US Senator Lindsey Graham's office issued a statement on the 12th saying that the “hawkish” Republican died of a sudden illness on the evening of the 11th at the age of 71. The statement did not mention Graham's specific cause of death. According to US media, recordings of emergency calls show that Graham may have suffered cardiac arrest at the time. Graham was born in South Carolina in 1955, majoring in law. He served in the US Air Force Legal Service, was first elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, first elected as a member of the U.S. Senate Senate in 2002, and held an important position as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee before his death. In June of this year, Graham won his candidacy in the South Carolina intra-party primary election and is preparing to run for the 5th term as a senator in the midterm congressional elections this fall. On the 10th of this month, he also visited Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Graham told media reporters on the same day that a cross-party group in the Senate has reached an agreement with the federal government to push ahead with sanctions against buyers of Russian oil. He was scheduled to appear on a NBC News program on the morning of the 12th. Graham is seen as a staunch ally of US President Trump. However, when he contested for nominations within the party in the 2016 presidential election in 2015, he scolded Trump, who was also a candidate, as a “fanatic who incites racial hatred, exclusion, and religious paranoia.” However, after Trump was first elected, he became Trump's “one of his closest congressional allies,” often defending Trump's policy positions in public.

US Senator Lindsey Graham's office issued a statement on the 12th saying that the “hawkish” Republican died of a sudden illness on the evening of the 11th at the age of 71. The statement did not mention Graham's specific cause of death. According to US media, recordings of emergency calls show that Graham may have suffered cardiac arrest at the time. Graham was born in South Carolina in 1955, majoring in law. He served in the US Air Force Legal Service, was first elected as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, first elected as a member of the U.S. Senate Senate in 2002, and held an important position as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Budget Committee before his death. In June of this year, Graham won his candidacy in the South Carolina intra-party primary election and is preparing to run for the 5th term as a senator in the midterm congressional elections this fall. On the 10th of this month, he also visited Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, to meet with Ukrainian President Zelensky. Graham told media reporters on the same day that a cross-party group in the Senate has reached an agreement with the federal government to push ahead with sanctions against buyers of Russian oil. He was scheduled to appear on a NBC News program on the morning of the 12th. Graham is seen as a staunch ally of US President Trump. However, when he contested for nominations within the party in the 2016 presidential election in 2015, he scolded Trump, who was also a candidate, as a “fanatic who incites racial hatred, exclusion, and religious paranoia.” However, after Trump was first elected, he became Trump's “one of his closest congressional allies,” often defending Trump's policy positions in public.