Washington Post
By Amber Phillips
March 2, 2016
Choosing
between Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, as Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) once
said, is like choosing between being "shot or poisoned."
But
after Trump's near-dominant showing on Super Tuesday, Graham appears to
have made his choice. In an interview Tuesday with CBS's Charlie Rose,
Graham said:
"Ted Cruz is not my favorite by any means, but … we may be in a
position where we have to rally around Ted Cruz as the only way to stop
Donald Trump."
The
Texas senator, who won Texas, Oklahoma and Alaska on Tuesday, is simply
the best of two bad choices, Graham indicated. Graham recently joked
how Cruz and
his obstructionist ways are so despised in the Senate that "if you
killed Ted Cruz on the floor of the Senate, and the trial was in the
Senate, nobody would convict you."
But
Trump is worse, Graham said. He is a "race-baiting, xenophobic bigot"
who is dangerous for both the Republican Party's electoral hopes and
future growth,
Graham has said. In his interview with Rose, Graham predicted
Republicans with Donald Trump as their nominee would to Hillary Clinton,
thanks in part to the party's inability -- stubbornness, really, Graham
called it -- to take positions that would welcome
Hispanics into their party.
"We are in a demographic death spiral," he said.
It's
not like Cruz has a great track record on immigration, either. He sides
with Trump on building a wall along the Mexican border and deporting
some 11 million
undocumented immigrants in the country.
In Tuesday's interview, Rose asked Graham to confirm he thinks the party should rally around Cruz.
Graham's answer echoed what most of the Republican Party establishment is probably thinking the day after Super Tuesday:
"I can't believe I would say yes," Graham said, "but yes."
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