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Show Rewind 8-03-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: The sprint is on. I mean, we've only got a
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  Speaker 3: couple of days. As the to paraphrase the late great
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  Speaker 3: Jerry Reid, we've got a long way to go and
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  Speaker 3: a short time to get there. This is this is crazy.
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  Speaker 3: So I went to the Senate stump event at River
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  Speaker 3: Bluff High School in Lexington on Saturday morning. It was
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  Speaker 3: kind of what I thought, but maybe not as in
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  Speaker 3: depth as I had anticipated. Christopher, the way they ran
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  Speaker 3: it was each of the nine candidates got an opportunity
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  Speaker 3: to give a five minute speech, which they all went over.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, there's a lady in the front row
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  Speaker 3: who's supposed to hold up like the yellow card when
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  Speaker 3: you have a minute left, and then the red card
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  Speaker 3: like you got to get off now, and they all
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  Speaker 3: went probably another minute after that red card went up.
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  Speaker 3: And then there was a group of students and very insight.
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  Speaker 3: I was very impressed by the high school students. They
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  Speaker 3: were part of a class. I met the teacher of
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  Speaker 3: that class wonderful young man. Well he's not that young.
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  Speaker 3: He's probably my age, but I'd like to think of
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  Speaker 3: myself as young. So he was excited that the kids
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  Speaker 3: were each going to get an opportunity to ask a question.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you saw it, I think on Friday,
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  Speaker 3: the South Carolina GOP did a drawing as to who
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  Speaker 3: the first candidate would go, and so the first candidate
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  Speaker 3: was Darlene Graham. She comes out, she gives her five
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  Speaker 3: minute speech. Then there's a question asked by one of
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  Speaker 3: the students that had been I guess pre drawn as well,
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  Speaker 3: so they don't know what question they're going to get.
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  Speaker 3: The student stands on the stage, which is pretty I
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  Speaker 3: imagine that would be very intimidating for a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: never mind to seventeen, sixteen year old whatever. But they
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  Speaker 3: did a great job asking their question, and then the
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  Speaker 3: candidate had like a minute or so to answer the question,
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  Speaker 3: and then there's no follow up and then you walk
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  Speaker 3: off stage. I don't know that I felt any more
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  Speaker 3: informed about anybody's candidacy after watching that, although it was
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  Speaker 3: nice to see them in person, you got a little
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  Speaker 3: bit better vibe on their energy. The people who are
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  Speaker 3: kind of percolating under the surface. I felt like this
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  Speaker 3: was a great opportunity for them. Like to me, the
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  Speaker 3: one who's under the radar that rose up was Duke Buckner.
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  Speaker 3: Duke Buckner did a great job. And I've never seen
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  Speaker 3: Duke speak publicly. My wife has. She said this was
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  Speaker 3: the most energy he's ever brought. So on and so
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  Speaker 3: good for Duke. He's raised his profile, and I guess
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  Speaker 3: tonight he hopes to raise his profile as well.
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  Speaker 4: No, he won't be on the debate.
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  Speaker 3: Oh he doesn't. He doesn't get to make it to
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  Speaker 3: the stage. No, so they're only going to go with
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  Speaker 3: the ones who made the top five? And which which
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  Speaker 3: pro did we end up going with a certain poll
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  Speaker 3: or is it just all the polls were combined?
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  Speaker 4: They just they said independent polling, an average of independent polling.
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  Speaker 4: So I'm not sure which polls they took. But it's
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  Speaker 4: tonight on the debate stage. It will be Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 4: Russell Frye, Mark Lynch, Ralph Norman, and Mark Sandford.
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  Speaker 3: Kind of who we had expected all along. I see
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  Speaker 3: it wasn't up last night, but apparently Trey Goudy had
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham, and that is her. What is that her
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  Speaker 3: first national interview since Sean Hannity has not given as
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  Speaker 3: far as we know, not one local interview.
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  Speaker 4: No, and local media is starting to chafe at that.
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  Speaker 4: But nonetheless, yeah, she's done two national interviews, very friendly interviews,
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  Speaker 4: and it got a little backlash on social media last night.
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  Speaker 4: You know, people wondering, all right, is Drey Goudy going
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  Speaker 4: to talk to Ralph Norman or Mark Sandford or you know,
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  Speaker 4: anyone else in the race.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see any of the clips of this.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen some of the clip.
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  Speaker 3: Was it just basically, you know, my sympathies for your brother,
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  Speaker 3: he was a great man type of thing.
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  Speaker 4: It expanded a little bit on her views, and she's
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  Speaker 4: trying to separate herself from her brother, saying she's a
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  Speaker 4: lot more about pocketbook issues when her brother was so
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  Speaker 4: foreign policy focused.
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  Speaker 3: I will tell you that my wife had what I
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  Speaker 3: thought was an interesting insight. Angela is a very smart
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  Speaker 3: political person. She is. And after, you know, as we
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  Speaker 3: were driving home from that, I said, you know, how
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  Speaker 3: did you rank and blah blah blah, And I said, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I don't hear Darlene in your top three? And she
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  Speaker 3: said I was immediately turned off by one of her statements.
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  Speaker 3: So if anybody's from the Grand team is listening today,
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  Speaker 3: and I imagine there's a few, I will tell you
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  Speaker 3: that the statement that Darlene made on Saturday that turned
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  Speaker 3: my wife off, and I assume if it turned her off,
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  Speaker 3: it turned a lot of people off. Is the reason
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  Speaker 3: I'm running is because I was asked by Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 3: She hated that the idea that you don't you're not
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  Speaker 3: your own person, that if you're that malleable, that somebody
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  Speaker 3: can just influence you by asking you a question, would
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  Speaker 3: you do this? Sure, I'll do that. She doesn't like that.
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  Speaker 3: She wants a leader to be somebody who's I've got
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  Speaker 3: my own vision, I wanted to do this, I felt
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  Speaker 3: called by God to do this, or I felt in
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  Speaker 3: my soul I needed to do this, or something to
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  Speaker 3: that extent. She hated that answer and wrote her off immediately.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting, and I wonder how much play that will get.
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  Speaker 4: I wonder if that will be brought up tonight. For example,
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  Speaker 4: you know that the whole politician mindset is a little
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  Speaker 4: different from those of us who operate day to day
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  Speaker 4: within our own lives. But for example, Ralph Norman. He's
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  Speaker 4: been crusading against career politicians. A lot of people point
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  Speaker 4: out he is in a sense one. You know, he's
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  Speaker 4: been in Congress a long time. He wanted to be governor,
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  Speaker 4: now he wants to be senator. Yeah, that's that's difficult
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  Speaker 4: to to wrap your mind around that. You know, she
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  Speaker 4: thought that would be a winning statement for her.
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  Speaker 3: I think that. You know, if I'm in Darlene shoes,
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  Speaker 3: I've got to get it out there that I am
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump's choice. There's got to be a different way
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  Speaker 3: of saying. Sure, absolutely, and so anyway there.
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  Speaker 4: But I want to serve my community. I want to
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  Speaker 4: do this. I want to do that. Don't just tell
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  Speaker 4: me that Donald Trump's behind you.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe some people saw the they were there. I mean
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  Speaker 3: I think they had like four four hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 3: people showed up for the event on Saturday. If you
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  Speaker 3: have some thoughts on that, or you've seen some of
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  Speaker 3: the clips, I know it was posted on a bunch
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  Speaker 3: of social media outlets, YouTube and whatnot, maybe your early
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  Speaker 3: initial indications, if you have anything change, we'd love to
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  Speaker 3: hear that. We'll get into a whole bunch of other
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  Speaker 3: stuff as well today. But yeah, the sprint is on,
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  Speaker 3: we are going to pick ourselves a new Senator, and like, well,
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  Speaker 3: probably what three.
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  Speaker 4: Weeks to be well, I mean the early voting starts
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  Speaker 4: on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well that too. I was just thinking about the
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  Speaker 3: runoff because I don't think there's any possible way that
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  Speaker 3: we don't have a runoff on this. But either way,
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  Speaker 3: that's Christopher Thompson. I'm killing Ash. Thanks for starting your
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  Speaker 3: day with South Carolina's Morning news.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM at five sixty AM WVOC and ninety
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  Speaker 1: four to three w wes C.
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  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: You know. And I've said I love Donald Trump, and
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  Speaker 3: I do. I also like to point out when I
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  Speaker 3: think he's completely wrong or in some instances ridiculous. The
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  Speaker 3: Board of Peace, where Donald Trump has been named quote
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  Speaker 3: chairman for life, is a ridiculous thing. This Board of
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  Speaker 3: Peace is insane. And under the Board of Peace they
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  Speaker 3: have what Trump believes is a pathway to permanent peace
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  Speaker 3: with Hamas, and Hamas is supposed to put down their
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  Speaker 3: arms and just kind of surrender and then you know,
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  Speaker 3: let Israel make Palestine great again, and all this sort
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  Speaker 3: of stuff. This is insane what he's talking about. There
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  Speaker 3: is no peace with Hamas, and also what we're doing
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  Speaker 3: with Iran, I feel is insane. I saw a quote
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  Speaker 3: though from the what is this guy? Who is he? Again?
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  Speaker 3: The Israeli that what's his name? General counsel in New
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  Speaker 3: York for Israeli Diplomacy said Sunday to Newsmax that we
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  Speaker 3: see that the President had a very good meeting and
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  Speaker 3: the Prime Minister of Israel had a very great meeting
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  Speaker 3: in Washington. We're always encouraged and we're always united with
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  Speaker 3: the United States. He but even he says, if the
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  Speaker 3: president decision was to stop the attacks in Iran in
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  Speaker 3: order to continue negotiations, that's okay. I don't think personally
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  Speaker 3: that this is something that can happen. And it's impossible
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  Speaker 3: to negotiate with the IRGC, It's impossible to negotiate with
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  Speaker 3: Hamas terrorist Christopher.
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  Speaker 4: It sounded as if we were on the verge of
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  Speaker 4: a major attack over the weekend, and then the President
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  Speaker 4: had that cabinet meeting at Camp David and suddenly everything
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  Speaker 4: was on hold again.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I've been saying this now for weeks, maybe months.
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  Speaker 3: At this point, I lose track of time. You there's
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  Speaker 3: really the three options are all that you have at
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  Speaker 3: this point. One is to just continue the status quo,
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  Speaker 3: and the status quo is going to get you nowhere
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  Speaker 3: except lowering the morale of the American people. The American
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  Speaker 3: people are getting discouraged at this point. And I would
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  Speaker 3: imagine the military people. I don't know that I'm not.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want to pretend to speak on behalf of
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  Speaker 3: military members, but I would imagine that inside they're like,
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  Speaker 3: why are we not finishing this? Why are we just
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  Speaker 3: kind of flirting with blowing them to.
