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Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
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What happenedSen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
The headline splitThe center frames it as "Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina". The right frames it as "Friends of Lindsey Graham Remember Late Senator in South Carolina Funeral".
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CenterLindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
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Right / center-rightFriends of Lindsey Graham Remember Late Senator in South Carolina Funeral
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved.
Lindsey Graham returns home one last time for his funeral in South Carolina
Mourners in Columbia recalled Lindsey Graham as the son of pool hall owners who “was born with a plastic fork in his mouth,” as former Rep. Trey Gowdy put it.
