Darline Graham focuses on kitchen-table issues as she announces full-term Senate bid

Sen. Darline Graham, R-S.C., nan sister of precocious Sen. Lindsey Graham, outlined her governmental priorities successful an exclusive question and reply pinch "Hannity" connected Monday arsenic she announced she would tally for a afloat Senate word successful November.

"He's worked truthful difficult for truthful long. I can’t conscionable fto that die. I've sewage to measurement successful and transportation connected his legacy," she said during her first question and reply since Lindsey’s death.

"I cognize he cared astir nan people of South Carolina truthful deeply. He worked truthful difficult for them. And I consciousness for illustration I tin do that, too. He taught maine well," she added.

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Darline Graham Nordone speaks during a property convention extracurricular nan governor's South Carolina State House agency successful Columbia, S.C. South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster announced that nan remaining word of Sen. Lindsey Graham's U.S. Senate spot will beryllium filled by his sister, Darline Graham Nordone, pursuing Graham's decease connected July 11. Grant Baldwin/Getty Images (Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)

After being appointed by South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster past week to service retired nan remainder of her precocious brother’s Senate term until January 2027, Graham announced Monday that she will tally for a full, six-year term.

Graham, South Carolina’s first female U.S. Senator, told Fox News she feels an "inner peace" astir succeeding her brother successful representing The Palmetto State.

"It is simply a tremendous magnitude of pressure," she said.

"I consciousness for illustration I tin do it. I consciousness an soul bid astir it."

Graham said that dissimilar Lindsey, who was passionate astir ending nan Russia-Ukraine conflict, she plans to attraction chiefly connected home issues alternatively than overseas argumentation and spot greater accent connected day-to-day concerns of South Carolinians.

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"I utilized to spot him connected nan talk shows. I would watch him and I'd beryllium like, ‘Lindsey, are you conscionable talking astir nationalist information each nan time?'," she explained. "And I understand that's important. Protecting our borders, nationalist security, absolutely."

Former Sen. Lindsey Graham, left, pictured alongside his sister, Darline Graham Nordone, right. ( )

"I said, ‘But talk astir besides what matters to nan mean person. The value of groceries, nan value of gas, wellness care. Insurance, those benignant of things.’ That's what I'm worried about."

Lindsey Graham died abruptly connected July 11 astatine property 71. His origin of decease was later identified arsenic an aortic dissection owed to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.

"It's been tough, highly tough," Darline Graham told big Sean Hannity.

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"He was everything, he was my rock. He was my brother, my mother, and my father," she added.

Since 2019, Graham has served arsenic a commissioner for South Carolina’s Commission for nan Blind, overseeing a $90 cardinal budget. The statement helps group who are unsighted aliases visually impaired group find employment.

"It was a passion of mine, but I person a servant's heart," she said. "You person to person a servant's bosom for a occupation for illustration that."

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