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Show Rewind 7-20-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash
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  Speaker 1: and good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I hope you guys had a great weekend, better than
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  Speaker 2: the Argentina offense yesterday. Good morning, Christopher, morning to you, Kelly.
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  Speaker 2: Zero shots on goal, unbelievable.
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  Speaker 3: It was a pretty boring match, unbelievable, but it built
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  Speaker 3: up the drama for extra time and there you had
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  Speaker 3: to Spain win.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Absolutely so. Maybe Christopher Thompson were a little more
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  Speaker 2: in depth on World Cup coverage. I have decided I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to stop going to church on Sundays now because
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  Speaker 2: Jacob Sawberoff has a television show on MS thirteen now
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  Speaker 2: the Gang Loving Station, where that's Sunday mornings at ten am,
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  Speaker 2: So I have to I now, I'm weighing what's more
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  Speaker 2: valuable in my life, and I'm assuming it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be the Jacob Saubroff Show. After seeing this clip of
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  Speaker 2: him interviewing the Secretary of State for Colorado. Her name
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  Speaker 2: is Jenna Griswold, and boy, oh boy, I had I want.
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  Speaker 3: To just react quickly to what we heard from Mark
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  Speaker 3: way Mullan.
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  Speaker 4: I think it's beyond unfortunate and this is not the
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  Speaker 4: first time that Trump's administration has threatened election officials. Just
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  Speaker 4: the week before, So about two weeks ago, all chief
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  Speaker 4: election officials in all fifty states received a letter from
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  Speaker 4: the DOJ threatening prosecution. Also, so they are really using
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  Speaker 4: any tool to try to undermine elections, intimidate officials. But
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  Speaker 4: I will tell you they have to go to these
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  Speaker 4: lengths because their attacks, their efforts to undermine the twenty
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  Speaker 4: six elections are not working. They are not working. So
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  Speaker 4: they're growing more extreme, and we're going to continue to
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  Speaker 4: hold the line.
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  Speaker 2: Had I known that the Trump administration was using threats
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  Speaker 2: to rig elections, I would have got off the MAGA
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  Speaker 2: train years ago. But before I depart the MAGA trade,
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  Speaker 2: let me just check and see what that letter actually said. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: Baco didn't bring it up. She didn't bring it up.
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  Speaker 2: It says the letter that was sent to all fifty
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  Speaker 2: states is a reminder that people who are not citizens
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  Speaker 2: are ineligible to vote in federal elections, and if you
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  Speaker 2: allow that to happen, as someone who is tasked with
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  Speaker 2: overseeing and enforcing that, then you are subject to prosecution.
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  Speaker 2: Aw that does not seem like a threat as much
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  Speaker 2: as a gentle reminder.
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  Speaker 3: But the Colorado Secretary of State, perhaps worried about her
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  Speaker 3: own job or maybe her own status as a free person.
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  Speaker 2: My status as a free person, that's my pronoun a
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  Speaker 2: free person.
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  Speaker 3: She's worried she may be behind bars before it's all
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  Speaker 3: said and done.
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  Speaker 2: Great point, Christopher Thompson. The look, I don't know how
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  Speaker 2: much longer we can play this game. The game that
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats are playing is states run the elections, which
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  Speaker 2: is true. However, when the state get out of line,
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  Speaker 2: which those of us who live in South Carolina, we
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  Speaker 2: know that previous generations got out of line. Hence, the
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  Speaker 2: federal government had to intervene in the Southern states to
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  Speaker 2: make sure that we ran our elections fairly. And they
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  Speaker 2: did that until what, like it feels like last month,
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  Speaker 2: but I mean it was it was within within the
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  Speaker 2: last ten years, just a few years ago. Yeah, that
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  Speaker 2: they kind of backed off on that. So the idea
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  Speaker 2: that the federal government enforces federal election laws is nothing new,
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  Speaker 2: especially if you're in a Southern state. And it needed
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  Speaker 2: to happen in the Southern states because I'll point out
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  Speaker 2: the Democrats were rigging elections in the South. I noticed
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  Speaker 2: once the Fed started enforcing that suddenly we went all Republican.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how that happened, but it turns out
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  Speaker 2: that people who like freedom like Republican policies better than
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  Speaker 2: Democrat parties.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, it's a little ironic that you hear the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: who say over and over again, oh, the Republicans are
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  Speaker 3: making a mountain out of mole Hill. Only a few
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  Speaker 3: There are only a few documented cases of illegals voting
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  Speaker 3: in elections. It just doesn't happen. Republicans are blowing this.
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  Speaker 3: Now Suddenly Republicans in federal government are mentioning this, and
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  Speaker 3: Democrats are having a hissy fit.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and to your point, we found out on what
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  Speaker 2: was it Thursday night Trump speech that the Homeland Security,
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  Speaker 2: I think it was Department of I'm forgetting which one
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  Speaker 2: is tasked with this, but they were the ones trying
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  Speaker 2: to get the voter rolls and they just got the
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  Speaker 2: Southern states, or excuse me, the Republican states voter roles,
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  Speaker 2: and they found on them over a quarter of a
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  Speaker 2: million illegals registered to vote in Republicans states. So even
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  Speaker 2: here we're not doing a good enough job of making
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  Speaker 2: sure that illegals aren't voting. I can only imagine how
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  Speaker 2: wild it is in Minnesota, California, Oregon, New York, and Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 2: It's just those voter roles are going to be chock
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  Speaker 2: full of illegals. Either it is a problem, more it isn't.
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  Speaker 2: If it isn't a problem, than the Colorado Secretary of
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  Speaker 2: State has nothing to worry about. None of these Democrat
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  Speaker 2: run states have anything to worry about. If it's not
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  Speaker 2: a problem. If you have thoughts on that, maybe you
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  Speaker 2: want more illegals voting. I don't know. You can let
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  Speaker 2: us know. We have a talkback feature. It's on the
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  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app little microphone. You push that and get to us.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson will be the first one to hear it.
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  Speaker 2: I'll hear it later. If you get past Christopher Thompson,
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  Speaker 2: you've got it.
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  Speaker 3: We'll make me the gate.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you've got to get past Christopher Thompson, so maybe
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  Speaker 2: say something nice to Christopher. Then he'll put you on
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  Speaker 2: the air. Either way, we're excited to be back. It's
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  Speaker 2: Monday morning. This is South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM, five sixty AM WVOC, and ninety four
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  Speaker 1: to three WSC now Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: And when we got off the air Friday morning, we
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  Speaker 2: were in one place. We come back Monday, it's a
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  Speaker 2: completely different world as we start looking at who is
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  Speaker 2: going to possibly be the next Senator from the great
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  Speaker 2: state of South Carolina. Good morning, Christopher Thompson, Kelly, good morning.
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  Speaker 2: I see. We knew Mark Lynch was in. Then we
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  Speaker 2: got Duke Buckner. Duke Buckner, he's been trying to make
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  Speaker 2: a name for himself down there against James Clyburn. I
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  Speaker 2: think several times he's run against Cliburn. Obviously, that's a
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  Speaker 2: very tough district to win for Republicans, so I'm not
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  Speaker 2: going to hold that too much against him, but basically
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  Speaker 2: has no statewide name recognition. On Saturday, Ralph Norman announced
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  Speaker 2: his candidacy, and he does have a statewide name, especially
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  Speaker 2: after his recent run for governor. But the shock of
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  Speaker 2: all shocks, I think was that Donald Trump, like in
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  Speaker 2: a preemptive move, tried to rush everybody out by endorsing
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham nordone on was it Friday? I think is
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  Speaker 2: when we got Friday Friday afternoon at some point, that
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  Speaker 2: to me, just be honest, I didn't like it. I
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  Speaker 2: didn't like that Trump was trying to It felt to
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  Speaker 2: me like he was trying to run people off.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly. I think a lot of people in social media
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  Speaker 3: agreed with you. I mean, you saw a very negative
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  Speaker 3: reaction to Trump's endorsement. I think all of us, you know,
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  Speaker 3: saw her as a placeholder, and they were fine with that. Okay,
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  Speaker 3: let's let's get her to Congress. Let's get her in
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  Speaker 3: the Senate to fill out the remainder of Lindsey Graham's term,
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  Speaker 3: and then let's have a real election for those who
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  Speaker 3: are going to fill the next six years.
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  Speaker 2: No, I hear you say that, and I can already
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  Speaker 2: hear Democrats going, oh so a woman is okay, she's
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  Speaker 2: only going to be there for a month or two.
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  Speaker 2: But when they want to run you and the Republicans,
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  Speaker 2: they don't want a.
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  Speaker 3: Woman's That's not it at all. I mean, Kelly, we
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  Speaker 3: talked about the history of widows or you know, family
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  Speaker 3: members filling out the remainder of a term. It happens
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  Speaker 3: all the time when there's a death in Congress. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, endorsing her to do a full six year term,
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  Speaker 3: don't I mean, yes, she's Linda Graham's sister. But what
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  Speaker 3: else do you know about her politics?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's interesting. I'll give credit to Will Folks at Fitznews.
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  Speaker 2: He was the one that was talking, I think on
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  Speaker 2: Friday about is she even eligible because to be on
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  Speaker 2: the Republican ticket, because the Republicans changed their rules in
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  Speaker 2: order to appear in a Republican primary where you have
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  Speaker 2: to voted in the last two of the three GOP
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  Speaker 2: primary elections in the state. And he points out that
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  Speaker 2: they had had reports that she was not eligible, and
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  Speaker 2: then that they reviewed the voting records. She did not
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  Speaker 2: vote in either the twenty twenty two or the twenty
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  Speaker 2: twenty four primaries. So but she did vote in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four GOP runoff election along with her voting
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  Speaker 2: in this most recent one. He's saying, the way we're
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  Speaker 2: interpreting it is that would be probably enough.
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  Speaker 3: Hmmm, Well, I guess Drew mckissik and the state party
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  Speaker 3: would have to ultimately decide Kelly. That raises questions right there.
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  Speaker 3: If she's a dedicated political candidate, why is she not voting?
