Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) maintains that he supports Ukraine and wants U.S. aid to reach Kyiv but he voted against the defense supplemental security bill.
The decision was a major reversal for Graham, who had spent months working with a bipartisan coalition to get a package aiding Israel, Ukraine, Taiwan, and the U.S. southern border to the Senate floor. He was an adviser in the bipartisan border security talks for the GOP side before that deal fell apart, eventually becoming an opponent of the bill for lacking a border component.
The South Carolina senator maintains that he still supports Ukraine and wants U.S. aid to reach Kyiv, and his team declined to comment to theon his political evolution, but his vote highlights the significant transition he’s undergone over the last decade.one of the Senate’s most liberal Republicans whose conservative bona fides came largely from his ardent support for the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Flash forward to 2024, where Graham is voting against a package aiding three U.S. allies in their military fights over process issues and insufficient border measures – and yet still gettingTrying to quell some of those boos at a rally last September, Trump explained that Graham “helps me on the left. We need help sometimes. Republicans shouldn’t need help from the left, but he helps me.
Others argued that the shift is far less perplexing if Graham intends to maintain his influence in Republican politics.
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