“Iowa’s like South Carolina, but flat.”
And that’s why Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., figures he may have a shot at the Republican presidential nomination.
Graham spoke to New Hampshire Republican activists Saturday at the party’s “First in the Nation” summit in Nashua. A good showing in Iowa, the nation’s first caucus state, and then New Hampshire, site of the first primary, would put him in good shape to win his home state, the first Southern primary.
At that point, he told the audience, three or four Republicans would look strong, and he’d have a chance.
Graham was both pointed and funny. He ripped Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton as “a third term of Barack Obama.”
Remember, he said, “if you’re looking for something new, don’t look to her. Look at the 35 people running for president on the Reublican side.”
He got serious about terrorism, saying the way to defeat them is “you go over there and you fight them so they don’t come here.”