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  Speaker 4: Hell spreading water?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, and at the same time putting ourselves in jeopardy
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  Speaker 3: because we're within striking distance of them, So why are
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  Speaker 3: we doing this? But again, I don't pretend to speak
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  Speaker 3: for a military member. If maybe somebody wants to call
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  Speaker 3: in that's, you know, or use the talkback feature on
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  Speaker 3: the iHeartRadio app, I'd encourage it. But the other two
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  Speaker 3: options I think are better options. I have a best option,
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  Speaker 3: and I have a better option. The better option is
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  Speaker 3: to just pull out, just say it is what it is,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, our military mission was to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that they never have a nuclear weapon. We stated multiple
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  Speaker 3: times going into this, our goal was not regime change.
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  Speaker 3: That He was on the record plainly saying that a
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  Speaker 3: lot of Americans didn't agree with that. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people say, if you go in, you got to change
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  Speaker 3: the regime otherwise you're gonna end up right where you
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  Speaker 3: are again in a matter of years or decades or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But he said it was just to make sure that
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  Speaker 3: they don't have a nuclear weapon. They're not close to it,
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  Speaker 3: and they're not close to it, so mission accomplished. If
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  Speaker 3: you want to go full George Bush and hang the banner,
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  Speaker 3: you can actually say that mission accomplished and then get
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  Speaker 3: the hell out, and then, yes, gas prices will be
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  Speaker 3: higher for the foreseeable future unless the Saudis and the
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  Speaker 3: you know, Iraqis and the people who live there want
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  Speaker 3: to take up arms against them. There are some discussion
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  Speaker 3: that even on the ground, there's a group of militants
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  Speaker 3: who are rising up, and maybe maybe the United States
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  Speaker 3: other option could be to arm those people, try to
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  Speaker 3: help support them as they fight for their new government,
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  Speaker 3: whatever it is. Or the other third, which I think
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  Speaker 3: is the best option, which maybe people disagree with me,
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  Speaker 3: is blow Iran to hell. Just blow it to hell,
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  Speaker 3: and it's going to be mass casualties. There's going to
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  Speaker 3: be mass civilian death, and it will be tragic and
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  Speaker 3: it'll be horrible. But the Iranian leadership will be blown away.
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  Speaker 3: They will not be there to hold whoever survives hostage,
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  Speaker 3: which is exactly what they're doing right now. They're holding
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  Speaker 3: these people hostage. And then, yes, it is regime change,
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  Speaker 3: and then who knows what you get out of that,
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  Speaker 3: But at least whatever it is that comes out of that,
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  Speaker 3: it's decades before they can actually be a threat to
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  Speaker 3: the world.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it sounded like we were on the path
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  Speaker 4: to doing just that before the President again changed his
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  Speaker 4: mind over the weekend. I wonder, you know, we talked
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  Speaker 4: about the reports last week that our defense was some
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  Speaker 4: of our weapons supplies were diminished somewhat. I wonder if
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  Speaker 4: that played into the president's decision not to go all
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  Speaker 4: in on the bombing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and you know, we talked about this last week,
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  Speaker 3: the fact that there's somebody leaking, whether it's accurate or
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  Speaker 3: inaccurate information to the media. You've got to find that
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  Speaker 3: person out or that group of people out, and you've
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  Speaker 3: got to fire them. And I would publicly charge them.
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  Speaker 3: That's a treasonous act. If you are, you're aiding comfort
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  Speaker 3: to the enemy by telling them that America is almost
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  Speaker 3: out of weapons. Now, oh my gosh, they don't know
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  Speaker 3: what they're doing. You're giving them comfort, you're emboldening them,
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  Speaker 3: and so that's treasonous and we need to find out
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  Speaker 3: who that is. So Trump needs to get a handle
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  Speaker 3: on that, and he really need to make a decision.
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  Speaker 3: What are we going to do? And if the right
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  Speaker 3: now the decision feels to be just continue as is,
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  Speaker 3: tread and water, as you put it, and every couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks, will bomb them a couple more times for
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  Speaker 3: you know, a week or two, and then we'll stop,
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  Speaker 3: and then we'll go back, and then we'll go stop.
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  Speaker 3: And you're really losing the American support. That was pretty
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  Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't uniform, but it was pretty high
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  Speaker 3: when this thing started, and we thought that it was
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  Speaker 3: going to be very aggressive, and it within a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks something would have happened that, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: would have taken out Obviously we're excited when you took
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  Speaker 3: out the head guy, and then we don't even know
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  Speaker 3: the names of the next two or three layers of
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  Speaker 3: people that you took out, but we wanted you to
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  Speaker 3: actually make it so that Iran is not a threat
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  Speaker 3: to Israel more importantly, not a threat to the US,
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  Speaker 3: not a threat to our military bases in the region,
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  Speaker 3: not a threat to our European allies. That's what we
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  Speaker 3: would like to have seen happen. Once you've gone this far,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like you have to finish this job. But
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  Speaker 3: right now we're negotiating again, So we'll see how that goes,
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  Speaker 3: and we'll report back to you as soon as we
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  Speaker 3: have an handful. On South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 5: I have nothing against Darlene or anyone else from another
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  Speaker 5: political family running for any kind of office, but she
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  Speaker 5: should have to stand on her own merits and not
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  Speaker 5: just on her brother's last name. We as Americans should
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  Speaker 5: be very wary of anyone from a political family creating
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  Speaker 5: the everlasting dynasty. Your blood does not grant you some
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  Speaker 5: superlative right over the common man. She should run like
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  Speaker 5: everybody else, and we should all judge her accordingly.
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  Speaker 3: And you would be hard pressed to find somebody who
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  Speaker 3: would disagree with your statement. Sir so I appreciate you
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  Speaker 3: chiming in and if you're just waking up and getting
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  Speaker 3: your day started, it's six twenty eight. Thanks for starting
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  Speaker 3: it with us on South Carolina's Morning News. Talking earlier
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  Speaker 3: about the Senate Senate stump event, it took place in
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  Speaker 3: Lexington over the weekend. That's the first time we've had
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  Speaker 3: nine candidates together, all running for the Senate. Alan Wilson
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  Speaker 3: was the host. By the way, speaking of Alan Wilson
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  Speaker 3: and political families, Happy birthday Joe Wilson. That was on Friday.
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  Speaker 3: I believe Joe is forty nine now, which puts him
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  Speaker 3: younger than his son Allen, ironically, but congratulations and happy
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  Speaker 3: birthday Joe Wilson, who I think is listening this morning
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  Speaker 3: and always great to speak with him. But Saturday they
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  Speaker 3: did do a straw poll, so I know we're talking
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  Speaker 3: about poles. Christopher. I don't know if you saw this.
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  Speaker 3: I got this up on the WSC and the WVOC
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  Speaker 3: facebook pages. Saturday. Now two hundred and sixty people or
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  Speaker 3: so participated in their straw pole after watching the event.
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  Speaker 3: The winner in Lexington on Saturday was Darlene Graham. She
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  Speaker 3: got sixty five votes. Russell Fry second with sixty one,
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  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman with fifty three, Duke Buckner at twenty six,
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  Speaker 3: Lynch at twenty five.
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  Speaker 4: So you weren't the only one impressed with Duke Buckner
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  Speaker 4: at that forum.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, I think Duke Buckner. I mean the problem
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  Speaker 3: for Duke is he doesn't have a name, right, I
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  Speaker 3: mean Duke has been running against James Clyburn for Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know a long time, it seems, but he
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  Speaker 3: does make some strong points. Duke Buckner, I would say
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  Speaker 3: his big issue was we have to address that socialism
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  Speaker 3: is actively being taught at the school level, and it's
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  Speaker 3: whether you disband the Department of Education or fundamentally change it.
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  Speaker 3: We have to do something to train the children that
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  Speaker 3: socialism is evil and uniformly. Like there's some podcast that
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  Speaker 3: we have advertising here that always says something about we
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  Speaker 3: find out, once and for all, can socialism work in America? No,
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  Speaker 3: we found that out decades ago. It can't work here.
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  Speaker 3: It will not work here. It has never worked anywhere
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  Speaker 3: in the world. It always ends up with a violent
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  Speaker 3: military government who suppresses the people. That is the final
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  Speaker 3: solution for when you're talking about socialism. It never works.
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  Speaker 3: I understand it's appeal. I understand you'd like to think
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  Speaker 3: that it could work, that you wouldn't you know that
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  Speaker 3: everybody will be treated equally and that we're all going
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  Speaker 3: to have the same amount of money, and that nobody's
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  Speaker 3: going to struggle and blah blah blah. It never works.
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  Speaker 3: But that was his big issue, and that resonated with
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people. But I think that what I'm
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  Speaker 3: looking at with this pole here, and you're you were
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  Speaker 3: referencing earlier a poll that came out I think it
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  Speaker 3: was on Friday. There were a couple of poles that
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  Speaker 3: came so efficient is that the when.
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  Speaker 4: No Fishing came out with one and the Trafalgar group
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  Speaker 4: came out with one as well. Maybe we should save
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  Speaker 4: those for the next break, Kelly, Okay.
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  Speaker 3: We can do that. And there were some surprises in there.
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  Speaker 3: Will and I'll also tell you what I think might
• 17:45
  Speaker 3: be happening. What might there's a jeopardy we're in jeopardy,
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: as Greg Kin saying, we'll talk about that next. This
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, Christopher to and I were looking at the
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  Speaker 3: polling some of it that broke out over Friday, and
• 18:04
  Speaker 3: I think Saturday, Christopher you were focused. Were you focused
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  Speaker 3: more on the coefficient or the Trafalgar group.
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  Speaker 4: Well, both are fairly similar in that they both list
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  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham at the top, followed by Russell Frye and
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  Speaker 4: Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 3: Now in the Trafalgar group, fry and Ralph are tied
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  Speaker 3: at seventeen point four, Sanford just below at fifteen point one,
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  Speaker 3: pretty significant drop down to Mark Lynch at eight point one,
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  Speaker 3: and then really nothing else. I mean, there's you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking about small percentages. If you look at the coefficient,
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  Speaker 3: Darlene at thirty, Russell at sixteen, Ralph Norman at fifteen,
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  Speaker 3: pretty significant drop, then to Sandford at nine, and then
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: another rather significant drop to Lynch at six and then,
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: like I said, a bunch of other vants by the way,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: Glenda Gail Parker Gaiale for Rails, I could not believe
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  Speaker 3: what she was saying, like how does she get up here?
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: And she was talking about how I actually went to
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  Speaker 3: the restroom for part of it, and when I came back,
• 19:09
  Speaker 3: she was going she was in the middle of a
• 19:10
  Speaker 3: rant about and the one thing we really need to
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: do is stop drilling for oil. What the world needs
• 19:17
  Speaker 3: is to heal, and you got to leave that oil
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  Speaker 3: in the ground. I hope you'll join me with that.
