Senator during this year’s presidential election Lindsey Grahama South Carolina Republicancriticized former GOP Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney On Friday, he stated that he was “selling out conservatism” by campaigning with the Vice President Kamala HarrisDemocratic presidential candidate.

This election cycle, Cheney is on the campaign trail to support the vice president in his effort to win over GOP voters for the Democratic nomination. Cheney, who supports Harris, has long been a vocal critic of the former President. Donald TrumpGOP presidential candidate.

Trump ally Graham told the host in an interview with Fox News on Friday: Sean Hannity He said the former congresswoman was “selling out conservatism” while campaigning for Harris.

“As for Liz Cheney, she’s selling out conservatism to stay on the agenda… She’s campaigning with Kamala Harris… So Liz Cheney, don’t listen to her, she’s irrelevant in terms of conservatism, she doesn’t have a say anymore,” the senator said. “We’re going to get through all this nonsense and I’m not going to listen to anything she has to say – Liz Cheney – we’re not trash as Trump supporters… This is the election of a lifetime. Liz Cheney is campaigning Democrats To take back the house… Don’t listen to a word he says.”

Graham’s “garbage” remark apparently refers to a comment by the President Joe Biden In an interview with Voto Latino on Tuesday, he was heard saying: “The only garbage floating out there is his supporters – his – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American.”

Biden’s remarks came in response to comedian Tony Hinchliffe, who said Puerto Rico was a “floating island of garbage” at a Trump rally at Madison Square Garden in New York City last Sunday. white house said news week on tuesday He said Biden was talking about the rhetoric at Trump’s rally, not those who voted for the former president. Officials also shared a transcript of Biden’s call that included an apostrophe for “supporter’s.”

But the transcript Replaced by White House press officialsAccording to an Associated Press report on Friday.

news week Reached Cheney and Graham via email for comment.

Graham’s remarks come after Trump recently sparked controversy by targeting Cheney.

At an event in Glendale, Arizona, on October 31, Trump was asked the following question by a former contact: Fox News homeowner tucker carlson On his thoughts on CheneyThe GOP presidential candidate, an outspoken critic of Trump, responded: “He’s a radical war hawk. Let’s put him next to the rifle and shoot him with a nine barrel. OK, let’s see what he thinks about it. You know, when guns are pointed in his face .”

He also suggested that if it were up to Cheney, the United States would be involved in conflicts in “50 different countries.”

Trump then turned the conversation to Washington D.C. and politicians in general, adding: “You know those who sit in a nice building in Washington and say ‘oh wow, let’s send 10,000 troops here’ are all war hawks.” mouth of the enemy.”

Cheney has previously written about X excitement, In response to Trump’s comments“This is how dictators destroy free nations. They threaten with death those who speak against them. We cannot entrust our country and our freedom to a narrow-minded, vindictive, cruel, unstable man who wants to be oppressor. #Womenwillnotbesilenced #VoteKamala.”

Trump has since said in a post on Truth Social on Friday afternoon that Cheney said he “didn’t have the ‘courage’ to fight him.”

“All I say about Liz Cheney is that she is a War Hawk and a fool at that, but she doesn’t have the ‘guts’ to fight herself,” the former president wrote. “It’s easy for him to sit far away from where the death scenes are taking place and talk, but give him a gun and let him fight and say, ‘No thanks!’ ” he will say.

Karoline Leavitt, the Trump campaign’s national press secretary, previously said: news week “Trump is 100 percent right that warmongers like Liz Cheney are too quick to start wars and send other Americans to fight rather than go to war themselves. This is a continuation of the latest fake media outrage days before the war,” an emailed statement said. election in a blatant attempt to interfere on behalf of Kamala Harris“