--- title: Senator Lindsey Graham: I Don't Email description: "I don't email" canonical: https://time.com/3736775/lindsey-graham-senate-politics-email/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-08T23:54:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T08:05:21.046Z article:section: Politics og:title: Sen. Lindsey Graham Admits He's Never Sent an Email og:description: "I don't email" og:url: https://time.com/3736775/lindsey-graham-senate-politics-email/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95d35cb06b54bed3/698782b92dce018baa9ddefb/lindsey-graham.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Sen. Lindsey Graham og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Sen. Lindsey Graham Admits He's Never Sent an Email twitter:description: "I don't email" twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt95d35cb06b54bed3/698782b92dce018baa9ddefb/lindsey-graham.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Sen. Lindsey Graham Admits He's Never Sent an Email ## Video: Lindsey Graham - I've Never Sent An Email [Watch (HLS stream): Lindsey Graham - I've Never Sent An Email](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/ZkwDRdEQ.m3u8) (0:31)  _Published 2015-03-09. South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham says he has bnever sent an email in his life._ by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 8, 2015 11:54 PM UTC  Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks during a news conference in Washington D.C., March 26, 2014 . Sen. Lindsey Graham speaks during a news conference in Washington D.C., March 26, 2014 .Bill Clark—CQ Roll Call/Getty Images by [NBC News](https://time.com/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Mar 8, 2015 11:54 PM UTC He’s been a U.S. senator for 12 years, and was a Congressman for eight more before that, but South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham says he has never sent an email. In a [discussion on NBC’s Meet the Press](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/sen-feinstein-clinton-emails-silence-going-hurt-her-n319491) about the controversy surrounding Hillary Clinton’s use of a home-based email server while she was secretary of state, moderate Chuck Todd asked Graham, “Do you have a private e-mail address?” Graham’s surprising answer: “I don’t email. No, you can have every email I’ve ever sent. I’ve never sent one.” As Todd chuckled at the incredible notion that someone in 2015 could have never sent… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/lindsey-graham-ive-never-sent-email-n319571) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3736775/lindsey-graham-senate-politics-email/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3736775/lindsey-graham-senate-politics-email/"},"headline":"Sen. 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