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  Speaker 3: That's not gonna go well, Glinda. So anyway back to
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  Speaker 3: the actual contenders, what did you take away from the Pole.
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  Speaker 4: Scool, Well, the biggest note came out of the coefficient poles.
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: I mean, both poles were fairly similar, but the coefficient
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: pole actually had head to head runoff ballots. And in
• 19:40
  Speaker 4: those ballots, Russell Fry beats Darling Graham forty to thirty
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  Speaker 4: one percent. Russell Fry beats Ralph Norman thirty six to
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  Speaker 4: twenty eight percent. Darling Graham beats Ralph Norman forty to
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  Speaker 4: thirty five percent.
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  Speaker 3: If that's an interesting poll. I my estimate on Dark
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: Graham is she's probably got a ceiling in the low
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  Speaker 3: to mid thirties, meaning that about right now, she's going
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  Speaker 3: to poll somewhere in the upper twenties to low thirties.
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  Speaker 3: But that's literally all she's going to get. And I
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  Speaker 3: and I base that off the fact that she's playing
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  Speaker 3: hard to catch when it comes to interviews and all
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  Speaker 3: these types of things. There's the negatives on her are
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: going to be pretty high. I think like Mark Sandford
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  Speaker 3: at this point, I don't think has an opportunity to win.
• 20:27
  Speaker 3: After talking to a bunch of voters, the negatives on
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford, there's nothing he can say to win. Just
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: they're not going to let that thing go about what
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: happened when he was the governor. It's not going to
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  Speaker 3: go away.
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  Speaker 2: To me.
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  Speaker 3: The interesting thing is that Sandford is I'm looking at
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  Speaker 3: coefficient right now, pulling at like nine percent. Those are
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: very fiscally conservative people who are voting for Mark Sandford.
• 20:53
  Speaker 3: And that would also be Ralph Norman's crew. It's part
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: of Russell Fry's crew. I think the Russell fry campaign
• 21:00
  Speaker 3: is also a youth oriented vote. It's a it's kind
• 21:03
  Speaker 3: of reminiscent of Newt Gingrich nineteen ninety two, nineteen ninety four,
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  Speaker 3: that youthful, the revolution we're coming in. We got a
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: whole fresh new crop of Reaganites coming in. This would
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: be the Maganites coming in. I think Russell Frye kind
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  Speaker 3: of represents that change for a lot of people. Darlene
• 21:22
  Speaker 3: Graham doesn't represent anything at this point.
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  Speaker 4: Well, how much and how much depends on how she
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  Speaker 4: performs tonight, because this will really be our first chance
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  Speaker 4: to see her in a pressure situation, answering questions in
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  Speaker 4: multiple questions. And I know, because there are five candidates,
• 21:39
  Speaker 4: they won't get a whole lot of time, but still
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: that'll be our first real look at her in a
• 21:43
  Speaker 4: pressure situation, answering questions about her politics and how she'll
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  Speaker 4: change the office as compared to our brother.
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  Speaker 3: I will also point out I saw online a few
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: hours ago Russell Frye has reported that they've raised a
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  Speaker 3: million dollars for the which is fantastic. I don't know
• 22:02
  Speaker 3: how much Ralph Norman currently has on hand. The last
• 22:05
  Speaker 3: report that I saw was from June, so I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how much it's changed since June, but he had
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: one point five to nine million at that point. Ralph Norman,
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: in my estimation, needs to start spending quickly because you're
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: losing ground right now. You you have a great candidacy,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: you have a great name recognition, but you're about if
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: you're going to get outspent at this pace. Because Russell
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: Frye is everywhere right now. I'm seeing him everywhere and
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: I'm hearing him on the radio I'm seeing him on
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: my YouTube pages. He's everywhere. Sandford is trying. But again,
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I think the negatives are too high on Sandford. And
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: but the Sandford move is actually affecting Ralph Norman in
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: a negative way right now, and so Ralph Norman needs
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: to start getting aggressive in this campaign. That's my take.
• 22:55
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• 22:57
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• 23:02
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: There was an announcement made Friday which has got the
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: internet exploding with hot take opinions on both sides of
• 23:15
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• 23:18
  Speaker 3: think I know where most of you will line up
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: on that one, although I might be mistaken. So we'll
• 23:22
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• 23:39
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• 23:41
  Speaker 3: Six point fifty three and the State newspaper has an
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: op ed piece in there this morning. It's a shameful
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: op ed piece by a guy named doctor Thomas k. Lew,
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: assistant clinical Professor of Medicine at Stanford University, and in
• 23:55
  Speaker 3: it he's arguing that there's an attempt by the right
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: to rewrite COVID history which is dangerous. And in his
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: op ed piece he fails to acknowledge that the rewriting
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: of COVID history is based one hundred percent off the
• 24:10
  Speaker 3: fact that we now have the private notes of doctor Fauci,
• 24:14
  Speaker 3: in which he admits he was lying to Congress. He
• 24:18
  Speaker 3: was lying to the American people about what he knew
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: when he knew it. This is no different than Walter
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: Duranty at the New York Times in the nineteen thirties
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: receiving Pulitzer Prizes for his award winning work covering Russia
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: and the Ukraine and minimizing the famine, and then later
• 24:37
  Speaker 3: on finding out that Walter Duranty actually knew that there
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: was an intentional campaign designed to starve those people to
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: death and millions died while Walter Duranty misreported intentionally to
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  Speaker 3: The New York Times. This is not a rewriting because
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: we're trying to change things in a way that is faulty.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: It's actually to align it with reality. And people like
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: doctor Lou who no longer want to acknowledge reality, they
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: are the ones that are the true danger to the
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: United States and actually to the world. You have to
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: acknowledge what actually happened under COVID and the authoritarian regime
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: that was launched under Biden administration to stifle Americans free
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: rights and actually just understand science. All right, we'll be
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  Speaker 3: back with more on South Carolina's Morning.
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: News live from the State Capitol.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: So it looks like jadevon Connie going to wrap up
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: his career in Houston.
• 25:38
  Speaker 4: Huh, Christopher, it's one year. I don't know if he
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: intends to play after that, but probably yeah.
• 25:47
  Speaker 3: I mean, how much more does he have in the tank?
• 25:48
  Speaker 3: He never was a high tank kind of guy. No,
• 25:51
  Speaker 3: he was not, but he you know, he'll be beloved
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: in you know, not only just South Carolina, but college
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: football in general. That hit on Michigan sure, aka the
• 26:03
  Speaker 3: hit hit. It is the hit. Anyway, Speaking of college,
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: let me take us now to Tuskegee, where the historically
• 26:11
  Speaker 3: black university has implemented a dress code change which is
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: being met with much resistance today and has been throughout
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: the weekend. The new president and CEO and alumnus there
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: and also a thirty two year Air Force two star
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: general I believe is what he was, has come back
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: to his university and he wants to restore order, and
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: one of the things that he's doing is implementing a
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: dress code in which the students will be expected to
• 26:41
  Speaker 3: dress in business appropriate attire. There is a ban on slippers,
• 26:47
  Speaker 3: pajama bottoms, bonnets, any of these types of things that
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: you can wear them obviously in your dorms, but anytime
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: you're appearing in what could be considered a public setting
• 26:58
  Speaker 3: on the university, you should be prepared to meet a
• 27:01
  Speaker 3: CEO at any moment. We were trying to invite these
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: people to our campus. We want them to meet you.
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: We want you to be successful. This is about professionalism.
• 27:10
  Speaker 3: This is about carrying a standard. I love it, A
• 27:14
  Speaker 3: lot of people hate it. I don't even know who
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: this guy is, but his video response to this went
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: viral over the weekend. He goes by the name of
• 27:23
  Speaker 3: think Piece Tribe on TikTok and he's a more House grad.
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: I guess it is Morehouse university. I'm assuming you graduated,
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: because he brags about some of his numbers here.
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  Speaker 6: I went to a private a SPCU, and I wore bonnets, slippers,
• 27:38
  Speaker 6: pajama pants. It's a class to the food hall around
• 27:41
  Speaker 6: campus almost every other day, and that never stopped me
• 27:45
  Speaker 6: from getting all a's on my last semester. It didn't
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: stopped me from ending my college career with a three
• 27:51
  Speaker 6: point six GPA with five bita Kappa honors, Manna kum
• 27:55
  Speaker 6: Lae Honors, Appa Kappa Delta honors. You feel me, I
• 27:59
  Speaker 6: got some of the highest academic honors you can get
• 28:02
  Speaker 6: an undergrad while wearing the bonnet with the pajama pants,
• 28:06
  Speaker 6: with the slippers simultaneously, because a bonnet, slippers, and pajama
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  Speaker 6: pants will not determine your success level. That is literally,
• 28:17
  Speaker 6: it is black bourgeoisie, respectability politics, colonial thinking, bold well.
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: I'll also point out vocabulary is a something that you're
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: judged off as well, and the cursing is not helping you.
• 28:32
  Speaker 3: He's listed here as a cultural worker, so I'm not
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: really sure what that pays or what that is, but
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: that's what he does for a living these days.
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Sounds like a social media influencer.
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: Possibly possibly others have said, and I'm just reading this
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: from one of the local outlets. To me, this isn't
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: about professionalism. It's about quote respectability politics. It's the idea
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: that black people have to constantly edit ourselves and distance
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  Speaker 3: ourselves from our parts of our culture to be fewed
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: as acceptable. Is it black people or is it people
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: in general? Because I would love to see this implemented
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: at high schools. I'd love to see it implemented at
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: grocery stores. I'd love to see it implemented across culture.
• 29:18
  Speaker 4: Yeah, when's the last time you went to Walmart and
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: didn't see somebody shuffling in in slippers and pajamas?
• 29:24
  Speaker 3: And I will point it out Christopher. Today, I am,
• 29:27
  Speaker 3: in fact wearing blue jeans. I'm wearing blue jeans. But
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: I want to make the point that standards dropped and
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: continue to drop in the United States. And if you
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: were to go look at college photographs of just a
• 29:42
  Speaker 3: day in college in the nineteen forties, you would never
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: see blue jeans on a campus. They did not exist.
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: Rebels started wearing blue jeans in the fifties and sixties
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: because they aligned with or blue collar and or rebels
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: in general, cycle wearers, so on and so forth, the
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: lower forms of society, and people wanted to align with that.
• 30:09
  Speaker 3: Not black people, white people. White people wanted to allot
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: young white people wanted that rebel without a cause vibe.
