{"id":417,"date":"2015-06-01T14:47:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T14:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2015\/06\/01\/dnc-statement-on-lindsey-grahams-2016-announcement\/"},"modified":"2024-05-23T20:22:39","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T20:22:39","slug":"dnc-statement-on-lindsey-grahams-2016-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-lindsey-grahams-2016-announcement\/","title":{"rendered":"DNC Statement on Lindsey Graham\u2019s 2016 Announcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &ndash; With Lindsey Graham&rsquo;s announcement that he is running for president, DNC National Press Secretary Holly Shulman released the following statement:<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&ldquo;The most telling piece of information from Lindsey Graham&rsquo;s announcement is just how worried Republicans are about their current crop of disastrous presidential candidates. Instead of scaring people out or the race, the current field is scaring people in.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n&ldquo;Unfortunately for the Republican Party, Graham&rsquo;s policies are most reminiscent of another GOP leader, George W. Bush. Graham has long been a champion of Bush&rsquo;s failed economic policies, his disastrous foreign policy and his divisive social agenda. As president, he would embrace them again.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It is no surprise that Lindsey Graham, as everyone in the field is trying to claim, thinks he offers something unique. But when it comes down to it, he is the same as the rest of the GOP presidential field whose policies would take America backwards.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington, DC &ndash; With Lindsey Graham&rsquo;s announcement that he is running for president, DNC National Press Secretary Holly Shulman released the following statement: &nbsp; &ldquo;The most telling piece of information from Lindsey Graham&rsquo;s announcement is just how worried Republicans are about their current crop of disastrous presidential candidates. Instead of scaring people out or the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DNC Statement on Lindsey Graham\u2019s 2016 Announcement - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-lindsey-grahams-2016-announcement\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-06-01T14:47:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-05-23T20:22:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Claire DePree\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-lindsey-grahams-2016-announcement\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/dnc-statement-on-lindsey-grahams-2016-announcement\/\",\"name\":\"DNC Statement on Lindsey Graham\u2019s 2016 Announcement - 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