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While speaking to a mostly empty ballroom at Friday’s Sunshine Summit in Florida, Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham corrected an audience member who shouted out that President Obama is a traitor. The hawkish South Carolina senator was criticizing the president’s handling of Iran and the Benghazi attack when an unidentified woman shouted: “He’s a traitor!” The senator responded: “No, ma’am. He’s not a traitor. He just doesn’t know what he’s doing.”

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) corrected a woman who called President Obama a "traitor" during an event on Friday. "He's a traitor," the woman called out during Graham's appearance at the Sunshine Summit in Orlando, accusing the president of betraying the U.S. with the Iran nuclear deal. "No, ma'am, he's not a traitor," Graham responded. "He just doesn't know what he's doing."

Sen. Lindsey Graham didn’t make the cut for tonight’s GOP debates on the Fox Business Network, but that doesn’t mean nobody is talking about him. There have been several shots at him on social media for getting demoted from even the kids table debate, but none was quite so hilarious as the zinger from Fox’s Andrea Tantaros: Although that was the easily the winner, there were some other brutal shots. This one was particularly sharp as well:

Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham told Newsmax TV Tuesday that rival Ted Cruz was "well positioned" to eventually win the nomination if Ben Carson dropped out of the race. "If something happened to Carson, some of the voters would go to Cruz," the South Carolina senator told "The Steve Malzberg Show" in an interview. "At the end of the day, you've got four or five people who would be really good candidates. "I include myself in that list, but how do you beat Hillary Clinton? You have to get more votes than she does."(continued)

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and former Governor Mike Huckabee missed their chance to debate on the main stage in the Fox Business/Wall Street Journal debate scheduled for next Tuesday. The two low-rated candidates will join former Rick Santorum and Gov. Bobby Jindal in the undercard debate, which will begin early, at 6 p.m. The news is far worse for candidates Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)43% and former Governor George Pataki, who were eliminated entirely from the debates.

Greta talking about next week's debate on FBN. Christie and Huck to kiddie debate. Paul barely squeaks into debate with 2.5%. Down to 8 now.

***According to him, liberalism for believers is as dangerous as communismMoscow, November 2, Interfax - Head of the charitable organization Samaritan's Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, Franklin Graham is concerned that Americans abandon Christian norms of morality. "Americans ruled God out of their lives," Graham said at his meeting with Chief Rabbi of Russia Berel Lazar in Moscow, the rabbi's press service reports on Monday. Graham said that he was also concerned that his compatriots abandoned biblical moral principles under pressure of secularists. According to him, earlier many westerners worried that "the world will become atheistic under communist...

BOULDER, Colo.– Lindsey Graham 45% may register as little more than a blip in the presidential polls, but he doesn’t sound like a man — or candidate — dejected. On Tuesday night before the third Republican presidential debate, the South Carolina senator participated in an interview with Dana Bash as part of CNN’s “Politics on Tap” series, where he elicited a bundle of laughs from an audience of college Republicans and journalists at a local bar. As he left the event, he spoke with The Daily Caller about the state of the Republican Party, Donald Trump, the Middle East and...

A frustrated Sen. Lindsey Graham said Monday he can’t believe he’s so far behind in the Republican presidential race, with just 1 percent in polls — when Donald Trump is “crazy as hell,” and Ben Carson once “tried to kill someone.” Carson recalled his hot-tempered childhood on “Meet the Press” Sunday, saying he “would go after people with rocks, and bricks and baseball bats and hammers. And . . . when I was 14 I tried to stab someone.” That was too much for Graham, who consistently polls at the bottom of the GOP pack, way behind co-leaders Trump and Carson. “On...

The recent post about the Battle of Guadalcanal by Freeper DuncanWaring reminded me of Calvin Graham's story. Graham lied about his age to enlist, and was aboard the battleship South Dakota during the battle. He was wounded in action, and received the Bronze Star and Purple Heart. Graham was twelve years old at the time!

GOP presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham says that he can do a far better job on the world stage than President Barack Obama. "Anybody who rides around on a horse without their shirt – I can HANDLE [emphasis added] that guy," Graham said.

