By Seanna Adcox | Editor-in-chief
The public funeral service for the late Lindsey Graham begins at noon at First Baptist Church in downtown Columbia. If you’re going, you’ll want to arrive early to get a seat in the sanctuary that holds 3,400. Doors open at 10 a.m. As a reminder: There’s a clear bag policy for entry, though clutches or wallets are allowed. There are six parking garages in the area. For links that map those options, click here and scroll to the bottom.
For those who’d rather stay outside and watch the procession: The proceedings start on Statehouse grounds at 10:45 a.m. Following an F-16 flyover, the caisson will carry Graham’s casket up Main Street to the church. The forecast calls for clear skies all day.
Yesterday, reporters in States Newsroom’s D.C. bureau covered the memorial at the Capitol, while Skylar Laird watched the livestream of the service at the National Cathedral.
“For more than 30 years, nothing of consequence happened in the Capitol without Lindsey Graham knowing about it.” - President Donald Trump in his eulogy of the late senator at the National Cathedral.
President Donald Trump speaks at a memorial service for U.S. Sen Lindsey Graham at the National Cathedral in Washington. (Screenshot of Washington National Cathedral livestream)
By Skylar Laird
President Donald Trump remembered the late U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham as an American idealist, a good golf buddy and “one of the great figures in Senate history” during a memorial service Tuesday in the nation’s capital. Other speakers at the National Cathedral included Graham’s niece and Fox News host Sean Hannity. World leaders who flew in for the service included Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Family, staff and current and former lawmakers filed past the flag-draped casket of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda on Tuesday. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)
By Ashley Murray
Members of Congress paid tribute to their longtime colleague, the late Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda Tuesday morning. Vice President JD Vance, Senate Majority Leader John Thune, R-S.D., and U.S. Rep. Sheri Biggs, R-S.C., remembered the South Carolina lawmaker as a staunch conservative with a sense of humor who never forgot his humble roots in a small town.
After the filing deadline ended at noon Tuesday, the state Republican Party decertified three of the 12 candidates who turned in paperwork to run for Senate. (Stock photo by Yin Yang/Getty Images)
By Me
The South Carolina Republican Party decertified three candidates vying to replace the late Lindsey Graham as the GOP nominee, shrinking the Aug. 11 ballot to nine candidates. Two people filed shortly before yesterday’s noon deadline, bringing the total number of filers to 12. But three of them didn’t meet the party’s rules for being a Republican candidate.
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