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Show Rewind 10-8-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC,
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  Speaker 2: and 94.3 WSC.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Good morning, Christopher. How are you today? I'm good.
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  Speaker 4: How about you, Kelly?
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  Speaker 3: Well, I'm trying out some new equipment, and I already
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  Speaker 3: don't like it.
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  Speaker 5: Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, these new headphones stink.
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  Speaker 4: They're not headphones.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they're like ear things.
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  Speaker 4: Ear buds.
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  Speaker 3: Somebody recommended that I wear them because we're trying to
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  Speaker 3: put these things streaming live on the internet. You can
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  Speaker 3: see me on YouTube, X, and Facebook, all at Kelly
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  Speaker 3: Nash Radio. Somebody said that the headphones were a distraction,
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  Speaker 3: so I should try these things. This is awful. I'm
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  Speaker 3: going to have to go down the hall and get
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  Speaker 3: my old headphones in a minute and say, guys, you
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  Speaker 3: might have to suffer with me with the big, goofy
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  Speaker 3: headphones on. I know it's probably already suffering enough looking
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  Speaker 3: at me. How are you this morning?
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  Speaker 4: I'm good. I'm good.
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  Speaker 3: Did you see any of the, I don't know, they
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  Speaker 3: call them highlights, I guess, of last night? You had
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  Speaker 3: Nancy LaCour and Jenna Costa, Honeycutt have their A little
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  Speaker 3: spicy debate.
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  Speaker 4: I looked in on it. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, it's always interesting to see our politicians go
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  Speaker 6: head to head.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting.
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  Speaker 6: Two women are battling for a seat held by a woman.
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  Speaker 6: And I mean, they had some, they agreed on some things,
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  Speaker 6: which is always odd when you get Republicans and Democrats.
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  Speaker 3: Yes. We actually, I mean, it's like not a lot
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  Speaker 3: separating them, except do we like Donald Trump or do
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  Speaker 3: we not like Donald Trump? Do we like tariffs?
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  Speaker 4: Do we not like tariffs?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We'll probably delve into that a little bit more later on. Also,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to be playing some clips from the interview
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  Speaker 3: I did with the deputy secretary for the Department of
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  Speaker 3: Energy regarding the future with South Carolina, making the University
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  Speaker 3: of South Carolina had that big announcement last week. I
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  Speaker 3: think it was that they were going to be partnering
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  Speaker 3: with the University of South Carolina and Westinghouse to create
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  Speaker 3: a program specifically trained or specifically designed for to attract
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  Speaker 3: talent into the nuclear field while we'll also be investing
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  Speaker 3: in more nuclear plants. Why did the Department of Energy
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  Speaker 3: and the University of South Carolina and Westinghouse and everybody
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  Speaker 3: think that South Carolina was so great? What does it
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  Speaker 3: mean for our future? Those types of things. We'll get
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  Speaker 3: into that a little bit later on today. Wall Street
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  Speaker 3: Journal has an op-ed piece out today on Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 3: which is not a very flattering Wall Street Journal op-ed piece,
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  Speaker 3: I'll point out. Wall Street Journal is usually a conservative-leaning
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  Speaker 3: op-ed piece, although the reporting tends to be, I'll say, center-left.
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  Speaker 3: The op-eds tend to be center-right, and this one was
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  Speaker 3: not a flattering one.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: That's all we can say about that.
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  Speaker 6: I noticed Todd Blanche, the attorney general, is coming to
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  Speaker 6: do a conference with her coming up.
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  Speaker 3: They're doing what they can, right? I mean, this is
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  Speaker 3: their pick. So now they need to fix it.
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  Speaker 4: Get on board.
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  Speaker 3: And last night, Trump in Texas. And very interesting. He's
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  Speaker 3: doing a rally specific. I mean, he says to help
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  Speaker 3: all the Republicans in Texas. Obviously, the top of the
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  Speaker 3: ticket is Ken Paxton. Ken Paxton said he had a
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  Speaker 3: scheduling conflict and couldn't make it there to be with
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  Speaker 3: the president. Do you think that that was Ken Paxton's call?
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  Speaker 3: Or do you think that somebody said, listen, keep him
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  Speaker 3: as far away as possible?
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  Speaker 6: Trump doesn't want to be on stage with him. Just
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  Speaker 6: keep him away. We'll say nice things.
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  Speaker 3: Isn't that amazing?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: We are living in some very awkward times where you
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  Speaker 3: pick this guy, Trump pick Paxton, and he doesn't want
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  Speaker 3: him on stage with him.
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  Speaker 6: And now and Tallarico has been off the trail with
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  Speaker 6: the flu for what, a week now?
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  Speaker 3: Wild times in the world of politics. All right, well,
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  Speaker 3: we'll get into all those stories and more throughout this morning.
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  Speaker 3: And of course, we love it when you engage with
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  Speaker 3: us on the Talkback feature. That's as simple as downloading
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  Speaker 3: the absolutely free iHeartRadio app onto your phone. And once
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  Speaker 3: you have it, look for the station of choice. Are
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  Speaker 3: you in the low country? Would you prefer to listen
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  Speaker 3: to 94.3 WSC? Or are you up here in the
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  Speaker 3: Midlands with Christopher Thompson and myself? We're up here at
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  Speaker 3: the 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC. And once you
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  Speaker 3: have that station kind of preset there as one of
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  Speaker 3: your favorites, you can listen to that station wherever you go.
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  Speaker 3: Congressman Joe Wilson chimes in from time to time when
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  Speaker 3: he'll be like on an international trip. And he'll just
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  Speaker 3: be like, it's, you know, it'll be like 7.30 in
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  Speaker 3: the morning here. And he's like, it's 7.30 in the
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  Speaker 3: evening where I'm at. And I'm playing you right now
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  Speaker 3: for President so-and-so. He likes Christopher's insights on if the
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  Speaker 3: Gamecocks are going to win this weekend. By the way,
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  Speaker 3: are the Gamecocks going to win this weekend?
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  Speaker 6: Don't put me on the spot, but I wouldn't put
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  Speaker 6: money on it.
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  Speaker 3: Don't bet the 401k on the Gamecocks this weekend. All right.
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  Speaker 3: The thoughts on that and more coming up. Thanks for
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  Speaker 3: starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: I think I'm going to just refer to Isaias, or
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  Speaker 3: however you're supposed to say it, as that there cane.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to figure out how to... I'm not going
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  Speaker 3: to be able to get that one, I don't think.
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  Speaker 4: You nailed it, by the way.
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  Speaker 3: Isaias. Well, I just heard the promo with it. Okay.
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  Speaker 3: Within five minutes, I'll have forgotten it. So I spoke
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  Speaker 3: recently with the Deputy Secretary of Energy, James Danley, regarding
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  Speaker 3: the big moves happening in South Carolina regarding nuclear energy.
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  Speaker 3: And You know, one of the things that I have
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  Speaker 3: heard from numerous South Carolinians is we love nuclear energy
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  Speaker 3: as long as you're not building it anywhere near me.
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  Speaker 3: Any thoughts on how to calm that down?
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  Speaker 9: So I hear questions like this occasionally. And what I
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  Speaker 9: have found is that it is not nearly the way
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  Speaker 9: people think. I think often people assume that there is
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  Speaker 9: a sentiment like that. But in fact, this is not
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  Speaker 9: the America of 30 years ago. let's call it skepticism,
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  Speaker 9: is much, much rarer than it was then. And what
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  Speaker 9: I think is that people have recognized the fact that
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  Speaker 9: we have a need for electricity in abundance. It needs
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  Speaker 9: to be affordable and it needs to be reliable. And
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  Speaker 9: nuclear power delivers all of that. If you look at
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  Speaker 9: the expected demand over the next, let's call it 15,
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  Speaker 9: 20 years, it's rising rapidly. And in recognition of this,
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  Speaker 9: the president has declared that we're going to aim to
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  Speaker 9: quadruple the total amount of installed nuclear capacity from 100
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  Speaker 9: gigawatts to 400. That's an extremely ambitious but necessary goal
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  Speaker 9: to set. And it's worth noting that the United States
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  Speaker 9: runs the biggest nuclear reactor fleet on Earth. We have
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  Speaker 9: 94 civil nuclear reactors that have been operating for decades
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  Speaker 9: and decades and decades. So without a planning on Chinese
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  Speaker 9: hydrological science, the.
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  Speaker 9: Yes, nuclear power in America is and has been safe
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  Speaker 9: for generations, plural. And the benefit that it has is
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  Speaker 9: just as you say. Now, you're talking about the data
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  Speaker 9: center demand, and that is a real thing. But it's
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  Speaker 9: worth noting that data centers aren't merely for superintelligence, right? Basically,
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  Speaker 9: every part of the modern digital economy, everything you do
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  Speaker 9: on your phone, every email you receive, every phone call
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  Speaker 9: you make, GPS, Netflix, everything, Amazon, any commercial activity online,
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  Speaker 9: every bit of that is in the backend architecture underpinned
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  Speaker 9: by data centers that run different types of servers with
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  Speaker 9: different kinds of applications. And I think that the focus
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  Speaker 9: on SI specifically may be a little bit misplaced because
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  Speaker 9: data centers are needed broadly for everything that people rely
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  Speaker 9: upon every day to live in a modern digital world.
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  Speaker 9: It is true that the demand is growing because of
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  Speaker 9: all those data center demands, but it's worth noting too
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  Speaker 9: that as long as you plan the utility system correctly
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  Speaker 9: and you engage in the forward-looking efforts to get power
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  Speaker 9: online as quickly as possible and you meet that demand,
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  Speaker 9: not only will prices not rise, prices will go down
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  Speaker 9: because the more consumers of electricity you have, the more
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  Speaker 9: people and facilities over which you get to socialize the
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  Speaker 9: fixed cost of the system.
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  Speaker 8: So this is actually a good thing.
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  Speaker 9: The cheapest energy in the world is in modern industrialized economies.
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  Speaker 9: where you have robust sets of generators, easy access to
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  Speaker 9: the fuel for them, and a lot of people that
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  Speaker 9: can share the burden of setting it up, right? The
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  Speaker 9: most expensive energy anywhere is the middle of the desert,
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  Speaker 9: where all you have is your generator. You have to
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  Speaker 9: drag your fuel there and your wires.
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  Speaker 3: That's an interesting point that I hadn't really thought about, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: that energy has a fixed set cost that it costs
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  Speaker 3: to produce it. And the more people that you have
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  Speaker 3: using that energy, the lower the cost will go down.
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  Speaker 4: Makes sense.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: You don't really think about it when you think about
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  Speaker 4: energy costs. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: So this is a, you know, we're going to talk
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  Speaker 3: to him a little bit more about what he thinks
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  Speaker 3: as far as South Carolina's future and what kind of
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  Speaker 3: economic activity we should expect to see. But again, we
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  Speaker 3: have been very active in the nuclear space. We'll say
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  Speaker 3: it for a number of years. And I'm also going
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  Speaker 3: to bring up the thing about nuclear waste, because I
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  Speaker 3: don't know if people remember this, but under the Obama administration,
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  Speaker 3: we had some problems. There were some some controversy about
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  Speaker 3: them trying to put nuclear waste over here by the
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  Speaker 3: savannah river site which was supposed to have been going
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  Speaker 3: to the middle of the desert i think in arizona
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  Speaker 3: if i remember properly but uh obama wanted it was
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  Speaker 3: nevada actually nevada it was somewhere out there in the
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  Speaker 3: midwest someplace not here not nimby not in my backyard
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  Speaker 3: send it out to those people And he has some
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  Speaker 3: interesting insights on that as well. But yeah, things are
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  Speaker 3: going to be changing rather quickly for South Carolina after
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  Speaker 3: this announcement was made. Probably, he says, within the next
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  Speaker 3: 18 months, you're going to start seeing some massive activity
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  Speaker 3: within this country or within this state.
