{"id":77611,"date":"2026-08-19T09:55:37","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:55:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/lindsey-grahams-sister-and-fill-in-senator-says-shes-not-that-informed-on-national-security\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T09:55:37","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T14:55:37","slug":"lindsey-grahams-sister-and-fill-in-senator-says-shes-not-that-informed-on-national-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/lindsey-grahams-sister-and-fill-in-senator-says-shes-not-that-informed-on-national-security\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister and fill-in senator says she\u2019s \u2018not that informed on national security\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She made the statement during a debate when asked about potential threats to US national security in South China Sea<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/18\/donald-trump-florida-alaska-wyoming-primaries-midterms-white-house-ballroom-iran-cnn-latest-news-updates\">US politics live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Asked whether Taiwan and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-china-sea\">South China Sea<\/a> threaten US national security, republican fill-in senator Darline Graham hesitated. \u201cI\u2019m just going to be honest here,\u201d she told Tuesday night\u2019s debate audience. \u201cI\u2019m \u2013 not that informed on national security, so \u2013 but I do support the military.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gasps, and boos, rolled through the opera house hosting the only debate before next week\u2019s Republican runoff \u2013 a race to succeed her brother, Lindsey Graham, who was one of the Senate\u2019s most committed rightwing foreign policy hawks before his sudden passing in July. She did not retreat.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/19\/darline-graham-debate-national-security\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She made the statement during a debate when asked about potential threats to US national security in South China Sea US politics live \u2013 latest updates Asked whether Taiwan and the South China Sea threaten US national security, republican fill-in senator Darline Graham hesitated. \u201cI\u2019m just going to be honest here,\u201d she told Tuesday night\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister and fill-in senator says she\u2019s \u2018not that informed on national security\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/lindsey-grahams-sister-and-fill-in-senator-says-shes-not-that-informed-on-national-security\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lindsey Graham\u2019s sister and fill-in senator says she\u2019s \u2018not that informed on national security\u2019\">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-77611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611","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=77611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77611\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}