Lindsey Graham Drops Out of 2016 Republican Presidential Race

Sen. Lindsey Graham, a long-shot candidate for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, announced Monday that he is abandoning his campaign for the Oval Office. Graham, known in the Senate for his acerbic wit, responded with a video showing him destroying his mobile in a number of different ways, including putting it in a blender and smashing it with a golf club. But Graham has given no indication of who he would support. Even in his home state of SC, his support fell to 1 percent.

“It’s a shame the debate structure never let Lindsey have his real shot”, Todd said, referring to the two-tiered debates that relegated Graham, with his low poll numbers, to the undercard event out of the spotlight. In an email sent to supporters shortly afterward, Graham said, “the centerpiece of my campaign has been securing our nation”.

The decision to drop out of the race comes as Graham faced a deadline to withdraw from the South Carolina Republican primary.

Graham has declined to endorse a candidate in the race.

The not-so-surprising collapse of Lindsey Graham’s presidential campaign has left Arizona’s senior senator with some choices. My favorite Lindsey Graham line is something he said to his Senate colleague George LeMieux when the Floridian in the Senate gym spontaneously volunteered to fully back his ill-fated climate change plan: “You can’t come that easy”.

Only a handful of Republican candidates who reflect Graham’s broader foreign policy views remain in the race: former governor Jeb Bush of Florida, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida, and Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey. McCain also said he doesn’t believe anything he says will make a big difference to voters.

“At the time, no one stepped forward to join me”, he added.

“I want to thank everyone who’s taken this journey with me”, said Sen. It was a lesson he attributed to his upbringing in the bar that his parents owned and to the political friendship between Republican President Ronald Reagan and Democratic Speaker Tip O’Neill.

In suspending his bid for the White House on Monday, South Carolina Sen.

The South Carolina Republican primary is February 20.

Graham’s announcement may be a bow to dollar-and-cents reality: It came days before the presidential campaigns close their fundraising books for the fourth quarter of 2015; numerous campaigns are frantically engaged in year-end fundraising pleas.