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Republican senator for South Carolina
Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s
How often Graham votes in line with Biden’s position
Difference between Graham’s actual and predicted Biden support scores
| Biden margin | Biden score | Biden plus-minus |
|---|---|---|
| Biden’s share of the vote in the 2020 election minus Trump’s | How often Graham votes in line with Biden’s position | Difference between Graham’s actual and predicted Biden support scores |
-11.7% | 57.6% | +5.5 |
| Date | Measure | Biden position | Graham vote | Agree with Biden? | Predicted chance of voting with Biden | Plus-minus |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 22, 2022 | Providing appropriations for various federal departments and agencies for fiscal year 2023; updating the process of appointing and tallying presidential electors; providing money for humanitarian, security and economic assistance to Ukraine (68-29) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes |  | 62.3% | +37.7 |
| Dec. 14, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule governing charter school grants (49-49) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes |  | 24.1% | +75.9 |
| Dec. 1, 2022 | Requiring certain railroad and labor organizations to accept a labor agreement (80-15) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.9% | +14.1 |
| Nov. 29, 2022 | Repealing the Defense of Marriage Act and requiring states to recognize same-sex and interracial marriages performed out-of-state; includes an amendment allowing religious organizations to deny services or accomodations for same-sex weddings (61-36) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 52.4% | -52.4 |
| Nov. 15, 2022 | Terminating the national COVID-19 emergency declared on March 13, 2020 (61-37) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 4.1% | +95.9 |
| Sept. 29, 2022 | Extending government funding and providing money for economic and security assistance to Ukraine (72-25) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 69.9% | +30.1 |
| Aug. 7, 2022 | Allowing Medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices; extending Affordable Care Act subsidies; expanding tax credits for renewable and clean energy efforts; establishing a 15 percent corporate minimum tax; and other measures (50-50) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.4% | -23.4 |
| Aug. 4, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a rule that restored environmental regulations (50-47) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 10.3% | +89.7 |
| July 27, 2022 | Supporting the domestic production of semiconductors (64-33) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.4% | +44.6 |
| June 23, 2022 | Expanding firearm regulations (65-33) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.9% | +44.1 |
| June 16, 2022 | Expanding health care eligibility for veterans exposed to toxic substances (84-14) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.7% | +15.3 |
| May 26, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of a policy concerning federal asylum procedures (46-48) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 20.1% | +79.9 |
| May 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine and mask requirements in Head Start programs (55-41) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 1.0% | +99.0 |
| April 7, 2022 | Nomination of Ketanji Brown Jackson to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (53-47) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 29.8% | -29.8 |
| March 28, 2022 | Providing money for semiconductor manufacturing, supply chain improvements and scientific research (68-28) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Not Voting | support | Didn't Vote | 63.0% | ||
| March 15, 2022 | Providing congressional disapproval of the CDC's requirement of masks on planes, trains and buses (57-40) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 8.6% | +91.4 |
| March 15, 2022 | Nomination of Shalanda D. Young to be director of the Office of Management and Budget (61-36) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 53.3% | +46.7 |
| March 10, 2022 | The 2022 fiscal year appropriations bill (68-31) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 60.9% | +39.1 |
| March 8, 2022 | Improving the U.S. Postal Service's finances, services and transparency (79-19) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.9% | +23.1 |
| March 3, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the national COVID-19 emergency declaration (48-47) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 23.7% | +76.3 |
| March 2, 2022 | Providing for congressional disapproval of vaccine mandates for health care workers (49-44) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 22.4% | +77.6 |
| Feb. 28, 2022 | Protecting the right to an abortion and health care providers’ ability to provide abortion services (46-48) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 9.3% | -9.3 |
| Jan. 19, 2022 | Keeping Senate filibuster rules in place to block voting-rights legislation (52-48) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 8.6% | +91.4 |
| Jan. 13, 2022 | Imposing additional sanctions over a Russian gas pipeline (55-44) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 20.7% | +79.3 |
| Dec. 14, 2021 | Increasing the debt limit (50-49) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.4% | -23.4 |
| Dec. 8, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of COVID-19 vaccine and testing mandates for large businesses (52-48) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | oppose | Yes | | 2.8% | +97.2 |
| Dec. 7, 2021 | Providing for congressional disapproval of the sale of certain weapons to Saudi Arabia (30-67) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | oppose | No | | 84.2% | -84.2 |
| Dec. 2, 2021 | Extending government funding (69-28) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.3% | +36.7 |
| Oct. 7, 2021 | Suspending the debt limit through Dec. 16, 2022 (50-48) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.4% | -24.4 |
