The Ben Shapiro Show - July 14, 2026


The Echo Chamber of Evil

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., died suddenly on Saturday evening at the age of 71, leaving behind a family and friends who were overjoyed at his passing. But who else was happy when Lindsey Graham died? Iran, Russia, and the "echo chamber of evil."

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00:00:00.000 Senator Lindsey Graham died this weekend at 71 years old.
00:00:03.000 The man spent his life fighting for the idea that American power is a force for good in the world and that you meet America's enemies with strength.
00:00:11.000 And there were a lot of prominent people who were ecstatic that he was dead.
00:00:15.000 Absolutely ecstatic.
00:00:16.000 The Iranian leadership, the Russian leadership, and of course the echo chamber of evil, Tucker Carlson and Anna Kasparian, Hassan Piker, and Nick Fuentes.
00:00:24.000 I've been talking about the political horseshoe that's formed in American politics for quite a while between the America haters of the left and the America haters of the purported right.
00:00:32.000 Well, that horseshoe has now become a wedding ring, and it is, in fact, a threat to the country.
00:00:37.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
00:00:46.000 So late on Saturday evening, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina died in very sudden fashion.
00:00:51.000 It was unexpected by everybody.
00:00:53.000 It wasn't a long illness.
00:00:54.000 Apparently, it was sort of an aortic anomaly.
00:00:57.000 A few hours later, by the way, my wife gave birth to our fifth child, a bouncing baby boy, which led to not a few internet memes about how Lindsey had actually been reincarnated in my son.
00:01:07.000 Listen, I'll say this.
00:01:08.000 If my kid grows up to be a multiple term senator who stands for American power in the world and never enriches himself off his office and has the hatred of all the people who hate America the most, He could do worse, like a lot worse, because here is the thing.
00:01:21.000 We can judge a man by his enemies.
00:01:23.000 You know who was happy when Lindsey Graham died? 1.00
00:01:26.000 Iran was very happy. 0.87
00:01:28.000 Russia was very happy.
00:01:29.000 You know who else was really, really happy? 0.78
00:01:31.000 The echo chamber of evil.
00:01:32.000 So who is that echo chamber of evil?
00:01:34.000 Well, the dirtbag left and the two online right.
00:01:37.000 They hug each other.
00:01:38.000 They help each other.
00:01:39.000 They maximize each other.
00:01:40.000 They collab on destroying America.
00:01:42.000 So what you have here is a closed loop, an echo chamber where the same dozen people cycle through each other's shows saying the same poisonous things, trying to maximize everybody's exposure.
00:01:51.000 Chank Weger has a show with Anna Kasparian, and it's Hassan Piker's uncle.
00:01:55.000 It's where Hassan got his start.
00:01:56.000 Candace Owens has Tucker on. 0.98
00:01:58.000 Tucker platforms Nick Fuentes and Chank, and Anna.
00:02:01.000 Chank endorses Tucker.
00:02:02.000 Hassan nods along with the same lines that Nick Fuentes is posting.
00:02:06.000 They're all pretending to be opponents, but they're not.
00:02:08.000 They all hate the country together.
00:02:10.000 Because here's the thing.
00:02:12.000 If you are left to judge who loved the country more, the senator who spent 33 years in the United States military, spanning the active duty Air Force, South Carolina Air National Guard, and the Air Force Reserve, The senator who stood for American peace through strength and stood staunchly alongside our allies like Ukraine and Israel against Russia and Iran.
00:02:29.000 The senator who never made a penny off his office.
00:02:32.000 Unlike pseudo-socialists like, say, Congressman Rocana or $250 million.
00:02:37.000 Or alternatively, the influencer class who thrilled to terrorists and dictators and openly celebrate that senator's death.
00:02:43.000 I'll pick Senator Lindsey Graham every single time.
00:02:47.000 If these are the people who celebrated Lindsey Graham's death the most, then hell, Lindsey Graham may be one of the best senators of all time.
00:02:53.000 Again, Lindsey Graham stood for American strength.
00:02:56.000 These jacked Stand for American weakness, surrender, and collapse.
00:03:00.000 They think America is a nefarious force abroad, that America's allies are the problem, that terrorists are basically just freedom fighters against American and Western imperialism.
00:03:08.000 They're propagandists for the people who would love to see America laid low.
00:03:12.000 And of course, they help each other.
00:03:14.000 This isn't about connecting the dots, it's the same dot.
00:03:16.000 They believe basically the same things.