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  Speaker 4: And for the students, too, that's I mean, that's a
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  Speaker 4: huge boon.
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  Speaker 6: Just the To have that avenue, to pursue that, I mean,
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  Speaker 6: those are good-paying jobs. If you've got the intelligence for it,
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  Speaker 6: those are great-paying jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're talking six-figure types of careers. And, of course,
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  Speaker 3: if we have more people in the state of South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina making six-figured, then everything gets better for everybody here
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  Speaker 3: because you get better restaurants, you get better grocery stores,
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  Speaker 3: you get better roads, you get better schools. everything goes
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  Speaker 3: up with more wealth in the community. So we're looking
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  Speaker 3: forward to that and seeing how that plays out for us.
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  Speaker 3: And if you've got thoughts on nuclear energy and the
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  Speaker 3: expansion of it, not only in America, but specifically here
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  Speaker 3: in South Carolina. I'd love to get your thoughts on
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  Speaker 3: the talkback feature. That's on the iHeartRadio app. We'll take
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  Speaker 3: a break at 618.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
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  Speaker 2: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: And good morning, 624. Christopher Thompson was absolutely right. It
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  Speaker 3: was Nevada, the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Site, which is
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  Speaker 3: where We were supposed to be sending our nuclear waste
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  Speaker 3: to that the Obama administration stopped that. We're still dealing
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  Speaker 3: with that nuclear waste issue. And on the phone was
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  Speaker 3: the deputy secretary of energy, James Danley. So I asked
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  Speaker 3: him about nuclear waste. If we're going to start doing
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  Speaker 3: more nuclear projects here, shouldn't that be a concern for
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  Speaker 3: South Carolinians?
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  Speaker 9: So there are a couple of things to mention about this.
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  Speaker 9: I have always objected to the term waste. What you're
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  Speaker 9: talking about is spent fuel, and the spent fuel that
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  Speaker 9: has already been employed by a nuclear power plant still
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  Speaker 9: retains 95%, 97% of its value to produce electricity. It
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  Speaker 9: is worth noting that everybody has treated the spent fuel
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  Speaker 9: as an entry on the debit side of the ledger,
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  Speaker 9: but in fact it's actually a credit.
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  Speaker 8: This is an asset.
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  Speaker 9: And the policies that we're trying to advance in the
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  Speaker 9: Department of Energy is to recognize it as the asset
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  Speaker 9: that it is, to set up the regulatory conditions and
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  Speaker 9: the economic conditions to reuse that fuel so that we
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  Speaker 9: get more life out of the fuel we already have
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  Speaker 9: on hand. Now, so far, we have had absolutely no
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  Speaker 9: problems with the storage of spent fuel. It's been done
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  Speaker 9: under the extremely rigorous oversight of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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  Speaker 9: And remember, I'm going to say again that we have
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  Speaker 9: 94 reactors operating in America, and we've had them for
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  Speaker 9: more than half a century running. And the nuclear fuel
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  Speaker 9: cycle is one where the waste is being managed. I
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  Speaker 9: don't anticipate that being a problem down the road at all.
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  Speaker 9: And we have managed to deal with it safely and
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  Speaker 9: effectively for more than a generation.
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  Speaker 3: It gets this right. And I'm not even sure exactly
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  Speaker 3: what right means per se, but we'll just give it
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  Speaker 3: like the best possible future. What would it look like
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  Speaker 3: in South Carolina, say, 10 years from now for most
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  Speaker 3: South Carolinians?
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  Speaker 9: I think probably the two things that you will see
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  Speaker 9: is an extraordinary increase in the number of jobs and
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  Speaker 9: the amount of opportunity for people, both within the nuclear
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  Speaker 9: industry itself and for all of the other industries that
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  Speaker 9: the nuclear energy can power. Cheap electricity is the basis
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  Speaker 9: in large measure for much of the industrialization of America
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  Speaker 9: in eras past. We're going to see another iteration of that.
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  Speaker 9: One of the reasons why we were the industrial behemoth
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  Speaker 9: we were in World War II was because we had
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  Speaker 9: very forward-looking policies that put a huge amount of electricity
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  Speaker 9: capacity online. And then what do you know? We had
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  Speaker 9: a lot of aluminum to smelt and a lot of
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  Speaker 9: factories to build, and we were able to do it.
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  Speaker 3: I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 9: South Carolina, you are going to have that development of
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  Speaker 9: economic potential, and it's going to mean jobs and lower
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  Speaker 9: electric rates.
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  Speaker 3: It feels very, I don't know, adjacent to what the
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  Speaker 3: Trump administration was announcing with Iowa and their massive new
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  Speaker 3: steel plant. I just feel like we're on the cusp
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  Speaker 3: here in South Carolina of some great opportunities.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 9: And what, you know, the president has a viewpoint that
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  Speaker 9: on this subject, that if communities or states want to
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  Speaker 9: embrace them, they will be able to take advantage of
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  Speaker 9: the kind of opportunity that comes with the development of
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  Speaker 9: power and energy generally. We've had facilities that we've underwritten
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  Speaker 9: with our loan program office, which when we develop them
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  Speaker 9: with those utilities, the utilities then put rate freezes in
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  Speaker 9: place for years at a time to make sure that
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  Speaker 9: the residential rate payers are not going to be burdened
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  Speaker 9: with any of the costs of this development. We've had
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  Speaker 9: We've seen counties extinguish property taxes. We've had development of
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  Speaker 9: facilities that have ended up in having every teacher in
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  Speaker 9: the county get a $ 50, 000 bonus. These are all really
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  Speaker 9: tangible benefits that come.
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  Speaker 10: All right.
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  Speaker 3: I like the tangible benefits. I like the idea of
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  Speaker 3: lowering energy costs. I'm still not sold on the idea
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  Speaker 3: that nuclear waste is– As an asset. I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: it is, can we share some of ours with other states?
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  Speaker 3: How about that? The South Carolinians are so generous that
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  Speaker 3: we're just going to give it to you.
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  Speaker 6: We'll send some to Yucca Mountain if they're feeling left out.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, Nevada, we don't want you to feel left behind.
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  Speaker 6: Harry Reid's no longer there to protest or oppose it.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 4: Let's ship it on out there.
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  Speaker 3: The little fighter that he was. Anyway, some memories from
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  Speaker 3: the Obama administration. Now looking forward with the Deputy Secretary
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  Speaker 3: for Energy, James Danley. If you want to hear more
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  Speaker 3: of that, you can get that on the National Briefing
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  Speaker 3: Podcast off the iHeartRadio app. We'll have more of your
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  Speaker 3: thoughts if you have feedback on this idea about expanding
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  Speaker 3: nuclear energy in South Carolina. Would you mind if they
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  Speaker 3: had a nuclear energy plant built near you? Talk to
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  Speaker 3: us on the Talkback feature. It is now 629.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there, Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson at 634. Yesterday,
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  Speaker 3: Zorhan Mamdani did something that is... Pretty remarkable in politics.
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  Speaker 3: He actually angered everybody.
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  Speaker 4: Ticked off both sides.
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  Speaker 3: It's an unbelievable accomplishment. And it all comes from a
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  Speaker 3: tweet that he tweeted out yesterday morning. This day is
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  Speaker 3: profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three
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  Speaker 3: years since the horrific war crimes of October 7th. On
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  Speaker 3: that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted
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  Speaker 3: 251 others. If that was the end of the tweet,
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  Speaker 3: you can understand why the pro-Palestine side would be outraged.
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  Speaker 3: But it didn't stop there. He wanted to make sure
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  Speaker 3: that you kind of knew where he stood. The suffering
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  Speaker 3: did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued on.
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  Speaker 3: through the Israeli government's devastating ongoing genocide in Gaza, in
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  Speaker 3: which it has killed 74,000 Palestinians, including more than 21,000 children,
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  Speaker 3: even since the so-called ceasefire. More than 1,400 Palestinians have
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  Speaker 3: been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb
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  Speaker 3: dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting
• 17:35
  Speaker 3: a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food
• 17:39
  Speaker 3: aid turned away at the border crossing. Many New Yorkers
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them,
• 17:46
  Speaker 3: all while knowing that our tax dollars are funding these
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: war crimes. Well, you would think, oh, well, now the
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: Palestinian people, they're going to be like, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: You gave them a little love on the Israeli side,
• 17:58
  Speaker 3: but then you said, oh, look at them. They're genociding.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: And then he makes up some BS about they're targeting,
• 18:05
  Speaker 3: what did he say? Targeting ambulances. and drone strikes targeting
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: residential buildings and journalists. That's all a lie. But he
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: gives it to him. You would think, okay, he's done
• 18:17
  Speaker 3: his due diligence. Then last night, he turns out for
• 18:21
  Speaker 3: what's decided as a candlelight vigil. But, of course, in
• 18:25
  Speaker 3: far-left New York, that is a pro-Palestine vigil. And here
• 18:29
  Speaker 3: he is. He's not even speaking. He's not even at
• 18:31
  Speaker 3: a microphone. He just showed up, and the crowd turned
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: on him quickly. Traitor, traitor, come on out. You sold
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: all your people out. And then he's just standing there
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: just kind of mean mugging for the cameras as people
• 18:54
  Speaker 3: say that. And then some of them are asking him,
• 18:56
  Speaker 3: how many kids did you kill today, you Israeli sympathizer?
• 19:00
  Speaker 3: I mean— The left is so far radicalized that Zorhan
• 19:07
  Speaker 3: Mamdani is now considered a pro-Israeli whatever.
• 19:12
  Speaker 6: Public enemy number one, just because of half of a tweet.
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: I'd say a quarter, a quarter of a tweet. And
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: how could, I mean, did he accurately describe what happened
• 19:23
  Speaker 3: on October 7th as war crimes?
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: Of course.
• 19:26
  Speaker 3: That is not even in question. They filmed themselves committing
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: war crimes. They filmed themselves putting babies in ovens and
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: turning them on and then posted it on the Internet.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: That is a war crime. The unspeakable sexual deviancy that
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: took place on that day, the shooting of unarmed civilians,
• 19:47
  Speaker 3: the dragging of people in as criminals, You can't kidnap
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: a civilian and say it's part of a military operation.
