Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham says that former President Donald Trump has a shot at winning the 2024 presidency if he decides to run.
“I’m literally telling you what I tell him,” Graham said to CNBC’s Steve Sedgwick. “If you lose again, the history about who you are and what you did dramatically changes. If you come back, it will be one of the greatest political comebacks in American history. And if you get four more years, you can do big stuff.”
According to the South Carolina senator, a presidential win is “in his reach” if he decides to run again, which he’s hinted at.
Graham also said Trump has a lot of talking points and a story to tell if he decides to run.
“Remember me? I may not be your cup of tea, but when I was president, our border was secure, we had the lowest illegal crossings in 40 years,” Graham suggested certain things that Trump could say.
“When I was president, I stood up to China, and they listened,” Graham continued. “When I was president, we had the strongest military since Ronald Reagan. When I was president, I destroyed the [ISIS] caliphate. When I was president, we had conservative judges, not liberal judges.”
Trump’s fan base has been united recently after the FBI’s raid on Mar-a-Lago back in August. On Monday, the former president scored a legal victory where a federal judge granted a special master to look into the “evidence” taken from the raid.
“Remember, it takes courage and ‘guts’ to fight a totally corrupt Department of ‘Justice’ and the FBI,” Trump posted on his social media app Truth Social in response to the ruling. “They are being pushed to do the wrong things by many sinister and evil outside sources. Until impartiality, wisdom, fairness, and courage are shown by them, our Country can never come back or recover — it will be reduced to being a Third World Nation!”