00:03:18.000 They may disagree from time to time about issues like transing of the kids, but that's kind of the only issue. 0.99
00:03:23.000 The rest of the time, they're aligned on the really important thing, which is that America sucks and that America. 0.99
00:03:28.000 If those who stand for her, her allies, all of them are just wicked in the world. 0.99
00:03:33.000 So here's the thing. 0.98
00:03:34.000 When you think America is imperialistic, when you think it's evil, when you think the world would be better off if we were governed by the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, you know, all of the people who hate America the most, that our enemies are better than our allies and that those who stand for America deserve to die, you're the bad guy.
00:03:49.000 I wish I were exaggerating here, but they all pretty much just said it out loud over the weekend.
00:03:54.000 Well, all the worst people are very, very excited about Lindsey Graham's death.
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00:05:03.000 So it began with the Iranian state media.
00:05:05.000 Iranian state media, of course, were ecstatic at Lindsey Graham's death because Graham had been a longtime critic of the Islamic revolutionary regime in Iran.
00:05:14.000 They put out a statement, quote, I would like to offer my congratulations to the great nation of Iran on Lindsey Graham reaching the depths of hell.
00:05:21.000 I offer my congratulations to the great nation of Iran on the death of this warmongering and anti Iranian American senator.
00:05:28.000 Alexander Dugan in Russia was also very, very excited about the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:05:33.000 And of course, so were all of the worst people in America.
00:05:37.000 Alexander Dugan, by the way, of course, he said that actually he tried to blame it on the Israelis.
00:05:41.000 There were rumors over the weekend that maybe Lindsey Graham had been assassinated because of his sudden mode of death.
00:05:47.000 There's no information to suggest that he was actually assassinated.
00:05:49.000 His family says that he died of an aortic anomaly.
00:05:53.000 But Alexander Dugan tried to blame it on wait for it, wait for it, Mossad.
00:05:56.000 Of course, of course. 0.96
00:05:58.000 He said Lindsey Graham was a shadow of Trump, his black self. 0.84
00:06:01.000 Okay, but Hassan Piker, he was out there doing the routine.
00:06:05.000 Hassan Piker, remember, this guy openly campaigned with Democratic candidates on the regular.
00:06:10.000 He's with Zoran Mandomini in New York.
00:06:11.000 He's with Abdul El Sayed.
00:06:12.000 By the way, I got to mention, the left is much more upset with the death of Ayatollah Khomeini, the hard left.
00:06:19.000 The dirtbag left.
00:06:20.000 The DSA, way more upset with the death of Ayatollah Khomeini than they were with the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:06:25.000 Very happy, many of them, about the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:06:28.000 Here's Hassan Piker again, somebody the New York Times can't spend too much time glazing, praising the death of Lindsey Graham. 0.77
00:06:37.000 Lindsey Graham, in a long list of demonic entities, was exceptionally bloodthirsty. 0.96
00:06:45.000 A bloodthirsty, odious monster who loved war. 0.70
00:06:48.000 There was never a war that Lindsey Graham. 0.92
00:06:52.000 Did not fall in love with Mr. Ladybug himself. 0.55
00:06:56.000 And the ultimate irony, the ultimate irony of the situation is that he achieved him and his best friend, John McCain's dream of bombing Iran.
00:07:08.000 A fierce defender of the genocide in Gaza, Lindsey Graham never met a baby in the third world. 0.69
00:07:15.000 He did not want to evaporate with American munitions.
00:07:21.000 I mean, Hassan Piker, of course, is. 0.99
00:07:23.000 Perhaps the biggest scumbag in American public life. 0.97
00:07:26.000 He's saying all this, by the way, flanked by the flag of China behind him. 0.99
00:07:30.000 It's astonishing.
00:07:31.000 Tucker Carlson, though, believes exactly the same thing as Hassan Piker.
00:07:34.000 Indistinguishable.
00:07:36.000 Here is Tucker Carlson saying exactly the same thing as Hassan Piker because, again, they believe the same things. 1.00
00:07:43.000 Killing is the point of Lindsey Graham's political career.
00:07:49.000 Trying to convince the rest of us to get on board with killing when we won't, screaming at us and calling his names, and you're the hater because you're not on board with killing this or that person. 0.99
00:07:58.000 It's all about killing people. 0.80
00:07:59.000 A staunch supporter of really one of the most brutal dictators, let's just say it out loud, in Europe in 80 years. 0.96
00:08:06.000 And that would be Zelensky, the unelected dictator of Ukraine, who's basically devoting half of his life to extinguishing Christianity in Ukraine.
