Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) stated Tuesday’s midterm elections had been “positively not a Republican wave, that’s for darn positive.”
“A wave would have been capturing New Hampshire and Colorado,” the Donald Trump loyalist informed NBC Information’ Savannah Guthrie. Sen. Maggie Hassan (D) defeated election-denying challenger Don Bolduc (R) in New Hampshire, and Sen. Michael Bennet (D) beat Joe O’Dea (R) in Colorado.
Graham supplied a shocking “hats off” to Democrats, who he stated “carried out nicely in a whole lot of these swing districts.” Nonetheless, he predicted the GOP would win management of the Senate “at 51, 52” seats “when it’s all stated and executed.”
Graham pushed again on the suggestion that former President Donald Trump’s self-aggrandizing appearances on the marketing campaign path damage Republican candidates.
“You recognize, not likely. I feel it was a referendum on (President Joe) Biden,” Graham stated. “If we take again the Home and we get the Senate majority, that’s an excellent evening.”
Graham additionally had some “unsolicited recommendation” for Biden.
“If we do take the Home and we do take the Senate. Let’s all go to the border and see if we are able to discover a solution to repair it,” he stated. “I’ve bought a invoice with Elizabeth Warren, consider it or not, to manage social media and perhaps we may do one thing within the power and the power house. So, if it’s a divided authorities, perhaps one thing good can come of it.”