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

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  Speaker 1: Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South
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  Speaker 2: That is perfect music, Christopher Thompson, you have picked right there.
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  Speaker 2: That is fantastic for this morning because I feel like
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm under attack now. I what in
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  Speaker 2: the flip has happened over this weekend? My gosh, So
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  Speaker 2: welcome to South Carolina's Morning News, where we have one
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  Speaker 2: more day of campaigning and then thank god, this will
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  Speaker 2: be over for the most part. Of course, everybody's expecting
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  Speaker 2: a runoff, but the you know I'm taking, I'm taking
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  Speaker 2: incoming fire. Now you are from from like six different campaigns.
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  Speaker 2: They're all attacking me.
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  Speaker 3: Why I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: Because I don't support them. So here's what's been going on.
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  Speaker 2: So I have been saying nice things about all of
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  Speaker 2: the candidates, and then all of the other candidates people
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  Speaker 2: attack me for not calling them out for whatever they
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  Speaker 2: want me to call them out for. So over the
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  Speaker 2: weekend I posted a little video, just a little fun
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  Speaker 2: little video. I said, look, I'm not going to talk
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  Speaker 2: about the other six because when you look at the polling.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, speaking of the polling, we're going to
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  Speaker 2: talk to a guy who's got the most recent poll out.
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  Speaker 2: I think we're doing that at ATO two, so we'll
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  Speaker 2: talk in depth polling at ATO two. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: according to not just that poll, but all the polls,
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  Speaker 2: there's really four people who have a legitimate shot of
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  Speaker 2: making the runoff. So I'm not going to talk about
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  Speaker 2: the other six. So I said, of the four, look,
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  Speaker 2: you want something bad, I'll give you something negative on
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  Speaker 2: each one of them. And I went through them. Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Norman, Russell Frye, and Mark Sandford. Those are the
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  Speaker 2: four who have a legitimate shot, it appears, according to
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  Speaker 2: all the polling, of making the final two. And I
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  Speaker 2: gave something negative on each one of them, and then
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  Speaker 2: they all can. And then of course the other six
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  Speaker 2: were ticked off that I didn't consider them legit. And
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  Speaker 2: then inside the four they're like, why are you taking
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  Speaker 2: shots at us? And I'm okay, we'll chill on that then.
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  Speaker 2: So then I'll just trying to be entertaining for God's
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  Speaker 2: sake and give the people what they wanted. They say,
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  Speaker 2: I'm too positive. I'm a positive person. Again, and I've
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  Speaker 2: said it numerous times that whomever wins, will we will,
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  Speaker 2: we South Carolina will have competent representation in the Senate.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't matter which one of these people wins. Is Again,
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  Speaker 2: I'm just talking about the four. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: go too deep into the six because there it gets
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  Speaker 2: a little iffy and spotty down there, and we don't
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  Speaker 2: even know about certain candidates. But of the four, I
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  Speaker 2: feel really confident that any one of them will represent
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  Speaker 2: us competently. However, they all have flaws, as do I,
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  Speaker 2: as does every human being on earth. They're not a saint,
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  Speaker 2: They're not some holy this we're not talking about holy people.
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  Speaker 2: These are just all flawed human beings who want to
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  Speaker 2: be the Senator, and they all heavy issues and there's
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  Speaker 2: problems with each and every one of them. I focused
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  Speaker 2: on that for a moment. I think the whole video
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  Speaker 2: is less than a minute fifteen. The pushback on that
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  Speaker 2: was strong, and then last night I don't follow social
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  Speaker 2: media as closely as a lot of you, Christopher, I'm
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  Speaker 2: telling you this was legit. My this was all of
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  Speaker 2: the thought that went into it. I'm scrolling I get
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  Speaker 2: into the bedroom. It's like six thirty. I'm gonna start
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  Speaker 2: winding down, but again I shouldn't do it. I scrolled
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  Speaker 2: for a moment. I scrolled for and one of the
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  Speaker 2: first posts I see is from local reporter Nick Reynolds.
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  Speaker 2: Let me go, let me see if I can find
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  Speaker 2: that Nick is a as a great reporter. I feel
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  Speaker 2: like for the post, and he posts up something like
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  Speaker 2: something about she did her first press conference. Okay, here
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  Speaker 2: we go, So Darling Graham does her first ever statewide
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  Speaker 2: press conference.
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  Speaker 3: It was a teleconference the Q and A.
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  Speaker 2: Now, this is the part that I retweeted. The Q
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  Speaker 2: and A is over. The total call was sixteen minutes,
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  Speaker 2: five of those, and it's consisted her giving an update
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  Speaker 2: on her work in DC, and then six questions were
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  Speaker 2: allowed to be asked, one from print, the other five
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  Speaker 2: from television. A number of the topics had already been
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  Speaker 2: addressed by her in alternate forums. That now, that caught
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  Speaker 2: my attention. And all I did was I retweeted that,
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  Speaker 2: and I said something about I'm not saying that the
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  Speaker 2: Senator is hiding, but if she wanted to hide, it
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  Speaker 2: would look something like this.
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  Speaker 3: That's all I said. I couldn't agree more.
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  Speaker 2: Put my phone down, oh, watch the television show with
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  Speaker 2: my wife. By the time I picked up the phone,
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  Speaker 2: I have eight text messages from campaign officials, not just
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  Speaker 2: hers but others. I've got emails, I've got Twitter response,
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  Speaker 2: I've got everybody's like at me and now you're at
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  Speaker 2: me in because I said something that the whole world
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  Speaker 2: would think that if you're trying to hide, this is
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  Speaker 2: how you would hide. You would have these filibuster press
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  Speaker 2: conferences and then say something along the lines of I'm
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  Speaker 2: very busy. First off, I'm grieving, and then secondly, I've
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  Speaker 2: got a lot of work to do in DC and
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  Speaker 2: blah blah blah. Well, I'm not saying that that's not legit.
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  Speaker 2: I'm saying that Lindsey Graham would have made time. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying that Donald Trump makes time for the reporters. I'm
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  Speaker 2: saying that, you know, we saw a great example last
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  Speaker 2: week of Ted Cruz walking through the hallways of Congress
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  Speaker 2: and Darlene Graham was five steps in front of him.
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  Speaker 2: She was asked about her support of ending the filibuster.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even think she said it. I think one
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  Speaker 2: of the staff said, we can't talk right now. We
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  Speaker 2: got to keep moving the next person, Senator Cruz, what
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  Speaker 2: is your thought about the filibuster? The guy goes out
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  Speaker 2: for like twenty minutes, He's like fifteen or twenty minutes
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  Speaker 2: talking to the reporters. And I'm not saying he's great
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  Speaker 2: or wrong or whatever he did, but I'm just saying
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  Speaker 2: he has positions that are well thought out over a
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  Speaker 2: lifetime and has supported them and maybe modified them. You know,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not saying that people don't change their opinions, but
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  Speaker 2: that's all he does is think policy and has thought
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  Speaker 2: policy for at least twenty thirty years. Darlene Graham has
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  Speaker 2: not thought policy, And so I'm not surprised that you're
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  Speaker 2: trying to hide her, but don't act as if you're
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  Speaker 2: not trying to hide her exactly.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, she's a blank slate. We knew Lindsey Graham,
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  Speaker 4: we know Donald Trump, we know Ted Cruz. We know
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  Speaker 4: basically nothing still leading into the election tomorrow about Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 4: And the only thing we do know is what her
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  Speaker 4: very carefully controlled campaign has put out there and what
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  Speaker 4: she said on the debate stage last Monday night.
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  Speaker 2: I have a world of respect, by the way, for
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  Speaker 2: the entire Graham team. They're all amazing people. They really
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  Speaker 2: are the best, well not the best, but they're they're
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  Speaker 2: very good at what they do. What they're trying to
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  Speaker 2: pull off. Would I don't want to say it's a
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  Speaker 2: miracle because she's running with the name Lindsey Graham, but
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  Speaker 2: the but to pull this off if her name was
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash or Christopher Thompson, and it'd be weird because well,
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  Speaker 2: if it was Christopher Thompson because she's a female. But
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash, she could get away with that if you
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  Speaker 2: took the name Kelly Nash and just changed the circum,
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  Speaker 2: you know, just said this is Darlene Graham, not related
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  Speaker 2: to Lindsey Graham, just wants to be a US Senator.
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  Speaker 2: The chances of her winning with the background that she
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  Speaker 2: has right now is almost zilch. They have her right
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  Speaker 2: now as the front runner, So what they have done
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  Speaker 2: is fantastic work as far as just if you step
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  Speaker 2: back and look at politics, what they're doing is top notch.
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  Speaker 2: It's amazing what they're able to do. Because she is
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  Speaker 2: not a good candidate. She does not have a good background,
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  Speaker 2: she does not answer questions well. She at minimum, we
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  Speaker 2: can all agree she struggled in the debates, a lot
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  Speaker 2: of looking at the notes, a lot of you know, well,
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  Speaker 2: my brother died and I'm trying to do the best
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  Speaker 2: and the president asked me to run. Okay, that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean anything to anybody other than you're a sympathetic figure
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  Speaker 2: and deserve sympathy, and the whole Graham family deserves that.
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  Speaker 2: But you know, Lindsey Graham's cousins aren't running, Lindsey Graham's
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  Speaker 2: best friends aren't running. This is all about Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 2: And that is a shock to the governor. I'm told
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  Speaker 2: by many people the governor had no idea that you
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  Speaker 2: would try to run for this. This is a out
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  Speaker 2: of left field position. This is a sudden modification. And again,
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  Speaker 2: what you've done as the team is fantastic. The fact
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  Speaker 2: that you're upset that I just pointed out what Nick
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  Speaker 2: Reynolds pointed out. I don't know if his inbox got
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  Speaker 2: filled up like mine did, but he you know, he
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  Speaker 2: also had one. I guess late last night because I didn't.
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  Speaker 2: I was obviously I was not up after like eight
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  Speaker 2: thirty or whatever. But he had one that I saw.
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  Speaker 2: Where what is it? He said? Politico reporting today what
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  Speaker 2: was that was supposed to be meet? I thought this
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  Speaker 2: was a pancake or a poorly rendered egg. Politico's front page,
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  Speaker 2: Security Strength, the pact that supported Lindsay Graham, is on
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  Speaker 2: TV with an ad that showed an AI depiction of
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  Speaker 2: Russell Fry's likeness transposed into a slice of meat and
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  Speaker 2: a frying pan dumped out by Trump with the words
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  Speaker 2: rejected splashed across the street. Now that's funny. I see
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  Speaker 2: he's taking some fire on that. He's just pointing out
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  Speaker 2: what the obvious is. That's a poorly produced ad by
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  Speaker 2: Security is strength. Poorly produced, and you had AI at
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  Speaker 2: your benefit. Security is strength. You should have done a
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  Speaker 2: better job, should have made Russell Fry look like a
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  Speaker 2: piece of meat, so he looks like a he does
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  Speaker 2: look like a a pancake. Come on, goodness, gracious, I
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  Speaker 2: can't wait for this thing to be over.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Well, we still get a little time starting
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  Speaker 4: with voting tomorrow, but then, as we've said, probably a
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  Speaker 4: runoff too, which means another week of campaigning.