00:08:16.000 All of us are supposed to ignore that, but it's actually happening putting priests in jail, killing his political opponents, murdering critics.
00:08:23.000 That's happening right now. 0.86
00:08:25.000 Lindsey Graham, of course, loves him because he's doing a lot of killing, killing the right people, as Lindsey put it. 0.95
00:08:30.000 Tucker Carlson suggested that Lindsey Graham was a murderer because Lindsey Graham had a psychosexual fetish with violence. 0.77
00:08:36.000 There's a Tucker Carlson, Hassan Piker, same person.
00:08:39.000 Nick Fuentes put out a tweet saying good riddance after Lindsey Graham's death, which was an identical tweet to the tweet put out by Anna Kasparian, who has lost her ever loving mind over the course of the last couple of years.
00:08:51.000 She also put out, again, same exact words, good riddance.
00:08:54.000 Indistinguishable.
00:08:55.000 Remove the names, same words, Anna Kasparian, Nick Fuentes.
00:08:59.000 And then, of course, Anna Kasparian put out a tweet in which she said that she was elated that he was dead.
00:09:05.000 Of course, that was in 2020.
00:09:07.000 She actually put out a tweet saying that you shouldn't gloat over anyone's death.
00:09:10.000 And now, fast forward to 2026.
00:09:14.000 And she says that she's elated and overjoyed that Lindsey Graham is dead.
00:09:21.000 And the horseshoe is not even a horseshoe, it is just a dot.
00:09:24.000 They believe the same things.
00:09:26.000 They believe the same things. 0.98
00:09:29.000 It is just a gigantic circle jerk of mutual praise, this echo chamber of nastiness and evil and anti Americanism. 0.96
00:09:37.000 I mean, they all go on each other's podcasts. 0.80
00:09:42.000 This is their thing.
00:09:44.000 Whether it is Fuentes going on with Tucker.
00:09:49.000 Or whether it is Cenk going on with Tucker, whether it is Cenk going on with Piker, whether it is Anna going on with Cenk, whether it is Anna going on with Tucker, it's all the same thing over and over and over into forever.
00:10:03.000 And I think that if Lindsey Graham's death exposes one thing, it is that all the people who oppose him think the same thing, and that is that America is the problem on planet Earth, and that's why they're happy he's dead, because he was an advocate for American power on planet Earth.
00:10:15.000 Now, listen, I didn't always agree with Lindsey Graham and how.
00:10:18.000 His policies manifested as sort of his ideology.
00:10:21.000 So, for example, Lindsey Graham was very invested in the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi.
00:10:25.000 That's something that I opposed.
00:10:27.000 I thought that was a bad manifestation of a generally good ideology.
00:10:32.000 But is it good that he is dead?
00:10:34.000 Is that something that is good?
00:10:36.000 Because again, Tucker Carlson is the person who clutches his pearls when the Iranians fire a missile at Qatar at the same time that he defends Iran.
00:10:45.000 Anna Kasparian is a person who has openly called for the death of IDF troops.
00:10:52.000 And also is very much in favor of the death of Lindsey Graham.
00:10:58.000 And if you spend your days making sweet, sweet love to terrorist ideologies and being extremely nuanced about the death of the people who hate America the most, but you're absolutely crystal clear that when Lindsey Graham dies, it's a good thing, you're part of the problem.
00:11:15.000 Of course, part of the problem on the mainstream left is this is now bled over into the mainstream left.
00:11:20.000 You will find it no surprise that in the New York Times, there are contrasting headlines about Lindsey Graham.
00:11:25.000 And say, Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian terror master.
00:11:28.000 Pretty strong contrast. 0.99
00:11:29.000 Their headline about Lindsey Graham, quote, Lindsey Graham had a complicated relationship with black voters.
00:11:35.000 As opposed to, you know, Qasem Soleimani, the terror master, quote, Qasem Soleimani, master of Iran's intrigue, built a Shiite axis of power in the Middle East.
00:11:46.000 Or say, the Washington Post throwback headline about al Baghdadi, the terrorist leader of ISIS.
00:11:52.000 Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, austere religious scholar at the helm of Islamic State, dies at 48.
00:11:56.000 You can always count our legacy media.
00:11:59.000 To provide nuance for terrorists, but very little when it comes to Republican politicians who die.
