Trey Gowdy: Lindsey Graham ‘Is Like Strom Thurmond, He Was an Institution, that Is Who He Replaced’

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GOWDY: "He's like Strom Thurmond. He was an institution. I mean, that is who he replaced. There is no one — look, everyone knows our junior senator, now senior senator is like a brother to me, but Lindsey was where everyone would go to if they needed a project done. Whether it's Charleston, whether it's the Upstate, his staff was absolutely incredible, absolutely — and many of them had been with him from day one. So he was like Strom jr., in that he was just an institution. And every six years somebody would run against him, and this most recent time he just lapped the field with whoever it was that ran. He had so much self-awareness. I mean, he realized he had detractors, he realized that, but he let it roll off him. You could criticize him on Wednesday and he would be helping you get your Social Security on Friday. They don’t make politicians like Lindsey anymore. I think it was his background. It wasn’t a silver spoon, it was a plastic fork that that guy was born with in his mouth, and I think he just never forgot he came from central South Carolina."