Franklin Graham, the chief of both Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, is raising the question about why the world is silent while ISIS carries out genocide against Christians. “It is genocide,” he wrote on Monday in a post on Facebook on a topic he has previously addressed. “And the world seems largely silent about it.” He continued, “Genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities of Syria and Iraq. And their methods are unimaginably cruel and heinous. Just a few days ago it was revealed that three Assyrian Christians were executed on...

In a Facebook post Monday, Christian evangelist Franklin Graham denounced the world’s silence in the face of a true genocide being carried out by the Islamic State. “It is genocide—and the world seems largely silent about it,” Graham wrote. “Genocide perpetrated by the Islamic State against Christians, Yazidis, and other religious minorities of Syria and Iraq.”

A bipartisan pair of senators — including one presidential candidate — is pushing forward with an emergency spending bill to help strengthen the administration's ability to combat the Syrian refugee crisis. Sens. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) have rolled out legislation that would provide an extra $1 billion in emergency funding, mandating that the White House tell Congress within 45 days how it will use the money....

In an interview with Fox News on Wednesday, Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina chastised the Obama administration, calling its response, or lack thereof, to Russian aggression in Syria, “weak” and willfully naïve. “We must be prepared to use force,” declared Fiorina in a hawkish response to Russian airstrikes in the central city of Homs this week that have transformed the geopolitical calculus in the region. U.S. Pentagon officials insist that the Russian aerial assault is targeting primarily non-ISIS combatants, including the American-backed moderate Syrian opposition. “I can absolutely confirm to you that they were strikes against our Free Syrian Army...

Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul could be on the chopping block and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham may not even make the undercard debate under criteria released Wednesday by CNBC ahead of its Oct. 28 GOP presidential debate. The rules would limit the prime-time debate to any candidates polling above 3 percent. That's of an average of national polls released between Sept. 17 and Oct. 21. Surveys from NBC, ABC, CBS, Fox News, CNN and Bloomberg will be used to make the determination. To quality for the undercard debate, candidates must pull in at least 1 percent support in any of...

Rev. Franklin Graham, the influential son of beloved evangelist Billy Graham, tells Newsmax TV the pounding Russian air force strikes in Syria may end up saving countless numbers of persecuted Christians. "What Russia is doing may save the lives of Christians in the Middle East," Graham, president and CEO of Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, said Wednesday to J.D. Hayworth and Miranda Khan on "Newsmax Prime." "You understand that the Syrian government for their good and for their bad over the history of this country, they have protected Christians, they have protected minorities from the Islamists."

By October 28th, we’ll be four full months into Trumpmania and will have shed, at a minimum, two of the most successful Republican governors in America from the field. Let’s either do one big debate with all the candidates left or face the hard reality that we’re never going to have a President Pataki or President Graham by culling the asterisk candidates. Another undercard debate isn’t going to help anyone who didn’t make it out of the first two. In fact, didn’t Chuck Todd say just a few days ago that NBC felt no pressure to feature 10 or 11...

PPP's newest North Carolina poll finds that Donald Trump is holding his ground- at least compared to where he was in the state six weeks ago. Trump leads with 26% to 21% for Ben Carson, 12% for Carly Fiorina, 10% for Marco Rubio, 9% for Ted Cruz, 6% for Mike Huckabee, 5% for Jeb Bush, 4% for John Kasich, and 2% for Chris Christie. Rounding out the field are Rick Santorum and Bobby Jindal at 1%, and Jim Gilmore, Lindsey Graham, George Pataki, and Rand Paul all at less than 1%. Trump's 26% is almost identical to his 24% standing...

GOP primary contenders Sen. Marco Rubio and Sen. Lindsey Graham skipped a critical cloture vote that allowed Senate Majority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell’s plan to fund the government, including Planned Parenthood, to move forward without risking a shutdown. That means Rubio and Graham, for whatever reason, skipped a key vote that would have shown where their allegiances lie regarding funding for the highly controversial abortion provider, which, based on recent undercover video investigations, is in the business of selling aborted baby body parts to the highest bidder. ........ Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, on the other hand, were present and...