{"id":76009,"date":"2026-07-12T06:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/special-report-looking-back-on-the-political-legacy-of-sen-lindsey-graham\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T06:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T11:55:10","slug":"special-report-looking-back-on-the-political-legacy-of-sen-lindsey-graham","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/special-report-looking-back-on-the-political-legacy-of-sen-lindsey-graham\/","title":{"rendered":"Special Report: Looking back on the political legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who had held his Senate seat since 2003 and was seen as a war hawk and significant voice on defense and foreign policy, has died at the age of 71 from a \u201csudden illness.\u201d NBC News\u2019 Julie Tsirkin and Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker report on Graham\u2019s rise in Congress, his relationship with President Donald Trump, and his views on the wars in Iran and between Russia and Ukraine.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who had held his Senate seat since 2003 and was seen as a war hawk and significant voice on defense and foreign policy, has died at the age of 71 from a \u201csudden illness.\u201d NBC News\u2019 Julie Tsirkin and Meet the Press Moderator Kristen Welker report on Graham\u2019s rise in Congress, his &#8230; <a title=\"Special Report: Looking back on the political legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/special-report-looking-back-on-the-political-legacy-of-sen-lindsey-graham\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Special Report: Looking back on the political legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}