Lindsey Graham turns ire toward rivals at home amid Iran and DHS shutdown fallout

After weeks of scrutiny for his focus on the Iran war and criticism for visiting Disney World during a partial government shutdown, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is turning his focus closer to home: the campaign staffers of his primary election rivals.

Graham, facing two main GOP challengers in his reelection bid, assembled local media in Greenville, South Carolina, on Thursday to demand his opponents fire aides for months-old social media posts he described as indicative of a “small but growing problem” in the GOP of antisemitism that was undermining President Donald Trump’s war efforts.

But after a nearly 12-minute-long animated appeal for the ouster of his political rivals’ employees, whose names at one point he could not remember, the objective and timing of Graham’s remarks still appeared lost on reporters.

“What was the goal here?” was the first question.

Graham replied that he wanted to show how primary challengers Paul Dans and