Post by Webster on Feb 24, 2024 20:30:11 GMT -5
(The Guardian) Donald Trump’s victory speech has mostly been a lovefest – until he called up the state’s US senator Lindsey Graham.
Graham, who famously predicted in 2016, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed” but nonetheless became an ally, was greeted with an awkward combination of boos and cheers from the crowd.
“He happens to be a little bit further left than some of the people on this stage. But I always say when I’m in trouble on the left, I call up Lindsey Graham, and he straightens it out,” Trump said as he introduced Graham, noting: “I love him. He’s a good man.”
“This is the most qualified man to be president of the United States and let it be said that South Carolina created the biggest political comeback in American history,” Graham said as he took the stage.
Another voter named John, who declined to provide his last name, cast his ballot for Donald Trump at the main branch of the Charleston county public library this afternoon.
“He is the best president in my lifetime,” John said. “I’ve never had a time in my life – and I’ve been around a long time – where I woke up for four straight years and felt the country was in great hands.”
John applauded Haley’s performance as governor of South Carolina, but he argued she should have dropped out of the presidential race “once it was very obvious” that Trump was going to win. Trump has already won the first three voting contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
“I was a big Nikki fan. I still am actually. I thought she was a wonderful governor of South Carolina,” he said. “But I have the template for a guy that served four years as my president, and I know how I felt under Trump. I love Nikki as a governor. I love Trump as my president.”
Graham, who famously predicted in 2016, “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed” but nonetheless became an ally, was greeted with an awkward combination of boos and cheers from the crowd.
“He happens to be a little bit further left than some of the people on this stage. But I always say when I’m in trouble on the left, I call up Lindsey Graham, and he straightens it out,” Trump said as he introduced Graham, noting: “I love him. He’s a good man.”
“This is the most qualified man to be president of the United States and let it be said that South Carolina created the biggest political comeback in American history,” Graham said as he took the stage.
Another voter named John, who declined to provide his last name, cast his ballot for Donald Trump at the main branch of the Charleston county public library this afternoon.
“He is the best president in my lifetime,” John said. “I’ve never had a time in my life – and I’ve been around a long time – where I woke up for four straight years and felt the country was in great hands.”
John applauded Haley’s performance as governor of South Carolina, but he argued she should have dropped out of the presidential race “once it was very obvious” that Trump was going to win. Trump has already won the first three voting contests in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada.
“I was a big Nikki fan. I still am actually. I thought she was a wonderful governor of South Carolina,” he said. “But I have the template for a guy that served four years as my president, and I know how I felt under Trump. I love Nikki as a governor. I love Trump as my president.”