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Show Rewind 8-25-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is South
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  Speaker 2: It's here. It's like Christmas morning, which finally arrived. Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: We've been waiting.
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  Speaker 3: So long, not yet fifty seven minutes to go until
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  Speaker 3: polls open, well until the.
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  Speaker 2: Polls all, I guess this is like, this is that
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  Speaker 2: time of the day. Remember when you were a child
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  Speaker 2: on Christmas morning and you knew you'd probably already made
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  Speaker 2: the mistake once or twice when you were like really
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  Speaker 2: little of running into your parents' bedroom at like four
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  Speaker 2: am and they were like, go back to bed, wait
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  Speaker 2: until the sun comes up or something like that. So
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  Speaker 2: this is this is where we're at. We're up before
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  Speaker 2: the sun. We're excited.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's election day.
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  Speaker 5: So how's it going to turn out?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we obviously nobody knows for sure, but we are
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  Speaker 2: going to a little bit later on this morning. I
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  Speaker 2: think around seven point thirty, we're going to talk to
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  Speaker 2: a guy who's been doing some polls. And we were
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  Speaker 2: talking about that yesterday. Weren't we not a whole lot
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  Speaker 2: of polls out here? In the public.
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  Speaker 3: We have not seen anything other than rumors of internal
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  Speaker 3: polls which sound both on both sides like it's going
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  Speaker 3: to be a fairly close race. Your numbers, guy, Steve
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  Speaker 3: Michael said yesterday within three percentage points.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, And then yesterday Steve sent me a text as
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  Speaker 2: soon as Politico reported, don't let me see if I
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  Speaker 2: have that story.
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  Speaker 5: Did you see the.
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  Speaker 2: Politico thing about Trump jumped in yesterday and dropped eight
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  Speaker 2: hundred plus thousand dollars for Darling Graham.
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  Speaker 3: I have seen, Yeah, his pack spending the first money.
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  Speaker 3: Usually they hold that money until November until Republicans face Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: This is really the first time this year he's spent
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  Speaker 3: money in a primary.
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  Speaker 2: And just for contrast, let's see, the money for Graham
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  Speaker 2: is just the second time that MAGA Inc. That's Trump's Deal,
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  Speaker 2: has spent on a race this year. The group in
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  Speaker 2: March shelled out eighteen thousand dollars for now Representative Clay
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  Speaker 2: Fuller in Georgia. Now, according to this report quote, the
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  Speaker 2: Superpack has now funneled more than eight hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars on voter phone calls and text messages
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  Speaker 2: from Graham ahead of her tough GOP runoff battle.
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  Speaker 3: I believe it. I think I got nearly all of
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  Speaker 3: those text messages in the last two days.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, don't I am. I don't know what I've done,
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  Speaker 2: but whatever I've done, I appreciate it. I am not
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  Speaker 2: getting text messages and phone calls. Maybe it's like my
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  Speaker 2: I have a newer fun I got a Google Pixel
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  Speaker 2: ten and maybe this is the way they set it
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  Speaker 2: up or something. I do see that it'll tell me
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  Speaker 2: we've blocked ten spam calls or whatever. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: even My phone doesn't even ring. It's just I love
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  Speaker 2: it nice. Yes, I'm living the good life over here.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, eight one hundred and twenty seven dollars in
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  Speaker 2: just like the last week.
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  Speaker 5: That's a lot of dough.
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  Speaker 2: And that shows you how seriously Donald Trump wants his candidate.
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  Speaker 2: Will the president get what he wants? Ironically, he often
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  Speaker 2: plays you can't always get what you want.
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  Speaker 5: It's one of his theme songs.
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  Speaker 2: But I don't know this for eight hundred and twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars that that certainly should move the needle.
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  Speaker 3: You would think you would think so. Between that and
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  Speaker 3: the fact that he came to Myrtle Beach Friday. He
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  Speaker 3: did the Tell rally last night. I mean, he's he's
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  Speaker 3: all in on this race.
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  Speaker 2: I saw a story from Nick Reynolds last night that
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  Speaker 2: was it Trump or was it Darlene who misquoted Ralph?
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  Speaker 2: Did you see that story? I did not, and it
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  Speaker 2: was they were slamming Ralph, Oh my gosh. And it
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  Speaker 2: was basically, it's one of those things where it's an
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  Speaker 2: easy mistake to make, but when you say it the
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  Speaker 2: way that they said it, it sounds so much worse
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  Speaker 2: than what Ralph was saying. But you know, again, how
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  Speaker 2: much difference does that make on a teleconference call. Who's
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  Speaker 2: on that call, right, It's a bunch of reporters who
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  Speaker 2: need to report on it, and it's a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: people who were already, for the most part, excited to
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  Speaker 2: be on the phone call with Donald Trump, and you,
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  Speaker 2: as the candidate, you're not. I don't know that you're
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  Speaker 2: winning many people over in these teleconference calls. Although they
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  Speaker 2: must do something, they must have some sort of research
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  Speaker 2: that shows that it works, because they do. Like I said,
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  Speaker 2: Nancy Mace tried to get me on one of these
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  Speaker 2: things years ago or a year ago or whatever, But
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  Speaker 2: it feels like a year ago. My gosh, the governor's
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  Speaker 2: race was just a couple of months ago, wasn't it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it feels like forever ago.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, all right, Kelly, I just saw the Trafalgar Group
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  Speaker 3: did drop a poll last night. They did, they did well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, should we pause and come back with that information?
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  Speaker 2: Should Christopher Thompson? Because in radio, by the way, that's
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  Speaker 2: what we do. Christopher and I are in the radio business,
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  Speaker 2: yes we are. Our job is to get you to
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  Speaker 2: listen through the commercial break and come back. And I
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  Speaker 2: can't think of anything better than Christopher Thompson with the
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  Speaker 2: freshest of poll numbers. He's gonna drop him on us next.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning News from.
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  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low Country. This is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: morning news.
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  Speaker 2: It is six twelve.
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  Speaker 5: Good morning.
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  Speaker 2: It is GOP primary runoff day in South Carolina. And
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson just discovered a fresh new pole dropped last night.
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  Speaker 2: What do you got for us, Kelly, the Trithalgar Group.
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  Speaker 3: We've been waiting to hear from them, and they waged
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  Speaker 3: in apparently about ten o'clock last night. One thirty one
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  Speaker 3: respondents a margin of error of get this two point nine,
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  Speaker 3: all right, Darling Graham forty seven point nine, Ralph Norman
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  Speaker 3: forty seven point eight.
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  Speaker 2: So you're telling me it's a runaway for Darling.
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  Speaker 3: That what that says he won a point one percentage
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  Speaker 3: advantage for Darling Graham forty seven point nine to forty
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  Speaker 3: seven point eight. The margin of error indicates anybody could
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  Speaker 3: win this with By the way, four point four percent
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  Speaker 3: remain undecided in this poll.
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  Speaker 2: I was gonna say, you know, years ago, my partner
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  Speaker 2: Jonathan Rush and I came up with a rule never
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  Speaker 2: do math on the radio, because whenever you're trying to,
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  Speaker 2: you're in a pressure situation and you're well forty seven
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  Speaker 2: to carry the one on this foot. And you know,
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  Speaker 2: but I just, off the top of my head, I
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  Speaker 2: knew that forty seven point eight and forty seven point
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  Speaker 2: nine did not equal one hundred. I could do that math. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: So you're saying that those the rest are the undecided.
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering if there was like some sort of
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  Speaker 2: write in candidate that they were writing in for something.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe they're like the hardcore Sandford people or the Mark
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  Speaker 2: Lynch people were not going to let it go.
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  Speaker 3: Just less than four and a half percent remain undecided
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  Speaker 3: as they go to the polls. All right, well, but
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  Speaker 3: that's I mean, that is extremely close, and.
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  Speaker 2: They're saying that they're they're within three points, and so,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, it's anybody's.
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  Speaker 3: According to that pull that is.
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  Speaker 2: That is I don't know we've ever had a pull
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  Speaker 2: that tight one tenth of a point.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I can't wait till you talk to Rick Quinn
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  Speaker 3: later this morning, because he's got a pull of his own,
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  Speaker 3: which and as Rick pointed out to you a couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks ago, I'm not sure what the Travalgar group
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  Speaker 3: how they do things these days. We've heard that it
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  Speaker 3: is so expensive to do call outs now that everyone
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  Speaker 3: is doing these text message polling, which is a little
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  Speaker 3: less accurate than actually getting someone on the phone. A
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  Speaker 3: Rick Quinn sticks to the tried and true method of
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  Speaker 3: getting people on the phone and actually asking them yeah questions.
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  Speaker 3: So let's see what Rick has to say when he
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  Speaker 3: comes on with you around seven thirty.
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  Speaker 2: And that, and like he pointed out, that's a more
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  Speaker 2: expensive way of doing things. And so that's why a
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  Speaker 2: lot of pollsters have tryin to got away from that.
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  Speaker 3: But it's it's your fault. It's your phone's fault. You're
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  Speaker 3: not even taking those calls anymore. Yeah, so it's harder
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  Speaker 3: to get it's harder to get people on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's but it's true. I am the reason that
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  Speaker 2: polling is so expensive. The but this idea of cold
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  Speaker 2: I'm always fascinated. How can you find eleven hundred people
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  Speaker 2: or whatever you said it was and say I'm within
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  Speaker 2: three points of the margin of era.
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  Speaker 5: That is always fascinated.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's kind of like radio ratings, and they're able
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  Speaker 2: to say that, you know, we pulled x amount of
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  Speaker 2: people as to what they're listening to when they're or
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  Speaker 2: even the Neils or the television ratings. We did this
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  Speaker 2: and now we know how many people are watching. Say
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  Speaker 2: back in the day, American Idol is twenty eight million
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  Speaker 2: people watched American Idol last night? Really because you know what,
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  Speaker 2: you know, ten thousand people in America watched you know
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  Speaker 2: that twenty eight million watched it. It's always been to
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  Speaker 2: me bizarre, And then often we've seen how wrong the
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  Speaker 2: polling was. For example, the race in Wisconsin, this was
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  Speaker 2: it two weeks ago now or a week ago, where
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  Speaker 2: that woman Hung I think is her last name or right,
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  Speaker 2: she was Francesca. Francesca Hung was up by like twenty points.
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  Speaker 3: But that that was a that was a poll that
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  Speaker 3: they put in the field. And we had this story
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  Speaker 3: last week, Kelly. There was a polling firm in California
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  Speaker 3: who put out these prank polls for the LA mayor's
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  Speaker 3: race and that race in Wisconsin just to test social
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  Speaker 3: media reaction.
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  Speaker 5: And what what did they find?
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  Speaker 3: They found that they got a big reaction. And but
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  Speaker 3: that's part of the problem is people see, for example,
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  Speaker 3: Francesca Hung is up so high, and they think, oh, well,
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  Speaker 3: she's the front runner, she's going to run away with it.
