Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is out of step with his party on a lot of issues — on immigration, for example, "I'm called Lindsey Grahmnesty," he told Seth Meyers on Tuesday's Late Night. If elected president, Graham said, he will fix America's immigration system "and I will make my party step up to the plate." When Meyers asked about Graham's belief in human-influenced climate change, the senator laid on the charm and trotted out the heterodoxy.
"I made a D in science — do you know why I made a D?" Graham asked Meyers. "My teacher said she's never given an F." He went on to very gently, quite succinctly explain why he disagrees on the climate issue with most of the party whose presidential nomination he is seeking:
I know I'm not a scientist, but here's the problem I've got with some people in my party: When you ask the scientists what's going on, why don't you believe them? If I went to 10 doctors and nine said, "Hey, you're gonna die," and one says "You're fine," why would I believe the one guy? So there you go. [Graham, on Late Night]
So there you go. You can also watch Graham criticize Donald Trump and explain how his party is digging a hole for itself with Latino voters in the video below. Peter Weber
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