00:12:07.000 Steve Schmidt, the former Republican who has made the full heel turn, he put out an entire piece ripping into Lindsey Graham.
00:12:14.000 Quote, Lindsey Graham was a lonely and unprincipled man who betrayed his country for power and his decency for attention. 1.00
00:12:19.000 He was a pathetic man. 0.88
00:12:21.000 He helped Trump divide America and break our alliance, his ideals and traditions. 1.00
00:12:24.000 He was no patriot.
00:12:25.000 Lindsey Graham made his choice.
00:12:27.000 Now again, the rip from Steve Schmidt on Graham is that Graham was too close to Trump.
00:12:31.000 That is not quite the rip that you're getting from these others.
00:12:34.000 The rip they're getting from these others is that he was inherently evil because he stood for American power in the world.
00:12:39.000 Which brings us to what actually Lindsey Graham did stand for.
00:12:42.000 And so, let us be clear. 0.95
00:12:44.000 Lindsey Graham is an American success story.
00:12:46.000 He was the son of pool hall owners.
00:12:48.000 They owned a bar.
00:12:49.000 He grew up helping his parents run the business.
00:12:51.000 They lived in a room behind the bar.
00:12:53.000 They moved into a mobile home.
00:12:54.000 He was the first person in his family to go to college.
00:12:56.000 His parents died 15 months apart from one another.
00:12:58.000 His mom had Hodgkin's lymphoma.
00:13:01.000 His dad died from a heart attack.
00:13:03.000 Graham became his sister, Darlene's legal guardian.
00:13:06.000 She's nine years younger than he is.
00:13:08.000 And she is the person who's going to be replacing him in the Senate.
00:13:11.000 Graham joined the Air Force ROTC, and then he served as an Air Force JAG officer, and then he was in the South Carolina National Guard and Air Force Reserve, and he retired as a colonel after spending 33 years serving the country.
00:13:21.000 He was in the U.S. House from 1995 to 2003, and then the U.S. Senate from 2003 until his death over the weekend, so 23 years.
00:13:30.000 He was an extraordinarily powerful senator.
00:13:32.000 He was chairing the Senate Budget Committee at the time of his death.
00:13:34.000 He had previously chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:13:36.000 He had served on the Appropriations, Armed Services, and Environment and Public Works Committee.
00:13:41.000 And of course, he was most famous for being extremely national security oriented, making sure that the United States remained at the forefront of military development.
00:13:52.000 He was the biggest defender of aid to Ukraine.
00:13:55.000 He was very much in favor of sanctions on Russia and Iran, very pro Israel, very pro Saudi.
00:14:01.000 He was very active in debates around NATO. 0.72
00:14:03.000 He thought it was important that America remain the global hegemon.
00:14:08.000 He, in the 1990s, was very active in the impeachment of Bill Clinton.
00:14:12.000 He was vocally critical of President Trump in 2016.
00:14:14.000 And then later became a close partner with President Trump.
00:14:17.000 He had some serious legislative accomplishments on issues ranging from law enforcement to the economy.
00:14:26.000 He was very hawkish on border security.
00:14:30.000 And of course, he was very much known as one of the most congenial members of the United States Senate.
00:14:36.000 Already coming up, we'll get into everything about Lindsey Graham.
00:14:40.000 Again, one of the great senators, truly one of the great senators.
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00:15:52.000 Here he was in 2010 joking with Elena Kagan when she was up for her position on the Supreme Court.
00:15:59.000 Christmas Day bomber, where are you at on Christmas Day?
00:16:03.000 Senator Graham, that is an undecided legal issue, which, well, I suppose I should ask exactly what you mean by that.
00:16:11.000 I'm assuming that the question you mean is whether a person who was apprehended in the United States is.
00:16:18.000 No, I just asked you where you were at on Christmas. 0.95
00:16:28.000 You know, like all Jews, I was probably at a Chinese restaurant. 1.00
00:16:33.000 Right in.
00:16:37.000 Again, pretty much everybody in the Senate got along with Graham.
00:16:40.000 Here was 2015 when everybody thought that Joe Biden was going to be retiring from politics.
00:16:44.000 Unfortunately for everyone, he didn't.
00:16:46.000 But here was Lindsey Graham back in 2015.
00:16:50.000 I called him after Bo died.
00:16:53.000 And he basically said, Well, Bo was my soul.
00:16:58.000 I've talked for a long time.
00:17:00.000 He came to my ceremony and said some of the most incredibly heartfelt things that anybody could ever say to me.