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  Speaker 3: And then they they're completely shocked when they actually go
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  Speaker 3: to the polls on election day and and vote their
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  Speaker 3: conscience and the other guy winds up winning big.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was that was that was one of the
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  Speaker 2: most shocking results we had seen. But you know, also
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  Speaker 2: there's candidates like a Donald Trump, and there's there's been others.
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  Speaker 2: Donald Trump certainly not the only one who has this
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  Speaker 2: happened to them, but there are people who are I
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  Speaker 2: don't I'll just use the phrase ashamed to support a
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  Speaker 2: candidate and so they don't even want to tell the
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  Speaker 2: person on the other end of the phone who they
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  Speaker 2: They're never going to meet that person. But obviously that
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  Speaker 2: person knows who you are, but you don't know them.
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  Speaker 2: But they don't want to say I'm voting for Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 2: and so they would say I'm still undecided, or they
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  Speaker 2: would say I'm voting for the other person, and then
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  Speaker 2: people so Trump, typically, I think, if I remember right,
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  Speaker 2: polled somewhere between four and a half to six and
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  Speaker 2: a half percent below however he performed.
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  Speaker 3: That's yes, some people are keep their votes very private
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  Speaker 3: and refuse to answer questions like that in any poll. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: excuse it. And you know you wonder about the accuracy
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  Speaker 3: of these polls, but the Trafalgar Group has been pretty
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  Speaker 3: spot on in the last couple of elections here in
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina.
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  Speaker 2: And I just found this the quote from last night's teleconference.
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  Speaker 2: So this I'm just reading this from Nick Reynolds, Darley
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  Speaker 2: and Graham hitting Ralph Norman and tonight's tell a rally
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  Speaker 2: with Trump. Quote he said, and I quote, so he's
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  Speaker 2: quote voting her I guess quote he said, and I quote,
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  Speaker 2: We've got to have a pathway for illegal immigrants end quote.
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  Speaker 2: The actual quote was you have to have a pathway,
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  Speaker 2: but you have to get the illegals out of the
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  Speaker 2: country now. So there's there that.
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  Speaker 3: Is a it's yes, that's a fortuitous misquote.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I'm sure there's been a lot of mis
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  Speaker 2: quotes in this campaign season, as there are in every season.
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  Speaker 2: But we are looking for your talkbacks this morning. By
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  Speaker 2: the way, yesterday, thank you for everybody who participated. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to get more of you on today. Who are
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  Speaker 2: you supporting and why don't let's not slam the other person,
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  Speaker 2: because again tomorrow morning, we're going to rally the troops
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  Speaker 2: and we're going to say we all have to be
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  Speaker 2: voting on Team GOP in November. So we're not trying
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  Speaker 2: to diminish the cantendidate that you're not voting for. We're
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  Speaker 2: trying to build up the candidate that you're for. Tell
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  Speaker 2: us why you're voting for Darlene or for Ralph tonight
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  Speaker 2: or today, and we'll try to get that on the
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  Speaker 2: air as soon as possible.
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  Speaker 5: Wi's A six nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 1: four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 6: I'm supporting Ralph Norman because he has experience in the
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  Speaker 6: real world of business and economic development in terms of hiring,
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  Speaker 6: making budget writing paychecks. So I think he is the
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  Speaker 6: better choice as we faced this tough economic period.
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  Speaker 2: He is concerned about the national debt and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people feel that way. And I think that that's
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  Speaker 2: a great talkback. I really appreciate it. I understand that's
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  Speaker 2: off WSC Charleston, So thank you in the low Country
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  Speaker 2: for participating this morning. Maybe i'll call it talkback Tuesday.
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  Speaker 2: Talkback Tuesday. Use the talkback feature to let us know
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  Speaker 2: who you're supporting and why today. Polls open just over
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  Speaker 2: thirty minutes from right now, be going till seven o'clock tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting to just contemplate, Christopher Thompson, how many Democrats do
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  Speaker 2: we expect to come to the polls? Because if you
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  Speaker 2: didn't vote in the Democrat primary, you're eligible to vote
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  Speaker 2: in the Republican primary and or runoff.
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  Speaker 3: I can't imagine if you're a Democrat and you feel
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  Speaker 3: strongly about your own party, I can imagine a not
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  Speaker 3: having voted in the Democrat primary and be wanting to
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  Speaker 3: participate on the Republican side. I understand you want to
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  Speaker 3: draw the best opponent for Annie Andrews in November, but
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  Speaker 3: I think if I felt strongly about my party, I
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  Speaker 3: would have voted in the Democrat primary, so I'd be
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  Speaker 3: ineligible anyway.
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  Speaker 2: There could be reasons why you didn't vote, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you were out of town or whatever, you got sick,
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  Speaker 2: you didn't and you're still passionate, or perhaps you were
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  Speaker 2: just like a lot of Democrats. I think feel kind
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  Speaker 2: of like how I felt when I lived in Connecticut
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  Speaker 2: and New York, which was that my vote doesn't really
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  Speaker 2: matter anyway, because whoever we pick as the Republican doesn't
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  Speaker 2: stand a chance of winning. But now, with the passing
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  Speaker 2: of Lindsay Graham, you're like, this could really happen now.
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  Speaker 2: I did see a tweet from Annie Andrews encouraging people
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  Speaker 2: to vote for Darlene. Really yeah, and so, and if
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  Speaker 2: you look at this is interesting the polymarket Darlene and Ralph.
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  Speaker 2: When they started the polymarket on them August twelfth, it
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  Speaker 2: was about sixty five percent chance for Darlene thirty five
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  Speaker 2: percent roughly for Ralph.
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  Speaker 5: Then it's skyrocketed.
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  Speaker 2: By August fifteenth, it was locked in her was it
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  Speaker 2: about a ninety percent chance and Ralph had like a
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  Speaker 2: ten percent chance. That's where the money was going. And
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  Speaker 2: it stayed that way until the eighteenth of aug Something
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  Speaker 2: happened on the eighteenth of August. Maybe you can remind
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  Speaker 2: me there was something that happened and all of a
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  Speaker 2: sudden boom, it dropped.
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  Speaker 5: Now it's back to where it started.
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  Speaker 2: So it's sixty six percent today, Darling Graham's gonna win,
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  Speaker 2: thirty five percent Ralph's gonna win again, according to Calsey,
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  Speaker 2: And there's been two million, nine hundred and twenty seven thousand,
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  Speaker 2: seven hundred and ninety seven different bets placed on this.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, it's hard to read those prediction markets, though, because
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  Speaker 3: you've got people investing not because of how they feel politically,
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  Speaker 3: but because they want to make money. And I think
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  Speaker 3: those are two different things. And you're not motivated to
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  Speaker 3: go to the polls in the same way you are
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  Speaker 3: to motivated to make money.
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  Speaker 2: You know, And there they are trying it's like a stock.
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  Speaker 2: I am betting that this is how it's gonna happen,
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  Speaker 2: and they're basing it off of polling. They're basing it
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  Speaker 2: off insider info if they have any, They're basing it
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  Speaker 2: off of.
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  Speaker 5: Just gut feeling. You know.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, once you get the truck, usually when you get
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  Speaker 2: the Trump endorsement, that means you're a winner.
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  Speaker 5: That's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 2: But here in South Carolina, Trump got rejected on the
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  Speaker 2: redistrict thing. He got rejected on his governor's pick. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: is he gonna go Maybe that's why he came in
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  Speaker 2: with the eight hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars because
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  Speaker 2: he's like, I can't lose three in a row in
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. I love South Carolina, I said, I'm always
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  Speaker 2: gonna love it, and I keep getting beat there. All right,
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  Speaker 2: we gotta take a break. It is now six twenty nine.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Kelly Nash Christopher Thompson here. It's six
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  Speaker 2: point thirty four, and last night Jesse Waters tried to
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  Speaker 2: do a great service for the American people by having
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  Speaker 2: on the man whose name I cannot say.
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  Speaker 5: He doesn't allow me to say it.
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  Speaker 2: He's the Michigan Democrat socialist running for the Senate.
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  Speaker 5: I can't say his name because of this.
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  Speaker 7: Listen, man, if you can't say the name is Abdrohman,
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  Speaker 7: keep the name out your damn mountain.
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  Speaker 2: I can't say it, so I'm not allowed to say it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm keeping his name out of my damn mouth. But anyway, Uh,
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  Speaker 2: Jesse and him were having a pleasant little conversation. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, the whole interview goes about twenty five minutes.
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  Speaker 3: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: They covered everything, it seems, and then they get to
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: why should Americans pay for and or why should it
• 17:18
  Speaker 2: be allowed for children to get sex change operations.
• 17:22
  Speaker 7: I remember having great conversations with my conservative friends about
• 17:26
  Speaker 7: right to try legislation, the idea that the government shouldn't
• 17:29
  Speaker 7: tell you what kind of healthcare you should have. I
• 17:32
  Speaker 7: just think the government shouldn't tell you what kind of
• 17:33
  Speaker 7: health care you should have. And if you're a minor,
• 17:35
  Speaker 7: you want to try on kids. Now, if you disagree
• 17:38
  Speaker 7: with that, if you disagree with that, if you disagree
• 17:41
  Speaker 7: that health care decisions need to be made by a
• 17:43
  Speaker 7: doctor and their parents and a patient, then I just
• 17:46
  Speaker 7: we think we agree to disagree. But you know, you
• 17:48
  Speaker 7: want to put government inside so dual.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: You're a doctor, reflectively, I am.
• 17:55
  Speaker 4: So you think it's okay for a parent to.
• 17:58
  Speaker 5: University?
• 18:00
  Speaker 3: You think that's okay.
• 18:01
  Speaker 7: I mean, so, do you really want to have this conversation?
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: Are you circumcised?
• 18:06
  Speaker 8: Yeah?
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, But I mean that's all you personal question.
• 18:10
  Speaker 7: Okay, doctor, you probably should want to move on.
• 18:12
  Speaker 3: You probably should want to move on.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: A circumcision is different than castration.
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: I think it's a problem.
• 18:18
  Speaker 7: It's a problem that you think that you get to
• 18:20
  Speaker 7: decide what happens between a parent, a doctor, and a patient.
• 18:25
  Speaker 7: And I'm just saying that, Yes, circumcision is surgery on
• 18:27
  Speaker 7: a kid's dingling.
• 18:28
  Speaker 3: So if you really want to bring down you can,
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: here you go.
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: So that to me is a fantastic display of how
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: mental illness works. You slowly walk yourself down the path
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: of justifying this and justifying that if if you've had
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: a circumcision, which thankfully now after one hundred plus years
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: of research, we now know that that is actually a
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: health benefit for young men. If you make that decision
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: for your child, that's the same as carustrating them. If
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: you've had your tonsils removed, why not take out your
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: testicles too.
• 19:04
  Speaker 5: I mean, they just they they.
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: Can't they walk themselves down a path of lunacy, and
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: then they present it as if it's normal. I would
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: offer to the people who are for this that you
• 19:16
  Speaker 2: have already missed the point of reality. The reality is
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: like in the Declaration, we believe that we are endowed
• 19:24
  Speaker 2: with certain and alienable rights by our creator. There is
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: a creator. So if you're saying you're not the gender
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: that you are, then your creator made a mistake. And
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: if your creator made a mistake, you're going to overrule them.
