Senator Lindsey Graham predicted on Sunday that GOP votes to condemn former President Trump in his Senate impeachment lawsuit will give his daughter-in-law Lara Trump a head start in the North Carolina Senate race.
“The biggest winner of this whole impeachment trial is Lara Trump,” Graham of South Carolina said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“My dear friend Richard Burr, who I like and have been friends with for a long time, has just made Lara Trump the sure nominee for the North Carolina Senate seat to replace him when she runs, and I will certainly be behind her. because it represents the future of the Republican Party, ”he said.
Burr, who has said he will not pursue reelection in 2022, was one of seven Republican senators who voted with Democrats to condemn Trump of stirring up his supporters Jan. 6 to storm the Capitol.
But the votes of 57-43 fell short because it takes 67 senators to convict.
“The evidence is compelling that President Trump has been guilty of instigating an uprising against an equal branch of the government and that the charge is rising to the level of high crimes and felonies,” Burr said in the statement on Saturday. “That’s why I voted to condemn.”
Lara Trump, the wife of former President Eric Trump’s son, is reportedly thinking about competing in the North Carolina race in 2022.
She was born in Wilmington, NC, and graduated from North Carolina State University.
Trump, 38, has been a surrogate for her father-in-law’s presidential campaigns in 2016 and 2020.
A December poll of the 2022 North Carolina race shows that Lara Trump would be an immediate front runner in the Republican primaries.
She led former Pat McCrory administration with 24 to 23 percent among Republicans and Republican voters, according to the BUSR / UNLV Lee Business School poll – but 39 percent were undecided.