00:17:09.000 And he's the nicest person I think I've ever met in politics.
00:17:14.000 Is that right?
00:17:16.000 He is as good a man as God ever created.
00:17:19.000 And we don't agree on much, but I think he's been dealt a really gut blow.
00:17:26.000 I think he focuses on what he's got to do, not what he lost.
00:17:31.000 His heart's been ripped out, but he's going to make sure that.
00:17:34.000 The other members of his family's well taken care of, and he started talking about his grandkids.
00:17:39.000 More worried about them than anything.
00:17:43.000 Now, again, there were senators on the other side of the aisle who paid tribute to Lindsey Graham despite disagreeing with him routinely.
00:17:48.000 Al Franken was one of those people who paid tribute to him on X.
00:17:51.000 But this did not mean that Lindsey Graham was not a fighter.
00:17:54.000 Most famously, he started to be called Lindsey Graham 2.0 because during the Trump era, Lindsey Graham went from being one of the more conciliatory members of Congress, very often part of John McCain's gang of eight and all this kind of thing, to one of the more contentious members of Congress fighting against the radical left.
00:18:09.000 Here was Lindsey Graham going very hard, as you recall, at the nomination confirmation hearing for Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
00:18:17.000 There have been a bunch of scurrilous attacks on Kavanaugh's character, a bunch of completely unevidenced allegations about Kavanaugh and sexual impropriety back when he was a teenager.
00:18:26.000 And here was Lindsey Graham going extremely hard.
00:18:30.000 One thing I can tell you you should be proud of, Ashley, you should be proud of this that you raised a daughter who had the good character to pray for Dr. Ford.
00:18:43.000 To my Republican colleagues, if you vote no, you're legitimizing the most despicable thing I have seen in my time in politics.
00:18:54.000 You want this seat?
00:18:56.000 I hope you never get it.
00:18:58.000 I hope you're on the Supreme Court.
00:19:00.000 That's exactly where you should be.
00:19:03.000 And I hope that the American people will see through this charade.
00:19:08.000 And back in 2018, same year, Lindsey Graham 2.0, he famously said on CNN, they were.
00:19:14.000 Ripping into him about working with President Trump, and he said, Well, I don't really care. 0.99
00:19:20.000 If you don't like me working with President Trump to make the world a better place, I don't give a shit. 0.98
00:19:28.000 Back in 2025, Graham spoke at the Republican Jewish Coalition, and he talked about the threat from the so called new right. 0.99
00:19:35.000 Here's what he had to say But I just want to make it really clear I'm in the Hitler sucks wing of the Republican Party. 0.94
00:19:49.000 What is this Hitler? 0.98
00:19:50.000 I don't know. 0.66
00:19:51.000 Anyway, here's what I do know.
00:19:56.000 You can sit in a basement with weird people and say weird things.
00:20:02.000 It's a free country, right? 0.99
00:20:04.000 But if you ever run for office as a Republican and you embrace this weird, we're going to beat your brains out.
00:20:15.000 Graham was in Kyiv about 24 hours before his death, where he was talking about something significantly more serious.
00:20:20.000 He's talking about bipartisan toughening of sanctions on Russia.
00:20:22.000 And he was stalwart in favor of backing the Russians down in Ukraine.
00:20:27.000 Here was Senator Graham about 24 hours before his untimely death.
00:20:31.000 We've reached agreement with the White House on a version of the Russian sanctions bill that they will support.
00:20:40.000 It means it's going to become law. 0.70
00:20:43.000 So when I get back to Washington, I'm going to go with Senator Blumenthal to the Republican and Democratic leader to see if we can find time to move this Russian sanctions package that would give tools to President Trump to help end this war.
00:21:00.000 I think we've got the best chance since I've been coming here in the last five years to get Putin to the peace table.
00:21:09.000 Again, it was because Graham died so suddenly that people had conspiracy theories about his death.
00:21:14.000 In fact, Axios reported that just before Graham died, he had complained that he was feeling unwell.
00:21:21.000 He had talked with President Trump earlier in the evening.
00:21:23.000 Somebody urged him to seek medical attention, and he said that he would do so after he appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday.
00:21:30.000 And then he said, I can't die now.
00:21:31.000 I still need to do the Russian sanctions, get Iran sorted out to Israeli Saudi normalization.
00:21:37.000 So, again, the man had priorities on his mind.
00:21:41.000 The Daily Wire's Ben Dominich put out a really nice tweet talking about what Graham was like interpersonally.
