Republican presidential candidate Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said on Monday that he’s surprised about trailing candidate Ben Carson in the polls who, Graham says, “tried to kill someone.”

“On our side, you’ve got the No. 2 guy tried to kill someone at 14 and the No. 1 guy is high energy and crazy as hell,” Graham said. “How am I losing to these people? Just look at Donald Trump’s foreign policy. What is it? What’s he going to do about ISIL? What is it? What is it? What is his game plan to destroy ISIL? Does anybody know?”

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