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How Lindsey Graham Lost the Midterms

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How Lindsey Graham Lost the Midterms
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The biggest political loser of the 2026 midterms wasn’t even on the ballot—because he’d died nearly four months earlier. This election was not so much a referendum on Donald Trump as it was a referendum on Sen. Lindsey Graham. The Republican Party that faced voters on Nov. 3 was not the party Trump led on election night 2024. It was instead a GOP defined by the late Senator Graham’s vision of the party, which the Trump administration had unwisely, indeed unfathomably,

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