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Show Rewind 10-5-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
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Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM, 560 AM WVOC, and 94.3 WSC.
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Speaker 2: Good morning. I've got so many things happening over here, Christopher.
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Speaker 3: It's just like, you sometimes just feel overwhelmed.
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Speaker 2: I'm overwhelmed right now.
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Speaker 4: What can I do to help?
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Speaker 3: Well, I wish there was something that somebody could do
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Speaker 3: to help me. I am a helpless soul on a
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Speaker 3: Monday morning, and I feel much like the Gamecocks inept
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Speaker 3: to stop what was happening. We saw it coming. Wasn't
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Speaker 3: it one of those things where you just felt like, oh,
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Speaker 3: my gosh. You know, Shane Beamer said, here we go again.
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Speaker 3: But he felt like they responded.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, he actually said the players didn't feel that way
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Speaker 5: on the sideline. I can't believe that. I'm sure once
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Speaker 5: they saw that double-digit lead go up, they thought, uh-oh,
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Speaker 5: what goes up must come down.
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Speaker 2: But it doesn't have to.
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Speaker 3: It hadn't before for Kentucky. If I understand the broadcast
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Speaker 3: people correctly, that is the biggest comeback in Kentucky football history?
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Speaker 4: I think it was the biggest road comeback, yeah.
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Speaker 5: Wow.
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Speaker 4: Pretty incredible.
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Speaker 2: That is stunning.
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Speaker 3: And then our friends in Clemson, they're just completely disheartened
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Speaker 3: after that performance.
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Speaker 6: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I saw some people saying that the defense
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Speaker 3: was doing pretty well against, I think they gave up
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Speaker 3: like 400 plus yards, but it was way below Miami's
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Speaker 3: typical like 550 or something that they give up. But
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Speaker 3: the offense was just completely, well, inept when it needed
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Speaker 3: to be good.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, a couple of plays have got people scratching their
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Speaker 5: heads and thinking, why, why? A couple of trick plays
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Speaker 5: in the third quarter that just stopped momentum.
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Speaker 3: Well, as a Gamecock fan, I can tell you we
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Speaker 3: also feel that way. So we heard the top of
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Speaker 3: the hour newscast. We've got Nancy Mace calling for an
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Speaker 3: independent investigation.
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Speaker 2: So what do you think that means?
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Speaker 3: Does it does it mean she doesn't trust the state?
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Speaker 5: After hearing that they were at that house numerous times,
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Speaker 5: it didn't take, didn't take those children out of the house.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: She doesn't trust the state.
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Speaker 3: It would seem though that, you know, SLED could do
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Speaker 3: an investigation, I would think. Um, but you know, I
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Speaker 3: guess if you want to go to the next level
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Speaker 3: and that's kind of what Nancy Mace is calling for.
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Speaker 3: We also got Charleston County Sheriff addresses earlier calls to
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Speaker 3: the home. Um, we've got, uh, a lot of people
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Speaker 3: talking about the rain, by the way, the low country,
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Speaker 3: goodness gracious, you got flash flooding all over the place. They, uh, well, again,
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Speaker 3: when I used to live in Charleston, it seemed like if,
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Speaker 3: you know, two or more people spit, we had a
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Speaker 3: flash flooding problem down there, but it is, uh, It
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Speaker 3: is a big deal in the Lowcountry, and we're going
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Speaker 3: to keep you up to date with our traffic and
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Speaker 3: make sure you know which roads are open, which ones
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Speaker 3: have reopened because they were shutting them down left and
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Speaker 3: right yesterday. But yeah, a lot to get to today,
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Speaker 3: and I am going to try to launch the video today.
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Speaker 3: We did some testing over the weekend, so that it
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Speaker 3: seemed to go okay. We're going to give that a
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Speaker 3: shot at least for the first hour. So I will,
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Speaker 3: when we come out of this commercial break, if you
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Speaker 3: are one of those people who happens to like to
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Speaker 3: watch Facebook X or what's the other one I'm on YouTube,
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Speaker 3: we're going to have all three of those streaming, hopefully.
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Speaker 3: Lord willing, when we come back from the news break
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Speaker 3: and see how that goes today, at least for.
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Speaker 2: The first hour.
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Speaker 3: A little bit later on, we're supposed to have Congressman
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Speaker 3: Joe Wilson in the studio. He's got some updates from D.C.
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Speaker 4: Oh, fantastic.
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Speaker 2: And, you know, we'll, of course, take your talk back.
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Speaker 2: That's what we love.
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Speaker 3: We love it when you give us your input, whether
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Speaker 3: it's on information that we've. By the way, let me
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Speaker 3: just reach over here. Maybe I'll read this in my hands, Christopher.
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Speaker 1: Letters.
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Speaker 3: People are now sending letters.
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Speaker 7: Wow.
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Speaker 3: It's been a while since I've seen, like, letters. And
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Speaker 3: this individual asked me to not use his name, although
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Speaker 3: he does put his, like, home address right here and everything.
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Speaker 2: I could dox him. I'm not going to dox him.
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Speaker 2: He's a conservative.
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Speaker 3: And I don't think anybody in this audience would be
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Speaker 3: offended by what he has to say. We'll get to
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Speaker 3: your letters. I have some emails as well, but we'd
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Speaker 3: love your talkbacks. Just use the microphone on the iHeartRadio
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Speaker 3: app to get your input, either on subjects that we're
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Speaker 3: already talking about or subjects that you'd like us to
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Speaker 3: hit on.
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Speaker 2: That's what that's there for. All right.
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Speaker 3: And as I try to figure out what's going on
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Speaker 3: in my studio, I cannot tell you what time it
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Speaker 3: is currently because the clock is now missing.
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Speaker 2: So I will say we're in the ballpark of 6.08.
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Speaker 2: Is that about right?
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Speaker 4: It's 6.07.
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Speaker 2: I knew I was in the ballpark.
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Speaker 4: You were close.
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Speaker 3: All right, we'll take a break, and I'll try to
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Speaker 3: find my clock and other things as the South Carolina
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Speaker 3: Morning News rolls on.
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Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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Speaker 1: Morning News.
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Speaker 2: It has been a while.
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Speaker 3: Since I, Kelly Nash, have received a piece of mail.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's funny, Christopher. When I started doing the
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Speaker 3: night show, and I think some people, maybe not all,
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Speaker 3: who listen to South Carolina's Morning News know that I
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Speaker 3: started my own show on both of these radio stations, 94.3
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Speaker 3: WSC in Charleston and in Columbia on 560 and 103.5 WVOC.
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Speaker 3: I guess it would have been in the spring is
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Speaker 3: when we launched that.
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Speaker 4: I think it was in May.
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Speaker 2: Maybe. No, I think it was even earlier.
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Speaker 4: Was it?
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Speaker 2: I think we did.
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Speaker 3: Because we only went about 12 weeks. And then that's
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Speaker 3: when iHeart made a bunch of changes and I ended
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Speaker 3: up here with you. But when I first launched that show,
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Speaker 3: I did get a letter from a woman who sent
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Speaker 3: a letter wishing me great success. And she appreciates that
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Speaker 3: she doesn't have the iHeartRadio app. And if I remember right,
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Speaker 3: she said she doesn't even have like a computer, which
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Speaker 3: is why she sent a letter. Now, this individual here
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Speaker 3: doesn't say why he sent the letter instead of using
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Speaker 3: either the talkback feature. And I understand a lot of
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Speaker 3: people can't use the talkback feature. for whatever reason you're
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Speaker 3: at work, you can't let people hear you talking or whatever,
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Speaker 3: or perhaps, uh, you want to just write down your thoughts.
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Speaker 3: And so he found our address, which is, I'm not,
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Speaker 3: it's not a secret. It's three 16 Greystone Boulevard in Columbia,
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Speaker 3: two nine, two one Oh, um, his subject matter, the
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Speaker 3: DSA doesn't want to eliminate the presidency in the Senate
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Speaker 3: goes on to say they want the California style elections nationwide.
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Speaker 3: And he says basically that the, uh, The entire push
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Speaker 3: of the DSA to eliminate the Senate and the presidency
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Speaker 3: and all these types of extreme positions that we've heard,
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Speaker 3: he says that is not their ultimate goal. USAID and
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Speaker 3: the blue state governments use taxpayer money to fund progressive
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Speaker 3: electoral victories and mollify enough of the Karl Rove.
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Speaker 2: I don't want to put that name in there.
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Speaker 3: Karl Rove, John Thune, and then he throws in Mike Pence.
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Speaker 2: Types of Republicans, which I guess he's considering weak.
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Speaker 3: Middle-of-the-road type of Republicans into believing that we still have
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Speaker 3: a functioning republic by staking out an extreme position and
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Speaker 3: the elimination of the presidency and the Senate, the DSA
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Speaker 3: can then come back with just taking the national popular
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Speaker 3: vote and eliminate the whole idea of having the electoral college.
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Speaker 2: And then they would appear reasonable.
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Speaker 3: So basically just push the extremes and then come back
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Speaker 3: to what is still an extreme position, but it seems
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Speaker 3: far less extreme. That is his take on things. Any
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Speaker 3: thoughts on that?
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Speaker 4: That's, that's quite a strategy.
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Speaker 5: If that's true, I, there are still so many of
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Speaker 5: these DSA candidates who are out there saying the opposite though,
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Speaker 5: that they, they are fully invested in doing away with
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Speaker 5: the presidency and doing away with the Senate in doing,
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Speaker 5: or either doing in or changing the role of the
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Speaker 5: Supreme court, doing away with prisons. I mean, if, if,
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Speaker 5: Those aren't their positions if they're going to moderate those eventually.
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Speaker 5: I'm not sure why you wouldn't say that now. It
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Speaker 5: would be an easier sell.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Now, I'm not saying that there aren't a few people
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Speaker 3: who are, we'll say, malleable on that issue. There was
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Speaker 3: an interesting piece that came out over the weekend regarding
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Speaker 3: El-Sayed out in Michigan. One of his now former assistants,
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Speaker 3: who has been with him since, I think, 2013, was saying.
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Speaker 2: That El-Sayed is a fake.
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Speaker 3: That El-Sayed's entire life is just about getting power.
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Speaker 2: He just wants to be in Congress. That's it. Or
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Speaker 2: the governor or something important.
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Speaker 3: That's all he wanted to be was something important that
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Speaker 3: he has no position and that he remolded himself after
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Speaker 3: he saw the success that AOC was having. So he
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Speaker 3: just took that position simply to just try to win votes.
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Speaker 3: That's an interesting position. And you can read that article.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure it's everywhere by now. But he started with
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Speaker 3: a bunch of tweets and he was talking about one
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Speaker 3: of the things that was funniest. El-Sayed's favorite form of
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Speaker 3: humor is apparently to pass gas in front of people.
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Speaker 3: He said he's basically at the level of a high
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Speaker 3: school junior and that he's never really matured past that.
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Speaker 3: And so El-Sayed likes to break gas in front of people,
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Speaker 3: like try to do it in your face.
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Speaker 2: That's who he is. He's not a... Islamist he's not
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Speaker 2: a anything he's.
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Speaker 3: Just a guy who wants to be in power and
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Speaker 3: this guy worked with him for again like 10 years
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Speaker 3: or so so interesting insights on him but yeah there
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Speaker 3: are probably some people who would and I'm not reading
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Speaker 3: the guy's name in the letter which I'm showing to
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Speaker 3: the camera now I won't show you the other side
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Speaker 3: of it but I'm not reading his name because he
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Speaker 3: asks don't put out my name respectfully and so okay
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Speaker 3: we won't read your name but if you want your
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Speaker 3: name and you want to send me a letter rather
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Speaker 3: than sending me an email you can send an email
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Speaker 3: Christopher what is your email.
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Speaker 4: Address Easiest way to get to me is sports at WVOC.com.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, mine is just the full name, Kelly Nash at iHeartMedia. Yes, media,
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Speaker 3: not radio, iheartmedia.com. is my email address. Or our favorite
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Speaker 3: way of talking with you is, like I say, the
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Speaker 3: Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Maybe you've got some
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Speaker 3: ideas on whether or not the DSA is faking. I
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Speaker 3: don't think they are. I think that, look at just,
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Speaker 3: go back to defund the police. That is back in
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Speaker 3: a big way. They want to defund the police. They
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Speaker 3: don't want police. There is a large group of people
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Speaker 3: in America who want to just get rid of the police.
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Speaker 3: They say it's been codified into some sort of white
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Speaker 3: supremacist group and so on and so forth. I don't
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Speaker 3: think that they're faking about getting rid of the presidency
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Speaker 3: in the Senate. That's something that all socialists want to
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Speaker 3: get rid of. But we'll take your thoughts on that
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Speaker 3: and other things as the South Carolina Morning News rolls
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Speaker 3: on at 618.
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Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
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Speaker 1: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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Speaker 2: And good morning to you.
