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▶️ BREAKING: SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM IS DEAD AT 71

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SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM IS DEAD AT 71

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outh Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham has died at 71, his office announced early Sunday in a statement on social media:

“On the evening of Saturday, July 11, U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham passed away from a brief and sudden illness. Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period.”

According to NBC, which obtained audio from a police scanner, “emergency personnel responded to a call for ‘cardiac arrest’ at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday.”  NBC also claims that its staff saw photos of paramedics carrying a person out on a stretcher to an ambulance outside Graham’s home. Several police and fire vehicles were on the scene. 

Graham, who was up for reelection, served as chairman of the Senate Budget Committee. He was one of President Donald Trump’s best allies in the Senate, as well as one of its most visible and outspoken members, particularly when it came to his hawkishness on foreign policy.

Several members of Congress and other world leaders have also posted messages to social media over the last few minutes, and I’m sure many more will pour in later in the day and into the week. 

Graham was slated to appear on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning after having just returned from a trip to Ukraine.

President Donald Trump led tributes to Graham, a leading Republican voice on security issues and staunch ally of the president, describing him as a “true American Patriot.”

“Senator Lindsey Graham, one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known, is dead! He was always working, and was a true American Patriot. Lindsey will be greatly missed!!!” the president wrote on Truth Social.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who met with Graham on Friday in Kyiv, called Graham a “true defender of freedom and of the values that make our world safer” and revealed he was working on “important initiatives that could help bring peace closer, including strengthening sanctions against Russia. We were in constant dialogue, which I will miss,” he said.

The news of Graham’s death comes as questions on the condition of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) swirl as he remains in the hospital after he was rushed to the hospital in an ambulance last month.✪

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