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: The leather jacket, that's so on. That would have never
• 30:18
  Speaker 3: been seen on a college campus in the forties or
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: anytime earlier. Then by the nineteen sixties, that's all you
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: saw were blue jeans by the nineteen seventies. I can
• 30:28
  Speaker 3: remember this trend beginning in the late seventies and early eighties,
• 30:31
  Speaker 3: and I was shocked as a young person to see
• 30:34
  Speaker 3: holes in people's genes. And my mother would have been
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: mortified if I went to school with holes in my genes.
• 30:43
  Speaker 3: But that then became part of the call were we
• 30:45
  Speaker 3: continue to drive down societal standards, and I respect that
• 30:51
  Speaker 3: this university president wants to drive them back up. It's
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: not going to be easy, but there is something to
• 30:57
  Speaker 3: be said about the way you present yourself to the
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: world and how you feel about yourself. That young man
• 31:02
  Speaker 3: that was, you know, saying I got all these great
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: you know, scholastic awards or whatever, while wearing a bonnet
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: and slippers congratulations, but you did make it harder on yourself.
• 31:13
  Speaker 3: There's no need to make life any harder than it
• 31:16
  Speaker 3: needs to be. And if he's and for these people
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: who are saying that it's the again, it's the idea
• 31:20
  Speaker 3: that black people have to constantly edit ourselves, tone ourselves down,
• 31:23
  Speaker 3: and distance ourselves from our parts of our culture to
• 31:26
  Speaker 3: be fewed as acceptable. I'll point out what you're wearing
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: right now would not be accepted on any country in Africa.
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: The entire continent of Africa would reject you resoundly. If
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: you want to be accepted, you'd have to wear a
• 31:42
  Speaker 3: modern kaftan or a tunic, and it would need to
• 31:44
  Speaker 3: be tailored. You need African inspired blazers, structured corporate blazers
• 31:49
  Speaker 3: anywhere in Africa, the Polynesian cultures, they have what they
• 31:53
  Speaker 3: consider acceptable business where If you want to be successful
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: in any culture in the world, a Africa, European, it
• 32:03
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter, you need to fit in. I'll also point
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: out you're trying to be successful in the United States
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: of America. You're not trying to be successful somewhere else
• 32:11
  Speaker 3: unless you're trying to break off and become another country
• 32:14
  Speaker 3: unto yourselves. If I was going to try to be
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: successful in Mexico, I would learn to dress like a
• 32:19
  Speaker 3: Mexican leader would dress. I would learn their language, and
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I would speak their language properly. I wouldn't try to
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: edit it and say that's just my Americanism coming out,
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: because I would expect them to be prejudiced against me
• 32:31
  Speaker 3: if I tried to change their culture. If you're trying
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: to change American culture, we are going to disrespect that.
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: We are going to hold you to a higher standard,
• 32:40
  Speaker 3: which is the American standard. And for far too long
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: we've not been holding people black, white, Latino or anybody else.
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: They have been diminishing American culture. It's time to raise
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: our standards, not lower them. That's what I think. If
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: you have different opinions, I don't know. Can you use
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: the talkback feature? I don't know. Maybe if your standards
• 32:58
  Speaker 3: are solo, you don't know how to use the bature
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: on the iHeartRadio app. I challenge you to use the
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: talkback feature to push back on this.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: It's easy to.
• 33:06
  Speaker 3: Do, absolutely, Christopher will tell you so easy. Just push
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: the microphone button on the iHeartRadio app and let us
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: know what you're thinking. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 33:18
  Speaker 3: You know, it's interesting because my wife is on for
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: a couple more weeks, well a couple more months. November,
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: she'll be November six or whatever. That's the last day
• 33:28
  Speaker 3: she'll be on the Richland two school board. She got
• 33:31
  Speaker 3: involved because a lot of people during COVID were complaining
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: about the way school boards were being run, and she
• 33:38
  Speaker 3: was always a big believer and if you don't like
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: the way something is being run, you fix it.
• 33:43
  Speaker 4: All.
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: A lot of them pointed out, well, we're parents and
• 33:45
  Speaker 3: we're busy with our kids, and since you know, I
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: have a son who's an adult and we're not busy
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: raising kids. She prayed about it felt like God let
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: her to run for the school board. She ran, overwhelmingly
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: won and has been very effective in changing the culture,
• 34:00
  Speaker 3: I believe in Richland two. However, one of the things
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: that they had to deal with was the ending of
• 34:09
  Speaker 3: the superintendent of schools. That guy's name is doctor Baron Davis.
• 34:13
  Speaker 3: He's in today's newspaper because he's being held up by
• 34:17
  Speaker 3: the State of South Carolina as one of the people
• 34:21
  Speaker 3: who got the quote unquote golden parachute, and they got
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: a picture of him standing in front of the office
• 34:28
  Speaker 3: former Richland two superintendent Baron Davis receiving his six hundred
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: and fifteen thousand dollars payout. It's part of an employment
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: separation agreement in twenty twenty three. So they go on
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: and they point out that this is a statewide problem.
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: For example, Charleston County School District doctor Jerta postal Weight
• 34:49
  Speaker 3: received roughly three hundred and fifty thousand dollars when she
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: got her separation agreement back in twenty twenty two.
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: These aren't people who are being fired for cause. These
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: are people who the school board decides they no longer
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: want to deal with.
• 35:05
  Speaker 3: Some would say that's for cause, well, okay. Doctor Eric Gallagan,
• 35:10
  Speaker 3: superintendent of Charleston County District Schools, he received two hundred
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: and seventy five thousand dollars plus another fifty thousand plus
• 35:18
  Speaker 3: thirty four thousand dollars and attorney fees. And again, the
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: thing that I find interesting that a lot of people
• 35:23
  Speaker 3: don't understand is that the Richland excuse me, that the
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: school boards in your community help set your tax rates.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: They do this through the millage rates, and most Americans
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: don't even understand that the school boards are controlling in
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: a large portion of your taxes. And so when you
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: hear like Angela has always been pushing back on the
• 35:45
  Speaker 3: school board because she'll call a couple of them max
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: mill they always want to go max militarrate, max militrate.
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: We need it, we need it, we need it, we
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: need it, we need it. No, we don't. We can
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: figure out other ways to pay for things. And what's
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: happening here now in the state of South Carolina is
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: we have a push thankfully being led by Ellen Weaver,
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: but she says this is not one of our top priorities,
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: but she wants, along with a lot of House members,
• 36:11
  Speaker 3: to put a cap on what you can receive when
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: you're removed. Now. Scott Price, the executive director of the
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: South Carolina school Board Association, said that they have no
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: formal position on this Golden Parachute proviso.
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: But then went on to list a number of reasons
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: whys against it.
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: I'm going to go with his original statement, we have
• 36:31
  Speaker 3: no formal position. I just when you're a superintendent at
• 36:39
  Speaker 3: a school, I can imagine it's a very difficult job.
• 36:41
  Speaker 3: I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want to be a
• 36:43
  Speaker 3: school teacher. I wouldn't want to be an educator. Maybe
• 36:45
  Speaker 3: it's because I wasn't called to do it. But there
• 36:48
  Speaker 3: has to be fiscal responsibility for the people who live
• 36:51
  Speaker 3: in the community, and we're not getting in large part
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: what we expect from the schools. And when you have
• 36:59
  Speaker 3: a tone at that is opposite of what the community wants,
• 37:03
  Speaker 3: and that's being enforced by the school board and whatever
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: whatever the community wants, that's how they they put it
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: in there. The superintendent dictates how the schools are run.
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: The school boards dictate how the superintendent is run. If
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: the superintendent is not aligning with the school board, the
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: school board is the voice of the voters, not the
• 37:23
  Speaker 3: superintendent doesn't deal with voters. He just deals with school board,
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: or she just deals with school board. If they're not
• 37:29
  Speaker 3: aligning with the school boards. There has to be a
• 37:32
  Speaker 3: less expensive way to get out of it than paying
• 37:35
  Speaker 3: hundreds and hundreds of thousands of dollars to end a contract.
• 37:39
  Speaker 3: You didn't do your job. We told you, we wanted you,
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: we wanted you to We're going to grade you off
• 37:44
  Speaker 3: of math scores and reading scores, and in a lot
• 37:48
  Speaker 3: of these instances they said, no, you're not. I've decided
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: as the superintendent that the one thing we're going to
• 37:53
  Speaker 3: talk about is we're going to come up with a
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: thing where the students will fill out how fulfilled do
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: you feel by coming to this and that's what and
• 38:01
  Speaker 3: that's not what we're judging you on. Yeah it is okay,
• 38:04
  Speaker 3: Well then you're not the job. You don't have the
• 38:05
  Speaker 3: job anymore. That's fine, I'll take my half million dollars
• 38:08
  Speaker 3: and go. Then the taxpayers are being screwed in this.
• 38:11
  Speaker 4: State, no doubt about it. And it just depends on
• 38:14
  Speaker 4: what their contract says. If their contract says they have
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: to fulfill this, this, and this, and the standards for
• 38:19
  Speaker 4: the students have to be at this level or else
• 38:22
  Speaker 4: you're fired, then they get fired for cause. But the
• 38:25
  Speaker 4: problem is a lot of these school boards have just
• 38:28
  Speaker 4: decided all right, they don't like the leadership anymore, they
• 38:30
  Speaker 4: want to go in a different direction. That's not for cause,
• 38:33
  Speaker 4: and therefore they're forced to pay out the remainder of
• 38:35
  Speaker 4: his or her contract.
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: Or The other problem would be Christopher that the previous
• 38:40
  Speaker 3: school board, maybe even at the time, maybe aligning with
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: the voters. I'll give them that benefit of the doubt.
• 38:47
  Speaker 3: They created a contract for the superintendent that said those things.
• 38:52
  Speaker 3: Whatever it is, we're going to go off the happiness score.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: We're going to go off how many people participate in
• 38:56
  Speaker 3: school lunch programs, or whatever the heck it was. But
• 38:59
  Speaker 3: then and the voters told the school board, we're not
• 39:02
  Speaker 3: going to elect you again because we hate this. This
• 39:05
  Speaker 3: is being implemented horribly. However, that dude's contract or that
• 39:08
  Speaker 3: gal's contract automatically renews. I can't get out of it
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: now without paying a half million dollars. No, we need
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: to put a cap on this. That's my thoughts. What
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: do you think? Let us know on the talkback feature,
• 39:22
  Speaker 3: I understand we have some other talkbacks about speaking of schools,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: we were talking about dress codes, not necessarily for schools only.
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: But I understand we have some talkbacks. We'll get to
• 39:30
  Speaker 3: those and more on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 39:33
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 39:37
  Speaker 7: Hey, guys, I can't tell you who I am because
• 39:39
  Speaker 7: I'm a state employee, but I live in West Columbia
• 39:42
  Speaker 7: and Christopher probably will recognize my voice. But I work
• 39:46
  Speaker 7: in the courts and you would not believe the way
• 39:50
  Speaker 7: people come dressed to court. It's an insult to the judge.