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  Speaker 2: All right, we've got I've got some I think shocking
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  Speaker 2: data about this election. I put that on social media yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't get anywhere near the heat that I took
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  Speaker 2: over this other stuff. So we'll talk about this inside.
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  Speaker 2: What is going on? Is Charleston not gonna vote? What happened? Charles?
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  Speaker 2: Charleston has fallen off a cliff. I'm looking at you, Charleston.
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  Speaker 2: Where are you? You didn't go to the polls, You
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  Speaker 2: didn't show up at all. We'll talk about that and
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  Speaker 2: maybe some counties that they're showing up in record numbers.
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  Speaker 2: What is the real reason for that. We'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: that and more next on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: From the Members to the Low Country. This is South
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  Speaker 1: Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: All right. A guy to follow on social media or
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  Speaker 2: on X I should say, if you love like you're
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  Speaker 2: into politic political geek stuff, the numbers. A guy named
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  Speaker 2: at Steve W. Michael. Steve runs a company called Victory
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  Speaker 2: Enterprises political consultant, and he just made some comments yesterday
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  Speaker 2: on social media. Interesting data comparing the South Carolina governor
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  Speaker 2: runoff to the US Senate special runoff with high turnout
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  Speaker 2: counties and some low turnout counties. For example, we're talking
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  Speaker 2: about early voting. Yes, the lowest county by far right
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  Speaker 2: now is Charleston County nineteen percent. Nobody has showed up,
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  Speaker 2: and you factor in first day of school is tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: They're expecting low voter turnout in Charleston County, which is
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  Speaker 2: obviously horrible news. I would think for Mark Sandford because
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  Speaker 2: that's that's where he that's his wheelhouse. But it's surprising
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  Speaker 2: that Charleston County is taking such a disinterest in this race.
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  Speaker 2: I would think, now you're what you might be wondering?
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  Speaker 2: What about you see in his data York County is
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  Speaker 2: at one hundred and seven percent. Wow, what does that
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  Speaker 2: mean to me? I'll tell you what it means, Christopher.
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  Speaker 2: Means Democrats are coming out to play. Do you think
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  Speaker 2: so Democrats are coming out to play Democrats? I have
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  Speaker 2: heard from numerous Democrats and I'm not going to say
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  Speaker 2: the name, but I think y'all can interpret it. They
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  Speaker 2: have somebody that they think any Andrews can beat, and
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  Speaker 2: they want that somebody to win, and so they're going
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  Speaker 2: to vote in this primary if possible, and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to vote in the next one, the special final runoff election.
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  Speaker 2: That there are people who believe that. Now there's also
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  Speaker 2: word on well, we'll talk to somebody coming up at
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  Speaker 2: eight o'clock who's going to show some interesting data regarding
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  Speaker 2: the ad spending as well by the campaigns. And it
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  Speaker 2: becomes when you look at the ad spending and how
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  Speaker 2: each campaign and or their packs are spending their money,
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  Speaker 2: it becomes rather obvious who wants to face whom and
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  Speaker 2: that may be a good thing or a bad thing.
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  Speaker 2: We've had people try to pick their candidates before. A
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  Speaker 2: lot of people wanted Joe Biden instead of Hillary Clinton
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. They got their wish and then what happened.
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  Speaker 2: We got Joe Biden. So I mean, you know, you
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  Speaker 2: got to be careful what you ask for. But to me,
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  Speaker 2: Charleston is the most disappointing. It's just nineteen percent voting
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  Speaker 2: so far.
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  Speaker 4: And you yeah, with schools starting tomorrow in Greenville, in Charleston,
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  Speaker 4: in Lexington, Richland five, those three districts, I mean, you're
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  Speaker 4: really you're going to have to be careful. You're going
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  Speaker 4: to have to check and see where exactly you're voting
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  Speaker 4: because a lot of polling places will be different than
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  Speaker 4: they were you know, this summer during the primaries for
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  Speaker 4: governor and for all the other races we voted for,
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  Speaker 4: and that may deter some voters.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not driving over there. I thought I was going
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  Speaker 3: to this school.
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  Speaker 2: H Yeah, it's it's a mess. It is a mess.
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  Speaker 2: But I mean, again, this is an unprecedented thing for us,
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  Speaker 2: you know, to have a sitting senator who was well
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  Speaker 2: on his way to reelection to unfortunately pass right in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of this. This is shocking. And so we're
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  Speaker 2: doing the best that we can. But I certainly would
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  Speaker 2: have expected Charleston County to show up more. Well, we'll
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  Speaker 2: see what happens. I mean, I'm we don't have the
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  Speaker 2: numbers for Friday yet. We just have the numbers for
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  Speaker 2: Wednesday and Thursday early voting. So who knows, maybe Charleston
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  Speaker 2: came out Friday. Maybe so. But I mean, it's funny
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  Speaker 2: that they're even considering, like, let's say, trouble d DA
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  Speaker 2: DA DA. Underperforming markets include like us in Richland at
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  Speaker 2: fifty percent. Also Newberry, Marion, Lee, Georgetown, Fairfield, Darlington, Colleton,
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  Speaker 2: Marlborough and Cherokee are at eighty percent. And then you know,
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  Speaker 2: I guess in Marlborough County they're actually they're also at
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  Speaker 2: over one hundred percent as well. Right now, So this
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  Speaker 2: and again this is compared to what happened in the
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  Speaker 2: runoff election for governor. So we got a long ways
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  Speaker 2: to go to get you know, voter participation rates up tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: so we'll keep an eye on that. We're encouraging you
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  Speaker 2: listeners of ninety four three WS. Although I assume most
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  Speaker 2: of you people are actively participating. It's the rest of
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  Speaker 2: your friends and neighbors that aren't. Go out and get
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  Speaker 2: some people riled up and get him into the process.
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  Speaker 2: Six twenty two on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 2: All Right, so we're talking about the power of a name.
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  Speaker 2: We've been mentioning that this morning, and I don't know
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  Speaker 2: that you're going to get a better example than what
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  Speaker 2: happened in the Michigan eighth Congressional District last week. If
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  Speaker 2: you hadn't heard, there was a guy who went by
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  Speaker 2: the name Alemo. That's how it sounds to people. Almo
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  Speaker 2: going up. Now, this is in the Republican primary. Alemo, Now, Almo,
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  Speaker 2: if you say it that way, is going up against
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  Speaker 2: Emir Hassan. Now, Emir Hassan has the endorsement of the
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  Speaker 2: President of the United States of America, Donald J. Trump,
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  Speaker 2: who has a meir on stage with him. I think
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  Speaker 2: at a Mike Rogers event. But I give him my
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  Speaker 2: foot us but douttle backing he'll never let you down. Well,
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  Speaker 2: he spent six hundred thousand dollars, al Lemo spent something
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  Speaker 2: like forty thousand dollars. And the winner was neither. The
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  Speaker 2: winner was a guy who had dropped out of the
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  Speaker 2: race and supported al Lemo about a month or two earlier,
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  Speaker 2: a guy named Tom Smith. This was the shocking news
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  Speaker 2: at w NEM Saginaw last week.
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  Speaker 5: Votes are being certified right now here in Genesee County,
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  Speaker 5: but one of the biggest surprises of this election is
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  Speaker 5: already clear. Tom Smith appears to have won the Republican
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  Speaker 5: primary for Michigan's eighth congressional district after he had suspended
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  Speaker 5: his campaign. Smith also defeated Trump endorsed candidate Amir Hassan,
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  Speaker 5: who came in second with about thirty three percent of
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  Speaker 5: the vote.
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  Speaker 2: So Alemo and Amir Hassan did not get to the
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know if they have runoffs, but they
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  Speaker 2: didn't get to the fifty percent combined. Tom Smith literally
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  Speaker 2: didn't even have an FEC filing, meaning he spent zero
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  Speaker 2: dollars on his campaign. Al's this guy, Tom Smith. Currently,
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  Speaker 2: he's retired. He currently sells salsa at fresh markets or whatever.
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  Speaker 2: That's what he does. And here he is. He made
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  Speaker 2: since he won, he had one thirteen second speech.
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  Speaker 6: My name is Tom Smith, and I'm running for the
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  Speaker 6: eighth congressional district to unseat communist comrade Rivet, and I'll
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  Speaker 6: need your help to do it.
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  Speaker 7: Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: That's all he's got. That's all he has said. That's
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  Speaker 2: all he's gonna probably say.
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  Speaker 3: Less is more, apparently in Michigan.
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  Speaker 2: I mean this to me shows that despite I mean
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  Speaker 2: and look, I know that the Emir Hassan was aware
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  Speaker 2: of the fact that his name is a liability. He
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  Speaker 2: posted multiple times on social media and on his website.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Christ is Lord, you know, all these types of things.
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  Speaker 2: He is a wonderful candidate in the sense that he
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  Speaker 2: served in the military, he served in law enforcement, he's
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  Speaker 2: strong on defense, he's all the things that you would
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: want a Republican to be. But the power of the
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  Speaker 2: name is what held him back. And it's just This
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  Speaker 2: is a great example of people need to examine what
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  Speaker 2: who are you voting for and why is it the
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: name or is it who they are. Amir Hassan would
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: have been a great candidate, but Amir Hassan lives in
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: an era where Americans are deathly afraid now of people
• 18:38
  Speaker 2: like Rashid Talib and ilhan Omar, and now they're afraid
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: of you know, l Sayad. This idea of the Islamic
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: takeover is scaring them to death. Even if you are
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: a Christian. Christopher and I were talking about name changes.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: If you're running for office, changing your name is not
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: a bad idea unless you already have a name. If
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: you have a name, maybe here's that name.
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  Speaker 4: No, although that would get heavily scrutinized if you did
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  Speaker 4: change your name going into a political season.
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  Speaker 2: Did anybody do that? I don't know, just just raising
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  Speaker 2: questions anyway. Six thirty two on South Carolina's Morning.
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  Speaker 1: News, Live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 1: Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go six thirty seven and John Fetterman continues
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to challenge the far left of his own party. This
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: is a snippet of an interview given over the weekend,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: he's talking again about abdulah l sayed less than fifty
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: percent of Michigan Democrats picked him, So a majority of
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: Democrats in Michigan picked someone else. So and he ran
• 19:49
  Speaker 2: a very aggressive, arrogant kind of campaign. And I just
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: I want to dare him right now. I dare you
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  Speaker 2: to continue to campaign with people like Hassan Piker, because
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: he now will quickly find out it's easy to campaign
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  Speaker 2: in the echo chamber as a Democrat. That's a bold challenge.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder what Hassan Piker's response will be, Christopher, have
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: you watched Hassan Piker at all?
