Even Fox News Is Tired Of Lindsey Graham’s Groveling For Donations

WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27:  Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) listens to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford speak before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo By Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images)
WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) listens to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford speak before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice o... WASHINGTON, DC - SEPTEMBER 27: Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) listens to Dr. Christine Blasey Ford speak before the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, on Capitol Hill September 27, 2018 in Washington, DC. A professor at Palo Alto University and a research psychologist at the Stanford University School of Medicine, Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Judge Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her during a party in 1982 when they were high school students in suburban Maryland. (Photo By Michael Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) on Tuesday returned to begging voters for campaign donations during a Fox News appearance — successfully making a first plea before he was abruptly cut off during a second attempt to scrounge for contributions.

The South Carolina lawmaker shamelessly groveled for donations twice during Laura Ingraham’s show as he faces perhaps one of the toughest reelection bids of his career before the network cut him off: 

Tuesday night was not the first time Graham, who faces a formidable fundraiser — Democratic challenger Jaime Harrison — has asked for cash on Fox News: 

In fact, he’s begged so many times that The Lincoln Project, a conservative group that has strongly opposed President Donald Trump’s reelection bid plugged Graham’s haunting fundraising appeal into a horror movie, suggesting in a video released late Tuesday that his whining pleas would only need to be endured for seven more days as the election enters its final week. 

Ahead of the confirmation of Trump’s Supreme Court pick, Graham had taken to using his  promise to deliver the votes to confirm then-Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett to the high court as part of his pitch to voters to fill his pockets with campaign donations.

“My opponent will raise $100 million in the state of South Carolina,” Graham said late last month on the network in an apparent inflation of figures raised by his opponent.

“I’m being killed financially,” he added. “This money is because they hate my guts.”

Graham later suggested during an interview with The Hill published last week that Harrison’s campaign funds had come from “shadowy figures” and floated a potential investigation into their origins.

Per the Associated Press, Graham raised $28 million in the third quarter, a record for a Republican Senate candidate that Harrison more than doubled — raising $57 million in the same period. Harrison’s campaign told AP that the total busted previous records becoming the largest sum achieved by any Senate candidate during a single three-month period.

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  1. Other than being a smarmy little fker, Lindsey threatens an ‘investigation’…typical. Spend MORE tax dollar money for revenge that people are tired of your whining, grifting ways.

  2. Sending a few more bucks to Harrison. Yes, I know he has more than he can spend.

    I’m sending so that I can feel I had a role in kicking Lindsey’s sniveling closeted ass out of Congress.

  3. Avatar for JorgeP JorgeP says:

    Come on, buddy.

    You could be a week away from wearing polos with the collar up and loafers with no socks and pounding cocktails with the boys in Charleston. Time to be yourself.

  4. Avatar for bkz bkz says:

    Lindsay Graham . . . down in his knees. (How unusual.)

  5. Avatar for 1gg 1gg says:

    Lindsey better have his fainting couch ready.

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