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This 2016 campaign ad from Lindsey Graham's short-lived Republican presidential run leans heavily on his hawkish foreign policy credentials, featuring photographs with his close ally Senator John McCain. Graham dropped out of the race before the primaries began, but the ad captures a version of Graham that would look almost unrecognizable within a year, a foreign policy hardliner defined by his partnership with McCain rather than any connection to Donald Trump, who Graham was then actively campaigning against.
Following Graham's death this week at 71, the ad stands as a snapshot of the political identity he held before one of the most complete realignments of his career.
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