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  Speaker 4: I know who he is, I've not watched much of
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: his internet personality far far left.
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  Speaker 2: You saw Debbie Dingle's comments on Hassani. She finds him hot.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that is odd, by the way, but yeah, Hassan
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  Speaker 2: Piker definitely gets eyeballs and gets people motivated and gets
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: the far He says all the things that the far
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: left loves, including, certainly I would put near the top
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: his love of Chairman Mao. He's actually now starting to
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: dress more and more like Chairman Mao. And he's talking
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: about what great How did he say I'm trying to
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: remember how he's phrased it, but it was something about
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: I can't imagine a country more in line with how
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  Speaker 2: I think a country should be than China. And even
• 21:05
  Speaker 2: his own mother is like, I really wish my son
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: didn't have a love for China like this.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, he also said we deserved nine to eleven. He
• 21:13
  Speaker 4: said our foreign policy we deserved nine to eleven. We
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: deserved what we got from those al Qaeda terrorists.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that Abdul l si Ed would agree
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  Speaker 2: with that position.
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  Speaker 4: I would be running far away from that if I
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  Speaker 4: were him. But you know, apparently he's buddies enough, buddies
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  Speaker 4: with Hassan too, have campaigned with him already.
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  Speaker 2: And again this shows where the Democrat Party is, that
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: there's one. It's like I'm start calling John Fetterman, John
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: the Baptist. He's a lone voice out in the wild
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: crying we're off course. We have lost our way, Democrats,
• 21:49
  Speaker 2: and they have lost their way, and it's a scary
• 21:51
  Speaker 2: time for the Democrats and it's a scary time for America.
• 21:53
  Speaker 2: So more power to John Fetterman aka John the Baptist
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  Speaker 2: as he tries to fix his own before they destroy America.
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  Speaker 2: It's six poin forty on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Bernie Sanders asked yesterday on Meet the Press about his
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: lack of endorsement for the DSA candidate in Wisconsin, Francesca Hong,
• 22:17
  Speaker 2: who perfectly aligns with this platform. Why wasn't he endorsing her?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: He basically reiterated what he said on Pod Save America
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  Speaker 2: earlier last week. You endorse her? I don't think so.
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  Speaker 8: I met Francesca a couple of years ago. I was
• 22:31
  Speaker 8: in Wisconsin. Oh, it seems very, very nice. But again,
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  Speaker 8: this is a race I just I'm not that familiar with.
• 22:38
  Speaker 8: We have not gotten involved in many governor's races. I
• 22:41
  Speaker 8: think we did one in Maine with Troy Jackson.
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, so he's done one governor's race, but he doesn't
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: particularly care about governor's races. According to Bernie Sanders, I
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: will float the idea. Love to hear from some Democrats
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: on this. The reason that Bernie Sanders is not endorsing
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Francesca Hong, even though she aligns perfectly with him, is because,
• 23:03
  Speaker 2: by her own admission, she is not a minority. She
• 23:08
  Speaker 2: is Asian and Asians, as she said, are white adjacent.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: That's her term, not mine. She says that whites and
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: Asians don't experience prejudice, which actually pokes a huge hole
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: in this whole minority problem that they have. That in
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: America only whites can thrive, and then the Asians broke through,
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: So then now we don't have So we can only
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: endorse people of color and Bernie Sanders. Other than Bernie Sanders,
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: I'm trying to think of the white Democrat socialists. I
• 23:38
  Speaker 2: can't think of any right off the top of my head.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I can't either.
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: They're all people of color. And although she is a
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: person of color, she's not the right color. And so
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: that's the only reason I have that this person who's
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: a Democrat socialist cannot get Bernie Sanders' endorsement for governor.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina This Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: Alrighty six fifty, get after it. It's Monday. Hopefully you
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: got a fresh week of opportunities, lots of opportunities for
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: you to do great things. Coming up on this broadcast,
• 24:09
  Speaker 2: we'll be doing great things. Christopher Thompson and I at
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the Helm as we talk to some important people like you.
• 24:18
  Speaker 2: On the talkback feature. We also will be looking at
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: some of the folks who are making news in our state,
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: including one of the top pollsters. He'll be checking in
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: to give us the latest data, which some of which
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: is surprising. Not just who's polling well, but where's the
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: money being spent and by whom and for what reasons
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: It's not always that obvious. We'll talk about those things
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: and more. But also I want to get into this
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: story that the posting career has. Republican voters in South
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: Carolina want their next senator to be in the mold
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: of Lindsay Graham. Or do they? And it's so interesting.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: My argument has always been that they do. That Lindsey
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: Graham is and will always remain be a popular figure,
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: although a divisive figure. About fifty six percent of Republicans
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: vote for him every single time, every single time, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: that leads to obviously Republican wins. So I think that
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  Speaker 2: they for the most Again, millions of South Carolinians would
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: have liked Lindsay Graham to be more one way or
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: the other. But what does this story tell us. It
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  Speaker 2: has a shocking conclusion. Christopher, Oh, I can't wait. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I know right. We'll get into that and more on
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning.
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• 25:34
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• 25:44
  Speaker 2: All Right, the Post and Courier, a reporter named Jason
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Ryan has put out a story. I guess this was
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: in Sunday's paper. Republican voters in South Carolina want their
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: next senator to be in the mold of Lindsey Graham
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: or And then he breaks down. He talks to a
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: bunch of different Republicans and what they want and who
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: what are they pacing it on. Some of them are
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: looking at electability, who's the most likely to win in
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: a general election. Some are looking at who's going to
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: be the strongest for the military. Some are looking at
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: who's going to be the most fiscally conservative. They all
• 26:23
  Speaker 2: have a bunch of different things, obviously, as you would
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: expect to me. The ending of the story is the
• 26:30
  Speaker 2: very interesting part where let me scroll to the very
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: bottom of it. It's that another Charleston County Republican I
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: guess I can say her name is in the paper
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: another Charleston County Republican, Caron Fraser of Mount Pleasant, is
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: also hopeful for more civil discourse on the horizon, though
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: she is not looking to any candidate in the primary
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: field to deliver such a comedy, so instead she'll be
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: supporting doctor Annie Andrews, the Charleston doctor and Democrat candidate.
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: She's a Republican, but it's not interested in what the
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: Republican Party is peddling. She goes on to say that,
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: you know, South Carolina, the state of smiling faces and
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: beautiful places, must engage in more respectful dialogue. So that
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: is an interesting update there, Christopher Wing, we have a
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: Republican who's voting for doctor and Andrews.
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  Speaker 4: Well, in the first place, I would question that republican's
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: Republican credentials, you would, I would think so. And maybe,
• 27:28
  Speaker 4: you know, doctor and Andrews is from the low Country.
• 27:31
  Speaker 4: Maybe that's why this particular voter feels more enamored with Andrews.
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: But I don't think there's There hasn't been a whole
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: a lot of hostility in this race, at least not
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: so far. A couple of people have gone head to head.
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: Russell Fry and Darlene Graham, Ralph Norman, and Mark Lynch.
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: But otherwise it's been fairly civil.
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  Speaker 2: I will point out, and again I'm sure I will
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: take in fire for this incoming here we go. I
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: am just going to as a reporter when you people,
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  Speaker 2: I report, you decide. Darlene Graham tweeted on August second,
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  Speaker 2: I strongly support the Second Amendment. I believe gun control
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: is how steady you hold your weapon. That tweet is
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: the only tweet reference. That's the only candidate referenced by
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: doctor Annie Andrews when she retweeted it and said, chat gpt,
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  Speaker 2: please write me a tweet to make me seem Republican
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: enough to win my primary if it is what it is.
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: Some people in the Annie Andrews camp have made it
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: rather obvious that they believe that Darlene Graham is their
• 28:41
  Speaker 2: best candidate. That's who they want, that's who they're pulling for.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: And if you don't think that they're coming out to
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: the polls where we have open primary season and you
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: can vote in a primary, if you have not already
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: voted in the other team's primary, you're fooling yourself. They
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: are coming. They We were just talking last hour about
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: how in certain counties were already over one hundred percent return,
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: meaning more people have voted in this than voted for
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  Speaker 2: the governor already. What do you think is happening there?
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  Speaker 8: Is?
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: This is the Democrats.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: You think it's Operation Chaos all over again.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: I am, I couldn't be any more sure of it.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, I think we said we're going to
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: talk about this. Didn't were so all right? So we'll
• 29:30
  Speaker 2: take a pause here, we'll put what do they say,
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: We'll just put a little pin needle here, and then
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: when we come back, Christopher and I had taken some
• 29:37
  Speaker 2: emails I think it was last week from people who
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: agree or and or disagree on the idea of closing
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: the primaries. We do have a lawsuit South Carolina. You
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: caught yourself a lawsuit, or at least the Republican Party
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: did from the ACLU, because you wanted to close your primaries.
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: This would be a great example of why you would
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: want to close your primaries. This is one of the examples.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: There's a the reasons to keep them open, and we'll
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: take a look at all that. But South Carolina is
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: in the heat of a very I don't want to
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: say vicious. It's a normal primary. Christopher, I think you've
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: done a great job of pointing that out. This has
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: not been ugly, not really for the most part, I mean,
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: but it's ugly enough that one person who identifies in
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: the paper as the Charleston County Republican says that she
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: will be supporting doctor Annie Andrews because we need more
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: smiling faces, be kind that will go a long way,
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: she says. So we're not being kind enough in the
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Republican Party. What do you think about that? Talkback features
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: wide open on the iHeartRadio app. You need more kindness
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: in the Republican Party? Do you need more fight in
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: the Republican Party? What are you looking for in the
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: Republican The next Senate candidate, specifically, as we get ready
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: to elect one or ell at least send two into
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: a runoff, most likely tomorrow. South Carolina's morning.
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  Speaker 1: News from the Midlands to the low Country. This is
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  Speaker 1: South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I do prefer it if you use the
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: talkback feature to get at Christopher Thompson and myself, but
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: I understand that everybody has the ability to use the
• 31:10
  Speaker 2: app while they're listening. Some people choose to send emails later,
• 31:15
  Speaker 2: and that's what we have here, a couple of them.
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: I'll just read regarding the idea of what the Republican
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: Party wants to do in South Carolina, which is closed
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: the primaries, meaning you'd have to be registered to vote
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: in either the Democrat or the Republican primary. I guess
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: you would probably have to declare yourself a Libertarian if
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you want to vote in the Libertarian primary. And the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: list goes on and on, the Green Party and so
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: on and so forth. But at least for the Republicans,
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: they're saying in our primary, you'd have to be declared
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: a Republican. If the primaries are closed, I would then
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: be required to declare my party affiliation. Why should I
• 31:50
  Speaker 2: be required to inform the government what my political beliefs are,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: considering what would be publicly available information in today's political
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: climate that could be hazardous to one's health and welfare.
