;a debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Graham was also asked about former first lady <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/michelle-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Michelle Obama<\/a>&lsquo;s campaign trail debut this weekend in Michigan, during which she made an impassioned plea for black men to support Harris, particularly to protect <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/abortion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">abortion<\/a> access.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Michelle Obama&rsquo;s a good person,&rdquo; the senator said. &ldquo;She&rsquo;s very articulate. But every time the Obamas pick the Democratic nominee, we win. You know, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/barack-obama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">[former President Barack]  Obama<\/a> picked <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/hillary-clinton\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">[one-time Secretary of State Hillary]  Clinton<\/a>. We beat her. They threw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">[President Joe]  Biden <\/a>over for Harris.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think Trump&rsquo;s going to beat Harris simply because she&rsquo;s had a lot of time now to convince people she&rsquo;ll put the country back on the right track, and all the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">wrong track numbers<\/a> are holding,&rdquo; he added. &ldquo;When you ask people, who do you trust most to fix the problems you care most about, it&rsquo;s Trump, not her.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1846015\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1846015\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graham labels Harris as &#8216;incompetent&#8217; but avoids &#8216;fascist&#8217; claims<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2360213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lindsey-Graham-the-story-scaled-1024x683.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3803,4021,10362,5894,32076],"class_list":["post-2360211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-graham","tag-harris","tag-incompetence","tag-politics","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/Lindsey-Graham-the-story-scaled-1024x683.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360211","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\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}