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  Speaker 2: You would think in the primary when your brother's name
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  Speaker 2: is on the ticket. Maybe she was that confident that
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  Speaker 2: he didn't need my vote. But either way, I think
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  Speaker 2: I would have just gone down if somebody I knew
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  Speaker 2: personally was running, Oh yeah, I just got to go
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  Speaker 2: down there and gimme a little something something. But in
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty two and twenty twenty four did not vote
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  Speaker 2: in the GOP primary, although she did vote in the
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty four GOP runoff election. So that is to
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  Speaker 2: me that to you, it's a red flag.
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  Speaker 3: It is a well, it's it's a red flag. But
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  Speaker 3: I think the bigger one is just the fact that,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we know next to nothing about her. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: here you have an established candidate in Ralph Norman, and
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  Speaker 3: maybe you don't like that, maybe you think, all right,
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  Speaker 3: we need new blood in Congress. But nonetheless you at
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  Speaker 3: least know a lot about Ralph Norman after his run
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  Speaker 3: for governor.
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  Speaker 2: And are we have we heard Christopher is Nikki Haley
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  Speaker 2: definitely not running? She is definitely not She's definitely not. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: So that's that breaks a lot of people's hearts. Now
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  Speaker 2: we're still waiting, I guess, to find out if Pamela
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  Speaker 2: Evatt is gonna throw her a hat into the ring.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think we've heard Kelly one word from her campaign.
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  Speaker 2: All right, maybe we need to reach out to her.
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  Speaker 2: But anyway, if you guys have thoughts on that, let
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  Speaker 2: us know. I'm the talkback feature Getting your day started
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  Speaker 2: with South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
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  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
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  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 5: Now, Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: I for one, was happy that Keer Starmer was booted
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  Speaker 2: out of office in the UK. That is supposed to
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  Speaker 2: be our closest ally the United Kingdom, and it has
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  Speaker 2: become very confrontational because that guy is a jerk. This morning,
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  Speaker 2: a new bee has been brought in Andy Burnham. He
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  Speaker 2: was brought in. I guess they voted on it over
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  Speaker 2: the weekend or something, and today he was just sworn in.
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  Speaker 2: So I've been doing a little research. Now. He's still
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  Speaker 2: from the Cure Starmer Party of Labor, which we would
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  Speaker 2: call Democrats over here. However, interesting points that people are
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  Speaker 2: making about this guy. One, he rose to prominence nationally
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  Speaker 2: as the mayor of Manchester, England, which you know, Manchester
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  Speaker 2: is kind of one of those towns that most people
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  Speaker 2: would look at his blue collar so on and so forth,
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  Speaker 2: and that's kind of the area he was raised. Although
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  Speaker 2: he did go to the very posh Southern schools. He
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  Speaker 2: was down in London for his education, but he returned
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  Speaker 2: to the North, served a little bit in Parliament, then
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  Speaker 2: got the job as the Manchester Mayor. As the Manchester Mayor,
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  Speaker 2: his big moment came during COVID when he was having
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  Speaker 2: a press conference and an aid handed him a telephone
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  Speaker 2: and it was basically he was looking at the news
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  Speaker 2: that the federal government for England or the United Kingdom
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  Speaker 2: had just put in more lockdowns and he got angry.
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  Speaker 2: It was not a pre planned moment. It was one
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  Speaker 2: of his you know, off the cuff, and he said this.
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  Speaker 2: He apparently said something this is not the way to
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  Speaker 2: run a country. You can't run a country this way
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  Speaker 2: where you keep locking people down and you have no
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  Speaker 2: idea how this hurts the people, and you have no
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  Speaker 2: idea what's going on with the education system here and
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people in the United Kingdom, as I
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  Speaker 2: would imagine I'd be one of those people if I
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  Speaker 2: look there, Christopher Thompson that oh, he gets us. He
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  Speaker 2: understands what it's like and so since then he has
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  Speaker 2: been rising in prominence, and just a few moments ago
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  Speaker 2: sworn in as the new Prime Minister. The other thing
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  Speaker 2: that they say about him, though, is he's very thinned skinned.
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  Speaker 2: He has cried several times when protesters have attacked him.
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  Speaker 3: M kelly, that's not a good look for a world leader.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not a good look.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying you can't be emotional. I'm not just
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  Speaker 3: saying you can can't show your emotions at certain times.
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  Speaker 3: But you've got to ultimately be the strong person that
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  Speaker 3: everyone relies on to lead your country out of some crises.
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  Speaker 3: And you've got a couple in Great Britain right now
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  Speaker 3: some of the same issues we're facing here affordability and immigration.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and they're ahead of us as far as the problems.
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  Speaker 2: They accelerated their own demise. I do appreciate this isn't
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  Speaker 2: on NPR right now. Andy Burnham is someone who really
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  Speaker 2: likes to have affirmation. I don't know what lengths he'll
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  Speaker 2: go to to make sure Donald Trump isn't truth socializing
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  Speaker 2: about him in the middle of the night, because he
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  Speaker 2: really won't like that. He will be far more hurt
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  Speaker 2: by that than someone like here Starmer, So perhaps we
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  Speaker 2: can bully him into doing what we want the UK
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  Speaker 2: to do.
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  Speaker 3: You don't think Donald Trump smells blood in the water already.
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  Speaker 2: Either way, Let's just get our let's get ourselves back
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  Speaker 2: in alignment over here. Stop they need to stop arresting
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  Speaker 2: people for Facebook posts. In the United Kingdom. They got
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of problems over there. I do remember when
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  Speaker 2: Prince Harry first kind of came over to the United
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  Speaker 2: States and he was getting married to Megan Markle, and
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  Speaker 2: he said, this first amendment that you have is a
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  Speaker 2: real problem. Yes it is, but it's also what makes
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  Speaker 2: us one of the best countries on earth, because we
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  Speaker 2: have idiots that can pop off about anything anywhere, anytime.
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  Speaker 2: Feel free to express your opinions. We'd like to magnify
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  Speaker 2: It's South Carolina's morning news.
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  Speaker 5: From the Midlands to the low Country.
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  Speaker 5: Now here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: That music bed kind of got that world Cup International
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  Speaker 2: Flava Flave Christopher Thompson. Did you enjoy the World Cup
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  Speaker 2: as a sports guy.
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  Speaker 3: Yesterday, yesterday or overall? Okay, we'll go overall overall. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: it was exciting. I mean it was. It was great
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  Speaker 3: just to see all the people who came to this
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  Speaker 3: country fall in love with America.
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  Speaker 2: That was that was very cool. Social media, you know,
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  Speaker 2: is a cesspool. But every now and again there's a
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  Speaker 2: trend that begins, and I looked, was I being played
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  Speaker 2: by some of these people? I believe? So, I believe.
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  Speaker 2: I believe some foreigners wanted to get some more hits
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  Speaker 2: on their videos, so they would just spoon feed us
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  Speaker 2: what we wanted to hear. We're like a beaten dog
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  Speaker 2: looking for attention. We're great, we are great. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for noticing. But yes, that was a fun trend, but
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  Speaker 2: not so much yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I mean it, yesterday, I think was a struggle
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  Speaker 3: to watch for a little while, just because it was
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  Speaker 3: you know it it was, let's face it, it was
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  Speaker 3: boring for a long period of time. We Americans we
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  Speaker 3: like scoring. Yeah, okay, a defensive battle in soccer or
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  Speaker 3: football as they call it. That may be exciting for some,
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  Speaker 3: not for us, we want the touchdowns. We want to
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  Speaker 3: see big points on the board.
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  Speaker 2: Did you see the game on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we watched it. Yeah, there was an all
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  Speaker 3: star game. There was no defense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So I was gonna say that that was maybe
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  Speaker 2: for Americans told watch the runner up games more often.
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  Speaker 2: The third place game, yeah, because that was like a
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  Speaker 2: record breaking where they score ten goals in that game.
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  Speaker 3: It was you know, they were just playing for the
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  Speaker 3: fun of it at that point. Nobody wanted to be
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  Speaker 3: in third place. So yeah, your second runner up, Yeah, exactly,
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  Speaker 3: that was a little different. But Kelly, I thought, I mean, actually,
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  Speaker 3: by the by the time we got to yesterday's end,
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  Speaker 3: it was exciting. And of course there was the tension
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  Speaker 3: that had built up for you know, ninety plus minutes
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  Speaker 3: and then you had extra time, and then you had
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  Speaker 3: a guy get run off for Argentina and suddenly they're
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  Speaker 3: playing a man down And yeah, I mean, I don't
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  Speaker 3: know how many Americans fell in love with soccer, but
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  Speaker 3: they probably at least enjoyed the experience of what they saw.
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  Speaker 3: The last month and a half.
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  Speaker 2: There was apparently a bunch of problems outside the stadium
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  Speaker 2: trying to get into the stadium. They said that the
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  Speaker 2: security lines were more than two hours long to get in.
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  Speaker 2: There was also reports that there was for some reason,
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  Speaker 2: fans found themselves crossing what is that I ninety five
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  Speaker 2: right there? They I mean, you could see videos where
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  Speaker 2: dozens of people are trying to cross EYE ninety five
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  Speaker 2: with traffic going at seventy five eighty miles an hour,
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  Speaker 2: and you can imagine it's not a lot of spaces
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  Speaker 2: between vehicles on I ninety five in New Jersey, right
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  Speaker 2: outside of New York City.
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  Speaker 3: Kelly, you've probably been. Have you been to the New Meadowlands?
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  Speaker 3: Well not life. Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: Actually, you know what, maybe I did go. I went
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: to a Giants football game in I want to say
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: twenty nineteen. Was that the new one?
• 17:43
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that would be the new one by then, I believe.
• 17:45
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 17:45
  Speaker 2: I went and watched the Giants play the Eagles. I
• 17:47
  Speaker 2: should never do that because they always lose. Every time
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: I go, the Giants lose, so I should just stay.
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: They were up on that game too, they were winning,
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: you know, at halftime, they were winning in the third quarter,
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: and then they just tinkled it away in the four
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: fourth quarter. And that was my first time bringing my
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: wife to see a pro football game, and she's like,
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: it was like ten degrees. She's like, and you like this,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: this is fun. And then of course I leave in
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: a bad mood. This was a good day for you. No,
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: it was not a good day. It's about like three
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars on tickets so that we'd seat the game
• 18:16
  Speaker 2: away and it was freezing the whole day.
