MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough mocked Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, saying that chasing him through an airport was all it took to change his mind.
Scarborough attacked Graham — along with his fellow Republican Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson — during Wednesday’s broadcast of “Morning Joe,” suggesting that they were starting a civil war within the Republican Party. (RELATED: Crowd Surrounds Sen. Lindsey Graham At Airport Chanting ‘Traitor,’ Video Shows)
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Scarborough went after Johnson first, saying that the senator was “challenged” and suggesting that he was the last person who should be offering political advice to Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Turning his attention to Graham, Scarborough said that the South Carolina senator had only flipped on former President Donald Trump after he was confronted by three people in an airport.
“Three people chase him through an airport and he’s just freaked out ever since,” Scarborough said. “So if you want to change Lindsey’s mind, get three people, follow him through the airport for five minutes and yell at him and Lindsey will turn into a tub of Jell-O, which is exactly what he has done.”
Scarborough went on to argue that Trump was the “only Republican president since Herbert Hoover to lose the House, lose the White House and, yes, to lose the Senate,” saying that if it were not for Trump and his conduct during the Georgia Senate runoffs, Republicans would probably still have control of the Senate.
“So, what these two sad, little, petrified men think they’re achieving by attacking the majority leader is really, really beyond me. But they’re starting a civil war,” Scarborough continued, referencing all of the Republicans — in states like Arizona — who had been censured for opposing Trump after the January 6 riot at the Capitol.
“Democrats really have to be loving what Lindsey Graham is doing and what Ron Johnson is doing, and what those leaders in Michigan, Arizona and Georgia are doing, in attacking the very people they need to have on board if they want to win two years from now,” Scarborough concluded.