Replacing Lindsey Graham, The "Conspiracy Right," and TPUSA's Newest Event

**Charlie Kirk** (0:03)
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**Blake** (1:17)
Hello. Good afternoon to all of you on the East Coast here from the Y-Refi Studio. Andrew is out today, so I'll be flying solo. I have the Y-Refi mic flag all to myself and I'm very excited about that. We have a very fun show today. We'll be talking to John Doyle again. We'll be talking to Mark Halperin about the political ramifications of Senator Lindsey Graham's death and the struggle to replace him. We're going to talk to two students who were just at our chapter leadership summit about their experience, about the continued fight to further Charlie's mission to turn the tide with young people, to lead a revival, to win back America. We're also going to show you all a preview, which the kids at CLS just saw, for the upcoming Turning Point Men's Leadership Retreat. It's a very interesting thing they're going for and I think you guys are going to be excited to check it out.
But first, we talked a little bit about this yesterday, but I wanted to take more time for us to reflect on the life and the legacy of Senator Lindsey Graham, because I don't think it's controversial to say that his death shakes up the Senate, shakes up the Republican Party more than almost any other Senators loss could, because for, Charlie talked about Senator Graham, or Lady Graham, as he often called him, probably more than any other Senator who wasn't a regular on the show as a guest. And we know that there's a reason for that. The reason for that is Senator Graham was a long serving, but often rather frustrating Republican. I don't think Senator Graham himself would object to the idea that he represented an earlier era for the Republican Party. Lindsey Graham was first elected to the Senate in 2002 And in a lot of ways for Lindsey Graham, it was always 2002
Senator Graham championed the Iraq War, the Afghan War for the entire duration of it, and he opposed the pullout when it happened. He supported the Libya intervention to bring down Gaddafi. He supported strikes on Syria, regime change efforts there. He was calling for airstrikes on Iran all the way back in 2010 He would be very happy to see President Trump resuming strikes on Iran in these past two days, and we'll talk more about that later today.
Unsurprisingly, Senator Graham backed Ukraine to the hilt, and that's exactly why we already see conspiracy theories. He was in Ukraine just a few days ago, and there's theories maybe Russia was able to poison him, hurt him in some way and cause his death. I don't think that was the case, but you can see why people would believe it. If you're a Russian and you're trying to make a list of your enemies in America, Senator Lindsey Graham might literally be number one. He's certainly in the top three.
And it's unsurprising that in the days since Graham's death, Senator Chuck Schumer of the Democrats has said, the best way we can honor Senator Graham is to impose new sanctions on Russia. Let's do clip two.

**Chuck Schumer** (4:25)
Well, Mr. President, my prayers and those of my family are with Senator Graham's family, staff and friends after his sudden, sudden passing yesterday. I urge Senator Thune, in honor of Lindsey, to put the sanctions, the Russian sanctions bill on the floor immediately. It will pass overwhelmingly and help our allies in Ukraine.
Not seeing eye to eye is no reason to be blind to the way forward. Lindsey could understand that every senator ought to do the same.