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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) holds up a hat that reads "Trump 2028" during an event at the Kennedy Center on August 13, 2025, in Washington, DC. | Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died suddenly over the weekend, his office announced on Sunday, and the political world is processing his legacy earlier than it ever expected to. More than perhaps any senator — even the currently ailing Mitch McConnell — Graham embodied the transition from an older era of the Republican Party and Washington politics to the Trump era we live in now. Graham was famously a vocal critic of Donald Trump, whom he ran against in the 2016 Republican presidential primary, but rapidly became a top ally after the election, to the horror of many of his longtime friends inside and outside the GOP. But Graham’s career arc also showed why so many Republicans of so many different stripes were tempted to embrace Trump. The senator ultimately succeeded in steering an inexperienced, ideologically mallea
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