--- title: Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid description: The South Carolina senator joins the race canonical: https://time.com/3903217/lindsey-graham-president-2016/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-06-01T14:47:46.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T07:47:09.552Z article:section: Politics og:title: Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid og:description: The South Carolina senator joins the race og:url: https://time.com/3903217/lindsey-graham-president-2016/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid twitter:description: The South Carolina senator joins the race twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 1, 2015 2:47 PM UTC by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Jun 1, 2015 2:47 PM UTC The South Carolina senator planned to announce a run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 on Monday, appearing at his childhood home in a rural part of his home state. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3903217/lindsey-graham-president-2016/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3903217/lindsey-graham-president-2016/"},"headline":"Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid","datePublished":"2015-06-01T14:47:46.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T07:47:09.552Z","description":"The South Carolina senator joins the race","url":"https://time.com/3903217/lindsey-graham-president-2016/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3903217/lindsey-graham-president-2016/","name":"Watch Lindsey Graham Announce His Presidential Bid"}}]}] ```