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Monday, July 13, 2015

Graham Calls on Republicans to Denounce Trump

Wall Street Journal
By Elizabeth Williamson
July 12, 2015

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday that fellow GOP candidate Donald Trump’s comments about illegal immigrants last week presented a “defining moment for the Republican Party,” and called on GOP Chairman Reince Priebus to publicly repudiate Mr. Trump’s labeling of illegal immigrants as “drug dealers” and “rapists.”

Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Mr. Graham called Mr. Trump a “wrecking ball,” whose rambling remarks on ending illegal immigration last week offended Hispanic groups nationwide. The South Carolina senator called the billionaire’s comments “offensive on every level,” and harmful to the party’s image among Hispanic voters.  After GOP candidate Mitt Romney lost the 2012 presidential race, Mr. Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, conducted a study of the loss that recommended, among other things, that the party make a stronger effort to reach out to Hispanics, most of whom are Democrats.

“As to the Republican Party, if we do not reject this way of thinking clearly without any ambiguity, we will have lost our way. We will have lost the moral authority, in my view, to govern this great nation,” Mr. Grahams said Sunday. “We should reject this demagoguery. If we don’t, we will lose and we will deserve to lose.”

On the talk that Mr. Trump might run as a third-party candidate, hurting the GOP, Mr. Graham said ” We can’t worry about what Donald Trump might do. We have to focus on what we should do. And, as a party, we should reject what he says, because it’s not true.”

Mr. Graham said Mr. Priebus and “anyone with a responsible position in the Republican Party,” should publicly state, “We do not agree with Donald Trump when he says that most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists. We have quite the opposite view– that this is a hard problem and needs to be solved. Most of these people are decent, hard-working folks coming from poor countries to try to improve their lives, and we need to create order out of chaos.


“If we can’t get this right, then we’re going to keep digging a hole and it’s going to cost us the 2016 election at a time when we could win.”

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