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: That is already you're already off base. But secondly, when
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it's a child, we have all kinds of pro like
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: you can't have, Like we don't have euthanasia in this country.
• 19:52
  Speaker 5: We don't.
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: We don't allow that you and your medical doctor don't
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: get to make the decision that we're just going to
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: end your life. There's there are countries that do that.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: We're not one of them because we value life in
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: this country. We also wouldn't allow a child who you know,
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: if we're going to go down the slippery slope. I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: have a young niece who saw Spider Man recently.
• 20:13
  Speaker 5: She loved it.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: What if she told me, I want to have surgical
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: implants to shoot spider webs. You know what I'm saying,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: or I want to be a cat. What if I said,
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: I want it to be a tiny Asian woman. I'm
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: not a six to one, big bald white guy I
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: want I'm actually a tiny Asian woman stuck in his body.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Should the American people then pay to have my legs
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: shortened and hair sewn on to me and my eyes changed?
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: Should the American public be expected to do that? This is,
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: by the way, gender affirming care. When they use that phrase,
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: that is the actual opposite. It's kind of like the
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: whole idea of we're going to have the Inflation Reduction
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Act that was the opposite. It actually increased inflation. When
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: you say gender affirming care, what you should mean by
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: that is we're going to sit you down with the
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: psychology who's going to explain to you you are, in
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: fact the gender that you are. You might not feel
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: it right now, but we're going to affirm that reality
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: is reality. We're not going to allow you to just
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: get off into some sort of looney bin and say
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: I am whatever I think I am today. There's so
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: much regret that comes with these decisions that are being
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: made between a doctor a parent and a fifteen year
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: old that later on. We're now starting to see a
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: parade of stories on social media from people who regret
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: and are now suing because somebody allowed them to do
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: this as a fifteen year old.
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: Christopher, because they've been physically altered forever and you can't
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: go back.
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: It's a rap. You're not going to be what you
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: were created to be. You can never be a mother
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: because you removed all the stuff that could make you
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: a mother, and you did that when you were a
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: fifteen year old. Going through a rough period of life
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: and going through teenage years, going through puberty is difficult.
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: It makes it infinitely harder when there's suddenly these new
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: options thrown at you, like, oh, you know, you're a
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: girl who likes softball, you might actually be a boy.
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: Have you thought about that? What if we called you Tom?
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Would you like that instead? I think I might. Next thing,
• 22:10
  Speaker 2: you know, you're in a doctor's office making life termed,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: you know, lifelong decisions because and by the way, for
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: the doctors who were into this, don't if you were
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: really if you really believed this, you would be offering
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: your services for free. But you know that you're making
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: tons of dough off of this, and that's why you
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: have an incentive to do these sex changes on children
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: and for I don't know what's going on in the
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: parents mind. Just bizarre lunacy. That's all I could say.
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: They're lunatics. But thank you Jesse Waters for bringing that
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: to us. I did not expect to have a comparison
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: to circumcision being to castration to start my morning.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: But that's what I woke up to, and you did too.
• 22:48
  Speaker 2: Now it's six forty one on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: It's South Carolina's Morning News.
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: All right, Operation last stand. They had a press conference
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: for that here in South Carolina yesterday. The Attorney General
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: Alan Wilson, along with the SLED chief Markuel Also Homeland
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: Security was involved with this. And basically what this is
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: another example of is how the Biden immigration policy made
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: every state, every state in America a border state. We
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: all have more problems with foreigners today than we did
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: before Joe Biden because of his policies. And so yesterday
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: they announced thirty one defendants were arrested in Charleston County.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: This all brought on by activity happening at nightclubs and
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: one club in particular, I don't see the name of
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: it here became a hub for narcotics trafficking, and.
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: Kelly, I think these were like underground nightclubs, so they
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: weren't have a name. They weren't going out to the
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: big bars you know around the state. They were holding
• 23:54
  Speaker 3: their own in basements and things like that.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Sex trafficking, firearms trafficking, drug trafficking, gang violence, and families
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: across South Carolina falling victims to these vast illicit networks,
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: according to Mark Keel. Again, so thirty one more taken
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: off the streets. These are again affiliated with Mexican drug cartels.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Why are they here? What are they doing?
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: Again?
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: It's not like we didn't have Mexican drug cartel problems previously,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: but it was severely enhanced under the Biden administration. So
• 24:29
  Speaker 2: thanks to Homeland Security, thanks to SLED, thanks to the
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Attorney General's Office for the incredible work that they're doing
• 24:35
  Speaker 2: trying to clean up this mess. But this mess is
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: going to take a while. It's not going to be
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: cleaned up during the Trump administration. It's going to take
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: many more years, and hopefully whomever is running this country
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: has the will to keep up with it because again
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of pushback from quote unquote immigration advocates
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: who want these drug dealers and gang bangers in our streets.
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: You're listening to South Carolina News.
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: All right, we're up against the tight break. So it
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: is talkback Tuesday. Let us know which candidate you're supporting
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: today and why. Let's make it positive people. Let's have
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: a great primary runoff today. Can't wait for tomorrow, can't
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: wait for your talkbacks? Just use the microphone on the
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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• 25:29
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• 25:32
  Speaker 9: Kelly, I kind of feel like Darlene is going to
• 25:35
  Speaker 9: be a rhino.
• 25:37
  Speaker 10: She is.
• 25:39
  Speaker 9: Some of the things she's done in the past and
• 25:41
  Speaker 9: seen in public.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: Theater has shown as much.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: And I was wondering what your thoughts are on it.
• 25:53
  Speaker 9: A lot of people are coming out and saying how
• 25:55
  Speaker 9: she's going to be a Democrat. Is that because she's
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: going to have Democrat voter support.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Well, I certainly appreciate the talkback, and I understand that's
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: coming from wsc as well, right, Christopher, but you your
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: violation of the rules. The rules today were supposed to
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: be let's build up our candidates, not why you're against
• 26:16
  Speaker 2: the other one.
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: I think Russell fry Kelly broke broke that rule once
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: and Farol yesterday.
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: I'm reading a post here from Rember. I have to ask,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: do you remember rom Ready? It feels like a thousand
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: years ago that rom Ready was on the stage here.
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: But he posted something the other day, uh talking he's
• 26:37
  Speaker 2: been and it's a long post. I'm not going to
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: read the entire thing to you, but it's basically getting
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: to the point of where we need to stop tearing
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: each other down personally. And he says to the Darlene supporters,
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: perfectly legitimate for you to question Ralph's two decade plus
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: record in elected office and his accomplishments, but it is
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: not okay for you to attack him personally or his
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: family business for accepting legitimate COVID loans, especially since Ralph
• 27:02
  Speaker 2: was not personally involved with the family business at that time.
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: These attacks, of course, will lead to counterattacks and create
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: more division within the party. To the Norman supporters, it's
• 27:12
  Speaker 2: perfectly okay to to pay whether experience in politics is
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: a criteria to serve and you know, the attack policies,
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: attack decisions that have been made, but don't attack them personally.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: And you know, is Darlene Graham a rhino? That was
• 27:30
  Speaker 2: the talkback right there?
• 27:33
  Speaker 5: The only way for it.
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: I mean, I hate to be Nancy Pelosi on us,
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: but the only way to actually know is to pass
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: the bill, if you if she's in office for a
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: year or two, then we get to decide, oh, she's
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: not behaving the way we would like her to be.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: If she's saying things on the campaign trail that align
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: with what you agree with, or more aligned with what
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: you agree with than what the Ralph Norman campaign is
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: saying on the campaign trail, then that's your candidate. I mean,
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: that's the way I look at it is And or
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: if you believe that they're lying to you, obviously that's
• 28:05
  Speaker 2: something that you and only you can decide. I can't
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: tell you how you feel about a candidate. I can
• 28:12
  Speaker 2: only tell you what their policies, their stated policies are,
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: and then you try to read between the lines if
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: they're telling you a fib or whatever. But then the
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: ultimate decision is you know, well, for a senator, you
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: gotta wait six years to get rid of them, but
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: you know, house members, it's two and that's why they're
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: a little more close to the people because they have
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: to answer every two.
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: Years, absolutely, and you're constantly running for reelection when you're
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: in the House. But Kelly, I think one of the
• 28:39
  Speaker 3: big problems people have in this campaign is you are
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: you're having to listen to Darlene Graham and her policies,
• 28:47
  Speaker 3: what she's saying on the campaign trail, because she's got
• 28:50
  Speaker 3: no record to vote upon. She's got no record or
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: rely upon. Ralph Norman, whether you like him or not,
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: he at least has a record, and you can look
• 28:59
  Speaker 3: and say, Okay, I agree with them here, I disagree
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: with him here, here's why I'm voting either for him
• 29:03
  Speaker 3: or against him. You can't do that with Darlene Graham.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: She has no record. We only have to take her
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: to her word what she's saying on the campaign trail
• 29:11
  Speaker 3: right now.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: And you know, the really ugly thing about politics is
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: you can make the claim that somebody voted for or
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: against an issue. But it's what we rarely understand unless
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: you're deep into the weeds and politics is what that
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: was part of a bill, and what they wanted was
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: more or less of the other parts of the bill.
• 29:33
  Speaker 2: They were willing to accept the thing that you didn't
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: want in order to get more of the thing that
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: you wanted. That's how politics is played. That's just the
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: nature of the beast. And so when you just isolate
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: one part of the bill and say they were for this,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: they were for amnesty, they were for DEI, they were
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: for whatever. Well, they were willing to accept a certain
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: level of it in order to get the tax cuts
• 29:56
  Speaker 2: or whatever it was that they really really wanted, because
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: you're never going to you get one hundred percent of
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: what you want. We don't live in a monarchy. We
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: don't allow this kind of rule. We're all part of
• 30:07
  Speaker 2: the No King's Protest. We've been that some ways since
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: seventeen seventy six, the original note No King's Protest. You
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: don't get to tell us what to do. But because
• 30:14
  Speaker 2: politics has played that way, you can find people like
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: Ralph Norman have a record, and you can interpret certain
• 30:21
  Speaker 2: things in a certain way.
• 30:22
  Speaker 5: And to your point with Darlene, all.
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: You can go on is what she's saying, right, that's
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: all you've got, and if you don't trust what she's
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: saying or you don't like it, that's the other thing.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, there's certain people who don't like the certain
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: things that she's been talking about, and that's okay, you know,
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: then don't vote for her. But if you do like
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: what she's saying, then you should vote for her. And
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: then we'll find out if she is a woman of
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: her word and she stands up for the things that
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: she says she's for.
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: I think there were a lot of people who went
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: to that the rally Friday night in Myrtle Beach who said,
• 30:52
  Speaker 3: you know, I'm not sure about her, but I trust Trump.
