When Graham ran for President in 2015, Nordone introduced her brother to a crowd in South Carolina, describing their bond and sharing details about their upbringing, during which she said they grew up in “not one bedroom, but one room” located behind a bar that their parents ran.
“It is truly my honor to present to you the next president of the United States, Lindsey Graham,” she said.
Graham, 71, died on Saturday of an aortic dissection, in which a tear occurs in the heart’s main artery, according to preliminary findings from the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office. The tear occurred due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, per the findings.
A death certificate is pending “until all the toxicological and microscopic testing are finalized,” at which point the certificate “will be updated to reflect the cause of death and appropriately classify the manner of death,” the office said.