'Did you call 911?' Tuberville recounts Graham's frantic final phone call
The article recounts Graham’s final call about chest pains and reports tributes following his death.

SOURCE CHECK
TAP FOR WHYCredibility rates AOL.com, which republished this story. The other scores rate the article itself.
AOL is an established publisher, and the page identifies an author, but the article includes embedded Fox News promotions and does not clearly establish the reporting's original source. The article itself attributes key details to named speakers and Graham’s office.
- Source type — An established national publisher, though the page appears to contain material associated with another outlet.
- Author attribution — A named author is credited.
- Transparency — The article identifies several sources, including Tuberville and Graham’s office, but provides limited detail on its own reporting.
The article gives a direct account from Tuberville, cites Graham’s office on the cause of death, and includes other public tributes. Some detail about Graham’s final conversations is attributed to an unnamed source through Axios, and the story offers limited independent corroboration or context.
HOW WE SCORE ↗This is a brief account of a death and tributes rather than a contested policy story. It draws on several named speakers and an official statement, though key details about the final call rely heavily on Tuberville’s account and an unnamed source reported by Axios.
- Source diversity — Includes Tuberville, Graham’s office, Thune and Graham’s sister, as well as a detail attributed to an unnamed source through Axios.
- Omitted context — Offers limited corroboration of the final-call account and little additional context.
- Counterarguments presented — No competing account is presented, though the subject does not raise a clear policy dispute requiring one.
The article uses a largely straightforward, sympathetic account of Graham’s death and Senate tributes without making a discernible partisan argument.
- Language tone — Mostly descriptive language, with emotional statements attributed to the speakers.
- Framing — The focus is on the reported final call and tributes, not a partisan dispute.
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Tommy Tuberville recounted Lindsey Graham’s final phone call, in which Graham said he was having chest pains and called a former staff member instead of emergency services. Graham died over the weekend, and the article also reports tributes and the temporary appointment of his sister to his Senate seat.
Tuberville told reporters that a former staff member who had worked for Graham received a call from him about chest pains. Tuberville said the staff member called 911, and that responders were working on Graham when she arrived. Graham’s office said he died from an aortic dissection due to arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease.
Tuberville described Graham as someone who devoted himself to work and said Graham had wanted to address Russia sanctions, Iran and Israeli-Saudi normalization. The article also recounts Senate Majority Leader John Thune’s tribute and says South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster tapped Graham’s sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to temporarily fill the seat.
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VOTING CLOSEDNo good or bad look here
This story reports what happened without casting Graham in a good or bad light, so readers don’t rate it and it doesn’t count toward Graham’s record.
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