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: I will point out that, as we've just discovered here,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: because of the Republican rule that you must vote in
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: two of the last three primaries, the government already knows.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: The government already knows how you voted. We have another
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: one similar in nature. This is from Laura, good morning
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: and enjoining today's show. The problem with the closed primary
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: is it leads to declaring a party on your registration
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: and disenfranchising voters who may not vote straight party or
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: who have no candidate in their party for a certain seat.
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: I am one of those voters. I do not align
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: with the Republicans or the Democrats. I am a conservative,
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: but feel that that party has left me. Thanks for
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: keeping us informed. Well, thank you, Laura. I would point
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: out that you're just in this primary. You would be
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: voting for the person that you want to represent in
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: whatever seats that you're talking about. So, for example, if
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: you're saying that the there's nobody running in the for
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: mayor or whatever it is, that that is a Republican
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: that you'd like, then you'd sit that part out, I guess,
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: and then you would just come along and vote for
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: whomever the non Republican was. But this has always been Kelly.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: The argument against making people choose a party affiliation is because,
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: like Laura said, there are a lot of independence out there,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: and we talk about how important independence are. Gosh, you know,
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: we sing their praises during your presidential election year. Got
• 33:36
  Speaker 2: to get the independence, got to get the independent vote.
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: Those independents, they don't want to say they're a Democrat
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: or they were a Republican, and they want to vote,
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: and they want to have the right to say, Okay,
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: I'm voting for this person for mayor that may be
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: a Democrat, but I'm voting for this person for school
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: board and that person may be a Republican. It's I mean,
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: they want their choices and they don't want to label
• 34:01
  Speaker 2: themselves as one or the other. Life is about trade offs.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: Nobody gets everything that they want, not even in a candidate.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: You don't get everything that you want, no matter who
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: you voted for. Donald Trump is not living up to
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: everybody's expectations. There are people who regret. We talked about
• 34:15
  Speaker 2: a guy last week. He deported my girlfriend sisman, yes man,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: but he calls her jasmine. Jasmine was as good as gold.
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: Should have married her bro anyway. But let's get back
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: to the more serious issue. Life's about trade offs, so
• 34:31
  Speaker 2: you're not gonna get everything you want. But to a
• 34:33
  Speaker 2: more I think that the bigger threat to democracy is
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: the infiltration of parties that want to hijack the Republican
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: or the Democrat machines the Democrats and the Republicans should
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: have the right to decide who they allow to run
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: as a Republican or a Democrat. In other words, let's
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: just for fundsies. You know, I'll use a name that
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: we all know. So if AOC moved to South Carolina
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: and declared herself a Republican, she could run as a
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Republican right now, and a lot of people would believe
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: that she was a Republican, and she might actually win
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: a Republican primary, and then she would be the candidate.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: Now most of us recognize there's no way anybody would
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: vote for AOC. Really, really, I mean, I saw a
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: guy not that long ago running for Attorney general who
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: said that Joe Biden was the best man he's ever met.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: That guy was a lifelong Democrat who realized, in a
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: state like South Carolina, you can't win, probably as a
• 35:40
  Speaker 2: Democrat for a state office. You can you can win
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: in your counties, but you're not going to win a
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: statewide office. He suddenly became a Republican. Thankfully, well, I
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: don't want to say thankfully, neither here nor there. He
• 35:52
  Speaker 2: didn't win. He didn't win the primary for the Attorney
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: General's office. Didn't make it to the runoff. So but
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: there is that possibility. You saw Bernie Sanders hijack the
• 36:01
  Speaker 2: Democrat Party. This hijacking of the Democrat Party's been going
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: on for years. Bernie Sanders didn't just start it in
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: twenty sixteen. I mean he started this thing years and
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: years ago. It's been decades in the making. If you're
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: going to protect your party and it's just your party again,
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: for those people who like Laura here, who feel like
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: they want to have options, you're gonna have options because
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: when you get to the general election, you're probably gonna
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: have a Republican, You're gonna have probably have a Democrat,
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: You're probably gonna have an independent, You're probably gonna have
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: some sort of libertarian. You're probably gonna have a Green
• 36:37
  Speaker 2: Party candidate. All of these people are more than welcome
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: at a seat at the table, and then you decide
• 36:43
  Speaker 2: amongst them. This is just deciding who the Republican Party
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: and or the Democrats if they'd like to close their primaries.
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: Not in this state they wouldn't, but they did in
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: other states.
• 36:52
  Speaker 9: New York.
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: That's what I was joking about the New York primaries
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: the other day. Where's the acl you lawsuit against New
• 36:58
  Speaker 2: York when they closed their primaries, so that never happened.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: They only want to see Republicans because they know the
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: Democrats have a at least a pathway to success in
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: South Carolina as long as the primer stay open. That's
• 37:09
  Speaker 2: my thoughts. Are you leaning more towards you want to
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: keep them open, Christopher?
• 37:13
  Speaker 4: I was, But I think we're seeing it, and we
• 37:17
  Speaker 4: had this argument during the redistricting argument. We're seeing the
• 37:20
  Speaker 4: demographics of South Carolina change as more and more people
• 37:23
  Speaker 4: moved to South Carolina. What was always a safe Republican
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: state where you didn't have to worry about Operation Chaos.
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: I think the numbers are changing a little bit and
• 37:32
  Speaker 4: the Republicans might need to start guarding their primaries.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: Be interesting if we get some talkbacks on that and
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: our emails. You go ahead. Our emails are apparently in
• 37:40
  Speaker 2: the open. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
• 37:47
  Speaker 1: five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and ninety
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: four to three WSC Charleston.
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, there's so much to get to today, Christopher.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: It's just I get to have a lanch of news
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: and information pouring over us, and we still have calls
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: to come in. Is today the day? I think we
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: have Ellen Weaver calling us today? Is that correct? We do?
• 38:09
  Speaker 3: Yeah, she's going in just after eight thirty.
• 38:11
  Speaker 2: So we have our superintendent of education. Perhaps I will
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: have to talk to her about this story. I just
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: just saw this. Apparently we're making South Carolina has made
• 38:21
  Speaker 2: the libs of TikTok. You haven't seen that. That's a
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: It's not just on TikTok, that's on Facebook and Instagram
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: and x and truth social, but it's called Libs of TikTok.
• 38:33
  Speaker 2: And they point out I don't know liberals, liberal leaning things,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: but I won't read it from Libs of TikTok. I'll
• 38:42
  Speaker 2: read it from ABC News. For Dorchester County, nineteen families
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: with children enrolled at Dorchester School District for elementary school
• 38:48
  Speaker 2: have gathered on Friday to share their concerns after learning
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: that a new fourth grade teacher is openly transitioning. A
• 38:55
  Speaker 2: meeting came after one parent invited other families to speak
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: with news for about this issue. Well, not every family
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: has a child assigned to that teacher's classroom. Those who
• 39:03
  Speaker 2: spoke with Newsportce said that they share concerns about conversations
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: they believe their elementary age children are not ready to
• 39:09
  Speaker 2: have Christopher thoughts on elementary school teachers transitioning.
• 39:15
  Speaker 4: It shouldn't be done in a public in a public
• 39:17
  Speaker 4: setting like that, I mean, yeah, of course kids are
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: going to be curious. You know, why is my male
• 39:22
  Speaker 4: teacher suddenly wearing dresses to school?
• 39:26
  Speaker 2: Do they say which way they're going?
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: I'm just guessing.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: I'm wondering. I'm trying to read through the story that
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: I see a lot of parents can expressing their concerns. Now,
• 39:36
  Speaker 2: oh we've heard. Thankfully we got South Carolina. Equality has
• 39:40
  Speaker 2: chimed in as well. This is the LGBTQ advocacy organization
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: offers a different perspective. The executive director says parents can
• 39:49
  Speaker 2: still choose how they discuss these topics at home, but
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: argue that a teacher's gender identity should not determine whether
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: they can remain in the classroom. Parents still get to
• 39:58
  Speaker 2: decide what they talk to their kids about, and they
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: talk to their kids about all sorts of things. But
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: this doesn't change anything about that teach. Well changes something
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: about that teacher. I got to push back on that one, James.
• 40:10
  Speaker 2: It changes something about that teacher, and even the teacher
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: themselves would admit that there is a change because they
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: want that change. To them, this is important. So you
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: can't just frivously fluff that off and say it's no
• 40:23
  Speaker 2: big deal that one day they're wearing a dress and
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: the next day they're wearing a business suit, or vice versa.
• 40:29
  Speaker 2: It's a big deal to them that you change their
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: pronoun and you call them mister instead of missus or whatever.
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: He says a name and a pronoun or not a
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: lesson planned, So it shouldn't affect how the teacher does
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: their job.
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: I think this is adding confusion at a time when
• 40:46
  Speaker 4: these kids don't need confusion.
• 40:49
  Speaker 2: It does seem as if the children the childhoods of
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty, the twenty twenties, I would say, have been
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: the most difficult childhoods I could have imagine if you came,
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: if you were like six years old in twenty twenty.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: The last six years has been chaos. Not that we
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: were doing so great leading up to it, but the
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: last six years has been chaos. And you know, I
• 41:16
  Speaker 2: think back to my childhood, you know, and I was
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: very concerned, I think as most gen xers were. We
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: were very concerned about this whole nuclear holocaust thing, and
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: you would hear about it on the news all the time.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: It was it was craziness that you know, at any
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: moment the world could end brought on by a legitimate
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: nuclear holocaust Like that was a that was not global
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: warming fear. That was real global warming in a real hurry,
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: that would go from zero to a billion and about
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: a blink of an eye, and you would be by
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: the way. My stepfather rest his soul. He I don't
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: know if he was trying to comfort me as a child,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: but I remember being like eight years old and watching
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: one of these newscasts. And we lived in East Hartford, Connecticut,
• 42:03
  Speaker 2: which is the home of Pratt and Whitney, and Pratt
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: and Whitney was no more than two miles from where
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: my house sat, and so we're sitting there watching the
• 42:11
  Speaker 2: news and they're talking about how Russia or the Soviet
• 42:15
  Speaker 2: Union has more than enough nuclear weapons to destroy the
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: world six times over, and the US has it to
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: destroy it ten times over, or something like that, and
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: obviously military installations would be the first to be struck
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: and blah blah blah. And I was like, I was
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: like almost crying. I was so scared. And he said, oh,
• 42:35
  Speaker 2: don't worry about it. You're great. You live right here
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: in East Hartford. This will be one of the first
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: places they hit, right, they'd have to go after Pratt
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: and Whitney. And I said what he goes, He literally,
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: I'll never forget it. I mean, this is fifty years later.
