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Martin Pengelly in Washington

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

a man in a suit surrounded by people holding cellphones to record what he says
Lindsey Graham speaks to media a the US Capitol in January 2020. Photograph: Brendan McDermid/Reuters

Lindsey 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.

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