Ex-GOP operative predicts stunning November defeat for 'deeply flawed' MAGA senator

A MAGA senator faces a competitive midterm race, according to a former GOP operative who expects him to lose.

In a recent episode of The Warning podcast, Steve Schmidt predicted that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) will lose his seat to Annie Andrews, who was Schmidt's guest on the show.

"You're gonna win this race," Schmidt told Andrews. "This is a winnable race with a deeply flawed candidate in South Carolina who's never really been rooted to the state in the way that historically some South Carolina politicians have managed to do."

Schmidt credited Graham with having "political success in the way sometimes that a lucky surfer is able to get up on top of a wave, even when they don't necessarily deserve it," but he thinks that South Carolinians will refuse to re-elect him in the midterms, which are a few months away, because of his constant support for Trump.

"He's a sucker fish that lives off the detritus of the predator that swims around it," Schmidt said. "He attached himself to a vile, vicious shark named Trump, and now he's a remora on that vile creature, and that explains Lindsey Graham. He lives to have a piece of the action, but he has no attachment to the concept of service."

Adding that Graham is a "bottom feeder," Schmidt encouraged Andrews, telling her, "his number is due, and I think you're running a great campaign."

Andrews said that her campaign's latest poll showed her down "just three points" against Graham, giving her "a real shot to defeat him in November" and "a path to victory." Schmidt vouched for her polling numbers as "not being BS."