Here's why Lindsey Graham plays so nice with Trump | Analysis by CillizzaCNN
Way back in 2015, when the South Carolina senator was challenging the billionaire businessman for the Republican presidential nomination, Graham said this of Trump:"You know how you make America great again? Tell Donald Trump to go to hell." And, oh yeah, Graham also called Trump a "race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot."Fast-forward to the here and now.
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