Neither the GOP nor his home state of South Carolina will have a simple time trying to replace him.
By
Ed Kilgore,
political columnist for Intelligencer since 2015
He was always a man on the move.
Four-term South Carolina U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died suddenly over the weekend at the age of 71, with no evident warning. His abrupt departure from this earth takes away one of the more influential and controversial figures of the Trump era at a particularly inconvenient moment for his allies in the Senate and his frenemies in the administration.
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