Sen. Lindsey Graham Lindsey Olin GrahamSenate GOP aims to confirm Trump court pick by Oct. 29: report The Hill's Campaign Report: GOP set to ask SCOTUS to limit mail-in voting Senate GOP sees early Supreme Court vote as political booster shot MORE (R-S.C.) on Wednesday said his own presidential campaign fell victim to hacking as he called for a tougher stance against Moscow.



"I do believe that the Russians hacked into the [Democratic National Committee]; I do believe they hacked into [Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham ClintonDemocratic groups using Bloomberg money to launch M in Spanish language ads in Florida The Hill's Campaign Report: Presidential polls tighten weeks out from Election Day More than 50 Latino faith leaders endorse Biden MORE campaign chairman John] Podesta's email account. They hacked into my campaign account. I do believe that all the information released publicly hurt Clinton, didn't hurt [Donald] Trump," he said in interview with CNN.

When asked to elaborate on the Russian hacking of his own campaign, Graham said that the FBI informed him of the hack in August.

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"Well our campaign vendor that we used was hacked. We were told by the FBI in August that we were hacked in June," he said. "[Russia is] trying to destabilize democracy all over the world, not just here."

Graham's hacked emails appeared on a website called DCLeaks in August.

Maintaining that the hacking did not ultimately sway the outcome of the election, Graham said, "I think Hillary Clinton lost because she wasn't an agent of change and she tried to disqualify Trump and she wasn't able to do it."

The lawmaker also said that Russian hacking is "bigger" than the 2016 election and argued that Russia is "trying to get us to fight among ourselves."

"What we should do is not turn on each other but work as one people and push back against Russia," Graham said.