Sen. Lindsey Graham, the Republican presidential hopeful who is polling so low he failed to qualify for either of the last two Republican debates, was scheduled to discuss foreign policy at Thursday’s Republican Jewish Coalition after Sen. Ted Cruz’s speech. Apparently, Cruz’s claim that the Republican party will succeed if it doubles down on wooing evangelical Christians was enough to enrage Graham so much that he went totally off-book.
After pandering to the Jewish audience (“If elected president, I may have the first all-Jewish cabinet in America”), Graham slammed the “hateful rhetoric” of the Republican party, and argued that to win the election, it would have to begin to accept women and immigrants as people.
“It’s not about turning out evangelical Christians, it’s about repairing the damage done by incredibly hateful rhetoric driving a wall between us and the fastest-growing demographic in America. It’s about looking Hispanic Americans in the eye and saying, ‘We get it, be part of our cause,’” Graham said, referring specifically to the damage wrought by bag of hair Donald Trump.