South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham has suspended his campaign for president.
Thankfully, we now have one fewer candidate on the debate stage — and maybe, just maybe, networks can justify getting rid of that stupid undercard debate altogether.
More importantly, the field rids itself of a candidate whose answer for all questions — including on domestic policy — was “we need to send troops overseas.”
Who will get Graham’s less than 1% support? Probably Hillary Clinton, who has agreed with Graham and neo-conservatives more often than not.
In his announcement video, Graham takes credit for pushing the GOP field to neo-conservativism and the position that we must send more troops to the Middle East.
I’m sure it was Lindsey Graham’s persuasion skills — not the attacks in San Bernardino and Paris — which caused candidates to change their minds.
Graham also ignores this basic fact: two of the GOP frontrunners oppose his position, including the candidate who is surging quickest. Ted Cruz and Donald Trump see Graham’s position as picking sides in a civil war largely between two competing evil powers.
Together, these two frontrunners usually make up for more than 50% of the GOP electorate in national polls.
So, sorry Lindsey Graham, you failed. Thank you for leaving.
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