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: So that's going to be a big factor too. I noticed,
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: you know, Henry mcmass didn't endorse until late Friday afternoon,
• 31:04
  Speaker 3: and he was asked about that yesterday at the rally,
• 31:07
  Speaker 3: Hertel rally and just simply said the timing was right.
• 31:10
  Speaker 3: That didn't make much sense to me.
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: Look, there's a lot of backdoor deals being cut, there's
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: a lot of pressure being put on people. You know,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: you and I can only imagine what it's like to
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: be in someone like Henry McMaster's shoes, where you were
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: the first to support Trump. He was the first guy
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: in America, in an elected official, to actually come on
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: out and say Donald Trump's the guy. And that was
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: It seemed insane to the establishment that Henry McMaster said
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: that when he said it, and Trump will never forget that.
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: That is, he's a very loyal person until you're not loyal.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: If you get on the wrong side of Trump, even
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: if you're walking off the stage, which Henry master is
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: going to be leaving the stage pretty soon, you don't
• 31:55
  Speaker 2: want to make Donald Trump an enemy. No, And so
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: if Donald Trump is putting pressure on you, which you know,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: we saw what happened with pim la Evitt and and
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Trump was trying to put pressure on her to get
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: Henry McMaster junior on that ticket. That was that was
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: as plain as the nose on our face. Trump desperately
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: wanted him on there. And I think that was as
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: a favor to the governor. That's me speculating. No one's
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: ever said that to me. That's me guessing that he
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: was trying to help out Henry a by getting Henry
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: Junior on that ticket, and she didn't want him. And
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: then there was that awkward where he wouldn't accept it
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: a moment where he was like, oh, no, I really,
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: I'm too busy living my life. I'm not going to
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: be the lieutenant governor. Even if I was asked, I
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: wouldn't do it. That is, it's just so weird to
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: have all these pressure being put on people because you
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: and I don't experience that. None of us experienced the
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: kind of pressure that you can only imagine what comes
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: with a presidential phone.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Call, a lot of a lot of behind the scenes
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: negotiating going on that we have. We have no idea
• 32:56
  Speaker 3: exactly what's being said and what's being agreed to. I
• 32:59
  Speaker 3: got to you Trump twice.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: And just getting to that level to get a phone
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: call from him, I had to jump through about thirty hoops.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: So I mean, I can't even imagine what these people
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: are dealing with. But anyway, we do want more talkbacks.
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: But we want the talkbacks where you talk about why
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: you love Darlene Graham or why you love Ralph Norman.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: Don't talk about why you don't like Darlen Graham or
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: where you don't like Ralph Norman. Talk about why you
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: love them, because again, in twenty four hours from now,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: we're going to reconvene it. We're gonna have to be
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: all team Graham or Norman. We're all going to have
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: to unify because the Democrats are coming for they smell it,
• 33:35
  Speaker 2: They're coming.
• 33:36
  Speaker 5: They're going to be coming very hard. In South Carolina.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: It's we haven't seen a challenge like this in decades,
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: in decades. This is the first legitimate threat that you
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: could lose a Senate seat in decades. So we are
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: going to have to rally and rally hard. It's seven
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: to eleven on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the low Country. This is South
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I just got a message from Congressman Joe
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  Speaker 2: months June and November. They have to run in June
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  Speaker 2: a good point. Which also he didn't bring this up,
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  Speaker 2: but it reminds me, Christopher of the seventeenth Amendment. And
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  Speaker 2: I say that as if most people would know what
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  Speaker 2: no idea what the seventeenth Amendment was and why it
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  Speaker 2: fundamentally changed government in the United States. It wasn't until
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  Speaker 2: like nineteen thirteen, I think, was the year that you
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  Speaker 2: and I as a general public had an opportunity to
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  Speaker 2: vote on a senator. Previously, the way the Constitution had
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  Speaker 2: been written was that it was the state legislature would
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  Speaker 2: select their two senators to represent them at the federal level.
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  Speaker 2: And that way we had more control, in my estimation,
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  Speaker 2: over the senators because their response the they're reporting to
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  Speaker 2: your state legislature. What happened was Delaware had some sort
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  Speaker 2: of mess where they went two years where the legislature
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  Speaker 2: couldn't actually figure out who they wanted to send, So
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  Speaker 2: Delaware was without representation for two flipping years. And then
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  Speaker 2: what's his name, Randolph Hurst, you know, the big publisher,
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  Speaker 2: that guy billionaire at the time. And for all of
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: you people who hate billionaires, there's one who who was
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  Speaker 2: a billionaire back in the nineteen hundreds, and he hired
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  Speaker 2: a novelist basically to come up with a story showing
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  Speaker 2: how bad it is that the state legislatures get to
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  Speaker 2: pick the senators, and so they wanted to change it,
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  Speaker 2: and so they wrote this novel filled with you.
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  Speaker 5: Know, fiction.
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  Speaker 2: It was just fiction as to what was actually happening
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  Speaker 2: and made it seem really horrible. And then there was
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  Speaker 2: this big push in America like we need to reform it,
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  Speaker 2: we need we need to control the Senate. But to
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  Speaker 2: the point that, you know, the previous talkback feature was
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  Speaker 2: using we don't know what we have till they're in
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  Speaker 2: there a year or two, and then you've got to
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  Speaker 2: ride it out another four years. In a six year
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  Speaker 2: Senate term, you got to wait six years if you
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  Speaker 2: want to have any kind of effect on that. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we should repeal the seventeenth Amendment because then I can
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  Speaker 2: go to my state legislature and I can tell them, hey,
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  Speaker 2: this person is doing a horrible job, and they would
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  Speaker 2: either agree or they would be replaced because they're up
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  Speaker 2: for election a lot sooner.
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  Speaker 3: True, I like the direct approach better. You're a big
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  Speaker 3: direct guy. Yes, you would you be for shortening the terms? Then, well, see,
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  Speaker 3: that's the thing, that's the that's the problem, because DC
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  Speaker 3: has become the quote unquote swamp where it's you get
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  Speaker 3: so insulated. Once you're living inside the Beltway, you kind
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  Speaker 3: of forget. Okay, oh wait a minute, I'm representing South Carolina,
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  Speaker 3: but I'm having dinner with all these you know, fat
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  Speaker 3: cats who are trying to lobby me on this or
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  Speaker 3: lobby me on that, And sometimes you are so insulated
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  Speaker 3: you forget about the people you represent.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the House members don't get that luxury.
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  Speaker 2: No, they're back in the district all the flip and
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  Speaker 2: time talking to people, and they're hearing directly from you.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think of what I'm doing? And what
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  Speaker 2: is the Congress doing? We all know that Congress has
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  Speaker 2: like the lowest approval rating. It's like literally cockroaches and
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  Speaker 2: Congress are like tied. But it's never our legislator, it's
• 37:26
  Speaker 2: their legislators. It's the people in whatever state their legislators
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  Speaker 2: are ruining it. Ours are doing a great job. That's
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  Speaker 2: the way most people feel, because you actually get an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity to talk to your legislator and they are representing
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  Speaker 2: your interests as best they can in a very muddled
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  Speaker 2: system of politics where they, like we talk about they
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: put all these poison pills into bills and whatnot, So
• 37:46
  Speaker 2: you end up voting against the Defense Department or something,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: because at the same time you'd also have to approve
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  Speaker 2: transgendered surgery for eight year olds. So you say, okay,
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  Speaker 2: I can't support that. So it's a very weird system
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  Speaker 2: that we that we find ourselves with. But again, we
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  Speaker 2: are going to directly elect the senator here in the
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  Speaker 2: next few months. We are directly picking a GOP nominee.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, the Any Andrews campaign reached out to
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  Speaker 2: me yesterday they want to be interviewed. Okay, so we're
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  Speaker 2: And I've also heard, by the way, who I should
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: look it up. I forget their names. Casey Whitner I
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  Speaker 2: think is her name. She is the Libertarian who's been
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  Speaker 2: nominated and she wants to be on. And the other
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  Speaker 2: person from the other party whose name the Constitution Party,
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  Speaker 2: Mark something or other I think is the guy from
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  Speaker 2: the Constitution right.
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  Speaker 5: They all want to be interviewed. Let me know on
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  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News with the poll we've ever seen, Christopher,
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  Speaker 2: you said that the Trafalgar Group had it within one
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  Speaker 2: tenth of one point.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I think it was forty nine point eight, forty
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  Speaker 3: nine point seven something like that.
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  Speaker 2: Unbelievably tight race. So we're encouraged. If you have any
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  Speaker 2: inkling to vote, it is very important that you do
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  Speaker 2: so because this is one of those races where your
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  Speaker 2: candidate could lose by a vote. So you've got to
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  Speaker 2: get to the polls today and do they Is it still?
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  Speaker 2: I think that I don't want to put my foot
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  Speaker 2: in my mouth here and say that the polling station
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  Speaker 2: you went to two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 5: Is probably the same one.
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  Speaker 2: It probably is the same one, but just to make sure,
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  Speaker 2: you should go to sc votes dot gov. Right right, absolutely,
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  Speaker 2: all right, So go ahead and find out where your
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  Speaker 2: polling station is today. Now, speaking of polls, Rick Quinn
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: does a lot of polling and he's been doing some
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  Speaker 2: polling on this race as well. We're going to talk
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  Speaker 2: with mister Quinn about what his polling shows coming up
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  Speaker 2: next on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: Hi.
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  Speaker 5: There, it is seven thirty three.
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  Speaker 2: I am Kelly Nash and we're joined now by the
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  Speaker 2: renowned pollster Rick Quinn.
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  Speaker 5: How are you? How are you, sir?
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  Speaker 11: I'm great, Kelly, How are you?
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  Speaker 5: Fantastic?
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  Speaker 2: It's exciting its primary runoff day. We're going to get
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  Speaker 2: ourselves a new nominee by hopefully the end of tonight.
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  Speaker 2: Although we have heard from the Trafalgar poll that just
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  Speaker 2: came out last night. Christopher was showing this to me.
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  Speaker 2: They're within one tenth of one point and the you know,
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  Speaker 2: they've got a three point margin of error or something
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  Speaker 2: like that, so they're saying it's basically anybody's race at
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: this point. You have been doing some polling of your own.
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  Speaker 2: Is that kind of what you're seeing as well? That
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  Speaker 2: it could be anybody's race?
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  Speaker 11: Today it was Schafalgar's pole is a little more recent
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  Speaker 11: than mine, but that's exactly what Monshoum showed fought. You know,
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  Speaker 11: there was a clear lead that Darleen Graham had going
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  Speaker 11: into the debates, and that seems to have kind of
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  Speaker 11: evaporated as the week went by. Uh, there was a
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  Speaker 11: three or four day stretch there were Norman really really
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  Speaker 11: came on and it tightened us. With that, we were
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  Speaker 11: within one tenth of a point on Friday, I find now, so.
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  Speaker 2: That was the last polling you did. You didn't do
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  Speaker 2: any after the administration came.