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Speaker 3: This is Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson and Looking at
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Speaker 3: South Carolina news, it looks as if South Carolina is
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Speaker 3: in play when it comes to the Senate race. I
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Speaker 3: don't know how else to look at this, Christopher. We
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Speaker 3: got the news on Friday, I think it was, that
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Speaker 3: Darlene Graham is responsible for about 6% of the advertising
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Speaker 3: on this race. 94% of the advertising in South Carolina
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Speaker 3: is going away. For Annie Andrews, who is also out
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Speaker 3: raising Darlene Graham at a rather significant rate, according to
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Speaker 3: some sources. I don't know.
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Speaker 7: I don't.
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Speaker 3: When I read these things, I say, please tell me
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Speaker 3: this isn't true. And yet I see numerous reports saying
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Speaker 3: that Darlene Graham is going to. Obviously, Donald Trump is
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Speaker 3: trying to help her get elected. He he's the one
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Speaker 3: who hand selected her. But they're bringing in John Thune
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Speaker 3: to help. And the problem for Darlene Graham is not
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Speaker 3: that the moderates don't like her. It's that the right
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Speaker 3: wing of the conservative party doesn't like her. And they
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Speaker 3: feel as if she's going to align with John Thune.
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Speaker 3: And they don't want that.
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Speaker 8: No.
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Speaker 5: John Thune is not a popular person with conservatives. And
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Speaker 5: for a lot of reasons. But I think the SAVE
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Speaker 5: Act is right there at the top. He couldn't get
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Speaker 5: that across the finish. Couldn't get votes really on it.
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Speaker 2: You would have to.
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Speaker 3: I would I would say if I was in the
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Speaker 3: Graham campaign, please ask John Thune to stay out of
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Speaker 3: our state. And if he and if he's coming to
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Speaker 3: paraphrase Will Smith, keep my candidate's name out your mouth.
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Speaker 3: Don't don't come here for us. We don't want that.
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Speaker 3: You know, and I'm just starting to look now here.
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Speaker 3: We got people are trying to jump on her that
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Speaker 3: she's already missed too many votes. So far, five of
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Speaker 3: the 47 roll calls were missed. That's a 10.6 percent rate.
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Speaker 3: That's too too much.
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Speaker 2: She's already missed.
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Speaker 3: Now, again, you made the point. I think that's very important.
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Speaker 3: She's trying to run for office at the same time.
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Speaker 3: So she is going to miss some things. As she
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Speaker 3: tries to get here and now I'm sure and I
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Speaker 3: have I don't know which 10, you know, the five
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Speaker 3: that she missed. I don't know how important those were,
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Speaker 3: but I would think at the minimum, her staff made
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Speaker 3: sure that this was not important.
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Speaker 2: Whatever she was.
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Speaker 4: I would hope so. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: And I know it wasn't important because if it was important,
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Speaker 3: Annie Andrews people would be making a big deal out
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Speaker 3: of it.
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Speaker 7: True.
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Speaker 8: And.
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Speaker 3: By the way, so just more breaking news. We're supposed to, Christopher,
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Speaker 3: let's see if this is, if third time is the charm.
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Speaker 3: I haven't announced it yet because it's been sitting here
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Speaker 3: for weeks. But the first two times I was very
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Speaker 3: disappointed that we had Annie Andrews booked. And then something
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Speaker 3: came up once it was a death and she had
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Speaker 3: to go to a funeral. And then there was another thing.
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Speaker 3: And I forget exactly what that was. But now, allegedly,
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Speaker 3: hopefully tomorrow, I'm doing a midday radio show in another market.
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Speaker 3: And then as soon as I get done, She's supposed
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Speaker 3: to be here and we're going to record like a
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Speaker 3: 20 minute podcast and we'll play back that stuff on
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Speaker 3: the morning show. So that would be Wednesday, right? My
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Speaker 3: math is right.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Tomorrow's Tuesday. So Wednesday we'll be playing our Annie Andrews stuff.
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Speaker 3: I will then, once that is confirmed, I already know
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Speaker 3: Casey Wittner wants to be on, so we will get
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Speaker 3: her on. We've not heard back from the constitutionalist and we,
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Speaker 3: you know, I'm not going to continue to reach out
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Speaker 3: to the Graham campaign. If the Graham campaign wants to
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Speaker 3: be on, we're here. Um, Annie Andrews understands. And as
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Speaker 3: her people have already explained, we know that your audience is,
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Speaker 3: is hostile towards her, but perhaps they'll hear her side
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Speaker 3: and they'll want to come along.
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Speaker 2: Okay.
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Speaker 4: Fair enough.
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Speaker 3: I am not going to make it easy on her.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to ask hard questions. Um, I just don't
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Speaker 3: know what's going on with the Graham campaign. It's very
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Speaker 3: frustrating that this race is now, what is it? One
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Speaker 3: point is what Trafalgar headed at. And we don't hear
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Speaker 3: this on the national scale. You hear a lot about
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Speaker 3: Ohio is suddenly in play and they had the big
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Speaker 3: rally over the weekend. You hear obviously a lot about Texas.
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Speaker 3: We've heard a lot about Maine, although it looks like
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Speaker 3: Collins might actually now be moving back into the lead
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Speaker 3: in Maine. Uh, but you, you've heard several battleground states
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Speaker 3: where Democrats, um, are making some headway. Ohio and Texas
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Speaker 3: are the two big ones right now. But South Carolina
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Speaker 3: needs to be on the national picture because South Carolina.
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Speaker 2: Is all red.
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Speaker 3: And if a blue senator comes out of this state,
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Speaker 3: that would be devastating for the Republican Party.
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Speaker 5: Well, it's October 5th, and we've mentioned this the last
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Speaker 5: couple of weeks, but if you are serious about, if
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Speaker 5: Darlene Graham is serious about this seat, it's time to
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Speaker 5: start the campaign.
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Speaker 3: I'm sure she's serious. I just don't know if they
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Speaker 3: know what they're doing with her. I mean, that seems
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Speaker 3: to be the problem. You've got to get her on everywhere.
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Speaker 3: You've got to get her on not just local radio
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Speaker 3: shows throughout the state. I mean, you've got Annie Andrews
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Speaker 3: visiting conservative news talk stations, never mind going to all
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Speaker 3: the liberal outlets, trying to get them all jazzed up,
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Speaker 3: giving national interviews.
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Speaker 2: Where's Darlene?
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Speaker 3: She's hiding somewhere. It feels very Biden-esque.
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Speaker 4: And start the ad blitz now.
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Speaker 2: I know.
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Speaker 3: If you have money to spend on ads, please start
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Speaker 3: doing that.
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Speaker 2: Please, people.
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Speaker 3: I think we started the show Friday morning. The very
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Speaker 3: first talkback we had was somebody in Charleston who was
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Speaker 3: so frustrated. that they're not seeing anything from Darlene Graham.
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Speaker 3: They want to see their candidate fighting for this seat.
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Speaker 3: You must fight for the seat. It's not going to
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Speaker 3: be given to you. Just because this state is a
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Speaker 3: 10-point Republican-leaning state, it's not just going to go to
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Speaker 3: the Republican if they're not out here on the media.
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Speaker 2: Spending money.
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Speaker 3: Those are our thoughts. Maybe you're looking at it differently.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you think she's playing it smart. Maybe the campaign's
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Speaker 3: got something figured out that we're not aware of. Love
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Speaker 3: to hear your thoughts on this or any of the
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Speaker 3: other subjects. Use the talkback feature. It is now currently 630.
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Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 3: It will be nice to listen to Annie Andrews, but honestly,
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Speaker 3: I don't care what she has to say.
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Speaker 8: I'm not going to vote for her.
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Speaker 2: Because if the Democrats win the Senate, then Trump's just
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Speaker 2: going to be impeached.
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Speaker 3: And we're going to have the crazy far left liberals.
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Speaker 7: Having leadership positions and we.
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Speaker 5: Can't have that.
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Speaker 3: So thank you for interviewing her, but it won't change my.
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Speaker 6: Vote at all. Good morning, Kelly.
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Speaker 3: I just have to wonder, is Darling Graham trying to
18:00
Speaker 3: run just on the Graham name?
18:03
Speaker 2: If so, that might be a mistake. Y'all have a
18:07
Speaker 2: great day.
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Speaker 1: Bye.
18:09
Speaker 3: Well, I certainly appreciate those talkbacks and getting your day
18:12
Speaker 3: started with us and plugging in.
18:13
Speaker 2: That is fantastic.
18:14
Speaker 3: Christopher, they're making the point that a lot of South
18:17
Speaker 3: Carolinians are making. Darling Graham is absent from the race
18:21
Speaker 3: at this point, and it's It's not.
18:23
Speaker 2: A give me.
18:24
Speaker 3: The Trafalgar poll came out now over a week ago,
18:27
Speaker 3: if I'm not mistaken. And that put her at about
18:31
Speaker 3: a one-point lead, which is certainly within the margin. And Trafalgar,
18:35
Speaker 3: as we've pointed out, is a more accurate poll. Some
18:39
Speaker 3: people would call it a right-leaning poll. I would call
18:42
Speaker 3: it a more accurate poll because most polls... whether you're
18:46
Speaker 3: looking at the Quinnipiac or the CBS, whatever, those polls
18:50
Speaker 3: tend to be a little bit broader towards the left
18:53
Speaker 3: as the month or two before you get to the
18:56
Speaker 3: actual election. And then they tighten up a little bit
18:59
Speaker 3: the day or two before just so that they have
19:01
Speaker 3: some respectability when the actual election happens.
19:04
Speaker 2: But they seem to.
19:05
Speaker 3: Be geared towards trying to diminish enthusiasm for Republicans. the
19:09
Speaker 3: Trafalgar poll is not known for doing that. So if
19:12
Speaker 3: they've got you at a one point lead, this should
19:15
Speaker 3: scare the crap out of people. If you are a
19:18
Speaker 3: Republican in South Carolina, that you're about to turn over
19:24
Speaker 3: one of the two Senate seats to a Democrat. And,
19:27
Speaker 3: you know, to the first talk backs point, that is
19:30
Speaker 3: the point that I've been making all along. Annie Andrews,
19:32
Speaker 3: it doesn't matter how moderate she is. She could actually
19:35
Speaker 3: vote as a Republican in every vote. And it's still,
19:40
Speaker 3: It destroys the country in the sense that you're turning
19:45
Speaker 3: over the power to, at best, at best, Chuck Schumer returns.
19:49
Speaker 2: At best. and chuck schumer has.
19:51
Speaker 3: Become radicalized but it's probably not going to be chuck
19:54
Speaker 3: schumer i would think it's going to be somebody with
19:56
Speaker 3: a little more energy right now that's behind them perhaps
20:00
Speaker 3: a cory booker perhaps a chris murphy from connecticut Uh,
20:05
Speaker 3: there's talks about Nancy, uh, what's her name? Murray, uh,
20:07
Speaker 3: Patty Murray out of Washington state. These are the types
20:11
Speaker 3: of radicals that are going to be setting the, whether
20:13
Speaker 3: they're the actual head of the Senate or not is
20:16
Speaker 3: not the point. They're actually going to be the head
20:18
Speaker 3: of the committees. They're going to be deciding, should we
20:20
Speaker 3: be doing this? Do we doing that? They're also going
20:23
Speaker 3: to be deciding as the majority who gets to be
20:26
Speaker 3: a Supreme court justice, uh, Are we going to see
20:28
Speaker 3: a return to the Borking of, and for those of
20:31
Speaker 3: you who don't know, the Robert Bork hearings, those things
20:34
Speaker 3: were absolutely filthy and disgusting. And we saw a little
20:37
Speaker 3: bit of it with, what's his face? Not Gorsuch, the
20:42
Speaker 3: other fella. You know the fella I'm talking about.
20:45
Speaker 4: Kavanaugh, Brett Kavanaugh.
20:46
Speaker 2: Brett Kavanaugh.
20:47
Speaker 3: We saw a little bit of it with Brett Kavanaugh
20:50
Speaker 3: and how ugly the senators on the left wanted to
20:52
Speaker 3: make that. If they have the majority, not only do
20:56
Speaker 3: they make it ugly, then they stop it.
20:58
Speaker 6: Right.
20:58
Speaker 3: They stopped the nominations. And we've heard that there's at
21:01
Speaker 3: least one Supreme Court justice who's possibly going to retire
21:05
Speaker 3: before the end of the Trump administration. Definitely going to
21:07
Speaker 3: be retiring a bunch of them in the next administration.
21:10
Speaker 3: And if it almost doesn't matter who the president is
21:14
Speaker 3: at that point, if the Senate is controlling the Supreme
21:16
Speaker 3: Court nominations.
21:18
Speaker 4: And to the to the second talkbacks point.
21:21
Speaker 6: Yeah.
21:21
Speaker 5: Darling Graham may just simply have decided the Graham name
21:25
Speaker 5: is enough to get her across the finish line. And
21:28
Speaker 5: I don't think it is. It certainly may have helped
21:31
Speaker 5: with the runoff. But if she thinks the campaign ended
21:35
Speaker 5: after the runoff, she's she's dead wrong.
