#DogShirtTV: Will Saletan on "The Corruption of Lindsey Graham"

In Lieu of Fun: #DogShirtTV · Sep 27, 2023 · 1h 22m

THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS IN BIG TROUBLE, and Lindsey Graham knew it. It was January 21, 2016, and the senator was taking questions at a press conference. A month earlier, he had abandoned his campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. Now two men he despised, Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz, were leading the race.Graham thought either of them, if nominated, would lose the general election. Choosing between them, he told reporters, was “like being shot or poisoned. What does it really matter?”Two months later, in March, Graham changed his mind. He endorsed Cruz and joked that it was…