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Show Rewind 8-11-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's morning news on one O three point five FM,
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  Speaker 1: five sixty AM WVOC, and ninety four to three WSC.
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  Speaker 2: It's Primary Day. Good morning everybody, six oh three. Kelley Nash,
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson. How are you today? I'm great. I'm excited.
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  Speaker 3: You are excited?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Did by the way, you didn't even tell me. Did
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  Speaker 2: you do early voting or are you going today?
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  Speaker 5: I always vote on election day.
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  Speaker 3: You're a traditionalist, I am.
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  Speaker 5: I am.
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  Speaker 2: Do you have like a special tie or something that
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  Speaker 2: you wear to the falls?
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  Speaker 6: No, nothing like that. And as I mentioned yesterday, my
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  Speaker 6: polling place has changed.
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  Speaker 3: I was going to say a lot of peoples have.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Mine is a school and they're you know, most counties
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  Speaker 6: are now allowing voters to walk in and out of
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  Speaker 6: the schools for safety reasons. So depending on where you are,
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  Speaker 6: your polling place is probably changed too.
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  Speaker 3: SC votes dot gov is the website.
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  Speaker 7: Correct.
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  Speaker 2: SC votes dot gov correct, and don't don't fall for imitations.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go to like a dot com or something. SC
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  Speaker 2: votes dot gov And then they will ask you some well,
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  Speaker 2: they're gonna ask you the county. They're gonna ask you
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  Speaker 2: your full name, and then they're gonna ask you the
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  Speaker 2: last four of your social Security and then they will
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  Speaker 2: tell you where to vote, because, as Christopher said, he
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  Speaker 2: votes in a school that was changed. I understand that
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  Speaker 2: there's even been some nonschool polling locations that have been moved.
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  Speaker 2: So if before you go today, just do it today,
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  Speaker 2: like right now, if you can, just put on sc
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  Speaker 2: votes dot gov.
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  Speaker 3: Gov and make sure that you know where you're going.
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  Speaker 2: I did it last night to make sure I knew
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  Speaker 2: where Angela, my wife, and I are supposed to vote.
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  Speaker 2: So we didn't want to miss out on it today
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  Speaker 2: because it's such a huge day. When's the last time
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina? I mean, Tim Scott was the last quote
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  Speaker 2: unquote new senator that we got. What was that twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: twenty twelve? I can't remember, so yeah, so yeah, but
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  Speaker 2: it had been twenty twelve because twenty fourteen was the
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  Speaker 2: Lindsay primary, which was I still talk about that when
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  Speaker 2: people say that, well, Lindsay Graham, you know, was not.
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  Speaker 2: He always had a problem with parts of the base,
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  Speaker 2: and don't I can't remember a bigger time than twenty fourteen,
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  Speaker 2: and that's when you had Nancy Mason the primary, a
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  Speaker 2: very popular at the time conservative senator, and Lee Bright.
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  Speaker 2: We had the Debt Bowers, who was a very popular
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  Speaker 2: pastor in Colombia. There was a bunch of people who
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  Speaker 2: ran against him. I can't remember all the names right now.
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  Speaker 2: One of them was like a retired general or something.
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  Speaker 2: We had like six people primary him in twenty fourteen
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  Speaker 2: and the results were exactly the same. It was like
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  Speaker 2: he got like fifty six percent of the vote, like
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  Speaker 2: he just that's what he does. He got fifty six
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  Speaker 2: percent of the Republicans behind him, which meant he was
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  Speaker 2: always going to win in the general election, which is
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  Speaker 2: why a lot of people are saying that whoever the
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  Speaker 2: next Senator is should be more in the mold of
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham. But we're hearing from a lot of other
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  Speaker 2: people who saying they should be completely different. Any thoughts
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  Speaker 2: on that, Christopher, Well, I mean.
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  Speaker 6: I'm looking at the polling, which you wonder if anyone
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  Speaker 6: is looking for a difference right now, because the latest
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  Speaker 6: poll came out late yesterday. The Trafalgar Group came out
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  Speaker 6: with a poll. It's I think that will be the
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  Speaker 6: final poll that drops before voting today and it listed
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  Speaker 6: Darling Graham with a huge lead, a nine point lead
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  Speaker 6: over Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 5: But she's not over. She's not over fifty to fifty percent.
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  Speaker 2: And that's that's the rub, right is you always got
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  Speaker 2: to get to If you get to a runoff, then
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  Speaker 2: it gets crazy. I mean, well this is crazy. What
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  Speaker 2: we've been living through is crazy, but it's going to
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  Speaker 2: get even crazier in a runoff.
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  Speaker 3: All right, well, big show today.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk to well not we're not talking
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  Speaker 2: to all of the candidates, but those who wanted to participate.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to talk to all of them today. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to also get a little visit. We recorded this yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: Scott bessen was in Charleston yesterday and we were honored here.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher and I that out of all of the radio
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  Speaker 2: shows he could call into in the Charleston market, I
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  Speaker 2: think it was Tim Scott's office recommended us. So very cool, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: very cool. We'll be talking with Scott Bessentt a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later on in the broadcast, talking about not only
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  Speaker 2: the renaming of Joint Base Lindsey Graham, but also you
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  Speaker 2: know what's going on with is his economic fury against Iran.
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  Speaker 2: What's going on with the fraud fight. I mean, so
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  Speaker 2: many things are happening. By the way, he told me
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  Speaker 2: there's a chance for you and I and everybody to
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  Speaker 2: get money if you report fraudsters. We'll talk about that
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  Speaker 2: and more. I think we'll get started with with one
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  Speaker 2: of the candidates. We've got a lot of candidates calling
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  Speaker 2: in today. We'll go with one of those.
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  Speaker 3: Next. It is South Carolina's Morning News from the.
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  Speaker 1: Midlands to the low Country. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Six twelve, and coming up on the show, we'll be
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  Speaker 2: talking with Mark Sandford. We're going to be talking with
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  Speaker 2: Russell Fry, We're going to be talking with Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to try to get to his many people.
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  Speaker 2: If anybody wants to call and we want to use
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  Speaker 2: a talkback feature, we'll try to get you on that
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  Speaker 2: invitation goes out to the candidates. One of the candidates
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  Speaker 2: who took us up on the offer was the man
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  Speaker 2: who primaried Lindsay Graham this year, and he's on the phone.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Mark Lynch. How you doing.
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  Speaker 8: I'm doing great. How are you, Killy?
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  Speaker 2: I'm fantastic. This crazy sprint is coming to an end.
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  Speaker 2: The finish line is in sight. How do you feel
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  Speaker 2: about it?
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  Speaker 8: I feel really good. We did so well in the
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  Speaker 8: debates and a lot of people that hadn't heard me
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  Speaker 8: before saw me in action that night. They realize, you know,
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  Speaker 8: they have the authority to use their rights to send
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  Speaker 8: these politicians home and get a real patriot in there,
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  Speaker 8: help get a successful businessman in office instead of a
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  Speaker 8: career politician.
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  Speaker 2: Well, all the pollsters are saying we're probably going to
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  Speaker 2: go to a runoff. Is that what you're seeing as well?
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  Speaker 2: That in all likelihood it's going to be just too
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  Speaker 2: left after tonight? Or is it going to be a winner?
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  Speaker 8: I hope I'm a winner with all the candidates, and
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  Speaker 8: it's probably the maths that's not there. It's probably going
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  Speaker 8: to definitely go to a runoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very tough when you have like nine or
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  Speaker 2: ten people running to get more than fifty percent, which
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  Speaker 2: is the rule here in South Carolina. So, in all likelihood,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to have a couple of more weeks of
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  Speaker 2: this fun and for volity, Are you ready to crisscross
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  Speaker 2: the state some more?
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  Speaker 8: Why not? We've been in this for over two years
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  Speaker 8: with a horrible attack from him, and over fifty million
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  Speaker 8: dollars spent against me. We still managed to punch a
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  Speaker 8: hole in his dam and get up right at thirty
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  Speaker 8: percent of the vote.
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  Speaker 2: Any final words, You know, people are heading out to
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  Speaker 2: the polls hopefully this morning. They're going to get up
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  Speaker 2: and get at them and go vote. Any thoughts that
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  Speaker 2: they should have ringing in their ears from the Lynch campaign.
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  Speaker 8: Like I've told everybody, I'm a lifelong South Carolinian, I'm
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  Speaker 8: a successful businessman. I've grown our family business now in
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  Speaker 8: our seventy fourth year with God at the center, and
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  Speaker 8: we've grown our business thirty five times debt free corporately
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  Speaker 8: and personally. I'm an ordained deacon. I've been married to
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  Speaker 8: the same woman for thirty eight years. We have two children,
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  Speaker 8: four beautiful grandchildren, and we come in the name of
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  Speaker 8: Jesus Christ to bring back the foundation that our country
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  Speaker 8: was founded on. We've got to come back to God first.
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  Speaker 8: That's the only answer, all right.
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  Speaker 3: Mark Lynch.
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  Speaker 2: Two questions that I've been asking every candidate. First, one,
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  Speaker 2: are you having a party tonight where Lynch supporters could
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  Speaker 2: show up?
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  Speaker 8: We are having a big cree party at a restaurant
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  Speaker 8: called Mister Halipino in Woodruff where we live, Okay, and
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  Speaker 8: people are welcome to come there and celebrate with us
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  Speaker 8: and watch the polling come in.
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  Speaker 2: And the final question is will you support whoever wins
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  Speaker 2: ultimately the GOP nomination against doctor and Andrews.
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  Speaker 8: Absolutely, we have to maintain control here with a Republican
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  Speaker 8: party in our state and not lose it to the
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  Speaker 8: Democrat socialist and Andrews.
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  Speaker 7: No way.
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  Speaker 8: And I'll tell you what, There's not a better candidate
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  Speaker 8: to go up against her than me that understands everything
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  Speaker 8: she is. I'm the complete opposite. I'm the one hundred
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  Speaker 8: percent pro life candidate endorsed by Abby Johnson and Equal
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  Speaker 8: Protection South Carolina. We need somebody that understands that.
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  Speaker 3: Well.
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  Speaker 2: It's been a pleasure speaking with you, sir. We've had
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  Speaker 2: you on a couple of times, and we wish you
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  Speaker 2: all the best tonight. And if you're fortunate enough to
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  Speaker 2: make it into that runoff, I guess we'll probably talk
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  Speaker 2: to you in a week or two.
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  Speaker 3: So best of.
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  Speaker 7: Luck, sir.
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  Speaker 8: I look forward to it.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you, Kelly, thank you Mark Lynch. Best of luck, Yes, sir,
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  Speaker 7: got all right.
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  Speaker 2: Well there you go, So that's candidate number one in
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  Speaker 2: the books for this morning. And he thought, Sir Christopher Thompson, well.
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  Speaker 6: Kelly, let's make it clear that you extended this invitation
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  Speaker 6: to all the candidates.
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  Speaker 2: Everybody's and by the way, yesterday on social media, I.
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  Speaker 3: Was putting it out there.
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  Speaker 2: I felt was it Shane Beemer that used to say
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  Speaker 2: who's next?
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  Speaker 3: Or was it Dion Sanders.
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  Speaker 2: I've tried to remember which choose to do that, like
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  Speaker 2: in the recruiting and so I would say, so yesterday
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  Speaker 2: I was like, big show lined up for tomorrow. I
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  Speaker 2: started naming all the people and that I.
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  Speaker 3: Was like, who's next, Who's next?
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  Speaker 2: So I do have a couple of other people who
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  Speaker 2: not candidates, but people who just wanted to be on
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  Speaker 2: the show, like, uh, well, like the sc Policy Council, right,
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  Speaker 2: they they got it. They're like, yeah, when can we
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  Speaker 2: get on? So we're gonna be talking to the SC
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  Speaker 2: Policy Council, not today because we're so busy, but about
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  Speaker 2: the state House vote on the budget, which is supposed
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  Speaker 2: to come down today sometimes so we'll talk to them
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  Speaker 2: tomorrow about that, but.