• 19:57
  Speaker 3: That is a war crime by definition. Now, he then
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: extended it to he thinks that there's a genocide happening.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: We've talked about many times why it's not a genocide
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: by any definition, but also the fact that they're not
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: targeting journalists. Journalists have been have killed or been unalived,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: as they like to say on the left. A school
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: was hit there. I mean, there has been numerous things
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: that are wrong, but they're wrong, not intentionally. These are
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: mistakes that have happened. in a war. And he doesn't
• 20:28
  Speaker 3: point out the fact that Israel is responding to continual
• 20:32
  Speaker 3: rocket fire coming into their homeland. It hasn't stopped. It's
• 20:36
  Speaker 3: not as if October 7th was one and done and
• 20:39
  Speaker 3: they said, well, we've taught them a lesson. They keep
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: firing rockets. 13,000 plus have been fired now. So it's,
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: you know, we're not going to settle it today, Christopher,
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: you and I, that, you know, Israelis should be doing
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: more or less or whatever. But I think everyone can
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: agree that the left has become lunatics.
• 21:00
  Speaker 6: And meanwhile, Mamdani, who's opposed her child for the far left,
• 21:06
  Speaker 6: he's got no standing here. He's unwelcome on both sides
• 21:11
  Speaker 6: for one tweet.
• 21:12
  Speaker 3: Do you think he'll come to the right?
• 21:14
  Speaker 11: No.
• 21:15
  Speaker 3: He'll come find comfort in the warmth of republicanism.
• 21:19
  Speaker 6: I think he'll forget about the somber day we just
• 21:24
  Speaker 6: observed pretty quickly.
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: I wonder if the left will let it go. Do
• 21:27
  Speaker 3: you think that they'll just welcome him back if he
• 21:29
  Speaker 3: continues to tweet, you know, as he would say, anti-Zionist
• 21:34
  Speaker 3: type of rhetoric? We'll see. But, yeah, that was New
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: York last night. How many children did you kill today, traitor, traitor?
• 21:43
  Speaker 3: You sold all your people out.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 21:46
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• 21:49
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• 21:51
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 21:55
  Speaker 3: Hi there, it's Kelly Nash. And last night down in
• 21:59
  Speaker 3: the Lowcountry, they had their big debate, Nancy LaCour and
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Jenny Costa Honeycutt. And I don't know, it seems like
• 22:10
  Speaker 3: they do agree on a bunch of things, although it
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: did get very testy at some points. I'll point out,
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: this is Nancy LaCour calling out Pete Hegseth. Well, we'll
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: talk about it in a second.
• 22:24
  Speaker 11: Frankly, as somebody who has never worn the uniform, my,
• 22:27
  Speaker 11: my opponent has no basis on which to place judgment
• 22:30
  Speaker 11: on what happened to me. Pete Hexeth is unqualified and
• 22:33
  Speaker 11: he is the worst secretary of defense this nation has
• 22:36
  Speaker 11: ever seen. And he has done severe damage by wiping
• 22:39
  Speaker 11: out the top level of leadership.
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: I really don't like it when people who have served
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: call out the rest of the people who haven't served
• 22:49
  Speaker 3: and say that they have no business. Um, If you're
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: an elected official, you do have business.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: If you're going to be a senator or a congressperson, absolutely. Yeah,
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: you will have that business.
• 23:00
  Speaker 3: Yes. And it's kind of like, I mean, at the
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: local level, if you're not a school teacher, that doesn't mean,
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: or if you've never been a school teacher, it doesn't
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: mean that you would not be a great voice on
• 23:17
  Speaker 3: a school board. If you've never been in the Department
• 23:20
  Speaker 3: of Transportation, it doesn't mean, or even if you have,
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: how about you've never been a construction worker, that would
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: not disqualify you from working at the Department of Transportation.
• 23:31
  Speaker 3: It's two separate things. Obviously, military service is fantastic, and
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: we celebrate not only Nancy LaCour, but anyone who has
• 23:41
  Speaker 3: voluntarily put on the uniform, and even those who didn't
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: volunteer to do it back in the draft days. Thank
• 23:48
  Speaker 3: you for your service. Thank you for defending America and
• 23:51
  Speaker 3: its principles. However, Pete Hegseth made a decision that a
• 23:59
  Speaker 3: lot of Americans agree with. There's too much bureaucracy and
• 24:02
  Speaker 3: there's too much of what we would call the old
• 24:04
  Speaker 3: way of thinking. And by the old way, we don't
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: mean old school. We mean what a lot of us
• 24:09
  Speaker 3: would call the new school, the woke DEI programs where
• 24:13
  Speaker 3: you were, you know, Bill Clinton was famous for the
• 24:16
  Speaker 3: don't ask, don't tell policies, which was at that time controversial.
• 24:22
  Speaker 3: But this idea of pro-trans soldiers seems absolutely insane. And
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: a lot of Americans are happy to see that the
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: generals who were pushing that are no longer with us.
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: They have been defied and kicked out. Jenny Kusty-Hotkin, she
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: had a bad moment in here as well. We'll get
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: to that. Did you see the debate? Do you have
• 24:43
  Speaker 3: any thoughts on it? Let us know. It's on the
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: Talkback feature, 647 now.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Hi there. Just a little housekeeping. I don't have a
• 24:55
  Speaker 3: microphone to talk to Christopher, so I'm telling Christopher now.
• 24:59
  Speaker 3: We're going to get a pollster is calling in in
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: the next segment.
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: Oh, fantastic.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: We have some new South Carolina polling that we're going
• 25:07
  Speaker 3: to discuss. And, you know, as we we're just 28
• 25:10
  Speaker 3: days away from the election or 27, I think now today.
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: My gosh, it's just it's coming up on us so quickly.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: Where do South Carolinians stand on several important races and
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: issues and all that sort of stuff? We'll talk with
• 25:25
  Speaker 3: Rick Quinn about that coming up in just a moment. And,
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  Speaker 3: And welcome back to South Carolina's Morning News. Kelly Nash,
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson, joined on the phone by pollster Rick Quinn.
• 25:59
  Speaker 3: How are you this morning?
• 26:01
  Speaker 10: Thanks, Kelly.
• 26:01
  Speaker 8: How are you this morning?
• 26:02
  Speaker 3: Living the dream. I'm looking at some of your polling
• 26:07
  Speaker 3: that you sent over, and it's always insightful, the questions
• 26:12
  Speaker 3: that you ask. Now, obviously, the governor's race, that's the
• 26:15
  Speaker 3: one that a lot of people are looking at. And
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: you've got Alan Wilson up more than 10 points at
• 26:21
  Speaker 3: this point on Johnson. But there's still 15 percent undecided
• 26:26
  Speaker 3: in there, correct?
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: There is.
• 26:29
  Speaker 8: And, you know, it's interesting. There's two kind of influences
• 26:33
  Speaker 8: at work here. One of them is historically in what
• 26:36
  Speaker 8: they call midterm elections, meaning the midway through a presidential term,
• 26:41
  Speaker 8: the party in control of the White House will lose elections.
• 26:44
  Speaker 8: And so the encouraging thing for Allen and really the
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: ticket in South Carolina is that Republicans still kind of
• 26:52
  Speaker 8: maintain a 17-point lead. If you ask a voter, do
• 26:55
  Speaker 8: you think of yourself as a Republican or a Democrat
• 26:58
  Speaker 8: or an Independent? Republicans lead by 17 percent and really
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: are coming close to a majority of the voters in
• 27:04
  Speaker 8: South Carolina. So that kind of lends itself towards a
• 27:08
  Speaker 8: really good election cycle for Allen Wilson.
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I noticed that your Democrat and independent identified people
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: are basically tied. It's like 26 percent for each.
• 27:20
  Speaker 8: It was surprising to me, you know, because there's been
• 27:21
  Speaker 8: a lot of talk of if you watch political shows,
• 27:25
  Speaker 8: you'll All over the country, there's a lot of discussion
• 27:29
  Speaker 8: about how the Republican Party is in difficulty. But in
• 27:32
  Speaker 8: South Carolina, the Republicans are near majority and the Democrats
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: are in competition with independents. You're right. And independents lean
• 27:41
  Speaker 8: more conservative if you look into the numbers. even among
• 27:45
  Speaker 8: these undecided votes, they kind of lean more Republican. The Democrats,
• 27:49
  Speaker 8: the core constituencies of the Democratic side of the ticket,
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: they really already made their minds up. They're much more
• 27:54
  Speaker 8: decided in this race.
• 27:56
  Speaker 3: And as you pointed out.
• 27:57
  Speaker 8: It lends itself to a good election.
• 27:58
  Speaker 3: Yeah, as you pointed out in an area called the
• 28:01
  Speaker 3: undecided math, 82% of undecided voters would have to break
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: for Johnson just to tie. So that's... that's a pretty
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: big hill to climb. And so there, there, there would
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: need to be, it would seem some sort of massive
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: October surprise in order for that race to get much closer.
• 28:21
  Speaker 3: You also have a question that you were asked 800
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: registered voters about, which this is one of those things
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: where there is bipartisan support on the South Carolina state
• 28:35
  Speaker 3: house taking action on this issue. You want to talk
• 28:37
  Speaker 3: a little bit more about that?
• 28:40
  Speaker 8: Yeah, that was another surprise for me was the desire
• 28:45
  Speaker 8: of voters for legislative action on kind of regulating these
• 28:49
  Speaker 8: data centers. And, you know, it's driven in really by
• 28:53
  Speaker 8: a lot of things, but mostly about the power bill.
• 28:56
  Speaker 8: You know, 71 percent of the voters in the state
• 29:00
  Speaker 8: are saying that their power bills have increased significantly. 50%
• 29:04
  Speaker 8: are really saying that if you conclude all voters, 40%
• 29:11
  Speaker 8: say that their electric bill has gone up to the
• 29:14
  Speaker 8: point where it's hard for them to pay the bill.
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: So that's driving a lot of voters to want to
• 29:20
  Speaker 8: see some kind of statewide guardrails and standards for these
• 29:24
  Speaker 8: data centers. Environmental issues are also part of that, but
• 29:28
  Speaker 8: it's mainly driven by the power bill.
• 29:30
  Speaker 3: So if you're a politician running for local election here
• 29:34
  Speaker 3: at the statehouse level, that's an issue you need to
• 29:36
  Speaker 3: be running on.
• 29:37
  Speaker 8: Yeah, you know, there's a tendency for a lot of
• 29:41
  Speaker 8: politicians to want to head for the tall grass, so
• 29:42
  Speaker 8: to speak, to hide from issues that voters want to
• 29:45
  Speaker 8: see addressed. But this is not one of them. I
• 29:49
  Speaker 8: think you're whistling past the graveyard, as they would say,
• 29:51
  Speaker 8: if you're a candidate for office and you're not going
• 29:54
  Speaker 8: to try to address issues. some kind of standards for
• 29:57
  Speaker 8: these data centers. The people are afraid they're going to
• 30:00
  Speaker 8: increase their power bill, they're going to burn a lot
• 30:02
  Speaker 8: of our water, and the environment and the energy grid
• 30:09
  Speaker 8: has got to be protected in the builders' minds.
• 30:11
  Speaker 4: All right.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: Well, Rick Quinn with Resonance Media. Are you doing any
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: polling on the South Carolina Senate race? We are.
