Lindsey Graham Just Perfectly Summed Up the 2016 Race: “My Party Has Gone Batshit Crazy”


While Republican presidential candidates continued scream-debating in Houston last night, Sen. Lindsey Graham took a shot at his former challengers with a series of insults that capture the insanity that is the remaining GOP presidential field.

The South Carolina senator, who was speaking at the Washington Press Club Foundation Dinner, nailed it with the following jabs:

At one point, Graham donned Donald Trump’s trademark “Make America Great Again” cap and sarcastically endorsed the real estate magnate.

We’d say we miss you, Lindsey, but this is the party Republicans built.

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