With former President Trump now in open war with Mitch McConnell, Sen. Lindsey Grahm will reportedly act as a “peacemaker” between the two in an effort not to harm the GOP going into the 2022 election:
NEW: Re: battle between McConnell + Trump.
A source close to Senator @LindseyGrahamSC tells me Graham is working to act as a PEACEMAKER between McConnell and Trump.
Graham is set to meet with Trump later this week.
— Kellie Meyer (@KellieMeyerNews) February 17, 2021
Graham also spoke with Sean Hannity last night, calling McConnell “indispensable”:
Sen. Lindsey Graham called Mitch McConnell "indispensable" on Fox News, after former President Trump unleashed a scathing statement attacking the GOP leader in highly personal terms and calling for Republicans to abandon him. https://t.co/8hTfk1iG59
— Axios (@axios) February 17, 2021
And he reiterated that “Mitch McConnell working with Donald Trump did a hell of a job” (except for the part where the GOP lost the Senate majority, of course):
Lindsey Graham: "Mitch McConnell working with Donald Trump did a hell of a job. They are now at each other's throat. I am more worried about 2022 than I've ever been. I don't want to eat our own." https://t.co/8hTfk1iG59
— Axios (@axios) February 17, 2021
Graham would like McConnell to copy how Kevin McCarthy interacts with the former president:
Lindsey Graham tells Hannity: “Kevin McCarthy is the leader of the House Republicans. He has taken a different approach to President Trump. I would advise Sen. McConnell to do that.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 17, 2021
“I know Trump can be a handful” but the GOP doesn’t have “a snowball’s chance in Hell of taking back the majority without Donald Trump”:
“What I would say to Sen. McConnell, I know Trump can be a handful, but he is the most dominant figure in the Republican party. We don’t have a snowball’s chance in Hell of taking back the majority without Donald Trump. If you don’t get that, you’re just not looking,” Graham said
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) February 17, 2021
Now, let’s see if he can actually make peace between the two.
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Choose your fighter: Donald Trump blasts Mitch McConnell as a ‘dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack’ in statement https://t.co/Iy1jUPCDFm
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) February 17, 2021
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