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  Speaker 5: That would be our lead story in any other day.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's gonna be.
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  Speaker 2: We got so much going on, Christopher, So anyway, yes,
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  Speaker 2: excited to be talking to all the candidates whoever, who's
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  Speaker 2: ever interested. If you don't want to take advantage of
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  Speaker 2: the platform, that's fine, you do it, you do you girl.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: It is six seventeen on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina is Morning News on one O
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  Speaker 1: three five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
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  Speaker 1: ninety three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: Six twenty three.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson Kelly Nash together, South Carolina's Morning News. I'm
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  Speaker 2: a little bummed, Christopher that you're going on like a vacation.
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  Speaker 2: Of course you've earned it, but we're flowing so well.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 3: And then next week I will be off.
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  Speaker 2: So it's just a lot more chaos to add to
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  Speaker 2: the special day of primaries here.
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  Speaker 5: But then we'll be back, We'll both be back and
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  Speaker 5: for the duration.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, we have that to look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: In the meantime, another Fauci bombshell has dropped, and.
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  Speaker 3: This is.
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  Speaker 2: All right, I'm going to tie it all in together.
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  Speaker 2: So yesterday the President signed an executive order. We're reducing
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  Speaker 2: the amount of vaccinations that a child is recommended to get.
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  Speaker 2: We were currently at twenty seven in America before your
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  Speaker 2: age two. That is by far the highest on Earth
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  Speaker 2: by far. So when you saw like Jake Tapper and
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  Speaker 2: the mainstream media melting down yesterday like he's rejecting tayat, well,
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  Speaker 2: why don't they have that same science in Canada. Why
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  Speaker 2: don't they have that same science in Germany or England
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  Speaker 2: or anywhere else on Earth. There's nowhere else on Earth
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  Speaker 2: that even gets close to twenty shots, never mind twenty
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  Speaker 2: seven shots before your second birthday. Now, put that to
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  Speaker 2: one side. Where we're trying to move in a new direction.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to try to lower the amount of shots.
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  Speaker 2: I think they're going to twelve, maybe eleven or twelve
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  Speaker 2: shots before your second birthday. When I was a kid,
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  Speaker 2: it was six and I'm here and you made it.
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  Speaker 2: We all made it. But we'll put that to the side.
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  Speaker 2: We'll also put in that right now. As far as
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  Speaker 2: chronic diseases ranked by countries, United States where number one,
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  Speaker 2: where number one. More Americans have more chronic diseases by
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  Speaker 2: a population than any other country. And that's whether you're
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  Speaker 2: looking at it by one hundred thousand or you're just
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  Speaker 2: looking at it in raw numbers, Yes, we have more
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  Speaker 2: chronic diseases than countries with billions of people. Now again,
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  Speaker 2: I'll understand that there's we have been are reporting and
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  Speaker 2: all that, but we are not a healthy population by far.
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  Speaker 2: All of that to say that as they're bemoaning that
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  Speaker 2: Tony Fauci. This came out yesterday, Ron Johnson released that
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  Speaker 2: Fauci's personal text messages. We're going back to January of
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty one. He's telling the people, what's her face?
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  Speaker 2: That not Burk's the other lady, Rochelle Willnsky, Rachelle Wilynsky
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  Speaker 2: and the Surgeon General at the time. He's telling them
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  Speaker 2: his concerns over this vaccination, specifically pregnant women, and he's
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  Speaker 2: talking about what he's seeing and he's saying this could
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  Speaker 2: lead to miscarriages. That's what That's what he's telling his cohorts,
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  Speaker 2: his colleagues. But then he gets on TV and he says.
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  Speaker 9: This under the EU way, approximately twenty thousand pregnant women
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  Speaker 9: have been vaccinated with no red flags, as we say,
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  Speaker 9: and this is being monitored by the the FDA.
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  Speaker 2: So he's not expressing any concerns, not letting anybody know
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  Speaker 2: that they privately, I think they're the you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I think there's something going on here, he says, no,
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  Speaker 2: go and get it now. The bombshell that came out
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  Speaker 2: is the authors of the study that they were using
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  Speaker 2: showed a miscarriage rate of twelve point six percent if
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  Speaker 2: you took the vaccination. I don't know what a normal
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  Speaker 2: miscarriage rate is for somebody in the first trimester. That
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  Speaker 2: seems a bit high to me, but maybe it's not.
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  Speaker 2: But I will tell you that what the actual numbers show.
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  Speaker 3: That is high.
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  Speaker 2: According to the now revealed raw data from five years ago,
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  Speaker 2: eighty two percent miscarriage rate from women who got vaccinated
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  Speaker 2: in the first trimester eighty two percent.
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  Speaker 3: Fauci says, no red flags.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what a red flag for him would be,
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  Speaker 2: because if you're telling me the twenty thousand women, and
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  Speaker 2: if I just went with an eight eighty percent, if
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  Speaker 2: twenty thousand women are pregnant and sixteen thousand of them
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  Speaker 2: have miscarriages, I think we have a massive problem.
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  Speaker 3: That is more than a red flag.
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  Speaker 2: And for Fauci to bury that information and not talk
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  Speaker 2: about we're finding out about it in the year, twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty six, year of our Lord, when they knew about
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  Speaker 2: it in twenty twenty one, in twenty twenty two and
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three and twenty twenty four.
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  Speaker 3: What the flip, Christopher?
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  Speaker 6: That's imagine being a woman who experienced that tragedy and
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  Speaker 6: then hearing that news yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: It's but trust the science. Trust he is the science.
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  Speaker 3: Trust the science.
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  Speaker 2: You get put in a position of authority, You get
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  Speaker 2: put in a position where we think we you're giving
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  Speaker 2: us real data we can use, and you hide the data,
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  Speaker 2: you lie about the actual figures, and then when it's exposed,
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  Speaker 2: you say that it's us. That's crazy. They're going to
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  Speaker 2: continue to try to gaslight us and tell us, oh
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  Speaker 2: my gosh, we're going from twenty seven down to twelve shots.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to kill all Americans. Well, why are the
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  Speaker 2: other countries at twelve to fifteen shots? What happened to
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  Speaker 2: the science in Germany? What happened to the science in Australia?
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  Speaker 2: What happened to the science in Canada?
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  Speaker 3: What? Oh, they're they're backwards?
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  Speaker 7: Is that? What?
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  Speaker 2: That is.
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  Speaker 3: Very frustrating?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, well you know what, what's good news? Scott Bessant
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  Speaker 2: decided to pick make us his favorite Columbia Morning, Columbia
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  Speaker 2: and Charleston Boarding. So we will talk to the Treasury
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  Speaker 2: Secretary next on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: Live from the State Capitol. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You probably just heard in the news break that Scott
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  Speaker 2: Bessant was in town for the renaming of Joint Based
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  Speaker 2: Charleston to Joint Base Lindsay Graham, and we were honored
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  Speaker 2: that he decided to call into our show.
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  Speaker 3: Scott, how are you?
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  Speaker 4: I am good, Kelly, how are you?
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  Speaker 3: I am living the American dream.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you for joining me, sir, and what a pleasure
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  Speaker 2: to have you back in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: How was the visit?
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  Speaker 4: It was great, It was great. It was quick and
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  Speaker 4: show the government can move quickly. I've never seen anything
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  Speaker 4: a credit to Elliott Suming, whose idea was and then
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  Speaker 4: Helen Hill piled on and they got the idea to me,
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  Speaker 4: and then it went to the President and then bow
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  Speaker 4: executed very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: It was a beautiful ceremony. I saw some of your comments,
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  Speaker 2: just fantastic stuff from you. I love the idea of
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: how you kind of chronicled Lindsay Graham's life.
• 16:28
  Speaker 3: And his dedication to this state.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: And I think you used a phrase something like, you know,
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: no man has gone as far as Lindsay Graham has left,
• 16:35
  Speaker 2: but never left the state exactly.
• 16:37
  Speaker 4: And also he's like a C seventeen. He's the workhorse.
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: And did you say you sat on your side porch
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: and right there in Charleston and watched those planes.
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: Yees, Well they come in right over the harbor, so
• 16:49
  Speaker 4: they're coming back from wherever, Middle East, Europe, Africa.
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: Again, we have the Treasurer Secretary on the phone with
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: the Scott Besson. Pleasure to have you on with us.
• 16:58
  Speaker 2: As you know, you are so busy doing so many
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: different things. But I think one of the most amazing
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: things that you and the Trump administration have put together
• 17:08
  Speaker 2: is the Trump Bonds. This is so incredible for future generations.
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: But Kelly, it's not actually bonds. It's better it's an
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: equity state, so it's an investment in a diversified index fund.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: There are Trump Accounts open to every child in the
• 17:24
  Speaker 4: US under age eighteen. For those children born during President
• 17:28
  Speaker 4: Trump's term, Treasury will contribute one thousand dollars to the
• 17:33
  Speaker 4: accounts as seed investment. And then we also have some
• 17:38
  Speaker 4: great philanthropists putting money in. Many states are putting money in.
• 17:41
  Speaker 4: So everybody should go to Trump accounts dot gov and
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: get them open. And we want to make everyone a
• 17:47
  Speaker 4: shareholder in our great economy.
• 17:49
  Speaker 3: I'm talking with Scott Besson.
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: Are you expecting this to continue after the Trump administration
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: or is that just at the discretion of the future president.
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: It'll we have the discretion of the future president. But
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: I think this is an idea whose time has come.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: Thirty eight percent of household in the US have no
• 18:06
  Speaker 4: exposure to the equity market, either through direct equity ownership
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: or four oh one case, and I think the goal
• 18:13
  Speaker 4: should be an ownership society. Everybody should have a piece
• 18:17
  Speaker 4: of the action. And here at Treasury, we're working on
• 18:21
  Speaker 4: financial literacy. It's something my family and I have been
• 18:24
  Speaker 4: doing for more than two decades.
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: One of the things that a lot of people talk
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: about is Iran, and it seems like the president is
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: really more or less content to just let it. Seems
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: like you're handling it right now with Operation Economic Fury,
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: and you're just squeezing the life out of Iran.
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: It fields. Yeah.
• 18:42
  Speaker 4: Look, when I grew up in the Low Country, we
• 18:46
  Speaker 4: live near a swamp, and there are a lot of
• 18:47
  Speaker 4: poisonous snakes in the yard, and we would take a raak,
• 18:51
  Speaker 4: a hooe, a machete cut its head off. But anybody
• 18:55
  Speaker 4: who's ever done that, note the snake can keep squirming
• 19:00
  Speaker 4: until the sun goes down. And right now we've cut
• 19:02
  Speaker 4: the head of the Iranian snake alf it's still squirming.
• 19:07
  Speaker 4: We've got it in a vice grip. And we are
• 19:10
  Speaker 4: going to continue pressuring their economy because that's what will
• 19:14
  Speaker 4: eventually bring them to the table. They've got food inflation
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: of almost two hundred percent, regular inflation of over one hundred,
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: their currencies collapse. They're not able to pay the troops.
• 19:25
  Speaker 4: The police have stopped showing up for work, and they're
• 19:29
  Speaker 4: terrorist proxies around the region, the Huti's Hezbola Hamas. They're
• 19:34
  Speaker 4: having trouble paying them. So at President Trump's direction, we
• 19:39
  Speaker 4: a treasury are going to keep squeezing them.
• 19:43
  Speaker 2: If you hadn't brought up, Christopher, the idea of the
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: terrorist groups not getting paid, it could have sounded like
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: a Joe Biden administration, a little bit exploding inflation, nobody's
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: getting paid. It was miserable, But anyway, we can't play
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: the entire interview with Scott Besson, but we do have
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: it on the National Briefing podcast, and again that's a
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: daily podcast, goes about ten minutes long. You can hear
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: the entire interview. We only played a few moments of
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: it here we have. We'll play more of it little
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: later on maybe the seven or eight o'clock hour today.
