Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), who has never opposed another sitting senator in his decades-long tenure, vowed Sunday to hit the campaign trail to actively oppose sitting Democrats who voted against now-Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
The Washington Examiner reports that the suddenly fiery senator from South Carolina has pledged to change how he approaches his colleagues on the left, telling Fox News Sunday that he will appear alongside Republicans in midterm battleground states to help hammer home exactly what’s at stake in the 2018 elections.
“All I can say is this is going to the streets at the ballot box,” Graham said. “I’ve never campaigned against a colleague in my life. That’s about to change. I’m going to go throughout this country and let people in these purple states, red states, where Trump won, know what I thought, know what I think about this process.”
Graham found his voice in the battle over Kavanaugh, taking aim at his Democratic colleagues for first hiding and then pushing through vicious, uncorroborated claims of sexual assault, subjecting Kavanaugh to a two-week nightmare as first the Senate Judiciary Committee and then the FBI probed Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the pair were teenagers, more than 35 years ago.
