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Donald Trump is due to meet Darline Graham – the sister of the late Republican senator Lindsey Graham, was sworn in to temporarily fill his Senate seat – later today.
The president will meet with the new senator, just five days after her brother’s sudden death, in the Oval Office at 9.30am local time. Graham was appointed on Tuesday by Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor, to fill the remainder of her brother Lindsey’s current term.
Lindsey died on Saturday night, aged 71, after what his office called a “brief and sudden illness”. The chief
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