• 30:19
  Speaker 8: We're going to be releasing something soon, and I'll go
• 30:20
  Speaker 8: ahead and give you just– I'm going into the numbers
• 30:24
  Speaker 8: now– Darlene Graham is in the lead, but is not
• 30:27
  Speaker 8: nearly what Alan Wilson's lead is. And my polling is
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: not inconsistent with others. I'll go ahead and tell you
• 30:34
  Speaker 8: what's going on right now is Darlene is about five
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: points ahead of Annie Andrews. But polling is a snapshot
• 30:43
  Speaker 8: in time. And so what's going on right now is
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: the Democratic Party is severely outspending Darlene. I was looking
• 30:52
  Speaker 8: at some of the spending trends this morning. Uh, Darlene, uh,
• 30:55
  Speaker 8: Annie Andrews is spending almost a million dollars a week. Uh,
• 30:59
  Speaker 8: Darlene is being currently is being outspent two to one. So,
• 31:02
  Speaker 8: you know, that could, that trend continues. I would not
• 31:05
  Speaker 8: want to stick to the number I'm giving you this morning,
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: but you know, I think, I think the Republican national
• 31:10
  Speaker 8: Republican party has a lot of tough decisions to make
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: about spending more money here to make sure we're competitive.
• 31:15
  Speaker 3: Well, Rick, I mean, I'll be honest. I looking at
• 31:17
  Speaker 3: the Trafalgar, uh, group, uh, poll, and then the insider
• 31:21
  Speaker 3: advantage poll, um, Yours is a little bit better for
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: the Graham campaign, even though it's a slight.
• 31:28
  Speaker 8: Mine's outside the margin of error, you know, and in
• 31:31
  Speaker 8: terms of the league. So it is barely outside the
• 31:33
  Speaker 8: margin of error. So, you know, I think we've talked
• 31:36
  Speaker 8: about this, Kelly, a little bit. You know, I have
• 31:37
  Speaker 8: a different methodology than some of the other pollsters. What
• 31:40
  Speaker 8: I do is more is a more extensive methodology. Some
• 31:44
  Speaker 8: live callers is really how I do my polling. I
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: actually talk to human beings. We don't use. cell phones
• 31:50
  Speaker 8: or texting to try to collect data. And I think
• 31:54
  Speaker 8: because of that, my numbers tend to be a little
• 31:56
  Speaker 8: more reliable.
• 31:58
  Speaker 3: We love having you on the show and sharing some
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: of your insights with us. You are a huge asset
• 32:02
  Speaker 3: to the South Carolina Morning News. Thank you, Rick Quinn.
• 32:06
  Speaker 8: Anytime, Kelly. I appreciate you.
• 32:08
  Speaker 3: All right. Have a great day. All right. We'll get
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: Christopher and I response to that new polling numbers and
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: maybe yours as well. Use the talkback feature on the
• 32:15
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  Speaker 2: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
• 32:21
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  Speaker 3: All right. 714, if you're just tuning in, you just
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: missed Rick Quinn with some fresh new polling data. Christopher Thompson,
• 32:32
  Speaker 3: any initial response to what we heard?
• 32:34
  Speaker 6: Well, when Rick said Annie Andrews is outspending Darlene Graham
• 32:38
  Speaker 6: two to one, I would have thought he was even
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: more than that.
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: Feeling that it is. He said, what was it, a
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: million dollars a week she's spending right now?
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Incredible.
• 32:49
  Speaker 6: She's got a new TV ad I noticed just this morning.
• 32:52
  Speaker 3: Oh, really? Yes. Has the dad been replaced?
• 32:55
  Speaker 6: The dad, she's in Waiters. I haven't heard the ad.
• 32:59
  Speaker 6: I've just seen the ad, so I don't know exactly
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: what she's saying and why she's in the middle of
• 33:03
  Speaker 6: a swamp.
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: I can guess.
• 33:05
  Speaker 3: Oh, is she in a swamp? Is it an AI spot?
• 33:08
  Speaker 4: No, it's real.
• 33:09
  Speaker 3: She really got into the swamp.
• 33:10
  Speaker 4: Yeah, apparently so.
• 33:12
  Speaker 3: She's trying to position herself as the political outsider. It'd
• 33:16
  Speaker 3: be interesting because. I mean, I don't. Darlene Graham is
• 33:22
  Speaker 3: a political outsider, too. We have to acknowledge that. And
• 33:25
  Speaker 3: it's rather obvious from the Taiwan's not my thing.
• 33:28
  Speaker 11: Right.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: That is not a political answer. And some people did
• 33:33
  Speaker 3: give her credit for that. I did. I mean, not
• 33:35
  Speaker 3: a lot of people, but there were some people that
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I heard talking about it saying, well, I like that
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: she's refreshingly honest and. So on and so forth. But
• 33:43
  Speaker 3: Rick Quinn's polling had her about a five-point lead.
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: That's pretty generous.
• 33:50
  Speaker 10: Yeah.
• 33:50
  Speaker 3: Insider Advantage, I think, was the most recent poll, which
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: had come out like four or five days ago. And
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: in the Insider Advantage poll, they had Darlene at 46,
• 34:01
  Speaker 3: Annie at 45. And then they broke up Casey Whitener
• 34:06
  Speaker 3: at 2% and Mark Hackett at 3% and had 4% undecided.
• 34:11
  Speaker 3: If you go to the Trafalgar poll, they didn't separate
• 34:15
  Speaker 3: the third parties. They just had Graham up 46-45, and
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: then I think they had 5% for what they called
• 34:26
  Speaker 3: third-party candidates.
• 34:29
  Speaker 6: Well, as Rick Quinn pointed out, his methodology is pretty
• 34:33
  Speaker 6: savvy and is usually spot on.
• 34:36
  Speaker 3: Uh.
• 34:36
  Speaker 6: i mean you look at the race he he gave
• 34:39
  Speaker 6: you the numbers on alan wilson versus jermaine johnson you
• 34:42
  Speaker 6: know that ticket will dominate yes but usually that leads
• 34:46
  Speaker 6: to bigger successes down the ticket and you don't have
• 34:49
  Speaker 6: to go very far down the ticket to see darling
• 34:51
  Speaker 6: graham's name in she's not benefiting from that alan wilson's
• 34:55
  Speaker 6: run a very different campaign the darling graham in uh...
• 34:59
  Speaker 6: it's time if you're darling graham in your in her
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: camp Forget the John Thune money that's coming in and
• 35:05
  Speaker 6: the help you're getting from outside. It's time for you
• 35:08
  Speaker 6: to get out there and start campaigning. It's one thing
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: to see these PAC ads, you know, which are, you know,
• 35:15
  Speaker 6: sometimes they feature the candidate. Sometimes it's just simply an
• 35:19
  Speaker 6: attack ad. It's time to get out there and tell
• 35:21
  Speaker 6: South Carolinians what you want to do for them.
• 35:25
  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, maybe part of the problem
• 35:28
  Speaker 3: is that Darlene is talking, just not drawing big crowds.
• 35:32
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen one today, but I have seen emails
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: from the campaign, you know, highlighting where she's going. Typically,
• 35:40
  Speaker 3: I think she's usually in the upstate. I feel as
• 35:42
  Speaker 3: if what their efforts are is they recognize they've got
• 35:47
  Speaker 3: a problem with the hardcore conservatives, that the energy for
• 35:53
  Speaker 3: this campaign is... No, it's not existent. It's flatlined. So
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: they're trying to get them fired up. And the most
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: conservative part of South Carolina is the upstate. It seems
• 36:05
  Speaker 3: the closer you get to the coast, the closer you
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: get to the ocean, the low country, you get more
• 36:12
  Speaker 3: and more liberal the further you go that way. So
• 36:15
  Speaker 3: like maybe Lexington is the dividing line. Then you get
• 36:17
  Speaker 3: into Richland County, and all of a sudden we're a
• 36:20
  Speaker 3: blue district. And then we have more and more blue
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: districts as you get down towards Charleston.
• 36:25
  Speaker 6: But the upstate should be Graham Country. You shouldn't even
• 36:27
  Speaker 6: have to campaign there.
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: Well, that's the problem. You do have to campaign there
• 36:32
  Speaker 3: right now, I feel. But she's not drawing big crowds.
• 36:36
  Speaker 3: She's not getting hardly any media attention at all from
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: those campaign events. But amazingly, every poll still has her
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: with a slight lead. A slight lead.
• 36:49
  Speaker 10: So.
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: We'll see how this plays out over the next couple
• 36:52
  Speaker 3: of weeks. And then the other stuff, you know, we'll
• 36:54
  Speaker 3: take a break and we'll come back and talk about
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: the data centers because I thought that was interesting as well.
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 37:00
  Speaker 3: You got ideas and thoughts on that polling? Let us
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: know on the iHeartRadio app using the talkback feature. It's 719.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: 560 AM. WVOC, Columbia and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson responding to the discussion we
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: just had with the pollster Rick Quinn. And we talked
• 37:26
  Speaker 3: about the races, the Darlene Graham race, the governor's race.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: And now the other thing that he was polling South
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: Carolinians on was the idea of data centers. And we
• 37:38
  Speaker 3: heard earlier from the deputy secretary for the Department of
• 37:42
  Speaker 3: Energy talking about nuclear power coming– making a big move
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina, as we heard last week, Westinghouse and
• 37:49
  Speaker 3: the University of South Carolina entering into a partnership. And
• 37:52
  Speaker 3: the Trump administration is very excited about what South Carolina's
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: future can look like. They were polling on data centers.
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: And the number one thing there, yes, when you look
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: at the polling, there are some concerns about the environment
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: and other things, but that doesn't move the needle. What
• 38:10
  Speaker 3: moves the needle is energy. And believe it or not,
• 38:14
  Speaker 3: this is a universal issue. Seventy-seven percent of all voters
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: in South Carolina, and then it goes up to 85
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: percent of Republicans, want the statehouse to take action to
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: put guardrails in place on these data centers.
• 38:33
  Speaker 6: Something we just heard both of the candidates for governor
• 38:35
  Speaker 6: on Monday night say, that was one issue where they
• 38:38
  Speaker 6: agreed that the statehouse... doesn't necessarily, well, at least Alan
• 38:42
  Speaker 6: Wilson said, doesn't necessarily need to say no data centers,
• 38:45
  Speaker 6: but what they need to do is set up guidelines.
• 38:48
  Speaker 6: We just came through a brutally hot summer. All of
• 38:52
  Speaker 6: us have been socked by the power bill coming in
• 38:55
  Speaker 6: month after month to pay for the AC. So I'm
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: not surprised that even Republicans are sensitive to the issue
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: of energy costs right now.
• 39:03
  Speaker 3: I'm always a little hesitant because it's like when you
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: put like When you see polling and they say, like,
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: generic Democrat versus generic Republican, depending on which state you're in,
• 39:14
  Speaker 3: the generic candidate wins. Then when you actually use the
• 39:18
  Speaker 3: actual candidates, the polling changes, right? Everybody wants the guardrails
• 39:23
  Speaker 3: in place, but you don't know what the guardrails are.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: And we have seen the state house figure out new
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: and unique ways to screw things up. So I don't
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: know what the guardrails are going to be. We'll figure
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: that out, I guess. But right now, that is a
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: great campaign issue. Now, as far as what Christopher Thompson's
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: talking about, the power bill, absolutely. 71% of South Carolinians
• 39:45
  Speaker 3: in this poll said that their bill has gone up
• 39:49
  Speaker 3: what they would say noticeably. It's not a slight increase.
