Sen. Lindsey Graham (RS.C.) was booed by the audience during former President Trump’s victory speech in South Carolina on Saturday night.
The senator, a longtime ally of President Trump, received a hostile reception after the president introduced him to the stage following his easy victory over rival Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary.
In introducing the senator, Trump said he would call Graham “when there’s a problem on the left.”
President Trump joked, “He doesn’t appear on TV much.” “He happened to be a little to the left of some of the people on this stage, but he always says that if he has a problem on the left side, he calls Lindsey Graham and he solves the problem. I did.”
Graham then took the microphone, at which point he was loudly booed during his brief remarks.
“This is the person most qualified to be president of the United States,” Graham said. “And it’s no exaggeration to say that South Carolina produced the greatest political reversal in American history.”
Following his victory in South Carolina, Trump has defeated Haley for the third time in a row.
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