Sen. Lindsey Graham Graham said he was confident that President Donald Trump would soften his tone after the midterms. | AP Photo/John Minchillo Elections Graham: ‘We’ve got to address the suburban women problem’

Sen. Lindsey Graham on Tuesday called on his fellow Republicans to address weaknesses with suburban female voters.

“We’ve got to address the suburban women problem, because it’s real,” the South Carolina Republican said on Fox News, after the network projected that Democrats would take the House.


Appearing on CBS minutes earlier, Graham lamented that his party was doing “fairly poorly with suburban women in some of these House districts.“

Graham‘s criticism came even as he heaped praise on President Donald Trump for helping Republicans keep the Senate. “Without him I don’t we would have had the night we’ve had,” he said.

Graham, who harshly criticized Trump during the 2016 campaign, said he was confident that Trump would soften his tone after the midterms — though Trump did the opposite in the run-up to Election Day, stoking fears about a migrant caravan 1,000 miles away from the southern border.

“You need to learn from every election,” Graham told Fox. “I think the president has already started the discussion about a better tone.“