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  Speaker 11: Down here and it was a week finished our calls
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  Speaker 11: right before the President's rally. So you know, I think
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  Speaker 11: if you're Darlene, you were kind of hopeful that that
• 41:29
  Speaker 11: that event maybe stopped the bleeding, so to seek, because
• 41:33
  Speaker 11: she she clearly lost her advantage, and if there's any
• 41:37
  Speaker 11: comparison between the Chicago Pole and Mind, that would indicate
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  Speaker 11: that that she did kind of that that did kind
• 41:43
  Speaker 11: of stop the erosion of the of the lead. So
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  Speaker 11: it was a very close race.
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  Speaker 2: The way we're talking with Rick Quinn right now and
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  Speaker 2: the way you're interpreting your data was that she was
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  Speaker 2: clearly in control of this race until the debate, and
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  Speaker 2: then every day later it was getting worse and worse.
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  Speaker 2: And then basically with the Trump appearance on Friday, that is,
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  Speaker 2: in your terms, stop the bleeding, meaning wherever she was
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  Speaker 2: at that point, she's not losing anymore, but she might
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: not be getting and she needs to actually gain a
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  Speaker 2: little bit in order to get some separation between her
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  Speaker 2: and Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 11: You know, I think the best way to put it is,
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  Speaker 11: I think by Friday, the cake was kind of baked
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  Speaker 11: for both candidates in terms of what the public support was.
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  Speaker 11: And I think now it becomes a turnout Friday, it
• 42:32
  Speaker 11: became a turnout battle, meaning that you're going into the weekend,
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  Speaker 11: it's really going to be very difficult to change anybody's
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  Speaker 11: mind at that point, So it becomes more of a
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  Speaker 11: turnout battle and make getting your folks to the polls.
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  Speaker 11: And by the way, that if you looked at the
• 42:46
  Speaker 11: early voting, it looked if you compared our pole to
• 42:52
  Speaker 11: kind of the where she was strong and where Ralph
• 42:55
  Speaker 11: was strong, Ralph Norman was strong, it looked like Ralph
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  Speaker 11: did a little better with the early voting than she did.
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  Speaker 11: And so I think, you know that again, that's another
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  Speaker 11: thing that triump Trump visit would have helped with. There
• 43:05
  Speaker 11: appeared to be some kind of not a really great
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  Speaker 11: turnout in Myrtle Beach, and of course the rally was
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  Speaker 11: in Myrtle Beach, so you would think that would be
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  Speaker 11: an advantage for her in terms of trying to turn
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  Speaker 11: out some of her voting in Myrtle Beach area. Yea.
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  Speaker 2: And Russell Fry also went from attacking Darlene Graham to
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  Speaker 2: being one of her supporters, so that you know, and
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  Speaker 2: he's up there in Oor County and that probably helps,
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  Speaker 2: I would think, no doubt.
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  Speaker 11: In fact, our pole we we we asked that question, uh,
• 43:33
  Speaker 11: and we asked what's called an awareness question. We just
• 43:36
  Speaker 11: kind of asked we we we asked if they the
• 43:39
  Speaker 11: voter knew that President Trump had endorsed her in Russell
• 43:44
  Speaker 11: Fry endorsed, and then of course there was there was
• 43:46
  Speaker 11: ninety six percent awareness. And then we then we reasked
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  Speaker 11: the head the head question. After that we reasked who
• 43:51
  Speaker 11: were you going to vote for? And and and it
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  Speaker 11: verified that our number was the tight number was maintained.
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  Speaker 11: In other words, the first number we asked before disclosing
• 44:01
  Speaker 11: the Trump endorsement and the Fry endorsement was the same
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  Speaker 11: as it was after. Okay, So it just it just
• 44:07
  Speaker 11: showed that the public knew that that Frid endorsed and
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  Speaker 11: Trump it was was coming to Myrtle Beach for her,
• 44:13
  Speaker 11: and when that happened, that the race was in one
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  Speaker 11: tenth of a point.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting, So the Trafalgar poll that I'm looking at, they're
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: at forty seven point nine Gram, forty seven point eight Norman,
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: and they still had four point four percent undecided. So
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: this is the weekend, and you know, the last two
• 44:30
  Speaker 2: days here whatever, this has really been about trying to
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: win those undecided. You're a longtime political person, you're you grew.
• 44:39
  Speaker 5: Up in politics.
• 44:40
  Speaker 2: So do these like tele rallies that she had last night,
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: do those move the needle?
• 44:47
  Speaker 11: It can? Yeah. In fact, that's you know, really when
• 44:49
  Speaker 11: you talk about turnout, it's really you really eaither only
• 44:52
  Speaker 11: have phones and digital things like email and email, and
• 44:57
  Speaker 11: also that those kind of town halls that she did,
• 45:00
  Speaker 11: our shoe other you know, out there knocking on doors
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  Speaker 11: and trying to push people to the polls so ohms, text,
• 45:05
  Speaker 11: those are things that those are the tools you use
• 45:08
  Speaker 11: for turnout. And honestly, if you're undecided, you know, a
• 45:11
  Speaker 11: day or two before the election, you're more than likely
• 45:14
  Speaker 11: not voting. So uh, once you get this close to
• 45:17
  Speaker 11: an election, if your Fibers poll was actually I think
• 45:20
  Speaker 11: I think I think the calling was done finished last night.
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  Speaker 11: I believe that's why it maybe Sunday even so Sunday
• 45:27
  Speaker 11: or Monday, those people are probably aren't going to vote.
• 45:30
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 45:30
  Speaker 11: So you know, really that just shows how close the
• 45:32
  Speaker 11: election is. Typically most polsters that I that do what
• 45:36
  Speaker 11: I do and what tribor does, they would just take
• 45:38
  Speaker 11: this undecided out and see what happens, and that usually
• 45:42
  Speaker 11: there's your kind of indication. But here it's just too
• 45:44
  Speaker 11: statistically close, so it really becomes a turnout over. And
• 45:48
  Speaker 11: then part of the other problem, Kelly, is this is
• 45:50
  Speaker 11: such a compressed election. All the other primaries have have
• 45:53
  Speaker 11: have been done and voted in the canon ciment selected.
• 45:56
  Speaker 11: So this special primary, with the compressed week election cycle,
• 46:02
  Speaker 11: it just really makes it really makes the turn It
• 46:05
  Speaker 11: makes turnout predictability very difficult.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, but the early voting was was pretty strong, so
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  Speaker 2: that's a good indicator.
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  Speaker 11: Well, it was strong in areas that seemed to.
• 46:15
  Speaker 5: Help normally okay, interesting.
• 46:17
  Speaker 11: And other areas it was weak.
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  Speaker 2: On Monday, the Federal Election Commission reported that Trump's super
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: pack had spent eight hundred and twenty seven thousand dollars
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: on text messages and phone calls for Graham. I don't
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: know when that money was spent, but this is I
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: would assume very recently, so this would be for the
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: last week, push the last few days that we've been
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: experiencing these texts and phone calls, and you're saying that's
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: the best way to get the voters out.
• 46:47
  Speaker 11: It is. It is. And and you know, Darling and
• 46:52
  Speaker 11: support groups of Darlene spent some you know, spent put
• 46:55
  Speaker 11: about two more million dollars in addition to that on
• 46:58
  Speaker 11: television on Thursdays. So it's been the amount of money
• 47:03
  Speaker 11: that's been spending such a short period of time is
• 47:04
  Speaker 11: really it's really pretty pretty impressive. And that's also an
• 47:09
  Speaker 11: advantage for her, you know, for Darleen. She she she
• 47:13
  Speaker 11: has maintained a three or four to one spending advantage
• 47:17
  Speaker 11: going into this election over over Norman. I think the
• 47:21
  Speaker 11: last report I have, which is says about nine and
• 47:25
  Speaker 11: a half million dollars was spent on television, radio, and
• 47:28
  Speaker 11: streaming services, and seven and a half million of that
• 47:31
  Speaker 11: was was the Darling.
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: Wow. Okay, interesting stats.
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, Rick, we always appreciate you taking time to
• 47:37
  Speaker 2: share some of your insights with us.
• 47:39
  Speaker 5: And again we're going into this nobody can.
• 47:44
  Speaker 3: Call it.
• 47:46
  Speaker 11: Yeah, correct, I mean, it's just anybody that says they
• 47:50
  Speaker 11: know what's going to happen with the race of this
• 47:52
  Speaker 11: close and this kind of unheard of compressed election. I mean,
• 47:57
  Speaker 11: it's just a I've been doing this forty years and
• 47:59
  Speaker 11: I've never had I've never seen a special election for
• 48:02
  Speaker 11: a seat or a United States Senate seat happened this
• 48:05
  Speaker 11: fast with this much money spent. So it's just anybody
• 48:09
  Speaker 11: that says they know what's going to happen is is
• 48:12
  Speaker 11: that's a fool's errand in my opinion, all.
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  Speaker 2: Right, well, Rick Quinn again, thank you for joining us
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News. And you know the old saying,
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: we hope you get to live in interesting times. We
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: are living in interesting times. It's seven forty one.
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  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:26
  Speaker 10: Good Benning, guys, it's great to hear you both back
• 48:29
  Speaker 10: on the radio together. I'm still going to vote with Darleen,
• 48:33
  Speaker 10: just mostly because of her record with the Association of
• 48:36
  Speaker 10: the Blind. She did such a good job. My sister's
• 48:38
  Speaker 10: legally blind, and I know what they've done for her.
• 48:41
  Speaker 10: I think she'll do a good job. Kind of wish
• 48:44
  Speaker 10: the wishy watched her about her a little bit the
• 48:46
  Speaker 10: last few days.
• 48:47
  Speaker 12: I didn't like her at the Trump rally at all.
• 48:50
  Speaker 12: She's trying so hard now.
• 48:51
  Speaker 10: But anyway, I think she's got a good team behind her,
• 48:54
  Speaker 10: and I think she'll be fine.
• 48:56
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Well, there you go with a Darlene Graham supporter who
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: did not like the appearance at the Trump rally. And
• 49:03
  Speaker 2: I was I wish I could ask her was she
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: there in person or was it just what she saw
• 49:08
  Speaker 2: on television?
• 49:09
  Speaker 5: But she says that what did she say?
• 49:10
  Speaker 2: Darlene turned a little hard. I think that's what she said, yeah, something,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: And I think what she means by heart is she
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: means more negative. And I think a lot of the
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham support is because she is fresh faced, she's new,
• 49:26
  Speaker 2: she's she's you know, she's not tarnished by a lifetime
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: in politics, and so she has a sweetness about her
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: that perhaps a veteran, even if it's a female, a
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: veteran politician might not like Nikki Haley doesn't come across
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: as sweet. Darlene Graham comes across as or she had.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: Maybe now that has changed since she's already been sullied
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: up by the Senate for a couple of weeks.
• 49:50
  Speaker 3: Well, the talkback said that she was trying too hard,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: trying to not being too hard, trying too hard.
• 49:56
  Speaker 5: Trying too hard?