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: Well, I've read that's not the easiest stadium in the
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: world to get to anyway.
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: No, I remember I had to park somewhere. You paid
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: for parking, which was not cheap. It was like eighty
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: dollars to park somewhere like a mile from the stadium,
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: and then you took a bus and then the bus
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: dropped you off, and then you still had to walk
• 18:35
  Speaker 2: like a quarter to a half mile to get into
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the stadium.
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: But I imagined for an event the size of the
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: World Cup, the security perimeter was even bigger. And then, oh,
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: by the way, you had world leaders like Donald Trump there,
• 18:47
  Speaker 3: which I mean you're always going to have security concerns,
• 18:51
  Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm sure there were long lines.
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: I'm glad to see Trump didn't take any pot shots
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: at Mexico or Canada. While we were on the field
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: with them. Wow on the field, Yeah, I would be.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have been surprised if he said And the
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: air would have been a lot better if it wasn't
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: for this guy. Yeah, And we would have so many
• 19:07
  Speaker 2: of the legals if it wasn't for that gal. But
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: either way, we're giving out the awards.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: Oh, he attacked the ear quality as soon as he
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: got out of the stadium.
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: Oh. Absolutely, absolutely. Maybe we'll talk about that a little
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: bit more as it's now actually starting to make its
• 19:20
  Speaker 2: way into South Carolina. But any thoughts on the World Cup,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: we'd be interested in hearing it or other news that
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: you saw over the weekend. Let us know on the
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: talkback feature. Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's morning.
• 19:31
  Speaker 5: News live from the state Capitol.
• 19:34
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 19:38
  Speaker 7: Good morning, This is Wayne. I listen on the app.
• 19:41
  Speaker 7: I think Pamela Evatt makes sense for this Senate seat.
• 19:45
  Speaker 7: She was almost a Republican nominee for governor.
• 19:47
  Speaker 5: She was endorsed by Trump.
• 19:49
  Speaker 7: She would be the first woman elected to the Senate
• 19:52
  Speaker 7: for South Carolina. She is the current Lieutenant governor and
• 19:54
  Speaker 7: everybody pretty much knows who she is. With the break
• 19:58
  Speaker 7: that she had from the governor's campaign, she could jump
• 20:01
  Speaker 7: right into the Senate campaign and hit the ground running.
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: I think that she makes sense.
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: All right, Well, Wayne, that is an interesting take. I
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: certainly concur that she has definitely raised her profile, Pamela
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: Evitt's profile. You know, when she started, I'd say, the
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: vast majority of people didn't even know how to say
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: her last name.
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: And you still hear it miss pronounced sometimes you.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: Hear it miss pronounced still, and that's your way of
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: showing you'd either or trying to insult her like Nancy
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: Mace when she does it, or you're not paying attention
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: as she's Pamela Evitt and she is the current lieutenant
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: governor and she probably still has some money left in
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: that campaign of hers from running for governor, so she
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: could hit the ground running. And you know, to push
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: back on the criticism that I was mockingly giving you
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: Christopher earlier, because we were talking about Darlene Graham Nordone
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: getting Trump's preemptive endorsement, I think more or less to
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: push Russell Fry out that kind of keeps Russell Fry
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: at bay. I think is Russell Fry's whole thing was
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: He's Trump's guy, you know. But the idea of oh yeah,
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: a female is fine if she's only gonna have the
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: job for a couple of months, But when she wants
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: the actual job, you South Carolinians don't want it. You know.
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: I thought we were past that because we had already
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: elected a female governor twice and she's a person of color.
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: But no, we're gonna still be considered. You know, we're
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: every fobe. We're fobes of homosexuality. We're home where fobes
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: of women were, fobes of people of color, any phobe
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: you can put on us, apparently in South Carolina, where
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: all the phobes. But I don't I don't think that
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: we need to prove that we're not that. But I
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: think Pamela Evitt would be a pretty strong candidate right now.
• 21:50
  Speaker 3: Well, yeah, all right, that was a watered down endorsement.
• 21:53
  Speaker 3: Pretty strong, A pretty strong candidate. I mean again, I was,
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: I was, I had said all along. I thought Alan
• 21:58
  Speaker 3: Wilson was a better candidate for governor, more along the
• 22:03
  Speaker 3: lines of I think Alan has the ability to negotiate
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: with the House and you know, in the because the
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: State House is not like well, Congress is not getting
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: in line at all either with Trump. But you need
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: to really negotiate a lot more in this position as
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: the governor, because you have almost no power exactly. And
• 22:23
  Speaker 3: Pamela has a lot of great conservative ideas and so
• 22:26
  Speaker 3: on and so forth, but as a member of the Senate,
• 22:29
  Speaker 3: it's not your job to convince a whole bunch of
• 22:32
  Speaker 3: other people. She's just going to be a part of
• 22:35
  Speaker 3: a block of voters that would be the conservative wing
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: of the Republican Party, which is the wing that we want,
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: mostly in South Carolina to win. I'm not saying Kelly
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: that she would be a bad candidate. I just I
• 22:47
  Speaker 3: thought there was a I mean, she stumbled to the
• 22:50
  Speaker 3: finish line. She got the Trump endorsement she had been
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: coveting all along, and still couldn't do much with it.
• 22:56
  Speaker 3: I mean, her place in the governor's race where she
• 22:59
  Speaker 3: wanted to finishing, and I just I felt like a
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: lot of people got left with a bad taste in
• 23:03
  Speaker 3: their mouth when it was all said and done. And
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not sure she's going to erase that. In just
• 23:09
  Speaker 3: you know, weeks before we could do the primary I.
• 23:12
  Speaker 2: Think most of that bad taste, though Christopher, came from
• 23:16
  Speaker 2: the way Trump endorsed her with the Henry McMaster junior thing.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: It wasn't her fault, but it necessarily kind of shrouded
• 23:23
  Speaker 3: her camp. I mean, she was kind of fighting her
• 23:25
  Speaker 3: way out of that Trump endorsement rather than celebrating it.
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: And is it the same deal with Darlene Graham nordone
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: and this endorsement that comes out of left field on Friday.
• 23:35
  Speaker 3: I don't know. I just I think because it was
• 23:37
  Speaker 3: such a surprise, I don't know what to think, and
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: I don't know what voters will think. I don't think
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: anyone saw her as other than someone to fill out
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: the remainder of her brother's term. Nobody thought about her
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: as being the candidate for the next six years.
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: And interestingly that Trump would phrase the way he did.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: And I don't have his endorsement in front of me,
• 23:58
  Speaker 2: but what I remember was it was basically along the
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: lines of she's a great patriot and yadayah dayada. That
• 24:05
  Speaker 2: would imply that you don't think that the other people
• 24:08
  Speaker 2: running are Now I know he doesn't like Ralph Norman
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: because Ralph Norman endorsed you know Nicky Haley for president,
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: and once you get on Trump's bad side, it's tough
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: to get on his good side. Although Lindsey Graham himself
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: was on the bad side, got off on a bad foot,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: and then worked his way over to the good foot,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: So it is possible. I don't know that Trump, excuse
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: me that Ralph Norman is attempting to mend fences with
• 24:33
  Speaker 2: Trump either, well, maybe talk, but he does support ninety
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: nine percent of Trump's policies, so he would make a
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: great candidate as well. Also, don't want to forget Duke
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Buckner threw his hat into the ring on Friday as well,
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: so you have that along with Ralph Norman, Mark Lynch,
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: and we're waiting to see if our current lieutenant governor
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: throws her hat into the ring or anybody else. So
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: the end of that is in a couple of days,
• 24:58
  Speaker 2: so we'll have to figure that out soon. Meantime, you're
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: waking up with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:02
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: Congratulations to JD. Van's first vice president since eighteen seventy
• 25:11
  Speaker 2: to have a child born while in office yesterday, Alec
• 25:16
  Speaker 2: Neil Vance was born. Very happy for him and his
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: wife and a little piece of history that we all
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: get to share in. Been one hundred and fifty years
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: and something like that happened. More coming up on South
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: We heard on the top of the hour update that
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: it's the ninth straight night of the US attacking in
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Iran and oil prices continue to surge now back up
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: over ninety dollars a barrel. Trump very sensitive to oil prices.
• 25:52
  Speaker 2: We're also in what are we day thirty of our
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: peace accord here or whatever? Right? We've had thirty days
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: now of no firings. Christopher Thompson, which piece of cord,
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: the memorandum of understanding? I think was signed thirty days
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: ago and we're halfway through it now, how's that going?
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: Shouldn't that be ripped up by now? I think Iran
• 26:18
  Speaker 3: over the weekend said it was a done deal, that
• 26:20
  Speaker 3: we're through with that.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, well maybe maybe we're back to war then.
• 26:25
  Speaker 2: I'm not sure. So far in the conflict, the United
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: States have had seventeen service members killed, now four hundred
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: and thirty troops wounded. According to Iran's Ministry of Health,
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: they've had they're not sure or they're not going to
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: tell us exactly somewhere between thirty four hundred and fifteen
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: thousand fatalities. So obviously seventeen is horrible for US, fifteen
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: thousand for them a lot worse off. But the key,
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: again I can't say it enough, is the IRGC. We
• 27:08
  Speaker 2: don't necessarily even need to kill most of their military members.
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: It's the IRGC that is calling the shots, and they're
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: continuing to double down, and they're continuing to say that
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: there will that they are in charge. However, when the
• 27:23
  Speaker 2: IRGC strikes back, which they do all the time, they
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: don't necessarily target what you and I would consider typical
• 27:33
  Speaker 2: military targets. For example, last night Kuwait, they went after
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: the desalation plants where ninety percent of the water for
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: Kuwait has to go through that plant. That's what they hit.
• 27:47
  Speaker 2: So that they're trying to kill civilians specifically so that
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: they can get pressure from the Gulf States to try
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: to ask the US, Hey, listen, can you back off
• 27:56
  Speaker 2: now if ninety percent comes from a desalination in Kuwait
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: and you hit those plants. I guess the US will
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: have to try to help Kuwait get some water.
• 28:09
  Speaker 3: So they don't mind poisoning civilian's water to make a
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: point on the world stage. That tells you all you
• 28:16
  Speaker 3: need to know about who you're dealing with, Kelly.
