GOP Senator Brings The Sarcasm: Trump Deserves ‘Award For Hispanic Turnout’

United States Senator Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina) listens as Army General Curtis M. Scaparrotti and United States Air Force General Lori J. Robinson testify before the US Senate Committee on... United States Senator Senator Lindsey Graham (Republican of South Carolina) listens as Army General Curtis M. Scaparrotti and United States Air Force General Lori J. Robinson testify before the US Senate Committee on Armed Services during their confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, April 21, 2016. Credit: Ron Sachs / CNP - NO WIRE SERVICE - Photo by: Ron Sachs/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images MORE LESS
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), a critic of Donald Trump, suggested in an interview published Saturday that the Republican nominee’s comments about undocumented immigrants have driven Hispanic voters to the polls.

“The story of this election may be the mobilization of the Hispanic vote,” Graham told the New York Times. “So Trump deserves the award for Hispanic turnout. He did more to get them out than any Democrat has ever done.”

The senator indicated that Republicans need to address changing demographics and reach out to Hispanic voters.

“If we don’t come to grips with the demographic challenges we have with Hispanics in presidential politics, we’ll never right the ship,” he said.

Early voting in Clark County, Nevada, appears to have given Democrats an advantage in the state where Hispanic voters are expected to have a large impact.

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  1. Avatar for tena tena says:

    Miss Scarlett! I have wondered where you got to.

    What an adorable wit you have, Lindsey - did you bat your eyelashes over the top of your fan when you said this?

    At least you have had the good graces to be mostly disgusted by all of this.

    And PS - it isn’t just Hispanics, my dear - it’s also women and African Americans and mostly everyone in the entire country who isn’t white and angry about losing supremacy.

  2. Miz Lindsey is worried that, since she let Idela go and replaced her with Consuela, she might have to press her own chiffon if HO wins and starts the deportations.

  3. Venture beyond the plantation once in a while, Lindsey.

    The world is changing and you and your GOP ilk are being discarded to the compost heap of history.

  4. Avatar for tena tena says:

    But of course.

    hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

  5. But didn’t Miz Lindsay vote for the bad man?

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