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: Interesting, I don't know what that try as hard as
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: you can try, you're trying to win an election. This
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: thing is big and we just had Rick Quinn on
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: it and looking at the amount of money, it's interesting
• 50:09
  Speaker 2: how packs spend their money. And he's given me like
• 50:12
  Speaker 2: a complete breakdown of these things, and like the Palmetto
• 50:15
  Speaker 2: Action Group are three point six million dollars, but they
• 50:19
  Speaker 2: break it down by markets, like they spent this thirty
• 50:22
  Speaker 2: seven thousand dollars in Augusta. You know, they just very
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: detailed on security is strength. That's the one that's got
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: a lot of people talking. The one that's got everybody
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: talking was the invest Was it invest in Tomorrow? That's
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: the one that's backed by the Democrat billionaire who has
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: already taken out a couple of MAGA upon people in
• 50:42
  Speaker 2: primaries and now he has flipped it and they're Promaga
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: now in South Carolina. So a lot of people are
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: interested in invest in Tomorrow. And as of today, they've
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: spent seven hundred and forty five one and ninety five
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: dollars in this race. So there's a lot of interesting
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: money being spent. Over nine million has been spent in
• 51:01
  Speaker 2: the last few weeks on this race and too close
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  Speaker 2: to call as of seven forty eight on South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: You are listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 51:10
  Speaker 3: I woke up to see my timeline on Twitter being
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: NFL players going back to college men playing in the WNBA, and.
• 51:20
  Speaker 1: Half America supporting some lady who killed her three kids.
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  Speaker 4: What in the world is going on?
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: We live in crazy times and it makes for great radio. Thankfully.
• 51:33
  Speaker 2: We have a lot to discuss. But for those of
• 51:35
  Speaker 2: you are not familiar with the Lindsay Clancy story that
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: she did, I mean the thing about there's a movement
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: where maybe she didn't do it, you know she did.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: She admitted that she killed her own kids. That's not
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: the question. The question is is it because of all
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the drugs that she was being prescribed and postpartum depression?
• 51:55
  Speaker 2: Does she get to spend the rest of her life
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: in an institution or is the institution called prison? That's
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: all they're really deciding at this point. But she's got
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: a there's a movement of like I saw one headline,
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: super fans rallying, there's thousands of women who are just yes,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: we have to help Lindsey maybe the husband did it
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: or whatever. I don't remember this with Susan Smith.
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  Speaker 3: No, it never would have happened there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I just you know.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: And there's another lady who slit the throats of her
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: three kids. One of them survived, but she told the
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: dad say goodbye to your kids. I mean, it's there's
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: some bizarre stuff happening in this world. We try to
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: get to as much of it as possible. We try
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: to make it more South Carolina centric, and we'll be
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: doing more of that just after the top of the
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: hour with South Carolina's Morning.
• 52:42
  Speaker 1: News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
• 52:48
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• 52:58
  Speaker 2: Right on the top of the hour news break you
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: heard at Fox reporting that the Besant campaign, Scott Bessant,
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  Speaker 2: Charleston's own against the Iranians has.
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  Speaker 5: Been very successful.
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  Speaker 2: With about the bottom of the hour eight thirty three
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  Speaker 2: ish or so eight thirty five ish, we'll be talking
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  Speaker 2: with John Decker about how successful that's become.
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  Speaker 3: Economic d Day.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it is.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, even just going back to last year, the
• 53:24
  Speaker 2: success they were having unbelievable. The you know, we remember
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: when Biden had nine percent inflation and we thought that
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: the world was ending. I'm just reading this on the
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: Wikipedia page about the current Iranian crisis. In October of
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five, inflation spiked to forty eight point six percent,
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: and then another forty two point two percent in December.
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  Speaker 5: Wow, I mean we could.
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  Speaker 4: We could.
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  Speaker 2: We're still trying to recover from the nine percent. Can
• 53:52
  Speaker 2: you imagine in two months you had eighty five percent inflation?
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  Speaker 3: And I didn't realize we had any more economic weapons
• 54:00
  Speaker 3: at our disposal, Kelly. I thought we were doing everything
• 54:03
  Speaker 3: already that we could do economically to Iran, But apparently
• 54:07
  Speaker 3: Scott Besson had a few more tricks up his sleeve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we'll talk to John Decker about that at eight
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  Speaker 2: thirty five. In the meantime, I mentioned earlier in the
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: broadcast that we were contacted by the Annie Andrews campaign
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: that they want me to interview her. And typically, first off,
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: I'm not a huge interview guy.
• 54:25
  Speaker 5: Per se.
• 54:26
  Speaker 2: I like to I'm a control freak, and I can't
• 54:30
  Speaker 2: control what you're gonna say, and if you're going to
• 54:32
  Speaker 2: derail the whole show and but I typically don't interview democrats,
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: and I know some of them would say something on
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: the lines of your afraid or you have to you know,
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: you have to give us the equal time.
• 54:45
  Speaker 5: No, I don't.
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: We are a news program, so I don't have to
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: give equal time or this iHeart does not have to
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: give equal time. They have liberal shows for liberal host
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: with liberal guests, and then they have conservative shows with
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: conservative hosts for conservative guests. We are doing a broadcast
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: that's news oriented, that is geared towards keeping you engaged
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: because you typically either love conservative politics or you hate
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: conservative politics and you want to start your day in
• 55:13
  Speaker 2: a bad mood. Those are the two people in our audience.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: But do you want us to have her on? And
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: I'm asking that as a legitimate question, because when I
• 55:24
  Speaker 2: have a conservative guest on, typically there's not a whole
• 55:27
  Speaker 2: lot of pushback because I agree with ninety nine percent
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: of the things they're saying.
• 55:31
  Speaker 5: So why would I push back on it with her?
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: I'm going to probably be I don't want it to
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: devolve into a shouting match that's not entertaining. I don't
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: like it when people are shouting at each other, and
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: I would do my best to not have it become that.
• 55:44
  Speaker 5: But you know, again, it would just.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: Be point counterpoint, point counterpoint, and you know she's going
• 55:50
  Speaker 2: to say something. I'm going to say, the truth about
• 55:52
  Speaker 2: that is this, and then she's going to say, no,
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: you don't, you don't understand the reality of it. It's this,
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: And I'm going to say, you actually don't understand the
• 55:58
  Speaker 2: reality it's that. Are are you interested in hearing that
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: conversation with doctor and Andrews. If you are, we'd love
• 56:04
  Speaker 2: to hear about it. Christopher, I'm told we have a
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: talkback already on.
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  Speaker 13: This Good morning fellas. This is CHRISTI and Mount Pleasant.
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  Speaker 13: I think it would be good for us to hear
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  Speaker 13: from members of all the parties, even though we all
• 56:16
  Speaker 13: know that that probably will be hit Democrat or Republican
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  Speaker 13: chosen probably a Republican hopefully. But I think it's time
• 56:24
  Speaker 13: that we start giving other parties airtime, just so we
• 56:27
  Speaker 13: know what's out there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thanks, no, thank you, And I appreciate that she
• 56:32
  Speaker 2: used her for this is horrible.
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  Speaker 5: Christopher.
• 56:36
  Speaker 3: What was her name is christ Christy from Mount Pleasant?
• 56:38
  Speaker 5: Christy?
• 56:38
  Speaker 2: Well, she mentioned she's from Mount Pleasant. I love it
• 56:41
  Speaker 2: when you tell us the towns that you're listening in.
• 56:43
  Speaker 2: That that is fantastic, So thank you Christy and Mount Pleasant.
• 56:46
  Speaker 2: And I had mentioned that, you know there, I'd heard
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: from some other people who wanted to get the Libertarian
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  Speaker 2: nominee on and there's the Constitutional Party that's going to
• 56:54
  Speaker 2: be on the ballot and they've got a candidate.
• 56:55
  Speaker 5: So she wants me to interview everybody.
• 56:58
  Speaker 2: And you know, I probably would have a lot more
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  Speaker 2: in common with the Libertarian and the Constitutional Party than
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: I would a Democrat or.
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: The Green Party or yeah.
• 57:07
  Speaker 2: Does the Green Party have a nomineeye Belt.
• 57:08
  Speaker 3: I don't know not.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe what's her face, Gail Forarrales. She could switch
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: over to the Green Party a goo. So anyway, perhaps
• 57:15
  Speaker 2: we will do that, but we'll take more of your
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: talkbacks again as easy as Christy and Mount Pleasant did it.
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: You just hit that microphone, leave us about a thirty
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: second message and if you can mention in your town,
• 57:25
  Speaker 2: I really would appreciate that. And you can do that
• 57:27
  Speaker 2: specifically today to support your candidate. Who are you voting
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: for today and why? I'd love to hear that as well.
• 57:35
  Speaker 2: Talkback Tuesday, Christopher. It continues on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 57:40
  Speaker 4: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 57:43
  Speaker 8: Good morning. This is Wayne and I listen on the app.
• 57:46
  Speaker 8: I'm going to support Darleen Graham because Trump asked me to.
• 57:49
  Speaker 8: I think she's a solid Republican vote in the Senate,
• 57:52
  Speaker 8: maybe a little bit more solid than her opponent. Also
• 57:55
  Speaker 8: think that it's a good look for our state to
• 57:57
  Speaker 8: have a female senator and an African American senator who
• 58:01
  Speaker 8: will now be the senior Senator. And I don't think
• 58:03
  Speaker 8: that she will try to upstage him, so it's the
• 58:05
  Speaker 8: opportunity for Tim Scott. I will support Darleen Graham.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, that was it, Wayne, Wayne, all right, Wayne,
• 58:13
  Speaker 2: thank you, and again, anybody who uses the iHeartRadio app,
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: if you could tell me the town you're from, I
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: would appreciate that. I'm not sure where Wayne's from, but
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: I know he's a regular contributor on the talkback feature
• 58:23
  Speaker 2: and certainly appreciate his opinion not to be argumentative. And
• 58:29
  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that he's not correct in the sense
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: that it's quote unquote a good look, but I think
• 58:35
  Speaker 2: I align more with most Republicans who don't actually care
• 58:38
  Speaker 2: about our look. It could be an all black, all Latino,
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: all female all whatever delegation from our state. I just
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: want the people who best represent our values up there.
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: And Darlene Graham, I'm sure would represent our values, as
• 58:57
  Speaker 2: would Ralph Norman. So who would be more effective is
• 59:01
  Speaker 2: really the question that I think a lot of us
• 59:03
  Speaker 2: need to ask ourselves today.
• 59:04
  Speaker 5: One of the things that I've seen getting.
• 59:06
  Speaker 2: Up a lot of traction suddenly today on social media
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: is this report headline. This is being reported by ABC four,
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: but I'm seeing it on multiple news outlets today. DOJ
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: is observing Charleston County polling sites as GOP voters choose.