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: And we're talking, you know. So the Secretary General for
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: the Six nation Golf Cooperation Council, which I had never
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: heard of until about fifteen seconds ago, Jessim Mohammad al Badi,
• 28:29
  Speaker 2: is now accusing Iran of war crimes for striking those
• 28:33
  Speaker 2: civilian facilities. I don't even know how it's unless Iran
• 28:38
  Speaker 2: wants to say it was an accident. If they say
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: it was an accident, perhaps I mean, it's like with
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: the US when they hit the girls school. That was
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: an accident. At first, Trump tried to say it wasn't US.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: Should have never said that. He should have said, we'll
• 28:51
  Speaker 2: just let an investigation play out and see what it was.
• 28:54
  Speaker 2: If it was us, we're going to be very sorry
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: that it was. But that's certainly not what we're aiming at.
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: But that was an accident. This does not seem to
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: be an accident. It seems as if they're trying to
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: punish kuwait for allowing US to have military bases there and.
• 29:10
  Speaker 3: They attack Jordan on Friday. I mean they've been attacking
• 29:13
  Speaker 3: all their neighbors, any neighbor that has any link to
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: the United States whatsoever.
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: So again I am for full escalation. How do you
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: feel would you like to see the United States go
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: all in? Because clearly we're not going all in right now.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: We are there, we're ready to go all in, but
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: we're not. We're having very targeted attacks. And this is again,
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: if you're somebody who cares about the politics of gas prices,
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: this is only going to make them worse over the
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: next several weeks. If you're somebody who cares about shortening
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: the lifespan of the war and keeping American troops out
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: of harm's way, I suggest you actually ramp it up
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: rather than dial it back, because that's when they're still dangerous.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: If you just blow them off the face of the earth,
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: they're no more a threat at that point. I'm getting
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: more and more frustrated with this war.
• 30:11
  Speaker 3: I think Kelly, most Americans probably feel the exact same way,
• 30:15
  Speaker 3: and it's only going to impact It's only going to
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: have a greater impact on politics in this country as
• 30:20
  Speaker 3: we get closer to the midterms. You mentioned the price
• 30:23
  Speaker 3: of gas down today in South Carolina, but I'm looking
• 30:27
  Speaker 3: up and seeing where the National network's doing a news
• 30:29
  Speaker 3: story right now, gas prices back up to four dollars
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: a gallon nationally.
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, And like I said, oil price is now
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: over ninety dollars a barrel, so the gas prices will
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: continue to rise for the you know, in the not
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: too distant future, we'll be seeing that. But again, I'm
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: not as concerned about gas prices. I am concerned about
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: wrapping this thing up, and there's no possible way to
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: wrap it up if the IRGC is still in control
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: of Iran. Again, I walk through the troops on Friday,
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: how many of each individual branch of the IRGC, But
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: it grand total is about one hundred and eighty five
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: thousand troops, and I don't know how many of those
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: have been killed, you know, but even best case scenario
• 31:11
  Speaker 2: would be fifteen thousand. So there's still a lot of them,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: but not one hundred and seventy five to one hundred
• 31:17
  Speaker 2: and eighty thousand people controlling a country of ninety million people,
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: most of whom don't want them there. We need to,
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: in my estimation, arm the people on the ground who
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: want to overthrow their current regime. We have the ability
• 31:31
  Speaker 2: to get the weapons to those people. That's the best
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: way to do it. At the same time, continue the
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: aerial strikes, keep hitting the bases whenever possible. If you
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: find out where they're sleeping, go and get them there,
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: go and get them wherever. But you got to wrap
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: this thing up quicker, much more quickly than we've been doing.
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: That's what I think. Maybe you know, we have a
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: lot of military people who listen. Maybe somebody can tell
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: me that I'm completely wrong. I'd be very open to that.
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear from some military people what you
• 31:59
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• 32:23
  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash, I am confused. I don't know what I'm reading.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: I don't understand the post. So we talked earlier. Christopher
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: Thompson and I were discussing who's in the race currently
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: to replace Lindsey Graham, and if you missed it, Duke Buckner.
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: He's the man who's been challenging James Cliburn the last
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: several times. It's not obviously been successful, but he continues
• 32:51
  Speaker 2: to run. And he says, I am running because too
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: many Americans are working harder and falling further behind. People
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: should be able to afford a home, raise a family,
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: and build a life. Okay, that's typical political speech from
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: Duke Buckner. Ralph Norman on Saturday said that he is
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: putting his hat into the ring others. Is there anybody else?
• 33:14
  Speaker 2: We got? Mark Lynch? I forgot? How do I always
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: forget Mark Lynch? I for some reason, he doesn't register
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: as a real candidate in my mind, which is horrible.
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: My apologies, Mark Lynch. Perhaps you scarred me with your
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: assertion last week of Mark Lynch's candidacy. But anyway, I
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: have just retweeted Russell Frye, who tweeted a few hours ago,
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: and I don't know what this means. I saw that
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: South Carolina is worth the fight, and then it's just
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: a picture of the US flag flying over the South
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Carolina flag, and I'm you know, I'm looking through the
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: comments and like people are treating this as if this
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: is a decision to run. This is a selfish decision
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: for you to run for the seat when you're already
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: running for your current federal seat. Please don't run. You
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: already have a federal seat. You're now putting the House
• 34:06
  Speaker 2: in danger. Russell stopped putting the House in a bind.
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: We can't afford to lose the House seat. You're a
• 34:11
  Speaker 2: young man, you don't have You'll have time to run
• 34:14
  Speaker 2: again in six years. Don't do this to us. So
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: the people are interpreting this on social media as if
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: sometime on the overnight Russell Fry decided he is running
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: for her. But I'm not seeing any news releases. I
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: haven't seen anything yet anywhere else.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: I haven't either name Kelly. You mentioned he talked about
• 34:31
  Speaker 3: a fight. Does he mean he's willing to fight with
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: Donald Trump? Because Trump on Friday endorsed Lindsey Graham's sister. Now,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: she's not in the race yet, she is not declared,
• 34:43
  Speaker 3: but she has at least got the Trump endorsement to
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: consider if she decides she wants to stick around.
• 34:49
  Speaker 2: I feel like paraphrasing Bill Murray and Caddyshack. So I
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: got that, which is nice. You know, I got that
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: going for me, which is nice. I am. I mean,
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: what a random post to put up when you know
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: everybody's looking at you.
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: All it says is South Carolina is worth the fight.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: It's not in response to anything that we're aware of
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: with somebody saying South Carolina is not worth a fight?
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Is he fighting for South Carolina? But he's not fighting
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: for South Carolina in the house.
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: Kelly, I took it to mean he's ready to fight
• 35:21
  Speaker 3: with the guy who got him into office, Donald Trump.
• 35:24
  Speaker 3: He's ready to fight Trump's endorsement by saying I want
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: to run.
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: So you're looking at this as well as this is.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: I am, but this is the weakest announcement that I'm
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: in a race ever.
• 35:34
  Speaker 3: Well, maybe he was testing the waters. Oh you know,
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: this was a trial balloon. See what people say if
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: it looks like I might run.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: I'm going to run a Chinese weather balloon across the
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: state of South Carolina and see what people think.
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: Could be Kelly, I don't know. I don't know how
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: else to interpret that.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: Hmm.
• 35:54
  Speaker 3: Would he be willing to go head to head with
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: the man who virtually got him elected in Donald Trump.
• 36:00
  Speaker 3: I don't know. And with all this being said, we
• 36:04
  Speaker 3: have not We've still not heard word one from Darlene
• 36:08
  Speaker 3: Graham about whether she is in fact going to run
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: or not.
• 36:11
  Speaker 2: We did get an open letter over the weekend. Did
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: you take time to read?
• 36:14
  Speaker 3: Didn't say that.
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: No, Oh, she did send out an open letter to
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: the people of South Carolina. I got that emailed to me, okay,
• 36:21
  Speaker 2: and it was, you know, it was very well worded.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Nothing burger. I mean, it was just, you know, it's
• 36:29
  Speaker 2: an honor to do what I'm doing. At no point
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: alluded to, as far as I can recall her even
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: considering a run. Although I see some local networks saying
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: that Darlene has privately, before Donald Trump endorsed her, had
• 36:48
  Speaker 2: privately expressed interest in running for the full US Senate term.
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: I was not aware of that she had been privately
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: considering that, or even at this moment, is privately considering that.
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: I mean, I.
• 37:05
  Speaker 3: Wonder, Kelly, if Republicans are considering the fact that she'll
• 37:09
  Speaker 3: be opposing a woman and doctor Annie Andrews in November,
• 37:13
  Speaker 3: and it might be easier for a woman to tangle
• 37:16
  Speaker 3: with a woman than a man to try and attack
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: a woman politically, which you know can sometimes backfire. I
• 37:24
  Speaker 3: wonder if that's the thought process behind people who are
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: getting behind Lindsey Graham's sister in this race.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: Well, again, that's another reason why why Pamela Evitt would
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: be true. I mean, but I'm not a big fan
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: of you need to be this person to go after
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: that person. I just like, I don't know. I'm an
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: old school traditional you know, in the idea of whoever's
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: got the best ideas or whoever's the best leader should
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: win and usually does win, although not always. We certainly
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: seen people that seem like THEEI candidates get votes and
• 38:04
  Speaker 2: I don't. I'm not saying Darlene Graham Nordon is a
• 38:07
  Speaker 2: DEI candidate. I'm just saying, is to your point, we
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: literally know nothing about her other than she's going to
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: vote for what Lindsey Graham would have voted for while
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: she's holding the seat.
• 38:21
  Speaker 3: I think Trump's endorsement Kelly came out of left field.
• 38:24
  Speaker 3: No one saw this coming.
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and again I interpreted that as a way of
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: him telling Russell Fry, sit down, state, keep doing what
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: you're doing, Russ, we don't need you in the Senate.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: We're going to have that handled. Russ may be saying,
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: you know what, I'll tell you when to take a seat.
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: I don't know. And by the way, if that's the case,
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I actually do like a little bit of the spike.
