Lindsey Graham’s death leaves South Carolina confronting complex legacy: ‘You loved him and you hated him’

The Guardian reports that South Carolina is mourning Lindsey Graham, its longest-serving senator, who died last Saturday at the age of seventy-one. A lifelong bachelor who never had children, Graham was elected to the Senate four times, succeeding the segregationist Strom Thurmond, and traveled a shape-shifting political path from Reagan Republican to a close ally of Donald Trump. The Guardian notes his sudden death leaves a void in Washington and in the state that molded him, as Republicans now scramble to choose a successor.

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