"Why I Called Lindsey Graham 'Ambiguously Gay'" [View all]

[DonViejo]

A long-shot candidate for Senate in South Carolina explains to The Daily Beast why he called incumbent Lindsey Graham "ambiguously gay."

During a Thursday press conference, one of the most obscure of Lindsey Graham's six primary challengers decided to troll the two-term Republican senator from South Carolina about his sexuality, calling Graham "ambiguously gay."

"It's about time that South Carolina [says] hey, we're tired of the ambiguously gay senator from South Carolina," said Dave Feliciano, an Iraq war vet who quit his job as a police officer to run for office. The press conference followed an event where the primary candidates signed a pledge promising to support each other if any of them make it as far as the runoff election. One of Feliciano's fellow pledge-signers, businessman Richard Cash, immediately called the statement "inappropriate."

Senator Graham, who opposes same-sex marriage and voted against the Employment Non-Discrimination Act in 2013, has long been the subject of gossip about his sexuality. It's one of the first things to come up when you Google him; an activist website, has an entire page devoted to "Questions About Senator Lindsey Graham's Sexual Orientation"; In 2010, it was reported that gay rights activist Mike Rogers claimed to have "pictures of a man who spent the night" with the Senator.

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