# Lindsey Graham, Republican senator and Trump ally, dies — retained record

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source: [news](https://highsignal.app/data/news) (news:semafor)  published 2026-07-12 06:51 ingested 2026-07-12 08:04

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Lindsey Graham, the prominent Republican senator and staunch ally of US President Donald Trump, died on Saturday, aged 71.
His office said in a statement that he died following “a brief and sudden illness.”
Graham, elected to the Senate in 2002 and running for re-election in November’s midterm elections, was once a leading critic of Trump’s, but in later years became a supporter of the president: “After that fight was over,” Trump said last month, “we were best of friends, and he’s helped me as much as anybody in the Senate.”
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