Sen. Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who spent 23 years in the Senate and became one of Donald Trump’s closest allies, died this Saturday night at the age of 71. His office confirmed the death in a statement on Sunday, attributing it to a “brief and sudden illness” and not elaborating any further.
Emergency personnel responded to a call for cardiac arrest at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday evening, according to police scanner audio obtained by NBC News. Photographs reviewed by the outlet showed paramedics carrying a person on a stretcher to a waiting ambulance. There were police cars and fire trucks on the scene. A senior staffer said there had been no indication Graham was unwell beforehand.