• 39:54
  Speaker 7: And they have to put signs on the front of
• 39:55
  Speaker 7: the courthouses explaining the dress code, and still there's very
• 40:00
  Speaker 7: little enforcement. People even show up for jury duty in
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: slippers and crops.
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: You know, that might be a strategy, Christopher, to get
• 40:08
  Speaker 3: out of serving on jury duty if I showed up
• 40:11
  Speaker 3: in like my pajamas or something like that.
• 40:14
  Speaker 4: Not a bad idea.
• 40:15
  Speaker 3: I mean, you people always looking for angles. If we
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: should ask her, does that work? I appreciate the talk
• 40:19
  Speaker 3: back on that. We were talking about Tuskegee the university,
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: historically black college university has implemented a new dress code,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: and some people are pushing back on that. I again,
• 40:33
  Speaker 3: I don't think that this is an erasure of black
• 40:36
  Speaker 3: culture or anybody's culture. I think that this is what
• 40:39
  Speaker 3: the president is trying to set. There is a raising
• 40:43
  Speaker 3: of the standards, because the standards in America when it
• 40:47
  Speaker 3: comes to fashion have been dropping quickly for years. And
• 40:50
  Speaker 3: I pointed out that historically, up until like the nineteen
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: forties or whatever, you never would have seen blue jeans
• 40:57
  Speaker 3: in a college university. Then in the fifties these some
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: of the rebels. Warm sixties, we got more and more,
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: you know, the hippie movement whatever. By the seventies and eighties,
• 41:07
  Speaker 3: we were seeing holes in the jeans. Today we're down
• 41:09
  Speaker 3: to slippers and pajamas. I can only imagine what's coming. Yeah,
• 41:13
  Speaker 3: I mean they're already writing stuff on their but talks.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: When to that point, Kelly, A very similar talkback from Chip.
• 41:20
  Speaker 8: Good morning guys, and listen to this dress code thing.
• 41:23
  Speaker 8: It's not a black thing. It's a cultural thing across
• 41:27
  Speaker 8: the US. We've changed over the years, from the hippies
• 41:31
  Speaker 8: to the nerds to everybody else out there. They all
• 41:34
  Speaker 8: want to wear their own thing. If you don't like
• 41:37
  Speaker 8: the dress code for the school that you're at, pay
• 41:39
  Speaker 8: to go somewhere else. It's pretty simple, and a lot
• 41:42
  Speaker 8: of it is about self respect, to be honest with.
• 41:44
  Speaker 3: You, I totally agree with Chip's point there. Thank you
• 41:48
  Speaker 3: for using the talkback feature. Chip. The the movement that started,
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: I guess it probably started with with younger black men,
• 41:56
  Speaker 3: but moved to the white kids as well, and it
• 42:00
  Speaker 3: was probably becoming prominent fifteen years ago. This idea of
• 42:04
  Speaker 3: wearing your pants that would show off your underwear. That
• 42:08
  Speaker 3: was a tribute, at least what I was told to prisoners,
• 42:12
  Speaker 3: you know, people who they weren't allowed to have a
• 42:14
  Speaker 3: belt in the because you're on suicide watch or whatever,
• 42:18
  Speaker 3: and so your pants would naturally sag, and then this
• 42:21
  Speaker 3: was a way they thought that that looked cool for
• 42:23
  Speaker 3: some reason, I still to this day it looks very
• 42:27
  Speaker 3: uncomfortable the people who wear these pants that are below
• 42:31
  Speaker 3: their buttocks and they're walking around inside a store. It's
• 42:33
  Speaker 3: almost like you're wearing a hobble skirt. And I don't
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: understand why you would do that. You're clearly trying to
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: send me a message. You want me to see you,
• 42:44
  Speaker 3: and I don't mean me individually. You want the general
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: public to see you and come to some conclusion. The
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: conclusion that I think most of us comes to is
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: you're a loser. You're working very hard to become a loser.
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: And I don't know why anybody would want to work
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: this hard to become a loser. But that's where we're at. Christopher.
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: Kind of sad times for the for the youth culture,
• 43:05
  Speaker 3: who seems again they're lost. We have done such a
• 43:09
  Speaker 3: the results tell us what we've been doing, what we've
• 43:12
  Speaker 3: been doing for the last thirty years or so is
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: failing because the kids have the highest rates of mental illness.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: They're all on anxiety medicines now. And again, was it
• 43:24
  Speaker 3: exasperated by COVID and Fauci and all that, Of course
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: it was, but we were well down that path. You know,
• 43:30
  Speaker 3: by twenty nineteen. What we have been doing is not
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: working for our youth, and now they're to the point
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: where they don't even know what gender they are. We
• 43:40
  Speaker 3: have a very lost group of young people in America today.
• 43:43
  Speaker 3: And if your kid is not lost, a praise God,
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: be congratulations on doing a great job of letting them
• 43:49
  Speaker 3: know the basics of life. But this president over at
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: the HBCU is doing his best to try to restore order,
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: restore norms, raise the standards. And we should all do
• 44:01
  Speaker 3: that in our lives. We should all try to raise
• 44:03
  Speaker 3: the standards every day. And if you, if you, if
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: you're willing to just give in a little bit on standards,
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: that's when you start the decline, because that's the natural
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: state of mankind is to decline. I applaud him, and
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: I hope that he's very successful down there. Maybe we'll
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: get to some more talkbacks. I think we have some
• 44:20
  Speaker 3: more coming in. Appreciate that this is South Carolina's morning news.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is South
• 44:29
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• 44:33
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• 44:38
  Speaker 1: now Kelly nash.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Am, I misreading this. Count On two says welcome back
• 44:45
  Speaker 3: to school for thousands in the low Country. First day
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: of school in Georgetown, Colleton, and Williamsburg Counties. Is that today? Goodness, grubbs.
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: I mean we got Lexington I starts here in the
• 45:00
  Speaker 3: up or the Midlands in a couple of days. Kershaw
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: County apparently started last week on Thursday, July thirty.
• 45:09
  Speaker 4: Boy, everybody's getting back to school very early. It feels
• 45:12
  Speaker 4: like Christopher. It does feel like it. And we used
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: to have I guess the law changed over the years,
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: but it used to be because we were protecting tourism,
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: especially our coastal areas, so we would say you can't
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: go back before a certain time. And I think that
• 45:26
  Speaker 4: that laws morphed a little bit over the years, but yeah,
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: it's it feels like it's earlier and earlier.
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: Well, hey, if you know you've got a good parent,
• 45:36
  Speaker 3: if you're riding the school and you're in the backseat
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: or whatever and they're listening to either News Talk ninety
• 45:41
  Speaker 3: four point three or AM five sixty one of three
• 45:44
  Speaker 3: point five FMWVOC, you got a great parent driving you
• 45:49
  Speaker 3: to school, not letting you get your minds filled with
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: mush with that pop music or whatever it is you
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: want to listen to. So tonight's the night, Christopher. We're
• 45:57
  Speaker 3: all excited, we're all going to get Now. It's only
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: the top five candidates who made it to the stage
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: for the Gray Media Senate debate. And this is based
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: off of, I guess a number of polls, and I've
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: only seen two, so I don't know what other polls
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: they're using.
• 46:14
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they just said independent polling.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: Independent polling, So maybe this is what they called the
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: magical internal polling. Although some I'm sure there are some
• 46:23
  Speaker 3: candidates who could produce a poll that shows them in
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: the league. Sure, But tonight seven o'clock, we're going to
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: find out what everybody's talking about. Darlene Graham, what is
• 46:34
  Speaker 3: she going to say? You also got Mark Lynch made it,
• 46:38
  Speaker 3: You've got Mark Sandford made it, and Ralph Norman and
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: Russell Frye. This seems to be to me, it's Darlene
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: Graham has got her own lane, and then it's like
• 46:53
  Speaker 3: Russell fry Ralph Norman, Mark Lynch in another. And I
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: hate to say it, but I feel like Mark Sandford
• 46:59
  Speaker 3: is kind of already waning at this point.
• 47:02
  Speaker 4: Well let's I mean, he's put a lot of effort
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: into campaigning in the last few days. He's been everywhere,
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: and he's you know, he for a guy who's known
• 47:09
  Speaker 4: as a cheapskate, he's spent a lot of money in
• 47:11
  Speaker 4: the last couple of days.
• 47:12
  Speaker 3: Did you see the Mark Sandford campaign signs? Oh yeah,
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: those are hysterical and I would imagine cost more money
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: than a traditional sign.
• 47:20
  Speaker 4: Probably.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: It looks like somebody just took like a big piece
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: of cardboard or something and then wrote Sandford the number
• 47:26
  Speaker 3: four Senate and like, you know, it's like black paint.
• 47:30
  Speaker 3: They just did it with their fingers or something.
• 47:32
  Speaker 4: And then he's driving around a car or a truck
• 47:34
  Speaker 4: that has the check engine light on, and you know
• 47:36
  Speaker 4: it's it's all symbolism, of course, yeah, of course.
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: And again I think actually more expensive than just doing
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: at the old schoolway. But it does stick out. But
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: I feel like the negatives on Sandford are pretty high.
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: I feel like the negatives on Darlene Graham are rilways. Yeah,
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: they rise every day she doesn't do a local interview.
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: You know, she did Trey Goudy last night, and she
• 47:58
  Speaker 3: did Sean Hannity like a week and a half ago
• 48:01
  Speaker 3: or whatever.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: And I don't think either one of those were live.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: They were both recorded segments. So you know, tonight will
• 48:09
  Speaker 4: be the first night she faces a live audience and
• 48:12
  Speaker 4: a live debate where she's getting questions and has to
• 48:16
  Speaker 4: answer in real time, and you know, maybe we'll get
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: a rebuttal from one of her opponents.
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: I would say again, I've said it numerous times. I
• 48:25
  Speaker 3: said it Saturday. I said it to her face. I
• 48:28
  Speaker 3: shook her hand Saturday and I said, Ms. Graham, we
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: would be honored to have you come onto the show,
• 48:35
  Speaker 3: and I think we could do you a world of good.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: You'll be on in Charleston, you'll be on in Columbia,
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: and you'll be answering questions from a local media. And
• 48:43
  Speaker 3: she was very pleasant and said, well, we'd like to
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: make that happen we'll see if we can make it happen,
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: and then off she went. So I don't know where
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: we're at. I really do believe that we could help her,
• 48:53
  Speaker 3: and some other local morning shows could help her, and
• 48:56
  Speaker 3: or afternoon shows throughout the state, maybe in the Upstate.
