00:00South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham died unexpectedly over the weekend at the age of 71.
00:06It sets up a succession drama in the state less than four months before the midterm elections.
00:11For more, let's go to Washington and Bloomberg senior editor Wendy Benjaminson.
00:15Wendy, first of all, start us off with the legacy of Senator Graham.
00:18Of course, he was an icon in Congress with more than two decades of service.
00:23Yes, in fact, he was either a member of the House of Representatives or a senator for the last 30
00:29years.
00:30He has basically three segments to his legacy.
00:36He was a leader of the Judiciary Committee and was responsible for getting through nominations to the Supreme Court,
00:44controversial ones like Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, two very conservative Trump appointees.
00:50He was on the Budget Committee where he created sort of the modern reconciliation process
00:57where the Senate doesn't need 60 votes.
01:00It only needs a simple majority to pass a president's spending plan.
01:04And then lately, he has used his hawkish foreign policy positions
01:10to push the isolationist MAGA movement into a more interventionist stance around the world,
01:17particularly in Ukraine.
01:18So he was a leader of the United States of Congress.
01:19And he was a leader of the United States of Congress.
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