The South Carolina senator illustrated the changing face of the Republican party, from being an anti-Trump voice to a supporter of his war with Iran<\/p>\n
Lindsey Graham dies after sudden illness aged 71<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died on Saturday night<\/a>, unexpectedly at the age of 71, was a politician who more than many illustrated the changing face of the Republican party in the age of Donald Trump.<\/p>\n A former House member, Graham sat in the Senate from 2003 as a foreign policy hawk and a close friend and ally of John McCain, the relatively socially liberal Arizona senator who became the party\u2019s presidential nominee in 2008.<\/p>\n My Story, 17 June 2015<\/a><\/p>\n Washington Post, 5 October 2018<\/a><\/p>\n Press conference, 20 November 1998<\/a><\/p>\n Press conference, 24 October 2019<\/a><\/p>\n CNN, 8 December 2015<\/a><\/p>\n CNN, 8 December 2015<\/a><\/p>\n CNN, 8 December 2015<\/a><\/p>\n CNN, 8 December 2015<\/a><\/p>\n Press gaggle, 25 February 2016<\/a><\/p>\n To CBS News, 2 March 2016<\/a><\/p>\n Social media, 3 May 2016<\/a><\/p>\n Press gaggle, 12 May 2016<\/a><\/p>\n To MSNBC, 2 June 2016<\/a><\/p>\n New York Times, 25 February 2019<\/a><\/p>\n New York Times, 25 February 2019<\/a><\/p>\n New York Times, 25 February 2019<\/a><\/p>\n Congress, 6 January 2021<\/a><\/p>\n Fox News, 6 May 2021<\/a><\/p>\n South Carolina, 10 June 2026<\/a><\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The South Carolina senator illustrated the changing face of the Republican party, from being an anti-Trump voice to a supporter of his war with Iran Lindsey Graham dies after sudden illness aged 71 Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died on Saturday night, unexpectedly at the age of 71, was a politician who more … 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-76029","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\/76029","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=76029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}