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May 18, 2015, 1:05 AM |The Republican senator from South Carolina says on "CBS This Morning" that he would officially announce whether he'll be running for president on June 1. Graham says he's been more "right than wrong on foreign policy." ||||| Jim Cole / AP ID: 5672497 
  
 WASHINGTON — If Lindsey Graham really runs for president, most expect him to serve as a protest candidate, pushing and provoking the rest of the Republican field on foreign policy. 
  
 There is one place, however, where any move Graham makes right now is affecting the Republican field: South Carolina. Republican contenders have descended on the early primary state to raise money and secure endorsements, but donors, lawmakers, and activists are in a bit of freeze — and at least for now, deferring to Graham’s clout in the state. 
  
 “A lot of folks I’ve talked to in a lot of the campaigns that have come through the state have mentioned the inability to raise money right now in South Carolina,” a political operative in the state told BuzzFeed News, “because so much of the donor class is waiting on Lindsey Graham’s decision.” 
  
 “It makes sense, he’s the senior senator from South Carolina: He ought to have a lot of good donor contacts. Those donors realize at the end of the day they have a voice in the Senate they can’t get crossways with,” the operative said. Activists “can’t do anything either right now, a lot of them.” 
  
 Like Iowa and New Hampshire, the state’s become busy fast, especially for certain candidates: Ted Cruz and Rick Perry have made 10 trips each; Marco Rubio has traveled there five times and has close ties to people in the state. Rand Paul has been there seven times and has relationships with quite a few members of the state’s congressional delegation. But for many South Carolinians, waiting to see what Graham does is as much about saving money as it is about politics. 
  
 “People are deferring to the senior senator, more from a financial standpoint than anything else,” said one former party official there who noted that he’d spoken with a donor who argued that Lindsey is “60 years old, this is his one shot at it.” 
  
 “He makes sense on national security, he could get lightning in a bottle on this Iran deal, and it saves me money now and I can still spend money later,” the official recalled the donor saying. 
  
 One Republican operative in the state said people were less impatient with Graham for causing a delay than they are eager for him to start running. 
  
 “There are a lot of people very eager to hear the answer, among activists, among donors,” the operative said. “Are they waiting to hear the answer so they can make plans? I would think so.” 
  
 According to Graham, people won’t have to wait much longer but he acknowledged in an interview with BuzzFeed News that many people were in a holding pattern waiting to see what he ultimately decides. 
  
 “Supporters are waiting to see what I do and the wait won’t be much longer. I’m 98.6% sure I will run,” Graham said. “I’m the senator and congressman they’ve known for 20 years… There’s a lot of support in South Carolina for the ideas I represent, not just me. But if I run, I run to win. I’m not running to make a point here. 
  
 “If I’m in this race in South Carolina, I will win South Carolina.” 
  
 South Carolina’s influential congressional delegation has been careful to not endorse anyone in the race at this point. One member of the delegation, speaking on background, said that politicians in the state generally wanted give Graham some room to decide, but it would not ultimately influence who they end up endorsing. 
  
 “Lindsey is a very pragmatic guy,” the lawmaker said. “He knows he has to make up his mind soon but he’s also not going to hold it against us if we go with someone else.” 
  
 Graham said that members of the delegation should “do what they think is best, I leave that decision to them.” 
  
 At the state party convention in Columbia last weekend, Graham spoke three times: at the Silver Elephant dinner, where he essentially announced a run; at a breakfast the next morning; and at the convention itself. “To Iowa and New Hampshire, hello,” Graham told the audience at the dinner. “To South Carolina, you have my heart, thank you very much.” He was enthusiastically received at all three events, but many activists are already loyal to other potential candidates who have already formed deep relationships in the state. 
  
 “I know there are a lot of people who have a fondness for Santorum and for Perry and for Huckabee off past years, and they have some deep roots here,” said Don Fort, a Republican activist from Charleston and former vice chair of his county party, who was attending the convention. 
  
 “I would expect [Graham] to have announced here and today, but on the whole I think he’s still waiting on money and numbers to really give him a yes/no, because it’s bound to step on some toes,” Fort said. 
  
 Though it’s a point of frustration currently, the deference to Graham among the state’s political establishment may not last for too long. Just Tuesday, Sen. Ted Cruz announced his South Carolina leadership team, that included state Sen. Lee Bright as a co-chairman. Bright unsuccessfully tried to primary Graham in the 2014 senate race. A senior political operative in the state predicted Graham would ultimately struggle in South Carolina if he chose to run for the White House. 
  
 “The state’s not going to rally behind him, because the Oval Office is 100% different than a single Senate seat,” the operative said. “And the candidates who are deferring to Sen. Graham are deferring only because it’s their best or only South Carolina strategy, at this point. Jeb certainly falls into that category.” 
  
 “Every other candidate is proceeding as if Sen. Graham doesn’t exist; that’s telling.” ||||| Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said on Monday that he will make his presidential ambitions known on June 1 in South Carolina. 
  
