Lindsey Graham bets Al Franken $20 that Trump beats Biden

Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham is putting his money on former President Donald Trump to beat President Biden in 2024.

During an interview on “The Daily Show” Monday night, the South Carolina conservative bet $20 on Trump to win his third run for the presidency.

“I look at the policies of Trump, and I like the policies of Trump,” he told guest host and former Senate colleague Al Franken (D-Minn.).

“And at the end of the day, he’s got to prove to people, not me, that he’s able to lead us again, and that will be a challenge for him.”

Graham, 67, added, “And that’ll be a challenge for Biden, to say, ‘Give me four more years’ after the last four. We’ll see what happens.”

Franken, who resigned from the Senate in 2017 over sexual misconduct allegations, disagreed.

“I think Biden wins that,” the 71-year-old replied, prompting Graham to wager $20 against the outcome.

The former colleagues shook hands on the bet.

Graham also weighed in on the looming indictment of the former president — which Trump said over the weekend he expected Tuesday — after the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office resurrected a case against the 76-year-old Trump for allegedly making hush-money payments to porn star Stormy Daniels during his 2016 campaign.

“Most people on our side think it’s a never-ending effort to take a wrecking ball” to Trump, Graham said. “So yeah, I think it’ll help him.”

District Attorney Alvin Bragg will reportedly charge the 45th president with falsifying business records and conspiring to break campaign finance laws for having paid former Trump attorney Michael Cohen $130,000 in 2016 to buy Daniels’ silence.

The former charge is usually classified as a misdemeanor, but the addition of the latter would upgrade the former president’s actions to a federal crime.

Bragg has been called out before for his office’s soft-on-crime policies, which have downgraded more than half of all felonies to misdemeanors.

Graham said Tuesday morning on “Fox and Friends” that the Bragg indictment was “a bunch of BS” and was going to “blow up our country.”

“You had the prosecutor before Bragg, Mr. [Cy] Vance, look at the case and pass on it,” he said. “You had the US attorney in New York say, ‘I’m not going to do it federally.’”

Trump laid into Bragg, Daniels, and the rest of his critics on Tuesday, claiming he was the victim of a “Stormy ‘Horse Face’ Daniels extortion plot” and of a “horrible radical left Democrat” series of investigations.

“Whether it’s the Mar-a-Lago raid, the Unselect Committee hoax, or the perfect Georgia phone call — it was absolutely perfect — or the Stormy ‘horse face’ Daniels extortion plot, they are all sick, and it’s fake news,” Trump said on Truth Social, his own social media platform.

Franken was similarly unapologetic when accused by women of sexual misconduct, including having forcibly kissed aides and groped both a soldier and former Playboy model on a USO tour in 2006.

“I am leaving while a man [who] bragged on tape about his history of sexual assault sits in the Oval Office,” he said when leaving office in 2017, referencing Trump’s infamous “Access Hollywood” tape.

“Some of the allegations against me are not true. Others I remember very differently,” Franken added, saying he was “a champion of women.”

Before entering public office, Franken was best known as one of the original sketch writers for “Saturday Night Live.”

The ex-comedian stepped in to host the Comedy Central show this week as producers have yet to replace former host Trevor Noah.

When asked last year about an eventual return to the Senate, Franken called the suggestion “tempting.”

“I don’t know. I certainly loved my time in the Senate,” Franken told former Washington Post columnist Jonathan Capehart. “I loved the job. I got a lot done. I was able to accomplish things I couldn’t accomplish anywhere else, I don’t think. So yeah, it would be tempting to try to do that again.”

Graham is known for his colorful, off-the-cuff comments to the press, which have expressed conflicting opinions through the years about Trump.

He referred to Trump’s 2016 candidacy as a “wrecking ball,” but went on to endorse the embattled president’s 2020 campaign.

Hours after the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, Graham seemingly rejected Trump, only to backtrack later and eventually endorse his 2024 run.

“Trump and I, we had a hell of a journey,” Graham said on Jan. 7 before he and more than 90 other senators voted to certify the 2020 election. “I hate it being this way. Oh my God, I hate it … but today all I can say is count me out. Enough is enough. I tried to be helpful.”