• 38:45
  Speaker 2: I like that fight in some people. I don't know
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: if if Russell Fry needs to be making this move
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: to the people who are criticizing him on social media,
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: the idea of your running for two seats at the
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: same time, I'm not a fan of that either. So
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: I'm really I'm really in a cross zone here. I'm
• 38:59
  Speaker 2: gonna cross fire hurricane like Obama would have put me
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: in back in the day. Anyway, that's that seems to
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: be the latest news this morning on who's going to
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: be running for the Senate. See and Christopher, you reminded
• 39:11
  Speaker 2: us last week. Do you remember when they have till file.
• 39:13
  Speaker 3: I think it's the end of this week. I thought
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: it was a Tuesday. I believe me.
• 39:18
  Speaker 2: I mean, we're we're almost at the end of it.
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson always the fact guy, so we can always
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: get facts from Christopher toy facts.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: And then I don't know, them our candidate. Filing closes
• 39:28
  Speaker 3: noon tomorrow. No, no, sorry, sorry, noon next Tuesday. Okay,
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: I was gonna say that July twenty eighth, So.
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: We've got another seven and a half days of this
• 39:39
  Speaker 2: before we're all Will there be any last minute surprises? Again,
• 39:43
  Speaker 2: I threw out the name John Warren. Maybe you don't
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: remember him, but John Warren was the guy, the businessman
• 39:48
  Speaker 2: from the upstate who primaried Henry McMaster and almost beat
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Henry McMaster, who was an incumbent at that time in
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: the primary. I think he's a very attractive candidate, got
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: a great story to tell, haven't I haven't heard boo
• 40:03
  Speaker 2: from John Warren.
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: So it's been pretty quiet, all right, So filing. Let's
• 40:07
  Speaker 3: go through the dates. Filing opens noon tomorrow, closes noon Tuesday,
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: the twenty eighth. Deadline to apply for absenty ballot July thirty,
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: first early voting. There's three days of that August fifth
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: through the seventh, and then of course the primary is
• 40:23
  Speaker 3: on the eleventh. So yeah, it's a quickly ramped up
• 40:27
  Speaker 3: election period.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean we're basically what three three and a
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: three weeks away from having a candidate here. Well, wow,
• 40:35
  Speaker 2: we're gonna fly through it and we'll be watching it
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: all on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston Now Kelly Nash.
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: And in North Charleston Saturday, they wrapped up a five
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: day kind of demonstrate apparently and something called the X
• 41:02
  Speaker 2: ten drone, which they are considering using at the North
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Charleston Police Department. Apparently they would model this off of
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: Wichita is currently using this and it seems very impressive.
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: There's also I think maybe in San Francisco they're using
• 41:19
  Speaker 2: these and pointing out that you know, if you call
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: in a suspicious person right now, you say you call whatever,
• 41:29
  Speaker 2: and you say hey, whether it's nine to one one
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: or you call the direct police department, you say there's
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: a suspicious activity happening at such and such a dress. Well,
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: by the time the police can get there, often there's
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: no more person. They have already moved on. But with
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: the drone they can get there in seconds. And it's flying,
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: you know, direct as a bird would fly at forty
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: five miles an hour, so it can get there a
• 41:54
  Speaker 2: lot quicker than even a cop car, which can go,
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: you know, eighty ninety miles an hour, But because they
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: got to go through all these turns and traffic and
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: whatnot to get to you, it takes a lot longer.
• 42:06
  Speaker 2: People seem attracted as well to the idea that it
• 42:09
  Speaker 2: comes with a dashboard. According to this, the Wichita Police
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: Department in Kansas allows any member of the public to
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: track the drone flight paths in real time. Implementing the
• 42:21
  Speaker 2: Transparency dashboard framework is a big draw for the North
• 42:24
  Speaker 2: Charleston Police. I'm not sure what would be the pushback.
• 42:30
  Speaker 2: There are some people, apparently North Charleston say that they're
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: concerned that certain people may be targeted. I don't know
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: what that means targeted. We're but Christopher, you're more of
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: a I guess a privacy advocate than I am.
• 42:46
  Speaker 3: Well, I mean privacy to a point, but I mean,
• 42:50
  Speaker 3: we had the whole argument about flocked cameras on Friday,
• 42:53
  Speaker 3: and you know, they've become a national controversy. There was
• 42:56
  Speaker 3: a local community in the Midlands that was considering opping
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: the number of them. I don't see an issue as
• 43:02
  Speaker 3: long as you're not breaking the law.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Members of the Isle of Palms also came by and
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: said that they're going to recommend ninety thousand dollars for
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: funding for something called the Skuydio first responder drones in
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: their meetings as well. I guess even if you get
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: them in North Charleston, it's going to be a little
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: while because they got to get it into the budget.
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: That was I think takes place in December, and then
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: the first that you could actually use them if you
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: get it into the budget would be July of next year.
• 43:32
  Speaker 2: So we're a year away or so from upping the
• 43:37
  Speaker 2: police activities or utilities that they would have access to.
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: I'm surprised that in Richland County they don't have that.
• 43:44
  Speaker 2: That seems like something that Leon Lott would be on
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: the cutting edge of. But anyway, we'll see how the
• 43:50
  Speaker 2: police changes here in the South Carolina region. As we
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: moved through on Monday morning, on South Carolina's morning news.
• 43:58
  Speaker 5: On the Midlands to the Lull Country.
• 44:00
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning use on one O three
• 44:03
  Speaker 1: point five FM at five sixty am WVOC and ninety
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: four to three WSC.
• 44:10
  Speaker 5: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 44:12
  Speaker 2: I don't know where do you go to get your
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: reputation back. That's always the old question after the news
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: gets out about something and then it turns out it
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: wasn't correct. Saturday, we all heard that this what are
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: we even calling it? The thing that makes people have
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: quote unquote explosive diarrhea cyclops era or something like that,
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: whatever that isychlislerosis. Yeah, that was apparently on Saturday. Was
• 44:39
  Speaker 2: the big news on Saturday was it's coming from Taco Bell.
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: And then on Sunday the group that actually provides the
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: lettuce that they were saying was the cause. Taylor Fresh
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: Foods said that they were then informed by the fb
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: FDA on Sunday that the announcement on Saturday was a mistake.
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: It was a false positive. They've already went ahead and
• 45:09
  Speaker 2: kind of I guess severed ties with the company that
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: they were getting the lettuce from. But all of that
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: was not real.
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: Yikes. Yeah, how do you recover from that?
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: If your Taco Bell? What do you say? I mean, Look,
• 45:22
  Speaker 2: Taco Bell hasn't been traced to explosive diarrhea. Yeah, I've
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: heard that, but not because of the lettuce. Why did
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: they even have lettuce? Does anybody want the lettuce? On
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: the tacos anymore. I maybe I guess they do, but
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: I think that you're just there for like the substance
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: of the burrito. But it wasn't just Taco Bell that
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: was their number one customer apparently for the tailor Fresh Foods.
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: But the FDA had a false positive and then put
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: it out as we can trace it to this. That
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: is a massive mistake.
• 45:58
  Speaker 3: It is. And Kelly, how does that get out before
• 46:02
  Speaker 3: they've done a confirming test. I mean, you know you're
• 46:06
  Speaker 3: about to wreck a business by releasing that information. I
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: know everyone's in a hurry to find out, Okay, which
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: really causing this and how can we get ahead of
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: it and how can we finally put it to rest?
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: But and I saw Taylor Farms. They'd put out a
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: long statement on social media yesterday explaining what had happened,
• 46:25
  Speaker 3: and you know, asking customers, you know, please still continue
• 46:28
  Speaker 3: to trust us. But you know, for some they may
• 46:31
  Speaker 3: have heard the positive test and they didn't hear that
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: the FDA had corrected things.
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's why I'm trying to bring some attention to it,
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: because not that I'm a fan of I don't know
• 46:39
  Speaker 2: anything about Taylor Farms, but I just hate to see
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: news spread so quickly. And that was all over the
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: world on Tuesday or Saturday that we've traced it. Taylor
• 46:49
  Speaker 2: Farms number one provider for Taco Bell, so you might
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: want to be careful. And then Sunday it was like, oh,
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: they're wrong. Yeah, it's like you got to make a
• 46:58
  Speaker 2: bigger noise out of that than the noise that you
• 47:00
  Speaker 2: made on Saturday.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: So now, Taylor Fresh Foods did say they were voluntarily
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: removing all the iceberg lettuce that is sourced from Central
• 47:10
  Speaker 3: Mexico from our market. And by the way, South Carolina
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: is one of the twenty seven states that Taylor Fresh
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: Farms sells to.
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and how much is that going to cost them
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: to get rid of all that lettuce that they already
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: paid for out of quote an abundance of caution, which
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: turns out you didn't need to do that, But they're
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: still doing it anyway. They're just trying to They're bending
• 47:33
  Speaker 2: over backwards and I'm sure costing them millions of dollars
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: to try to reassure the general public that we are
• 47:39
  Speaker 2: a safe company. So it's heartbreaking that when the federal
• 47:45
  Speaker 2: government gets involved with with just business in general and
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: makes a decision that is actually wrong. That was a
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: wrong decision. FDA should be somebody needs to be held accountable.
• 47:56
  Speaker 2: Like you said, Christopher, who made who put out that
• 47:59
  Speaker 2: press release? We need to find those types of things out.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: But they were wrong. Taylor Farms is not the source
• 48:04
  Speaker 2: of the You said it so well, how did you
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: say it against psych sickles, supporp or whatever.
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: Don't ask me to do it again.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Oh, you nailed their right. We'll just leave it. He
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: had the winning streak. I'm gonna call it explosive diarrhea thing.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 48:20
  Speaker 5: Live from the state Capitol.
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 48:29
  Speaker 8: Hey, gentlemen, good morning. This is Duke from Sumter. I'm
• 48:33
  Speaker 8: a former master instructor for Skuydio and have trained a
• 48:36
  Speaker 8: lot of different agencies on the Scodio XM and the
• 48:40
  Speaker 8: Skydio prist Responder program. It is a fantastic small US
• 48:46
  Speaker 8: but it's also very very expensive. It really could only
• 48:48
  Speaker 8: be purchased by a corporation.
• 48:50
  Speaker 5: Or a government.