• 42:47
  Speaker 2: He said, you'll be turned to bleach in a blink
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: of an eye. And he says, you better hope you're
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: not at your grandparents' house up in Vermont, because that'll
• 42:54
  Speaker 2: probably linger on for a few days or weeks with
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: that nuclear winter moving in before you actually finally starve
• 42:59
  Speaker 2: a slow, miserable death. You want to go in a
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: blink of an eye. I was like, oh what. But
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: the kids today they have it much worse than we
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: had it, much worse. And yes, I agree with you, Christopher.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: You don't need to have a teacher transitioning in front
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: of them. It's it's not really a butterfly moment. No,
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: even the butterfly goes into a cocoon for a while
• 43:20
  Speaker 2: and then comes back and go to your cocoon. Seven
• 43:24
  Speaker 2: point thirty one on South Carolina's Morning.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: News live from the state Capitol. This is South Carolina's
• 43:30
  Speaker 1: Morning News.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: All right, So I got an email from a guy
• 43:34
  Speaker 2: named Dan. We were earlier talking about the idea of
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: closing the primaries as opposed to what we have now,
• 43:40
  Speaker 2: the open primaries. Dan says, if I had known that
• 43:43
  Speaker 2: it was going to lead to a daily litany of
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: five hundred and sixty seven emails from everybody from Donald
• 43:48
  Speaker 2: Trump Junior to unknown House candidate in Wyoming looking for money,
• 43:51
  Speaker 2: I never would have voted in a Republican primary. Declaring
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: my party affiliation may have been the worst thing I've
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: ever done. As far as my junk inboxes can understand
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: that problem, Dan, I will point out that I don't know.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: I don't know if that's where it all comes from.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: My wife, who those of you who know us know
• 44:15
  Speaker 2: that my wife, you might have noticed, is black. My
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: wife because she is black. I'm I'm certain of this
• 44:22
  Speaker 2: because she's only ever voted in Republican events. She's a
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: lifelong Republican. My wife and I had a massive fight
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: in twenty fifteen over my support of Marco Rubio, who
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: she said was weak. She's now come. She thinks Marco
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: has stepped up his game. But she's like, we're not
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: gonna have any weak Republicans, and Marco's weak. That's why
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: you should vote for Donald Trump. He is strong. She
• 44:45
  Speaker 2: wanted a strong president. She got one in Donald Trump.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: But she gets inundated with Democrat candidates on like on
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: text messaging. Will you support so and so? Are you
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: interested in learning more about such and such, so on
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: and so forth, And she like she you know you
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: can only you just keep blocking and blocking and blocking
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: and you know whatever.
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: But yes, stop.
• 45:06
  Speaker 2: But they just have new numbers and new whatevers, and
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: they so I don't know where they get their information.
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but they certainly they certainly come at
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: as hard. Now tomorrow, Christopher, you were talking earlier about
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: it's the first day of school.
• 45:21
  Speaker 4: Yes, well, a lot most of the districts in South
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: Carolina have already gone back, but there are three Charleston, Greenville,
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: and Lexington, Richland five that go back tomorrow.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: And that's gonna be a problem for primary.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's I mean a lot of people vote at schools,
• 45:35
  Speaker 4: and so those schools won't be available, and so you
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: need to check to see where you're polling places.
• 45:42
  Speaker 3: Mine's changed.
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of people's has. Yeah, I voted
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: a church, so I should be good. I'll check it
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: again in the morning, just to make sure. Yeah. But
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: the I'm wondering, at least in the Midlands, will there
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: be more people going to the holes.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Tomorrow or or will.
• 46:03
  Speaker 2: There be more people going to the state surplus store
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: because the South Carolina State Surplus property office tomorrow. Why
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: did they pick tomorrow? They couldn't wait till Wednesday. They've
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: had this merchandise for months now. They've got the entire
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: whatever left over there is from the game Cocks under
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: armor deal. I'll point out I don't these quote unquote
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: deals are not as deeply discounted as I had assumed.
• 46:29
  Speaker 4: It's not like the old days when you used to
• 46:31
  Speaker 4: be able to go to the surplus and get I
• 46:33
  Speaker 4: mean a great deal on something. Now they sell because
• 46:36
  Speaker 4: they're trying to make money back for a state agency
• 46:40
  Speaker 4: like the university, for example.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: So as we look at this, if you're thinking of
• 46:44
  Speaker 2: driving in maybe from Charleston, you know a lot of
• 46:46
  Speaker 2: people are game Cock fans in the low Country as well.
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: You might be thinking of coming in and getting some
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: official under armoured gear that the game cocks I get.
• 46:54
  Speaker 2: I'm assuming a lot of these were never worn, correct,
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: Although they do say that they have practice jerseys that
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: were warned. There is no game warn jerseys. There's just
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: practice warn jerseys. The jerseys are fifty dollars, which is
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: not bad, although it's not an official that's it. And
• 47:10
  Speaker 2: anything I tell you has the gamecock logo on it.
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: Because there's also a less expensive option for certain merch
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: that does not have the gamecock logo on it. Why
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: would I even care about it then? But anyway, short
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: sleeve T shirts twenty dollars, long sleeve T shirts or
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: twenty five dollars short sleeve pullover. What is a pullover?
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: Is that just like a sweater?
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: I guess that's thirty five dollars.
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: The long sleeve pullover is forty five dollars.
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: Still a deal, but not you know, heavily discounted.
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, sweatpants, I guess, or twenty five dollars. Shorts or
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: twenty dollars. A hat or a beanie is ten dollars.
• 47:47
  Speaker 2: The face cover who wears the face covers? Are we
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: still in COVID? It's ten dollars.
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: No, it's for the cold weather.
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: I know, I'm just kidding anyway, So that's the And
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: I did hear somebody reported I didn't see it in
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: the story that Jake Bentley's garment bag is available. It
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: says all garment bags for forty dollars. I guess Jake's.
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: They never took the name attack off. Yeah, so if
• 48:11
  Speaker 2: you're interested, do you think more people will be turning
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: out for that or the primaries?
• 48:15
  Speaker 4: I would hope there would be more people voting tomorrow.
• 48:18
  Speaker 4: And if you need some incentive, I think Jordan Kay
• 48:21
  Speaker 4: mentioned in this article in the State newspaper they have
• 48:24
  Speaker 4: boxes of this stuff. They are not going to sell
• 48:26
  Speaker 4: out tomorrow.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: No, And as a matter of fact, I think he
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: mentioned in here they didn't even have any of the
• 48:32
  Speaker 2: women's basketball stuff yet, which I imagine would be very
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: popular for I mean, it's one of the top what
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: three programs in the country consistently for ten years now,
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: So there's probably a lot of Lady g Fians. Although
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I'm told I'm not supposed to say the Lady G's.
• 48:48
  Speaker 2: That's how we grew up calling them the Lady G's,
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: So it's hard. There's still the Redskins to me, they're
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: the Lady G's to me. If you want their gear,
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: that's not coming till later, is what this story says.
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: So this is mainly football stuff.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: Mainly football. And they point out that like Scout sixteen
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: is not probably Leonora Sellers or Jank Bentley's number sixteen.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: It's somebody who is on the Scout team just happened
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: to be wearing number sixteen. So anyway, if you want
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: some of that gear, not as cheap as I thought,
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: But I fear more people will be there tomorrow, first come,
• 49:25
  Speaker 2: first served. Then we'll be turning out for the polls.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: We'll have all those numbers for you. I guess what,
• 49:29
  Speaker 2: by Thursday or Friday, we'll be able to crunch the
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: numbers on that. All right, thanks for getting you. Day
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: started with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 49:35
  Speaker 7: In South Carolina's Morning News.
• 49:38
  Speaker 2: All right, so Christopher, you brought it up off the air,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: the idea that we had two now former NBA players
• 49:44
  Speaker 2: announce over the weekend that they are declaring themselves eligible
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: for the WNBA Draft because they meet the criteria required,
• 49:53
  Speaker 2: which is to declare I find myself to be a
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: transgendered person.
• 49:58
  Speaker 4: Well, here's here's what's confusing for the WNBA. They've got
• 50:02
  Speaker 4: themselves in a big trick bag because the WNBA's collective
• 50:05
  Speaker 4: bargain agreement says only women can play the sport. The
• 50:09
  Speaker 4: problem is now they've blurred the lines by not embracing
• 50:12
  Speaker 4: what a woman is and by having some of their coaches,
• 50:15
  Speaker 4: like you pointed out Minnesota Sheryl Reeve, you know, coming
• 50:18
  Speaker 4: out wearing T shirts saying, you know, it's celebrating the transgenders.
• 50:23
  Speaker 4: Now they're suddenly faced with the fact that, okay, here
• 50:25
  Speaker 4: are some here are two guys that consider themselves transgenders,
• 50:30
  Speaker 4: open up the draft.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: So it was the first one I think was Ennis Freedom.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: Is that his name?
• 50:35
  Speaker 4: Yeah, although Royce White says he was thinking about it first.
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: So Royce White also came out shortly thereafter.
• 50:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, and he's actually running against Amy Klobachar in Minnesota
• 50:44
  Speaker 4: as well.
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: He's got his hands full, He's got his hands full.
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: I don't know how big Royce White is. I think
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: en his Freedom is like six ten two fifty and
• 50:56
  Speaker 2: Royce is six foot eight.
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: And he was said to have one of the law
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: just handwidths of anybody at the scouting combine where he
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: took part in.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: The and his freedom launch on this was that was
• 51:09
  Speaker 2: very well coordinated. Really yeah, the way he set that up,
• 51:12
  Speaker 2: and he's like, I'm not asking for any special treatment,
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: I just want what you've already promised, inclusion, and the
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: you know, the WNBA commissioner came out and said something
• 51:22
  Speaker 2: along the lines of, well, we have to have continued
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: important conversations that are nuanced. Is it a male or
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: is it not? They are in a trick back, Christoph.
• 51:32
  Speaker 2: It'll be interesting to watch this play out on South
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: Carolina's morning news.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: You are listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 51:39
  Speaker 2: And the South Carolina bathroom law goes into effect for
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: the colleges today. So if you are a college student
• 51:49
  Speaker 2: and need to use the restroom, you should go to
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the restroom that aligns with the six you were assigned
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: at birth. I never felt like I was assigned mail.
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: But anyway, if you don't feel comfortable doing that, all
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: the colleges must provide multiple single use facilities as well.
• 52:09
  Speaker 2: I know this is confusing apparently for some, but you
• 52:14
  Speaker 2: cannot go into a bathroom if you don't have the
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: parts of the people that are in that bathroom shouldn't.
