Graham: Trump Appeals To 'Dark Side' Of GOP That Thinks Obama Is Muslim

[DonViejo]

Republican presidential candidate Sen. Lindsey Graham (SC) said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that fellow candidate Donald Trump has tapped into the "dark side" of the GOP.

Graham was explaining how his rival has managed to dominate the Republican presidential race, polling as high as 35 percent depending on the survey. Graham said the support still represented a minority of the GOP.

“Twenty-five percent of our party that probably thinks Obama was born in Kenya or wants to believe that. There’s 25 percent of our party wants him to be a Muslim because they hate him so much," Graham said. "So, there’s a dark side of politics that Mr. Trump is appealing to."

Graham initially used the interview to defend his dismal poll numbers in his home state, South Carolina, but pivoted into a more specific attack on the GOP frontrunner. He said a Trump nomination would "kill" the GOP.

"The leader of our party has come up with a deportation plan that is Joseph McCarthy-like and he is saying things about Megyn Kelly and other women that are digging a big hole. And the chairman of our party said Trump was a net positive. Let me tell you, I think he's hurting our party."

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[Eleanors38]

1. Well, Graham, you put up with that waste matter. Now it's beginnin' to stink.

[Iliyah]

2. GAWD, can Graham STFU

The GOP constituents are seriously effed up like him.

[madinmaryland]

3. Uhhhmm. That's all that is left of the Republican Party. NT.

[tanyev]

4. You mean the same people that you've been trying--and failing--to appeal to, Lindsey?

[TrollBuster9090]

5. Given that the darkside constitutes about 97% of the Republican base, and Trump only has

about 25% of their support, I'd say that's not true. I'd say the other 2/3rds of the Republican base is being pandered to by the war mongering assclowns like Lindsey Graham, and the religious crackpots like Huckabee.