SOUTH Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, who is a fierce supporter of Donald Trump, has gained a lot of media attention over his love life.
Mr Graham came close to marrying a young lady in his 20s, but the relationship broke off.
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Is Lindsey Graham married?
South Carolina senator Lindsey Graham is unmarried.
Graham claimed he almost married a flight attendant named Sylvia, who he met while living in Germany in his late 20s, but the relationship didn’t last, according to Herald Online.
Graham said of the relationship: “Her mother was elderly, and I wasn’t going to stay in Germany.
“I didn’t think she wanted to come back to South Carolina.”
This is the closest he said he has ever come to marrying.
Graham prompted a flurry of headlines years ago when the Daily Mail quizzed him about his private life and position in politics.
When asked who would be his First Lady if he were to become president, he responded, “well, I’ve got a sister – she could play that role if necessary,” adding, “I’ve got a lot of friends. We’ll have a rotating first lady.”
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Does he have any children?
As well as having never been married, Graham also never had any children.
Graham told Politico in 2015: “Having a marriage and a good family and children is a blessing. But I don’t think I’m a defective person by any means.
“It’s something I really don’t know the answer to, other than I think it’s OK. At the end of the day, there’s nothing wrong about not being married.
“You can be single and still have a family.
“I very much have a family – my aunt and uncle, I try to take care of because they took care of me.
“There are millions of people who are single. I don’t think they need to answer, ‘Why are you single?’… I don’t think there’s anything disqualifying about being single.”
Who’s his sister Darline Graham Nordone?
Darline Graham Nordone is Graham’s younger sister.
Nordone is married with two children, according to the Charlotte Observer.
When Graham bid to run for president back in 2016, he made caring for his sister after their parents died, when he was only 22 and Darline was 13, a central part of his campaign.
He used it to stress his commitment to family and to preserve safety-net programs that help people who fall on hard times.
Nordone, who lives in Lexington, has said Graham always has been a father figure to her.
Graham later adopted his sister so she could receive his medical benefits.
He refused to take a Covid test before a debate against his Democratic challenger Jamie Harrison, prompting the event’s cancelation.
In October 2020, he said systemic racism didn’t exist in the state of South Carolina.
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What did Jen Psaki say about Lindsey Graham?
White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki came under fire in early February 2021 after she described Graham in a Twitter post from August 5, 2020, as “Lady G”.
Several people deemed it “offensive” and “tone deaf,” and called on her to apologize.
“Only in 2020 does #LadyG get to push a bunch of debunked conspiracy theories while questioning @SallyQYates (aka an American hero),” Psaki tweeted as former acting attorney general Sally Yates was set to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which Graham chairs.
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The hashtags #LadyG and #LadyGraham trended on Twitter in 2020 after a gay porn star made a series of allegations against the South Carolina lawmaker online and claimed “Lady G” was his nickname among male sex workers, NY Post reported.
Psaki’s tweet appeared to be a reference to a 2020 Washington Post article that detailed allegations made on Twitter by gay porn star Sean Harding against Graham.
A Twitter user, @CassyWearsHeels, described Psaki’s post as a “homophobic tweet…used as a gay slur to trash Lindsey Graham”.
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