• 52:19
  Speaker 3: Be confusing, but it's become confusing in the last few years.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Now I do. I'm reading the state newspaper. How are
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: we going to enforce our new law? This does not
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: give me much reassurance at all. Quote, we're not physically inspecting.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: We're not investigating. The Commission's executive director, Jeffrey Board says,
• 52:35
  Speaker 2: we will contact the campuses and ask are you in
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: compliance with the Act If they send us a letter
• 52:39
  Speaker 2: back saying yes, we are in compliance, all as well. Okay,
• 52:44
  Speaker 2: I want that job head of Compliance. I just have
• 52:47
  Speaker 2: to email or have set out a letter.
• 52:49
  Speaker 3: My gosh, talk about checks and balances exactly.
• 52:52
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back. We're going to have, by
• 52:54
  Speaker 2: the way, a very fascinating interview I'm expecting coming up
• 52:56
  Speaker 2: just after the top of the hour about the polls
• 52:58
  Speaker 2: leading into this primary. That's next on South Carolina's Morning.
• 53:02
  Speaker 1: News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: South Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM,
• 53:11
  Speaker 1: five sixty AM WVOC, and ninety four to three WUSC.
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: Good morning Low Country, Good morning Midlands. Thanks for getting
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: your day started with South Carolina's morning news and we're
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: all talking about the polls being open tomorrow, but more importantly,
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: a lot of people talking about what actually is happening
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: at the polls when we see them in the news
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: and all their places on the phone. One of the
• 53:35
  Speaker 2: main men who run these polls, Rick Quinn, good morning,
• 53:39
  Speaker 2: How are you, sir?
• 53:40
  Speaker 9: Good morning?
• 53:41
  Speaker 2: How are you? I? First off, thank you for sharing
• 53:44
  Speaker 2: some time with us and your insights. I was fascinated
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: to read the data that you shared with me over
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: the weekend. The depth that you guys go with these
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: poles is incredible, and you know there's a lot to diges.
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: Yes here is there one big takeaway for you when
• 54:03
  Speaker 2: you read all these numbers that.
• 54:04
  Speaker 9: You have, well, I think I think if you look
• 54:09
  Speaker 9: at the poll in conjunction with the early voting numbers
• 54:13
  Speaker 9: that are coming in, it is pretty clear is going
• 54:16
  Speaker 9: to be a very low turnout special election primary for
• 54:20
  Speaker 9: the Senate see and that would tend to benefit Ralph Norman.
• 54:26
  Speaker 9: He tends to have better support among what people in
• 54:30
  Speaker 9: my business called high propensity voters, voters that vote in
• 54:33
  Speaker 9: Republican primaries consistently. But Norman and Graham have an advantage.
• 54:39
  Speaker 9: But Mark Sandford and Russell Flyer are close enough that
• 54:45
  Speaker 9: if the turnout gets Wonky didn't think could happen. And
• 54:48
  Speaker 9: that's really you know, polling is is you know a
• 54:50
  Speaker 9: lot of people will say polling, you can't rely on it.
• 54:53
  Speaker 9: It's a very it's a scientific principle, right, it is reliable.
• 54:57
  Speaker 9: What is not necessarily reliable. It's predicting Curnown towns, particularly
• 55:01
  Speaker 9: in an election like this, which is just off calendar
• 55:04
  Speaker 9: school starting, people really are just starting to engage in
• 55:08
  Speaker 9: the fact that there's even an open seat election going on.
• 55:11
  Speaker 9: So those things kind of imply that Ralph and Darwin
• 55:15
  Speaker 9: have a advantage.
• 55:17
  Speaker 2: Talking with Rick Quinn Resonance Media Services, six hundred likely
• 55:22
  Speaker 2: Republican primary voters, and you even broak it down in
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: there like who is like sure that they're voting as
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: opposed to I'm very likely to vote, And then you
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: didn't talk to the other people. But yet six hundred people.
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: How hard is it for you guys to get six
• 55:37
  Speaker 2: hundred people on the phone? I noticed overwhelmingly it was
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: cell phone. It's like four hundred and fifty or so
• 55:43
  Speaker 2: of the six hundred, Right, How hard is it though,
• 55:46
  Speaker 2: to just get people who you know are Republican voters.
• 55:49
  Speaker 9: Well, you know it's expensive lot, there's no question about it.
• 55:53
  Speaker 9: You know, we have to maintain voter lists. So we
• 55:57
  Speaker 9: in our sampling we only deal with people who have
• 56:02
  Speaker 9: have a past history of voting in primaries or they
• 56:06
  Speaker 9: registered since the last primaries. So we allow for newly
• 56:09
  Speaker 9: registered voters who maybe haven't had an opportunity to vote
• 56:12
  Speaker 9: and call the primaries to participate. And it's very difficult.
• 56:15
  Speaker 9: It's the over the last fifteen years, it's just gotten
• 56:18
  Speaker 9: it's gotten really hard to uh to to get people
• 56:22
  Speaker 9: to respond, and of course it's harder for people that
• 56:25
  Speaker 9: have our methodology. You know, a lot of the newer
• 56:27
  Speaker 9: posters are using different different ways to collect data. You know,
• 56:32
  Speaker 9: sometimes you can get a text they call that text
• 56:34
  Speaker 9: to web, where you know that they'll try to get
• 56:37
  Speaker 9: samples and people to respond on their phone, and some
• 56:41
  Speaker 9: some people use panels where they pay respondents to come.
• 56:44
  Speaker 9: I've just I've just found that those aren't as reliable
• 56:48
  Speaker 9: as live calls and meaning that there's a live person
• 56:51
  Speaker 9: that's calling a voter and talking through the script with
• 56:55
  Speaker 9: that voter, and that that makes it even more difficult
• 56:57
  Speaker 9: because it's it's hard to get somebody to complete the serve.
• 57:00
  Speaker 9: And you know, so if you want to have a
• 57:03
  Speaker 9: reliable poll, and you know it really is, it's expensive
• 57:06
  Speaker 9: and it's timely. It takes a lot of time.
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: Rick Quinn's on the phone with us and he just
• 57:12
  Speaker 2: surveyed six hundred likely Republican primary voters and this was
• 57:16
  Speaker 2: I think completed on Thursday. If I'm not mistaken. It's
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: being shared everywhere your findings because they are fascinating. And
• 57:24
  Speaker 2: you talk about a plus or minus of four percentage points.
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: So Darlen Graham has a three point nine point lead,
• 57:32
  Speaker 2: so that's within the margin of ara. So at this
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: point we're not exactly sure if it's Ralph Norman or
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham in the lead, but they're both pretty clearly
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: one two and there is a little bit of separation
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: between them and Russell Fry and Mark Sanford at this point.
• 57:50
  Speaker 9: Right and that's where the margin of error is is
• 57:53
  Speaker 9: their lead. Their lead is larger than the margin of air.
• 57:56
  Speaker 9: But you know, this is a dynamic election and one
• 57:59
  Speaker 9: of the things that's going on on is how difficult
• 58:01
  Speaker 9: it is to advertise now and right now, Ralph Norman
• 58:05
  Speaker 9: is stiff and spending, So in other words, he's not
• 58:07
  Speaker 9: spending as much as Sanford, Fry, and Graham. So the
• 58:11
  Speaker 9: question becomes, does when we finish the pole on Thursday,
• 58:15
  Speaker 9: does his disadvantage in advertising because it allow the other
• 58:22
  Speaker 9: candidates to overcome him his better his superior name identification
• 58:28
  Speaker 9: because of the governor's race. And my guess is, though
• 58:30
  Speaker 9: I think Ralph is probably in the runoff, but it is.
• 58:34
  Speaker 9: It is really kind of difficult now advertising has become
• 58:37
  Speaker 9: so difficult. Ten years ago, ninety two percent of the
• 58:41
  Speaker 9: voters would either have their TV signal through a satellite
• 58:44
  Speaker 9: all or through cable. Now there's this streaming. You have
• 58:47
  Speaker 9: a lot of TV where people actually had antennas, you satellite.
• 58:51
  Speaker 9: There's so many different sources and people can fast forward
• 58:53
  Speaker 9: through commercials now a lot of times too, they can
• 58:56
  Speaker 9: even pay not to have commercials on their service. So
• 58:59
  Speaker 9: that makes it more difficult in a compressed election like
• 59:02
  Speaker 9: this for candace like Fry and Stamford to overcome name.
• 59:06
  Speaker 9: The name identification has been given to rout Norman Darlene
• 59:09
  Speaker 9: is her brother's death.
• 59:10
  Speaker 2: Now, I was a little bit surprised to see how
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: much money was in the gram campaign through the packs
• 59:15
  Speaker 2: and otherwise. I mean, that's a lot of money that
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: they were able to put together.
• 59:19
  Speaker 9: There no question that Darling, you know, Lindsay's uh was
• 59:24
  Speaker 9: so popular and in particular with a lot of the
• 59:27
  Speaker 9: National Party fundraisers, that that's that's helped her. And there's
• 59:32
  Speaker 9: no question that she's she's number one in spending. She's
• 59:34
  Speaker 9: she's spending more than anyone in Stamford and fire or
• 59:37
  Speaker 9: a close close behind. Norman has made a tactical decision
• 59:41
  Speaker 9: not to spend as much money in this first first
• 59:44
  Speaker 9: run for the center race as he did in the
• 59:47
  Speaker 9: governors race, and that that may cost him. We'll see,
• 59:50
  Speaker 9: but I think so.
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: It seems like he's banking on the fact that he's
• 59:53
  Speaker 2: going to make the runoff and then he's going to
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: spend heavy there.
• 59:58
  Speaker 9: Right, And of course, you know, if I were advising
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 9: his race. You know the problem with what I mentioned earlier,
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 9: with this this this this diffuse way that people watch
• 1:00:07
  Speaker 9: and consume news and other and entertainment. Frequency is necessary.
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 9: You have to have repetition, and more so than ever before.
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 9: You know, it used to be that you could spend
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 9: four or five hundred thousand dollars a week on television
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 9: through just the kind of old cable satellite systems. Now
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 9: you need to really it's more costly, and you have
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 9: to you have to keep running the ads so people
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 9: will see it. It's just it's very difficult to catch
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 9: a voter's eye these days. So I think it's a
• 1:00:36
  Speaker 9: tactical mistake for him not to spend money now and
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 9: in the runoff. But we'll see what We'll see what
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 9: his advisors tell him to do.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: We're talking with Rick Quinn. We got to wrap it up,
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 2: but uh, will you be doing a poll next week? Uh,
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: you know, leaning into the runoff election?
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 9: We will, we will, well, well, well, usually I like
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 9: to give a day or so for the voters to
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 9: kind of uh settle down after the the who the
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 9: two the two choices there are gonna be two choices
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 9: for this runoff, Yeah, made by the voters. And we'll
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 9: give a day or so and then we'll do another poll.
