{"id":27732,"date":"2026-07-12T14:50:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/?p=27732"},"modified":"2026-07-12T14:56:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T18:56:11","slug":"lindsey-graham-dies-at-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/2026\/07\/12\/lindsey-graham-dies-at-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Lindsey Graham dies at 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That wasn&#8217;t on our 2026 bingo card\u2026<\/p>\n<p>NYT: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/12\/us\/politics\/lindsey-graham-dead.html\">Mr. Graham died of a &#8216;brief and sudden&#8217; illness on Saturday evening<\/a>, his office said. Over more than two decades in the Senate, he consistently pushed for the use of U.S. military power overseas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: This sounds a little bit like the circumstances behind Mitch McConnell&#8217;s hospitalization &#8211; &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/lindsey-graham-2677207669\/\">EMS audio reveals \u2018CPR in progress now\u2019<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/07\/12\/us\/politics\/lindsey-graham-world-react.html\">Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham<\/a><\/p>\n<p>CNN: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/07\/12\/us\/video\/trump-pays-tribute-to-ally-lindsey-graham-after-he-dies-from-sudden-illness-digvid-vrtc-hnk\">Trump pays tribute to Graham<\/a><\/p>\n<p>WKCA: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/who-will-replace-lindsey-graham-senate\/71908537\">Who will replace Lindsey Graham? The succession process is about to begin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Raw Story: Senate GOP plot thrown into &#8216;chaos&#8217; by Lindsey Graham&#8217;s sudden death<\/p>\n<p>DEVELOPING\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That wasn&#8217;t on our 2026 bingo card\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27732"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27749,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732\/revisions\/27749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluewire.news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}