GREENVILLE — Senior U.S. Sen. and Donald Trump ally Lindsey Graham has vowed strongly that Republicans will win control of the Senate in this election, but said he was “nervous” about the former president’s prospects.

After meeting with local faith leaders Nov. 1 in a closed-door roundtable, four days before the election, Graham appeared on the fence about what Tuesday’s outcome might be, assuring voters that the Republican Senate would “insurance” against democratic policies if vice president. Kamala Harris was going to win.

“I feel good, but I’m nervous,” said the Seneca Republican. “I remember feeling good in 2022 about the red wave. It didn’t happen.”

Surrounding the election is the issue of accepting the result.

Regardless of the results, Graham rejected any suggestion that the federal government intervene in the election, saying instead that states should retain control.

“If you feel you’ve been cheated in an election, you go to court and make your case in every state,” said Graham, who himself became part of an election investigation in Georgia after he was accused of asking the secretary of state Georgia to cast legally expressed votes from the 2020 election.

Throughout his campaign, Trump and some of his allies did he repeatedly refused to say that they will accept the election results. Instead, doubts have already begun to sow the process before Election Day.

After Graham cast his vote on Oct. 31, he said it was not his job as a senator to overturn a state’s results and that the Constitution did not intend a “a handful of people in Washington” to overturn the elections.

Graham and the former president have had an on-again, off-again relationship since Trump’s first term. Throughout the 2016 campaign, Graham ran against Trump and widely expressed his disdain for him. But over time, he grew closer to the president on politics and golf.

In April, the two had a falling out after Graham criticized Trump refusing to support a national abortion ban. Trump has said he wants to leave the issue to the states, and he would veto any federal ban.