• 48:59
  Speaker 3: But she needs help connecting with voters quickly. And again,
• 49:04
  Speaker 3: congratulations Russell Frye. I saw him post up that he
• 49:07
  Speaker 3: got a million dollars so far raised for this race.
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: That's an incredible sum of money to raise in like
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: a week.
• 49:13
  Speaker 4: You need to hang onto some of it for a runoff.
• 49:16
  Speaker 3: That's true. That is true. Well, you got to keep
• 49:20
  Speaker 3: raising too, right, you can't take your foot off there.
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: And for Ralph Norman, I think he's got more than
• 49:25
  Speaker 3: that on hand. He should be spending more aggressively. Has
• 49:28
  Speaker 3: been my take on the Ralph Norman campaign. I think
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman is probably the most electable in the sense
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: and I know a lot of people are going to
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: push back on that and say what about age and
• 49:38
  Speaker 3: so on and so forth. I understand those concerns, but
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: as far as just a history of being a conservative,
• 49:44
  Speaker 3: and not just a conservative, but somebody who actually gets
• 49:47
  Speaker 3: things done at the House level, you would expect that
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: he would be a very attractive candidate to go to
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: the Senate. So we'll see if Ralph Norman can bring
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: it home in the next couple of weeks, because that's
• 49:57
  Speaker 3: all you got is a couple of weeks, and we'll
• 49:59
  Speaker 3: keep every second of it focused right here on South
• 50:02
  Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:03
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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• 50:12
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• 50:16
  Speaker 2: Now Kelly Nash.
• 50:17
  Speaker 3: The theatrics of politics is ridiculous. As you all know,
• 50:22
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump tried to establish an anti weaponization fund. He
• 50:26
  Speaker 3: then rescinded that he ended it. The President ended it,
• 50:30
  Speaker 3: it was over. But anyway, for the last few weeks
• 50:32
  Speaker 3: we've been hearing that they can't confirm Todd Blanche. So
• 50:35
  Speaker 3: yesterday Todd Blanche had to put out a memorandum for
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: the avoidance of doubt, nothing in the order that is
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: intended to contradict otherwise, contrary to prior representations by the
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: Department of Justice that the fund is not operative. No
• 50:49
  Speaker 3: members were ever appointed, no funds were transferred, no process
• 50:53
  Speaker 3: for receiving claims was ever established. No claims have been paid. Nevertheless,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: several fivoralous lawsuits have been filed challenging our fund, and
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: at least one count has decided to dismiss those claims
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: as mute. The order establishes or this order establishes beyond
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: any doubt that there is no fund. Now, maybe with
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: that we can finally get ourselves an attorney general. We'll
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: have to see how they vote on that. Coming up.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: This is South Carolina's morning news from.
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: The Midlands to the low Country.
• 51:22
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• 51:32
  Speaker 2: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: If you were in the House for the Senate stump
• 51:37
  Speaker 3: on Saturday in Lexington, you saw Darlene Graham make her
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: first stump speech and rolled out a line. It got
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: a pretty good laugh. I think Anthony Fouci should stop
• 51:46
  Speaker 3: staring at the floor and answer the damn questions. She
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: then tweeted that out last night after she got I
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: guess that'll be part of the stump speech. Meg Kinnard
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: Associated Press retweeted it last night about ten o'clock and added, respectfully,
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: at some point the junior senator from South Carolina will
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: need to do the same. Lindsay Graham did not shy
• 52:05
  Speaker 3: away from the press. He always took questions, returned calls,
• 52:08
  Speaker 3: and won. Hopefully, whoever is telling her to avoid us,
• 52:11
  Speaker 3: we'll remember that. So there's the local shot. At the
• 52:15
  Speaker 3: same time, you see the Lindsey Graham fan account. Tom
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: This has got the top response. Respectfully, she lost her brother. Secondly,
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: this is her first time doing media. Thirdly, no disrespect,
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: but some of you in the news are not trustworthy
• 52:28
  Speaker 3: and do not cater your news to people who hate
• 52:30
  Speaker 3: people like us. So this is the battle that's being
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: played out over Darlene Graham right now. We'll keep our
• 52:37
  Speaker 3: eye on that, keep reporting on it, and hopefully keep
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: you entertained as we get your day started on South
• 52:42
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• 52:43
  Speaker 2: News Live from the state Capitol.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 52:51
  Speaker 3: I don't want to be the guy who beats a
• 52:53
  Speaker 3: dead horse. That's not who I want to be, Christopher.
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: I want to be somebody who brings you fresh content
• 52:59
  Speaker 3: every segment, if possible.
• 53:00
  Speaker 4: All right, what horse are you getting ready to beat? I?
• 53:03
  Speaker 3: Feel like I got to go back to Darlene Graham again. Okay,
• 53:06
  Speaker 3: I'm looking at social media right now. A reporter named
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Nicholas Blalsi, I think is how you pronounce his last name.
• 53:14
  Speaker 3: He just was posting about the transit the difference between
• 53:19
  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham and Ted Cruz, and it's it's a pretty stunning,
• 53:25
  Speaker 3: you know contrast. One is Darlene Graham is walking by
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: Nicholas Balsey. He's, you know, they're in the those tunnels
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: that they have where they interview people between sessions or whatever.
• 53:36
  Speaker 3: She's walking by with her security and asks Ms. Graham,
• 53:42
  Speaker 3: what is your opinion on, you know, should we break
• 53:44
  Speaker 3: the filibuster or whatever something to that extent. One of
• 53:49
  Speaker 3: them says, she's not answering questions at this time, keeps moving.
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: The next one is Ted Cruz. Ted he gives like
• 53:57
  Speaker 3: a nine minute answer, like you can't shut him up.
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: He won't stop talking and has all kinds of, you know,
• 54:04
  Speaker 3: well thought out opinions. And you may agree or disagree
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: with Ted Cruise, but you're not going to say that
• 54:08
  Speaker 3: he's not at least attempting to lead on the issue
• 54:12
  Speaker 3: and informed, a very informed opinion. And a very passionate opinion.
• 54:17
  Speaker 3: I don't know this guy, Steve Bailey. I get he's
• 54:22
  Speaker 3: listed on his Facebook page as a op ed writer
• 54:25
  Speaker 3: for The Posting Courier. He sent me an email over
• 54:29
  Speaker 3: the weekend directing my attention to his op ed piece.
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: I assume, maybe incorrectly, that Steve lean's left. I looked
• 54:38
  Speaker 3: at his Facebook page. It appears to lean left. So
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe people who are longtime readers of
• 54:44
  Speaker 3: The Posting Courier or people in Charleston may know Steve Bailey.
• 54:48
  Speaker 3: But his op ed piece is interesting, that's almost it's interesting.
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: And it's entitled where's the where's the op ed piece?
• 54:57
  Speaker 3: That he sent me? That that that the is this
• 55:00
  Speaker 3: it right here? Yes, how Darlene Graham's agency botched big
• 55:05
  Speaker 3: Fort Jackson deal. Now that may be a little bit
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: overstating the case, but he talks about how she is
• 55:11
  Speaker 3: the commissioner or led the commission for the blind, and
• 55:16
  Speaker 3: so we're going to judge her off of that. And
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: then he goes in and talks about a story at
• 55:20
  Speaker 3: Fort Jackson where there's a deal for a blind food
• 55:25
  Speaker 3: vendor in order to have the ability to sell there
• 55:28
  Speaker 3: and it's a big business. It's thirty eight point seven
• 55:30
  Speaker 3: million dollars in sales a year. They call it Stand
• 55:34
  Speaker 3: one point fifty four at Fort Jackson. And apparently he's
• 55:37
  Speaker 3: alluding to the idea that there may have been some
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: sort of insider dealing for a woman named Olivia Anderson, who,
• 55:47
  Speaker 3: according to I'm just reading for him before soliciting the bids,
• 55:49
  Speaker 3: The commission's point person on the process, Elaine Robertson, emailed
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: Anderson and other members of her committee a boatload of
• 55:55
  Speaker 3: confidential documents that would have never been giving them normally,
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: and it gave them an advantage as bidders. Among that
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: information the questions perspective bidders might be asked, the model answers,
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: and how the bidders would then be scored.
• 56:07
  Speaker 4: That does not seem fair, No, not at all.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: Now. I don't know why that happened. There's been several
• 56:17
  Speaker 3: lawsuits about it. Eventually, that lady, I think, lost that
• 56:20
  Speaker 3: ability to be the person there, the point person, and
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: she ended up suing over the fact that she was
• 56:27
  Speaker 3: losing it. She was making three million dollars a year,
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: which is two million more than they had anticipated the
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: vendor would make. Anyway, she did win her lawsuit, but
• 56:40
  Speaker 3: was awarded a dollar in damages. That kind of lets
• 56:43
  Speaker 3: you know where the judge stood on that. Fort Jackson's
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: story is a cautionary tale that illustrates just how little
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: we know about Graham's time at the Commission, and how
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: little we know about her at all. She's had little
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: to say about this incident, and apparently when she was
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: asked in a statement to address what went wrong, she said,
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: as head of the mission, good steward of the taxpayers dollars,
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: stayed true to the Commission's core principles, which is to
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: serve individuals who are legally blind. Again, that's a statement
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: that just dodges the actual issue, and which is what
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: we're seeing a pattern of.
• 57:16
  Speaker 4: I'm well, the good news is that bumps her friendship
• 57:18
  Speaker 4: with Katrina Sheeley off the front page.
• 57:22
  Speaker 3: Christopher with the insights.
• 57:26
  Speaker 4: I don't I mean, yeah, we just we don't know
• 57:29
  Speaker 4: anything about her than these. Other than these little snippets
• 57:33
  Speaker 4: of stories that we're getting from other people, we haven't
• 57:36
  Speaker 4: heard from her yet. She's done two national recorded interviews
• 57:42
  Speaker 4: with fairly friendly sources, and other than that has answered no.
• 57:48
  Speaker 4: I mean, there's been no media reporting. There's been no
• 57:51
  Speaker 4: media interaction with her, so we don't know how she
• 57:54
  Speaker 4: feels or how she'll react. For example, too, let's let's
• 57:58
  Speaker 4: say she gets on that debate stage tonight and the
• 58:00
  Speaker 4: first thing she says gets a rebuttal from a polished
• 58:04
  Speaker 4: politician like a Ralph Norman or Russell Fry or Mark Sanford.
• 58:08
  Speaker 4: What's she going to do?
• 58:10
  Speaker 3: Well? And you know, I hate to be the guy.
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: Here's something else I'll say. One of the things I
• 58:16
  Speaker 3: don't like about politics is that so much is based
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: on how well you debate. Slick Talkers don't make great leaders.