• 39:53
  Speaker 3: It's enough for them to be concerned about it. And
• 39:56
  Speaker 3: it says voters will ultimately judge data center policy on
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: what it does for their power bills. And again, back
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: to our earlier interview, if you missed that, we've got
• 40:06
  Speaker 3: the entire interview with the Deputy Secretary for the Department
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: of Energy up on the National Briefing Podcast on the
• 40:12
  Speaker 3: iHeartRadio app. But he was talking about significant changes reductions
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: in our power bills moving forward as South Carolina moves
• 40:21
  Speaker 3: more into the nuclear energy space.
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: We'll take it. Fantastic.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: And these data centers are coming more energy. They're energy
• 40:30
  Speaker 6: independent these days. They create their own energy. They've learned
• 40:34
  Speaker 6: that they can't come into communities and completely rape the
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: land of water and take all the energy away and
• 40:41
  Speaker 6: you know, jerk up everyone's power bills, they've learned to
• 40:44
  Speaker 6: adapt to these communities. So I think, I think we've
• 40:47
  Speaker 6: seen an evolution of the data center where it's not
• 40:49
  Speaker 6: like it was even two or three years ago.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: I do like, so here's, let me just read the
• 40:54
  Speaker 3: sentence that Rick Quinn had in his summary of the polling. Uh,
• 40:59
  Speaker 3: When the project comes with legal guardrails that requires the
• 41:03
  Speaker 3: companies to pay their full power costs, protect the air
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: and water, ensure local decision-making, prohibit publicly funded incentives... And
• 41:14
  Speaker 3: deliver homeowner property tax relief support is at 62%. Who
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: are the 48% who are not for this?
• 41:21
  Speaker 4: Yeah, who wouldn't want that?
• 41:22
  Speaker 3: I mean, this sounds like Shangri-La to me. I'm all
• 41:26
  Speaker 3: for that. Are you all for that? Or maybe you're
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: in the 48% who say, I'm still not sold on it.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: Let us know on the Talkback feature. We'll take a break.
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: It's 729.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:40
  Speaker 1: Good morning.
• 41:40
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson and... Thank God. Thank God
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: we live in South Carolina. Minnesota is a far different place.
• 41:51
  Speaker 10: Oof.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: And let me take you to KSTP 5. This was
• 41:57
  Speaker 3: their news report earlier in the week.
• 42:00
  Speaker 7: After the shooting Friday night at the Eden Prairie homecoming
• 42:04
  Speaker 7: football game and gunfire at a nearby gas station last night,
• 42:07
  Speaker 7: law enforcement attribute the violence to Somali gangs. And we're
• 42:12
  Speaker 7: hearing from law enforcement all across the metro today after
• 42:15
  Speaker 7: another shootout in a Bloomington neighborhood.
• 42:18
  Speaker 10: The Bloomington police chief says today's Somali-American gangs don't have
• 42:23
  Speaker 10: a single leader with a dedicated hierarchy, making it harder
• 42:26
  Speaker 10: to find individual suspects.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: We don't condone violence.
• 42:31
  Speaker 10: But every time we hear that Somali gangs, gangs are gangs.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: So please, let's not mention the Somali name. It's bad
• 42:40
  Speaker 3: if you mention that it's the Somali gangs. And it's
• 42:43
  Speaker 3: a unique gang organization, Christopher, that is raining havoc everywhere.
• 42:47
  Speaker 3: They're in Minneapolis area.
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: Who's in the Somali gang? Somalis. What is their purpose?
• 42:54
  Speaker 6: To advance Somali cause, but don't call them Somalis.
• 42:58
  Speaker 3: Okay. Look, if that's true, if we're not supposed to
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: identify the individual, because I'm not saying the guy's wrong, right?
• 43:08
  Speaker 3: Violence is violence. And he just doesn't want to hear
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: that it's the Somalis causing the violence. I'm sure, I'm
• 43:15
  Speaker 3: confident that they were all in outrage when Ilhan Omar
• 43:19
  Speaker 3: had this to say.
• 43:20
  Speaker 10: Our country should be more fearful. of white men across
• 43:26
  Speaker 10: our country because they are actually causing most of the
• 43:31
  Speaker 10: deaths within this country. And so if fear was the
• 43:36
  Speaker 10: driving force of policies to keep America safe, Americans safe
• 43:41
  Speaker 10: inside of this country, we should be profiling, monitoring, and
• 43:49
  Speaker 10: creating policies to fight the radicalization of white men.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: I wonder where she's getting her statistics that radicalized white
• 43:57
  Speaker 3: men are the number one cause of death in America.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: Yeah, I don't think she probably has any basis on that.
• 44:06
  Speaker 3: But is it not true then that if people are
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: being murdered, does it matter that it's white men? Does
• 44:13
  Speaker 3: it matter? Does it matter when— let me ask you, do
• 44:17
  Speaker 3: you think that there's a problem with Ilhan Omar calling
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: out the Proud Boys as a white nationalist group? Or
• 44:22
  Speaker 3: should she just say, you know, look, they're just bad people?
• 44:26
  Speaker 3: Or how about the Aryan Nation, the prison gang? Do
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: you think that it's a problem that they identify— they themselves
• 44:33
  Speaker 3: identify as the Aryan Nation, and so we probably should
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: remove that. They're just the nation.
• 44:38
  Speaker 8: Right.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: Just a bunch of guys.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: Just a bunch of dudes. The Latin Kings, which is
• 44:43
  Speaker 3: the third largest gang in America behind the Bloods of
• 44:46
  Speaker 3: the Crips, they put the name in the thing. We're
• 44:49
  Speaker 3: the Latin Kings. Should we not identify them as Latin?
• 44:53
  Speaker 3: I mean, this idea that the Somalis of Minnesota have
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: got the politicians so wrapped up underneath their axle that
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: they are now fearful. And it wasn't just that Somali
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: guy speaking out at the town meetings. It was a
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: long line of, yes, Somalis, but also, surprise, surprise, white women.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: What is wrong with the white women? The white women
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: are off the rails up in Minnesota as well, Christopher.
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Karen's upset.
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: Karen is upset. Stop calling them Somalis just because they're Somalis.
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: It's like when I was a kid, my grandfather, who
• 45:29
  Speaker 3: is from Italy— hated the fact that it was called
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: the Italian mob. But I remember having an argument with
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: him going, well, aren't they Italians? And he was like, yeah,
• 45:38
  Speaker 3: but they don't have to point that out. And I'm like,
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: but as an Italian, you should be with the police
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: who want to stop the Italian mob.
• 45:50
  Speaker 4: They're creating the PR issue for you.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Yes.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: But guess what? For the Somalis in Minnesota... what we're
• 45:59
  Speaker 3: seeing from you is not just street gang violence. And
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: in that instance, they were showing how on a random,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: I think it was Tuesday night, there was over 150
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: bullets fired in some sort of residential neighborhood. And then
• 46:11
  Speaker 3: you had the gang shooting out at the football game.
• 46:14
  Speaker 3: And then you had the gang shoot out at the restaurant.
• 46:16
  Speaker 3: This is all with over, you know, since Friday to today.
• 46:19
  Speaker 3: So yes, the Somali street gangs are a problem, but
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: the bigger problem would be the Somali fraudsters and the
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: Somali community that in Minnesota has found a place where
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: they are being protected because they're Somalis. If they wouldn't
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: tolerate this type of behavior from white people, it wouldn't
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: be tolerated if you had a bunch of white kids
• 46:41
  Speaker 3: going around shooting up the neighborhoods. It wouldn't be tolerated
• 46:45
  Speaker 3: if you had white middle-aged people ripping off the taxpayers,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: or as they call them there, the community members. The
• 46:52
  Speaker 3: guy's right. It doesn't matter that they're Somalis, but it
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: does matter because it seems to be the– this is
• 46:57
  Speaker 3: the hierarchy that they have established for themselves in Minnesota,
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: and that is now a protected class. It's a sanctuary
• 47:04
  Speaker 3: city if you want to do crime and you're a Somali.
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: That is wrong, and if you're an American, you don't
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: want to be a Somali-American. You want to be an American-American,
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: you should prioritize America. You should prioritize your home state
• 47:17
  Speaker 3: of Minnesota. You should prioritize your hometown of Minneapolis. and
• 47:20
  Speaker 3: say if we've got Somalis here or American Indians here
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: or Asians or whites or whomever, they need to go
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: to prison and they need to stop. Maybe you disagree.
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: Maybe you think that that guy was right and the
• 47:33
  Speaker 3: Somalis are correct to stop identifying them by race. That
• 47:37
  Speaker 3: just makes it a racist issue. Let us know on
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: the Talkback feature. We'll get to some of those hopefully
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: in a minute. 740 now.
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 47:46
  Speaker 3: Hi there, Kelly Nash, and I am live streaming the show,
• 47:50
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• 47:54
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• 47:58
  Speaker 3: do you ever think about this, that one day... Well,
• 48:02
  Speaker 3: you don't do a lot of social media, do you?
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: Not a lot.
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: But one day will be your final post. And to me, it's...
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: It's one of those things that I think about because
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: when I see somebody has suddenly passed or something like that,
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: I go and I look and I say, what was
• 48:16
  Speaker 3: the last thing they posted? Well, yesterday, now former North
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Charleston representative Marvin Pendarvis pled guilty. And Marvin's been a bad,
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: bad boy. According to the accusations, he's pleading guilty to
• 48:33
  Speaker 3: basically ripping off people who are in a bad way.
• 48:37
  Speaker 4: Very similar to the Alec Murdoch crimes. Not the murder.
• 48:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, not the murder. That was the key part for him.
• 48:45
  Speaker 3: But $ 800, 000 stolen from 34 different victims. He's now looking
• 48:52
  Speaker 3: at possibly up to 20 years in prison, a fine
• 48:55
  Speaker 3: of about a half million dollars. So I said, I
• 48:58
  Speaker 3: wonder what the last thing Marvin posted on his ex account. Now,
• 49:02
  Speaker 3: the last thing that he posted was actually on April 9th, 2024.
• 49:05
  Speaker 3: I guess that's probably when the legal problem started. And
• 49:08
  Speaker 3: it was basically just giving a thumbs up to a
• 49:10
  Speaker 3: bunch of Gamecock students who came in and visited the
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: Statehouse that day while he was there. But the one
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: just before that on April 8th, 2024, I didn't remember
• 49:18
  Speaker 3: that we had a class. that day. It didn't really
• 49:21
  Speaker 3: hit South Carolina that much, but it was big in
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: Nashville and stuff. And he retweeted a guy who said,
• 49:27
  Speaker 3: if you're looking for eclipse glasses right now, you understand
• 49:31
  Speaker 3: why same day voter registration is important. So again, His
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: next to final tweet was talking about why it's important
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: to be able to get people to be able to
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: register at the polls that moment. This guy was just
• 49:46
  Speaker 3: filled with corruption. Okay. Filled with corruption. So let that
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: sink in for you for a little bit. But anyway,
• 49:53
  Speaker 3: what will your final tweet or Facebook post be? Who knows?
• 49:56
  Speaker 3: We don't know. But it's important to think about that
• 49:58
  Speaker 3: as you're posting it. Will this be my last one?
• 50:00
  Speaker 3: Make it count. Make it a good one. We'll take
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: a break and be back with more. It's 747.