• 1:01:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, well, I hope you'll come back and talk about that.
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 9: Pole sure love to love to. I think it's good
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 9: for voters to hear and then and not only kind
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 9: of what's how the impact of the advertising is also
• 1:01:17
  Speaker 9: get them familiar with the process.
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Well, It's some great stuff that you've put out, and
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: we certainly appreciate you sharing it with us. I know
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 2: you said it's expensive. We didn't pay anything for it.
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: We just appreciate it.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 9: Ye. Well, thank goodness, I have clients to help with
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 9: that absolutely.
• 1:01:32
  Speaker 2: Rick Quinn, appreciate you joining South Carolina's Morning News. We'll
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: have him back soon and we'll take a break. And
• 1:01:37
  Speaker 2: by the way, I see Ralph Norman commercials standing.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: By from the Midlands to the low Country. This is
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 2: Got an email from Kevin who says, good morning guys.
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: Like your show listen every morning, but please stop being
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: so anti Graham. I'm going to vote for Ralph Norman,
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 2: but she is my second choice. I live in Mount Pleasant.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: Definitely voting Tuesday. Remember what Reagan said about bashing fellow Republicans.
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 2: She might be the nominatede. Thanks have a great day, Kevin.
• 1:02:03
  Speaker 2: I don't feel like I'm being anti Graham, but perhaps
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 2: that is what's being perceived because I'm not like full
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 2: throated endorsement of her, but I'm also not full throwed
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: endorsement of anybody.
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 4: Well, we've questioned Kelly her strategy when it comes to
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: addressing the media and you know, making herself known.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: And we just had on Rick Quinn who brings up
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: a very valid point inside his residence media strategies. He
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: breaks down in that poll that was done on Thursday,
• 1:02:35
  Speaker 2: what they have spent. So this is not even this
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: is not like a question, This is not what are
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 2: the six hundred likely Republican voters doing? This is where
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: are they spending their money? If you want, if you're
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: a Ralph Norman supporter, you might be concerned right now
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 2: that the Graham campaign has spent one point two five
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 2: seven million dollars, Russell Frye one point one two three
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 2: million dollars, Mark Sandford seven hundred and seventy thousand, way
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 2: down Ralph Norman at two hundred and thirty eight thousand.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 2: So he's been outspent by a million dollars by Darlene Graham.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: Right now, he's counting on the fact that his participation,
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 4: participation in the governor's race, name recognition, et cetera, will
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 4: carry the day through this race and keeping his powder
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 4: dry for the runoff. But way that's, as Rick pointed out,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 4: that could be a dangerous strategy.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: I'm also questioning where they're spending the money. So right
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: now we're at thirty three or thirty five percent was
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 2: spent in Greenville. In Charleston, it been twenty percent of
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: the money so far has been spent there. So we
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: were talking about earlier. Charleston is the lowest turnout county
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: right now in South Carolina. For this, only nineteen percent
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 2: of people who voted in the runoff for the governor's
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: race has turned out so far. Now it could change
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: maybe that twenty percent, but that is an outperformance of
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: the share of the electorate by four percent. So you're
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: over spending an Charleston, you're underspending in Columbia. I mean
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 2: not by much, but one and a half percent less
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: than the electorate. It's just an interesting strategy to see
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: how these campaigns are spending their money right now. And
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: again they're going so hard in the upstate right now,
• 1:04:16
  Speaker 2: that's like you and I and the people in Charleston,
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 2: we're not experiencing anything like what they're experiencing in Greenville, Spartanburg.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: All of that is just getting inundated, hammered with direct
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: mail pieces, hammered with bill boards and TV and radio ads.
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 4: And we talk about battleground states all the time during
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 4: the presidential election. That's our battleground right there here in
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 4: South Carolina. Apparently according to the candidates. That's exactly right, Christopher,
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 4: A good point. All right, we'll take a break. We'll
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 4: be back with more at South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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• 1:04:51
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  Speaker 10: Even though I'm in my fifties, I've never been politically
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 10: pulled or ask my opinion in a pole environment, and
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 10: I always wondered how people got selected to be in uphole.
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: Okay, well there you go. You know what, Thank you
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: first off for the talk back on the iHeartRadio app.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: We will take your information and I will sell it
• 1:05:20
  Speaker 2: at a small feed to Rick Quinn. I mean, Rick
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 2: Quinn spend big money for you people, right.
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 4: And I think Rick made a great point Kelly about
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 4: he's actually taking the time or his network is to
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 4: call people on the phone as opposed to putting out
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 4: these digital polls or you know anything else where you
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 4: know people are likely to not necessarily give honest answers
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: or you know, just the first name they see that
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: they recognize. You get somebody on the phone and have
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 4: a legitimate conversation and run through the script and say,
• 1:05:50
  Speaker 4: you know, who would you vote for, who is your
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 4: second choice, who do you view favorably, et cetera. You're
• 1:05:56
  Speaker 4: you're more likely to get honest answers when you're having
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 4: a one on one conversation.
• 1:05:59
  Speaker 2: With that person. Have you ever been pulled?
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 3: Oh, all the time?
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: Really? Yeah. I was pulled once in the twenty fourteen primary,
• 1:06:06
  Speaker 2: and I was actually sitting in the studio. I was
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: doing the afternoon show back then, and an ABC News
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: poll oh, wanted to get my feedbacks, and so we
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: did it live on the radio where I was just
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: you know, they were talking about Lindsay Graham obviously and
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: whoever else was running for the house races back then.
• 1:06:22
  Speaker 2: So but yeah, I've not been pulled either, except that
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: one time twelve years ago. Another interesting thing here if
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: for you Darlen Graham supporters, this is amazing to me.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: The best area in the state of South Carolina for
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 2: Darlen Graham, and it's not even close, is the Charleston market.
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 2: She receives thirty point eight percent of the Charleston DMA.
• 1:06:45
  Speaker 2: Now Norman, Sandford and Frye basically tie at about thirteen
• 1:06:50
  Speaker 2: percent of the Charleston market each. When you look at
• 1:06:53
  Speaker 2: the this is the this could be a problem for
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: the Graham campaign. We talked about how they're over spending
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: in the upstate and underspending or excuse me, and also
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 2: overspending in Charleston, but it's not working in Charleston. So
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 2: right now, if you look at Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester County
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: in the governor's runoff, they got fifteen hundred and thirty
• 1:07:15
  Speaker 2: seven early votes in As of Thursday, they had four
• 1:07:18
  Speaker 2: thousand and eighty eight. That's only twenty six percent have
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 2: turned out so far. Again, this is her number one market,
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: and they need to get Charleston out. Charleston needs to
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: come out for Graham if she's going to win.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 4: So they will be getting out the vote tomorrow. And
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 4: it's certainly in that area, if not other ports of
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 4: the state.
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, that's that's one of the keys to her success.
• 1:07:40
  Speaker 2: For whatever reason, she pulls way better than Sandford in
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: Charleston County. That is her number one market. And so
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: again it's a little surprising Charleston Berkley in Dorchester. I
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 2: was just surprised that the lack of votes period. But
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 2: the Graham campaign certainly needs you there. I said something
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: nice about I'm encouraging Graham supporters to get to the polls. Okay,
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 2: all right, we'll take a break. It's eight twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:08:06
  Speaker 2: It is eight thirty three, and good morning to y'all.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: Thanks for getting your day started with us. Christopher Thompson
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: and myself, and on the phone the Superintendent of Education,
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: Ellen Weaver.
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 11: Good morning, Hey, good morning, Kelly.
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 7: How are you.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 2: I am well. I'm told that you are driving now
• 1:08:21
  Speaker 2: towards Charleston. Is that correct?
• 1:08:24
  Speaker 11: That is right. We are criss crossing our way across
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 11: the state this week. I'll be in Charleston, I'll be
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 11: in Lexington and Winnsboro in the Midlands, and then heading
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 11: up the Greenville and we are celebrating the wonderful academic
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 11: gains that our students are making on their reading and
• 1:08:39
  Speaker 11: math this week.
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: So this is the test results of what they did
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: last year, and you guys have tabulated them all and
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: you're telling us right now. Fantastic news for Charleston or
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: excuse me, for South Carolina students.
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 11: Yes, for South Carolina students. So we'll be making the
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 11: big announcement at ten am. We're actually headed down to
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 11: Charleston right now to celebrate at the fastest growing school
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 11: in the entire state. That school is a public school
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 11: of Innovation in Charleston County, Meeting Street at Burns and
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 11: it's actually operated in a public private partnership between Meeting
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 11: Street Schools and the school district there in Charleston. It's
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 11: a high poverty school. About ninety percent of the students
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 11: on the peninsula their live in poverty. It's a neighborhood school,
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 11: there's no selective enrollment, and these kids, Kelly, are absolutely
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 11: knocking it out of the park.
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 2: So what changed If they were underperforming previously and now
• 1:09:40
  Speaker 2: they're overperforming, it's the same kids. What changed?
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 11: That's it, and that's my message is that every single
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 11: one of our kids, whether they live in poverty, whether
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 11: they live in an urban community or a rural community,
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 11: whatever their situation, our kids are capable. It is up
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 11: to us as adults to a lie line our systems
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 11: of support so that they can reach high expectations. First
• 1:10:05
  Speaker 11: of all, we have to have high expectations for them.
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 11: We have to believe that they're capable, because sometimes we
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 11: don't even cross that bar as adults, and that's a
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 11: sad commentary for sure. But then secondly, we have to
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 11: have high support. And what does high support look like.
• 1:10:19
  Speaker 11: It looks like increasing teacher salaries. It looks like having strong,
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 11: high quality instructional materials in the classroom and then putting
• 1:10:26
  Speaker 11: the tools in the teacher's toolbox so that they know
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 11: how to use those instructional materials effectively. And that's what
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 11: we've been doing for the last three and a half
• 1:10:36
  Speaker 11: years here in South Carolina as I've been superintendent, and
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 11: I'm so grateful for local partners like Superintendent Anita Huggins
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 11: and Charleston, who is a longtime teacher herself and understands
• 1:10:47
  Speaker 11: the strategy behind this work. It has been an awesome
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 11: partner and we're seeing the results. In Meeting Street, I.
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  Speaker 2: Saw a story I think this is count On too,
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  Speaker 2: talking about the district's efforts down there too to increase
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  Speaker 2: the starting teacher pay is now? Is am I reading
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  Speaker 2: this right? Sixty seven five hundred for educators entering the
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  Speaker 2: profession with a bachelor's degree it's wonderful.
