Inside the Final Days of Darline Graham’s Reluctant Senate Run

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ROCK HILL, S.C.—Darline Graham had just been sworn in to finish her late brother’s Senate term this summer when she was in the Oval Office trying to coax President Trump to support Lindsey Graham’s Russia sanctions bill. Trump was reluctant, but her brother had been obsessed with the bill, Graham said in an interview. Graham told the president that he could blame a grieving sister for any fallout. Trump chuckled and told her, “You’re tough.” It was then that Trump asked her to run for the full six-year term, she said, something she said she hadn’t previously considered. Trump later…

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