‘Oh My Goodness!’ Fox Anchor Taken Aback After Trey Gowdy Bizarrely Disses Lindsey Graham

Fox News host and former South Carolina Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC) took a bizarre dig at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) that left his colleague Harris Faulkner scratching her head.

Gowdy appeared on The Faulkner Focus Thursday to talk about President Joe Biden’s upcoming State of the Union address when he made an offbeat comment about Graham’s spelling skills.

“All right, set it up. It’s the closing argument for President Biden,” Faulkner said. Gowdy explained:

He’s got two problems: policy issues, and he’s got performance issues. So, on policy, it doesn’t matter if he sounds like Cicero tonight, which he won’t by the way, but if he sounded like Cicero, it doesn’t matter to young people who disagree with him on the Middle East, or other voters, other Democrats, who disagree with him on other issues.

Now, even if you agree with him on policies, he’s got some performance issues. I mean, look, Democrats can say what they want, but success tonight is him just not screwing up reading the teleprompter. I guarantee you, if you poll House Democrats right now, they would say, “Let’s go back to the days where we submitted the State of the Union in writing.” Don’t even have it live, because they’re going to be as nervous, Harris, as Lindsey Graham in a spelling bee while listening to him tonight.

“Awww,” Faulkner responded to the gibe. “Does Lindsey know you feel that way about him?”

“I’ve seen his transcripts,” Gowdy answered, causing Faulkner to exclaim, “Oh, my goodness!”

“It’s not just me that feels that way,” Gowdy said.

When asked on CNN, “How big a risk is it if he were to stumble tonight?” Principal Deputy White House Press Secretary Olivia Dalton answered, “There’s always in these moments, a desire to focus on the distractions du jour. The president is focused on one thing, and that’s communicating clearly his vision for the country to the American people. He’ll have one of the largest audiences tonight that he will all year.”

Watch the clip above via Fox News.

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