• 59:21
  Speaker 5: Graham and Norman.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: The United States Department of Justice plans to observe Charleston
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: County polling locations tuesdays Republican voters cast their ballots. They
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: mentioned in the story that the Department of Justice has
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: already monitored other states in their primaries, including Florida and Wyoming,
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: and they're saying this is just pretty much the status
• 59:41
  Speaker 2: quote now. The Channel four is pointing out that they
• 59:45
  Speaker 2: have selected Charleston County to monitor although the vast majority
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: of Republican voting is happening in the upstate.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: And then turnout's been pretty low in the Low Country, well,
• 59:55
  Speaker 3: at least in Charleston County, not so much Dorchester, but
• 59:58
  Speaker 3: Charleston County certainly has been lower than we expected.
• 1:00:01
  Speaker 2: And then ABC four throws this in at the near
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 2: the bottom of the story. The commitment has worried some
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 2: voting rights experts because the President has repeatedly denied the
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: results of election defeats and in recent months has escalated
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 2: concerns that he will meddle in the state administered elections.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: That is not accurate. I hate to call out ABC
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: News for who I haven't watched since I lived in Charleston,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: but that is not a correct statement escalated concerns he
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: will meddle in state administered elections. What they're trying to
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 2: do with the Trump administration is get states to align
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: themselves with the Constitution that you can only be a
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: US citizen to vote in our elections. And you know,
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: for them, for anybody to pretend that it is unprecedented
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: for the federal government to quote use your terms medal
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: and state administered elections, especially an excuse me, a South
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: Carolina news outlet, the federal government has quote unquote meddled
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina elections for fifty years, we had special
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 2: watchers here because we violated that. I didn't I wasn't
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: alive when this was happening. But in the nineteen thirties
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: through the sixties, you had the whoever was running these
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: things rigging elections to make sure that Democrats won. And
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: so the federal government said, we're not going to oppress blacks,
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: we're not going to oppress minorities, we're not going to
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: oppress women. We're going to make sure that everybody can
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: vote fairly in the state. And so South Carolina was
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: one of the many states that was sanctioned by the
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  Speaker 2: federal government to make sure So that's not meddling.
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  Speaker 5: That's enforcing federal law.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: And I understand states have the rights to run their elections,
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: and absolutely we do. We have the right, but we
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: also have to align ourselves with the idea that only
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: people who are citizens can vote. You can't just have
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: any Just what are we sais they're about Alwen Wilson
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: and Mark Keel just arrested what thirty one Mexican gang
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: members Carzel members? Yeah, could they vote in your election?
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: Do you want their voice to be heard?
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: Goodness, Gratus, the article give any indication as to why
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: Charleston County was chosen.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: They don't it just it just says that it and
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: they again it comes with like the hushed tones. That's
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 2: that's the thing I don't like about these articles. It
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: has some voting rights experts worried because the president has
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: repeatedly denied the results of election defeats. So are we
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: to believe that if tomorrow morning we wake up and
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: Ralph has won that, then Donald Trump is going to
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 2: say Darlene Graham got screwed?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 5: Screwed?
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: Is that what we're gonna hear? I mean, makes for
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: great radio. I almost got to hope it happens just
• 1:02:41
  Speaker 2: for that. But anyway, it's eight seventeen on South Carolina's
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 4: You are listening to South Carolina This Morning News.
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  Speaker 14: Hey, good morning guys, Dustin from Newbury, ear.
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  Speaker 6: I think it'd be interesting chilies have any Andrews on
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 6: maybe just he said, a cant point, Canton point, just to.
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 3: Ask us a futunerales just at least gets what she.
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 6: Has to stay out there from some person that I'll
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 6: probably end up voting for Kansey.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Wilder as the Libertarian candidate.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 3: Anyways, hope y'all have a good day.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: Well, we certainly appreciate using the talkback feature in Newberry,
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: so you're definitely listening on the iHeartRadio app there because
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: I don't think that well, maybe our am signal gets
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: out to Newberry, Christopher.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: Have we ever before we.
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: Had the talkback feature, did you guys used to get
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: calls from the Newberry area. I mean it's a little bit.
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: That's a little bit out there for Columbia. But again,
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: thank you for listening and using the talkback feature, whether
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: you want to talk about who your favorite the candidate
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: is today, and we're within one tenth of a point
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: according to multiple polling locations. Now excuse me, Yeah, polling
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: pollsters have said one tenth of one point is what
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 2: separates them, and so it's anybody's game.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: Kelly got a few more talkbacks, one from the low
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 3: Country that came in just a few moments ago.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, this is.
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 14: Giselle from Somerton, South Carolina. To me, it's real easy.
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 14: I'm sorry Lindsey Graham died, but I can't go and
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 14: apply to be a helicopter pilot just because my brother
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 14: was one for thirty years in the military. So what
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 14: is her qualification? To be a senator.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: All Right, my apologies. I thought she said Summerville the
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 3: first time. It was summer Ten.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: All right, well.
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: Again, thank you for identifying the town, and thank you
• 1:04:33
  Speaker 2: for your feedback. So we're trying to keep it positive, everybody,
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: We're trying to keep it positive. So to the first
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: talk back, we were discussing earlier in the broadcast that
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: we'd been contacted by the Andrews campaign about interviewing them,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: and I'm a little hesitant to do so because when
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: I interview conservatives Republicans, I typically don't push back a
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: lot because I agree and I assume that the audience
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 2: agrees with most of what they're saying, and so there's
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: not a whole lot of confrontation. With Andrews, I'm probably
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 2: going to be confrontational, and I don't know that that
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 2: makes for entertaining radio or not.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 5: So I was just trying to get your feedback on that.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 2: I had also mentioned that if we're going to interview her,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 2: should we also interview all the candidates that are on
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: the baout. I'm aware of a Constitution Party and I'm
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: aware of a Libertarian candidate, so that would be two
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: more candidates that we possibly would be interviewing, and it
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: seems like, well, we've had like I think three talkbacks
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 2: on this so far, and they all want us to
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 2: talk to everybody, so perhaps that's what we'll be doing.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: To her point again, trying to keep it positive, But
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: there is a big difference between flying a helicopter and
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 2: being a senator. And you know that is a very
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: specialized skill set. To fly a helicopter the idea, and
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: it takes a lot of training, and to be a senator, yes,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 2: it's a unique skill set. Most of that skill set
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: is is getting elected. Do you have the skills to
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: raise money and get out there and get elected. Can
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 2: you make an argument in front of a group of
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: people as to why you're the best candidate? Then once
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: you get into the office. I would argue that the
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: skill set required is not to just vote the right way,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: because anybody, if that was all it took, then me,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: my mother, you know, your great aunt, anybody could be
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: that person. We can all vote the quote unquote Republican way.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: And you'd also have a staff that goes through the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 2: bills and picks out where the poison pills are and
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: these are what you to object to. The skill set
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: that needed is to how do you become a leader?
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: Can you help craft the legislation? Can you be a
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: part of that process early on, which is what Lindsay
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: Graham was kind of famous for, was kind of getting
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: into the president's ear, whoever the president was. Well. I
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: didn't have much success with Joe Biden, but he did
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: so with the first Trump administration, and he did even
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: with Obama. He was able to help shift a little
• 1:07:00
  Speaker 2: bit of the policies and work across the aisle and
• 1:07:02
  Speaker 2: help get you know, some Democrats to come and see
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: things more his way and take certain things out of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: bills in order to make it more palatable for the Republicans.
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: That's the kind of skill set that you would need.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 2: And then there's just a base on off of that.
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: Which of these two candidates are you pulling for?
• 1:07:19
  Speaker 5: Again?
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 2: I want you to be as positive as possible about
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: these people, because we're going to be whoever it is,
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 2: We're all going to rally behind them starting in less
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  Speaker 2: than twenty four hours. The polls have now been open
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  Speaker 2: Christopher about ninety minutes.
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  Speaker 3: And Kelly, we have a talk back from the Midlands
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  Speaker 3: with a report on voter turnouts.
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  Speaker 5: Already.
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  Speaker 12: Hi, this is Jennifer from Forrest Aakers. This morning, I
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  Speaker 12: voted for Ralph Norman and Hamon. I've just come back
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  Speaker 12: from the polls where i was voter thirty nine. I
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  Speaker 12: hope more people are turning out today and we'll vote
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  Speaker 12: in this special election.
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  Speaker 2: There you've done your civic duty and you've even encouraged
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  Speaker 2: people to do their civic duty.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty nine doesn't sound like a whole lot. I mean
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  Speaker 3: a lot of people vote either before work or after work.
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  Speaker 3: Thirty nine, even for eight thirty in the morning, doesn't
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  Speaker 3: sound like a whole lot. Let's hope voter turnout increases.
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  Speaker 2: The good news is it sounds as if you could
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  Speaker 2: do it on your coffee break. There you go, If
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  Speaker 2: you get a fifteen minute coffee break head on front
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  Speaker 2: of the polls, you'll be in and you'll be out
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  Speaker 2: in no time at all. And again, with such a
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  Speaker 2: tight race, everybody's saying it's going to be within one
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  Speaker 2: tenth of a point. And yesterday we had Steve Michael,
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  Speaker 2: who works with Alan Wilson, and he was talking about
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  Speaker 2: he can't see it going more than three points really
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  Speaker 2: for either one of them.
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  Speaker 3: Mike Kelly, do you think we'll have a winner tomorrow morning.
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  Speaker 2: God, don't turn us into California, please, Lord. I have
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  Speaker 2: confidence that our people can get this together by the
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  Speaker 2: end of that. Again, it's going to be a low vote.
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  Speaker 2: We already had a bunch of pre votes, so they
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: should be already in the hopper. People know where they
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  Speaker 2: are with that not we don't know, but the Election
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  Speaker 2: Commission knows. And so again, to find your polling location
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  Speaker 2: it might be a little bit different.
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  Speaker 5: Go do what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Sc votes dot org org no gov? Sorry, sc votes
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  Speaker 2: dot gov? Yes, sc votes dot gov. To make sure
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  Speaker 2: you know exactly where you're supposed to be voting.
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  Speaker 11: Yes.
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  Speaker 5: All right. So when we come.
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  Speaker 2: Back Iran is we didn't Christopher and I were talking
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  Speaker 2: about this the other day. We had more levers still
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  Speaker 2: to pull on their economy apparently, so, and we're going
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  Speaker 2: to talk to one of our great correspondents about what
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  Speaker 2: how that is playing out in Iran in real time.
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  Speaker 5: It is South Carolina's Morning News from.
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  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low Country. This is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: Morning News, and.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday Scott Vessen, South Carolina's own I feel like I
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  Speaker 2: got to say that every time Scott Vesson, who was
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  Speaker 2: a guest on this broadcast. A couple of weeks ago,
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  Speaker 2: he made the announcement of Economic D Day, and we
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  Speaker 2: were talking about how the Iranians are just already being pumped.
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  Speaker 2: They were already in a bad financial situation last spring,
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  Speaker 2: which is part of the reason they had all those
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  Speaker 2: protests happening in the streets. Then we started putting extra
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  Speaker 2: sanctions on them, and they had unbelievable inflation rates in
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  Speaker 2: I think both October and then again in December of
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  Speaker 2: over forty percent. We're talking and we were talking about
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  Speaker 2: how the Joe Biden policy gave us inflation rates of
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  Speaker 2: nine percent, and we're still trying to get back from that.