21:37
Speaker 3: I also have to point out and I don't want
21:40
Speaker 3: to bring this up, but I will. Ralph Norman needs
21:44
Speaker 3: to support Darlene Graham. Ralph Norman should be on the
21:47
Speaker 3: campaign trail for Darlene Graham. Ralph Norman has said that
21:51
Speaker 3: he's going to support the GOP candidate. He told me
21:53
Speaker 3: that when we had him on the air, like a
21:55
Speaker 3: couple of days before the actual primary, that whoever wins,
21:59
Speaker 3: of course, gets his support. I've heard that his wife
22:01
Speaker 3: has actually been pushing a right in Ralph narrative. And
22:05
Speaker 3: we're seeing more and more of the right in Ralph
22:07
Speaker 3: on social media. That is a very dangerous game to play.
22:11
Speaker 3: Down in Texas, we saw over the weekend that, what's-his-face's wife,
22:16
Speaker 3: who's now— I.
22:18
Speaker 2: Think that— are they estranged or are they actually divorced?
22:21
Speaker 4: Ken Paxton and his wife? Yeah.
22:23
Speaker 3: I forget if they're divorced or if they're just estranged
22:26
Speaker 3: at this point. I remember she filed for divorce based
22:30
Speaker 3: off of biblical grounds, a.k.a. that would be interpreted as
22:35
Speaker 3: he was cheating.
22:35
Speaker 2: Sure.
22:37
Speaker 3: So she's not in a happy mood with him as
22:39
Speaker 3: a person. But she cut an ad over the weekend
22:42
Speaker 3: that said, I am totally voting Republican. I'm all Republican
22:46
Speaker 3: from the top of the ticket on down because this
22:49
Speaker 3: is a team sport. And if you don't have Republicans,
22:53
Speaker 3: then you have the other team. And the other team,
22:56
Speaker 3: if you're looking at something like a Senate race... They
23:00
Speaker 3: they'll be empowered to be very dangerous. And it doesn't
23:02
Speaker 3: matter how moderate the actual senator is. It matters who's
23:06
Speaker 3: the leadership and the leadership of the Senate right now.
23:09
Speaker 3: And the Democrats in general is radicalized. And we cannot
23:13
Speaker 3: allow that to happen. So I was very happy to
23:16
Speaker 3: see her come out because she's not only the scorned
23:19
Speaker 3: wife of Ken Paxton. She's actually, I think, a state
23:22
Speaker 3: senator in Texas. So she has a name. And she recognizes,
23:27
Speaker 3: despite her personal insult and embarrassment and what happened to
23:30
Speaker 3: her as a human being, which was despicable, I put
23:35
Speaker 3: cheating on your spouse pretty high as far as despicable goes.
23:40
Speaker 3: But that's not a politician. That's not how they're going
23:43
Speaker 3: to vote. You just need them to vote the right
23:47
Speaker 3: way at this point. And Ken Paxton will vote the
23:50
Speaker 3: right way. And Darlene Graham will vote the right way.
23:53
Speaker 3: As a matter of fact, The votes that she's been
23:55
Speaker 3: in right now, the most conservative member of the Senate
23:58
Speaker 3: is Mike Lee. She's had the identical voting record as
24:01
Speaker 3: Mike Lee. So it's not— for those of you people who
24:03
Speaker 3: are afraid, is she going to become some sort of
24:05
Speaker 3: centrist or whatever?
24:07
Speaker 2: Not so far. Not so far.
24:10
Speaker 3: Will she get as aggressive in the Senate as her brother?
24:12
Speaker 2: Doubtful.
24:13
Speaker 3: But she's going to vote— Probably with the president 95%
24:17
Speaker 3: of the time or more.
24:18
Speaker 2: We're going to take a break. It is 642.
24:21
Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
24:24
Speaker 3: So I see the rain and, you know, rainy days.
24:27
Speaker 2: And Mondays get us down.
24:29
Speaker 3: Yet I'm also looking at Lexington, Richland County in a drought.
24:32
Speaker 3: By the way, the entire state of South Carolina has
24:36
Speaker 3: some sort of drought condition right now. You know, Lexington, Richland,
24:40
Speaker 3: Kershaw counties were in that just kind of what they
24:42
Speaker 3: would call a moderate drought condition. But the closer you
24:46
Speaker 3: start moving towards the coast, you get towards Orangeburg, Clarendon County,
24:50
Speaker 3: you're now into what they would call a severe drought.
24:53
Speaker 3: And then you get to like some counties like Horry County,
24:59
Speaker 3: Georgetown County. These are now in extreme drought conditions. So
25:03
Speaker 3: we certainly can use the rain today. So even though
25:05
Speaker 3: I don't like rain on a Monday, I am thankful
25:07
Speaker 3: for it. Hopefully we'll get a little bit more, get
25:10
Speaker 3: those crops growing.
25:11
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was going to say the farmers could use
25:12
Speaker 4: it if no one else.
25:13
Speaker 2: And we all need the farmers, don't we? Yes, we do.
25:16
Speaker 3: So much of a South Carolina runoff agriculture. All right,
25:18
Speaker 3: we'll take a break, be back with more. It's 6.55
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25:39
Speaker 3: Good morning and welcome to South Carolina's Morning News. Kelly
25:42
Speaker 3: Nash with Christopher Thompson. Headline in the state newspaper. South
25:46
Speaker 3: Carolina doesn't have many close 2026 races. Why are the
25:51
Speaker 3: potential 28 hopefuls visiting us now? And Christopher, I don't
25:57
Speaker 3: need to read the story I have, but I don't
25:59
Speaker 3: need to read it to guess why all these 28
26:02
Speaker 3: hopefuls are visiting us. It's because South Carolina has been
26:06
Speaker 3: bumped by the Democrat Party to the front of the line.
26:09
Speaker 3: This is going to be a hugely competitive state for
26:13
Speaker 3: the Democrats beginning in 2028 as they try to figure
26:16
Speaker 3: out who their presidential nominee is. And we're flooded right
26:19
Speaker 3: now with these people, from Mark Kelly to we just
26:23
Speaker 3: had Gavin Newsom here, Andy Beshear, Ro Khanna. I mean,
26:28
Speaker 3: they're all rolling through the state trying to figure out,
26:31
Speaker 3: can they make some hay here in South Carolina?
26:35
Speaker 2: Does this, in your opinion, change things?
26:39
Speaker 3: The, the voting history of South Carolina, meaning are we
26:44
Speaker 3: seeing South Carolina move to the left? We were just
26:47
Speaker 3: talking about what's going on with the Darlene Graham race,
26:50
Speaker 3: or do you think that this is simply, they're just
26:52
Speaker 3: trying to figure out who's going to be the nominee
26:53
Speaker 3: in 2028?
26:54
Speaker 2: Well, I think.
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Speaker 5: That's a big part of it. They're building political relationships
26:58
Speaker 5: that they intend to leverage in 2028. So that's, that's
27:02
Speaker 5: a big part of it. But Kelly, we've talked for
27:05
Speaker 5: months now about how our state is growing, but we
27:08
Speaker 5: really don't have a handle on what the demographics look like.
27:13
Speaker 5: We are growing, but are we growing to the left?
27:16
Speaker 4: We don't know.
27:17
Speaker 5: I think this election, I think this midterm, the voting
27:20
Speaker 5: in South Carolina is going to tell us a lot
27:22
Speaker 5: about the political makeup.
27:24
Speaker 3: It'll be interesting if people don't vote straight ticket, if
27:28
Speaker 3: there's a split.
27:29
Speaker 2: In other words, if... Say Alan Wilson, who I.
27:32
Speaker 3: Think is considered top of the ticket right here as
27:35
Speaker 3: the governor, if he wins by an expected 10 points
27:41
Speaker 3: or so, a comfortable double-digit win. If Alan Wilson wins
27:46
Speaker 3: by double digits, and even if Darlene Graham wins, but
27:49
Speaker 3: it's by two points, that will tell you something.
27:52
Speaker 7: Yeah.
27:53
Speaker 3: But I don't think what it's telling you is that
27:56
Speaker 3: the state is shifting to the left. It's saying that
27:59
Speaker 3: they're frustrated with Darlene Graham's campaign and the fact that
28:02
Speaker 3: she was even hand selected by Trump. They didn't like that.
28:05
Speaker 3: There's a lot of things that the Republicans don't like. Now,
28:08
Speaker 3: if Alan Wilson wins, but he wins by three and
28:13
Speaker 3: Darlene Graham loses or whatever, then I.
28:15
Speaker 2: Think that that would tell you that the state has
28:17
Speaker 2: shifted left.
28:18
Speaker 3: The NAACP has been making the case for several weeks now.
28:22
Speaker 2: That there's something, quote unquote, a.
28:24
Speaker 3: Foul in our voting process because we've had lots of
28:28
Speaker 3: people from the North moving into South Carolina and they're
28:32
Speaker 3: not voting Democrat and or they're not even voting, according
28:35
Speaker 3: to them, that they're somehow that we're oppressing people, that
28:40
Speaker 3: we're disenfranchising people in South Carolina. I don't.
28:43
Speaker 2: I don't see that in the least.
28:45
Speaker 3: I think a lot of the people that move here
28:47
Speaker 3: move here because they want to escape.
28:49
Speaker 2: I know that's my personal story.
28:52
Speaker 3: I left New York City in 2003 to escape bad governance.
28:56
Speaker 3: And the more I look at New York State and
28:58
Speaker 3: New York City, the more thankful I am that I
29:00
Speaker 3: got the hell out.
29:02
Speaker 2: I think a lot of people feel that way.
29:03
Speaker 3: In California, you're seeing a mass migration out of the
29:06
Speaker 3: state of California to places like Texas, Tennessee, Florida, and
29:09
Speaker 3: so on, and some even all the way here to
29:11
Speaker 3: South Carolina. So I wouldn't be surprised if a lot
29:14
Speaker 3: of those people vote Republican. But, again, with them making
29:19
Speaker 3: South Carolina the first in the nation, I think it
29:22
Speaker 3: was Ro Khanna said, basically South Carolina is going to
29:25
Speaker 3: decide who the Democrat nominee is.
29:29
Speaker 2: It's going to be that easy.
29:29
Speaker 3: Because they didn't– Democrats didn't put a lot of stock
29:32
Speaker 3: in New Hampshire and they didn't put a lot of
29:34
Speaker 3: stock in Iowa because they're very white states. In South Carolina,
29:38
Speaker 3: you have a huge black population. And so, again, that's
29:42
Speaker 3: who they're trying to attract. They play race politics over there.
29:46
Speaker 3: And so, you know, like paraphrasing Joe Biden, if you
29:50
Speaker 3: don't know if you're familiar with the other guy, then
29:51
Speaker 3: you ain't black. So if you're not voting Democrat, then
29:54
Speaker 3: you ain't black, according to the Democrats. I would press
29:57
Speaker 3: back on that and say there's a wide myriad of
30:01
Speaker 3: Americans who vote sometimes in different races.
30:04
Speaker 2: They vote Republican. They vote Democrat.
30:06
Speaker 3: I would also say that doesn't matter what race you are.
30:10
Speaker 3: It really depends on how you think ideologically. If you
30:13
Speaker 3: think that the government is the best way to solve
30:14
Speaker 3: your problems, you're going to vote Democrat. If you think
30:16
Speaker 3: that the local community is the best way to solve
30:19
Speaker 3: your problems, you're going to vote Republican. Or at least
30:22
Speaker 3: that should be the messaging. But we're going to see,
30:26
Speaker 3: as you say, Christopher.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I just I don't think we really know yet
30:30
Speaker 5: how the fact that we've grown so much in the
30:33
Speaker 5: last four to six, 10 years. I don't think we
30:36
Speaker 5: really know what kind of political impact that has had.
30:38
Speaker 5: And we're going to get a better idea. this election
30:41
Speaker 5: and maybe even more of an idea in 2028?
30:43
Speaker 2: It'll be interesting in the... We're talking about statewide races.
30:47
Speaker 3: I think we're also going to have to take a
30:48
Speaker 3: look very closely at these state Senate seats, these state
30:52
Speaker 3: House seats. Like they said, there's 26 up for grabs,
30:57
Speaker 3: and none of them are really considered that competitive, whether
31:00
Speaker 3: to the left or to the right. Those people are
31:03
Speaker 3: pretty locked in and winning by double digits usually.
31:08
Speaker 2: But if that changes.
31:11
Speaker 3: There could be an argument that the state's getting more
31:12
Speaker 3: red even, like I said, brought on by the migration.
31:16
Speaker 3: But we'll have to see. I'll just note we've got
31:19
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of visitors coming. Wes Moore's coming. Pete
31:22
Speaker 3: Buttigieg's coming back. Cory Booker's coming. Kamala Harris says she'll
31:26
Speaker 3: be back. Ruben Gallega's coming. It's like we're having a
31:29
Speaker 3: DNC convention in this dang state, and I don't like it.
31:32
Speaker 3: But that's what am I going to do? What do
31:34
Speaker 3: you think about that? Let us know on the Talk
31:35
Speaker 3: Back feature. Or you can use my email. I'm Kelly
31:38
Speaker 3: Nash at iHeartMediaSports at 560WVOC. com if you want to get
31:42
Speaker 3: a hold of Christopher. And we'll be back in a moment.
