NBC anchor takes Lindsey Graham by the nose about how Trump should counter Kamala

A Sunday stop on the show for South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham (R) saw the lawmaker feeding the corporate media narrative about former President Donald Trump's campaign spotlight.

“Donald Trump, the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election.”

(Video: NBC News)

Between the pushback against Vice President Kamala Harris who was dubbed a DEI hire and the various splinter groups like “White Dudes” and “Karens” who rallied on her behalf, identity politics remained a focal point evident in the Democratic Party's strategy against the “orange man”.

Instead of decrying detractors who have claimed Trump has strayed from a campaign based on record and policy, Graham appeared to buy the entire talking point on Sunday's “Meet the Press,” as he agreed when the host Kristen Welker asked him for a point from the above. Nikki Haley, US Ambassador to the UN.

“Do you agree with Nikki Haley?” he asked after airing a clip from an appearance by the former South Carolina governor on Fox News earlier in the week.

“Yes. I don't think so, I don't see Vice President Harris as crazy. I see her as the most liberal person to be nominated for president in the history of the United States,” Graham said. “She goes to the Soviet Union's playbook to lower prices called price controls; she wants to eliminate the she's for reparations; she's for the Green Deal. So it's a nightmare for Harris to defend.”

“Do you think former President Trump should stop talking about Vice President Harris' race and intelligence?” the host asked to which the senator replied, “Yes.”

“President Trump can win this election. His policies are good for America and if you have a political debate, he wins. Donald Trump, the provocateur, the showman, may not win this election,” added Graham, who suggested that people like him, Haley and Govs. Florida's Ron DeSantis and Virginia's Glenn Youngkin should be in Trump's way.

During an appearance on “Special Report” Haley had criticized the president for going after Harris on issues like crowd size and his intelligence and said, “You can't win on these things. The American people are smart. Treat them like they're smart . It's not about her. It's about the American people. Talk to them and let them know you need their vote.”

Among those reacting to the arrest, Trump's running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, had said during a interview with Fox News Digital, “To the people who say Donald Trump should do something different, they had a chance to make Donald Trump do something different by challenging him in three separate primaries, each of which he won. I think Donald Trump has earned the right to run the kind of campaign he wants to run.”

“If you listen to what Donald J. Trump says, if you look at what I say, we're prosecuting the case against Kamala Harris for politics,” he continued.

Meanwhile, the president himself had not shied away from playing up Haley's comments and the idea of ​​her joining the court in some way. Taking questions from his club in Bedminster, New Jersey, Trump was asked about the ambassador's comments that he said“Sure. I think we've done very well. I think we're hitting a nerve. I think this is a different race. All we have to do is define our opponent as a communist or a socialist or someone who's going to destroy our country”.

He added after assuring that he had a “very quiet campaign,” that “I appreciate her advice. I have to do it my way. You know, I ran against her and I did it my way. people said maybe I should do it another way. But I won in South Carolina with numbers that no one had ever seen. I think she's a good woman with her support. She supported me. But I would love for her to move and campaign.”

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A native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College, where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and seeker of the truth, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and dog, and when he's not researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel the

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