| Sept. 30, 2021 | Extending government funding and raising the debt ceiling (65-35) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 55.4% | +44.6 |
| Aug. 11, 2021 | $3.5 trillion budget plan (50-49) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.5% | -23.5 |
| Aug. 10, 2021 | Providing money for transportation, utility and environmental infrastructure (69-30) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 62.6% | +37.4 |
| July 29, 2021 | Providing emergency funding for Capitol security in response to the Jan. 6 attack and for the expansion of the Afghan visa program (98-0) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| June 22, 2021 | Expanding voting rights and strengthening campaign finance regulations and ethics rules (50-50) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.4% | -23.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Strengthening rules against wage discrimination (49-50) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 23.4% | -23.4 |
| June 8, 2021 | Investing in science and technology manufacturing and research (68-32) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 59.9% | +40.1 |
| May 28, 2021 | Establishing a commission to investigate the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol (54-35) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 41.4% | -41.4 |
| May 19, 2021 | Repealing a rule that changed the workplace discrimination settlement process (50-48) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.8% | -24.8 |
| May 11, 2021 | Repealing a rule that allowed borrowers to get loans at interest rates above the limit set by their state (52-47) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 33.2% | -33.2 |
| April 29, 2021 | Providing money for safe drinking water and other water infrastructure (89-2) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.5% | +2.5 |
| April 28, 2021 | Repealing an Environmental Protection Agency rule that removed limits on methane leaks (52-42) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 30.2% | +69.8 |
| April 22, 2021 | Taking steps to combat hate crimes against Asian Americans during the COVID-19 pandemic (94-1) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 98.8% | +1.2 |
| March 22, 2021 | Nomination of Martin Joseph Walsh to be secretary of labor (68-29) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.6% | +36.4 |
| March 18, 2021 | Nomination of Xavier Becerra to be secretary of health and human services (50-49) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.3% | -24.3 |
| March 17, 2021 | Nomination of Katherine C. Tai to be United States trade representative (98-0) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 100.0% | 0.0 |
| March 16, 2021 | Nomination of Isabella Casillas Guzman to be administrator of the Small Business Administration (81-17) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 80.3% | +19.7 |
| March 15, 2021 | Nomination of Debra Anne Haaland to be secretary of the interior (51-40) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 33.9% | +66.1 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Michael Stanley Regan to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (66-34) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 56.7% | +43.3 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Merrick Brian Garland to be attorney general (70-30) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 63.8% | +36.2 |
| March 10, 2021 | Nomination of Marcia Louise Fudge to be secretary of housing and urban development (66-34) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 57.3% | +42.7 |
| March 6, 2021 | Providing $1.9 trillion for COVID-19 relief (50-49) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 24.0% | -24.0 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Cecilia Elena Rouse to be chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers (95-4) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 95.8% | +4.2 |
| March 2, 2021 | Nomination of Gina Marie Raimondo to be secretary of commerce (84-15) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 83.8% | +16.2 |
| March 1, 2021 | Nomination of Miguel A. Cardona to be secretary of education (64-33) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.8% | -55.8 |
| Feb. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Jennifer Mulhern Granholm to be secretary of energy (64-35) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 55.3% | -55.3 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Linda Thomas-Greenfield to be U.S. ambassador to the United Nations (78-21) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 75.4% | +24.6 |
| Feb. 23, 2021 | Nomination of Thomas J. Vilsack to be secretary of agriculture (92-7) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 92.7% | +7.3 |
| Feb. 8, 2021 | Nomination of Denis Richard McDonough to be secretary of veterans affairs (87-7) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 91.2% | +8.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Alejandro Nicholas Mayorkas to be secretary of homeland security (56-43) Lindsey Graham's Vote: No | support | No | | 39.8% | -39.8 |
| Feb. 2, 2021 | Nomination of Peter Paul Montgomery Buttigieg to be secretary of transportation (86-13) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 85.2% | +14.8 |
| Jan. 26, 2021 | Nomination of Antony John Blinken to be secretary of state (78-22) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 76.1% | +23.9 |
| Jan. 25, 2021 | Nomination of Janet Louise Yellen to be secretary of the treasury (84-15) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 84.9% | +15.1 |
| Jan. 22, 2021 | Nomination of Lloyd James Austin to be secretary of defense (93-2) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 97.7% | +2.3 |
| Jan. 21, 2021 | Waiver allowing Lloyd Austin to become secretary of defense (69-27) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 73.1% | +26.9 |
| Jan. 20, 2021 | Nomination of Avril Danica Haines to be director of national intelligence (84-10) Lindsey Graham's Vote: Yes | support | Yes | | 88.2% | +11.8 |
| Average | 57.6% | 52.1% | +5.5 | |||
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