{"id":42697,"date":"2026-07-14T18:46:48","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=42697"},"modified":"2026-07-14T18:46:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T22:46:48","slug":"vinson-offers-insights-about-lindsey-graham-on-background-briefing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/vinson-offers-insights-about-lindsey-graham-on-background-briefing\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinson offers insights about Lindsey Graham on &#8216;Background Briefing&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/people\/danielle-vinson\/\">Danielle Vinson<\/a> joined Ian Masters&#8217; syndicated radio show <a href=\"https:\/\/www.backgroundbriefing.org\/\">&#8220;Background Briefing&#8221;<\/a> to discuss the late South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham. The program aired on Berkeley, California, station <a href=\"https:\/\/kpfa.org\/player\/?audio=481955\">94.1 KPFA<\/a> (at the 26-minute mark) and others. Vinson, a professor of politics and international affairs, spoke to Masters about Graham&#8217;s upbringing, Governor Henry McMaster&#8217;s interim appointment of Darline Graham Nordone to the post, and what circumstances led to Graham&#8217;s evolution from foe of President Donald Trump to staunch ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Danielle Vinson speaks to longtime radio host Ian Masters about the late Sen. Graham, the appointment of Graham&#8217;s sister to the interim post, and Graham&#8217;s complicated evolution from Trump foe to trusted ally.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":37486,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3540,6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-42697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-background-briefing","category-in-the-news","category-politics-and-international-affairs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42697"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42708,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42697\/revisions\/42708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}