Stuart Stevens, a senior adviser to the anti-Trump Lincoln Project, was chief strategist for Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney in 2012. His latest book, "It Was All A Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump," will be published Tuesday.
... “I believe it’s normal for the president to say ‘Yo Semites’ and ‘Yo Seminites,’ ‘Thigh Land,’ ‘Minne-a-napolis,’ ‘toe-tally-taria-tism,’ ‘Thomas Jeffers’ and ‘Ulyss-eus S. Grant.’ I believe it’s Biden who’s cognitively impaired,” Conway wrote....
... Graham claimed in an interview with Fox News that Democrat Jaime Harrison will raise $100 million for the campaign to topple him on Nov. 3., which he said will set a state record.
The three-term incumbent likely was exaggerating. But Harrison reportedly raised about $9 million in the 72 hours after the death late last week of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (in his comments on Fox, Graham put the figure at $6 million)....
... “Lindsey Graham has simply said, ‘Donald Trump has my proxy on this, Senate doesn’t need to look at it,’” Warren told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes. “If the president is good, Lindsey Graham is good.”
She added:
“There’s a man with a spine ― a spine kept in a box somewhere else because he certainly doesn’t have it to exercise for himself.”
... Graham had previously promised he would not support appointing a new judge in an election year, as he and the rest of the GOP caucus in the Senate had blocked a nomination in the final year of President Barack Obama’s term.
He has since reneged on that vow.
The anti-Graham PAC Lindsey Must Go said the flip-flop puts the senator into the “Hypocrite Hall of Fame.”