Eric McDaniel
speaker
828 appearances
99 recordings
3 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Eric McDaniel’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 99 in all, peaking in Jun 2026 with 38.
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President Trump is again escalating his war with Iran.
More American troops have died.
Gas prices as of this morning are again over $4, according to AAA.
And polling shows the cost of living and affordability are Americans' chief concerns.
And that's the context that Republicans have with maybe a two-vote margin in the House when they're hoping to take votes on the president's priorities before they head home to sell their record to constituents in hopes of getting reelected this fall.
Gerrymandering and partisan sorting all mean that fewer lawmakers are actually at risk of losing their jobs than you might assume.
But when the margin of control in Washington is so slim, there are still maybe a dozen or so Republicans who are probably sweating the idea of casting a vote to, say, give billions more to an expanding war effort as part of what's known as a reconciliation bill without anything new to pay for that spending when political headwinds are already blowing against them.
President Trump is insistent that Senate Republicans pass his election security legislation, the Save America Act.
That's a problem for Senate Republicans because they don't have enough votes to do it.
It would require 60 votes to pass, and currently there are only 51 Senate Republicans able to show up for votes.
The president has derailed his own intel chief confirmation hearings and the renewal of a key piece of spy legislation, as well as the implementation of a bipartisan housing bill, which went into effect without his signature, all in protest of the chamber's math problem.
Now Graham's death leaves both President Trump and Senate Republicans short a reliable go-between and consistent GOP vote, as they try and do the basics, like fund the government, in an election year.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News, Florence, South Carolina.
Emergency services personnel arrived at Graham's home in the evening Saturday.
Dispatch audio reviewed by NPR indicated they found someone in cardiac arrest at Graham's home.
In the early hours of Sunday morning, Senator Graham's office released a statement saying that the senator had died of a brief and sudden illness.
The medical examiner's statement shared by the office indicates that the cause of death will not be finalized until additional standard testing, including toxicology, is completed.
Eric McDaniel, NPR News.
Trump said he spoke to Graham by phone Saturday night after the senator returned from a trip abroad.
He remembered the South Carolinian as a loyal ally who fiercely advocated for the president's agenda, despite an acrimonious 2016 Republican primary fight.
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