• 48:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, well, Duke, I certainly appreciate the insights we were
• 48:54
  Speaker 2: talking earlier about North Charleston Police Department is looking into
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: getting into the drone game, and like Duke says, it's
• 49:01
  Speaker 2: going to be rather expensive. I'm still surprised that Richland
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: County has not done it because Richland County Leon Lott
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: has gotten an arsenal out here all kinds of things.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: So maybe next time we have Leon on the show,
• 49:15
  Speaker 2: we'll have to ask him about the Skuydio drones. But
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: I have not seen a downside other than cost on
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: these things.
• 49:24
  Speaker 3: Christopher, what about all the cities Kelly that purchased drones
• 49:29
  Speaker 3: or at least rented them to use during their patriotic
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: celebrations Around the Fourth of July we saw all those
• 49:35
  Speaker 3: drone shows. Can I wonder if some of those can
• 49:39
  Speaker 3: be converted. I don't know, I'm just throwing that out there.
• 49:41
  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are probably, I'm guessing owned by a company
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: that would be organizing these types of things, So those
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: drones are probably specific right shows, just to do the
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: shows with the lights, and those were amazing. If you
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: haven't seen those things on social media, wow, go check
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: out drone firework shows. They'll blow you. I saw one
• 50:01
  Speaker 2: from a church that wasn't for a Fourth of July
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: but it was maybe a month or two earlier. Maybe
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: they did it for Eastern now that I think about it,
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: but they they droned, they were doing one thing and
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: then it turned into Jesus in the sky.
• 50:13
  Speaker 3: Wow.
• 50:13
  Speaker 2: It was amazing. So we are living in some crazy
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: technological breakthrough times and I'm enjoying it. I hope you
• 50:20
  Speaker 2: are as well. Duke. Thanks again for your talkback. We'd
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: love to hear more from people in the streets. Use
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. With South Carolina's Morning.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: News, This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I'm tinkering with the idea of having a feature called
• 50:38
  Speaker 2: something like face Palm Moment, because we always get these
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: little audio clips of liberals just saying and doing stupid things.
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Sonny Hostin was that individual over the weekend. So here's
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: the audio after her twenty four year old son is
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: detained by police for trespassing. He's running alongside a train track,
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: had to go through a fence in order to get
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: to it. He actually, first off, you called your mother,
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: what a loser. Then here here is her on the
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: phone with the police department prosecutor.
• 51:10
  Speaker 6: So he's a Harvard graduate.
• 51:12
  Speaker 4: He's not a criminal, has no criminal.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Record, no criminal history. Yeah, let him walk. Let him walk,
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: is what she said. No, they didn't let him walk. Thankfully,
• 51:24
  Speaker 2: they did give him a ticket, although they said it
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: could have actually gone as a misdemeanor. But we're not
• 51:28
  Speaker 2: going to give him a different thing, so it won't
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: even show up on this record. But what a privileged
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: jerk my son is being today. He's twenty four, and
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: he's been to Harvard.
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: And I'm a former prosecutor.
• 51:42
  Speaker 2: And I am a former federal prosecutor, and you've probably
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: seen me on the view. Would you like a selfie
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: with me? I can come down there and give you
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: a selfie. What a liberal blowhard this woman is. But
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: I'm happy to see that the police still, although they
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: did bend to the rules a little bit, they still
• 52:01
  Speaker 2: ticketed him. I think he had to pay a small fine,
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: but I can't. I can only imagine if I called
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: my mother after I got pulled over or something like, Mommy,
• 52:12
  Speaker 2: they're arresting me. Good, you were breaking the raw, weren't you.
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: They didn't stop you for nothing. So he's going to
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: have to pay a somewhat of a fine. He's in Tony, Westchester.
• 52:24
  Speaker 2: By the way, in case you're wondering, he doesn't live
• 52:25
  Speaker 2: in it. She wanted to make sure that they knew
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: that he's a teacher in the Bronx, but he lives
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: in Westchester. I wonder how that's possible. Do most Bronx
• 52:33
  Speaker 2: teachers get the opportunity to move out to Westchester?
• 52:36
  Speaker 3: I'm thinking not only if mommy's on the view.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: Or AOC she got to move out to She move
• 52:41
  Speaker 2: left the Bronx and moved out to Westchester for a while.
• 52:43
  Speaker 2: All right, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 52:51
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 52:51
  Speaker 2: I heard there on the top of the hour news
• 52:53
  Speaker 2: date that the UK has had did they say seven
• 52:59
  Speaker 2: leaders in ten years? That's like, that's like the Panthers Charlotte.
• 53:06
  Speaker 2: How many head coaches did Charlotte go through from like
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty on? It was like one right after another.
• 53:12
  Speaker 2: Frank Weikes, Chris Daber, Dave Canal's well, Canal's hat the
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: job for a while, Steve Wilkes. But anyway, I'm hopeful
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: that the UK is finally settled and will resume normal
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: operations because they have been a very weird place for
• 53:28
  Speaker 2: the last you know, seven ten years or so, So
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: we want them to be our closest Dowlly, they're supposed
• 53:34
  Speaker 2: to be our closest ally, they have not behaved like
• 53:36
  Speaker 2: our closest ally for a while. But here in South Carolina,
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: Dominion Energy and next Era have filed an application to
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: merge into a mega utility on Wednesday. Details of that
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: deal not without detractors. They're concerned about the impacts to
• 53:55
  Speaker 2: the rate payers. Now, while we don't have all the deals,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: we don't know everything. According to this headline that I'm reading,
• 54:04
  Speaker 2: the Dominion next Era merger mega merger would include a
• 54:10
  Speaker 2: ten dollars a month discount.
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: Is this just?
• 54:15
  Speaker 2: Is this bribing me? Christopher?
• 54:18
  Speaker 3: Sounds like a little bit of that. I mean, it
• 54:21
  Speaker 3: usually mergers work out in the rate payers favor if
• 54:26
  Speaker 3: they wind up if bigger winds up being better, but
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: it doesn't always. That's not always the case, and they
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: can turn around in raise rates as soon as they
• 54:36
  Speaker 3: give you that discount. That's that's the issue people have.
• 54:40
  Speaker 3: I mean, there's going to be skepticism about power companies
• 54:43
  Speaker 3: around here for years after what we went through with
• 54:45
  Speaker 3: VC summer, and for good reason, we get hoodwinked there
• 54:49
  Speaker 3: and we're still paying for it. So there is natural
• 54:53
  Speaker 3: skepticism about any deal involving these utilities that we have
• 54:58
  Speaker 3: no control over until we we see a sustained, a
• 55:03
  Speaker 3: sustained effort to lower our bills, and that's not coming
• 55:06
  Speaker 3: anytime soon.
• 55:08
  Speaker 2: Apparently. John Ketchum is the Next Era CEO, and he
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: testified in front of the South Carolina PSC last week.
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: It's about putting a larger Next Era platform behind the
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: local dominion team at the exact time that South Carolina
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: needs more energy infrastructure to be built reliably, efficiently, affordably
• 55:30
  Speaker 2: and with customer cost discipline.
• 55:33
  Speaker 3: Bro, you're singing my song. Yeah, I love all that.
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: That sounds great on the face of it.
• 55:40
  Speaker 2: And I guess is this one of those things where
• 55:42
  Speaker 2: where we're now stuck in the Nancy Pelosi. We have
• 55:45
  Speaker 2: to pass the bill to find out what's in the bill.
• 55:47
  Speaker 2: We have to pass the merger to find out if
• 55:49
  Speaker 2: the merger was a good idea.
• 55:50
  Speaker 3: Let's hope the legislators do a better job with this
• 55:52
  Speaker 3: one than they did with the Baseload Review Act, which
• 55:54
  Speaker 3: left us holding the bag when VC Senter wound up
• 55:58
  Speaker 3: a failure.
• 56:00
  Speaker 2: Well, Christopher, we're gonna have to keep our eyes on this.
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: And I know next Era is massive right there throughout
• 56:05
  Speaker 2: Florida and some other places, and they want to be
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina. So he makes a strong point. South
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: Carolina definitely needs infrastructure work right now, and they're saying,
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: we've already got a proven track record of building that infrastructure.
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: We're going to if we are allowed, we're going to
• 56:29
  Speaker 2: implement that here throughout South Carolina. And it's some ability
• 56:34
  Speaker 2: to somehow drop our rates by ten dollars, that's even better.
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't want to speak for everybody, but
• 56:42
  Speaker 2: I'd be willing to pay the same rate that I'm
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: paying right now for the foreseeable future if you're still
• 56:47
  Speaker 2: able to add that infrastructure. We need that infrastructure.
• 56:50
  Speaker 3: Okay, Kelly, let me ask you a realistic question. Do
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: you expect a company to move into South Carolina and
• 56:56
  Speaker 3: say we're going to build, We're going to continue to
• 56:59
  Speaker 3: keep building your infrastructure out until we can provide for
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: all these extra residents and these data centers which are
• 57:07
  Speaker 3: moving into South Carolina right now and not impact your
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: bill at all. Do you think that's really going to happen.
• 57:13
  Speaker 2: I here's the thing about rates. Unfortunately, we don't have
• 57:18
  Speaker 2: a lot of it's not possible to have competition to
• 57:22
  Speaker 2: force rates down, and so it's one of those things
• 57:26
  Speaker 2: where we have a little bit of choice. What do
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: we have three companies in the state of South Carolina
• 57:31
  Speaker 2: that provide one of them Staate owned and then the
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: other two or not.
• 57:35
  Speaker 3: And then you've got co ops too. But yeah, yeah,
• 57:37
  Speaker 3: I mean that's the very definition of utility.
• 57:39
  Speaker 2: It's yeah, yeah, And so we're stuck dealing with whatever
• 57:43
  Speaker 2: that It's almost like you just got to take it, yeah,
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: whatever the government says.
• 57:46
  Speaker 3: That's what happens if you want electricity.
• 57:48
  Speaker 2: And the only way to change that would be to
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: then put pressure on your local legislators. And I think
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: to your point of the earlier fiasco, I think that
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: our legislators are now at least once bitten twice shy.
• 58:05
  Speaker 2: They're a little nervous because the people who live here
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: are very ticked off about the billion dollar hole in
• 58:11
  Speaker 2: the ground, and we don't want to be taken to
• 58:14
  Speaker 2: the cleaners again. So I'm sure that everybody's aware of that.