31:45
Speaker 3: It's 7.09.
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Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
31:50
Speaker 1: Morning News.
31:51
Speaker 4: Hi, this is Bob from Mount Pleasant.
31:53
Speaker 7: You mentioned Darlene Graham's Senate campaign. What campaign? That's my question.
32:00
Speaker 7: What campaign?
32:01
Speaker 4: She's not running one.
32:02
Speaker 7: Oof.
32:04
Speaker 2: The people are angry.
32:06
Speaker 3: If anyone from the Graham campaign is listening this morning,
32:10
Speaker 3: whether it's my show or other shows throughout the Midlands
32:13
Speaker 3: and throughout the state, you're hearing the frustration of the Graham,
32:19
Speaker 3: the would-be Graham voters, that they're not seeing their candidates' commercials. Again, Christopher,
32:25
Speaker 3: they're not even asking her to leave. DC and come
32:30
Speaker 3: down and do the face-to-face, although that would be fantastic,
32:33
Speaker 3: and I know she's doing a little bit of it.
32:35
Speaker 3: I've seen some emails from the campaign talking about certain
32:39
Speaker 3: venues that she'll be appearing at. But the television, the
32:44
Speaker 3: direct mail pieces, the billboards, the rest of the stuff
32:48
Speaker 3: that goes into winning a campaign, it does not seem
32:52
Speaker 3: to be being executed at this point.
32:54
Speaker 5: I know we talk all the time about the fact
32:56
Speaker 5: that By November, we're just sick of it all and
33:00
Speaker 5: ready to see all the campaign ads end. But right now,
33:03
Speaker 5: I think all of us are waiting to see them
33:05
Speaker 5: begin when it comes to Graham's campaign. And Annie Andrews, meanwhile,
33:09
Speaker 5: the media blitz continues.
33:12
Speaker 3: By the way, reminder, you're supposed to have registered to
33:17
Speaker 3: vote by Friday in person.
33:22
Speaker 2: Today is the final day.
33:24
Speaker 3: If you want to get your voter registration in by mail,
33:27
Speaker 3: it has to be postmarked by today. I don't imagine
33:32
Speaker 3: there's anybody in this audience, although there might be a
33:34
Speaker 3: few of you that are kind of new to the
33:35
Speaker 3: state or perhaps even new to politics. I always remind
33:38
Speaker 3: myself there's always somebody new to politics. You know, I
33:42
Speaker 3: was one of those younger people who got involved early.
33:46
Speaker 3: in the sense that I was fascinated by Ronald Reagan
33:49
Speaker 3: and I was very frustrated by Jimmy Carter as a
33:52
Speaker 3: child because even as a child, I recognized that when
33:56
Speaker 3: somebody's telling us that our best days are behind us,
34:00
Speaker 3: I'm not for that. I refuse that even as like
34:04
Speaker 3: a seven-year-old. The bump that best days are behind us.
34:07
Speaker 3: Best days are always ahead of us. Reagan delivered that message.
34:10
Speaker 3: I appreciated it. And Trump delivers that message. that the
34:14
Speaker 3: best days of America are still to come. And I cannot,
34:20
Speaker 3: I can't reason with somebody who says, no, no, no, no, no, no.
34:23
Speaker 3: We've peaked and you got to recognize the fact that
34:26
Speaker 3: we got to kind of coast this thing in and
34:28
Speaker 3: just let some other country rise up And let them
34:32
Speaker 3: be the dominant power.
34:33
Speaker 2: For a while.
34:34
Speaker 8: No.
34:34
Speaker 3: No, I say no to that. Who would it be,
34:39
Speaker 3: by the way? The only other one right now on
34:41
Speaker 3: the world stage is China. Russia clearly can't handle it.
34:45
Speaker 3: Russia can't handle a war with the Ukraine four and
34:47
Speaker 3: a half years into it. So how are they going
34:49
Speaker 3: to be the world power? It's either China or the
34:52
Speaker 3: United States at this point. There's nobody even being suggested that.
34:57
Speaker 3: And if you like the way the Chinese run their affairs,
35:00
Speaker 3: then I guess, yeah, allow them to overtake us. But
35:03
Speaker 3: I don't like it. I don't like their human rights records.
35:06
Speaker 3: I don't like the way they do business. I don't
35:08
Speaker 3: like the fact that they steal from everybody. And you
35:11
Speaker 3: can point to a lot of problems with the United States,
35:13
Speaker 3: but they pale in comparison to China. And the fact
35:18
Speaker 3: that there's people, politicians, who are saying our best days
35:22
Speaker 3: are behind us.
35:23
Speaker 2: And that we can't expect the U.S. to be a
35:25
Speaker 2: dominant power.
35:26
Speaker 3: I guess they're saying there needs to be a coalition
35:29
Speaker 3: of some kind of like UN type of global body
35:32
Speaker 3: that would run the world.
35:34
Speaker 2: Really?
35:35
Speaker 4: Pass.
35:36
Speaker 3: A hard pass. Who are you talking about?
35:38
Speaker 2: France?
35:39
Speaker 3: Are you talking about Ireland? Ireland is completely lost. Which
35:43
Speaker 3: countries are you talking about in your global coalition that
35:46
Speaker 3: are going to run the world?
35:48
Speaker 2: I don't see it.
35:49
Speaker 3: Again, the United States has been the dominant power from
35:51
Speaker 3: all of our lives in most of the last 150
35:54
Speaker 3: years or so. The world is in a better place
35:59
Speaker 3: today by any measure than it was 150, 200 years ago.
36:03
Speaker 3: America has been a force for good. Despite its faults,
36:07
Speaker 3: you always got to put that caveat in there because
36:09
Speaker 3: then people want to say, oh, do you think it's perfect?
36:11
Speaker 3: I'm not saying it's perfect. I'm saying it's a lot
36:14
Speaker 3: better than the alternatives. But if you want somebody, if
36:18
Speaker 3: you want to see what China can do with it,
36:20
Speaker 3: you know, it's like when Obama was talking about And
36:25
Speaker 3: we have Republicans, eight years, and they put the economy
36:28
Speaker 3: in the ditch. Okay, you want to give China the
36:30
Speaker 3: economy for four years, see what they do with it?
36:33
Speaker 3: The ditch would be a welcome relief to what I
36:36
Speaker 3: believe they would do to our economy and to the
36:38
Speaker 3: world economy. By the way, we're like 10x their economy.
36:41
Speaker 3: If you're wondering about how the U.S. 10x the economy,
36:43
Speaker 3: also 10x the entire, not just the United Kingdom, all
36:48
Speaker 3: of Europe, all of Western Europe's economy combined is about
36:52
Speaker 3: a tenth of what we've got. So we are in
36:54
Speaker 3: an infinitely better position economically, buying power, all that sort
36:59
Speaker 3: of stuff. But if you want them to have it,
37:02
Speaker 3: I'm not with you.
37:03
Speaker 2: How's that? I'm not with you. Who are you with?
37:05
Speaker 2: Let us know on the Talkback feature.
37:06
Speaker 3: By the way, coming up around 730, you're supposed to
37:08
Speaker 3: have Congressman Joe Wilson. Always good to let us know
37:11
Speaker 3: about what's going on with the Ukraine and Russia and
37:13
Speaker 3: other global affairs. He's very plugged in with those things.
37:16
Speaker 3: We'll talk to him about that and more. And any
37:18
Speaker 3: questions that you might have for the congressman, you can
37:20
Speaker 3: use the Talk Back feature now to let us know
37:22
Speaker 3: about that.
37:22
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. It is now 719.
37:24
Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
37:28
Speaker 1: 560 AM.
37:28
Speaker 7: WVOC, Columbia and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
37:36
Speaker 3: Good morning and big weekend out in Los Angeles as
37:40
Speaker 3: the FBI arrested a woman at the Los Angeles International
37:46
Speaker 3: Airport as she was leaving to go home to China.
37:51
Speaker 3: I think her name is pronounced. Wanying Zhang, but she
37:55
Speaker 3: doesn't go by Wanying. She goes by Heather. And Heather
37:58
Speaker 3: had been in D.C. and she was apparently, allegedly, according
38:02
Speaker 3: to the FBI, spying. She was spying on the president
38:08
Speaker 3: of Taiwan and sending back all kinds of information. And
38:12
Speaker 3: so she is set to appear this morning in a
38:15
Speaker 3: federal court in Los Angeles. Now, Taiwan, obviously not happy.
38:21
Speaker 3: about any of this. This is an attack on their president.
38:25
Speaker 3: They say that China is disregarding human rights and national
38:28
Speaker 3: sovereignty and aiming to suppress, threaten, and even harm individuals
38:31
Speaker 3: advocating for freedom. The Chinese embassy came back with a
38:35
Speaker 3: strong retort, no comment. So there's the difference between Taiwan
38:41
Speaker 3: and China. And so, yeah, again, the guy from Taiwan said,
38:47
Speaker 3: has really increased spending on defense and notably increased the
38:53
Speaker 3: spending from the GDP from 3% up to 5%. It
38:57
Speaker 3: has a special budget that they've set aside now for
39:00
Speaker 3: what they're calling the T-Dome air defense system. So Taiwan
39:03
Speaker 3: is really trying to make sure that they can stay
39:05
Speaker 3: separate from China. That's a big task, obviously. And the
39:10
Speaker 3: Chinese are pulling out all the stops, including... Now, thankfully,
39:13
Speaker 3: I guess... I wonder if she would have tried the
39:16
Speaker 3: honey trap. You know, try to go, what's his face?
39:19
Speaker 3: From California.
39:20
Speaker 4: Eric Swalwell.
39:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, Swalwell.
39:22
Speaker 3: Get the fang fang. I don't know what Wan Zing
39:26
Speaker 3: Zhang looks like, but she's 34, arrested over the weekend.
39:31
Speaker 3: These are one of those things that we're like living
39:33
Speaker 3: in James Bond type of events, Christopher.
39:36
Speaker 5: And it goes back to your point in the last
39:37
Speaker 5: segment about that's how China would run the world. If
39:41
Speaker 5: China becomes the superpower, that's the way China operates.
39:45
Speaker 3: You are so dead on. We got to make sure
39:47
Speaker 3: that that can't happen. Anybody who wants to make sure
39:50
Speaker 3: that that can't happen, you got to be voting Republican.
39:52
Speaker 2: All right.
39:53
Speaker 3: Speaking of Republican, possibly the first ever Republican, not actually,
39:57
Speaker 3: but possibly the first ever Republican in all of South
39:59
Speaker 3: Carolina history. We'll be joining us in just a moment.
40:02
Speaker 3: I'm talking about Congressman Joe Wilson. If you have questions
40:04
Speaker 3: for him, you can put them on our Talk Back feature.
40:06
Speaker 3: We'll get with him next. It is now 728.
40:08
Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
40:14
Speaker 2: It is 733.
40:15
Speaker 3: I'm Kelly Nash. And today we're doing a lot of
40:18
Speaker 3: different changes in the studio. And so, yeah, if you're
40:23
Speaker 3: looking at us on YouTube or Facebook or whatever, I
40:26
Speaker 3: have a clock. I'm holding it up now because one
40:29
Speaker 3: of the things that I was missing was a clock
40:31
Speaker 3: earlier in the show. And our guest, Congressman Joe Wilson,
40:36
Speaker 3: brought me a clock, a USA 250th anniversary clock.
40:40
Speaker 2: Congressman, good morning. Thank you for the great gift.
40:42
Speaker 8: But at the beginning, it also provides for it can
40:46
Speaker 8: be musical playing the first stanzas of the Star Spangled Banner.
40:49
Speaker 2: That is fantastic.
40:51
Speaker 4: It was made for you and Angela.
40:53
Speaker 3: And Christopher Thompson, I think, has a clock as well.
40:56
Speaker 4: He was well-deserving.
40:57
Speaker 8: And so I just can't—this is all constituent service.
41:03
Speaker 3: Well, Congressman, you travel the world rather frequently. And, you know,
41:09
Speaker 3: unlike a lot of congresspeople who just kind of stay
41:11
Speaker 3: in the district, and you are in the district this week.
41:14
Speaker 3: I know we'll talk about that in just a moment,
41:16
Speaker 3: what you got going on, but you have been traveling
41:18
Speaker 3: and you have been fighting for, uh, the spreading of freedom.
41:22
Speaker 3: And you were telling me before we came on the
41:24
Speaker 3: air that Serbia is currently possibly about to become free.
41:28
Speaker 8: Well, indeed, I'm really grateful. I'm growing up, uh, born
41:31
Speaker 8: in the Holy city of Charleston. And I'm so grateful
41:33
Speaker 8: that you're broadcasting in the low country, but, uh, growing
41:37
Speaker 8: up in Charleston, I grew up in such an international environment.
