Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) faced boos Saturday when he said he supported President Donald Trump’s supreme court nominee Neil Gorsuch and said those who don’t believe he’s qualified are “not listening.”
Graham sang Judge Gorsuch’s praises during a tense town hall in his home state of South Carolina, calling Gorsuch “one of the finest people” Trump could have picked.
“Judge Gorsuch was one of the finest people, I think, President Trump could’ve chosen,” he said. “I am going to enthusiastically support him, and if the Democrats try to filibuster him, they will be making a huge mistake.”
As the crowd began to boo, Graham tried to list off his reasons for supporting Gorsuch. But as they continued to boo, Graham said that the crowd was not persuading him and that if they don’t believe Gorsuch is qualified then they’re “not listening.”
“To everybody that boos Judge Gorsuch, you’re not persuading me at all,” he said. “As a matter of fact, if you can’t understand that he is a qualified nominee, then you’re not listening. If you don’t understand that elections matter, then you don’t understand America.”
“If you think only liberals only can get their nominees and conservatives can’t, then you don’t understand American,” he said. “I don’t think that the Constitution was written so that you get everything you want and I get nothing.”
Graham has been a vocal supporter of Gorsuch, even threatening to use the “nuclear option” if Democrats choose to filibuster him. But at the town hall, he said a filibuster would “turn the country upside down.”
Watch the full town hall below via Facebook:
Funny, that’s just what we said to you about Merrick Garland’s nomination. How did that work out, asshole?
Graham deserves more than just boos. He’s a towering hypocrite. He blocked any hearings and a vote on President Obama’s superb pick Judge Garland. Don the Con’s pick is therefore illegitimate.
I thought Graham was in a very red/safe district, so I wouldn’t have expected public opposition to Gorsuch. Who here can help me interpret that?
Democrats are rightfully fired up and furious as the GOP. All GOP elected officials are getting similar treatment at their local meetings, even in very Red districts.
Oh, my G-d, did you see any of that over-the-top, ham performance?
I’m convinced that if Lindsey Graham hadn’t gone into politics…
He’d be belting out show tunes, three nights a week, at the Myrtle Beach Amateur Playhouse.
(With matinees on weekends.)