# Lindsey Graham — "there will never be another Republican president elected again" > [!quote] "If Republicans don't challenge and change the U.S. election system, there will never be another Republican president elected again." > — Lindsey Graham, Fox News, November 8, 2020 ## Context Days after the 2020 election was called for Joe Biden, Graham went on Fox News to urge [[Donald Trump]] not to concede, arguing that unless Republicans contested the results and rewrote election rules, the party was structurally doomed. The claim rested on the premise that Democrats had cheated and would grow bolder if unchallenged. The same period saw Graham telephone Georgia Secretary of State [[Brad Raffensperger]] about mail-in ballots — a call Raffensperger took as a suggestion to discard legal votes. ## Why This Matters The line is a keystone of the [[Stop the Steal]] narrative articulated by an institutionalist rather than a fringe figure: it reframes "election integrity" as an explicit partisan-survival project. It also connects Graham's [[SC-Sen-2026]] seat and his posthumous conscription into the SAVE Act push — the same voter-eligibility agenda he here rationalized in 2020. See [[Lindsey Graham]]. ## See Also - [[Lindsey Graham]] - [[Lindsey Graham - race-baiting xenophobic religious bigot]] - [[Lindsey Graham - we will get destroyed and we will deserve it]] - [[Stop the Steal]] - [[Brad Raffensperger]]