41:40
Speaker 8: It just, uh, So incredible, the opportunities we've had with
41:44
Speaker 8: the German Friendly Society, the Hibernian Society, the significant Jewish
41:51
Speaker 8: population in Charleston. I've always had an interest in foreign affairs,
41:56
Speaker 8: and so it's been particularly significant. Two weeks ago, of
42:00
Speaker 8: all things, I was at the United Nations General Assembly, Kelly,
42:04
Speaker 8: where I had the opportunity to attend a dinner with
42:08
Speaker 8: President Erdogan of Turkey. And then the next day, I
42:11
Speaker 8: was with President al-Sara, the new president of Syria.
42:16
Speaker 4: And that's significant to me.
42:17
Speaker 8: And 18 months ago, I was identified by the Assad
42:21
Speaker 8: dictatorship in Syria as an enemy of the state. And
42:24
Speaker 8: then three weeks after he identified me as I was
42:27
Speaker 8: working on sanctions on the Assad dictatorship, he fled the country.
42:31
Speaker 8: And then I was really grateful to actually be in
42:34
Speaker 8: Assad's office in Damascus half a year later, it was
42:38
Speaker 8: bipartisan with Senator Jeanne Shaheen, with the new president of Syria,
42:42
Speaker 8: President al-Shara. And so I was grateful to be with
42:44
Speaker 8: President al-Shara in New York as he is working with
42:49
Speaker 8: the United States and fulfilling what President Trump said to
42:52
Speaker 8: give Syria a chance. And then I concluded my visits
42:55
Speaker 8: with the very meaningful to me meeting with President Vladimir
43:00
Speaker 8: Zelensky and how.
43:01
Speaker 4: Grateful I am for the courage of the people of Ukraine.
43:05
Speaker 3: Well, Congressman, I'm sure you probably get this from some
43:09
Speaker 3: people in South Carolina. And so I'll just ask it
43:12
Speaker 3: for maybe somebody who's not familiar with you or most
43:17
Speaker 3: Republicans at this point are what we would call America first.
43:20
Speaker 7: Right.
43:21
Speaker 3: And so when they hear us talking about some sort
43:25
Speaker 3: of sanctions on other countries or we're fighting for freedom
43:29
Speaker 3: in Serbia or it doesn't matter, whatever place that they're
43:34
Speaker 3: talking about. Why is that important to somebody who lives
43:37
Speaker 3: in South Carolina that Serbia become free?
43:40
Speaker 8: Well, to me, it's very important because, sadly, Serbia is
43:45
Speaker 8: the only country really in Europe that sent a delegation
43:50
Speaker 8: to the funeral of Khomeini, the mass murderer of 72,000
43:55
Speaker 8: people of Iranians this year. They actually sent a delegation.
43:58
Speaker 8: And so Serbia also has done joint military operations with,
44:02
Speaker 8: you can't believe this, Kelly, with the People's Liberation Army
44:05
Speaker 8: of the Chinese Communist Party.
44:07
Speaker 2: Wow.
44:07
Speaker 8: And then Serbia also has allowed the purchase of their
44:11
Speaker 8: largest oil company, NIS, by.
44:14
Speaker 4: War criminal Putin.
44:15
Speaker 8: And so clearly there's a need for a change there,
44:19
Speaker 8: and my view is that there should be fair and
44:21
Speaker 8: free elections. I'm the chairman of the Helsinki Commission, the
44:25
Speaker 8: Commission on Organization, Securing, and Cooperation in Europe, and I'm very,
44:28
Speaker 8: very grateful to be working with many organizations around the world.
44:33
Speaker 3: Has there been any updates on the Helsinki Commission coming
44:36
Speaker 3: to Charleston?
44:37
Speaker 8: And I'm glad you brought that up. I keep working
44:39
Speaker 8: on that. What a disgrace. OK, it could relate. OK,
44:42
Speaker 8: do you see something here? And that is that they
44:45
Speaker 8: made a mistake when they their organization, the summer meeting
44:49
Speaker 8: of the OSCE to bring 300 parliamentarians, 55 countries. I
44:55
Speaker 8: appreciate the leadership of Mayor William Cogswell to bring them
44:59
Speaker 8: to Charleston next summer. And it was diverted to Belgrade, Serbia. Well,
45:03
Speaker 8: that actually gave me a real interest in Serbia. How
45:07
Speaker 8: could they choose Belgrade over Charleston? And I found out
45:11
Speaker 8: it's called undue influence. I'm not going to say it's
45:15
Speaker 8: flat-out corruption, but it's extraordinary undue influence. And so that
45:20
Speaker 8: gave me then an interest in Serbia, and they're going
45:23
Speaker 8: to regret it because I'm really grateful to receive international
45:27
Speaker 8: support from all over the world on October 25th, not
45:31
Speaker 8: to take sides in the election, but there will be
45:34
Speaker 8: a push by monitors for fair and free elections in
45:36
Speaker 8: the country of Serbia.
45:38
Speaker 4: Now, how does that relate to us? Well, it does.
45:40
Speaker 8: I'm really grateful, foreign direct investment. In the district I represent,
45:45
Speaker 8: I have the largest Michelin plant in the world. I'm
45:47
Speaker 8: so grateful from, indeed, from France. And that's my French heritage, too,
45:53
Speaker 8: French Huguenot. And then I'm also grateful we have Bridgestone Tire,
45:57
Speaker 8: which is Japanese. And of course, We have BMW in
46:00
Speaker 8: South Carolina, the largest facility in the world. We have Volvo, obviously,
46:06
Speaker 8: in the low country. And then all of these relate
46:08
Speaker 8: to Boeing aircraft. We want all of our allies to
46:12
Speaker 8: be buying 787-10 Dreamliners made in the holy city of Charleston.
46:17
Speaker 8: So to me, foreign affairs and creating jobs in South
46:23
Speaker 8: Carolina fit together. And so I'm very, very grateful for
46:27
Speaker 8: the opportunities I have.
46:28
Speaker 3: And I know you're busy today in South Carolina. What
46:31
Speaker 3: are some of the things that people, if they wanted
46:33
Speaker 3: to meet you today?
46:34
Speaker 4: I'm really grateful.
46:35
Speaker 8: I'll be leaving in a few minutes for the VFW
46:37
Speaker 8: in Lexington to dedicate a road. And then I'll be
46:40
Speaker 8: meeting with constituents at the office. And then I'll be
46:42
Speaker 8: at the Columbia Rotary Club. I make up at Rotary
46:46
Speaker 8: on Mondays with Rotary around the district. And then I
46:50
Speaker 8: will be spending time with more constituents. And then tonight,
46:54
Speaker 8: the Lexington County Republican Party monthly meeting. And it's a
46:58
Speaker 8: big year in Lexington County. For the first time in
47:02
Speaker 8: 125 years, in the last election cycle, there's not a
47:05
Speaker 8: single Democrat elected official in Lexington County. And hey, you
47:11
Speaker 8: hit on a few minutes ago, it's people moving to
47:14
Speaker 8: South Carolina from the Midwest and Northeast, and the vast
47:18
Speaker 8: majority of them are Republicans.
47:20
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't like it where they were. And it's
47:22
Speaker 3: not that they don't like their home state. I love
47:24
Speaker 3: Connecticut where I'm from. I just don't like the way
47:26
Speaker 3: it's run. And so I'm very thankful to have South
47:29
Speaker 3: Carolina to escape to.
47:30
Speaker 4: Well, I'm really grateful.
47:32
Speaker 8: In my beginning in the Republican Party, too, I was
47:34
Speaker 8: really recruited by Julia Doherty, my mother and I. And
47:39
Speaker 8: so I cherish my Charleston heritage and to see the
47:44
Speaker 8: success of efforts in the low country.
47:48
Speaker 2: All right.
47:49
Speaker 3: Thank you, Congressman Joe Wilson. Again, very accessible congressman for
47:53
Speaker 3: people to get a hold of. Like you said, we
47:54
Speaker 3: got him all over the state today.
47:56
Speaker 2: We'll take a break and be back with more at 741.
47:58
Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's morning news.
48:02
Speaker 3: Well, Christopher, it's I think I just heard that John
48:05
Speaker 3: Thune is coming to the low country this week. So
48:08
Speaker 3: that's specifically a fundraiser. That's not to actually campaign for her.
48:13
Speaker 3: That's to go to big dollar people in Charleston. and say,
48:17
Speaker 3: please give some money, please help out. We need some
48:20
Speaker 3: help over here. Any thoughts on that, Christopher?
48:23
Speaker 5: I don't think that's the right move for her campaign,
48:25
Speaker 5: but maybe John Thune is more popular in the low
48:28
Speaker 5: country than we realized. I don't think he's very popular
48:32
Speaker 5: with Republicans in general. I'm not sure what the point
48:35
Speaker 5: is of bringing him along, but.
48:37
Speaker 2: The point appears to be to get money. That's the point.
48:41
Speaker 3: We and I, you and I and a bunch of
48:43
Speaker 3: other listeners have been complaining that we're not seeing any ads.
48:46
Speaker 3: This is a way to get the ads out is
48:48
Speaker 3: if you can get the very wealthy in Charleston to
48:51
Speaker 3: get excited.
48:52
Speaker 2: And perhaps John Thune's that guy.
48:55
Speaker 3: And he's partnering with some people in the low country
48:57
Speaker 3: who have already got the connections, so to speak, to
49:01
Speaker 3: get that kind of money. The quote unquote donor class.
49:04
Speaker 3: That makes more sense than having him stop out at
49:07
Speaker 3: some sort of campaign stop. and just, you know, hooting
49:11
Speaker 3: and hollering for her. So, all right, Christopher, we're going
49:14
Speaker 3: to take a quick break. We'll be back with more.
49:16
Speaker 2: It is now 747.
49:18
Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News. Good morning, guys.
49:26
Speaker 1: This is Renee in West Columbia.
49:28
Speaker 3: I called you three weeks ago about Darlene Graham, and
49:32
Speaker 3: you guys were making excuses for her.
49:35
Speaker 2: I have to say, I told you so. She told
49:41
Speaker 2: us so, Christopher.
49:43
Speaker 4: She's not wrong.
49:44
Speaker 3: She told us so three weeks ago.
49:46
Speaker 2: What was her first name again? Renee.
49:48
Speaker 3: Renee from West Columbia. Renee from West Columbia. You are
49:52
Speaker 3: a smart woman. And that's obvious by you listening to
49:55
Speaker 3: South Carolina's morning news and sometimes outsmarting the hosts. I
50:00
Speaker 3: don't want to say that. that all is lost in
50:04
Speaker 3: the campaign. I think that we're in a very awkward
50:08
Speaker 3: position right now, though. And again, the Trafalgar poll is
50:12
Speaker 3: a screaming siren. to the Republican Party that Darlene Graham
50:18
Speaker 3: is in trouble and we need help.
50:19
Speaker 2: We need help. We need, you know, Trump, this is
50:22
Speaker 2: your candidate.
50:23
Speaker 3: If Donald Trump happens to be listening this morning on
50:25
Speaker 3: the I Heart Radio app, good morning, Mr.
50:27
Speaker 2: President. We need your help.
50:30
Speaker 3: This is not just a Ken Paxton problem. This is
50:33
Speaker 3: not just a, you know, what's his name out in
50:36
Speaker 3: Ohio where the former guy, Sheldon Brown, is coming back.
50:40
Speaker 3: We need help in South Carolina. We have to maintain
50:43
Speaker 3: this seat. And if we lose this seat, it sends
50:47
Speaker 3: a message to the Democrat Party. It energizes the Democrat Party.
50:51
Speaker 3: And also, just as a side note, the Senate would
50:55
Speaker 3: then become more likely to be a Democrat run controlled Senate.
50:59
Speaker 3: And if that's the case, if they get the House
51:02
Speaker 3: as expected, of course, they're going to be impeaching Donald
51:05
Speaker 3: Trump nonstop. But if they were to get the Senate,
51:09
Speaker 3: they would then get it approved. And if they got
51:12
Speaker 3: that approved, then they're going to start making their way
51:14
Speaker 3: through the Republican ticket.
51:16
Speaker 9: J.D.
51:16
Speaker 3: Vance, you'll be impeached. Everybody will be impeached until we
51:19
Speaker 3: end up with President AOC or something crazy like that.
51:22
Speaker 3: So we can't allow this to happen, but you've got
51:25
Speaker 3: to help us. Somebody needs to raise some money and
51:27
Speaker 3: get some of these Darlene Graham messages out there. Look,
51:30
Speaker 3: she's not a charismatic figure. She's not any of those
51:35
Speaker 3: things that you would look for necessarily in a traditional candidate.
51:38
Speaker 3: But she's what we got. We had a primary. We
51:41
Speaker 3: did have the primary.
51:42
Speaker 4: And a runoff.
51:43
Speaker 2: And a runoff. And Ralph Norman, please step up.
51:47
Speaker 3: Please. You need to be on the campaign trail for Darlene.
51:51
Speaker 3: You said you would support the ticket. I'm not feeling
51:54
Speaker 3: a lot of support right now from the Ralph Norman campaign.
51:56
Speaker 3: I'm feeling more of a hashtag write in Ralph vibe.
