From: januarybaybee@gmail.com   
      
    September 25, 2020 at 3:56 p.m. PDT   
      
      
   ‘Help me!’ Lindsey Graham begs Fox News viewers in unusual plea for   
   campaign cash   
      
      
   Lindsey Graham apparently needs money for his Senate reelection campaign. And   
   so the South Carolina Republican has taken his appeal for funds to an unusual   
   venue: cable news.   
      
   Specifically, Fox News. In a pair of interviews on the network on Thursday,   
   Graham pleaded with Fox viewers for campaign cash, in an emotional appeal   
   almost as weepy as Jerry Lewis in one of the later hours of his old charity   
   telethons.   
      
   “I’m getting overwhelmed,” he told prime-time host Sean Hannity. Then,   
   he turned to Hannity’s viewers, adding: “Help me. They’re killing me   
   moneywise. Help me. You did last week. Help me again.”   
      
   A few hours earlier, on the “Fox & Friends” morning program, Graham   
   delivered a similar message. “My opponent [Democrat Jaime Harrison] will   
   raise almost $100 million,” he said. “I’m being killed financially. This   
   money is ’cause they hate    
   my guts,” he said, apparently referring to Democrats.   
      
   Politicians appearing on TV news often sneak in a reference to their campaign   
   websites in an effort to attract supporters and their contributions. But such   
   a direct appeal for donations, especially in a news interview on such a   
   high-profile venue as Fox,    
   is rare.   
      
   Fox has often been accused by critics of favoring Republicans, and President   
   Trump in particular. Frequent appearances on the network can help boost a   
   candidate’s profile and conservative bona fides.   
      
   But it doesn’t regularly feature politicians using their airtime to advance   
   fundraising goals. Graham’s comments assume Fox’s audience is sympathetic   
   to him and supports his reelection.   
      
   As it was, Graham’s reelection campaign wasn’t even the intended topic   
   when he was booked on Fox, according to a network spokesperson. The ostensible   
   reasons for interviewing him were to elicit his comments on a Senate report   
   about former vice    
   president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, and about President Trump’s expected   
   Supreme Court nominee. (Graham has said he favors pushing forward with the   
   nomination only days before the election, despite opposing a vote on President   
   Obama’s nomination of    
   judge Merrick Garland in 2016 under similar circumstances).   
      
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