Lindsey Graham Likes Biden, Just Not as President

Sen. Lindsey Graham said Tuesday he likes former Vice President Joe Biden "a lot" personally, but does not think he would be a good president.

"Thanks to Joe Biden, we left Iraq," the South Carolina Republican told Fox News' "America's Newsroom." "ISIS came about. He was the foreign adviser to the president there. He didn't want to take a shot at [Osama] bin Laden."

The bottom line, Graham added, isn't about whether he likes Biden as a person, but for people who liked President Barack Obama's years, "it would actually be worse" under Biden.

"The bottom line here is this: President [Donald] Trump has got a lot he can say that the other side can't refute," Graham said.

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party "can't accept" the results of the two-year-long Russia investigation, so it impeached Trump "over a phone call," and the American people are tired, said Graham.

"They impeached him in 78 days," said Graham. "What is this about? He suspended aid for a short period of time that Ukraine received ahead of schedule to leverage an investigation that never occurred … people are tired of this never-ending effort to destroy Trump."

And as a result, Democrats are "trying to destroy him as a person, his family, drive him from office because they can't compete with the results of his presidency. That's what this is all about," Graham added.

Trump is in a reelection play he can't lose, Graham said.

"If [Mike] Bloomberg is the nominee, you lose the Bernie [Sanders] people," said Graham. "Biden will win South Carolina, [giving] three different winners in the first three states. Super Tuesday, Bloomberg will make a real dent and presence."

And if Democrats go to their convention and don't find a nominee in the first round of voting, "the Democratic Party as we know it will completely implode," said Graham. "They'll go back to super delegates that the Bernie people wouldn't be happy about."

He added that Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar "doesn't have the juice" to win the nomination.

"Socialism versus liberalism; Amy is a nice person but at the end of the day she won't be able to compete with Bloomberg," said Graham. "He has too much money."

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