52:00
Speaker 3: And that is not going to help this this state
52:03
Speaker 3: at all, because there is no. And for those of
52:06
Speaker 3: you who again, we got a couple of comments last week.
52:09
Speaker 2: Well, what about Strom Thurmond?
52:11
Speaker 3: Strom Thurmond was a completely different person in a completely
52:13
Speaker 3: different era. Strom Thurmond was already been the governor of
52:16
Speaker 3: the state when he did a write in. And he
52:18
Speaker 3: was also promising to caucus with the. Democrats who were
52:22
Speaker 3: the party at the time. That's what he said. Ralph
52:25
Speaker 3: Norman has already run for two different seats at the
52:28
Speaker 3: statewide level and lost both. There's no conceivable way of
52:31
Speaker 3: him winning a write-in campaign.
52:33
Speaker 2: For gosh sakes, please, people.
52:35
Speaker 5: Early voting starts two weeks from today, Kelly. The time
52:38
Speaker 5: is now.
52:39
Speaker 3: Let's pull the trigger and let's get it going. We
52:41
Speaker 3: need to win this race. Oh my gosh, it's 7.55.
52:45
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52:49
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53:00
Speaker 3: 8.03 with Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson, and very bizarre happenings
53:04
Speaker 3: out in California. Over the weekend, you've got Bernie Sanders
53:08
Speaker 3: having a rally.
53:10
Speaker 2: We've got to tax the rich. The rich must pay
53:12
Speaker 2: their fair share.
53:13
Speaker 3: And with him, obviously, is Ro Khanna. Now, they are
53:17
Speaker 3: fighting Gavin Newsom and Katie Porter. You remember the lady
53:21
Speaker 3: who likes to throw mashed potatoes at her husband's head?
53:24
Speaker 3: Those are the people who are against this idea. But
53:27
Speaker 3: here's Ro Khanna pitching his idea on taxing the rich.
53:31
Speaker 9: $ 250, 000. Californians, 250 people.
53:35
Speaker 2: They're worth $ 2.
53:35
Speaker 7: 2 trillion, half the California economy.
53:38
Speaker 9: Half the California economy, 250 people. Now, their wealth rose
53:42
Speaker 9: 144% in the last three years.
53:43
Speaker 1: If they pay a 5% tax.
54:00
Speaker 9: They're still going to be worth $ 2.
54:01
Speaker 7: 2 trillion.
54:08
Speaker 9: The tax does not make them any less rich. It
54:12
Speaker 9: simply keeps health care clinics open and covers all Californians.
54:18
Speaker 2: Yes, let the children have health care.
54:23
Speaker 9: I really don't understand because I've tried to reason with
54:26
Speaker 9: them before they went all against me. And I, I
54:29
Speaker 9: finally understood it explained.
54:31
Speaker 2: By Kerry Washington.
54:33
Speaker 7: Great.
54:33
Speaker 3: She says, I don't understand.
54:35
Speaker 9: People who have everything, but still want more.
54:39
Speaker 2: That's what it is. Christopher.
54:40
Speaker 3: It's just, it's greed.
54:42
Speaker 4: Those greed, the situation.
54:43
Speaker 2: Yeah.
54:44
Speaker 3: If the billionaires would stop being billionaires, then we could
54:48
Speaker 3: all have healthcare. Um, And I wish Ro Khanna was correct. Unfortunately,
54:53
Speaker 3: I know Ro Khanna is not an idiot. Ro Khanna
54:55
Speaker 3: at least has access to a calculator. And so he
54:58
Speaker 3: knows that by doing this, and again, I'm playing in
55:02
Speaker 3: a fantasy sandbox with them, that this would somehow be legal,
55:06
Speaker 3: that you could tax the quote unquote wealth that I
55:09
Speaker 3: don't have in America. So if I have it in
55:12
Speaker 3: a Swiss bank account, if I have it in a
55:14
Speaker 3: Paris apartment, if I have it in a yacht that's
55:18
Speaker 3: off the coast of Australia, that somehow you could tax that,
55:23
Speaker 3: which is illegal and impossible for a state to do.
55:25
Speaker 2: But even if you did it, you.
55:27
Speaker 3: Would get $ 100 million. And if you got that, Would
55:31
Speaker 3: you fix the problem? No, because the California CalMed problem
55:34
Speaker 3: is now approaching a trillion dollars. So $ 100 billion is
55:37
Speaker 3: not going to fix the problem, and it's a one-time tax,
55:40
Speaker 3: and it's also going to drive billionaires out of the state,
55:43
Speaker 3: which is why Gavin Newsom and Katie Porter and others
55:45
Speaker 3: have pointed to that and said no. And if they
55:47
Speaker 3: needed a fresh reminder, Ken Martin gave them one over
55:51
Speaker 3: the weekend. The guy who was supposed to have his
55:54
Speaker 3: big office and employ thousands of people in New York
55:57
Speaker 3: before the debacle that was the Mayor Mamdani media, social
56:03
Speaker 3: media video, where he's like, Ken Martin lives up here
56:06
Speaker 3: and we're going to tax the crap.
56:07
Speaker 2: Out of him.
56:08
Speaker 3: Ken Martin said, no, you're not. I'm going to just
56:09
Speaker 3: stay in Miami and I'm moving my offices to Miami.
56:12
Speaker 3: And then this weekend, just to spite Mamdani, he wrote
56:15
Speaker 3: a check for $ 3 billion and said, this is going
56:19
Speaker 3: to go to the Carnegie Mellon Institute and In Chicago,
56:24
Speaker 3: in Pittsburgh, and in Miami, none gets to go to
56:27
Speaker 3: the New York State.
56:29
Speaker 2: You're out.
56:29
Speaker 4: Wow. You get nothing.
56:31
Speaker 2: You were going to get $ 3 billion. You were going
56:33
Speaker 2: to get all of it.
56:34
Speaker 3: You were going to get $ 3 billion. But you wanted
56:37
Speaker 3: to try to make me look like a fool and
56:38
Speaker 3: put a target on my back. And so now he's out.
56:41
Speaker 3: And we're seeing it's not just in California. You're seeing
56:44
Speaker 3: people flee these Illinois cities. other places where they're billionaires
56:48
Speaker 3: and they're afraid that these things are going to pass.
56:50
Speaker 3: Now this is called prop 40. It's a one-time 5% tax.
56:55
Speaker 3: And what Gavin Newsom says, not to say that Gavin
56:57
Speaker 3: Newsom's not a guy who loves taxes.
57:00
Speaker 2: My God, does he love taxes?
57:01
Speaker 3: If, if, I mean, if he could cheat on his
57:03
Speaker 3: wife with taxes instead of just his best.
57:05
Speaker 2: Friend's wife, he would do that.
57:07
Speaker 3: But the idea here is that he wants the national government.
57:12
Speaker 3: So when you're thinking about an Annie Andrews campaign or
57:14
Speaker 3: if you're thinking about a Democrat, you know, maybe you
57:16
Speaker 3: think Telefrico is a moderate. Whatever you're thinking about, what
57:20
Speaker 3: they're proposing is a not just a one time tax.
57:24
Speaker 3: They want a permanent tax. tax of 5% on anybody
57:27
Speaker 3: with a billion dollars. Now, look, I get a billion dollars.
57:30
Speaker 3: Most of us will never have that. But I would
57:32
Speaker 3: point to the alternative minimum tax. And when you look
57:35
Speaker 3: at the alternative minimum tax, and for those of you
57:37
Speaker 3: who don't follow tax code or whatever, that was one
57:40
Speaker 3: of those things that was passed years ago. After there
57:44
Speaker 3: was a speech given by a guy named Treasury Secretary
57:48
Speaker 3: Joseph Barr, and he said in January of 1969 that
57:51
Speaker 3: there's 155 people in America who have an income of $ 200, 000
57:56
Speaker 3: a year or more, which again, 1969, that.
57:59
Speaker 2: Was a lot of money.
58:00
Speaker 4: It was a lot.
58:02
Speaker 2: They're paying no income tax, according to this guy.
58:04
Speaker 3: The people in Congress said they got more letters complaining
58:07
Speaker 3: about that in 1969 and 1970 than they did the
58:09
Speaker 3: Vietnam War. The idea that there was 155 people not
58:15
Speaker 3: paying their quote-unquote fair share, they were more concerned about
58:18
Speaker 3: that than the thousands of men and women dying.
58:22
Speaker 2: That was the problem. So what do they do? Congress responds.
58:25
Speaker 3: They pass the alternative minimum tax, and we're going to
58:28
Speaker 3: just make sure that they're paying their fair share. As
58:32
Speaker 3: Congress loves to do, they don't index it. So the $ 200, 000,
58:36
Speaker 3: which was a lot in 1969, not so much in 1979,
58:39
Speaker 3: certainly not a lot in 1989. By 1999, that's becoming
58:44
Speaker 3: just upper middle class. And then by the 2009, it
58:48
Speaker 3: went all the way. And I mean, this thing just
58:50
Speaker 3: kept going and going and going and going. And I
58:53
Speaker 3: think it was like 2013 that they finally got rid
58:55
Speaker 3: of this thing. Congress loves, or I should say socialists love,
59:01
Speaker 3: liberals love to put a thing on people and say,
59:03
Speaker 3: that's the rich. And then they'll lower the standards of
59:05
Speaker 3: what rich is. Pretty soon you're going to be rich
59:07
Speaker 3: and you're not going to, and you're going to be like,
59:08
Speaker 3: wait a minute, I'm rich. That's the way they play
59:10
Speaker 3: the game. So if they can start this class envy
59:13
Speaker 3: thing where you're upset because there's a billionaire, well, maybe
59:16
Speaker 3: you're upset because somebody's got a hundred million.
59:18
Speaker 2: Maybe you're upset. Somebody's got 10 million. How about a million?
59:21
Speaker 3: How about all of a sudden your 401k is worth
59:23
Speaker 3: a million. And then they're saying, you got to pay
59:25
Speaker 3: taxes on that now.
59:28
Speaker 2: How are you going to do it? You can't.
59:30
Speaker 3: You've got to get rid of your 401k in order
59:31
Speaker 3: to pay the taxes. That's the problem with these stupid,
59:35
Speaker 3: stupid ideas about taxing the wealth, quote-unquote, of somebody, not
59:38
Speaker 3: the income.
59:39
Speaker 5: Well, and as you pointed out, they're not only chasing
59:41
Speaker 5: wealthy people out of these states, they're chasing wealthy businesses.
59:45
Speaker 5: And the state loses jobs in the process.
59:49
Speaker 1: And.
59:49
Speaker 3: It doesn't even fix the problem.
59:51
Speaker 4: It doesn't fix the problem.
59:51
Speaker 2: It doesn't even fix the problem.
59:53
Speaker 3: Well, I hope that they vote no on Prop 40.
59:55
Speaker 3: They start the voting today on that in California. We'll
59:57
Speaker 3: have to watch that and keep you up to date.
59:59
Speaker 3: If you've got thoughts on that or other things, use
1:00:01
Speaker 3: the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
1:00:03
Speaker 2: It's 810.
1:00:03
Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
1:00:08
Speaker 1: Morning News.
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Speaker 3: All right, Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson.
1:00:11
Speaker 2: I have not.
1:00:12
Speaker 3: Seen which outside department Nancy Mace is asking for. I'm
1:00:18
Speaker 3: on her Twitter account. I'm not seeing it right now.
1:00:21
Speaker 3: She does talk about the Latson mother, and she's upset
1:00:25
Speaker 3: that the media has called her a homeowner. She said,
1:00:29
Speaker 3: stop calling her a homeowner and call her what she is,
1:00:32
Speaker 3: a mother who is charged with killing her children. She's
1:00:35
Speaker 3: charged with homicide by child abuse after her daughters, two
1:00:38
Speaker 3: and 15 months, were found dead. The coroner has ruled
1:00:41
Speaker 3: starvation and dehydration as the cause of death. But she
1:00:46
Speaker 3: wants an outside source, according to the news, to come
1:00:50
Speaker 3: in and investigate. You made the point earlier this morning, Christopher,
1:00:53
Speaker 3: that obviously lads in police probably shouldn't be involved because
1:00:57
Speaker 3: they're the ones who were called to the homes numerous times.
1:00:59
Speaker 4: Yeah.
1:01:00
Speaker 5: Charleston County Sheriff's Office. How many times were the final
1:01:05
Speaker 5: call was on September 29th. And instead of going in person,
1:01:10
Speaker 5: the deputy telling the postman courier they would instead call
1:01:12
Speaker 5: the mother.
1:01:13
Speaker 2: Make sure it's all good.
1:01:14
Speaker 5: Yeah.
1:01:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, we heard there's problems with the kids. Is everything good? Yeah,
1:01:18
Speaker 2: it's great.
1:01:19
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're really quiet now. They're not making any fuss anymore.
