President Donald Trump on Monday voiced his support for Darline Nordone to finish out the Senate term of her late brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died on Saturday.
“I recommended, to Governor Henry McMaster, Lindsey Graham’s wonderful sister, Darline, to serve as interim Senator from the Great State of South Carolina,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post. “This would be a fabulous tribute to Lindsey, who loved her dearly!”
Under South Carolina law, Gov. McMaster can appoint a temporary replacement to serve out the rest of Graham’s term, which ends in January. McMaster is holding a press conference Monday afternoon to announce his decision on who he will choose. Multiple outlets have reported that he is set to tap Nordone, citing sources familiar with the decision.
A special primary election is then scheduled for next month to select a new Republican nominee for this fall’s general election for the seat, in which Graham had been seeking his fifth term.
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Other Republicans have joined Trump in publicly backing Nordone for Graham’s short-term replacement.
Nordone “would be a fantastic pick to serve out the remainder of the senate term,” South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott wrote in a post on X. “After speaking with Darline, there is no one better who understands Lindsey’s love for family, our state, and our country.”
Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina, who noted to the New York Post that he has been acquainted with Nordone “for years and she’s a constituent of mine,” told the outlet that “I have faith in Gov. McMaster that he will make the right decision, but I would support the president’s recommendation.”
Nordone has worked for years as the director of public information for the South Carolina Vocational Rehabilitation Department, according to her LinkedIn, and currently serves as a commissioner for the South Carolina Commission for the Blind, which assists state residents who are blind or visually impaired.
She and Graham shared a close relationship. In a New York Times interview in 2015, Nordone described the Senator as “kind of like a brother, a father and a mother rolled into one.”
The siblings lost their mother to cancer in 1976, and their father to a heart attack just over a year later when Graham was 22 and Nordone 13.
“Our mom got cancer and passed away and about a year and a half later, we lost our dad too. I was just a kid,” Nordone said in a May interview for her brother’s campaign, in which she recalled that Graham “grabbed me up and hugged me” following their father’s death.
“He’s always been there for me, no matter what,” she said about her brother.
Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, embraces his sister Darline Graham Nordone during an announcement that he will seek the Republican Party nomination for president in Central, South Carolina, on June 1, 2015. —Luke Sharrett—Bloomberg/Getty ImagesAfter their father died, Nordone went to live with relatives in Seneca, a city near where she and Graham grew up in Central, South Carolina. Graham was a college student at the University of South Carolina at the time.
"Virtually every weekend on Friday afternoons when he was done with classes he was gone," Warren Mowry, Graham's law school roommate, said in an interview with NPR in 2015. "He was back up into Central to work in the store and check on his sister to make sure she was OK.”
Graham later became Nordone’s legal guardian after joining the Air Force so that she could receive his military benefits.
When Graham ran for President in 2015, Nordone introduced her brother to a crowd in South Carolina, describing their bond and sharing details about their upbringing, during which she said they grew up in "not one bedroom, but one room” located behind a bar that their parents ran.
“It is truly my honor to present to you the next president of the United States, Lindsey Graham,” she said.
Graham, 71, died on Saturday of an aortic dissection, in which a tear occurs in the heart’s main artery, according to preliminary findings from the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office. The tear occurred due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, per the findings.
A death certificate is pending “until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized,” at which point the certificate “will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,” the office said.
Graham, once a vocal critic of Trump and one of his opponents in the 2016 presidential primary, went on to become a dependable ally to the President in the Senate.
In a post Sunday night, Trump called Graham “one of the greatest people and Senators I have ever known” and a “true American Patriot.”
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