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Lindsey Graham says he has “never” communicated via email.
“You can have every email I’ve ever sent — I’ve never sent one,” he claimed on Meet the Press earlier this morning, when host Chuck Todd asked him whether he had a private email account.
In the wake of the furor over Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server during her time as secretary of state, the South Carolina Republican’s admission raises some interesting questions: In this day and age, could someone actually occupy the presidency without using email? Does an unwillingness to use what has become a standard form of communication disqualify a presidential hopeful in the eyes of voters? Should it?
It would be tempting to say that Graham is about to find out, but his nascent presidential bid appears likely to be sunk for another, simpler reason: Republican voters just don’t like him.
As Todd revealed later in the show, the latest NBC/WSJ poll asked potential GOP primary voters whether they could see themselves voting for each GOP presidential hopeful. Only 20 percent of respondents said they could see themselves supporting Graham, versus 51 percent who said they couldn’t. That hefty -31 point gap was the second worst of all the candidates in the poll, eclipsed only by Donald Trump’s 23/74, -51 point split.