Graham: We Must ‘Reject’ Trump’s Way of Thinking About Illegals

BASH: “Joining me now from New Hampshire is fellow Republican presidential candidate and South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. Senator, thanks for joining me this morning. I want to start off with the fact that, look, a lot of people in your party are trying to laugh off Donald Trump. But when he gets those kinds of crowds, you have to take him seriously, don't you?”

GRAHAM: “Well, I'm very worried about where we're headed as a party. I don't think this is the way to get the Latino vote. At the end of the day, this is a defining moment for the Republican Party. There's a lot of frustration with broken borders. I get that. I have been trying to fix the border for 10 years. I would double the Border Patrol, triple the number of drones. All the hijackers who attacked - attacked us on 9/11 were visa overstays. So it's more than just the border. You have got to control your visa program. But, as to Donald Trump, he has said, openly, repeatedly, that he believes that most illegal immigrants are drug dealers and rapists, and there may be a few among them that are decent people. After 10 years of working on illegal immigration, I have come to conclude that most illegal immigrants are decent, hardworking people, and some are criminals. This is a defining moment for the Republican Party. We need to reject this. To all the candidates who think that Donald Trump is telling the truth, I think you have lost your way. As to the Republican Party, if we do not reject this way of thinking clearly, without any ambiguity, we will have lost our way. We will have lost the moral authority, in my view, to govern this great nation. And I hope we will reject this kind of thinking.”