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: But Christopher Thompson, this is a big day here in
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: South Carolina. It was nice to have Scott Besson home,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: but we have more pressing matters that we have to
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: get to, including more candidates.
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: To talk to.
• 20:27
  Speaker 5: I can't wait. Who's up next?
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: You know what, that's a good question. What do you think?
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: How about the former governor?
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: Okay, we're gonna go with the former governor, the man
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: who goes around the state with pork and barrel, his
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: favorite pigs. We'll talk with Mark Sandford next on South
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News.
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: All right, talking to the former governor of South Carolina,
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Mark Sandford.
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: Your polling is coming to an ending. How how did
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: you feel it when?
• 20:56
  Speaker 10: Well, we'll find that this evening. We'll see what the
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: voters have to say. Well, you know, I'll just say this,
• 21:05
  Speaker 10: We're running all the way through the finish line. We've
• 21:08
  Speaker 10: tried as best we can to cover as many corners
• 21:12
  Speaker 10: in South Carolina as we could and to talk to
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: as many people as we can, and resoundingly people have said,
• 21:18
  Speaker 10: you know.
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: You're right.
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: It just doesn't make any sense to have Washington spending
• 21:22
  Speaker 10: a bunch of money it doesn't have, and then turning
• 21:24
  Speaker 10: around and printing money that's not there. It is diminishing
• 21:29
  Speaker 10: the value of what I can buy every day, diminishing
• 21:33
  Speaker 10: my purchasing power. There is an affordability issue on a
• 21:36
  Speaker 10: whole host of things, and that's tied to something a
• 21:39
  Speaker 10: whole lot bigger than spending or even affordability, and that
• 21:42
  Speaker 10: is our ability to pursue the American dream. I mean,
• 21:44
  Speaker 10: I worry about my boys.
• 21:45
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people are very concerned. And
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: you brought up the figure it took us one hundred
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and sixty eight years to get to a trillion and
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: now we're doing it every hundred days, which is crazy.
• 21:54
  Speaker 10: I mean, you know, no civilization across the pages of
• 21:57
  Speaker 10: time has been all the outrun math. And when you
• 22:00
  Speaker 10: get to the point where interest is your fastest growing
• 22:03
  Speaker 10: federal categories spending, you got a problem.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: So as people hopefully head out to the polls, I've
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: been looking at some of the early voting numbers and
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: it seems like you know your home area, Dorchester, Berkeley,
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Charleston counties, they've been kind of under performing at least
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: the early voting. Hopefully they're going to get up and
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: out it today.
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: But whether they're.
• 22:23
  Speaker 2: Listening to us in the low Country or in the
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: Midlands right now, what is your final messages people are
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: heading out.
• 22:28
  Speaker 10: To the polls would emphasize how important this is to
• 22:31
  Speaker 10: not only each one of us, but to our loved ones.
• 22:34
  Speaker 10: Do we get that course corrected or we've got real
• 22:36
  Speaker 10: problems ahead? And what I would say is, I think
• 22:39
  Speaker 10: what stands out about our candidacy is the fact that
• 22:42
  Speaker 10: I actually did this when I was governors out Carelia.
• 22:44
  Speaker 10: We held the line on government spending as no governor
• 22:47
  Speaker 10: has done before since. And I think that people would
• 22:50
  Speaker 10: like to see that mentality up in DC.
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: I've asked the other candidates this, are you going to
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: support whoever the GOP nominates.
• 22:56
  Speaker 10: Yeah, that's the nature of the process, right and so absolutely,
• 23:00
  Speaker 10: But Helpe, it's the other way around.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: I hope they're all supporting you, right. Are you going
• 23:06
  Speaker 2: to be having a party tonight?
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: We will be at Kick and Chicken there on Coleman
• 23:10
  Speaker 10: Boulevard in there in Mount Pleasant N Street from where
• 23:13
  Speaker 10: I live, and.
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: They should bring their own bottle. You have done a
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: great job of marketing. I think in this campaign. The
• 23:22
  Speaker 2: Sanford for Senate signs were brilliant. I thought the truck
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: was fantastic. Some mixed reviews, I thought on the pigs.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: How did you think the pigs thing went?
• 23:30
  Speaker 10: Well, you know, they've been mixed reviews on that from
• 23:32
  Speaker 10: day one. That's right, you know, go back to you know,
• 23:36
  Speaker 10: basically twenty years ago when I originally did that. But
• 23:38
  Speaker 10: I think there's something to be taken away from that,
• 23:40
  Speaker 10: and that is I think that you want in Washington
• 23:44
  Speaker 10: somebody with that measure of resolve and measure commitment and
• 23:48
  Speaker 10: going the extra mile and watching it out for your pocketbook.
• 23:51
  Speaker 7: Or your wallet.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: Well, Mark Sandford, I think you've done a great job
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: in the campaign. I wish you all the best tonight,
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll get you back on maybe in a
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: runoff here in the next couple of week.
• 24:00
  Speaker 10: We'll soon see.
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: All right, there's the former governor, and I just got
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: an email from Kevin in Charleston says the reason Charleston
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: County voting has been so low is because the only
• 24:10
  Speaker 2: place to vote was downtown Charleston. No one was going
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: down there. Big turnout come Tuesday. So we'll see if
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: he's correct.
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: If you're listening to South Carolina This Morning News.
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: All right, Kelly Nash here, Christopher Thompson and I came
• 24:23
  Speaker 2: on the air, and the first thing you brought up
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: was the Trafalgar Pole. That kind of lined up exactly
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: with the resonance a residence poll from yesterday. As far
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: as Darlene Graham having a seven point lead over who's
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: going to be number two, the big difference is in
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: this poll Sanford and Fry are within the margin of
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: error with Ralph.
• 24:47
  Speaker 3: Norman at number two.
• 24:48
  Speaker 2: So it could be according to this poll Sandford, Fry
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: or Norman coming in second tonight.
• 24:53
  Speaker 6: Kelly, I think all the polls are indicating that is
• 24:56
  Speaker 6: your big four, and the question is if it goes
• 25:00
  Speaker 6: to a runoff, it appears to be Darling Graham who
• 25:03
  Speaker 6: will be her opponent.
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: But you know, I'm excited to see how the polls
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: with what we see tonight, because when you looked at
• 25:10
  Speaker 2: the residance pole yesterday we saw I think it was
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: a six point difference.
• 25:15
  Speaker 3: Norman was ahead by six in that pole. My goodness.
• 25:19
  Speaker 5: Well, it depends on who gets out the vote today.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: Exactly, big, big, big revelations tonight. All right, speaking of
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: the candidates, Russell Fry supposed to be joined by him
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: just after seven on South Carolina's Morning.
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: South Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM,
• 25:41
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• 25:46
  Speaker 2: All Right, good morning Midlands, good morning Low Country.
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: On the phone.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: The guy who's got to be thrilled with the new
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: polling that came out, Russell Fry, Good morning.
• 25:55
  Speaker 7: Sir, good Morning's great to be on the show and
• 25:58
  Speaker 7: thanks for having me.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: Man.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: This is the Trafalgar poll that dropped last night. Uh
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: puts you within well within the margin of air. You
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: and Mark Sandford are both within the margin of era
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: of Ralph Norman for the number two spot right now.
• 26:14
  Speaker 2: The polling the day previous had you back I think
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: like five points or something like that. So this is
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: apparently the momentum is picking up for Russell Fry.
• 26:24
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Look, we're seeing late you know, we're seeing people
• 26:27
  Speaker 7: break our way. I think that, but I think Kelly,
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: I mean, it's lights out. I've felt this on the
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: ground for a long time. And some of the polling
• 26:35
  Speaker 7: I'd say maybe ten days ago. You know, like that's
• 26:38
  Speaker 7: not where it's at, Like instinctively in your gut, you
• 26:41
  Speaker 7: just knew with the energy the people who were showed
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: up to events. Look, I've done thirty events in about
• 26:46
  Speaker 7: ten days. I mean, we have been lights out across
• 26:49
  Speaker 7: the state as fast as we possibly can. But there's
• 26:52
  Speaker 7: a real, uh, there's a real energy behind, you know,
• 26:56
  Speaker 7: a new conservative voice, a new conservative day, somebody who
• 27:01
  Speaker 7: is focused on the economics of the kitchen table, who
• 27:05
  Speaker 7: wants to help families. Look, I didn't grow up as
• 27:08
  Speaker 7: much I know how this feels like it just uh
• 27:12
  Speaker 7: and and having a candidate will to not just highlight
• 27:15
  Speaker 7: the issues and use the buzzwords like affordability, but who
• 27:19
  Speaker 7: talk about meaningful conservative policy that you can do benefit
• 27:24
  Speaker 7: your family, right, I mean that you need more affordable
• 27:27
  Speaker 7: energy that lower your lowers your power bills, that you
• 27:30
  Speaker 7: need a tax climate that UH is better, that's more
• 27:34
  Speaker 7: supportive of families that you need, somebody that's that's watching
• 27:38
  Speaker 7: out for our core values and and and beating back
• 27:42
  Speaker 7: in every which way possible. Uh, this government overreach on
• 27:45
  Speaker 7: our faith, in our daily lives, the regulatory regime that's
• 27:48
  Speaker 7: strangling our businesses, some of the some of the easy
• 27:51
  Speaker 7: ways that you can you can tackle that and get
• 27:54
  Speaker 7: the government out of the way. This is all part
• 27:56
  Speaker 7: and parcel to you know, a common sense of jet
• 28:00
  Speaker 7: that will absolutely deliver, you know, relief to the middle class.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Talking with Russell Fry tonight, we're going to find out
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: how how it all turns out. Are you a couple
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: of questions I've been asking all the candidates. First, are
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: you having a party that the general publics could come
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: to UH to watch with you?
• 28:18
  Speaker 7: No, we're saving everything for post runoffs. Today we assume
• 28:22
  Speaker 7: we would be in a runoff. We knew that we
• 28:24
  Speaker 7: were gonna, you know, be right there, and so we're
• 28:27
  Speaker 7: kind of huddled. We know that the just the way
• 28:29
  Speaker 7: that how tired it's been, it's been that tight for
• 28:31
  Speaker 7: a couple of days on our internals that we'd probably
• 28:34
  Speaker 7: be waiting up till you know, midnight for the final
• 28:37
  Speaker 7: results that may come down to a couple of handful
• 28:39
  Speaker 7: of votes. And uh, and I wanted to make sure
• 28:43
  Speaker 7: that we were putting all of the resources that have
• 28:45
  Speaker 7: been donated not to a you know, a preemptive party,
• 28:49
  Speaker 7: but getting out the vote for the runoffs coming up
• 28:52
  Speaker 7: in two weeks. So I'm going to be in Columbia,
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: not not at the beach, but we'll be to impress
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: all the way through and uh, just make sure we're
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: getting everything ready for another two weeks.
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: Sprint all right, and Russell Fryes on the phone with
• 29:06
  Speaker 2: us as it gets ready for the election today. Another question,
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: it's I've been asking all the candidates this, but it's
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: been particularly chippy between you and Darlene Graham. But whoever
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: wins the primary ultimately, because we're probably heading to a
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: two week runoff. Whether it's you were obviously you'll support yourself,
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: but if it was somebody else, are you gonna are
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: you willing to commit to commit? You know, I am
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: supporting whoever the GOP nominates.
• 29:33
  Speaker 7: Yeah, look, I mean I'm a conservative at heart. This
• 29:35
  Speaker 7: is and I've done this since you know, since uh,
• 29:38
  Speaker 7: you know, for a long time is that you know,
• 29:41
  Speaker 7: sometimes you got a little family squabble, right like this
• 29:43
  Speaker 7: happens at a Thanksgiving dinner, But you come around, you
• 29:47
  Speaker 7: gather around and you make sure that you support your nominee.
