Graham In!!!

"Lindsey Graham sought to knock down the notion that he’s a creature of Washington, telling a personal story that’s largely been overlooked over the course of his two decades in the House and Senate.

It’s the tale of a son of pool-hall owners, who grew up near-impoverished in the back room of his parents’ bar. As a college student, he raised, and eventually adopted, his little sister after their parents died, before going on to have a career as an Air Force lawyer and then rising to become South Carolina’s senior senator.

“Those of you who’ve known me a long time know I had some ups and downs as a young man,” he said Monday, speaking steps from his childhood home, now called the “Minnow Lounge.” “I lost my parents, and had to struggle financially and emotionally … There are a lot of so-called ‘self-made’ people in this world. I’m not one of them. My family, friends, neighbors and my faith picked me up when I was down, believed in me when I had doubts. You made me the man I am today.” Politico