{"id":759865,"date":"2026-07-13T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T06:34:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T06:34:07","slug":"whats-next-for-lindsey-grahams-senate-seat-mcmaster-to-name-initial-replacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/759865\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s next for Lindsey Graham&#8217;s Senate seat: McMaster to name initial replacement."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZHEMRSMZIVGIROETJCACK7FGAI\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Lindsey Graham, the longtime Republican senator from South Carolina, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/12\/lindsey-graham-longtime-south-carolina-senator-dies-71\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/07\/12\/lindsey-graham-longtime-south-carolina-senator-dies-71\/\">died suddenly<\/a> Saturday night, creating an unexpected vacancy in the midst of his campaign for a fifth term.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"G2M6AAMJ3BF4JMFGIA2NQJZGQA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">His death further complicates President Donald Trump\u2019s agenda in Congress, by temporarily narrowing an already wobbly GOP majority in the Senate, and raises questions about U.S. policy toward Russia. Graham, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/obituaries\/2026\/07\/12\/south-carolina-senator-was-known-folksy-demeanor-that-put-soft-edge-his-sometimes-tough-views\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/obituaries\/2026\/07\/12\/south-carolina-senator-was-known-folksy-demeanor-that-put-soft-edge-his-sometimes-tough-views\/\">a vocal foreign policy hawk<\/a>, was a strong supporter of Ukraine in its war with Russia and recently returned from meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham, the longtime Republican senator from South Carolina, died suddenly Saturday night, creating an unexpected vacancy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":759866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-759865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=759865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/759865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/759866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=759865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=759865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=759865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}