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Graham Campaign Press Release - ICYMI: Globe Gazette (IA): "Graham: 'I'm Best Prepared To Be Commander In Chief'"

September 19, 2015

Alexandria, VA - Senator Lindsey Graham is campaigning in Iowa this weekend after his'breakout performance' in the CNN Reagan Library Debate on Wednesday. Senator Graham continues to make the case that he's ready to lead amidst the threats that face our nation and that there's no one more qualified to be Commander-in-Chief on day one.

Graham: 'I'm best prepared to be commander in chief'

By Rod Boshart

September 18, 2015

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Graham flashed his razor-sharp wit at times during a 45-minute meeting with Iowans Supporting Israel and the Greater Des Moines Jewish Federation Roundtable, but it was his tough views as the most hawkish Republican in the 2016 presidential race that enthralled the audience.

"If I get to be your president and the commander in chief of those who are serving in uniform, we're going on offense and we're going to win a war we can't afford to lose," said Graham, who also pledged to forge an alliance between the United States and Israel that is "unbreakable and unshakable."

The 12-year veteran of the U.S. Senate said he offers Iowa GOP caucus-goers credentials that should appeal to pro-life and social conservatives, but he also would ease regulations that burden small businesses, bring problem-solving skills to the White House and "above all else, I'm best prepared to be commander in chief."

Graham, who retired from the Air Force in June after 33 years, lambasted President Barack Obama's foreign policy, calling him a weak president who has created a mess in the Middle East with a bad nuclear weapons deal with Iran and poor decisions in Iraq and Syria that have destabilized the region and empowered Islamic radicals intent on destroying Israel and America.

Graham said he is the only candidate in the 2016 field who has a plan for defeating ISIS and restoring stability in the Middle East region by beefing up U.S. troops in Iraq and building a regional coalition of nations to destroy a base of extremists' operation from which another 9/11 style attack could be launched against America. He also would ramp up defense spending to rebuild the U.S. military.

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If elected president, Graham said he would undo the Iranian nuclear deal — which he called a "marriage from hell" of Islamic extremism and weapons of mass destruction — negotiated by the Obama administration "before it hardens into concrete" and forge an international coalition to kill the Jihadists before they attack this country.

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Graham said Obama has "made one mistake after the other" using a weak foreign policy that leads from behind and "If you want change from the current foreign policy, picking his vice president (Joe Biden) or picking his secretary of state (Hillary Clinton) is not going to get it to you."

Graham said breakout debate performance this week has buoyed his campaign...because Americans "like a fighter." Now, he said, he has to mount a ground game in early states like Iowa, New Hampshire and South Carolina that can move him up in a crowded GOP field.

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Lindsey Graham, Graham Campaign Press Release - ICYMI: Globe Gazette (IA): "Graham: 'I'm Best Prepared To Be Commander In Chief'" Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/node/312129

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