Top Republican Senators on Midterms: ‘Definitely Not a Republican Wave’

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday lamented Republicans’ inability to pick up early wins during the midterm elections on Nov. 8.
“Definitely not a Republican wave, that is for darn sure,” Graham told NBC, adding,  “I think we’re going to be at 51, 52 when it’s all said and done in the Senate.”
Referring to Republican Don Bolduc, a New Hampshire Senate candidate who lost to Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Graham said that “when you run that far behind your governor candidate [Chris Sununu], you probably made a mistake.”
Graham noted that if the GOP takes the House, there is good that comes from “a divided government” because lawmakers will have to work together….}

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