Sen. Lindsey Graham said he won’t back down to liberals after he was confronted by two women who called Judge Amy Coney Barrett a “racist.”
“I arrived in DC today & was confronted by 2 women – one of whom was from Seattle – who called Judge Amy Coney Barrett a racist & unqualified,” Graham tweeted Monday evening.
“This is the modern left, hostile & unhinged. I won’t be intimidated. I can’t wait to #FillTheSeat. STAND WITH ME,” he continued, accompanied by a video of the confrontation.
I arrived in DC today & was confronted by 2 women – one of whom was from Seattle – who called Judge Amy Coney Barrett a racist & unqualified. This is the modern left, hostile & unhinged. I won’t be intimidated. I can’t wait to #FillTheSeat. STAND WITH ME: https://t.co/ZwkiWzOfR7 pic.twitter.com/sGkyzpCdxw
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) October 20, 2020
“Where are you from?” Graham asks in the video.
One woman replies she’s from Seattle.
Another woman asks, “Why does it matter where she’s from? She’s American.”
“I believe Seattle’s a good example of how things are getting out of control,” Graham says.
“No, Seattle is wonderful,” the first woman responds.
The second woman adds, “Sir, you’re an example of how things are getting out of control, sir.”
“You work for me, sir,” the woman says. “I pay your salary, sir.”
“Where are you from?” Graham asks the other woman.
“It doesn’t matter where I’m from,” the second woman responds. “I’m from the United States of America, sir, where are you from?”
“And you’re gonna make my children, my daughter, who stood on the shoulders of giants, you’re gonna take her rights away, by voting for this woman [Barrett] who’s a racist?” the woman says.
“Well, I’m enthusiastically gonna support Judge Barrett,” Graham says.
“Because she’s highly qualified,” Graham says.
The woman replies, “She’s not,” before the video ends.
The Senate Judiciary Committee, which Graham heads, will vote on Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court on Oct. 22.
Graham has repeatedly praised Barrett, including during his opening statement during the third day of hearings last week.
“This hearing, to me, is an opportunity to not punch through a glass ceiling but a reinforced concrete barrier around conservative women,” Graham said. “You’re going to shatter that barrier. I have never been more proud of the nominee than I am of you. You have been candid to this body about who you are and what you believe.”