1:01:24
Speaker 3: That's horrible. I would think that if you're looking for
1:01:27
Speaker 3: an outside source, and I think that this would already
1:01:29
Speaker 3: be the deferred to, like this would just be automatic,
1:01:33
Speaker 3: that SLED would be investigating this. If there's been police
1:01:35
Speaker 3: involved and they missed it, that SLED would come in
1:01:40
Speaker 3: and investigate. Perhaps that's not the way the law works
1:01:42
Speaker 3: in South Carolina. I'm not that familiar with it, but
1:01:45
Speaker 3: That I would be calling for SLED as well to
1:01:48
Speaker 3: investigate it. The other thing that Nancy Mace has got
1:01:50
Speaker 3: to be, she has a unique way. She's going to
1:01:55
Speaker 3: be a heck of a podcaster because Nancy Mace is
1:01:58
Speaker 3: getting into the podcast business. If you didn't know that,
1:02:00
Speaker 3: she's launched her own YouTube channel and those types of things.
1:02:03
Speaker 3: But she's retweeted the October 2nd NBC News story. there
1:02:08
Speaker 3: was no medical oxygen or mask in the execution chamber
1:02:12
Speaker 3: where Tennessee tried and failed to kill convicted murderer, Christina Pike,
1:02:17
Speaker 3: which meant staff had to go and get it when
1:02:20
Speaker 3: things went wrong, according to a source who witnessed what happened.
1:02:23
Speaker 3: And I think Christine Krista, is it Krista Pike? I
1:02:26
Speaker 3: think she's actually currently believed to have brain damage, although
1:02:31
Speaker 3: she's not regained consciousness.
1:02:33
Speaker 7: And I, I am.
1:02:35
Speaker 3: Totally baffled as to why there would have been an accident.
1:02:39
Speaker 3: Why would there be any life-saving measures inside an execution room?
1:02:43
Speaker 4: Doesn't make any sense.
1:02:45
Speaker 2: The room is designed to kill you, and.
1:02:49
Speaker 3: They should have just kept going until they got it right,
1:02:52
Speaker 3: is my estimation. Certainly not rush her to the hospital
1:02:56
Speaker 3: and perform life-saving procedures on someone.
1:02:59
Speaker 2: Who has been sentenced to death.
1:03:01
Speaker 3: And the fact that it didn't go as quickly as
1:03:03
Speaker 3: hoped for, She's not feeling anything right now.
1:03:07
Speaker 2: She's out, out. This is the perfect time to put
1:03:10
Speaker 2: her down.
1:03:11
Speaker 4: Just simply unplug everything.
1:03:13
Speaker 3: That would handle it. That would handle it. Or put
1:03:17
Speaker 3: her under the care of this lady in Latson. Let
1:03:20
Speaker 3: her be the caretaker. Anyway, if you've got thoughts on
1:03:24
Speaker 3: these stories or other, let us know on the morning.
1:03:26
Speaker 3: Excuse me, on our talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app.
1:03:29
Speaker 2: We'll take a break. It's now 818.
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Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
1:03:35
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1:03:43
Speaker 6: This is Brian in Lexington, and comment about the recent
1:03:47
Speaker 6: attempted execution of the woman in Tennessee. The leftists are
1:03:51
Speaker 6: all crying. It's cruel and unusual punishment that this lady
1:03:54
Speaker 6: suffered the way she did and is still alive, but
1:03:57
Speaker 6: they never take into account the cruel and unusual way
1:04:00
Speaker 6: that Typically, the people they've murdered have died in the
1:04:03
Speaker 6: way these families have suffered since then. They should have
1:04:06
Speaker 6: just put their hand over the lady's mouth and nose
1:04:08
Speaker 6: and finished her off.
1:04:10
Speaker 3: Thank you, Brian, in the low country for starting your
1:04:13
Speaker 3: day with South Carolina's morning news.
1:04:14
Speaker 2: And I think pretty much most.
1:04:16
Speaker 3: Of the audience would agree with your position. There's obviously
1:04:20
Speaker 3: some on the right who don't agree with capital punishment.
1:04:23
Speaker 2: And and that's a great debate to have.
1:04:27
Speaker 3: However, once the decision has been made that the person
1:04:31
Speaker 3: is going to be executed, I think you've got to
1:04:36
Speaker 3: finish the job.
1:04:37
Speaker 5: It's like a do not resuscitate when you're hospitalized. There
1:04:41
Speaker 5: should be no extraordinary measures taken.
1:04:44
Speaker 3: In the old days, who was the last guy who
1:04:47
Speaker 3: got the execution with the firing squad?
1:04:50
Speaker 2: Was it Gary? Gilmore? Gilmore, I think. And by the way,
1:04:53
Speaker 2: interesting side note on that.
1:04:55
Speaker 4: Before we started doing it again. Yeah, before we tried to.
1:04:57
Speaker 2: Bring it back.
1:04:57
Speaker 3: Gary Gilmore is the guy. I don't believe this is
1:05:02
Speaker 3: just like an urban legend. I believe this is documentable.
1:05:07
Speaker 3: He is the one who started Just Do It. Nike
1:05:10
Speaker 3: took the slogan from him. his final words were just
1:05:15
Speaker 3: do it. And then Nike about a year later was like,
1:05:18
Speaker 3: what a great attitude. Let's just, I mean, just do it,
1:05:22
Speaker 3: just do it. And so that's where you got one
1:05:24
Speaker 3: of the great ad slogans was the, the, the, the
1:05:27
Speaker 3: final word said by a convicted murderer, just do it. And,
1:05:31
Speaker 3: but his, his words are still accurate today. Just do it.
1:05:34
Speaker 3: Pull the plug, put your hands over her mouth, do something,
1:05:39
Speaker 3: finish her off. She's, she's, Look, for those of you
1:05:42
Speaker 3: who are like, she's suffering, maybe. I don't know where
1:05:45
Speaker 3: she is mentally at this point. But I know that
1:05:47
Speaker 3: you could finish her off in mere minutes at this point.
1:05:51
Speaker 5: And that may be the more humane thing to do
1:05:54
Speaker 5: if she does have brain damage at this point.
1:05:57
Speaker 3: For those, I mean, I don't know who would be
1:06:00
Speaker 3: on the side of bring her back with the brain
1:06:02
Speaker 3: damage and for a lifetime in prison.
1:06:04
Speaker 2: And... and brain damage.
1:06:08
Speaker 3: I mean, by, by all the left standards, because the
1:06:12
Speaker 3: left is the one who is very pro let's put
1:06:15
Speaker 3: you out of your misery type of people. So I
1:06:17
Speaker 3: don't know who'd be for this, keeping her alive at
1:06:20
Speaker 3: this point. But it's, it's a very bizarre situation that
1:06:25
Speaker 3: Tennessee has put itself into. They put themselves into this, this, this,
1:06:29
Speaker 3: Should have been, as Christopher says, a do not resuscitate
1:06:31
Speaker 3: type of environment. We're just going to keep going until
1:06:33
Speaker 3: the job gets done.
1:06:35
Speaker 4: We did get another talk back, by the way, Kelly,
1:06:37
Speaker 4: on her situation.
1:06:38
Speaker 7: Good morning, friends. This is Mark in Gaston.
1:06:42
Speaker 1: Tell me, from all of that confiscated fentanyl that is
1:06:47
Speaker 1: immediately deadly, they can't use any of that?
1:06:52
Speaker 2: Come on. That is the most ridiculous thing.
1:06:56
Speaker 7: Thank you.
1:06:57
Speaker 2: Just give her a dose of fentanyl.
1:06:59
Speaker 4: We've got plenty of it.
1:07:00
Speaker 3: We seem to have plenty of it floating here, even
1:07:03
Speaker 3: though the Trump administration has done its best to stop
1:07:05
Speaker 3: that flow. There is still we are still awash in fentanyl.
1:07:08
Speaker 3: And we've seen videos where, you know, police officers come
1:07:12
Speaker 3: within contact of it, just touching it. And it nearly
1:07:15
Speaker 3: kills them. So you're right to that point. That would
1:07:17
Speaker 3: finish off the job very quickly.
1:07:19
Speaker 2: So.
1:07:21
Speaker 3: Again, bizarre going on in Tennessee. All right, when we
1:07:23
Speaker 3: come back, the pilot, the co-pilot in the flight out
1:07:28
Speaker 3: of Israel, more and more news breaking on that guy,
1:07:31
Speaker 3: and it's getting more and more bizarre by the second.
1:07:34
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that and take more of your talkbacks
1:07:36
Speaker 3: off the iHeartRadio app.
1:07:37
Speaker 2: It is now 828.
1:07:39
Speaker 1: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
1:07:44
Speaker 2: Wow, the story out of the.
1:07:47
Speaker 3: What was the name of that flight that was going
1:07:49
Speaker 3: to Israel? It was, it came out last week. And
1:07:54
Speaker 3: the co-pilot originally, they said, was using like some sort
1:07:58
Speaker 3: of switchblade or something.
1:08:00
Speaker 2: He had smuggled a knife on.
1:08:02
Speaker 3: Well, now we find out he was actually using an axe.
1:08:05
Speaker 3: which that certainly ramps up the violence rather quickly when
1:08:09
Speaker 3: somebody's attacking you with an axe, and the axe was
1:08:11
Speaker 3: not smuggled on.
1:08:13
Speaker 2: The axe is already.
1:08:14
Speaker 3: In the cockpit because it's there as some form of
1:08:19
Speaker 3: safety equipment. Not so safe for the pilot who is
1:08:22
Speaker 3: hit with it.
1:08:22
Speaker 5: Well, you don't expect your pilot or co-pilot to come
1:08:25
Speaker 5: after you with that.
1:08:27
Speaker 2: Yeah, fly Dubai.
1:08:28
Speaker 4: Fly to Dubai, yeah.
1:08:29
Speaker 2: Now, amazingly... Here's.
1:08:33
Speaker 3: The part where, to me, it gets really bizarre because
1:08:36
Speaker 3: it's already bizarre. You've got a guy who's been kicked
1:08:39
Speaker 3: out of a flight school because they said he was
1:08:41
Speaker 3: too radical. But on top of it, he's got a
1:08:44
Speaker 3: LinkedIn page. Now, after he was arrested. Well, even before
1:08:50
Speaker 3: he's arrested, we can just go and you can look
1:08:52
Speaker 3: at his LinkedIn page from, you know, the celebrating October
1:08:55
Speaker 3: 7th and those types of things. You would think, okay, well,
1:08:57
Speaker 3: we're not going to hire this nut job. Anybody, you
1:09:00
Speaker 3: just a, a cursory look at the page would tell
1:09:03
Speaker 3: you this guy is radical. But then after he was
1:09:07
Speaker 3: in custody, posts started going up on his LinkedIn page.
1:09:12
Speaker 3: And one of them, according to the associated press, shows
1:09:18
Speaker 3: the scene inside the cockpit.
1:09:21
Speaker 2: What in the world?
1:09:22
Speaker 3: How does that end up on his LinkedIn page? Other
1:09:25
Speaker 3: video that came out right after that video shows known terrorists,
1:09:31
Speaker 3: and then they show planes coming out of the sky
1:09:33
Speaker 3: in other countries. Now that's AI altered, but clearly somebody's
1:09:39
Speaker 3: in control of his LinkedIn page, and they're trying to
1:09:41
Speaker 3: send a message that this is just the beginning.
1:09:44
Speaker 4: That is a threat, if I've ever heard one.
1:09:47
Speaker 5: And Israel still isn't even sure how he was allowed,
1:09:51
Speaker 5: because they require diplomatic relations with any country where the
1:09:57
Speaker 5: pilot is going to be flying and landing in Israel.
1:10:02
Speaker 5: And this guy didn't have it. So the transportation officials
1:10:05
Speaker 5: there are saying, well, that's a security issue, should have
1:10:08
Speaker 5: been done by somebody else. everybody's pointing fingers at each
1:10:12
Speaker 5: other right now as how this guy was even allowed
1:10:14
Speaker 5: to be in the cockpit of a plane that was
1:10:16
Speaker 5: landing in Israel.
1:10:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, and so the UAE is apparently, quote-unquote, leading the investigation,
1:10:22
Speaker 3: but to your point, Israel is now involved with that investigation,
1:10:25
Speaker 3: and I believe the United States is getting involved as well,
1:10:27
Speaker 3: as Trump has pointed out. I mean, this would be
1:10:30
Speaker 3: an attack on the West in general, and those flights
1:10:35
Speaker 3: that they're showing apparently, it's now a deleted LinkedIn page,
1:10:39
Speaker 3: But if you were to believe what they're saying, they're
1:10:44
Speaker 3: saying that they're coming after American planes as well. Now, again,
1:10:48
Speaker 3: that's a threat. That's what terrorists do. They want you
1:10:50
Speaker 3: to be afraid. That's a pretty good threat.
1:10:53
Speaker 4: That's a pretty good threat, yeah, because it's happened here before.
1:10:57
Speaker 2: Yes.
1:10:58
Speaker 3: Now, to the point of I'm almost hesitant to say this,
1:11:04
Speaker 3: but I will say it because we're being transparent here.
1:11:08
Speaker 3: What I had said about September 11th, I lived in D.C.
1:11:11
Speaker 3: on September 11th. I'm from the New York tri-state area,
1:11:15
Speaker 3: and I had lived in New York City before I
1:11:17
Speaker 3: moved to D.C.
