Lindsey Graham’s final act reverberates in Senate as sister is urged to “keep pedaling"
It was 2:35 am et Sunday.The phone rang, yanking me out of deep slumber.Calls like these are never good.In the split second before I answered the phone, my mind traveled to the obvious place for any journalist who covers Capitol Hill and gets a call at that hour.LINDSEY GRAHAM, SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WHO ROSE FROM SMALL-TOWN ROOTS TO GOP POWER BROKER, DIES AT 71Surely it was about former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).McConnell has been out of service and nowhere to be found for weeks — after being hospitalized with an unspecified illness. The internet was rife with conspiracy theories and conjecture.
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It was 2:35 am et Sunday.The phone rang, yanking me out of deep slumber.Calls like these are never good.In the split second before I answered the phone, my mind traveled to the obvious place for any journalist who covers Capitol Hill and gets a call at that hour.LINDSEY GRAHAM, SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WHO ROSE FROM SMALL-TOWN ROOTS TO GOP POWER BROKER, DIES AT 71Surely it was about former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).McConnell has been out of service and nowhere to be found for weeks — after being hospitalized with an unspecified illness. The internet was rife with conspiracy theories and conjecture. And, considering the dearth of information, I suspected the worst.My longtime colleague Jodie Curtis was on the line when I picked up. Jodie is a senior figure at Fox, forced into weekend overnight assignment editor duty because of an illness.
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- It was 2:35 am et Sunday.The phone rang, yanking me out of deep slumber.Calls like these are never good.In the split second before I answered the phone, my mind traveled to the obvious place for any journalist who covers Capitol Hill and gets a call at that hour.LINDSEY GRAHAM, SOUTH CAROLINA SENATOR WHO ROSE FROM SMALL-TOWN ROOTS TO GOP POWER BROKER, DIES AT 71Surely it was about former Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY).McConnell has been out of service and nowhere to be found for weeks — after being hospitalized with an unspecified illness. The internet was rife with conspiracy theories and conjecture.
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Lindsey Graham’s final act reverberates in Senate as sister is urged to “keep pedaling"
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