Graham: Biden Is a ‘Decent Fellow’ but ‘a Figurehead of the Most Radical Movement’ in US History

Sen. Linsey Graham (R-SC) has been friends with former Vice President Joe Biden (D) for roughly two decades and in a Tuesday virtual town hall, Graham called the Democratic presidential nominee a “fine and decent fellow” but also warned that he considers Biden to be a “figurehead of the most radical movement in American history.”

A constituent asked Graham, “I saw a commercial of you praising 👤Joe Biden, what’s up with that?”

The South Carolina lawmaker said, “I like 👤Joe Biden, I’ve been friends with Joe for about twenty-something years. He spoke at Senator Thurman’s funeral when Senator Thurman passed.”

He added that Biden is a “fine, decent fellow” and said that the clip that went around of him praising Biden “was out when I was running for president. Joe’s son … Beau died and I knew Beau pretty well, he served over in Afghanistan and 👤Joe Biden’s had a lot of personal tragedies, so I will never say a bad word about 👤Joe Biden as a person. I just don’t think he’s the right guy to be president.”

Graham continued, “He is in my view a figurehead of the most radical movement in American history, that’s coming from AOC and that crowd. And so my differences with 👤Joe Biden are political and they’re real, they’re wide and they’re deep. But he’s a fine man.”

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The clip that Graham is referring to is likely one cut in mid-June in which he said, “If you can’t admire 👤Joe Biden as a person, then it’s probably, you got a problem. You need to do some self-evaluation.”

He added in the clip, “Cause, what’s not to like? He is as good a man as God ever created, he said some of the most incredibly heartfelt things that anybody could ever say to me. He’s the nicest person I think I’ve ever met in politics.”

Here’s that clip:

The ad, which was commissioned by the group Republican Voters Against Trump, ran the ad in Washington, D.C., and in South Carolina.