Sen. Lindsey Graham (S-S.C.) does not recognize Joe Biden as the person he knew during the president’s time in the Senate.
During an interview with the Washington Examiner, Graham was asked how different Biden is from the senator he once worked with.
“The Joe Biden that we know that would be a deal-maker, that would find a way forward on an infrastructure bill, is AWOL or doesn’t exist. I don’t know what’s happened to the Biden administration,” Graham said.
Graham has not spoken to Biden since he was elected, “He called me up before the election while he was president-elect. Mitch McConnell hasn’t talked to him.”
He called Biden’s border policies “tragic” and “dangerous.” Graham argued the agenda Democrats are pushing is the most “radical” in the history of American politics.
Watch his interview below:
“The idea of the Equality Act would require basically every girls sports program would have to allow biological males to play if they identify themselves as a female, it would destroy girls athletics,” the senator said.
Graham explained, “Joe Biden no longer exists as we know it. If he does exist he needs to reemerge and reassert.”
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told Fox News on Wednesday Biden “is not interested in doing anything on a bipartisan basis or in the political center,” as IJR reported.
McConnell argued, “There’s been no efforts whatsoever by the president or the administration to do anything in the political center. It’s been trying to jam through everything on the hard left. You saw that on the $1.9 trillion COVID package.”
When talking about the last time he spoke to Biden, McConnell said he does not believe he has “spoken with him since he was sworn in.”
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki seemed to disagree with McConnell’s claim during her press briefing on Wednesday.
“[Biden] has a long friendship with leader McConnell. He has spoken with him, he speaks with him regularly… I expect that will continue,” Psaki said.