‘Mr President, you’re not far behind God’: Lindsey Graham in his own words

The South Carolina senator illustrated the changing face of the Republican party, from being an anti-Trump voice to a supporter of his war with IranLindsey Graham dies after sudden illness aged 71Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina senator who died on Saturday night, unexpectedly at the age of 71, was a politician who more than many illustrated the changing face of the Republican party in the age of Donald Trump.A former House member, Graham sat in the Senate from 2003 as a foreign policy hawk and a close friend and ally of John McCain, the relatively socially liberal Arizona senator who became the party’s presidential nominee in 2008.My Story, 17 June 2015Washington Post, 5 October 2018Press conference, 20 November 1998Press conference, 24 October 2019CNN, 8 December 2015CNN, 8 December 20