• 58:19
  Speaker 2: I'm at this point all I can do is be hopeful.
• 58:22
  Speaker 2: The ten dollars a month discount would be fantastic, but
• 58:25
  Speaker 2: even better would be knowing that we're able to provide
• 58:28
  Speaker 2: power as the state expands. We're bringing in we're again proportionately,
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: we're the fastest growing state in America. A lot of
• 58:37
  Speaker 2: people want to live in this area. We need a
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: lot more roads, and we need a lot more electrical infrastructure.
• 58:45
  Speaker 2: So those are the two things this seems to be
• 58:47
  Speaker 2: addressing it. We'll see what they end up deciding here
• 58:51
  Speaker 2: in the next few days or so, but a lot
• 58:53
  Speaker 2: to watch there, and of course we're on it. We're
• 58:56
  Speaker 2: watching it. We're gonna let you know what happens when
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: it happens. This is South Carolina's morning.
• 59:00
  Speaker 1: News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
• 59:06
  Speaker 1: South Carolina's morning news on one O three point five FM,
• 59:10
  Speaker 1: five sixty AM WVOC, and ninety four to three wsc
• 59:15
  Speaker 1: NOW Kelly.
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: Nash, you often hear politics described as the good old
• 59:20
  Speaker 2: boys club. To an extent, it's true, but you don't
• 59:25
  Speaker 2: have to be a good old boy or even white
• 59:29
  Speaker 2: to get in on it. Look no further than South Carolina,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: where we have Richland County now former Richland County council
• 59:37
  Speaker 2: member Dolly Myers, who last year pled guilty and was
• 59:43
  Speaker 2: supposed to have been sentenced to ten year actually was
• 59:47
  Speaker 2: She got a plead deal where she was sentenced to
• 59:50
  Speaker 2: ten years in prison for stealing. She attempted to repay
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: the state or excuse me, Richland count several times. She
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 2: owed twenty seven thousand dollars for taking vacations and stuff
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 2: on the credit cards of the county. Those checks bounced,
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: so she hadn't been able to pay off what she owed,
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: admitted she was guilty, admitted that she knew what she
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: was doing, and was sentenced to ten years in prison.
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: But then incomes what we love to do in South Carolina.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 2: We love to help out, and so that was changed
• 1:00:27
  Speaker 2: from ten years in prison to three years of probation
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: and instead of paying the twenty seven thousand dollars, just
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: give us sixty four hundred dollars back. Well, the good
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: news kept coming for her on Thursday, when the South
• 1:00:39
  Speaker 2: Carolina Ethics Commissioned Thursday unanimously approved a joint request agreed
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: to by the State of South Carolina and Meyers attorneys
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: to also dismiss all charges against her. When it comes
• 1:00:52
  Speaker 2: to other stuff, because they kind of mirror what was
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 2: already going on with the other cases. So that's it.
• 1:00:59
  Speaker 2: It's all done now. The Good Old Boys Club even
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: comes for far left black females from Richland County. It
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: helps everybody, except for if you're not in politics.
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 3: Yeah. I was going to say, would it help for
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 3: you and me? Probably not.
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 2: No. So when they say the good Old Boys Club,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 2: we need to come up with a new name. I
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: don't know what the because the Good Old Boys Club
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 2: probably was a very you know, accurate description back in
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: the day. It was probably all old white guys that
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 2: ran South Carolina politics. That is clearly not the case
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 2: at this point, where a lot it should be maybe
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 2: the Good Old Lawyers Club, because we've got a lot
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 2: of lawyers over there, and they look out for their
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 2: own and they look out for people like Dahlia Meyers
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 2: in Richland County Council twenty seven thousand dollars to go
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: off on European vacations. I would like to go on
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 2: to European vacation.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 5: Yeah.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: Wasn't her story at first, Kelly that she had used
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: it a couple of times to fill up her car
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: with gas. And she wasn't sure exactly which card she used,
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: and then we found out she'd gone to Greece.
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: Yes, Greece was the big one.
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Greece was the word that you heard and accidentally
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 3: pulled out the wrong credit card there if.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: You didvertently, I didn't mean that. And apparently we do
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: want to salute the state newspaper. They're the ones who
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 2: really launched that investigation which forced the state of South
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Carolina to do some work on Dahlia Myers. But yeah,
• 1:02:27
  Speaker 2: there again, more favors done, favors earned, favors kept. I
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 2: don't know whichever you want to call it. But the
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: good old boys Club in South Carolina continues to roll on.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 2: And we are upset. But that's all we can do
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 2: is say we're upset about it. So but I'm letting
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: you know I'm upset. If you're upset, let us know.
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: On the talk back feature at South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: ninety four to three WSC Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 9: Good morning, This is Julie from Leesville. Instead of the
• 1:03:06
  Speaker 9: good old boys Club. Why don't we call it the
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 9: Crooked Politician Coalition because it covers everybody. Y'all have a
• 1:03:13
  Speaker 9: great Monday, guys.
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 6: Anytime I hear a story like that, I just hear
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 6: George Carlin's voice ringing in my head. I won't use
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 6: his exact language, but it's a big old club and
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 6: you ain't in it.
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 2: Ain't that the truth and the Crooked Politician Club. That's
• 1:03:30
  Speaker 2: another one for those of you missed it. We were
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 2: talking about now former Richland County Council member Dollia Myers,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: who is Christopher accurately remembered, inadvertently used her County council
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 2: issued credit card to pay for a grease vacation. That
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 2: was just a slip of the fingers, that's all. That was.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: Whoops oh bit, whoopsie. And then it turned out as
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: you said, I think it started because she was using
• 1:03:59
  Speaker 2: it to fill up her game tank, and even back
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, when all this stuff was breaking,
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: even then gas was expensive, and then it turned into vacations,
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: it turned into a bunch of other things, and it
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: all came to an end last September, or so we
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: thought with a guilty plea, and she was supposed to
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: be sentenced to ten years in prison, but that was
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: reduced to three years probation and in order to pay
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: sixty four hundred dollars in restitution despite owing twenty seven
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 2: thousand dollars. The State Ethics Commission on Thursday unanimously approved
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 2: a joint request agreed to between the State of South
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: Carolina and myers attorneys to dismiss all future charges because
• 1:04:42
  Speaker 2: they mirror the criminal case in which Myers has already
• 1:04:45
  Speaker 2: put guilty to corruption and misuse of office. So why
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 2: punish her again? You know, there is the three years probation.
• 1:04:51
  Speaker 2: Not enough for you, your blood thirsty Christopher Kelly. It
• 1:04:55
  Speaker 2: doesn't feel like she got punished all that much time.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 2: Get I mean when you think about probation, I mean,
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 2: I've never really been on probation, so I don't really do.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 2: They don't have to wear like an ankle monitor or anything,
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 2: do they? I don't think so for something like that,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 2: probably not. So it's really every thirty days or so.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 2: You got to check in with some Maybe we have
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 2: somebody listening who's in charge of this, or maybe you're
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 2: on probation. Let us know, is that really a punishment
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 2: being on probation, because it almost feels like I just
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: got to check in with you, That's what it feels like.
• 1:05:27
  Speaker 2: So for three years she's gonna have to check in
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 2: with us, and that's the punishment, plus pay sixty four
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: hundred dollars. And that does not seem, as you say,
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 2: doesn't even feel like a punishment, nevermind like a deterrent
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 2: like could she or would she run? I'm going back.
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 2: What was that guy's name? Was the mayor Barry of
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 2: a DC.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 3: Remember Marion Barry.
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: Marion Barry was caught with like prostitutes and crack and
• 1:05:53
  Speaker 2: all that, came back and won again. Sure, I just
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 2: don't know. Maybe the people of Richland County would find
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: themselves sympathetic to her having paid that steep fine of
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 2: sixty four hundred dollars in three years of probation, after
• 1:06:07
  Speaker 2: taking the grease vacation and all the other stuff that
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: came with it. I don't know. It is the what
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: does she call it, the crooked.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: I've creoked Politicians network or something like that.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've got to listen to that talk back again
• 1:06:19
  Speaker 2: because that was a pretty good one. But yes, it
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 2: is a big old club, as George Carlin said, and
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 2: none of us are in it, and they will remind
• 1:06:25
  Speaker 2: us of that often. But again, thank you for the talkbacks.
• 1:06:29
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 5: From the Midlands to the low Country.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
• 1:06:37
  Speaker 1: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC and ninety
• 1:06:41
  Speaker 1: four to three WSC.
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 1:06:46
  Speaker 2: For the people in the Midlands. Many of you are
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 2: familiar with me because I've been on the radio in
• 1:06:52
  Speaker 2: the Midlands for many years. Many of you in the
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 2: low Country may have never heard of me, although I
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 2: had a feature that used to run on ninety four
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 2: to three WSC CAR called Rash Thoughts, and that ran
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 2: there for several years. But it was just a ninety
• 1:07:04
  Speaker 2: second political feature that my former well not former partner.
• 1:07:07
  Speaker 2: I'm still his partner, Jonathan Rush and I still do
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 2: other shows together. But one of the things I was
• 1:07:12
  Speaker 2: excited about joining WVOC about is because Christopher Thompson is
• 1:07:17
  Speaker 2: the anchor of South Carolina Gamecock's Best Coverage and does
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 2: a fantastic job with it, and I get to appear
• 1:07:26
  Speaker 2: on his broadcast on Saturday pregames as the fans perspective.
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 2: So I am in countdown mode to when Christopher we
• 1:07:34
  Speaker 2: launched all this. Now, college football is just a little
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 2: over a month away.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 3: Now, that's right, forty seven days until the state's two
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: big teams kick.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 2: Off, and we've in the week earlier. You're going to
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 2: have a bunch of games on that Saturday, August twenty ninth,
• 1:07:47
  Speaker 2: including North Carolina. That's an interesting game for them. They're
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 2: gonna be playing TCU. I know Bill Belichick is on
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 2: the super hot seat right now.
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 3: A little uncomfortable for Bill in Chapel Hill, and he
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 3: had to answer questions last week at ACC kickoff about
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 3: whether he really wants to be a college football coach,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 3: which is not a good look for anyone.
