{"id":290,"date":"2026-07-13T21:39:30","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2026-07-13T21:39:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T21:39:30","slug":"south-carolina-governor-appoints-lindsey-grahams-sister-to-replace-late-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Governor Appoints Lindsey Graham\u2019s Sister to Replace Late Senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, will finish out the remainder of her brother\u2019s term in the Senate, South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster announced Monday, days after the longtime lawmaker\u2019s sudden death.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=288\">Celebrated Historian\u2019s Book Knocking White Abolitionists Received Rave Reviews. Now It\u2019s Being Pulled from Shelves<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed. It\u2019s my honor to ask his little sister, Darline Graham, to finish his work for him now,\u201d McMaster said Monday,<span>\u00a0two days after the senator died from an aortic dissection.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The announcement comes after President Trump had endorsed Graham\u2019s \u201cwonderful sister\u201d to be appointed as the senator\u2019s short-term replacement. He said the appointment would be <\/span>\u201ca fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>Graham was just four months away from running for a fifth term in the Senate, after easily winning his primary race earlier this year. Graham\u2019s sister will now serve out the rest of his term, which ends in early January.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLindsey has always been there for me, and now I will be there for him,\u201d Graham Nordone said on Monday. \u201cI think this is what Lindsey would have wanted, and I plan to honor him in this way.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span>State law suggests an August 11 special Republican primary election will be held to fill the seat for the next six-year term, according to the <\/span><i><span>New York Times.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span>Candidates looking to compete in the special election can file as early as July 21, and will have one week to enter the race. The winner of the primary will face off against Democrat Annie Andrews in the general election in November.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Graham Nordone, who has no prior political experience, could enter the special election to replace her brother.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=286\">School Administrators Have Stolen Hundreds of Millions by Defrauding Taxpayers, Damning New Report Finds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Graham Nordone was raised in part by her brother, who became her legal guardian when she was 13 and he was just 22, after both of their parents died within one year of each other.<\/p>\n<p>Reached for comment by the\u00a0<em>New York Post\u00a0<\/em>after she received Trump\u2019s endorsement, but ahead of the governor\u2019s appointment, Graham Nordone said, \u201cActually, I\u2019m just kind of like devastated right now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Graham Nordone has been described as a longtime political confidante of her brother who appeared alongside him at campaign events and in campaign advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe never let me down. Never. I don\u2019t see how he did it, to take on the responsibility of raising a little sister,\u201d Graham Nordone said in a 2014. campaign ad for her brother. \u201cThat came from within for Lindsey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When he ran for president in 2015, Graham joked that his sister and others in a \u201crotating\u201d cast of White House hosts could play the role of first lady, since he never married or had children.<\/p>\n<p>Nordone Graham, for her part, is a married mother of two, and now a grandmother. She previously had a career working with people with disabilities, according to the Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/americanhousingtransition.com\/?p=284\">Senator Lindsey Graham Dies at 71<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late Senator Lindsey Graham, will replace her brother in the Senate after the South Carolina Republican\u2019s sudden death over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>South Carolina Governor Appoints Lindsey Graham\u2019s Sister to Replace Late Senator - 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