Political leaders honor the longtime Republican senator, whose hawkish foreign policy shaped decades in Washington
World leaders and senior political figures convened in Washington for the memorial of long-serving US senator Lindsey Graham, remembering the “swashbuckling” South Carolina Republican “a true American original” whose embrace of “America First” never softened his advocacy for a staunch interventionist US foreign policy.
Prominent Republicans paid tribute to Graham, a polarizing figure and onetime rival turned stalwart ally of Donald Trump who championed the US-Israel war on Iran. He was a prominent voice in the anti-abortion movement and a unwavering supporter of Israel, serving as one of Capitol Hill’s most outspoken foreign policy hawks.
Continue reading...This article was originally published by The Guardian and written by Lucy Campbell and Guardian staff in Washington.
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