'Maybe I proved his point': Lindsey Graham defends Vance despite 'childless' remarks

Lifelong bachelor Sen. Lindsey Graham responded to Republican vice presidential nominee J.D. Vance’s rebuke of childless adults being unfit for leadership with a smirk during a CNN interview Tuesday.

“I don’t know, maybe I proved his point,” Graham, of South Carolina, said with a smile. “The election won’t come down to what [Vance] said on a podcast. It will come back to whether or not we change course as a nation.”

Graham pivoted to bashing Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris as a failed “border czar” — a notion extensively debunked by fact checkers. When the discussion turned back to Vance, Graham defended the Ohio senator, saying Trump should stick by him as a running mate.

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“Listen I was John McCain's close friend. Everyone loved him until he became the Republican nominee. The day he became the Republican nominee he became some weirdo guy who was half crazy,’ Graham said. “Everyone like Mitt Romney but when he became the Republican nominee, suddenly he's the guy who put the dog on top of the car.”

The “weird” cross-party attacks “just come with the territory,” Graham said.

“If you got an 'R' by your name, they are going to try and destroy you,” Graham said.

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