Lindsey Graham: Joe Biden’s Got To ‘Up His Game’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) praised 2020 candidate Sen. Kamala Harris’ (D-CA) debate performance while warning that Joe Biden, one of Harris’ rivals, needs to “up his game.”


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1232383

You stay out of this, Lindsey !

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Concewn twoll is vewy vewy concewned.

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Well, it’s Sunday, a day for the televised trotting-out of people Calvin Trillin once dubbed “Sabbath gasbags,” and Graham likes to hear himself talk.

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Do tell. Maybe he’d like to moderate the next debate? Certainly couldn’t be worse than Chuck Todd.

I’m just wondering if he’s speaking for himself or is this the official Kremlin position?

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I agree, but having a “he’s not a racist” affirmation coming from a South Carolina racist kinda diminishes the force of the comment.

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What the fuck is it to you? O god that’s enough to tell me that we have got to nominate Kamala Harris and NOT Joe Biden.

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Well, Margaret Brennan did ask him what he thought of the “debate.”

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OT, but it’s kinda weird sorting through all of the “old” article topics currently appearing, and trying to figure out if its an old story or a new one. Particularly when the article is about GOP insanity.

Cases in point…

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Yes and interestingly he chose to go with what Biden needs to do. I mean there isn’t a set answer to the question she asked.

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Graham, the unpaid consultant that Biden didn’t ask for.

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Biden was the favorite going in and Harris took a chunk out of him.

It would have been idiocy for Graham not to comment on that.

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It is a waste of TPM space and TPM reporter and reader time to help the Trumpp camp spread its campaign messaging.

Better, instead, to read what Tom Sullivan just posted on Digby’s Blog to remind us that, per a CJR study released in late 2017, the mainstream media did far more to tilt 2016 campaign coverage toward Clinton “scandal” than the Russians and their bots could ever have managed.

They found roughly four times as many Clinton-related sentences that described scandals as opposed to policies, whereas Trump-related sentences were one-and-a-half times as likely to be about policy as scandal.

Time to spread our messages, not Trumpp’s.

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“Please don’t make us run against the black woman who’s a former prosecutor. We’re all scared Donnie’ll wet himself at a debate.”

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Word.

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I kind of think that’s a matter of opinion. I understand yours.

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“He’s got to up his game,” Graham said…

“If Biden wants to beat President Trump, then he’s going to have to assault more women and grab more pu$$y.”

“And probably golf a whole lot more, too.”

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I know, it’s TPM, but really, what’s the purpose of getting Lindsey’s opinion on what Biden needs to do?

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Graham speaking on anything remotely concerning the Democrats in the 2020 election should be treated the same (or in a worse light) than Andrei Gromyko’s 1967 take on Dem candidates for the 1968 presidential election.

This ain’t no political party we are facing. We are facing a dishonest, guerrilla cult, with multiple state-sponsored propaganda mills, augmented by the most sophisticated efforts ever by a hostile foreign adversary and led by a Russian Agent sitting in the White House and which has captured the souls and minds of 30+% of the U.S, voting population

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The gaffe machine is at it again. Glad for Biden that there’s no audio or video of him saying a stupid thing about gays at a private fundraiser in Seattle.
It would be posted all over the news and the internet. I’m shaking my head just reading it. Watching it would be cringe worthy.

Google this headline:

Biden’s ‘gay waiter’ comment on LGBTQ rights falls flat in Seattle

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