1:11:19
Speaker 2: I lived in the late 90s in New York City,
1:11:21
Speaker 2: moved to D.C.
1:11:22
Speaker 3: Then right after September 11th, my company transferred me back
1:11:26
Speaker 3: to New York, and I was living back in Manhattan
1:11:28
Speaker 3: from December of 2001 until... July of 2003 when I
1:11:31
Speaker 3: escaped for South Carolina. So I recognize the importance of
1:11:35
Speaker 3: DC and New York because that's where I was living.
1:11:38
Speaker 3: But I also recognize how big they are on the
1:11:40
Speaker 3: world stage and certainly in the American culture. But I
1:11:45
Speaker 3: had said at the time that if they had really
1:11:47
Speaker 3: wanted to scare Americans, they should have done like an
1:11:50
Speaker 3: attack in the Midwest. Because when you think big cities,
1:11:55
Speaker 3: you're thinking, okay, well, maybe they're going to attack LA.
1:11:57
Speaker 3: Maybe they're going to attack Chicago, maybe they're going to
1:12:00
Speaker 3: attack Boston, New York, D.C., maybe Miami. But you wouldn't
1:12:05
Speaker 3: be thinking Cincinnati. You wouldn't be thinking Indianapolis. You wouldn't
1:12:09
Speaker 3: be thinking, you know, those types of Albuquerque. If they
1:12:13
Speaker 3: had started doing terrorist attacks in Albuquerque, then all of
1:12:17
Speaker 3: America is permanently petrified. And that's what these threats seem
1:12:22
Speaker 3: to be showing. Planes going down in places like Bismarck,
1:12:26
Speaker 3: North Dakota.
1:12:27
Speaker 4: Everytown, U.S.A.
1:12:28
Speaker 3: Everytown USA, not just targeting the big media markets, so
1:12:32
Speaker 3: to speak, but the places where a lot of them are.
1:12:35
Speaker 3: Because if you attack those types of towns, then everybody's
1:12:38
Speaker 3: in play. Right now, it just feels like the big
1:12:40
Speaker 3: cities are in play. You know, maybe Atlanta, you know,
1:12:44
Speaker 3: that would be like the closest to where we live.
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Speaker 2: Maybe Charlotte. I doubt it.
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Speaker 3: Charlotte doesn't feel big enough to be on their radar,
1:12:51
Speaker 3: nor Raleigh.
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Speaker 2: But Atlanta, yes.
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Speaker 3: But what about a Columbia or a Charleston or a
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Speaker 3: Greenville or just keep moving out Knoxville, those types of towns?
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Speaker 3: I think that's really what they're thinking about right now.
1:13:06
Speaker 3: In America, we have to step our game up when
1:13:08
Speaker 3: it comes to terrorism activity because they are stepping their
1:13:11
Speaker 3: game up. That's my thoughts on it. And that should
1:13:14
Speaker 3: be a clear signal to all of us. What do
1:13:16
Speaker 3: you think? Let us know on the Talkback feature.
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Speaker 2: It's 838.
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Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 3: I wonder if they're doing photos at the house as
1:13:25
Speaker 3: they leave this morning to return to the Supreme Court.
1:13:29
Speaker 3: It's their first day in session. You know, like when
1:13:31
Speaker 3: the kids go back to school, like somebody take a
1:13:34
Speaker 3: photo of John Roberts and say, year 22, this is
1:13:38
Speaker 3: the 22nd year of John Roberts.
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Speaker 8: I don't know.
1:13:40
Speaker 3: But they're coming out the gate today with a really
1:13:44
Speaker 3: big SCOTUS case. It's Suncor Energy versus the commissioners of
1:13:49
Speaker 3: Boulder County. And it'll be very interesting. This is going
1:13:51
Speaker 3: to be one of those cases that the libs are
1:13:55
Speaker 3: drooling over because what is basically in line here is
1:14:00
Speaker 3: can a city or a state government sue the local
1:14:08
Speaker 3: energy companies for what they deem as greenhouse emission problems?
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Speaker 3: So the fact that your climate is— the climate is changing
1:14:18
Speaker 3: in Boulder, Colorado because Suncor Energy emits some sort of
1:14:23
Speaker 3: greenhouse gases. That's basically Boulder, Colorado's position. And you want
1:14:29
Speaker 3: to talk about an attack on energy. This would be
1:14:34
Speaker 3: a massive— detriment to the U.S. energy plants if they
1:14:39
Speaker 3: were told that, oh, because you put out what we
1:14:42
Speaker 3: consider to be detrimental gases to the environment, we're going
1:14:46
Speaker 3: to now hold you accountable for damages.
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Speaker 5: So are we just going to see a massive class
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Speaker 5: action lawsuit filed by every town and city in America
1:14:55
Speaker 5: against these energy companies? I mean, this is opening up
1:14:59
Speaker 5: a huge can of worms.
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Speaker 2: That's why we're hoping that we get the right decision.
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Speaker 3: I'm hoping that as they begin their new session today,
1:15:06
Speaker 3: that the Supreme Court justice, I'm not expecting much from
1:15:09
Speaker 3: the three.
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Speaker 2: Libs, obviously.
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Speaker 3: They're going to go the way they're going to go.
1:15:12
Speaker 3: And then you've got a couple, I mean, like Clarence
1:15:14
Speaker 3: Thomas is a very conservative. He's not going to vote
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Speaker 3: for this. But I hope he's not leading the dissent.
1:15:20
Speaker 3: I hope Clarence Thomas is reading the majority in this,
1:15:23
Speaker 3: because as you say, it would open up, I imagine,
1:15:27
Speaker 3: massive class action lawsuits against It would lead to a
1:15:30
Speaker 3: downsizing of the U.S.
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Speaker 2: Economy and energy. But, you know, maybe in a small way.
1:15:37
Speaker 3: We've been talking about nuclear energy here in South Carolina
1:15:41
Speaker 3: and the big move. By the way, I'm supposed to
1:15:42
Speaker 3: be talking to, I think, the Department of Energy secretary
1:15:45
Speaker 3: coming up this week. So we'll see what they've got
1:15:47
Speaker 3: to say about specifically South Carolina. But Yeah, this is
1:15:51
Speaker 3: a massive case that they're going to be kicking off
1:15:54
Speaker 3: the whole docket with today. And then there's obviously one
1:15:56
Speaker 3: right after another as they.
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Speaker 2: Move into it.
1:15:58
Speaker 3: There's some big, big decisions, as always, as the Supreme
1:16:01
Speaker 3: Court gets back in session. The summer break is over, Christopher.
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Speaker 5: Let's hope they had a good breakfast. Let's hope mom
1:16:08
Speaker 5: gets them out the door on time.
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Speaker 2: That's right. Pose for your photos.
1:16:12
Speaker 3: Mom used to lick her thumb and get the smudges
1:16:15
Speaker 3: off or push her cowlick down. So you're all looking
1:16:19
Speaker 3: good for your first day photos. But yeah, we'll be
1:16:21
Speaker 3: following this case in particularly very closely. We'll take a
1:16:24
Speaker 3: break and be back with more. It's 846.
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Speaker 7: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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Speaker 3: Well, it was a rough weekend for football, Christopher. As
1:16:34
Speaker 3: we head into Monday, a lot of people will be
1:16:37
Speaker 3: talking about football. I am a Giants fan, so they
1:16:40
Speaker 3: kind of bailed me out with the last play of
1:16:42
Speaker 3: the game. New York Giants knockoff. Arizona Cardinals looked like
1:16:47
Speaker 3: I was watching it on my phone, not the game.
1:16:49
Speaker 3: I'm actually watching the actual plays because I don't have
1:16:53
Speaker 3: the red zone or whatever. So it's like the Cardinals
1:16:56
Speaker 3: had marched all the way down within the five-yard line
1:17:00
Speaker 3: or something, and they had three or four shots from
1:17:03
Speaker 3: the five. And on the last play of the game,
1:17:06
Speaker 3: the Giants picked that off and ran it all the
1:17:08
Speaker 3: way back for a touchdown. So the final score looked
1:17:10
Speaker 3: a lot different than it really was if they had scored,
1:17:12
Speaker 3: the Cardinals were going to win that game. But also
1:17:15
Speaker 3: the Panthers won. So people are in a good mood
1:17:17
Speaker 3: around here that are Panthers fans. I'm trying to make
1:17:19
Speaker 3: myself a bit of a Panthers fan, but it's really
1:17:22
Speaker 3: about college football in this state. Clemson just completely humiliated
1:17:27
Speaker 3: over the weekend.
1:17:29
Speaker 8: 41-13.
1:17:29
Speaker 3: They're going to get a bounce back game. That's this Saturday, October. No,
1:17:33
Speaker 3: they got a bye week.
1:17:34
Speaker 4: Open date and then Charleston. Yeah.
1:17:35
Speaker 3: So then they'll get a nice bounce back there. The
1:17:39
Speaker 3: rest of the season, who knows what's going to happen
1:17:41
Speaker 3: with them. But then the bigger question for people here
1:17:44
Speaker 3: in the Midlands, what's going to happen? I know you've
1:17:46
Speaker 3: put out a report or the vibe is that Shane
1:17:49
Speaker 3: Beamer is going to be okay for the rest of
1:17:50
Speaker 3: the year due to the buyout.
1:17:52
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: There are multiple outlets reporting that USC just doesn't have
1:17:56
Speaker 5: the appetite right now to tackle that financial situation. So
1:17:59
Speaker 5: he may wind up surviving the season.
1:18:02
Speaker 3: I saw where Paul Feinbaum says it's unimaginable to him
1:18:06
Speaker 3: that Shane Beamer can survive.
1:18:07
Speaker 5: Paul doesn't have to pay the bills. Paul's not renovating
1:18:11
Speaker 5: his stadium right now.
1:18:12
Speaker 3: Well, he made the point that on television there were
1:18:15
Speaker 3: thousands of empty seats in a quote-unquote sold-out stadium and
1:18:19
Speaker 3: that you're already looking at a massive drop in revenues.
1:18:23
Speaker 3: coming forward when it looks to buying merchandise and that
1:18:26
Speaker 3: sort of stuff. As the interest in the Gamecocks continues
1:18:28
Speaker 3: to dwindle, Shane Beamer currently sitting with a basic 500 record, what,
1:18:33
Speaker 3: 35 and 33 as the coach.
1:18:36
Speaker 2: Best year was, what, two years ago.
1:18:38
Speaker 3: It is kind of, and I'm looking, we're going to
1:18:40
Speaker 3: be underdogs in every game, I think, for the rest
1:18:42
Speaker 3: of the year.
1:18:43
Speaker 4: You would think so.
1:18:43
Speaker 5: Oklahoma may be an exception and, who knows what happens
1:18:46
Speaker 5: with Clemson. But yeah, it's tough sledding from here. I
1:18:51
Speaker 5: half-wondered this morning when I saw the various reports saying
1:18:54
Speaker 5: that USC just doesn't want to tackle his buyout right now.
1:18:57
Speaker 5: I half-wondered if that was the administration maybe planning that story.
1:19:01
Speaker 5: in order for enough donors to step up and say,
1:19:04
Speaker 5: you know what, you've got so much of my money,
1:19:05
Speaker 5: but I want to see a coaching change.
1:19:08
Speaker 4: Here's more money.
1:19:09
Speaker 3: Interesting.
1:19:10
Speaker 4: I don't know.
1:19:11
Speaker 3: You know what, that might be, Christopher Thompson may have
1:19:14
Speaker 3: just solved one of the great mysteries. Because, you know,
1:19:17
Speaker 3: I sit with a guy who's been going to Gamecock
1:19:20
Speaker 3: games literally since the 70s, meaning he has not missed
1:19:23
Speaker 3: a game since like 1978.
1:19:23
Speaker 6: Wow.
1:19:24
Speaker 3: And he goes to probably half of their road games.
1:19:29
Speaker 3: And he was talking about the lack of enthusiasm, the
1:19:32
Speaker 3: lack of interest right now, how he doesn't even want
1:19:35
Speaker 3: to go to the games right now.
1:19:36
Speaker 2: He didn't want to go near the end of last year.
1:19:38
Speaker 3: And he was just like, we're, what are we like
1:19:41
Speaker 3: the 14th highest paying staff when it not staff, but
1:19:44
Speaker 3: when it comes to the NIL money, we're one of
1:19:46
Speaker 3: the top paying teams. We all pay Georgia. We're not
1:19:49
Speaker 3: getting Georgia results.
1:19:51
Speaker 4: No, not close.
1:19:52
Speaker 3: So we do have money around here. We're just apparently
1:19:55
Speaker 3: not spending it wisely or something.
1:19:57
Speaker 2: I don't know, but.
1:19:59
Speaker 3: It's going to be a long Monday for both Clemson
1:20:00
Speaker 3: and Gamecock fans in South Carolina.
1:20:03
Speaker 2: Hopefully you can.
1:20:03
Speaker 3: Get through it and then get back here tomorrow morning.
1:20:05
Speaker 2: We'll be back at 6.