• 29:50
  Speaker 7: It's a it's a team sport. Uh. And you know
• 29:53
  Speaker 7: where we are in a country. But the radical Left
• 29:56
  Speaker 7: is absolutely coming after you know the foundation of this country,
• 30:02
  Speaker 7: you see it and the people they're nominating. So we
• 30:04
  Speaker 7: don't have a lot of time, and we don't have
• 30:06
  Speaker 7: a lot of wasted energy that we can spend on
• 30:10
  Speaker 7: being mad or disgruntles. I think we all have to
• 30:14
  Speaker 7: come together. I think about the movie three hundred right
• 30:16
  Speaker 7: where where the Spartans, the three hundred Spartans are kind
• 30:20
  Speaker 7: of withstanding the hordes of the Persians. I mean, this
• 30:23
  Speaker 7: is kind of what's coming at us right now with
• 30:26
  Speaker 7: the Left, and so we got a band together. We
• 30:28
  Speaker 7: have to we have to close ranks and make sure
• 30:30
  Speaker 7: that we support each other.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: Fantastic stuff, Russell Fry. So, any final thoughts as people
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: are heading out to the polls. The polls just opened
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: a few moments ago. Is they head out between now
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: and seven pm tonight? Any final thoughts from the Fry campaign.
• 30:45
  Speaker 7: Yeah. Absolutely, Look I'm in it to win it. And
• 30:48
  Speaker 7: I think when you when you look at this race
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: and how important is think about the foundation of this country.
• 30:54
  Speaker 7: We serve about two hundred and fifty years this incredible
• 30:57
  Speaker 7: American experiment, and the path before us is are we
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: going to go down the slow, deteriorating role of socialism?
• 31:06
  Speaker 7: Are we going to go down into a system of
• 31:09
  Speaker 7: government that replaces God with government that destroys the middle class?
• 31:14
  Speaker 7: That's what we have to do. We owe it to
• 31:16
  Speaker 7: our forefathers to think about this moment and what has
• 31:20
  Speaker 7: already made us great, which is our faith, our appreciation
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: is here is to free enterprise, our conservative values. These
• 31:27
  Speaker 7: are the things that have made us a truly great nation.
• 31:31
  Speaker 7: And what Washington needs right now is a fight or
• 31:34
  Speaker 7: somebody in the arena, not somebody who just goes and
• 31:37
  Speaker 7: pushes a button. And they might talk on the news
• 31:39
  Speaker 7: and they might sound good, but who is in the
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: trenches every day pushing and who has delivered results. I've
• 31:45
  Speaker 7: done that. I don't just go up to Washington and
• 31:48
  Speaker 7: sit around and vote the right way. We've got a
• 31:51
  Speaker 7: very conservative record, very conservative by all accounts. We're voting
• 31:56
  Speaker 7: the right way and have been for years, but it's
• 31:59
  Speaker 7: not enough. People want battle tested warriors to get the
• 32:03
  Speaker 7: job done too.
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: Well, Russell fry best elect tonight. If you're fortunate enough
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: to make it into the runoff. Hopefully we'll be talking
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: to you over the next couple of weeks as we
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: lead up.
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: To the big day.
• 32:12
  Speaker 7: Yelly, thanks, thanks for doing this, and thanks for letting
• 32:15
  Speaker 7: candidates like us have a enter the marketplace of ideas.
• 32:19
  Speaker 7: It's important, all right.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: We certainly appreciate you putting your hat into the ring,
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Russell Frye, and we will be talking with more candidates.
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: I think we should take a quick break right now
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: and be back with more on South Carolina's morning news from.
• 32:30
  Speaker 1: The Midlands to the low Country. This is South Carolina's
• 32:34
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: All right, so back to back.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: We heard from Mark Sandford and we've heard from Russell Frye.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Coming up in just a moment, we're going to hear
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: from Ralph Norman.
• 32:43
  Speaker 5: Alad you heard from Mark Lynch.
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: We did hear from Mark Lynch as well, but I
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: specifically wanted to talk about Sanford and Frye and Ralph
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: Norman because according to the Trafalgar poll that came out
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: those three are within the margin of error. So Norman
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: at nineteen point five, Fry at eighteen point four, Sandford
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: at eighteen point three. And I said, I reposted that
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: and said, it's going to be interesting to see how
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: tonight's seven point lee for Graham holds up, because she's
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: at seven points in both the Trafalgar and the Resonance poll.
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: But it's the Trafalger poll that's scot. I mean, it's
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: a world of difference as to who could be number two.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: And when I posted it, a guy named Steve Michael,
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: who I don't know that if I've met Steve. He
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: is the president of Victory Enterprises, all right, So he said,
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: I love the way he wrote this, Christopher, this gets me.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: It's kind of like, you know, my first love was sports.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: You got to live my dream by the way, and
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: then and then I fell in love with politics. But
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: politics is a lot like sports. Except in politics, when
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: you're listening to news talk radio as opposed to sports
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: talk radio, you actually can have an impact on the
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: final results of the game.
• 33:54
  Speaker 3: The only time I can impact the game, Cocks.
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: Is like when I'm screaming when the other team has
• 33:57
  Speaker 2: the ball to try to get off sides so year,
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: he says could be any of the three. This is
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Steve Michael's analysis of that thing. Sandford has surged and
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: gone unattached or I guess I think he meant unattacked
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: till Graham ran some streaming digital attacks over the weekend.
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: I would see those. I don't know about those. But
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: then it says fry and Norman's districts have overperformed in
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: early voting.
• 34:22
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we talked about how there was a surgeon York,
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: there was a surgeon or County. Those are two big
• 34:28
  Speaker 6: places for Ralph Norman and Russell Frye, respectively.
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: Where does Greenville Spartanburg turn? Does Lynch cut into Norman's
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: base vote? Does Sandford get more of the Midlands vote
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: share than had been expected? Do the or put or county? Oh,
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: I guess he meant to put or like h O
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: R Ry, But it's O RI I here counties. Maybe
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: I'm misinterpreting it show up today, it's or maybe meant
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: to put other counties, but he does. And it's a
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: nail bier. It is a nail biterer.
• 34:58
  Speaker 6: It is and it it sounds simplistic to say, oh,
• 35:01
  Speaker 6: it's It all depends on vote turnout. But that is
• 35:04
  Speaker 6: exactly what this is going to come down to. Throw
• 35:06
  Speaker 6: the polls out If if people are dissuaded by the
• 35:09
  Speaker 6: fact that they can't get to their normal polling place
• 35:12
  Speaker 6: and just turn around and go to work instead. I mean,
• 35:16
  Speaker 6: it's going to be key as to who actually gets
• 35:18
  Speaker 6: out the vote. That's why you get all those texts
• 35:20
  Speaker 6: last night, That's why we get all the mailers in
• 35:22
  Speaker 6: the last couple of days, because these candidates are desperate
• 35:26
  Speaker 6: for every vote they can get.
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, it's.
• 35:29
  Speaker 2: Like it's like it's like Carolina Clemson. We're leading into
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: the huge game and it's a Some are saying this way,
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: some are saying that.
• 35:36
  Speaker 6: Way, and we need to give out that to the
• 35:39
  Speaker 6: website again. Sc votes dot gov.
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta there.
• 35:42
  Speaker 6: Need to double check your polling place to know for
• 35:45
  Speaker 6: sure where you're going before you go vote.
• 35:47
  Speaker 2: Great point, Christopher, And it only takes a moment. I
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: mean I think I did it last night in less
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: than one minute. Yeah, So se votes dot gov correct,
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: Do not go to the dot COM's or the dot whatevers,
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: it's dot gov. And then again, sixty seconds or less,
• 36:02
  Speaker 2: you'll know exactly where your polling station is because a
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: lot of polling has moved based off of being the
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: first day of school in so many districts today.
• 36:09
  Speaker 3: We got a lot going on, all right.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: So, like you said, we have talked to Russell Frye,
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: we have talked to Sandford, We did talk to Lynch,
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: and the people were wondering, is you got to cut
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: into Ralph Norman's base tonight? Man, We got We haven't
• 36:20
  Speaker 2: spoken to Ralph Norman yet. We will speak with Ralph
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Norman next on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 36:28
  Speaker 1: five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and ninety
• 36:33
  Speaker 1: four to three WSC Charleston.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: We've already spoken with Mark Lynch, Mark Sanford, and Russell Frye, who,
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: according to the latest polls, are all nipping at the
• 36:44
  Speaker 2: heels of this man, Ralph Norman, Ralph Norman, Good morning.
• 36:49
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Kelly, great.
• 36:51
  Speaker 7: To be with you.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: This is this is what it all comes down to.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: How are we feeling on this big election day?
• 36:57
  Speaker 11: Yeah, Kelly, I feel real good. You know, most of
• 36:59
  Speaker 11: the poet have us leading. It's what's different about this
• 37:03
  Speaker 11: race is it's really hard to poll because you don't
• 37:05
  Speaker 11: know what the turnout it's going to be. But I've
• 37:07
  Speaker 11: been been encouraged by people that are calling asking you
• 37:12
  Speaker 11: know where we'll be, and that they were voting and
• 37:15
  Speaker 11: phone calls being made, so I feel good about it.
• 37:17
  Speaker 11: We'll know at probably eight o'clock to night.
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: Do you expect the runoff?
• 37:22
  Speaker 7: Oh yeah, but.
• 37:23
  Speaker 11: Nine people in it, it'd be all So we'll have
• 37:26
  Speaker 11: two more weeks of it and we'll be all over
• 37:28
  Speaker 11: the state selling our message.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: The speculation has been that you have spent a little
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: bit less money in this general campaign and that you're
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: really kind of saving your powder, so to speak, for
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: the runoff. Has that kind of been the strategy so
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: far for the Norman campaign.
• 37:42
  Speaker 11: Well, you know, we spent a good bit of money
• 37:44
  Speaker 11: in the governor's race, and a lot of money we
• 37:46
  Speaker 11: spent kind of plowed the ground of getting our name
• 37:48
  Speaker 11: out in the state, and which we did. We really
• 37:51
  Speaker 11: expected to be in the runoff, So yes, we'll see
• 37:54
  Speaker 11: what it feels we'll play in, but I'm excited about it.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: So we should all be expecting direct mail pieces pretty
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: soon from a Ralph Norman campaign.
• 38:03
  Speaker 11: I was going to say we're locked and loaded for
• 38:04
  Speaker 11: the two week stretch.
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: As people are heading to the polls today and hopefully
• 38:08
  Speaker 2: they're all turning out. I've noticed that Charleston County, you know,
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: which we're on at ninety four to three WSC, that
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: market to Berkeley and Dorchester has been shockingly low turnouts
• 38:18
  Speaker 2: in the early voting, So they got a lot to
• 38:20
  Speaker 2: make up for here in the next few hours. But
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: whether they're in the low Country or in the Midlands
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: listening this morning, any final message from the Norman.
• 38:28
  Speaker 11: Campaign, Well, we're looking to pick a Senator for the
• 38:32
  Speaker 11: next six years, and I'm the only true conservative. This
• 38:35
  Speaker 11: is kind of record that I'm proud of. I've been
• 38:38
  Speaker 11: successful in the business arena, and I won't take what
• 38:40
  Speaker 11: I've done in Congress to expand it. The Senate has
• 38:44
  Speaker 11: been the cemetery for good bills that just get turned down,
• 38:49
  Speaker 11: watered down, or stop. But there's nothing more important than
• 38:52
  Speaker 11: the Save America Act. I tend to do whatever I can,
• 38:55
  Speaker 11: and including Newt the Filibus, if that's what it takes
• 38:58
  Speaker 11: to get it past. Got to stop a Senate from
• 39:01
  Speaker 11: stopping good legislation, that's be mere right now.
• 39:04
  Speaker 2: I think that I know everybody here it would support
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: whoever won on the GOP side.
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: Is that correct?
• 39:10
  Speaker 11: Absolutely? You know, I told the any of the candidates
• 39:13
  Speaker 11: that I'm running against the enemy is not the Republican Canada.
• 39:16
  Speaker 11: Is a socialist doctor Annie that will be running against.
