Lindsey Graham is in a tough race to retain his senate seat. It will be interesting to see what will happen after today.

Back in 2016, Graham went on the record saying, “I want you to use your words against me. If there’s a Republican President in 2016 and a vacancy occurs in the last year of the first term, you can say Lindsey Graham said, ‘let’s let the next president, whoever it might be, make the nomination.’”

Graham and Mitch McConnell managed to quash the nomination of Merick Garland.

But four years later, and with an election only weeks away, Graham, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has decided to reverse himself. He now says he supports filling the seat now, and not wait for the next president. Graham will support Donald Trump “in any effort to move forward regarding the recent vacancy created by the passing of Justice Ginsburg.”

Lindsey Graham indicated on Saturday that he supports filling the Supreme Court seat left vacant by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death — despite previously said he would not vote to confirm a justice to the court during an election year https://t.co/2TAWz8If8E pic.twitter.com/yNX8hHPvB3

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 19, 2020

Now Graham is blaming his change of heart on Democrats.

* Harry Reid changed the rules to allow a simple majority vote for Circuit Court nominees dealing out the minority.

* Chuck Schumer and his friends in the liberal media conspired to destroy the life of Brett Kavanaugh and hold that Supreme Court seat open.

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— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 19, 2020

The latest polling from South Carolina shows Graham in a tie with challenger Jaime Harrison.