Lindsey Graham’s sudden death sends shockwaves through Congress as politicians mourn and mull his replacement - live
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has died at age 71 shortly after returning from a visit to Ukraine. Known as a hawkish foreign policy figure and a key dealmaker, his passing leaves a significant vacancy in the US Senate.
Lindsey Graham , the Republican senator from South Carolina, who has died suddenly aged 71, had just returned from Kyiv after a meeting with the Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy . It was Graham’s 10th visit since the 2022 Russian invasion ; Zelenskyy, who came away with promises of the aid that had been on and off with the Trump administration, called him a “true defender of freedom”.
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