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: They make slick talkers, and sometimes you end up with
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: slick talkers who are bad leaders. I'm looking at you, Obama.
• 58:33
  Speaker 3: So you know, yes, a lot will be judged by
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: tonight's performance. It's not the end all be all. I
• 58:40
  Speaker 3: don't know how many people will watch. There'll be all
• 58:43
  Speaker 3: kinds of clips of this that will go out after
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: tonight's performance.
• 58:47
  Speaker 4: Kelly, I'd argue, it is the end all be all.
• 58:49
  Speaker 4: When else is she going to do? Unless she comes
• 58:52
  Speaker 4: on your show tomorrow or after that does other media interviews.
• 58:57
  Speaker 4: When else are we going to see her other than
• 59:00
  Speaker 4: in these scripted campaign platform stages.
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: Just before the top of the hour. For those of
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: you who missed it, I play or I read back
• 59:11
  Speaker 3: Meg Cannard from the Associated Press basically taking a I
• 59:15
  Speaker 3: don't want to say it was a shot, but pointed
• 59:17
  Speaker 3: out that Darling Graham has not responded to any local
• 59:20
  Speaker 3: media and the number one response back to that is
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: twofold one. She just lost her brother, she's still in mourning. Two,
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: she's never really done media before. Give her some grace,
• 59:31
  Speaker 3: and she's pulling at thirty percent, and I would say
• 59:34
  Speaker 3: that the majority of the people who are with Darlen
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: Graham fall into that camp. We don't care what she says.
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: She shouldn't speak to the media. She's got my vote
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: because she aligns with Lindsay and that's all there is
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: to it.
• 59:46
  Speaker 4: That's so she's taking on what you've pointed out last
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: week is the Biden strategy. Stay in the basement and
• 59:52
  Speaker 4: let your imaging do your work for you.
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: That's the only conclusion we can come to. And I'm
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: not saying it's the wrong strategy. If you're trying to win,
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: it will for Joe Biden.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 4: And it's working so far as you pointed out, she's
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 4: leading all the bulls.
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 3: It'll be very fat I imagined. Again, I'm predicting she
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: will be in the runoff. There's going to be a runoff.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: Nobody's gonna get over fifty percent with this field, but
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 3: that's where I think she'll be exposed. I think she
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 3: may actually win this primary with like thirty thirty five percent,
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 3: somewhere in that window. But I imagine in the primary she
• 1:00:24
  Speaker 3: won't go above or excuse me, in the runoff, she
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: wouldn't go above forty. That's where I'm at right now
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: unless something changes, and everything's subject to change, and I
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: don't know who's the other person going to be in
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: the runoff. That's the big question, because you got Russell Frye,
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: Mark Sanford, and Ralph Norman kind of divvy and Mark Lynch.
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: Lynch is gonna you know, he's in fifth place, but
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: he is taking a lot of the conservative vote. So
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: wherever those people end up landing, that's going to decide
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: who's in the runoff. So it'll be very interesting. As
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: we've played this out tonight seven o'clock. I hope you're watching,
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 3: We'll I get to ask I don't even know what
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 3: I get to ask because it was all pre recorded
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: on Friday, so we'll see what they edited up, edit
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: it out, and I hope they make me look thin
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 3: and good and don't reward me so I look like
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 3: a moron. We'll figure out what I get to ask
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 3: tonight as well, so we'll talk about that tomorrow morning.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: But we have other South Carolina news we can cover
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: here today on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News. It's Killy Nash, all right.
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 3: So it was the day of Lindsay Graham's funeral that
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: we had Joe Wilson in the studio talking about his
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 3: efforts to try to get the Parliamentary Assembly brought to Charleston.
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: And this is a July fifth through the ninth of
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: next year deal. Now it's been co sponsored, by the way,
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 3: by every member of the South Carolina delegation except one,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 3: and that would be William Timmins. I don't know why
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 3: William Timmins does not support this move, but James Clyburn
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 3: supports it, obviously, Tim Scott supports it. Joe Wilson was
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 3: the one came up with it. Ralph Norman supports it.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: Nancy May supports it. Everybody wants this, and it's not
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 3: just the you know, the people from South Carolina. I
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: think they had like over forty co sponsors when they
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 3: put it forward. Last night, Joe Wilson tweeted out that
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is excited that it might be coming, and
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 3: he says, if it is in Charleston, then I will
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 3: come to it. So Donald Trump trying to add pressure
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: or maybe an incentive to get it into Charleston, South Carolina.
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: The other place where it's being considered is Serbia. How
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: is it possible that Charleston could lose anything to Serbia?
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  Speaker 4: What time of year are we talking about. I'm trying
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 4: to remember what Congressman Wilson said.
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: It's July July through the ninth, July fifth through the ninth,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: so you're be coming right off your Fourth of July
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: celebrations and then you've got a week in Charleston. And
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: as he pointed out, originally the pushback by some in
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 3: America was that Charleston wasn't a big enough city. They
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: did have enough food, they didn't have enough restaurants, they
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: didn't have enough hotels. That's insane. Charleston is a global city.
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: It's not just a great place in America. This is
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 3: a great city in America and totally deserves this. It
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: would be huge economic impacts for the city as well.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: And again, what the hell is William Timmins not supporting
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: it for?
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: That's a great question, and you have to wonder the
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: next time he wants something, if some of the other
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 4: congressmen and women in our delegation decided to go against him, is.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 3: He actively supporting Serbia? Make Serbia great again? Is that
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 3: what's going on? And you had brought up something I
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 3: hadn't considered once. Maybe it was kind of the upstate
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 3: versus the low country.
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 4: That there is there is a rivalry there between the two.
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 3: Well again, Donald Trump now throwing his weight last night
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 3: behind the Charleston, South Carolina getting the twenty twenty seven
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: osc What does the OSSE stand for?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 4: Again?
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: I have the thing right in front of me. I
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 3: should probably read that. But it's basically a bunch of
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 3: parliamentarians from around the country, from Europe and whatnot. They
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 3: would be here, you know, one of their refresher courses.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: I'm sure.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is global. This is not just around the
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 4: United States.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, this is the all the people of the
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: world coming to America and specifically Charleston or Serbia. We
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: can't lose this to Serbia. For God's sake. It's Charleston.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 3: It's one of the jewels of America.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 4: And I think they planned honor Lindsay Graham at this
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 4: function as well.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: That is part of it now as well. Obviously when
• 1:04:31
  Speaker 3: they started this pitch, Lindsey Graham was one of the
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 3: people helping him to pitch it. So again, that would
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 3: be a nice thing for America, nice thing for Lindsay Graham,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: nice thing for Charleston. Let's see if we can make
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: it happen. We'll keep our eyes on that. In South
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: All right, And I know in South Carolina we have
• 1:04:53
  Speaker 3: a lot of history buffs and preservation groups apparently across
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: the state a little bit worried under a new federal
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: regulatory proposal by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation that
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: would rewrite the rules surrounding known as Section one oh
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 3: six to review the process federally related construction projects. Currently,
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: the local historic councils have a lot more input and
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: Apparently the way they would rewrite this, if it is done,
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 3: would kind of weaken the input of the local people.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 3: So they're asking if you are a history buff I
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: guess there's there's a bunch of I see. I got
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 3: an email here from Historic Columbia. I see South Carolina.
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 3: Excuse me, the Charleston is doing the same. So a
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 3: lot of people are concerned about it. I don't know
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 3: enough on this one yet to actually give any input.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 3: I have to go. This is a call for me
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 3: to go do my homework because I do like to
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 3: have an opinion on this. Why Why are we rewriting
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 3: this what had been stopped that the federal government wanted
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 3: to move forward? Does it seem reasonable? Those types of things.
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: So we should all do our homework and get ourselves
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 3: plugged in, especially if you love history, and I think
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 3: we all love history, at least in South Carolina. We
• 1:06:16
  Speaker 3: celebrate our history in South Carolina. So it's just something
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 3: to be concerned with. Go ahead and look into it,
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 3: you know what, Make that your homework assignment, and we'll
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 3: be back tomorrow to discuss that. In the meantime, we'll
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: be back. I think when we come back, Christopher can
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: We do have some more talkbacks we hadn't gotten to right.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 4: Ah on the University of implementing a dress code, Yes, yes.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: We do, and dress code in general in America. What
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 3: are your thoughts on that you can still use the
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: talkback feature. We'll get to that and more. On South
• 1:06:42
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• 1:06:43
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• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: Nash celebrating the president at the HBCU Tuskegee University. Who
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 3: wants to implement or isn't He doesn't want to, He's
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: done it. You're going to wear business attire when you
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 3: go to school, when if you're on the campus, if
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 3: you're out in what would be public, if you're going
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 3: to a class, you're going to dress as if you're
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 3: already a successful business person. This is being met with
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 3: a lot of resistance, not just by some of the students,
• 1:07:30
  Speaker 3: but also just by i'll say black culture. We'll just
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: put it that way. They feel as if this is
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: an attack on them, and maybe it is. I mean,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 3: I say it's more of just a standards thing that
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: not just Black culture, White culture, Latino culture. We have
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: fallen off as far as what standards we hold ourselves
• 1:07:54
  Speaker 3: to in order to be successful. And I'd say we're
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: suffering the consequences of it as a name, that the
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 3: nation is less successful because we've allowed our standards to
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: slip over the last thirty forty years at least. But Christopher, people,
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 3: I guess we're talking back on this, huh.
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 9: I like the dress standards that he's trying to pull
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 9: into the university to teach the young people to have
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 9: a professional mindset. I think that it's a little late
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 9: that these standards need to be instilled earlier on in
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 9: the educational process, because some of the teenagers in high
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 9: school literally just roll out of bed and show up.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's rather obvious, I would think. I mean, maybe
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: the you know what I haven't thought of. Maybe they
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 3: have sleepwear. Then they change into what to the rest
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: of us appears to be sleepwaar, but that is their
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 3: outdoor clothing. I don't know how they do it. But
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 3: you know, I was pointing out earlier Christopher that if
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 3: you know, for some specifically blacks in America that are
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 3: saying this as an attack on black culture. Maybe it is,
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 3: but it would be Black American culture because if you
• 1:09:07
  Speaker 3: were to be in Africa, for example, most countries in
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: Africa have some sort of professional attire that's not the
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: same as America. Like I'm looking it up right now.
• 1:09:19
  Speaker 3: One of the things is called senator, where highly popular
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 3: two piece ensemble featuring long structured tunic paired with matching
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 3: tailored trousers. There's also the kaftans, refined long sleeved tunics
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: that offer a sharp silhouette. And again it's very important
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: apparently in most of these African nations because every Africa
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: is a continent and there's multiple nations there and they
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 3: changes from country to country. But tailoring is a big
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 3: part of it. You do not want it loose and flowy,
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: including for the women. They want their blazers and power suits, structured,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 3: double breasted tailored blazers highlighting their vibrant wax prints, paired
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 3: with bold African print blazers. Corporate peplum and midi dresses.
