Image: Darline Graham Nordone speaks during a press conference on Monday in Columbia, S.C., where she was named by Gov. Henry McMaster, front right, to serve the remaining months of the term of her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who died Saturday. (Grant Baldwin/Getty Images)

Mary Ellen McIntire of Roll Call reports: “Darline Graham Nordone, the sister of the late South Carolina GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham, will fill his Senate seat through the end of his term in January, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster announced Monday.

“Lindsey took care of his little sister in years long departed,” McMaster said at a news conference in Columbia, referring to Graham becoming his then teenage sister’s legal guardian after their parents died within 15 months of each other. “It’s my honor to ask his little sister, Darline Graham, to finish his work for him now.”

The late senator, a close ally of President Donald Trump, died Saturday evening from a tear in his aorta, according to a preliminary medical examiner report shared by his office…”

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