• 50:05
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 50:09
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson and Kelly Nash together. I.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: I'm going to say something I very rarely say. I
• 50:16
  Speaker 3: agree with the libs on this one.
• 50:18
  Speaker 1: Whoa.
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: I think they got it right.
• 50:21
  Speaker 6: This is going to be the most listened to part
• 50:23
  Speaker 6: of our podcast later on this morning.
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: So, Tyler Bailey, here in the city of Columbia, made
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: a proposal in order to block Mayor Daniel Rickenman. Rickenman
• 50:34
  Speaker 3: had last year, I think, flown a flag on October 7th,
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: basically saying, we stand with Israel. So, he put that up. So,
• 50:42
  Speaker 3: they had a vote- Columbia City Council passed a 6-1 vote,
• 50:46
  Speaker 3: the one, I think, is Rickenman, that restricts the flags
• 50:51
  Speaker 3: on any city-owned flagpole building facility right-of-ways exclusivity to just
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: the United States flag, the South Carolina state flag, and
• 51:01
  Speaker 3: the city of Columbia flag.
• 51:03
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right.
• 51:04
  Speaker 3: So I agree with them. Me too. The Libs got
• 51:07
  Speaker 3: it right. Now, of course, I wonder, will there be
• 51:09
  Speaker 3: pushback when it comes gay pride day or whatever, you know,
• 51:13
  Speaker 3: recognition they want to have? I know a lot of
• 51:16
  Speaker 3: it's ironic that we live in Columbia, South Carolina, a
• 51:19
  Speaker 3: city named after Christopher Columbus or in his honor and
• 51:22
  Speaker 3: so many people in this community. very blue-leaning area of
• 51:26
  Speaker 3: the state, don't want to acknowledge Columbus Day. They want
• 51:29
  Speaker 3: it to be called Native Day or something like that.
• 51:33
  Speaker 4: Indigenous People's Day.
• 51:34
  Speaker 3: Indigenous People's Day. By the way, I looked it up earlier.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: There are several states that don't have Columbus Day. They're
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: just strictly recognizing Indigenous People's Day. I think South Dakota
• 51:49
  Speaker 3: is one of them. Maine is one of them. But
• 51:52
  Speaker 3: we're still going to celebrate Columbus Day come Monday, but
• 51:55
  Speaker 3: we won't be flying a Columbus, Christopher Columbus flag. We
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: won't be flying any kinds of flags. I wonder if
• 52:01
  Speaker 3: that also, I guess it would include like what happens
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: when Dawn Staley wins another national championship. Do we not
• 52:09
  Speaker 3: have the Gamecock flag go up? I'm assuming not.
• 52:12
  Speaker 6: The state house has done it in the past, but
• 52:15
  Speaker 6: I'm not sure the city of Columbia did that.
• 52:17
  Speaker 4: They can't now.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: That's right. They can't now. And there's no need for
• 52:21
  Speaker 3: us to have this controversy. And so I think that
• 52:23
  Speaker 3: this is a good thing that they have removed the
• 52:26
  Speaker 3: opportunity for, we'll just say, you know, grandstanding on political issues.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: Although I certainly agree with Daniel Rickerman that we should
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: be standing with Israel and, uh, we should certainly mourn
• 52:39
  Speaker 3: what happened on October 7th, three years ago. Uh, taking
• 52:45
  Speaker 3: it out of the politicians' hands. By the other politicians,
• 52:48
  Speaker 3: they just said we're not going to have any more flags.
• 52:50
  Speaker 3: I like it. What do you think? Let us know
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: on the Talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. We'll be
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: back with more just after the top of the hour
• 52:56
  Speaker 3: news on South Carolina's morning news.
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
• 53:04
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• 53:13
  Speaker 3: Hi there. Welcome to the 8 o'clock hour. It's Kelly
• 53:17
  Speaker 3: Nash with Christopher Thompson. Christopher, you were mentioning a moment ago,
• 53:21
  Speaker 3: and I guess it's more than a moment ago now,
• 53:23
  Speaker 3: that you were seeing the first new Dr. Annie Andrews
• 53:28
  Speaker 3: ad where she's standing in a swamp?
• 53:30
  Speaker 6: Yes, she's got waders on and she's standing in a swamp.
• 53:32
  Speaker 6: I guess, again, I have only seen it. I haven't
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: had a chance to turn my monitor on while it played,
• 53:38
  Speaker 6: but I guess she's making the point that Darlene Graham
• 53:41
  Speaker 6: is just another member of the swamp.
• 53:43
  Speaker 3: How could that even possibly be, seeing that she's never served? Yeah,
• 53:48
  Speaker 3: that's one that's... stretches.
• 53:52
  Speaker 8: Yes.
• 53:53
  Speaker 3: That's a stretch. Yes. But if she's making the point
• 53:56
  Speaker 3: that she is an independent voice, she made that point
• 53:59
  Speaker 3: on our show. If you missed the podcast or if
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: you missed the interview, you can get the entire interview
• 54:05
  Speaker 3: with Annie Andrews on the podcast, the national briefing. You
• 54:09
  Speaker 3: find that on the I heart radio app. But I'm
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: also looking here at something called ad impacts politics. Now
• 54:15
  Speaker 3: this is a group that just tracks media spending. And
• 54:19
  Speaker 3: I don't know how much, When they're saying future reservations,
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know what that means. Does that mean for
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: the next, because we just heard that Annie Andrews was
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: spending on average a million dollars a week. Now, obviously
• 54:34
  Speaker 3: that's not on television. That's billboards, direct mail pieces, digital,
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: all kinds of things. I don't know if this is
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: just television spending, but the— what was that name of that
• 54:46
  Speaker 3: PAC that you were talking about yesterday? The Senate Leadership Fund.
• 54:50
  Speaker 6: That's John Thune's controlled fund.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: So they have just booked $ 3. 6 million, as opposed to
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews in the same window has $ 1. 6 million. So $ 3. 6
• 55:01
  Speaker 3: million will be running for Darlene Graham. in the next
• 55:08
  Speaker 3: few weeks, I guess. And this is basically the ad
• 55:10
  Speaker 3: that they have decided to use.
• 55:12
  Speaker 5: Do you know Dr. Annie Andrews' prescription for South Carolina?
• 55:16
  Speaker 5: Andrews supports letting biological men use the women's locker room
• 55:21
  Speaker 5: and spending your tax dollars on sex change drugs and
• 55:24
  Speaker 5: surgeries for minors. Your tax dollars paying for that. It's shocking.
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: A doctor should know better.
• 55:33
  Speaker 1: But Dr.
• 55:34
  Speaker 5: Annie Andrews is shocked. shockingly liberal and wrong for the U.S.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: Senate.
• 55:39
  Speaker 5: SLF PAC is responsible for the content of this advertising.
• 55:42
  Speaker 3: So they are going to go negative, which I guess
• 55:45
  Speaker 3: is the only way to go at this point, because
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews has positioned herself. She doesn't really I mean,
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: I think I've seen some ads, but I don't know
• 55:53
  Speaker 3: that they were even from her slamming Darlene Graham. Yes.
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: But most of Annie Andrews campaign stuff seems to have
• 56:01
  Speaker 3: been I am your voice. Let me go to D.C.
• 56:05
  Speaker 3: and represent you. I am a moderate. You are a moderate.
• 56:09
  Speaker 3: You're not extreme on either side of these issues. You
• 56:12
  Speaker 3: just want common sense. And that's what I provide. And
• 56:15
  Speaker 3: now the only way to attack that is to say,
• 56:19
  Speaker 3: but you are for transgendered surgeries on children. And we
• 56:22
  Speaker 3: have you on tape just last year. I think it
• 56:25
  Speaker 3: was on a podcast talking about how upset you are
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: that MUSC was banning it. And so. That does not
• 56:32
  Speaker 3: align with I'm a moderate. No.
• 56:34
  Speaker 6: And there was the podcast or the interview that she
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: did earlier this year where she was asked, you know,
• 56:40
  Speaker 6: do you know the difference between a boy and a girl,
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: a man and a woman? And she refused to answer.
• 56:44
  Speaker 6: She said, I'm not going to wade into that discussion.
• 56:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I didn't even bring up the trans issue because
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: I think that, you know, that kind of stands on
• 56:52
  Speaker 3: its own for most people. But she did try to
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: push the abortion issue. She wants to get on our show.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: She was talking about the Roe v. Wade. overturn in
• 57:02
  Speaker 3: the Dobbs decision, that was wrong, although she couldn't figure
• 57:06
  Speaker 3: out why it was wrong. She said, well, the justices
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: had sound legal reason, I suppose, but I just don't
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: like it. I just don't want different rules for different states. Okay, well,
• 57:17
  Speaker 3: then you're going to have to change the Constitution because
• 57:20
  Speaker 3: that's the way the Constitution is set up. And even
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: going back to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, she said for years
• 57:27
  Speaker 3: that she didn't think that the roe v wade decision
• 57:30
  Speaker 3: was a good constitutionally sound decision so i'm not really
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: sure she then she also said something about i want
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: the set uh... to depoliticize the judges in the supreme
• 57:42
  Speaker 3: court that's impossible i think you're going to be that point.
• 57:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah they're they're appointed by a republican or a democrat
• 57:48
  Speaker 6: whoever's in office at that point so you know they
• 57:51
  Speaker 6: they they do these long studied reviews of their judicial
• 57:56
  Speaker 6: records to make sure they're getting somebody that fits, aligns
• 58:00
  Speaker 6: at least initially with what they believe. Now, sometimes the
• 58:04
  Speaker 6: justices go wild once they get into the Supreme Court,
• 58:06
  Speaker 6: but that's another story.
• 58:07
  Speaker 3: Maybe that describes why Katanya Jackson Brown doesn't seem to
• 58:11
  Speaker 3: understand anything. That aligned perfectly with Joe Biden. But anyway,
• 58:15
  Speaker 3: are you excited to see Darlene Graham's getting some money
• 58:18
  Speaker 3: and into this race now? You can let us know.
• 58:20
  Speaker 3: I know we've had people misidentifying her. What was it
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: for the Connor? Denise. Denise Graham. Her name is Darlene.
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: And you're going to start seeing some more of these ads.
• 58:28
  Speaker 3: So that might be a good thing that gets some
• 58:30
  Speaker 3: of the base excited. Let us know your thoughts on
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: the talkback feature. We'll take a break. It's 808 from.
• 58:35
  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low country. This is South Carolina's
• 58:39
  Speaker 1: morning news. All right.
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Kelly Nash with Christopher Thompson. And that didn't take long.
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: We played the new ad that the Senate whatever pack
• 58:50
  Speaker 3: came out with. It's for Darlene Graham, but it doesn't
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: even mention Darlene Graham. It just basically slams Annie Andrews
• 59:00
  Speaker 3: and her earlier comments regarding trans youth. We are instantaneously
• 59:08
  Speaker 3: sent an e-mail saying, from one of her supporters, Patrick Svidek,
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: who I'll point out is a CNN politics reporter who
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: is listening this morning. So good to have CNN listening
• 59:19
  Speaker 3: this morning. Thank you, Patrick. who wants us to make
• 59:22
  Speaker 3: sure that we know that Annie has her own ad
• 59:24
  Speaker 3: out regarding the trans issue.
