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Lindsey Graham Has Finally Admitted He's Not Going to Be President

The hawkish Republican senator had emerged as one of Donald Trump's harshest critics, but he failed to attract much attention.

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Lindsey Graham, the doe-eyed long-shot GOP candidate from South Carolina, has finally decided to accept defeat and suspend his campaign for president.

Graham was polling around half a percent, but he nevertheless stuck it out way longer than Scott Walker or Rick Perry or that one guy who looked like a Small Soldiers character come to life. In a video announcing his decision released on YouTube Monday morning, Graham said that, although he and his staff have "run a campaign that has made a real difference," he has "concluded this is not my time."

Early on, Graham stood out for his extremely hawkish views—he was eager to blow people up with drones—but as Donald Trump ascended in the polls and improbably remained at the top, Graham became one of the real estate mogul's harshest Republican critics. Earlier this month, the South Carolina senator called Trump, "a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot… He doesn't represent my party. He doesn't represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for… He's the ISIL man of the year."