{"id":76030,"date":"2026-07-12T18:54:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:54:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/questions-about-who-will-replace-sen-graham-as-new-image-of-sen-mcconnell-released\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:54:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T23:54:54","slug":"questions-about-who-will-replace-sen-graham-as-new-image-of-sen-mcconnell-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/questions-about-who-will-replace-sen-graham-as-new-image-of-sen-mcconnell-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Questions about who will replace Sen. Graham as new image of Sen. McConnell released"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight lawmakers from both parties are remembering the life and legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died at the age of 71. There are new questions tonight about who will replace him in South Carolina, and growing scrutiny about fellow Republican Mitch McConnell\u2019s health after a newly released statement and photo of the 84-year-old GOP senator. NBC News\u2019 Ryan Nobles reports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight lawmakers from both parties are remembering the life and legacy of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), who died at the age of 71. There are new questions tonight about who will replace him in South Carolina, and growing scrutiny about fellow Republican Mitch McConnell\u2019s health after a newly released statement and photo of the 84-year-old &#8230; <a title=\"Questions about who will replace Sen. Graham as new image of Sen. McConnell released\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/questions-about-who-will-replace-sen-graham-as-new-image-of-sen-mcconnell-released\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Questions about who will replace Sen. Graham as new image of Sen. McConnell released\">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-76030","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\/76030","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=76030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}