• 39:20
  Speaker 11: And the whole agenda is bad for this country. We've
• 39:22
  Speaker 11: got to stop the agenda.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: Nice to see you with the unifying message here. And unfortunately,
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: when we get into primary season, we get a lot
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: of hurt feelings, especially amongst the voters. They seem the
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: ones that take it the hardest. The candidates realize we're
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: playing here for votes, but some of the voters take
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: it pretty hard when their favorite candidates are attacked. You.
• 39:39
  Speaker 11: When you enter the political arena, you either win or
• 39:42
  Speaker 11: you lose, and so it's a reality. But I'm just
• 39:44
  Speaker 11: I'm thankful that I got the opportunity, and I'm thankful
• 39:46
  Speaker 11: that our message, I think is resonated, and I'll be
• 39:50
  Speaker 11: pleased to go to I do think we'll all end
• 39:52
  Speaker 11: up going to the Senate and look forward to serving.
• 39:55
  Speaker 2: Currently Congressman Ralph Norman looking forward to possibly having you
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: back on as we get into to a runoff here,
• 40:01
  Speaker 2: best of luck tonight. Where are you going to be tonight?
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: You got a party going on.
• 40:04
  Speaker 11: I'll be at Hobos on Cherry Road and rock Hill,
• 40:06
  Speaker 11: South Carolina, top floor.
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: All right, everybody who was a Ralph Norman fan, you
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: could head on up there and be a part of
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: the party. And thank you for making time for South
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: Carolina's morning news.
• 40:15
  Speaker 11: My pleasure, Thank you lot.
• 40:16
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: We've heard from pretty much all of them, not quite
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: all of them, but we got most.
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: Of them, Christopher, Yes, and we've given some restaurants and
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: some bars some free publicity while we're at it.
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: You know, if you're a fan.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Of these politicians, but it's an awesome opportunity for you
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: to spend some.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: Time with them tonight.
• 40:33
  Speaker 6: Absolutely, and they may they may need your support, or
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: they may be celebrating and it may be the greatest
• 40:38
  Speaker 6: party you've ever attended.
• 40:40
  Speaker 3: Or maybe a shoulder to cry on, who knows either way.
• 40:43
  Speaker 6: Interesting that Russell Fry is not holding one of those
• 40:45
  Speaker 6: events tonight. He will be in Columbia counting votes with
• 40:48
  Speaker 6: family and friends, but he is not holding a victory party.
• 40:51
  Speaker 6: He said he's saving all that for after the runoff.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: That is a good point Christopher Thompson always bringing the.
• 40:58
  Speaker 3: The Folcus back to where it needs to be.
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: All right, So we've got that, we've got the the
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: we've heard from all the candidates. But again, the point
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: that you were making earlier, Christopher, needs to be re emphasized.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Go to sc votes dot gov because a lot of
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: the polling stations have been moved just for today, and
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: so if you want to know where you got to vote,
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: that's where that's where you need to go. So it
• 41:21
  Speaker 2: takes less than sixty seconds. But please get out and vote.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Be a part of this democracy that we live in.
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: And coming up next, we're gonna have more of our
• 41:28
  Speaker 2: conversation with our Treasury Secretary Scott Bessont on South Carolina's Morning.
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: News live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's
• 41:37
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: And yesterday you probably heard in the news that the
• 41:42
  Speaker 2: Joint based Charleston renamed Joint Base. Lindsey Graham and Pete
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Haigseth was in town, and Darlene Graham was there, and
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: so was the Governor Henry McMaster. A lot of people
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: in town for this. Nancy Mace was there, but also
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: was the Treasury Secretary, Scott Best in South Carolina native,
• 42:01
  Speaker 2: and he we're honored he chose our show to call into,
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: so we spoke to with him yesterday.
• 42:06
  Speaker 3: We played the.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: First part of that earlier, but here's a little second,
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: a little more of the conversation that we had. This
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: is where we're asking about fraud because the Treasury is
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: really starting to attack fraud.
• 42:17
  Speaker 3: And how's that going.
• 42:18
  Speaker 4: It's going well. Vice President Vance, as you said, is
• 42:22
  Speaker 4: leading an all hands on deck, all branches of government effort.
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: And I tell you, Kelly, this is a mess. It
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: could be over five hundred billion dollars in fraud every year.
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: And look way in the US we are a high
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: trust society. We want to take care of our citizens,
• 42:41
  Speaker 4: but there are predators who are stealing from the people
• 42:45
  Speaker 4: who are supposed to get the money, stealing from the taxpayers,
• 42:49
  Speaker 4: and that money could either be going to pay down
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: the debt or to the people it's meant for. And
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: if everyone out there, I encourage your listener to demand
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: transparency in government. Minnesota was a mess, but there was
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: a level of transparency so that young man could go
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: to all the different daycare centers and see that there
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: was no one there. You could go to all the
• 43:17
  Speaker 4: senior centers, transportation centers and see that no one was
• 43:20
  Speaker 4: getting transported. I was out in Minnesota a couple of
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: months ago, and I'll tell you it was heartbreaking because
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: for some of these autism centers that were supposed to
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: be getting the money, the parents told these heartbreaking stories
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: that they weren't getting the money for the centers because
• 43:37
  Speaker 4: of the waste, fraud.
• 43:38
  Speaker 7: And abuse.
• 43:39
  Speaker 4: And what we are trying to do differently is to
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: keep the money from going out in the first place,
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: because once it's out, it is very, very hard to recover.
• 43:48
  Speaker 4: So here at Treasury, we've established the do not pay system.
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: We are now able to match against people who have
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: passed away because that's a big portion of the fraud.
• 44:00
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I was shocked that that's almost one hundred
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: million dollars that you guys have already caught going to
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: dead people.
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: Yes.
• 44:06
  Speaker 7: Yes.
• 44:07
  Speaker 4: And the other thing too is for your listeners, we
• 44:10
  Speaker 4: now for program. It's kind of like a suitcase applying
• 44:14
  Speaker 4: by itself at the airport. We call it. If you
• 44:17
  Speaker 4: see something, say something, go to Treasury dot gov and
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: if you give us a tip that leads to a recovery,
• 44:25
  Speaker 4: we're able to pay a reward for that help.
• 44:29
  Speaker 3: Wow, that is fantastic. So everybody says that they've seen.
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: Some fraud the other report something, say something Treasury dot Gov.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: Yousay, yes, sir outstanding.
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: Well, I know that you're in a hurry and you've
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: got places to go, and you're so busy and so
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: kind to make some time for us here in South Carolina.
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: It was awesome to have you visiting the low country again.
• 44:48
  Speaker 2: And maybe in retirement you'll get to spend some more
• 44:51
  Speaker 2: time kicking back on the side ports there watching the
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: C seventeen's.
• 44:54
  Speaker 4: Well, and they will all stay joint based Graham on them.
• 44:57
  Speaker 4: I think they're going to probably start repainting them the
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Wow and for the rest of the president's term. As
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: I travel around the world and I see our great
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: pilots from the base there, I will see Senator Graham's
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: name on the tail, whether it's in Asia, whether it's
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: in Europe, whether it's in Africa. And as I said,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: he was a small town kid from central South Carolina
• 45:23
  Speaker 4: who made a big impression on the world.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Well, you were a kid from Conway who did pretty
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: well for himself as well.
• 45:30
  Speaker 4: Well, Conway was a big city. I was born in Conway.
• 45:32
  Speaker 4: I grew up on Little River. Conway's a gateway to
• 45:37
  Speaker 4: Myrtle Beach.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: Well, Scott Besson, thank you so much again for your time.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: Hopefully you'll come back and join us soon.
• 45:44
  Speaker 4: Good. I look forward to it, all.
• 45:46
  Speaker 2: Right, Scott Besson, born in the gateway to Myrtle Beach
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: and thrilled to have him on. By the way, Christopher Thompson,
• 45:54
  Speaker 2: I just looked it up. If you, again, you don't
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: have to know for a fact that there's from happening,
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: but if you suspect it, if you suspect that there's
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: somebody ripping the federal government off, you can go to
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Treasury dot gov and it says whistleblowers right there. I
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: just read, just look this up. Eligible tipsters can receive
• 46:13
  Speaker 2: between ten and thirty percent of the monetary sections collection.
• 46:18
  Speaker 5: Wow. I mean this is Nick Suirley eligible, the independent journalist.
• 46:24
  Speaker 2: I'm guessing I don't know. I mean, he does travel
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: a lot, and I wonder who's paying for that. Maybe
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: it's some of the reward money that he's gotten in
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: the past.
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: But that is fan.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: We've all got skin in that game.
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: Absolutely and again, one hundred million dollars last year went
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: to dead people in America.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: That is outrageous.
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: So so happy that the federal government, under not only
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump, but our vice president and obviously the Treasury
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: Secretary are clamping down on fraud. Okay, more to get
• 46:50
  Speaker 2: to This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 46:53
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 46:56
  Speaker 3: All right.
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: So the national website, just the news, that's John Solomon's site.
• 47:02
  Speaker 2: He has a national story today about does Trump's endorsement
• 47:06
  Speaker 2: mean what it used to mean in South Carolina? And
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: that's one of those questions that I think even South
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: Carolinians are asking themselves.
• 47:13
  Speaker 3: Christopher.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: It's a great question, especially with what we just went
• 47:16
  Speaker 6: through with the governor's election. The fact that Trump endorsed
• 47:19
  Speaker 6: Pamela Ebitt early, well not as early as Pamela Ebitt
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: would have liked, but or.
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: Some people had thought just looking at the TV.
• 47:26
  Speaker 6: As true, but finally did endorse her and then read
• 47:29
  Speaker 6: the tea leaves and came out with a co endorsement
• 47:32
  Speaker 6: of the eventual winner, Alan Wilson on the Republican side.
• 47:35
  Speaker 6: Same thing here, Kelly, we keep hearing the same thing
• 47:39
  Speaker 6: that we heard with Pamela EVIITTT. But I think it's
• 47:41
  Speaker 6: a little louder with Darlene Graham, and that is wait
• 47:45
  Speaker 6: a minute, mister president, this is local politics, and we
• 47:47
  Speaker 6: feel like she's being shoved down our throats.
• 47:50
  Speaker 5: We don't know her.
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: Well at just the News.
• 47:52
  Speaker 2: They took a unique angle, I think, in that they
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: basically just interviewed college age students who actually volunteer for
• 48:00
  Speaker 2: these types of campaigns.
• 48:01
  Speaker 6: These are the people who do all the legwork on
• 48:03
  Speaker 6: these campaigns. I mean, you've got people sitting around making
• 48:06
  Speaker 6: the major decisions, but as far as putting up the
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: signs and all the physical work, a lot of it
• 48:11
  Speaker 6: is done by these college kids.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they were talking to some Clemson students, and I
• 48:16
  Speaker 2: guess Clemson college Republicans had come out in front for
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: Alan Wilson originally, but they were some of those Clemson
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: students were saying, had no interest in the president's decision.
• 48:27
  Speaker 2: Doesn't matter who he endorses, we don't care. But then
• 48:30
  Speaker 2: you got some University of South Carolina students who were saying, yeah, no,
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: his endorsement of Darling Graham moved me. That's why I
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: went with her. You've got an interesting analogy here that
• 48:41
  Speaker 2: he has more impact on lower rank or lower profile races,
• 48:45
  Speaker 2: and they point to Jenny Costa Honeycutt, who ends up
• 48:49
  Speaker 2: winning the first congressional district. They say that she was
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: propelled by Donald Trump's endorsement. So I'm not sure what
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: they're basing that off of it. You know how they
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: can actually track that, But it's an interesting concept. And
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: if you have thoughts on that, does the president's endorsement
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: mean something to you? You can let us know how.
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  Speaker 2: The talkback feature off the iHeartRadio app. It is seven
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• 49:12
  Speaker 1: You are listening to South Carolina This Morning News.
