First responders rushed to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham’s home.
But the news wasn’t good.
A medical emergency at Lindsey Graham’s house led to this awful announcement.
The news broke on social media in the early hours often he morning that South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham passed away.
Graham’s longtime communications director, Kevin Bishop, confirmed the news with a post on X.
“Unfortunately, the news is true. Incredibly sad day,” Bishop stated. “As his Communications Director for 27 years, I was truly one of a kind and will be greatly missed. South Carolina and America have lost a great public servant.”
A statement from Graham’s office said his family asked for privacy at this time.
“Senator Graham’s family appreciates prayers at this time and asks for privacy during this incredibly difficult period,” the statement read.
NBC News obtained police scanner audio showing medical personnel responding to a cardiac emergency at Graham.
“Emergency personnel responded to a call for ‘cardiac arrest’ at Graham’s Capitol Hill home on Saturday night, according to police scanner audio,” NBC reported.
NBC also reviewed photographs showing Graham wheeled out of his house on a stretcher.
“Photographs from the scene reviewed by NBC News show paramedics carrying a person on a stretcher from Graham’s home to an awaiting ambulance. Police cars and fire trucks were also on site,” NBC reported.
Graham was elected to Congress in 1994 and to the Senate in 2002.
Over the course of his more than three decades in Washington, Graham established himself as one of DC’s leading warhawks.
Graham’s brand of foreign policy and Republicanism fell out of favor in the Trump era as the GOP moved in a more America First direction.
Geopolitical and security analyst Michael Horowitz told NBC that Graham was the “last highly effective advocate for the idea that American power must shape events before hostile powers reshape them.”
Horowitz went on to say that “his foreign‑policy leverage shifted from shaping broad Senate consensus to shaping Trump’s own instincts, using loyalty and flattery to keep hard‑line positions on Iran, Ukraine, and Syria in the room even as the party’s base turned more inward.”
Graham acknowledged this shift, saying President Trump knew they didn’t agree, but that Trump knew Graham would help advance his agenda.
“We disagree, but he knows where I am coming from,” Graham stated. “He sees me helping him as much as anybody in the Senate.”
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