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County over the weekend. when he took to stage in a rally for the ex president -- >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome biden state senator lindsey graham. >> boo! [crowd chanting] boo! >> welcome to pickens, south carolina. >> boo! >> thank you all for coming. thank you very much. thank you -- >> boo! >> thank you, all, for coming. thank you all for coming. thank you very, very much. thank you. thank you. thanks so much. well -- well, you want to find something and common? >> boo -- >> all right, thank you all.

Graham, who has spent the last six years as a loyal trump footsoldiers. this weekend, graham appeared alongside a trump campaign event in his home state of south carolina. and this was the welcome he got from that trump supporting crown route. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome united states senator lindsey graham. >> boo! [crowd chanting] boo! >> welcome to pickens, south carolina. >> boo -- >> thank you all for coming. thank you very much. thank you. >> every campaign strategist nightmare. joining us now, former republican congressman, carlos curbelo, and politico white house correspond...

Donald trump, right. a lot of his supporters are disillusioned with the biden administration, they look to him as a hero, as somebody who is calling out the wrongs in their eyes. and so that divisiveness has always been a tactic that's worked. i think it's going to continue. he has spoken of this campaign as the final battle, adding this sense of urgency and this sense of really doom for the country if he doesn't win the election. it's working, 50,000 people came out for him in pickens, south carolina, with, you know, so much energy that people stayed overnight just to see him speak. so he's s...

Openly about his own contradictions. i think, though, that governor ducey's response to this is very telling. word to the governor, if you wanted to keep this secret, maybe not tell a republican donor. the donor class is pretty gossipy. that's why we all know about this now. but he doesn't really seem to want to engage in this anymore. through a spokesperson, he said, listen, let's move on as a party. >> didn't deny it. >> didn't deny it. but that's the tight rope that they're walking here. this kind of conspiratorial politics in arizona we saw was a real liability, where republicans suffered ...

President Biden will visit South Carolina this week.