Lindsey Graham: ‘How am I losing to these people?’

Lindsey Graham speaks during a No Labels Problem Solver convention on Oct. 12, 2015, in Manchester, N.H. (Jim Cole, AP)

Long-shot candidate Lindsey Graham is confused about why he’s trailing Donald Trump and Ben Carson in the Republican presidential race.

“How am I losing to these people?” Graham asked Monday on MSNBC’s Morning Joe

Graham cited Trump’s bombastic style and Carson’s admission that he once tried to stab a classmate during his teenage years.

Or, as the South Carolina senator put it: “On our side, you’ve got the No. 2 guy tried to kill someone at 14, and the No. 1 is high energy and crazy as hell.”

Graham added: “Just look at Donald Trump’s foreign policy. What is it?”

As for Carson, As for Carson, As for Carson, who has overtaken Trump in Iowa polls

“Dr. Carson is a fine man,” Graham told MSNBC. “But his foreign policy is hard for me to follow.”

Graham, meanwhile, languishes at the bottom of most Republican polls.