• 49:16
  Speaker 2: I've got mixed emotions, Christopher mixed emotions. Donald Trump tweets
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: out great news for our country. Supreme Court Justice Samuel
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: Alito has announced he's staying for another term. He is
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: one of the greatest of all time. We are all lucky.
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: I agree that Samuel Alito has been a Supreme Supreme
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  Speaker 2: Court Justice, Mike, but here's my conflict.
• 49:41
  Speaker 3: He is seventy six years of age.
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: I understand that we're most right now again, sitting here
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: on August the eleventh, it seems as if the Senate
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: is going to remain in Republican hands. That is not assured,
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: though true. If he was to bow out right now,
• 50:00
  Speaker 2: we could flip flop it, get it swapped it. We
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: can get a brand new forty five year old version
• 50:06
  Speaker 2: of Samuel Alito be there for twenty through thirty years.
• 50:10
  Speaker 5: Now.
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: If we don't hold the Senate, then he's got to
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: stay on at least two more years. And then what
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: if you don't get a Republican president in two and
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: a half years from now, then he's got to hang
• 50:24
  Speaker 2: on for six more years. He'll be like eighty two,
• 50:27
  Speaker 2: eighty three years old. I kind of wish he'd retired.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Any thoughts on that, Christopher.
• 50:32
  Speaker 6: Oh, I was just looking to see. I couldn't remember it.
• 50:35
  Speaker 6: But because we went back to the Brett Kavanaugh hearings,
• 50:38
  Speaker 6: and you know who pushed Brett Kavanaugh through Lindsey Graham.
• 50:41
  Speaker 5: That's right, Lindsey Graham's no longer. They're correct.
• 50:43
  Speaker 6: Chuck Grassley's the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Now he's he's pushing Mitch McConnell.
• 50:50
  Speaker 6: He exactly, he's getting up there. His vacuum died the
• 50:53
  Speaker 6: other day and we saw a whole series of posts
• 50:55
  Speaker 6: on that.
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: He does like to.
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: Pick Coorn too. I've seen a lot of video just
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: talk about as Cornfield.
• 51:02
  Speaker 5: Yeah, no, I agree with you, Kelly.
• 51:03
  Speaker 6: It would probably be much easier in the next few
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  Speaker 6: months to push push through a candidate for the Supreme
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  Speaker 6: Court than our nominee than it would be, say, six
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  Speaker 6: months from now.
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: And again just a reminder, the Senate only needs fifty
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  Speaker 2: one votes to get the Supreme Court just it's not
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: like a bill where you have to make a you know,
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: blow up the whole filibuster.
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: Thing and all that. If you get the fifty one,
• 51:23
  Speaker 3: you got him in.
• 51:24
  Speaker 6: And it's supposed to be advised and consent. But you know,
• 51:26
  Speaker 6: we've seen that morphed into we approve or we don't approve.
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: Yes, team left, first team right, and so it again.
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: Do you think Trump is just trying to make the
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: best out of the situation.
• 51:39
  Speaker 6: That's all you can do if you're Donald Trump right now? Yeah,
• 51:41
  Speaker 6: I mean you can't say publicly, well, you know, I
• 51:44
  Speaker 6: wish you would have retired, and let's keep wishing until
• 51:46
  Speaker 6: you do it.
• 51:47
  Speaker 2: If anybody would have would have said it, it would
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: have been it would have been Donald Trump. Now, so
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: I have to believe that Donald Trump actually in his
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: heart of hearts is happy that Samuel Alito has stayed
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: on because otherwise, yeah, Bom, get out of here, get
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: up too much time. I could totally hear him saying
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: something along those lines. But again, you have Samuel Alito
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: at least for another term. We'll see what happens from here.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: He's again seventy six years of age. And well, the
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Supreme Court, we certainly need as many conservatives as possible
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: right now, at least till the DSA gets there and
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: then they make it what is it forty five people?
• 52:21
  Speaker 2: Is it one hundred and forty five? How many people
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: they went on the Supreme Court? Well, it depends on
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: who you talk to. Kamala Harris wants to pack the court.
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: DSA wants to abolish it. Oh, that's right, I forgot
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: you forget. It's thirteen for Kamala. Yes, it's none for
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: the DSA exactly. We don't need judiciary anymore. Samuel Alito
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: could be a part of the last Supreme Court we
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: ever have. My gosh, shut the lights off when you
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: leave there, Sam all right, it is seven fifty four.
• 52:46
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• 52:49
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  Speaker 3: Well, that's great news for Asia.
• 53:05
  Speaker 2: Congratulations on the new sneakers and the Wheaties cover and
• 53:10
  Speaker 2: all that stuff. I mean that's some some big news
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  Speaker 2: and happy to see that. I also see that Stephen Garcia,
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: speaking of the game Cock, has got to ring the
• 53:19
  Speaker 2: bell yesterday, So that's pretty huge. And now I don't
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: think that that means he's completely cured. I mean he's
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: gone through five of five chemo treatments, right, so I
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: guess his chemotherapy portion of the recovery for Stephen Garcia
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: has come to an end. So we're wishing him a
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: speedy recovery as well as he continues his battle. So
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: we got all that going on, and speaking of battles,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: coming to the state House today, we've got a big
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: budget and I see one of the Freedom Caucus members,
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: Rob Harris, he's from the Upstate. He says, quote, I'm
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: voting no this record forty four point four billion dollar budget,
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: three hundred million in earmarks at one dollar placeholders, with
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: real spending punted to an unnamed, unscheduled committee, three hundred
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  Speaker 2: and seventy eight million dollars sits, unappropriated, no transparency, no
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  Speaker 2: line item veto, no accountability. The taxpayers of South Carolina
• 54:20
  Speaker 2: deserve better, thoughts.
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  Speaker 6: Interesting now the Freedom Caucus is outnumbered, Yes, they are
• 54:26
  Speaker 6: within the State House. I wonder how many people will
• 54:30
  Speaker 6: take that point of view that they are. They're not
• 54:33
  Speaker 6: willing to let the Senate President and the House Speaker
• 54:38
  Speaker 6: appoint this committee again, as yet unnamed committee to figure
• 54:43
  Speaker 6: all this out, who gets money and how much of
• 54:46
  Speaker 6: the pot they get.
• 54:47
  Speaker 5: That's I mean, that may be a bridge too far
• 54:50
  Speaker 5: for a lot of Republicans.
• 54:52
  Speaker 3: Now Rob does it he put together?
• 54:54
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming AI made this because it's such a fantastic
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: piece of artwork on his x account. Uh you know,
• 55:01
  Speaker 2: it's got a picture of the State House, it's got
• 55:02
  Speaker 2: a stockpile. It's just earmarks upon earmarks stacked in front
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  Speaker 2: of it and at the bottom of it. He says,
• 55:10
  Speaker 2: I support the tax relief, but I cannot support the
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: rest tax less, spend less, hide nothing.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: I'm voting no on this. So that's his position.
• 55:20
  Speaker 2: That's a hardcore right position. And again because he is
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: a Freedom Caucus member. I'm assuming that all the Freedom
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: Caucus feels this way. I don't know. We haven't spoken
• 55:32
  Speaker 2: to them. J. Kil Martin might be listening right now.
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: He lives right here in Lexington. He's a he's a
• 55:36
  Speaker 2: Freedom Caucus member. He listens from time to time. Maybe
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: he'll chime in. But the bigger picture, this is one
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: of those things, Christopher, where you and I and the
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: average South Carolinian we don't know exactly what's hidden inside budgets.
• 55:51
  Speaker 2: That's why we have elected officials, you know. That's that's
• 55:54
  Speaker 2: what representative democracy is about. Otherwise it's mob rule. Otherwise
• 55:59
  Speaker 2: we all have to go and we all have to
• 56:01
  Speaker 2: vote on everything. So we have to at some point
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: trust the people we elect to kind of go through
• 56:07
  Speaker 2: all of this stuff with their staffs and then come
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: up with a short version of it so that we
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: can comprehend why they're voting the way they're voting. I
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: think Rob Harris has done a good job of explaining
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  Speaker 2: his position. It'll be interesting to hear from the people
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  Speaker 2: who vote.
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  Speaker 3: Yes on it.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: Are they going to say that his analysis is wrong?
• 56:24
  Speaker 2: There's not three hundred million dollars in earmarks there's not
• 56:27
  Speaker 2: three hundred and seventy eight million dollars sitting unappropriated that
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: there is, there is a line item veto if somebody
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: wanted it, or perhaps the line item veto is not
• 56:36
  Speaker 2: important to them.
• 56:37
  Speaker 6: Well, the South Carolina Policy Council, they just they did
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: a long story on this budget. They called it the Good,
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: the Bad, and the Ugly, and they said, I mean
• 56:46
  Speaker 6: they give the exact dollar amount, three hundred and seventy seven,
• 56:49
  Speaker 6: seven hundred forty one, six hundred thirty five million dollars,
• 56:54
  Speaker 6: three hundred seventy seven million dollars, seven hundred forty one thousand,
• 56:57
  Speaker 6: six hundred and thirty five that's the total.
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: You don't think they just picked that number out of
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: thin air.
• 57:01
  Speaker 6: Non recurring revenue, which means it's money that's sitting there
• 57:07
  Speaker 6: and waiting to be appropriated. And we know that there
• 57:11
  Speaker 6: are legislators, especially on the House side, who are lined
• 57:15
  Speaker 6: up who say I've got this you know project, this
• 57:18
  Speaker 6: pet project in my district, and I want so and
• 57:21
  Speaker 6: so dollars. And we're told this committee is going to
• 57:24
  Speaker 6: come together and examine all of these projects and say, Okay,
• 57:28
  Speaker 6: this one works, this one does not benefit the taxpayers
• 57:31
  Speaker 6: of South Carolina. But we don't even know who's on
• 57:33
  Speaker 6: the committee yet.
• 57:34
  Speaker 3: That's what Rob Harris put in his post no real
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: spending punted to an unnamed, unscheduled committee.
• 57:42
  Speaker 5: Well, it would have to be soon.
• 57:44
  Speaker 6: I mean, they're gonna have to spend that money soon
• 57:46
  Speaker 6: before it goes away.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: So again, if you're a legislator driving into town right now,
• 57:52
  Speaker 2: there might be some listening to us on their way
• 57:54
  Speaker 2: to the State House. You're coming in from another area.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: Maybe you'd never listened normally to South Carolinas More news
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: because you live in or County, or you live you know,
• 58:03
  Speaker 2: in rock Hill or someplace wherever you're driving in from
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: and you just happen to stumble upon this show. Just
• 58:09
  Speaker 2: be prepared to give an account as to why you
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: voted yes on this. If what Rob Harris is saying
• 58:16
  Speaker 2: is true, is there millions unappropriated three hundred and seventy
• 58:21
  Speaker 2: seven point whatever Christopher just said it.
• 58:23
  Speaker 3: Was, is that unappropriated? Is there?
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: Are you why are you voting yes on this? Is
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: it specifically because you have a pet project? Is it
• 58:31
  Speaker 2: because you just wanted to get a yes because you
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: wanted to just move on? We just give an account,
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: Tell the people in your audience, not necessarily even our audience.
• 58:41
  Speaker 2: Tell the people where you live why you voted yes.
• 58:43
  Speaker 2: This should be a hard vote for people to take.
• 58:45
  Speaker 6: I would think, Kelly, but some of these legislators, and
• 58:49
  Speaker 6: we've heard from them before, he or she will say, Look,
• 58:53
  Speaker 6: I had to hold my nose, but A was going
• 58:57
  Speaker 6: to benefit the state ultimately, so I had to vote
• 58:59
  Speaker 6: for B too, and A for a lot of people.
• 59:02
  Speaker 6: Is that tax relief that Rob Harris mentioned, correct, I
• 59:05
  Speaker 6: mean the homestead exemption, the tax burden that's relieved on
• 59:10
  Speaker 6: small businesses. There is some good in this budget, but.
• 59:14
  Speaker 2: If I vote no, those things don't necessarily go away.
