Republican presidential candidate and South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Friday that Donald Trump's proposals to defeat ISIS are "in many ways worse" than President Obama's.
"Here's the problem," Graham said. "The war is very complicated, there has to be an understanding of the underlying nature of this war, and my view of what Mr. Trump is saying about how to fight the war is really in many ways worse than what Obama is proposing, so experience does matter."
Graham, who polls often show as having less than one percent support, said that "the idea of Donald Trump," which he said was an image of "a no-nonsense guy," was "alluring to people."
"I would just say, he's been a very effective candidate, selling himself, marketing this image of a strongman at home and abroad," Graham said on The Michael Medved Show. "And here I am at one percent, and I'm just telling you, after 36 trips to the region, after dedicating my adult life to this issue, that I have a plan to destroy ISIL that is fundamentally different than Obama and Donald Trump, that what Mr. Trump is proposing is just inconsistent. He goes from one extreme to the other."
"I think people are voting for the image of a strongman," Graham said. "A man who's been successful in business, who's a no-nonsense guy, who's gonna take the fight to the enemy. The idea of Donald Trump is alluring to people. Washington is really broken. It's very dysfunctional. This man is coming out of the private sector, he's very tough-minded, good negotiator, and not gonna give any quarter to the enemy. I think the image of a Donald Trump is what people are voting for."