 “You’re all invited to come, spend money when you do, and I will tell you what I”m going to do about running for president,” Graham said on “CBS This Morning.” 
  
 Graham all but confirmed that he will jump in the race, saying in the interview, “I’m running because of what you see on television. I’m running because I think the world is falling apart. I’ve done more right than wrong on foreign policy. It’s not the fault of others, or their lack of this or that that makes me want to run. It’s my ability in my own mind to be a good commander in chief and to make Washington work.” 
  
 Graham teased his announcement in an email to supporters on Sunday afternoon. “As an announcement draws near, I need to know you stand with me,” Graham wrote, including a link where supporters could donate money. 
  
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 The South Carolina senator and foreign policy hawk has received support from several top donors, including billionaire Sheldon Adelson. The casino mogul co-chaired a luncheon for Graham’s PAC that immediately followed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s March 3 speech to Congress. At the time, Graham had simply said he was “testing the waters” on 2016. 
  
 Should he declare his candidacy, Graham will enter a crowded Republican field currently lacking a presidential front-runner. But his chances of being competitive are slim. A recent NBC News/Marist poll shows that while the GOP senator is leading the field in the South Carolina primary, when it comes to all state voters, 58% think he shouldn’t even put his hat in the ring. 
  
 Graham earlier this month said he was 98.6% sure he was running. Then, just four days ago, he told South Carolina House Republicans that he was 99.9% sure. ||||| Lindsey Graham is telling donors that June 1 is the likely date for his presidential announcement, according to several sources familiar with the conversations. 
  
 The announcement would likely take place in South Carolina, possibly near his home base of Seneca, according to the sources, which would enable the GOP senator to highlight a compelling personal story not widely known outside his home state. 
  
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 Graham grew up in nearby Central, S.C., in the back of a pool hall run by his parents, who died young. He helped raise his sister while going to college and serving in the Air Force. It’s a hardscrabble story that could help him stand out in a field of candidates with wealthy backgrounds, including Jeb Bush. 
  
 A spokeswoman for Graham said Thursday that she couldn’t confirm any information about a potential announcement. The senator’s team has suggested they were looking at a mid-May time frame. 
  
 Graham’s hawkish views would almost certainly be a central feature of an announcement speech as he weighs a bid premised on his experience on defense and foreign policy. While the three-term senator is a long shot to win the GOP nomination, he could play an important role in driving foreign policy and national security issues to the forefront of the primary debate. 
  
 Graham will be entering a crowded field of Republican presidential contenders that includes three fellow senators who have already formally kicked off their campaigns — Ted Cruz, Rand Paul and Marco Rubio. 
  
 So far, the candidates with whom Graham contrasts — and clashes — with most are Paul and Cruz, the former over foreign policy and the latter over his often-uncompromising conservative positions. 
  
 Graham has said he is “98.6 percent” sure he will run, and during appearances in the Palmetto State over the weekend, he all but announced that he’s in. 
  
 “To our enemies: Get ready, because there’s a new way of doing business coming,” Graham said last Friday at a state GOP Silver Elephant dinner. “To our friends: Get ready for the America that you used to know. To Iowa and New Hampshire: Hello. To South Carolina, you have my heart.” ||||| These crawls are part of an effort to archive pages as they are created and archive the pages that they refer to. That way, as the pages that are referenced are changed or taken from the web, a link to the version that was live when the page was written will be preserved.Then the Internet Archive hopes that references to these archived pages will be put in place of a link that would be otherwise be broken, or a companion link to allow people to see what was originally intended by a page's authors.The goal is to fix all broken links on the web . Crawls of supported "No More 404" sites. |||||

Sounds like Sen. Lindsey Graham is pretty much in for Election 2016, but you'll have to wait until June 1 to find out for sure. The hosts of CBS This Morning noted that the senator, a guest today, has said there's a "99.9% chance" he'll run for president, and Graham said he'll announce June 1 in South Carolina. He was then asked if he's running because he thinks he's bringing foreign policy experience to the table, and he responded: "I'm running because of what you see on television. I'm running because I think the world is falling apart. I've been more right than wrong on foreign policy. It's not the fault of others, or their lack of this or that, that makes me want to run; it's my ability in my own mind to be a good commander in chief and to make Washington work." As for that "99.9%" comment, Graham made it to South Carolina House Republicans last week, the State reported. "And I'm going to run about what I'm going to do, not what I'm against," he told a caucus meeting. The week prior, Graham told BuzzFeed he was "98.6% sure" he would run. And Politico reported earlier this month that Graham was likely to announce a presidential run June 1 from South Carolina, noting that the location "would enable the GOP senator to highlight a compelling personal story not widely known outside his home state." (His parents, who ran a pool hall where he was raised, died young, and he helped bring up his sister while also attending college and serving in the Air Force.) MSNBC notes that Graham emailed supporters yesterday with this line: "As an announcement draws near, I need to know you stand with me," as well as an invitation to donate money.