• 59:17
  Speaker 2: We just have to delay it till we actually pass
• 59:19
  Speaker 2: a budget. Okay, then we start the argument all over again.
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: Are they willing to do that?
• 59:23
  Speaker 6: Are they willing to come back and work an extended
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: extra session to figure all this out?
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Don't make me work more.
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: Come on, all right, we'll take a break here. It
• 59:32
  Speaker 2: is eight oh nine on South Carolina's Morning News from the.
• 59:35
  Speaker 1: Midlands to the low Country. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: All right, So some housekeeping to just make you all
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: aware of. I'm a little bit bummed that Christopher Thompson's
• 59:46
  Speaker 2: taking some time off. Sorry, I know, but listen, the
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: guy deserves it.
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: Just a few days, Kelly.
• 59:52
  Speaker 2: It is a few days, and you've obviously earned it.
• 59:54
  Speaker 2: He's already for those of you who you cannot even
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: imagine the amount of effort that it takes for christ
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 2: for Thompson to put on the best Gamecock coverage, and
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: he does do the absolute best Gamecock coverage, and as
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: we head into the season, he will be here roughly
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: twenty three and a.
• 1:00:10
  Speaker 6: Half hours per day. It is a labor of love,
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 6: but it is a bit labor intensive. But you help.
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: I help very very little. I mean, I show up
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: on game day and basically I don't drink beer anymore.
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: But if I that's the equivalent of me having a
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 2: beer just sitting there just you know. I am the
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: fan discussion, I have the how can I just root
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 2: harder for the game Cocks part of the pregame show.
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 2: But yeah, so Christopher Thompson will be off for a
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: couple of days, so it'll be me flying solo, which
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: that could be an adventure because I don't really push
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 2: buttons that well anymore.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 3: So we'll see how that goes.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 2: So everybody, you know, cross your fingers and hold your
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: breath for the next few days without Christopher.
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: Then I will be on vacation.
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 5: The man who really needs a vacation.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: I don't know about that, but I'll be going back
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: up to Connecticut to visit my mother, excited to see her.
• 1:00:57
  Speaker 2: She's getting ready for her eightieth birthday, so happy early birthday, Mom.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 3: And then we'll be retget you know.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 5: Reunited on the twenty fourth.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 2: On the twenty fourth, we're back at it and we're
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: ready for the new fall season. Speaking of the new
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: fall season, I understand that at night we're going to
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: be adding a new show, but it's a little bit
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 2: later at night. I know a lot of people love
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: Jesse Kelly, but after the Jesse Kelly Show, we're going
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 2: to be adding a guy named Michael Berry the Czar
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 2: of talk radio, which means I can't use that night.
• 1:01:23
  Speaker 2: I was thinking about calling myself the czar.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: He took that before you got to it.
• 1:01:27
  Speaker 3: Howard Stern has always been.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: He called himself what the king of all media, right
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: after Michael Jackson named himself the King of pop. After
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: Elvis Presley was called the King of rock. So I'm
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: working on nicknames. If you have a nickname for me
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: or Christopher, you can let us know on the talkback feature. Easy, well,
• 1:01:44
  Speaker 2: you can let us know. I didn't even say we're
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: going to use it. You can just put it out,
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 2: you know, just hit the microphone button on the talkback
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 2: feature and let us know. Maybe suggested nicknames or if
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: you have any thoughts on today. Again, just a reminder,
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: please check your polling location for today because it is different.
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  Speaker 2: For a lot of South care Orlenians go to sc
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  Speaker 2: vote dot gov. Right is it vote se vote dot
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  Speaker 2: gover or votes plural se votes dot gov.
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  Speaker 6: Kelly, I'm curious about one thing because we were told
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 6: yesterday that there are some schools in some counties that
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 6: do allow voting to occur while school is in session.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 6: Not many, but they they at least made it to
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 6: the Election Commission. Made it sound as if there are
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 6: some schools that allow both. I can't imagine in today's
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 6: security era, you know where we you know, we've really
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 6: battened down the schools, any schools would allow voting to
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 6: occur if they've got students in session.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: Well, and particularly in Charleston, I know it's like the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: first day of school for them. I think it's also
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: like Lexington Richmond five today and Greenville and Greenville they're
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: not listening to us in Greenville.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 3: True losers. But but the for those of you having the.
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 2: First day of school, that would really make things because
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: kids don't even know where they're going. Maybe it's their
• 1:03:00
  Speaker 2: ever at that school. So there's already a world of confusion.
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 6: Imagine getting into the carpool line and you're trying to vote.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I can't even imagine. I can't even imagine.
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: So again, sc votes dot gov. Let you know if
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: where you normally vote is where you're gonna go, or
• 1:03:16
  Speaker 2: maybe you need a new polling location today. But please
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 2: get out and be a part of this.
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: Again.
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 2: The polls are I mean, Darlen Graham has a seven
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 2: point lead in all the polls, well not all the polls,
• 1:03:27
  Speaker 2: but the last two polls that we've seen. But for
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: number two it is Wolf. There's a big swing in
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: some of the polling here. So we'll see how it
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: plays out tonight. But it's really like Christopher, you say,
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 2: it's all about voter turnout today.
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 6: Who gets out the votes? And we've seen a lot
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 6: of mailers, a lot of Yeah. I mean, I'm sure
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 6: if you have a cell phone, you've got plenty of
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 6: text messages yesterday, people sharing last minute messages with you.
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 5: It's I mean, it's all comes down to who gets
• 1:03:54
  Speaker 5: out their voters.
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, so.
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: Well, when tomorrow morning, we should have a good idea,
• 1:04:00
  Speaker 2: we should know what who's going to be inundating us
• 1:04:02
  Speaker 2: with morem ads for the next two weeks for the runoff.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: That's right, it's eight eighteen on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: It's eight twenty four.
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  Speaker 2: And I want you to guard your minds, ladies and gentlemen,
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: that's biblical. Guard your thoughts, Guard guard where your mind wanders,
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: because we're about to delve into the mind of the
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: Democrat Socialist co chair Meghan Romer, who gave a interview
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 2: yesterday to The New Yorker, because even the New Yorker,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: the New Yorker magazine, is stunned at how far the
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: Democrat Socialists have gone and what and again, Meghan Roamer
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: is the lady who you saw on Fox News that
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  Speaker 2: clip of her saying, yeah, we want to get rid
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 2: of borders. Yeah, we want to get rid of the military. Yeah,
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: we want to get rid of the prison system. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to get rid of the Supreme Court. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we want to get rid of the president and see
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 2: yeah yeah, yeah, just get rid of it all, get
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: rid of it all. So, how the heck did this happen?
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  Speaker 2: This is that's what the New Yorker asked her. This
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 2: is sixty seconds her evolution from independent. She went from
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: an independent to the co chair of the DSA in
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: like seven years.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely true.
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  Speaker 12: Got most of my news from John Stewart, that is,
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 12: that was my primary news source. I'd read the Sunday
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 12: Times and I'd read John Stuart and I actually I
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 12: did read The New Yorker, and sometimes even for more
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  Speaker 12: than the cartoons.
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  Speaker 3: I appreciate that.
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  Speaker 5: I what happened, what what turned?
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  Speaker 12: So after Hillary Clinton did not win and I was
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 12: supportive of Hillary Clinton, I was not a registered Democrat
• 1:05:41
  Speaker 12: at that point. I was registered Independent. And then she
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 12: didn't win, and I was horrified.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 1: I was baffled.
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 12: I tried to become involved in the Democratic Party. What
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 12: I ended up involved in was this like women's club
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 12: where you'd like have speakers, like you weren't actually making
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 12: any decisions. You were hearing people talk about a book.
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 12: And that was all really frustrating because I was.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 5: Like, who's doing anything?
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 12: What are we pushing anything toward? And a friend who
• 1:06:09
  Speaker 12: is a folk musician said, you know, we are starting
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 12: this DSA chapter. You should come to a meeting. And
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 12: I was like, uh, this socialists And I was like,
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 12: all right, well, I'll come to your meeting because we're friends,
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 12: but I'm not saying comrade. And I went to the
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 12: meeting and I was just so relieved they were actually
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 12: doing something, just anything. They had plans to just do something.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and America, that's the plans. But Christopher, how many
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 2: people are going to be sucked in by this? Because again,
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 2: what she's excited about is the idea of doing something. Now,
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 2: when we look at the Constitution, when we look at
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 2: the way things are structured in America, it's supposed to
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 2: be very slow. Changes need to be overwhelmingly popular. That's
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: why we have, you know, the checks and balances. But
• 1:06:58
  Speaker 2: the American people are supposed to be kind of overwhelmingly
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: supportive of one issue, and that's how we get it
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: to happen. It's if it's just fifty two percent of
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: Americans feel a certain way, No, you're never going to
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 2: get it done. Yeah, it shouldn't get done. You need
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: it to be overwhelming. But at the Democrat socialist level,
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 2: they're seeing things moving lightning fast, and I think that
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: this is unfortunately attractive to a lot of people.
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  Speaker 6: What's odd about all this is now you've got some
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 6: of the most prominent people on the Democrat side, for example,
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 6: Alexandria Cassio Cortez, she's trying to backtrack on statements she made.
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 6: She's saying, well, that was what did she say the
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 6: other day? That was woke one, as if that was
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 6: a phase she was going through, and now she's grown
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 6: up and realized, Okay, we really can't do some of
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 6: the things I was saying, for example, abolish the police.
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 6: She's backtracking on that, but still the rest of the
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 6: DSA is full steam ahead.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: Was Alexandria Caesio Quartz. That's what I saw this week,
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 2: the new mature version where she was taking her eggs
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: out on a video and then freezing them on camera.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not sure why she decided that was for public consumption,
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 5: but there it was.
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  Speaker 2: She like thirty six, thirty eight years old, whatever. She
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: is way too old to be doing that kind of
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 2: stupid publicity stunt. But that's AOC. But yeah, again, I'm
• 1:08:17
  Speaker 2: very I don't want to say I'm afraid, but maybe
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: a little bit afraid just to think that we have
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: so many Americans like Megan Romer, who was registered independent
• 1:08:29
  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen or twenty sixteen, and here she is
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty three, I think, is when she became the
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: co chair of the Democrat Socialists of America. So in
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: less than ten years she goes from an independent to
• 1:08:40
  Speaker 2: the co chair of the dang Socialists. And even her
• 1:08:43
  Speaker 2: own response, which she was invited to a DSA chapter meeting,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: was the socialist Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I'm not going to call anybody comrade.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I notice you're wearing your bright red glasses tonight, ma'am,
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: and you're starting to call people comrades. So anyway, very
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: concerning stuff there. Nine on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News eight thirty four, and
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  Speaker 1: earlier today we played back parts of our interview with
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  Speaker 1: the Treasury Secretary Scott Besson, who was in town yesterday
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 1: for the renaming of Joint Based Charleston to Joint Base
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 1: Lindsay Graham.
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 2: You can get that entire It's about a ten to
• 1:09:20
  Speaker 2: twelve minute interview if I remember right, that is on
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: the iHeartRadio app on the National and you spelled National
• 1:09:27
  Speaker 2: like my name and Ash. The National Briefing has the
• 1:09:31
  Speaker 2: complete interview with Scott Besson, but part of that interview
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 2: talked about how the economy is doing great, better than
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: ever and if you look at according to last year's number,
• 1:09:42
  Speaker 2: five point six two million new businesses were launched in America.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 2: That is an eight point two percent increase in the
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 2: highest amount we've ever launched in a new year. So yes,
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 2: small businesses are growing, large businesses are growing, businesses are
• 1:09:59
  Speaker 2: growing growing in general. The Small Business Administrator Kelly Loffler
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 2: was on with Fox Business. I think this is this
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: morning kind of singing the praises of that and the
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  Speaker 2: tax cuts.
