"You know you're in trouble on the campaign when you have to put the candidate in the spin room just being himself," he pointed out. "That is a panic moment."
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"Last night, VP Harris disqualified Trump," he said. "He was exposed as a fool, a know nothing who can’t distinguish between fantasy and reality. He astonishingly said he would not have honored Article 5 of NATO, the linchpin to post-WW2 peace and prosperity for Western Alliance. He showed he lives in this make-believe world where Americans overwhelmingly opposed Roe v Wade. He was humiliated, dominated, left sputtering 'Get off my lawn!'"
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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), speaking to a handful of reporters in the post-debate spin room, recalled venting at the television the answer Trump failed to deliver when Vice President Kamala Harris assailed the former president.
“She said, ‘We inherited a mess,’” Graham said. “I was yelling and screaming, ‘No you didn’t — you inherited low gas prices, a secure border, a vaccine for Covid, you inherited the biggest Mideast change of my lifetime, the Abraham Accords, and now everything is to shit.’”
Trump offered no such answer. And Graham made no effort to hide his disappointment.
He was hardly the only Republican alarmed by the former president’s bait-taking and persistent inability to turn the conversation back to issues like inflation and President Joe Biden. It’s just that Graham, as is his wont, says in public what many in his party will only murmur in private.
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House Republicans are privately expressing frustration about former President Trump’s performance in his debate against Vice President Kamala Harris on Tuesday.
Several House GOP lawmakers granted anonymity to speak freely acknowledged Trump "missed" opportunities to effectively attack Harris and tout his own record. A few said it was the prevailing sentiment within the House Republican Conference that Harris successfully baited him on multiple occasions — though most argued it would ultimately have little impact on Election Day.
"It was terrible. I think you’re seeing that comment from everybody," one senior House Republican told Fox News Digital.
"The thing that’s terrible is, he had so many opportunities to come after her and he didn’t. He got bogged down on the hook she was dragging through the water."
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