What Lindsey Graham's death could mean for US foreign policy

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : A day before his death he joined a group of bipartisan senators in announcing an updated package of sanctions targeting Russia's oil industry that they hoped Trump would eventually back.
41% : He never wavered in backing Israel, even as its military campaign in Gaza in response to the Hamas-led Oct. 7, 2023, attack drew widespread international condemnation over its humanitarian toll.
37% : But his death is unlikely to immediately change the overall direction of U.S. foreign policy, whether toward China, Iran, Israel, or other places where internationalist Republicans and the party's more nationalist "America First" faction have been dueling for policy supremacy during Trump's second term.
28% : He described the danger confronting Israel as "Hiroshima and Nagasaki on steroids.
18% : After Washington suspended some military aid to Israel in May 2024 as the humanitarian crisis in Gaza deteriorated, Graham pressed then-Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to restore support, saying Israel should receive "what they need to fight the war."
17% : Alongside Israel, Trump started a war with Iran over its nuclear and ballistic missile program.

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