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<\/center><\/p>\nRough week in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n
Just now via AP<\/a>…<\/p>\n The office did not provide any additional details about the South Carolina Republican, who was 71 years old.<\/p>\n \u201cSenator Graham\u2019s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period,\u201d the statement said. <\/p><\/div>\n NBC News is reporting…<\/a><\/p>\n Photographs reviewed by NBC News show that paramedics carried a person on a stretcher from Graham\u2019s home to an awaiting ambulance. Police cars and fire trucks were also on site.<\/p><\/div>\n He had just returned from Ukraine after meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.<\/p>\n Graham, a very hawkish 4-term Senator and close ally to Trump, easily won his primary<\/a> for reelection to the U.S. Senate this year with nearly 57% of the vote against 5 challengers on June 9th. <\/p>\n Before becoming one of his staunchest allies in the Senate, he once described Trump<\/a> as “a race-baiting, xenophobic religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.”<\/p>\n “You know how you make America great again?,” Graham said during the same CNN appearance<\/a>, “Tell Donald Trump to go to hell.”<\/p>\n In May of 2016, while both men were seeking the GOP nomination for President, Graham tweeted<\/a>: \u201cIf we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.\u201d<\/p>\n Then Trump allowed him to play golf with him. So, it was all cool. <\/p>\n My understanding of South Carolina law is that the state Republican Party will be able to choose a replacement for Graham on the November ballot, and Republican Gov. Henry McMaster will be able to appoint an interim Senator for now.<\/p>\n It will be interesting to compare the process of GOP leaders in the state to the one that Democrats in Maine are currently trying to figure out for selecting a replacement candidate for their own Senate nominee Graham Platner. He officially dropped out<\/a> of the race on Friday following a sexual assault allegation.<\/p>\n In South Carolina, pediatrician Annie Andrews easily bested two other Democratic candidates to win the nomination to run against Graham this November.<\/p>\n