What is Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) thinking, exactly, in proposing a bill to ban abortions across the U.S. after 15 weeks? Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) has already pushed back on CNN while other Republican senators, up for re-election this year have been “scrubbing” their websites of hardline rhetoric on the issue as the Democrats look healthier in the midterms over the Supreme Court’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Center decision overturning Roe v. Wade. 

In his email newsletter The Point! CNN’s Chris Cillizza posits that Graham is giving his fellow Republicans up for re-election this year “talking points” to counter the growing popularity of the other party in a midterm they were supposed to use. Cillizza does have, eh, a point, in that those with the scrubbed social media rhetoric can counter by claiming a different position. 

Perhaps Graham is simply counting on the sustained numbers of MAGA supporters who will pull the voting booth lever for the Republican candidate, regardless of stated platform. 

In any event, Politico says Graham’s bombshell Tuesday diverted attention from the unexpectedly bad inflation news that forced the Biden White House to downplay its day of celebration for the partisan Inflation Reduction Act.

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