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  Speaker 13: By the way, they create two out of every three
• 1:10:13
  Speaker 13: new jobs in America. There are job creation engines. So
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 13: if you care about jobs and rising wages, that comes
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 13: through small businesses in the private sector and that's what
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 13: this administration is fighting for every day. Think about the
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 13: working family tax cuts. I mean it averted a five
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 13: trillion dollar tax increase and saved hard working Americans eighty
• 1:10:31
  Speaker 13: two billion dollars, and every single Democrat voted against that
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  Speaker 13: because they want big government funding of big government projects
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 13: that crowd out the private sector, which are our small businesses,
• 1:10:42
  Speaker 13: our main streets.
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  Speaker 2: So that, I mean, that is the I think right there,
• 1:10:46
  Speaker 2: you just hurt an encapsulation. Do you think that the
• 1:10:49
  Speaker 2: government should provide the money or do you think that
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: these small businesses should provide the money.
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  Speaker 5: That's an easy answer for Republicans, for conservatives.
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  Speaker 2: And I would think or an independent, I would I
• 1:11:01
  Speaker 2: would think that anybody who has lived in any country
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 2: that has a government so ilhan omar, you can take
• 1:11:09
  Speaker 2: a seat. But for people who grew up in a
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: country that like whether it's the United States, Canada, England, Australia, Poland,
• 1:11:18
  Speaker 2: it doesn't matter which country grew up in. Every citizen
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: in every country complains about the government. It's lack of efficiency,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: how it wastes money, the bureaucracy, how it takes forever
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: for things to get done. Everybody does that It's not
• 1:11:31
  Speaker 2: just an American tradition, it's a world tradition. And so
• 1:11:35
  Speaker 2: when you ask yourself, well, who would be better at
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 2: providing jobs? Would it be better through the government or
• 1:11:41
  Speaker 2: would it be better through the private industry? Would it
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: be who would How am I most likely to benefit?
• 1:11:47
  Speaker 2: Am I most like? I mean, that's just play in.
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 3: The odds.
• 1:11:50
  Speaker 2: Are the odds that the federal government is going to
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: treat me better then I can treat myself?
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  Speaker 3: I'd say not.
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  Speaker 5: I'd say not.
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  Speaker 2: This is such a winning argument for Republicans, and they're
• 1:12:04
  Speaker 2: completely whiffing on the younger generation on this. This is
• 1:12:08
  Speaker 2: a point of great frustration for me and many others.
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  Speaker 2: And I know that there's a bunch of people starting
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: their first day of school. I guess they're probably already
• 1:12:14
  Speaker 2: in school at eight thirty seven. But if there happened
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: to be in the backseat of the cars, you kids,
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 2: with your little, tiny minds that are trying to grow,
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 2: let me tell you, capitalism is the only solution to poverty.
• 1:12:28
  Speaker 2: It's the only solution. There's never been a government program
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: that has eliminated poverty.
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  Speaker 6: And that's going to have to be the argument going
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 6: into the midterms. I don't know that you can argue
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 6: so much on this particular economy because, as you point out,
• 1:12:42
  Speaker 6: there are some highlights, but there are also some low lights.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: What was weird about last Friday is we saw the
• 1:12:47
  Speaker 6: jobs report can now lower jobs, but unemployment was lower two.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 6: It seems like there's always this mixed message we're getting
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 6: from government. But you get the feeling, according to polls,
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 6: that Republicans right now hour down when it comes to
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 6: the economy, and that's usually one of our key points,
• 1:13:03
  Speaker 6: our key arguments leading into any election.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I think a lot of that has
• 1:13:08
  Speaker 2: to do with messaging. Obviously, you have the mainstream media
• 1:13:10
  Speaker 2: is always going to be against you on that. One
• 1:13:12
  Speaker 2: of the numbers that's never reported or very rarely reported
• 1:13:15
  Speaker 2: is the break even number. Previously, under the Biden administration,
• 1:13:18
  Speaker 2: it was one hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: jobs per month needed to be created for us to
• 1:13:24
  Speaker 2: quote unquote break even. It's currently fifteen thousand, so one
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: hundred and eighty thousand jobs or so less needed because
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: of all the illegal immigrants that are no longer in
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: the workplace.
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: They're gone. And you also look at when you think
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 3: about fewer jobs or whatever.
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: Look at the amount of federal government jobs that have
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: been cut, right I mean, it's an unbelievable amount of
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 2: money that.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 3: We're saving right there.
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: But also I believe for a lot of people you're
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 2: going to do better in the private sector in the
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: long run. There's temporary pain before long term prosperity. It's
• 1:13:55
  Speaker 2: always been that way. I have nothing but the utmost
• 1:13:59
  Speaker 2: faith in this American economy to not only fix whatever's broken,
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 2: but to continue to improve on the good things that
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: we've already got, because it's about you and me, it's
• 1:14:08
  Speaker 2: about the people in the streets. It's do you want it.
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: If you want it, go and get it. That's really
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: what it is. Do you want it. If the answer
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 2: is yes, then go and get it. If you don't
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: want to go and get it, then become a socialist.
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  Speaker 6: Nothing against federal workers. I happen to be married to one.
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 6: But we can't afford to employ everyone in the governments.
• 1:14:28
  Speaker 2: No, you can't say we have a good economy because
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: eighty percent of the public is not working for the
• 1:14:32
  Speaker 2: federal rates. Goodness gracious, all right, Well, Christopher and I
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 2: have done our part to try to promote capitalism here
• 1:14:38
  Speaker 2: this morning. If you've got thoughts on that, use the
• 1:14:40
  Speaker 2: talkback feature. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So.
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  Speaker 2: Yesterday Massachusetts did what Massachusetts has the right to do,
• 1:14:53
  Speaker 2: which is extend the time you can have an abortion.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: I don't know why they continue to try to paint
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 2: this as I fight against Donald Trump. Donald Trump had
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: always said let the states decide. The Supreme Court always,
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: well not always, but finally came to their senses and
• 1:15:08
  Speaker 2: said we were wrong in Roe v.
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 3: Wade.
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 2: It's supposed to be a state decision because it wasn't
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: in the Constitution at that level. So again, anything that's
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: not decided here supposed to be a state right. So
• 1:15:18
  Speaker 2: in Massachusetts, you want to talk about a difference in
• 1:15:21
  Speaker 2: opinions between the people of Massachusetts and South Carolina. As
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: WCVB reports, this is the Boston state. Excuse me, the
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: Boston network. As state law had been one of the
• 1:15:35
  Speaker 2: laxer ones in the country, with twenty four weeks and
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: exceptions for cases involving deadly fetal diagnosis or to protect
• 1:15:42
  Speaker 2: the life of a mother. However, we have now loosened
• 1:15:46
  Speaker 2: it as far as you can go. According to Representative
• 1:15:49
  Speaker 2: Michael Day, we've decided to get away from all exceptions
• 1:15:52
  Speaker 2: and trust our medical professionals, who we think are the
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: best in the world. And so with that, you can
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 2: get an abortion right on up to the day of
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 2: the delivery. Now they brought out as a spokesperson for this,
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: and again I feel horrible for this lady Kate Danine,
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 2: who was thirty three weeks pregnant when she received devastating
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: news quote, I had discovered my son suffered a stroke
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: in utero and there was a chance he would die
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: in utero or perhaps survive with no chance of a
• 1:16:20
  Speaker 2: normal healthy life. So she traveled to Maryland, which also
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: had a very lax abortion law, and she got the
• 1:16:27
  Speaker 2: abortion done there. So we have no idea what her
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: son would have been like. Actually this is but again
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: that is Massachusetts, right.
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  Speaker 3: I don't like it.
• 1:16:35
  Speaker 2: I'm against it, But again I celebrate that South Carolina
• 1:16:39
  Speaker 2: has stricter abortion laws. If you like the abortion laws
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: of South Carolina, you're in the right state. If you
• 1:16:45
  Speaker 2: think that there should be wide open abortion all the
• 1:16:47
  Speaker 2: way up to the day you deliver. There are plenty
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 2: of states now where you can go and Christopher, I
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: don't know how else to explain that.
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  Speaker 6: Twenty four weeks, that's that's six months already, and they
• 1:16:57
  Speaker 6: got even more progressive than that months.
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  Speaker 2: Now nine months, you could literally be you know, like
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: I guess, you could actually be dilating, and then well,
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 2: I've just made a decision right now that you don't
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: have to have a reason. According to this, you don't
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: have to have a reason. It's not like we're trusting
• 1:17:16
  Speaker 2: the doctors because the kid can't survive or whatever, the
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 2: mom's gonna die. It can just be as flippant as
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: AH not feeling it. I have no exception necessary. Yeah,
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: I check my savings account. I don't have that kind
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 2: of cash today. So let's just move on with a
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: state provided abortion. It's horrific, it's monstrous, but that's what
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: the people of Massachusetts want.
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  Speaker 3: The people of South Carolina do not want that. Thankfully.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: I'll continue to pray for the people of Massachusetts and
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: all those other states. All right, we got to take
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: a break. Eight forty seven on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: I wish everybody could use the talkback feature on the
• 1:17:53
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app to get to us. I understand that you can't,
• 1:17:57
  Speaker 2: so you can use my social media. I'm at Kelly
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: Nash Radio most actively on x SBG. Bird Dog says,
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 2: can't use it while I'm at work. However, for the
• 1:18:08
  Speaker 2: DSA lady happy that they're doing something. Smacking yourself in
• 1:18:12
  Speaker 2: the head where a ball hammer is doing something. It's
• 1:18:15
  Speaker 2: a matter of the quality. That's a great point. Yeah,
• 1:18:19
  Speaker 2: that's a great one, no doubt. Also, just heard from
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: Steve Michael. We were referencing some of his data earlier
• 1:18:26
  Speaker 2: and he says, already hearing from frustrated voters this morning.
• 1:18:29
  Speaker 2: Alternative sites, poorly labeled, lack of parking, poor signage at
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: previous sites. That's just going on in the Midlands. This
• 1:18:36
  Speaker 2: will be a fascinating watch today. Oh boy, So Christopher Thompson,
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: you've been pushing it all morning.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Sc votes dot gov is where you'll find your pulling place.
• 1:18:45
  Speaker 6: I can't help you once you get there if they've
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 6: got it labeled poorly or don't have enough parking for you,
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 6: just do the best you can.
• 1:18:51
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: Yes, the stick toitiveness is going to be important today.
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: It is and tomorrow morning. Well, we are you tomorrow,
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: You're off, I'm off to Oh my gosh, I got
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: to talk about this all by myself, Tamar.
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 5: I'll tune in to see who won. Oh oh, I'm jealous.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 6: You've got that, You've got the budget negotiations going on
• 1:19:11
  Speaker 6: at the state House.
• 1:19:12
  Speaker 5: You've got plenty to talk about tomorrow.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: It's weird how sometimes your brain maybe it's just my brain,
• 1:19:17
  Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't think about it and it just clicks, like,
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, Christopher's not going to be working tomorrow.
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 5: I am jealous of what you'll have to work with tomorrow.
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 2: I'm jealous that you can sleep, and I'm also a
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: little bit sad that you won't be here to partake
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: in the fun. But this is going to be a
• 1:19:32
  Speaker 2: big night, historic night for South Carolina. And as we've
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 2: been talking earlier, the polls are very close right now
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: for the second, third, fourth in numerous polls. First place
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: seems like Darlen Graham has it by about seven points,
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 2: but we'll find out. I mean, maybe the polling's wrong
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: on that as well. So there's a lot to be
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 2: decided over the next few hours. You got till seven
• 1:19:53
  Speaker 2: pm today, But again, polling stations have changed.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of them have changed, so find out.
• 1:20:00
  Speaker 6: Let's remind our listeners because you invited every candidate on.
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 6: We had a lot of candidates on with us this morning,
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 6: and they can find those on our podcast, South Carolina's
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 6: Morning News.
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 5: That's right on the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:20:11
  Speaker 2: Yes, South Carolina's Morning News. We got a podcast thanks
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: to Christopher Thompson. You can get that just about thirty
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: minutes after the show ends. Have a great day, happy voting.
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: We'll see you tomorrow.