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  Speaker 2: There's now according to some reports in Iran, there is
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  Speaker 2: now as few as twenty three percent of the population
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  Speaker 2: actually have jobs. They've completely destroyed them. And so now
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  Speaker 2: on the phone, I'm told that we have our correspondent
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  Speaker 2: John Decker. Good morning, sir, how are you hey?
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  Speaker 15: I'm doing great. How are you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm doing better than the Iranians, my gosh. Talk
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  Speaker 2: to us about this Economic d Day and what's going on.
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  Speaker 15: Well, nothing has been implemented just yet, so you know,
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  Speaker 15: you speak about essentially being the beginning of the end
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  Speaker 15: for Nazi Germany in World War Two, this won't necessarily
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  Speaker 15: be the beginning of the end for Iran. The sanctions
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  Speaker 15: that Secretary Besson announced yesterday have not been implemented. He
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  Speaker 15: says they will give some time for Iran to essentially
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  Speaker 15: come to the negotiating table. And in the meantime, the
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  Speaker 15: US is calling on our allies around the world to
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  Speaker 15: also impose tougher sanctions against Iran, and so far only
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  Speaker 15: one country has heated that message. The United Arab Emirates
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  Speaker 15: says that it is cutting off all trade with Iran. Also,
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  Speaker 15: keep in mind that as long as Iran has an
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  Speaker 15: economic lifeline, that they are unlikely to come to the
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  Speaker 15: negotiating table. And they do have an economic lifeline, and
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  Speaker 15: that economic lifeline is China. China purchases ninety percent of
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  Speaker 15: Iranian oil. China is Iran's largest trading partner, and there's
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  Speaker 15: no indication that China is going to anyway change its
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  Speaker 15: trading relationship with Iran.
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  Speaker 5: We're speaking with John Decker.
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  Speaker 2: Help me understand, John, China buys ninety percent of the oil.
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  Speaker 2: Are they still able to do so with the closing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, the blockade that the US has there in
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  Speaker 2: the straight.
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  Speaker 15: Well, it's less it's less oil that is getting through,
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  Speaker 15: that is for sure. But of the oil that is
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  Speaker 15: getting through, yeah, they're still purchasing the same percentage, it's
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  Speaker 15: just not the same volume. Yeah, so that's something to
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  Speaker 15: keep in mind. Now, Will the US impose tough sanctions
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  Speaker 15: on China for continuing to trade with Iran? That is unlikely.
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  Speaker 15: The President has a state visit coming up in just
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  Speaker 15: a few weeks on September the twenty fourth, with Chinese
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  Speaker 15: President Shijingping, and so I don't think the President wants
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  Speaker 15: to spoil that state visit in any way. So we'll
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  Speaker 15: see what happens on that front. In the meantime, we'll
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  Speaker 15: see whether or not what Secretary Besson announced yeah yesterday
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  Speaker 15: will soon be implemented against Iran, and whether it has
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  Speaker 15: any effect whatsoever in terms of squeezing Iran's economy even further.
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  Speaker 2: Is there any indication that there are some powerful sanctions
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  Speaker 2: still left? You know, I was talking with our co
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  Speaker 2: host Christopher Thompson earlier. We kind of had assumed that
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  Speaker 2: we already were putting as much of a squeeze on
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  Speaker 2: that right, possibly could, but there's still more to be done.
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  Speaker 15: Yeah, that's pretty head scratching, right, you know. I mean
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  Speaker 15: the president and his team announced what's known as Operation
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  Speaker 15: Economic Fury. That was back in April, so you know,
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  Speaker 15: I can't imagine you know, what's left after that. Well,
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  Speaker 15: yesterday's Secretary Beston announced new possible sanctions being brought against Iran.
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  Speaker 15: But if you don't have buy in from the rest
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  Speaker 15: of the world, you know, Iran can essentially skirt those
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  Speaker 15: sanctions that the Treasury secretary announced yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: You mentioned China and you mentioned also the United Arab
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  Speaker 2: Emirates ending trade with them, but China is the main supporter.
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  Speaker 2: Are there other countries like I would imagine Egypt in
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  Speaker 2: the region that are actively participating with Iran?
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  Speaker 15: When you say actively participating with Iran in what way
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  Speaker 15: do you mean that?
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  Speaker 2: Are they trading? Are they buying goods?
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  Speaker 15: And yeah, they're trading? Yeah, absolutely, yes they are. You know,
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  Speaker 15: that's why it was a big deal that the UAE
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 15: announced what it did over the weekend. Also over the weekend,
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  Speaker 15: Iran gave a warning to any other Arab oil producing
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  Speaker 15: country in the region, don't think twice about cutting off
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  Speaker 15: trade with US. If you do, Iran warn it would
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  Speaker 15: cut off all oil going through not just the Strait
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  Speaker 15: of Hermos, but through the entire Persian Golf and that
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  Speaker 15: would have a devastating impact on each of those countries' economies.
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  Speaker 2: We had heard rumors earlier that some of the Gulf
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  Speaker 2: nations were getting together to try to build a pipeline
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  Speaker 2: around this so that they wouldn't even have to use
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  Speaker 2: the strait.
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  Speaker 5: Have you heard any more on that.
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  Speaker 15: Well, that takes time, you know, and I'm sure that
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  Speaker 15: that is happening, But it takes time. You know, A
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  Speaker 15: pipeline doesn't happen overnight. Sure, So Saudi Arabia, for instance,
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  Speaker 15: is not using the Strait of for Moose. It borders
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  Speaker 15: part of the Strait of for Moose, but instead they're
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  Speaker 15: using the Red Sea to get their oil out to market.
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  Speaker 15: Iraq is using other methods to get their oil out
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  Speaker 15: to market, going through Turkey, for instance, through a pipeline.
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  Speaker 15: So you know, some countries have that ability, some countries don't.
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  Speaker 15: But pipelines. In terms of building new pipelines, it takes
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 15: time to construct them.
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  Speaker 2: John, You've been very informative as always, certainly appreciate your
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  Speaker 2: time and thanks for checking in with South Carolin this morning.
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  Speaker 15: Man, Thanks you have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: Usually this is South Carolina is Morning News on one
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  Speaker 2: Hi there, I'm Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. Been enjoying
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  Speaker 2: all the talkbacks this morning. We've been covering some of
• 1:16:00
  Speaker 2: the smaller towns from Summerton out there in Clarendon County
• 1:16:04
  Speaker 2: to Newberry. We've been hearing from the big cities of
• 1:16:08
  Speaker 2: Charleston and Columbia. We're hearing all kinds of talkbacks today.
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  Speaker 2: I understand we clipped the name, but he's from Gaston.
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  Speaker 2: We have a talkback here regarding the idea. I had
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  Speaker 2: mentioned that we had heard from the Annie Andrews campaign
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: that they'd like to be interviewed. We've also heard from
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: other campaigns that they want us to interview, like the
• 1:16:24
  Speaker 2: Libertarian candidate, they want us to interview the Constitutional Party candidate.
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: Do you want to hear those interviews or would you
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: prefer us to just focus on the Republican side of
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: the issues.
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  Speaker 16: I think you ought to have Ann on because it
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 16: will motivate people that don't really care about either candidate
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  Speaker 16: to go out and vote called November.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, when he says either one of the candidates, I
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: think he's talking about Ralph and Darlene and that we're
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: going to have one of those here in just a
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 2: few hours. We're going to find out which one of
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: those it is. And we all got to get passionate.
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  Speaker 3: About that, and then the race starts all over again.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we talked about how compressed this race was
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 3: from July to August, and now suddenly you've got the
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 3: general elections steering. You're right in the face whoever wins tonight.
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  Speaker 2: And again this is in my estimation, and we'll repeat
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: this numerous times between now and November. This is the
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  Speaker 2: first serious threat that the Democrats have had of taking
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: a state seat like this, like, you know, you the
• 1:17:33
  Speaker 2: governor's race is I'm not look, I know Alan is
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 2: saying you got to push hard to the finish line,
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: and that's the right attitude to have. And it's kind
• 1:17:41
  Speaker 2: of like when you know, Nick Saban would talk about
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 2: we're playing Jacksonville State, we better be on our best
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: game because they got a heck of a running back
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: or something like that. Yes, you want to take that
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  Speaker 2: serious at the governor's level. But Annie Andrews as a
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: legit candidate who's going to get a ton of money,
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 2: a ton of money because the Democrats, if you don't
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  Speaker 2: have an incumbency.
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  Speaker 5: This is and we've just.
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  Speaker 2: Gone through a pretty bloody primary process here. It's you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's going to be a lot of AMMO to use
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 2: against whichever candidate comes out of this. They're going to
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: have a lot of great campaign ads that they can
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: use against the Republicans if the people in the middle
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: are going to be very confused, and they're going to
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 2: and some of them are going to say, I just
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: want to vote for a Democrat just to see what
• 1:18:24
  Speaker 2: it feels like. I've never voted democrat. The Republicans have
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 2: kind of let me down. I feel like, you know,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: we're at forty trillion in debt and blah blah blah.
• 1:18:32
  Speaker 2: So listen, we better be on our best game after today. Now,
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: get out and vote today. Sc votes dot gov is
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: where you need to go to find out what your
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 2: polling station.
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  Speaker 5: It's now eight forty.
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  Speaker 1: Nine Live from the State Capitol. This is South Carolina's
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 1: morning News.
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: So Glenn Beck will be coming up in just a moment.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: I'll probably be listening to Glenn Beck as I drive
• 1:18:54
  Speaker 2: to my polling station to get my voting in.
• 1:18:56
  Speaker 3: How about you, Christopher voting around nuonish?
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  Speaker 2: I think brown noon ish.
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  Speaker 5: Oh you want to time it for the lunch rush.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, well I've got another errand to run at that time,
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  Speaker 3: and figured why not knock out two birds with one stone.
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  Speaker 5: I think that you'll be okay.
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  Speaker 2: I again, we heard from one lady in Forrest Acres
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: today on the talkback feature saying that she was vot
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  Speaker 2: number thirty nine I think at around eight thirty. So
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: not a ton of people turning out to the poles,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: although we did have very strong early voting, Yes we did,
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: so maybe a lot of people got it done there.
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 2: But again, if you have not yet voted, please please
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: do we want you to participate in this because you
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: only get one shot to pick the nominee and this
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: is who we got.
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  Speaker 5: This is our horse.
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  Speaker 2: We're all going to climb on the back of that
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: horse and ride it hard to November. So let's pick
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  Speaker 2: a good one.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of ruffled feelings to smooth over, probably tomorrow
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 3: morning too.
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  Speaker 2: I keep looking at these people just going at each
• 1:19:52
  Speaker 2: other on social media. It breaks my heart. Don't don't
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  Speaker 2: stop it, Just stop it and seer your candidate on Okay,
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  Speaker 2: it is eight point fifty five, let's go vote. Everybody
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  Speaker 2: will reconvene with a candidate tomorrow