Lindsey Graham’s sister appointed to serve rest of Republican’s Senate term

South Carolina governor asks Darline Graham Nordone to replace senator who died on Saturday, after Trump recommendation Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email Henry McMaster, South Carolina’s governor, appointed Lindsey Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to replace him in the Senate following his death on Saturday, after Donald Trump recommended that she be given the role. Her appointment was welcomed by lawmakers from both parties, who saw Nordone as an appropriate replacement for the brother who had raised her after their parents died when she was a teenager. “Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed. It’s my honor to ask his little sister, Darline Graham, to finish his work for him now,” the Republican governor said at a press conference convened at South Carolina’s state capital in Columbia. Surrounded by the grieving family and friends of Graham as well as Tim Scott, who is now the state’s senior US senator following his colleague’s death, McMaster called Lindsey Graham an “irreplaceable” and “extraordinary” man. In brief remarks Nordone, 64, said: “Lindsey has always been there for me, and now I will be there for