• 59:26
  Speaker 8: Politics can get pretty ugly, and when it does, you deserve.
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: To hear the truth.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: My career as a pediatrician has always been about taking care.
• 59:35
  Speaker 3: Of kids, and I've got three of my own.
• 59:37
  Speaker 1: So I want you to hear me loud and clear.
• 59:40
  Speaker 9: I don't support biological men playing women's sports, and I
• 59:44
  Speaker 9: don't support and haven't ever performed gender surgery for minors.
• 59:48
  Speaker 1: I'm Dr.
• 59:49
  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews, and I approve this message because Darlene Graham
• 59:52
  Speaker 3: lying about me won't do a thing to help you.
• 59:56
  Speaker 3: So there you go. I got to say, before we
• 59:59
  Speaker 3: even comment on the actual audio of the commercial, I
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 3: absolutely hate that she wears that lab coat and then
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 3: has the stethoscope hanging over her neck. as she has
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 3: not been actually practicing as a doctor for a while now.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: So that is just like the guy who's like, I
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: used to be a construction worker, so I'm going to
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 3: wear a flannel shirt for my politics ad. I hate that.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 3: But that does seem to be at odds, not only
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 3: with the new ad that we're hearing from the program PAC,
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: but also some of her comments earlier in those podcasts
• 1:00:34
  Speaker 3: where she was talking to, I think it was a
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: Lowcountry podcaster, about how upset she was with MUSC after
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: MUSC decided that they were not going to allow even
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 3: for the prescription of puberty blockers and things of that nature.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 3: So whether she's never actually physically performed a surgery, I'm
• 1:00:56
  Speaker 3: sure that's accurate. The fact that you supported those things, though,
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: you can go back and look at her timeline yourself.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 3: That's not something that we're going to do, but you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: can look at it and you can see where she was.
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: You can also see where she's last year. Somebody wanted
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 3: me to know. Here's Dr. Annie with today is a
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 3: great day to get off the sidelines and get out
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 3: to the No Kings Day protests. Is this at our statehouse?
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: Apparently she's at a No Kings protest at the South
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 3: Carolina Statehouse on October 18th, 2025. So again, if you're
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 3: thinking that she's a moderate, going to No Kings protests
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 3: is lets you know that you're not. Here's another tweet.
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 3: Vote blue because of gun violence. Vote blue because of
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 3: climate crisis. So right off the bat, most people are
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 3: going to say in South Carolina, those two are wrong.
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: Vote blue because of abortion access. That's going to be
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 3: really wrong. Vote blue because of the Affordable Care Act.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: She was just on this show talking about how the
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: Affordable Care Act drove costs up. And that was something
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: that we talked about before it was signed into legislation,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: that the Obamacare, aka the Affordable Care Act, by design
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: was to drive costs up by putting a cap on
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 3: profit percentages. That forces the insurance companies or allows the
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: insurance companies to say, look, if I can only make
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: 10% and I was making 15%, well, then we're going
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: to have to raise the cost of what that procedure costs.
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 3: And guess who's really happy to do that? Hospitals, people
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 3: that she worked with, they like driving those costs up too.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Everybody was in on it. It was a big scam
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 3: that Obama put forth with the Democrat Party in order
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 3: to drive your health care costs up so that we
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 3: could get to this point where we're at right now,
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: where most Americans are saying health care is too expensive.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: It's out of control. Now, I wish that the Republicans
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 3: had battled this. They had the opportunity to repeal and replace.
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 3: They had they had that opportunity. They took that vote
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: like 300 times or something. And then Trump got into
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 3: office and they had the majority and they could have
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: done it. And guess what? They don't want to do
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 3: the votes.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 6: Kelly, the talkbacks, by the way, are flowing in on
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 6: the Andrews Graham campaign. I don't know if you want
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 6: to try some now or you want to wait till
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 6: the next segment.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: You know what?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: Why don't we take a break? We're at 817, almost 818.
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: And we'll be right back with some of your talkbacks.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: And if you've got ideas, hit that talkback feature as
• 1:03:21
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• 1:03:26
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• 1:03:26
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  Speaker 12: So this is the problem that I have with Ms.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 12: Darlene here. She doesn't seem to be telling us anything
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 12: about what she plans to do. All her ads are
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 12: attacking Annie Andrews and saying she's going to be with
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 12: Trump and attacking her for this and that. But she
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 12: doesn't have any ideas of her own. You know, maybe
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 12: that would go a long way in winning some people over.
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  Speaker 3: Interesting. By the way, what I was going to say
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: is I love the fact that we have this race
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 3: going on right now because if you look at traditionally
• 1:04:12
  Speaker 3: what would be happening right now, we would be trying
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 3: to make it an exciting race. We actually have an
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 3: exciting race to talk about here, Christopher.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 4: We do, yeah.
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  Speaker 6: It's very different than what we thought it was going
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 6: to be even six months ago.
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 3: So the talkback there says that Darlene Graham– well, first off,
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham has not taken out an ad as far
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 3: as I'm aware of. after the primary.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: Right, after the runoff.
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 3: It's all been just whatever comes up. And so PACs
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 3: are the ones that are attacking any injuries right now
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: with ads. It's not Darlene Graham. As far as I
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 3: can tell, I haven't seen one maybe. I haven't either.
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: If you go to her account, DarleneGraham.com, and for those
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 3: of you who don't know, she spells it with an I-N-E, D-A-R-L-I-N-E.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 3: You'll see that she kind of talks about all the
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: stuff that she's really into. She talks about the fact
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 3: that she's led a commission. She's done these things. And then,
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: of course, here comes the picture of the president saying, run, Darlene, run.
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: And then you got pictures of her and her brother.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 3: And she's talking about what she's done in her life
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: as far as becoming a wife and a mother and
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 3: a grandmother and all these types of things. And that's great.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 3: And then you get the opportunity to make your donation.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 3: which would be much appreciated by the Graham campaign. But no,
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 3: I think that he actually kind of encapsulated it in
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: there a little bit. But Christopher, I'm told we have
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 3: some more talkbacks.
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 13: Good morning, gentlemen. I haven't listened yet to your interview
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 13: with Annie Andrews, but honestly, I'm voting for Donald Trump
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 13: and his agenda. It wouldn't matter what her platform is.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 13: She could be exactly like Darlene Graham. I'm not ride
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 13: or die for a party. But I do think Donald
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 13: Trump is the man for the moment for our country,
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 13: and he's trying to undo so much that has been broken.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 13: So I will vote straight Republican regardless. Have a great day.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 3: I appreciate it. I like the fact that she's not
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 3: ride or die for a party, but she's voting straight Republican.
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 4: She's got that ticket ready.
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes. And, again, I think that she kind of
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: encapsulated what I was going to say, that Darlene Graham–
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: if you vote for Darlene Graham, you're voting– Not because
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: she has some unique problem-solving abilities or she's going to
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: lead the Senate in one direction or another. You're voting
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 3: for Darlene Graham because you would like to see the
• 1:06:32
  Speaker 3: Republicans retain control of the Senate.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 6: And it not turn into an impeachment show for the
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 6: next two years.
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: And that. And, again, I mean, I was trying to
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: make a big deal with Annie Andrews about the Supreme
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 3: Court justices because there's– Whoever gets that is going to
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 3: be a part of picking at least one, maybe numerous
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: Supreme Court justices. If you want to see Darlene Graham's
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 3: position on things, you can go to, again, to her website.
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: She's got the economies, the number one thing. She talks
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 3: about the border, election integrity, crime, guns, fights, fighting for
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 3: South Carolina strength, all those types of things that a
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 3: typical Republican candidate would have. You're not going to get
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 3: anything from Darlene Graham that is not a traditional Republican
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 3: for the most part. maybe a little more populist. I
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: think she separated with her brother a little bit. She
• 1:07:24
  Speaker 3: was talking about, was it Israel that she was talking about?
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: There was one issue where she was like, I'm not
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 3: quite as hawkish as my brother Lindsey was.
• 1:07:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, might have been Israel.
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 3: So she's probably more in line with Trump, although a
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: lot of MAGA people are upset with Trump for going
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: into Iran, but Trump always was talking about no new
• 1:07:45
  Speaker 3: foreign wars and these types of things. And that's what
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 3: a lot of the people who came onto the Trump
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 3: coalition were, that was the main reason they voted. They
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: didn't want to be involved in any wars and they're
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 3: very disappointed. Trump's making the point that we didn't really
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 3: have a choice that they were, you know, it's like
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 3: we're in a locked room with a guy building a
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 3: gun and we keep telling him, stop building the gun.
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 3: And he's like, nah, I'm just going to keep building
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 3: this guns. You either have to stop them before it's
• 1:08:08
  Speaker 3: finished or he's going to finish you. And that's why
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 3: when he, By the way, how disingenuous is the media?
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump just called for the erasure of Los Angeles
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 3: and San Diego. That passes for journalism today? My gosh.
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 3: That's why everybody knows. Totally fake. You're fake news.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 3: We'll take a break. Maybe if you've got some more talkbacks,
• 1:08:28
  Speaker 3: please use that talkback feature. We'd love to hear from you.
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  Speaker 3: It's 828.
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  Speaker 2: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 3: So the Annie Andrews new ad, well, I don't know
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: how new it is. We got it from the CNN
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 3: reporter who happens to listen to the show and actually
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 3: follows me on X. Thank you. Sent us the Annie Andrews,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: basically a response ad saying that she is never performing.
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: a trans surgery. She, you know, so on and so forth.
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham is lying about it. Now people are sending me,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: and I just checked, you know, on the thing about
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 3: Twitter or X as it's called now, is that they
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 3: have a little button where you can push it. And
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 3: I guess it's Grok is the AI version or whatever.
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 3: And Grok will go back and check and see, is
• 1:09:24
  Speaker 3: this a real tweet or did this have some sort of,
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 3: you know, altered imagery or whatever? Um, and so, cause I,
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 3: I didn't want to mention it if it wasn't real. Um,
• 1:09:35
  Speaker 3: and so no, this, uh, person, Christy Dixon, I think
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 3: it is sent me this, uh, tweet from Annie Andrews,
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 3: not only holding up the Protect Trans Kids sticker, and
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 3: I think a lot of people have seen that photo,
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 3: but also her tweet of January 9th, 2024, the South
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 3: Carolina Republican supermajority is going to continue to bulldoze the
• 1:10:00
  Speaker 3: rights of trans kids and their families because the largest
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: institution in the state that exists to serve South Carolina
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 3: children should have told them to And I'll just use
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 3: the word blank off. I think you know what she typed.
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 3: To blank off last session, but instead did their bidding
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 3: for them. And so when I asked, is this a
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 3: real tweet or is this something that has been altered
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 3: in any way? According to Grok, it's unaltered in any way.
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 3: She posted this late on January 9th, 2024. The full
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 3: wording matches the screenshot. It goes on. It's still available
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 3: on her account. She's also posted related statements around that
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 3: same period supporting transgender youth, including I support trans kids
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 3: because I support kids. We need to do all we
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 3: can to protect trans kids. And so, again, that was
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 3: her rhetoric in 2024. It's a much different rhetoric in 2026.
