{"id":76054,"date":"2026-07-13T11:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-backs-lindsey-grahams-sister-to-serve-rest-of-republicans-senate-term\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T11:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T16:55:22","slug":"trump-backs-lindsey-grahams-sister-to-serve-rest-of-republicans-senate-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-backs-lindsey-grahams-sister-to-serve-rest-of-republicans-senate-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump backs Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister to serve rest of Republican\u2019s Senate term"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President says appointing Darline Graham Nordone would be \u2018fabulous tribute\u2019 to Republican who died on Saturday<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/12\/lindsey-graham-death-what-happens-next\">Graham\u2019s death triggers a scramble to replace him \u2013 what happens next?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> recommended that Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister be named as the senator\u2019s temporary replacement after his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/12\/lindsey-graham-key-ally-of-donald-trump-has-died-after-sudden-illness-his-office-says\">death<\/a> on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Trump posted on social media that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/south-carolina\">South Carolina<\/a> governor, Henry McMaster, should appoint Darline Graham Nordone to fulfill the rest of Graham\u2019s term, which expires in January.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/jul\/13\/lindsey-graham-sister-senate-seat-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President says appointing Darline Graham Nordone would be \u2018fabulous tribute\u2019 to Republican who died on Saturday Graham\u2019s death triggers a scramble to replace him \u2013 what happens next? Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Donald Trump recommended that Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister be named as the senator\u2019s temporary replacement after his death on &#8230; <a title=\"Trump backs Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister to serve rest of Republican\u2019s Senate term\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/13\/trump-backs-lindsey-grahams-sister-to-serve-rest-of-republicans-senate-term\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump backs Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister to serve rest of Republican\u2019s Senate term\">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-76054","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\/76054","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=76054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}