00:21:48.000 He said, I called Lindsey Graham a dangerously insane neocon.
00:21:50.000 And the next time we saw each other, he hugged me and said, Everybody's got an opinion.
00:21:54.000 Well, the tributes came in from those who don't hate America, actually.
00:21:59.000 Over the weekend, President Trump had this to say about his friend Lindsey Graham.
00:22:05.000 I got a message about 1 o'clock in the morning from one of the people at his office that he had passed away.
00:22:12.000 I said, I just can't believe it.
00:22:15.000 He was like a member of the family to me.
00:22:17.000 It's very tough, actually.
00:22:19.000 It's amazing.
00:22:20.000 Mr. President?
00:22:22.000 He was such an advocate.
00:22:24.000 If he wanted to get something, and he had a unique ability, he was able to deal with Democrats and Republicans.
00:22:31.000 If I had a problem, a real problem, I wouldn't often ask.
00:22:35.000 But if I had a problem with a Democrat, he could work it out.
00:22:39.000 He was a great politician, actually.
00:22:43.000 And again, Senator Cory Booker, who's on the left, obviously was complimentary of Senator Graham. 0.94
00:22:50.000 One of the White House negotiators during that first negotiation told me that Lindsey Graham was like an unguided missile.
00:22:58.000 That God, he never knew which way he was going to go, whether he would come back and hit you.
00:23:03.000 But when he was aligned, when he would be in the right place at the right time.man,he could get things done that other people couldn't and bring a lot of lightand new possibilities to the efforts.I am stunned at Lindsey Graham's death,but I pray that he is reunited with his friend,John McCain,that they both are experiencing God's love,grace,
00:23:25.000 mercy, and forgiveness.my prayers are with his family and all those who loved and cherished him.I will missmyperhaps most unexpected friend in the Senateand someone with whom I got some good things. As I've mentioned a couple of times,
00:23:43.000 we had a very busy week and very, very busy weekend. We had a baby. But here's the thing we knew our baby well before he was born. And guess what? Same baby inside. Now we keep saying this to each other. My wife and I kept turning to each other over the weekend. We went in like 1 a.m. She got induced. And by 5 25 or so, the baby was born. And we kept turning to each other and thinking to ourselves, you know, 24 hours ago, that baby was still inside your body. And now the baby is out here and we're holding that same baby before and after,
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00:25:04.000 put out a series of tweets praising Senator Graham. At the end of a particularly thrilling and rollicking meeting in the Oval Office, Lindsey Graham turned to the room and said, I've never had this much fun in my life. I cannot describe to you how much joy President Trump's leadership and friendship brought to Lindsey. Meetings with Graham at the White House were filled with camaraderie, kinship, and uproarious laughter. As heartbreaking as his sudden passing is, I hope it will bring some measure of comfort to those who cherished him to know just how much he was living his dream every day. Very rarely in life do you get to be exactly where you want to be, when you want to be there, with who you want to be with,
00:25:32.000 doing precisely what you want to do. That was every moment for Lindsey. And I think that that is true. So the Senate seat in South Carolina will now be up for a special election. In the interim, the president recommended that Senator Graham's sister, Darlene,
00:25:45.000 who again he cared for from the time that she was a child and his parents died early, will be replacing her. Darlene had this to say about her brother. I want to thank the governor for selecting me to serve the remainder of Lindsay's term. It is such an honor. Lindsay has always been there for me,
00:26:07.000 and now I will be there for him. The South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appointed Darlene to the open senatorial seat held by her brother. It is yet to be announced whether she's going to stand for election in the fall. I assume that she will. Lindsay took care of his little sister in years long departed. It's my honor to ask his little sister,
00:26:34.000 Darlene Graham, to finish his work for him now. And by the way, Darlene, I don't know if I told you, but after we spoke on the phone in the wee hours of Sunday morning and you agreed to serve through tears earlier,
00:26:54.000 I had wondered what you would say. And I was humbled by your quickness to see the duty that you had to serve. And I called the president afterwards, and he thought it was a great idea. And I'm sure that everyone here does as well. Senator Graham was one of the good ones. He will be missed. Obviously,
00:27:23.000 Senator Graham's ideology was at core extraordinarily pro America, American exceptionalism. And that is why he believed that America should, in fact, be the great global power that it is. What an amazing video you just watched! Wasn't that amazing? Well, you know, if you think so, head on over to dailywire.comslash subscribe to watch the full show ad free or check out this crazy story here.