• 1:10:59
  Speaker 6: And she already knew she was running in 2024. So
• 1:11:02
  Speaker 6: I'm surprised that, you know, if I guess you can't
• 1:11:07
  Speaker 6: really scrub social media these days. Somebody's going to find
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 6: you out, but I'm surprised she didn't try and bury
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 6: that at least a little bit more.
• 1:11:14
  Speaker 3: You know, I think that what was, it's hard to
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  Speaker 3: get into somebody else's mind, but I'm thinking that if
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  Speaker 3: I'm a Democrat running in, because that time in 2024,
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  Speaker 3: she was running for the first district, right? She was
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  Speaker 3: running against Nancy Mace.
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  Speaker 8: Right.
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  Speaker 3: And so if you look at the Charleston County area,
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  Speaker 3: it is a blue-leaning district. area of the state. It
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  Speaker 3: votes more Democrat than Republican. That's why you got a
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  Speaker 3: Democrat mayor. And it's kind of, I don't want to
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  Speaker 3: say amazing, but it is somewhat amazing that you continue
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  Speaker 3: to get Republicans representing the first district, despite that little
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  Speaker 3: window where Joe Cunningham represented you out of a snafu
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  Speaker 3: that happened with Former Governor Mark Sanford didn't really spend
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  Speaker 3: any money in the primaries, didn't expect to get beat,
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  Speaker 3: and he got beat. And then he got an unknown
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  Speaker 3: running against an unknown. And Joe Cunningham just happened to
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  Speaker 3: be a better candidate, according to the people down there.
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  Speaker 3: That's how that happened. I think that what she was
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  Speaker 3: thinking at that time, and I'm not saying that this
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  Speaker 3: is either her real thoughts or I'm not in her head.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know how she really feels. But I'm going
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  Speaker 3: to appeal to the most energetic part of our base.
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  Speaker 3: And as a doctor... The trans right issue is on
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  Speaker 3: the table. Everybody's talking about it. The Republicans are pushing
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  Speaker 3: back very hard on this. They don't want, you know,
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  Speaker 3: what they identify as boys and girls locker rooms. You
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  Speaker 3: would identify them as trans girls. So I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: push hard for that to try to energize the base,
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  Speaker 3: help with fundraising, and we can possibly flip this seat.
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  Speaker 3: I think that was her thinking then. And I don't
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  Speaker 3: know what her thinking was before. like when she was
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  Speaker 3: running against Lindsey Graham, because in all honesty, I don't
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  Speaker 3: think anybody even heard of her really like outside of
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  Speaker 3: the Charleston area. Nobody even knew who Annie Andrews was.
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  Speaker 3: Everything changed when Senator Graham passed away. And then all
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  Speaker 3: of a sudden she became a real, candidate. And as
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  Speaker 3: that happens, suddenly I got to seem like a responsible
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  Speaker 3: Senator type of person. I've got to get in the middle.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to be the person who represents everybody. I
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  Speaker 3: can't just be somebody who the left is excited about.
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  Speaker 3: I've got to excite the middle as well. She's done
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  Speaker 3: a great job in the last 90 days or so
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  Speaker 3: of doing that.
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  Speaker 6: Oh, and she's, I mean, she's blanketing the airwaves with
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  Speaker 6: ads right now. I, every time I look up at
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  Speaker 6: a television, I see her face.
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  Speaker 4: And again, that's where we've.
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  Speaker 6: Talked about where Darling Graham, even with the PAC money
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  Speaker 6: that's being spent now, people want to see their own candidates.
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  Speaker 6: They want to feel closer to that person. They want
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  Speaker 6: to be able to identify with that person. And Darling
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  Speaker 6: Graham's not getting the job done, at least not yet.
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  Speaker 3: Well, like you said, the Calvary's coming with some money
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  Speaker 3: from some outside PAC money. You've got some fundraisers going
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  Speaker 3: on this week with John Thune. And who's the other
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  Speaker 3: one that came to town or is coming to town?
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  Speaker 6: Well, Todd Blanche, the attorney general, is coming to town
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  Speaker 6: to do, I guess, a crime conference with her.
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  Speaker 10: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: So maybe that'll help as well. But yeah, the polling
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  Speaker 3: is very tight right now. Very tight between these two.
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  Speaker 3: And while I'm certainly pulling for Darlene, I gotta say,
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  Speaker 3: I like the fact that we got a tight race
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  Speaker 3: to talk about. It makes it exciting. If you've got
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  Speaker 3: thoughts on this race, use the talkback feature. We'd love
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  Speaker 3: to get you on. It is 839.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: She's a pediatrician.
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  Speaker 1: She's not a surgeon.
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  Speaker 4: Of course she never did any surgeries.
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  Speaker 3: There's the talk back. Thank you. Appreciate it, sir. Um,
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  Speaker 3: we're talking, he was talking obviously about Annie Andrews and
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  Speaker 3: her campaign ad that says that Darlene Graham's lying about
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  Speaker 3: her because, uh, she never has performed any transgender surgeries.
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  Speaker 3: And as the guy points out, yeah, she couldn't have,
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  Speaker 3: she's a pediatrician. So it's not a stretch to say
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  Speaker 3: I've never done that. Um, But she certainly was very
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  Speaker 3: vocal about her desire to have the South Carolina Statehouse
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  Speaker 3: and the Medical University of South Carolina and others support
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  Speaker 3: that type of move and didn't get her way there.
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  Speaker 3: And was she fired at the Medical University of South Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: I think that they... they separated from her at some
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  Speaker 3: point and she had to go into a different practice.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, the trans issue is, is an issue,
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  Speaker 3: but I don't think that that's the driving issue for anybody.
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  Speaker 3: Is it? I don't think that nobody's voting for or
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  Speaker 3: against her. Well, there might be some people who are
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 3: voting against her based off of that, but I think
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  Speaker 3: that would be a very slim part. It would be
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  Speaker 3: people who are more pro aligned with Trump and the,
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  Speaker 3: the trans issue is a small part. Now, Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 3: you know, called her, I don't even want to say it,
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  Speaker 3: but that, you know, it rhymes with Annie and he
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  Speaker 3: called her that numerous times. David Beasley, where, where has
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  Speaker 3: David Beasley been?
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  Speaker 4: Is he like winning a Nobel peace prize?
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  Speaker 10: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's, but, but isn't he like doing like
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  Speaker 3: some sort of political commentary or something like that? Because
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  Speaker 3: my wife was asking about him, the former governor of
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina came out and he was very offended and
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 3: took the, uh, here's his quote. This is abhorrent. Elections
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  Speaker 3: don't have to be about the cruelty and lies. South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina deserves better. I urge voters to look at the
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 3: merits of each candidate and cast their votes accordingly. We
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  Speaker 3: must reject politics based on division and hate. While South
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 3: Carolinians can strongly disagree with one another, we can do
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  Speaker 3: so civilly and with honest intentions for the betterment of
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  Speaker 3: our communities as well as being for our families. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, yes, but I mean, the fact that Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump used a slur in his post and then said
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  Speaker 3: so several times on a stage, and you're calling it out,
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  Speaker 3: makes it seem as if you're saying that Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 3: should be penalized. That's how it feels. And if you're
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 3: a Republican, you should recognize the dangers that Annie Andrews presents.
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  Speaker 3: Annie Andrews is a dangerous candidate because she's electable. And
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  Speaker 3: as she's electable, she then helps give the power to
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  Speaker 3: the Senate. And as we've pointed out, The power of
• 1:17:18
  Speaker 3: the Senate, if it's back in the hands of Chuck Schumer,
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 3: who is already a bootlicker to the far left, you're
• 1:17:24
  Speaker 3: just going to get all your wildest socialist nightmarish dreams
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  Speaker 3: will be coming true. So if you're a Republican recognizing
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 3: this as a team sport, you need to get on
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 3: the Darlene Graham bandwagon. And, you know, yes, Donald Trump
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  Speaker 3: was wrong for posting it and saying it and all that.
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  Speaker 3: But you drawing attention to it is not helping the matter.
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  Speaker 3: You need to focus on helping Darlene Graham get elected
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  Speaker 3: if you're a Republican. If you're not, then you're not.
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  Speaker 6: I just saw a great post that essentially summed up
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  Speaker 6: what we've been saying is, you know, Darlene Graham won
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  Speaker 6: the nomination. Now it's time for her to earn our
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 6: vote over the next, now what, 26 days? It's a
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  Speaker 6: little late in the game, but she hasn't really done
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  Speaker 6: that yet.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know that you're voting for Darlene Graham. I'll
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  Speaker 3: be honest with you. You're voting against the Democrats. That's
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  Speaker 3: the way it's going to be. You're either voting against
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  Speaker 3: the Democrats or you're writing in Ralph. You know, write
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  Speaker 3: in Ralph campaign is a vote for Annie Andrews. A
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  Speaker 3: vote for another candidate is a vote for Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 3: Every person who votes is going to be voting for
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  Speaker 3: either the Republican Party or the Democrat Party. That's how
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  Speaker 3: this game is played, and that's what it's coming down to.
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  Speaker 3: We've got to take a break. We're running late at 8.48.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Morning, guys. Just Chip and Swansea.
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  Speaker 14: You hit it right on the head. I'm not voting
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  Speaker 14: for open borders. I'm not voting for another chance of
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  Speaker 14: Democrats to take a shot at health care. I'm not
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  Speaker 14: voting for their policies with Israel. I'm not voting for
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  Speaker 14: a lot of things that that party stands for, even though.
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  Speaker 14: I didn't vote for Graham. I'm going to be there
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  Speaker 14: pulling that lever until something happens and we get politicians
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  Speaker 14: to take care of some business that needs to be
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  Speaker 14: taken care of.
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  Speaker 3: Certainly appreciate your talk back there, Jeff. Was it Swansea?
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  Speaker 4: Chip from Swansea.
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  Speaker 3: Chip from Swansea. Appreciate that, Chip. Yes, that's what we
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  Speaker 3: were talking about. Pretty much most of this hour, it
• 1:19:24
  Speaker 3: felt like, was the Annie Andrews, Darlene Graham campaigns because
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 3: of the fact that Graham is finally getting some money.
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  Speaker 3: And we're starting to see some ads and Annie Andrews
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  Speaker 3: quick to respond with her. Those are lies ads. And
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  Speaker 3: then we just kind of laid it out that you're
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 3: voting for a team at this point. And whether or
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  Speaker 3: not Annie Andrews was extreme two years ago and she's
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: moderated her views these days or she's faking it, it
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: doesn't matter because it's, again, about the left. versus the
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 3: right and the left is going way left while the
• 1:19:56
  Speaker 3: right seems to be coming more to the middle just
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 3: to be honest with you because they're not as right
• 1:20:01
  Speaker 3: as i'd like them to be on fiscal policy they
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 3: haven't been correct on fiscal policy for a lot of
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 3: conservatives for a lot of years but uh we'll we'll
• 1:20:10
  Speaker 3: we'll keep having that debate uh what's it called isaias
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 3: or whatever They are announcing that they're starting the evacuations
• 1:20:18
  Speaker 3: later on today in Alabama. So that's ramping up. We'll
• 1:20:21
  Speaker 3: keep an eye on it here with South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 3: We'll be back tomorrow after six.