Lindsey Graham is the top US senator from South Carolina and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Graham identifies as a Republican, but her political views have been questioned over the years. Initially, she was willing to be bipartisan early in her political career and was willing to work with Democrats on issues like judicial nominees.
After dropping out of the 2016 presidential race, Graham was a staunch critic of Trump. Graham took issue with Trump’s comments about his friend, Sen. John McCain. Remarkably, in early 2017, Graham reversed his stance on Trump and is now a vocal Trump supporter. Graham’s political views may have wavered over the years, but the status of their relationship has been pretty stable.
This piece will be about Lindsey Graham’s relationships. We can confirm that he is not married.
He came close to getting married while working in Germany.
Before Graham became a politician, he worked for the US Air Force. When he was 20 years old, he was about to marry a woman named Sylvia while she was working in Germany at the Rhein-Main airbase. Graham’s roommate married Sylvia’s roommate, but Graham’s relationship with Sylvia didn’t work out. He said herald online:
“Her mother was older and I was not going to stay in Germany. I didn’t think she wanted to go back to South Carolina.”
It was the closest Graham had come to getting married.
You have had to answer questions about your decision to remain single
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Graham’s relationship status came under the spotlight when he announced he would run for president in 2016. History was not on his side, as only one US president, James Buchanan, had managed to remain single. Grover Cleveland and Woodrow Wilson took office as bachelors, but were married in office.
Lindsey’s single status dominated headlines during her campaign in 2015. She spoke with POLITICAL on his decision to remain single:
“I’ve been close once from the start, [as I was] Taking care of my sister. It’s something I don’t really know the answer to, other than I think it’s okay. At the end of the day, there is nothing wrong with not being married. Having a marriage and a good family and children is a blessing. But I don’t think I’m a flawed person in any way.”
Graham had stated that his sister, Darline Graham Nordone, and her friends would fill the role of rotating First Lady if he were elected president. He later clarified that he was joking and claimed that he has a loving family despite not being married. He continued:
“You can be single and still have a family. I have a big family: my aunt and uncle, I try to take care of them because they took care of me. There are millions of single people. I don’t think they need to answer, ‘Why are you single?’… I don’t think there’s anything that would disqualify you from being single.”
He was accused of being gay by comedian Chelsea Handler.
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Lindsey has been single for a long time and has attracted gay rumors. She made it clear in a New York Times interview in 2010 that he is not gay:
“I know it’s going to upset a lot of gay men, I’m sure hundreds of them will jump off the Golden Gate Bridge, but I’m not available. I’m not gay. Sorry.”
Chelsea Handler is an outspoken critic of the Trump administration, and she’s no stranger to taking on Republicans. In January 2018, she declared in a vulgar tweet that Graham was being blackmailed to support the Republicans because they had a video that could show him as gay. Later in 2018, he posted the following tweet:
If you’re wondering why Republicans took a sick day today, it’s probably because it’s #NationalComingOutDay. Watching you @LindseyGrahamSC.”
Handler has been criticized for her tweets and Graham says she is not paying attention. He said TMZ:
“I don’t really believe what she says at all. If she wants to live her life that way, that’s up to her. She doesn’t know anything about me… [her tweets]I don’t think they reflect well on her. As far as it matters, I’m not gay.”
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