• 1:10:02
  Speaker 3: I have no idea what that is. It's described as
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: a fitted sheath dress or peplum jacket. But if you
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 3: showed up wearing your you know, SpongeBob, square pants, underwear
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 3: or whatever. You're not going to be accepted in Africa, Hawaii, Taiwan,
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 3: or the United States of America. It's just not going
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 3: to fly.
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 4: And as the president is to Ski of Tuskegez pointed out,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 4: this isn't just about a dress code. He's creating opportunities.
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 4: He's planning to bring CEOs and presidents of companies who
• 1:10:32
  Speaker 4: are hiring onto the campus. He wants these kids to
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 4: be ready for their opportunities.
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  Speaker 3: I agree, and this what a great opportunity if you're
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  Speaker 3: a young person to have a president so aggressive, especially
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  Speaker 3: in a business environment, to get you out there. And
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  Speaker 3: I also noticed that another thing that they're doing at
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  Speaker 3: Tuskegee University is they're working with donations people who, you know,
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  Speaker 3: maybe maybe you're a victim of what are those glps
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. You now can't wear your suits because they
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  Speaker 3: don't fit anymore. They're looking for high quality suits for
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  Speaker 3: men and women to be donated for the college students
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  Speaker 3: who perhaps can't afford a five hundred dollars or six
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  Speaker 3: hundred dollar suit.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think the golps are going to be celebrating
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  Speaker 4: you for calling their users victims.
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  Speaker 3: But okay, you know, I've met so many people they've lost,
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  Speaker 3: you know, one hundred pounds in the last year or something,
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  Speaker 3: and it's like, well, you were a size fifty two
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  Speaker 3: and I you're a forty four. You can't tailor that.
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  Speaker 3: That suit is gone. So that's what I meant by that.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, I applaud them as well. But if you
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  Speaker 3: have thoughts on and again, I wasn't just talking about
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  Speaker 3: college students. Christopher. You brought up the point you can't
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  Speaker 3: go into a you said, Walmart, But I'd even point
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  Speaker 3: out the quote unit quote higher end targe. You know,
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  Speaker 3: you can't go into a target without seeing people wearing
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  Speaker 3: some sort of pajama bottoms or something. These days. It's
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  Speaker 3: it's really sad how far America has fallen for what
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  Speaker 3: we accept in society. And that's why I say, let's
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  Speaker 3: make shame great again. Bring back shame, body shaming, clothes shaming,
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  Speaker 3: all the shaming. Bring it all back. Mutch. People drive
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  Speaker 3: ourselves for higher standards. That's my take. What's your take?
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  Speaker 3: Use the talkback feature, maybe you'll be on the air
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  Speaker 3: if we have an opportunity, whether it's today or tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: Sometimes we hold them over for the next day. This
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  Speaker 3: is South Carolina This Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 2: Now, Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 10: I would like you guys to just take him minute
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  Speaker 10: and talk about these Muslims channing death to America in
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  Speaker 10: these little pockets of Michigan and get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 10: what should be done about that.
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  Speaker 3: Well, thank you first off for the talkback, and I
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  Speaker 3: want people to know that, Yeah, you can use the
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  Speaker 3: talkback feature to try to get us to talk about
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  Speaker 3: certain issues. Perhaps there's blind spots that Christopher and I
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  Speaker 3: miss and not really always having our thumb on exactly
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  Speaker 3: what you want us to talk about. So yes, if
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  Speaker 3: you want us to talk about more about the radical
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  Speaker 3: Islam that's overtaking Michigan, and not just Michigan, we'll point
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  Speaker 3: out there's parts of New York at Colorado obviously, California, Minnesota, Oregon,
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  Speaker 3: Washington State. There's lots of pockets in the United States
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  Speaker 3: where radical Islam is taking hold. There's even a place
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  Speaker 3: in rock Hill, South Carolina, where there's a group of people. Now,
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  Speaker 3: they're not chanting death to America up there yet. I
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  Speaker 3: imagine that'll be coming soon. I think the one that
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  Speaker 3: you're talking about at least became the most prominent one recently,
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  Speaker 3: was in the spring. I think it was in April
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  Speaker 3: that there was a group in Dearborn, Michigan channing death
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  Speaker 3: to America, death to Israel. This was one of those
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  Speaker 3: Palestine groups. And we got a bunch of Republicans who've
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  Speaker 3: signed a letter saying that, you know, basically, these people
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  Speaker 3: should be treated as I don't want to say domestic terrorist.
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  Speaker 3: If I was to read it exactly, I can't find
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  Speaker 3: the exact letter that they wrote, but it was basically
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  Speaker 3: saying that these people are in violation of the First
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  Speaker 3: Amendment because you're now threatening the United States. If you're
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  Speaker 3: making a threat of violence, death to anything is a
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  Speaker 3: threat to whatever you're chanting death to, So you need
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  Speaker 3: to treat that accordingly. And I think that that's a
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  Speaker 3: sound position to have. But Christopher, I would also argue
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  Speaker 3: that it goes back to allowing people to not only
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  Speaker 3: come into our country, but to more importantly allow this
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  Speaker 3: type of rhetoric to be accepted and in some instances
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  Speaker 3: encouraged at the school level.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's we talk all the time about assimilation and
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  Speaker 4: the fact that these people not only they want they
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  Speaker 4: want everything America gives, but they don't want anything to
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  Speaker 4: do with America as far as its ideals, its morals,
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  Speaker 4: its values, et cetera. But they're using our constitution against us.
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  Speaker 4: We already have cities in Michigan where there are Muslim,
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  Speaker 4: fully Muslim majority city councils in place, so they're smart.
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  Speaker 4: They're using the polls, they're using the voting booth against
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  Speaker 4: us right now. And it's sure you should have representation
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  Speaker 4: if you live here, but not to then turn that
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  Speaker 4: city council against America.
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  Speaker 3: And it's interesting how whether you believe it or not.
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  Speaker 3: And okay, let me put it this way. I have
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  Speaker 3: not heard Muslim's call saying that this is a lie.
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  Speaker 3: So please, if you practice the Muslim faith and happen
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  Speaker 3: to be listening, we would love for you to tell
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  Speaker 3: me that this is not a proper interpretation. But the
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  Speaker 3: interpretation that we have been told is that in Islam,
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  Speaker 3: it allows for you to lie to the people who
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  Speaker 3: are the dominant majority in that country as you attempt
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  Speaker 3: to take it over and then once you take it over,
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  Speaker 3: then is when you can become violent. So, for example,
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  Speaker 3: if that is the policy Dearborn mayor Abdullah Hammond saying, quote,
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  Speaker 3: we reject all inflammatory and violent statements made at that gathering,
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  Speaker 3: that to me would be and I can interpret that
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  Speaker 3: as a lie. He does not reject all inflammatory and
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  Speaker 3: violent statements made at that gathering. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 3: I would believe he's a supporter of it. But in
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  Speaker 3: order to win over the people of Dearborn who don't
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  Speaker 3: align with him yet, he still has to say these
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  Speaker 3: types of things. But the end result is the end result.
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  Speaker 3: You have a group of people that are calling for
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  Speaker 3: death to America that are now actually American citizens, and.
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  Speaker 4: That concern is reaching the national stage. Now that you've
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  Speaker 4: got this primary tomorrow, you've got l said leading Hailey
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  Speaker 4: Stevens in most of the polling we're seeing.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't like Hailey Stevens. We made fun of
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  Speaker 3: her last week because of her voice and her effect.
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  Speaker 3: She changed the way she speaks because she's currently serving
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  Speaker 3: as a congressional member and she speaks rather normal. But
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  Speaker 3: now that she's running for Senate, she's got this kind
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  Speaker 3: of weird. I'm a Michiganda and they're making fun of
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  Speaker 3: the way I talk and all that sort of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Abdul Lsaid is a radical Islamist. Although he says he's
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  Speaker 3: not a Democrat socialist, he also doesn't say he's a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat by the way. He just says, I'm not a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat socialist, but you are endorsed by every Democrat. If
• 1:17:28
  Speaker 3: I was endorsed by a Democrat socialist, I would ultimately
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  Speaker 3: I would have to come out against it. I do
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  Speaker 3: not align in any way politically with anything that the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Socialists of America endorse, and if they feel comfortable
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  Speaker 3: endorsing me, I don't know what they're seeing in me.
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  Speaker 3: I reject it. That's the proper response if you're a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat who gets endorsed by AOC, Bernie Sanders or any
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  Speaker 3: of the other DSA members. That's how I feel. This
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  Speaker 3: Well. It's eight fifty three, which means we're almost near
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  Speaker 3: Tonight is the big debate. I think we have five
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  Speaker 3: people up there, but we're really concerned. It would seem
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  Speaker 3: right now about three. If you look at the most
• 1:18:39
  Speaker 3: recent polling, it's really down to at this point Russell Fry,
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman, and Darlene Graham. And you know, Mark Sandford's
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  Speaker 3: in there and Mark Lynch is in there as well,
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  Speaker 3: but those two marks. I think it's going to be
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  Speaker 3: dependent upon who their people break for as to who
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  Speaker 3: gets in. It's the number one or number two between.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think they're breaking for Darling Graham. I think
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  Speaker 3: they're going to break for either Ralph Norman or Russell Fry,
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  Speaker 3: and it's gonna be a three way race. It's gonna
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  Speaker 3: end up in a runoff, and then I think whoever
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  Speaker 3: comes out as the conservative choice will win. That's my
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  Speaker 3: estimation right now.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, Chris Truce, I'm just curious to
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  Speaker 4: see what Darling and Graham how she sounds tonight, and
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  Speaker 4: what she presents as her platform and and if if
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  Speaker 4: there are any rebuttals from her opposing candidates, you know,
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  Speaker 4: how she handles that.
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  Speaker 3: As far as we know, she's never been on a
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  Speaker 3: debate stage, right, probably not never ever, maybe once in
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  Speaker 3: high school or something. But this will be a brand
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  Speaker 3: new experience for it, and I'm sure people will grade
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  Speaker 3: on a curve based off of that. But I'll point
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  Speaker 3: out that you don't get a curve when you're in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate.
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  Speaker 4: It's you're already up and running. And as we've talked about,
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  Speaker 4: this is such a compressed campaign anyway, this may be
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  Speaker 4: our final chance to get a good look at her
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  Speaker 4: in a an unrehearsed setting.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll keep pressing the Graham campaign people to see you.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe I could were the first South Carolina based interview.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows, maybe we'll get lucky. We'll tell you more
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  Speaker 3: tomorrow