Graham warns Trump he’s ‘hurting his chances’ of winning 2024 if he keeps pushing 2020 election fraud claims as a new poll finds Republican voters are split on whether they want to see the ex-president run for the White House again

  • Graham claimed the ex-president was not only hurting himself by re-litigating 2020 but the Republican Party as a whole
  • The South Carolina Republican is one of Trump’s staunchest allies in the Senate
  • Despite Trump calling him a RINO recently, Graham said the ex-president was ‘the most dominant figure in the Republican Party’ and popular in the GOP
  • But a recent poll shows just 50% of GOP and right-leaning voters want him back
  • The same survey shows even fewer left-wing voters want Joe Biden to run again 

Lindsey Graham is urging his ally Donald Trump to stop promoting conspiracy theories that the 2020 election was rigged, claiming on Sunday that the ex-president is ‘hurting his chances’ of re-election by doing so.

It comes the same day as a new poll shows Republican voters are torn on whether they even want Trump as the GOP nominee in 2024 — and even fewer Democratic voters who want President Joe Biden to run again.

But according to Graham, the Republican presidential nomination is ‘his nomination for the taking’ — unless he keeps making his 2020 loss the main focus of his platform.

‘I am not contesting the 2020 election. I’d like to reform the system. The problems we found in 2020 need to be addressed. But the 2020 election is over for me,’ the South Carolina Republican senator said on ABC News’ This Week.

‘He has a great chance of being president again in 2024, if he’ll start comparing what he did as president versus what’s going on now and how to fix the mess we’re in. If he looks backward, I think he’s hurting his chances.’

While he hasn’t formally announced a re-election bid, the former president has dropped numerous hints that another campaign was at least on his mind.

Graham, one of Trump’s most vocal supporters in the Senate, was recently lambasted as a ‘RINO,’ or Republican In Name Only, by the ex-president for breaking with him on the Capitol riot.