Democratic Senator Says Lindsey Graham ‘Would Literally Push His Mother in Front of a Train’ to Get Reelected

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) reportedly irked some of his Senate colleagues by suddenly opposing an aid package for Ukraine.

The Senate passed aid for the country last week, but it faces an uphill climb in the Republican-controlled House.

Graham is a longtime foreign policy hawk and previously a staunch supporter of aid to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in February 2022. However, support for the besieged country is becoming increasingly unpopular in Republican politics, thanks in part to Donald Trump’s hammerlock on the GOP. Trump has repeatedly cozied up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

“I talked to President Trump today and he’s dead set against this package,” Graham said on the Senate floor. “He thinks that we should make packages like this a loan, not a gift.”

One unnamed Democratic senator told The Hill that he is frustrated with Graham, saying the Republican would push his mother in front of a train to get reelected.

“He got sucked into the Trump orbit, and he is so zealously about his own self-preservation in South Carolina that he literally would push his mother in front of a train to get to where he needs to be,” the senator said. “I hate to say it because I actually like him.”

Graham’s mother died in 1976.

Some Republican senators aren’t happy with the South Carolinian either.

“I don’t know what he’s doing, because Lindsey is a super smart guy,” a GOP senator told The Hill. “I don’t know whether he’s just trying to cover for Trump or what he’s doing, but I find it worrisome. He’s just so all over the map. It’s worrisome. I don’t know what to do.”

A second Republican senator echoed this sentiment.

“Lindsey gets a pass on so many things because the answer is, ‘That’s just Lindsey.’ But that doesn’t seem like that’s a sufficient answer,” said the GOP senator. “He’s so mercurial.”