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  Speaker 11: Charleston actually has the highest teacher salaries in the state now,
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  Speaker 11: and of course that's important down there because the cost
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  Speaker 11: of living is so high. It's hard to recruit and
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  Speaker 11: retain great people in that environment. And so Charleston has
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  Speaker 11: stepped up and answered the call. And I'm so proud
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  Speaker 11: of what Superintendent Huggins and doing down there because she
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  Speaker 11: actually is taking existing money within the system and realigning
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  Speaker 11: that money for impact, whether that is raising teacher salaries,
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  Speaker 11: whether that is ensuring that resources get to the classrooms
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  Speaker 11: and students who need at most. Her leadership has just
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  Speaker 11: really been exemplary, and she's brought the community along with
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  Speaker 11: her on this journey and that really speaks to I
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  Speaker 11: think her trust as a leader and the respect that
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  Speaker 11: folks in the community have for her.
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  Speaker 2: Well, this is a great day, I guess, for all
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  Speaker 2: South Carolinians, because when our kids do better, we do better.
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  Speaker 2: And apparently our kids are doing better.
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  Speaker 11: That's it. I mean, Kelly, we know that education is
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  Speaker 11: the foundation of our entire economic future. If we don't
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  Speaker 11: have an educated citizenry to self govern themselves in this
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  Speaker 11: great American st two fifty year as well as students
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  Speaker 11: who have the skills that it takes to fill the
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  Speaker 11: jobs of the future. We're going to be dead in
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  Speaker 11: the water as a state. And my commitment and my
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  Speaker 11: passion and my vision is is that we will never
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  Speaker 11: let South Carolina falter or fall behind. We are going
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  Speaker 11: to focus like a laser all day, every day on
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  Speaker 11: making sure our kids in every corner of our state
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  Speaker 11: have what they need to be successful in their future.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm so excited for the kids and the families
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  Speaker 2: down there at the what was the name of the
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  Speaker 2: school again that you're going to.
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  Speaker 11: It's formerly Burns Elementary School and now they call it
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  Speaker 11: Meeting Street at Burn's.
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  Speaker 2: That's fantast astic work that they were able to turn
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  Speaker 2: that around so dramatically. But we're gonna hear playing more stories,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure about throughout the state. How we're having success
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  Speaker 2: stories all over the place as South Carolina moves in
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  Speaker 2: a better direction. And you're right about self governing and
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  Speaker 2: all that stuff. But I also will point out you
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  Speaker 2: people are going to be in charge sooner rather than later,
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  Speaker 2: and I need you to do well because I'll be
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  Speaker 2: retired then. So don't mess this up.
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  Speaker 11: All right, You really need some healthcare.
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  Speaker 2: You know absolutely. If you youngsters blow this, oh my life,
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  Speaker 2: my retirement will suck. Anyway, Thank you for checking in,
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  Speaker 2: Superintendent Ellen Weaver. We wish you all the best and
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  Speaker 2: look forward to hearing all of the details a little
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  Speaker 2: bit later on today.
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  Speaker 11: Sounds great. Thanks Kelly, talking later.
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  Speaker 2: You got it all right. It is six thirty excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: eight thirty eight on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: It's an interesting strategy, Cotton. Uh, those of you who
• 1:13:52
  Speaker 2: are fans of dodgeball might get the reference. A fourteen
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  Speaker 2: page letter came out over the weekend from Mars Zuckerberg, who,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, actually it came out I guess early
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning. By the way, side, note, this has nothing
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  Speaker 2: to do with that. Did you see the story Christopher
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: about his yacht? No, all right, so he was not
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: on the yacht. And apparently, and again again I'm sure
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 2: it's a very impressive yacht. It's like three hundred and
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: eighty six feet long or whatever. Apparently there was a
• 1:14:23
  Speaker 2: boat sending out a distress signal and his yacht was
• 1:14:27
  Speaker 2: the closest to it and did not respond. And a
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 2: lot of people are making this Zuckerberg, You're so evil.
• 1:14:33
  Speaker 2: Blah blah blah blah blah. The people on the boat
• 1:14:36
  Speaker 2: were saved by somebody else, and Zuckerberg's yacht crew said,
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 2: we were monitoring a different channel, and by the time
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  Speaker 2: we had flipped to the channel that they were putting
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: out their sos on or whatever, we heard that they
• 1:14:51
  Speaker 2: were already being rescued. That's why we didn't circle back. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So there's that. Yeah, But anyway, back to the story.
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  Speaker 2: The fourteen page letter entitled the Future is Forever Everyone,
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: The Path to a Positive AI Future Future, Zuckerberg argues
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  Speaker 2: that the broadly distributing super intelligent AI represents an economic
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  Speaker 2: opportunity and a safeguard against concentrating too much power in
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  Speaker 2: the hands of the government, a business, or any other institution.
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  Speaker 2: So this is you know, this can appeal to socialists
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  Speaker 2: and conservatives. If you're a conservative who's like, we don't
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  Speaker 2: want the government to have too much power, he's saying,
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  Speaker 2: AI is the answer. If you're somebody who says we
• 1:15:29
  Speaker 2: want the wealth distributed, he says, AI is the answer. Answer.
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  Speaker 2: We propose a philosophy based on individual empowerment as the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: source of prosperity invention as the primary purpose of superintelligence,
• 1:15:43
  Speaker 2: and balance of power as the foundation of safety. And
• 1:15:47
  Speaker 2: then he goes on to talk about how they will
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  Speaker 2: they have a billion dollars set up already to ah,
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  Speaker 2: what's the word reward communities that have the Meta AI
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: centers built there, And I'm oh, yeah, there's an enticement
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 2: for a data center. Yeah, you get free AI with it. Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: previewing his billion dollar Futurist for Everyone fund to invest
• 1:16:11
  Speaker 2: directly into the local communities where Meta operates a data center,
• 1:16:16
  Speaker 2: which would support teachers, law enforcement, infrastructure, and other community priorities.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 2: Sustainable infrastructure development means communities must benefit from each project.
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  Speaker 2: So I would think that you're then saying that there
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  Speaker 2: is a risk there's something going on there. Otherwise why
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 2: would you be giving them the money. So anyway, very interesting.
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  Speaker 2: This is a new development from Mark Zuckerberg this morning
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  Speaker 2: his fourteen page letter. We might talk about that more
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  Speaker 2: coming up. It is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 7: You are listening to South Carolina This Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: I am cheering. I am like a full throated, like
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: fanatic right now for the reporter Nick Reynolds. Nick Reynolds
• 1:16:54
  Speaker 2: is he's with the Graham campaign currently at the Lizard's Thicket.
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  Speaker 2: This is happening right now in West Columbia. So Darling
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: Graham is at the Lizard's Thicket. She's doing a live hit.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might still I don't have television on.
• 1:17:07
  Speaker 2: I think she's probably on Fox News right now doing
• 1:17:11
  Speaker 2: her live hit. But he's been with her. He's been
• 1:17:14
  Speaker 2: tweeting about this for about twenty five minutes. Still trying
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 2: to get a question. Still, just hang on, she got
• 1:17:21
  Speaker 2: to talk to these people first.
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  Speaker 3: Hold on, she just got Has he been promised an interview?
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  Speaker 9: No?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, no, but he's with her. He's with her, He's there.
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  Speaker 2: He's got great photos. By the way, if you want
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  Speaker 2: to see the Nick Reynolds, I suggest everybody follow I
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: am Nick Reynolds as he and he is a fair
• 1:17:38
  Speaker 2: and balanced person. You can tell. I'm assuming. I don't
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: know Nick. I've never spoken with Nick. I might have
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  Speaker 2: him on the show at some point in the future,
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  Speaker 2: just because I think he does such a great job
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  Speaker 2: as a reporter. I assume, like most reporters, he leans left.
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: That would be my assumption. But he does give conservatives
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  Speaker 2: a fair analysis or whatever. He's not making up stuff
• 1:18:00
  Speaker 2: in the stories, but it's just funny to watch here.
• 1:18:03
  Speaker 2: He is at Lizard's Thicket this morning in West Columbia,
• 1:18:06
  Speaker 2: where Darley and Graham has been meeting with voters. She's
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: about to do her live hit with Fox News from
• 1:18:09
  Speaker 2: the middle of the room. So far, pretty on message.
• 1:18:13
  Speaker 2: Right now, she's talking about her bargain chopper line, affirmations
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: for the Trump policies, and what sounded like the question
• 1:18:18
  Speaker 2: on gas prices. Currently slamming the Russell Fry campaign over
• 1:18:22
  Speaker 2: its DEI attack, which she raised in the local press
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: call yesterday next post. People are ready for something different,
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: she says, someone who's not a politician, she says in
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 2: an interview after the live hit, when asked about her
• 1:18:35
  Speaker 2: lack of experience. So that's where we're at. So I'm
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: hoping that Nick Reynolds gets his questions in. It'll be great.
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  Speaker 2: I'm pulling for you, Nick. Come on, let's give Nick
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  Speaker 2: a chain. I don't even want one for myself. I
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: want one for Nick Reynolds. He's persevere. I mean, he
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  Speaker 2: has been on this case for a while and there
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: have been a number of reporters who have said that,
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  Speaker 2: you know, they've tried.
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  Speaker 3: They've tried.
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  Speaker 4: I think she's done one interview with SEETV, one interview
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  Speaker 4: with the Greenville TV station, and then THO, as you
• 1:19:05
  Speaker 4: pointed out, she did a teleconference yesterday with a number
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 4: of reporters.
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  Speaker 2: And this is not being negative. I know a lot
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  Speaker 2: of you are interpreting what Christopher and I are saying
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  Speaker 2: as negative. We're just telling you what's happened. Like if
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  Speaker 2: you go to Darling Graham's page, and I haven't been
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: to it since early this morning, let me just go
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  Speaker 2: to it right now. Nope, nothing's changed. So on her
• 1:19:25
  Speaker 2: Twitter account right now. Unlike most candidates, most candidates have
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: videos of themselves talking about stuff. If you go to
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: her page, it's filled to the brim with endorsements. Not
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: saying there's anything wrong with it, that it is what
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: it is. Unlike most candidates who are would rather have
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 2: themselves speaking about the issues, she's choosing to let other
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: people speak on her behalf and who's endorsing me. You know,
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  Speaker 2: here's another thing. Oh, we got a tell A rally
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: coming up by the way tonight, don't miss it. Six
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  Speaker 2: point thirty. Donald Trump hosts a tell A rally for
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham at six point thirty of the dial in number. See,
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  Speaker 2: I'm supporting this eight five five two seven four zero
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  Speaker 2: sixty four four. If you want to be a part
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  Speaker 2: of that, there you go. I am supporting it. Nothing negative.
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  Speaker 3: You've been positive all morning.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like I'm giving it my best. I can't
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  Speaker 2: win for trying. All right, Well, tomorrow, by the way,
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  Speaker 2: where we are supposed to have Secretary Bessent on the show. Tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be talking to him and others on South Carolina's
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  Speaker 2: Morning News.