Lindsey Graham Presses NAACP Head on the Grades They Give Republicans: ‘Really Odd’

CLIP: @LindseyGrahamSC to @CornellWBrooks on NAACP report cards: "I hope that doesn't make us all racist & all of them perfect on the issue" pic.twitter.com/A0yq6VdEgC

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NAACP head Cornell William Brooks testified against AG nominee Jeff Sessions today, but during one point Senator Lindsey Graham asked him about the NAACP’s report cards in judging members of Congress.

Like many groups, the NAACP grades congressmen and senators based on where they stand on the issues they care about.

Graham brought up to Brooks today how Sessions received 11 percent from the NAACP in judging the first session of the 113th Congress. Brooks acknowledged that Sessions has received “a failing grade for years on end.”

Graham went through how Republicans like Sessions and himself get very low grades while Democrats get very high ones.

Brooks said the grades are based on legislation and not party affiliation (the metrics in their legislative report card are whether members voted with the NAACP position on a civil rights issue), but Graham said it’s “really odd” there would be such a remarkable disparity:

“You’re picking things that conservative Republicans don’t agree with you on and liberal Democrats do. I hope that doesn’t make us all racist and all of them perfect on the issue.”

Watch above, via C-SPAN.

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