An Old Lindsey Graham Tweet About Trump Comes Back To Haunt Them Both
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An old tweet by Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) about President Donald Trump is resurfacing in light of Tuesday night’s election results in Georgia.
Graham has been a staunch Trump ally in recent years, but that wasn’t the case during the campaign for the 2016 Republican nomination when he tweeted:
If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed.......and we will deserve it.
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) May 3, 2016
When Trump entered the White House, the Republican Party controlled the presidency and both houses of Congress. Democrats gained control over the House in an anti-Trump wave during the 2018 midterms and Trump lost his reelection bid in November.
Now, the Republicans are on the brink of losing control over the Senate as well after Democrat Raphael Warnock defeated Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R) for one seat and Jon Ossoff (D) pulled ahead of Sen. David Perdue (R) for the other.
That caused Graham’s old prediction of the party’s doom to resurface late Tuesday:
Like a fine wine. https://t.co/Kc5e2AxDqx
— Josh Gad (@joshgad) January 6, 2021
You were right. https://t.co/LPJbQno6SL
— Spiro Agnew’s Ghost (@SpiroAgnewGhost) January 6, 2021
That Lindsey Graham guy had a point. https://t.co/kKHD9cSo25
— Max Burns (@themaxburns) January 6, 2021
You knew he was a snake https://t.co/ldNepAytfi
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) January 6, 2021
Wow, this aged well https://t.co/p1qIhqBjbq
— Elliot Williams (@elliotcwilliams) January 6, 2021
A whole psychic. https://t.co/TfZzsfLqbA
— Rstewart.artspan.com (@RStewartJewelry) January 6, 2021
True Story 👇 https://t.co/PyMZyAP89R
— Hoodlum 🇺🇸 (@NotHoodlum) January 6, 2021
Even a stopped clock is right twice a day. https://t.co/MBCVTCJ0SL
— Michele Dauber (@mldauber) January 6, 2021
There’s always a tweet. https://t.co/GahM9voQkg
— Suz | she/her (@BostonSuzM) January 6, 2021
You can’t say that Republicans weren’t warned! https://t.co/eDGjdjXp1i
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 6, 2021
Evergreen tweet. https://t.co/B5NhXL6IEi
— Billy Corben (@BillyCorben) January 6, 2021
You nominated Trump, you got destroyed, and you deserved it. @LindseyGrahamSC https://t.co/JhliqMAqMa
— Brad Walsh (@BradWalsh) January 6, 2021
Destruction complete ✅ https://t.co/DYZzRYATXT
— Robert J. DeNault (@robertjdenault) January 6, 2021
Narrator: he was right. https://t.co/Lyb1IjS2Oj
— Mari Manoogian (@MariManoogian) January 6, 2021
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.
