Sen. Lindsey Graham said he isn’t bothered by Fox Business host Lou Dobbs’s scathing criticism he gave of the South Carolina Republican on his show.
“I don’t really worry much about Mr. Dobbs, what he says. [He] has a right to his own opinion,” Graham told reporters on Sunday.
On his show Friday, Dobbs encouraged voters in Graham’s home state to vote him out of office, complaining of the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman not subpoenaing Big Tech CEOs to testify and his handling of the investigation FBI’s inquiry into tied between President Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia.
“I don’t know why anyone in the great state of South Carolina would ever vote for Lindsey Graham,” Dobbs said. “It is just outrageous. This is a guy who keeps saying ‘stay tuned.’ He said he would get to the bottom of Obamagate with the Judiciary Committee, which has been a year and a half, actually longer, of absolute inert response to these pressing issues of our day.”
Dobbs said people should tune out Graham and referred to the senator and Trump’s once-bitter relationship during the 2016 primary fight.
Graham said on Sunday he doesn’t think Dobbs’s comments will hurt him but conceded that there are many others who would share his view about voting him out.
“Well, I think Chuck Schumer is of the same opinion,” Graham lightheartedly said of Dobbs’s sentiment, referring to the Senate minority leader.
Graham has served in the Senate since 2003 and is chairman of the chamber’s Judiciary Committee, which appoints judges to federal courts, including the Supreme Court. After his committee voted to advance Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination last week, the upper chamber is poised to confirm her to the Supreme Court on Monday.
Graham faces a competitive challenge from Democrat Jaime Harrison, whose fundraising efforts have broken national records in the 2020 campaign cycle. The South Carolina Senate race, likely one of the most closely watched in the country, is considered a “toss-up” by the nonpartisan Cook Political Report.
