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Graham: Republicans have to be smart enough to embrace America First

2021-05-24 | 🔗
South Carolina Republican outlines the future of the GOP on 'Hannity'
This is an unofficial transcript meant for reference. Accuracy is not guaranteed.
Just helps people like Joe get elected thats her choice here now, with his choice and reaction, South Carolina, Senator Lindsey, Graham a senator, am I wrong thats the agenda yeah, but the question of the conference is a time for choosing what I would tell the people putting on the conference. The Republicans have already chosen. They have chosen an american first agenda to rally the party around and if the primary were held tomorrow, President Trump would win if you chose to run going away. So the question really is: does anybody in the Republican Party doubted that to the american first agenda is the way to move forward and Heres a question I have if President Trump decides to run in two thousand and twenty four and he wins the Partys nomination? Will you support him its a time for choosing in that regard? Would you support president Trump if he is our nominee?
Every republican needs to be asked that question for the house to have, in the Biden, Obama years at sixty five votes to replace Obamacare and not be ready with their plan in two thousand and seventeen speaks volumes about to that old republican Party. First, ever republican senators to vote in twenty fifteen for a clean, repeal bill of Obamacare and then, when it mattered, when it wouldve been signed into law, seven of them backed away from their vote two years earlier, thats the old week establishment Republican Party. I dont see that as a viable alternative anymore. So this whole conference is how would you define being a Republican? I would look at what President Trump did and choose that as my way forward that we believe in strong borders. We believe in a strong military that we are expecting people to do more to help themselves. America cant, be everything to everybody all the time
we believe in lower taxes. We believe in free and fair trade and not being a chump when it comes to trade. So the bottom line is, if you are running for president or thinking about running for president, are you smart enough to embrace the american first agenda on the question for the Republican Party right now is that Donald Trump ran in the primary? He would win a going away, and the question is: why are so many Republicans willing to give him another shot at this because they believe in what he did and they believe that his policies worked, and if you dont see that if you dont get that, then you really dont understand the Republican Party in twenty twenty one. So what is the point? I see the establishment figures are trying thats the question. I see that they are fighting a cold war against those that support the make America first grade again agenda and american first agenda. I dont think that they have a
prayer. They can try as hard as they want. If you have candidates that dont support to those simple principles that I believed in my whole career im not going to, I would no longer support im not doing it. What they are trying to do is convince people. May be running in twenty twenty four, that the Trump agenda is not the right formula for success, and I respectfully disagree. If you want to make the Republican Party strong all over the country and win in two thousand and twenty four we need to embrace the policy is a president Trump that worked so the idea of having a conference and trying to figure out what the Republican Party should do and be to me is sort of nonsensical. We know what it should be. It should be an american first agenda and a president Trump runs. He is going to have some damage to repair, but I think that he is in great shape to win the primary and could get reelected, and my question is: if he is the nominee, would you support him?
I would like to hear a lot of people answer that question.
Transcript generated on 2021-08-09.