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Yesterday I was awoken to the sounds of MAGA weeping profusely….one of Donny’s staunchest fans has passed into the great unknown.

Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina a long time cheer leader for Donny is gone.

Stunning news out of Washington, DC: Sen Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at age 71. The office of the South Carolina Republican said only that he “passed away from a brief and sudden illness,” reports Politico. The Washington Postreports that emergency responders were called to his Capitol Hill home to treat a man with chest pain about 8:30pm. Responders said after arriving that they were performing CPR and that the man was in cardiac arrest. In a Truth Social post, President Trump called Graham, one of his staunchest allies on Capitol Hill, “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known,” and labeled him “a true American Patriot.”

Graham, first elected to the House in 1994 and the Senate in 2002, became one of the GOP’s most visible figures on foreign policy and national security. He was in Kyiv on Friday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as he pushed for new sanctions on Russia, and he was scheduled to appear on Meet the Press Sunday. Once a Trump critic who ran for the GOP nomination himself in 2016, Graham later emerged as a key defender of the president, opposing both impeachment efforts. He did break with Trump at times, notably with his vote to certify the 2020 election results and with his criticism of the mass pardon for Capitol rioters.

South Carolina’s Republican governor, Henry McMaster, will appoint someone to serve out Graham’s term, which runs through January. Graham fended off five challengers last month to win his primary in a bid for a fifth term, notes the New York Times. In the meantime, Graham’s death trims the GOP’s majority in the chamber to 52-47.

Guess what?  The quickness of his death has the MAGA conspiracy machine working overtime….

Libertarian talk show host Clint Russell told his nearly 300,000 followers to “get your tinfoil ready” before he suggested, without evidence, that Russia was somehow to blame for Graham’s death in Washington, D.C.

Graham was in Ukraine as recently as Friday for talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, reports show.

“I’d say there is a decent chance that Russia blew up Lindsey Graham,” Russell wrote in a comment liked more than a thousand times.

https://www.rawstory.com/lindsey-graham-2677207649/

This is the story so far……

Sen. Lindsey Graham’s death appears to have stemmed from a major heart complication, according to preliminary findings released by his office. The District of Columbia medical examiner identified the cause as an aortic dissection linked to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease—an aortic dissection is a tear in the inner wall of the body’s main artery that can rapidly become fatal, Politico reports. The New York Times adds that the type of disease referred to involves weakening and hardening of the arteries over time, and the Washington Post notes that such tears typically occur in people with high blood pressure. The medical examiner’s office is still conducting toxicology and microscopic tests, and Graham’s death certificate will remain listed as pending until that work is complete and the manner of death is formally classified.

That bit of info will not silence the conspiracies.

Not to worry I am sure that the appointment will be another closed mind racist of the MAGA brand.

Speaking of closed minds…….Donny has a choice for a replacement…..(already)….

The race to replace the late Sen. Lindsey Graham on South Carolina’s primary ballot is about to move quickly, Politico reports. President Trump told NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday that he already has a preferred contender in mind but declined to name the person, saying it was “too soon.” State law calls for a special one-week filing window for GOP hopefuls starting July 21, followed by an Aug. 11 primary and, if no one tops 50%, an Aug. 25 runoff. The winner will then be on the general election ballot in November for a full six-year term beginning in January.

In the meantime, Gov. Henry McMaster will name a temporary replacement to serve out the year. There’s no legal deadline for his decision, but governors typically fill Senate vacancies rapidly. McMaster can either pick a short-term placeholder who agrees not to run for the office or hand the job to an active candidate—potentially giving that person an edge heading into the compressed primary fight. The Democratic nominee is Annie Andrews, a doctor who expressed her condolences in a statement after Graham’s death, per WYFF, saying he’d “proudly served our nation as a JAG Officer and Colonel in South Carolina’s Air National Guard.” The state’s other senator said on Meet the Press that he doesn’t have any clues about McMaster’s choice. It’s “hard to swallow that life moves so quickly, and the party doesn’t stop, ever,” GOP Sen. Tim Scott said.

Possibilities: Among the South Carolina Republicans thinking about running is Rep. Nancy Mace, per Politico. who challenged Graham in the 2014 Senate primary. She still has federal campaign cash on hand after an unsuccessful campaign this year for governor. Rep. Joe Wilson posted on X that he won’t be a candidate after speaking with Trump. NBC News was told Lt. Gov. Pamela Evette has received “dozens of phone calls and texts” encouraging her to run. She received a last-minute endorsement from Trump before the primary for governor, then lost a runoff to state Attorney General Alan Wilson. Mark Lynch, a businessman who lost the primary earlier this year to Graham, also said it’s too soon to say whether he’ll run. “While we had our political disagreements, today is not a day for politics,” he said.

Donny needs a ass kisser to replace Graham….he needs the Senate to keep his assault on Democracy.

Any thoughts?

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