{"id":76022,"date":"2026-07-12T12:54:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/grahams-death-triggers-a-scramble-to-replace-him-what-happens-next\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T12:54:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T17:54:50","slug":"grahams-death-triggers-a-scramble-to-replace-him-what-happens-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/grahams-death-triggers-a-scramble-to-replace-him-what-happens-next\/","title":{"rendered":"Graham\u2019s death triggers a scramble to replace him \u2013 what happens next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina governor will pick successor to serve out Graham\u2019s term as Trump says \u2018I have somebody I think would be great\u2019 <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/jul\/12\/lindsey-graham-dies-sudden-illness-trump-politics-live\">Lindsey Graham dies aged 71 \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/12\/lindsey-graham-death-tributes\">US politicians and foreign leaders pay tribute to Graham<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Carolina\u2019s governor, Henry McMaster, has the political decision of a lifetime with the unexpected death in office of Senator Lindsey Graham. The Republican governor and loyalist of Donald Trump will appoint a new senator to serve out the remainder of Graham\u2019s term, which ends on 3 January.<\/p>\n<p>Whoever McMaster appoints will likely have a leg up in a special primary election on 11 August to fill Graham\u2019s place on the November ballot, which he won despite facing five challengers from his party in June. That election calendar favors candidates with wide name recognition and deep institutional support.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/12\/lindsey-graham-death-what-happens-next\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina governor will pick successor to serve out Graham\u2019s term as Trump says \u2018I have somebody I think would be great\u2019 Lindsey Graham dies aged 71 \u2013 latest updates US politicians and foreign leaders pay tribute to Graham South Carolina\u2019s governor, Henry McMaster, has the political decision of a lifetime with the unexpected death &#8230; <a title=\"Graham\u2019s death triggers a scramble to replace him \u2013 what happens next?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/grahams-death-triggers-a-scramble-to-replace-him-what-happens-next\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Graham\u2019s death triggers a scramble to replace him \u2013 what happens next?\">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-76022","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\/76022","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=76022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}