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: I was shocked that Bill took that job. I was
• 1:08:13
  Speaker 2: surprised they wanted Bill for that job. Doesn't seem like
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: the kind of guy who likes to recruit very much,
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: doesn't want to kiss the butts of He didn't want
• 1:08:20
  Speaker 2: to kiss the butts of multimillionaire football players in the NFL,
• 1:08:23
  Speaker 2: never mind an eighteen year old. But either he does
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 2: neither here nor there. I was going over. I think
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: was CBS last week came out with the hot seat rankings.
• 1:08:34
  Speaker 2: Were you surprised to see that Dabo Sweeney has now
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: gone from untouchable to needs to start improving?
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 3: Well, I think there's it's not necessarily based on last season,
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 3: but there's this feeling that college football, because of the
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: transfer portal, has kind of passed Dabo's style by and
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 3: that's the concern. Now, give Sweeney credit, he worked the
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: portal a lot harder this year than he had in
• 1:09:00
  Speaker 3: years past, so we'll see if it pays off. But
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 3: there was so much talent on that Clemson team last year,
• 1:09:05
  Speaker 3: with so many draft picks, and yet they wound up underperforming.
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 3: So there's some concerns.
• 1:09:10
  Speaker 2: There probably not a victim of not working the transfer portal.
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: As you pointed out, Clemson was stacked as they always are,
• 1:09:17
  Speaker 2: just for whatever reason, wasn't able to put it together.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: I don't know if South Carolina is considered stacked. We
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: seem to be having a really good recruiting season, but
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: they got my boy coach Shane He's on a hot,
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 2: hot hot seat right about now.
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 3: Well, you win four games in a season, you're going
• 1:09:36
  Speaker 3: to be on any hot seat.
• 1:09:38
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness. Well, we're just a little over a
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: month away till all of South Carolina. Whether you it
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: doesn't even matter if you're a sports fan. Like my
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: wife doesn't even like football, she'll go to the games
• 1:09:50
  Speaker 2: with me. Stop. I'm not gonna take her, I don't
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 2: think anymore, because she'll just sit there and she'll she'll
• 1:09:55
  Speaker 2: be like on her Instagram and Pinterest or whatever the
• 1:09:58
  Speaker 2: whole time. I'm like, come on, the Game Cocks are
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 2: doing something. We got a bit and she's like, uh huh, yep.
• 1:10:04
  Speaker 3: It's the spectacle as much as it is the game itself.
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 2: But she does enjoy the pre games and she knows
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: enough about the game to be somewhat dangerous. She has
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 2: opinions on certain players and stuff. And it seems like
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 2: everybody in South Carolina is football crazy. So we're heading
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 2: into our favorite time. I know the song is about Christmas,
• 1:10:21
  Speaker 2: but the most wonderful time of the year is college
• 1:10:23
  Speaker 2: football for a lot of us, and so very excited
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: about that. If you have thoughts on your team, whether
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: it's the Game Cocks or Clemson, or perhaps you're a
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: big chant that Clears fan or somebody else, let us
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  Speaker 2: know about it. On the talkback feature. This is South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 5: Live from the state Capitol.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: And Christopher Thompson. Sent me a CNBC story Best states
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  Speaker 2: for workers trying to find jobs, South Carolina comes in
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  Speaker 2: I think at number five. It's Palmetto state making strides
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  Speaker 2: and working. Tainers are worker retaining through its sc Works program,
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  Speaker 2: which links job seekers with employers. According to data reported
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  Speaker 2: by the state to the US Department of Labor, more
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  Speaker 2: than seventy nine percent of participants in state training programs
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  Speaker 2: in twenty twenty four found a job within six months.
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  Speaker 3: That's a huge statistic, Kelly. I mean nearly eighty percent
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  Speaker 3: of people who get trained through this particular program. All right, now,
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  Speaker 3: You're not talking about just, you know, going out and
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  Speaker 3: having to find a job on your own. The state
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  Speaker 3: trains you and then finds you a job. At least
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  Speaker 3: eighty percent of people within six months.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: I hate I'd like to think of myself as someone
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  Speaker 2: with a big heart.
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  Speaker 5: I do.
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  Speaker 2: My wife says I am too compassionate for other people,
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  Speaker 2: But I'm finding it harder and harder for me to
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  Speaker 2: have a heart for people who are unemployed. And I
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  Speaker 2: say that because currently South Carolina has one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: twenty two thousand active job openings. Many of them are
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  Speaker 2: paying at six figures or higher. These are not just
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  Speaker 2: tinkle jobs. These are great jobs that we have in
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina. If you look at the job participation rate
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  Speaker 2: in the state of South Carolina, it usually hovers around
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  Speaker 2: sixty percent. In the federal government right and again, I understand,
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  Speaker 2: we've got a lot of retirees, people who are still
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  Speaker 2: eligible to work, but don't want to work because they
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  Speaker 2: got enough money so they moved to Myrtle Beach or whatever. Understood.
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  Speaker 2: When you look at the US labor participation rate for
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  Speaker 2: the country, sixty one and a half percent, which according
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  Speaker 2: to this is the lowest recorded since March twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: one and continues to be the lowest participation rate. Previous
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  Speaker 2: was nineteen seventy six. People, there are jobs available. We
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  Speaker 2: have over seven million jobs in America that are open
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  Speaker 2: right now. And for whatever reason, this gives credence to
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  Speaker 2: the people who are like, well, we need the illegals
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  Speaker 2: because who else is going to do the jobs? Like
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  Speaker 2: the people with the truck drivers. We heard on Friday
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  Speaker 2: they had booted I think twenty two thousand CDL truck
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  Speaker 2: driver licenses. They're taking off the rolls. So those people
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  Speaker 2: shouldn't have had. Many of them didn't speak English, they
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  Speaker 2: don't understand the rules of the road, all these types
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  Speaker 2: that they should they weren't in the country legally. Those
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  Speaker 2: jobs are very good jobs to be a truck driver. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: people should be lining up to get those jobs.
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  Speaker 3: Trump's latest idea is to use veterans, veterans who are
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  Speaker 3: unemployed to fill those roles, to get CDLs and immediately
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  Speaker 3: take the roads.
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  Speaker 2: I hope that they have a desire to do so. Again,
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  Speaker 2: as you continue to see the labor force participation rate
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  Speaker 2: drop further and further again, Now we're tied with nineteen
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  Speaker 2: seventy six for like the lowest on record, and the
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  Speaker 2: state of South Carolina is even lower than that.
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  Speaker 3: Because Kelly, I mean you've pointed this out before. People
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  Speaker 3: get incentivized, yes, to not work.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that's what I'm talking about. We don't have a
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  Speaker 2: safety net in America. We've got a safety hammock. It's
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  Speaker 2: so comfortable to not get a job. It's not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to be comfortab You should be miserable. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: have a job, do something anything, be productive, be a
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  Speaker 2: part of society. You're gonna feel so much better about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And we should not be incentivizing you to not do that.
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  Speaker 2: We're actually hurting you when we make it so easy
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  Speaker 2: to not take a job. That's my thoughts. What do
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  Speaker 2: you think? Hit us up on the talkback feature. This
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  Speaker 2: is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 2: All Right, so the posting courier has not posted this
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  Speaker 2: yet as far as I'm as far as I can
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  Speaker 2: see on their website. The state newspaper, I believe, was
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  Speaker 2: the first to post it at eight oh one this morning.
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  Speaker 2: We talked about this in the last hour. What the
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  Speaker 2: hell is Russell Fry talking about with that weird late
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  Speaker 2: night tweet. Well, at eight oh one, he tweets South
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  Speaker 2: Carolina I'm in. I'm running for the US Senate. Too
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  Speaker 2: many South Carolina families are struggling to make ends meet
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  Speaker 2: high gas prices, soaring grocery costs, and hurting hard working people.
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  Speaker 2: We need a conservative fighter in the Senate who delivers
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  Speaker 2: real results. I will be your conservative MAGA candidate. And
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  Speaker 2: the special primary Senate election this summer. I'm ready for
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  Speaker 2: the fight and I'm all in.
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  Speaker 3: Uh all right, well that explains what that cryptic post
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  Speaker 3: meant last night.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so Russell Fry has declared he's in, and he's
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  Speaker 2: declaring himself the Conservative MAGA candidate, because Ralph Norman would
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  Speaker 2: just be the conservative candidate.
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  Speaker 3: Right.
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham Nordone is the only one with the Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump endorsement, which again we saw that as a preemptive
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  Speaker 2: strike against Russell Fry to keep him in line. Part
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  Speaker 2: of me kind of likes Russell Fry pushing back. I'll
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  Speaker 2: be honest, I just like that fight in him. If
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  Speaker 2: that's so, he's like, oh no, you ain't telling me nothing, DJT,
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  Speaker 2: although I will vote with you one percent of the time.
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  Speaker 3: And Kelly, let's make it clear, Darlene Graham Nordona has
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  Speaker 3: not declared as of yet.
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  Speaker 2: Boy, this is like it's like a book. It's just
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  Speaker 2: got plot twist after plot twist after and it hasn't
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  Speaker 2: even officially begun yet.
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  Speaker 3: Filing starts tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: So nobody's actually in at this point. They've all said,
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  Speaker 2: you know, those who've said they're in, doesn't mean you're
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  Speaker 2: in because you haven't paid the money. You still got
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  Speaker 2: to pay the fee whatever the is the feast still
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  Speaker 2: ten five hundred for this one as well. If I
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  Speaker 2: ran last time, do I do I have to pay
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  Speaker 2: another ten to five to get in against them?
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  Speaker 3: I think so and forty dollars.
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  Speaker 2: That's it that this gets to be an expensive hobby
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  Speaker 2: if you keep losing. I'm looking at you, Mark Lynch.
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  Speaker 2: But wow, okay, so we've got who do we got?
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  Speaker 1: Now?
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  Speaker 2: We got Mark Lynch?
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  Speaker 3: We got Duke Buckner?
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  Speaker 2: Duke Buckner? How could I ever forget the name Duke Buckner?
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  Speaker 2: It is a very cool name. Ralph Norman, Yes, Ralph
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  Speaker 2: Norman and now Russell Fry. And we believe Darlene will
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  Speaker 2: declare once once you have the president's endorsement already in
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  Speaker 2: your back pocket, that seems like you're four gone conclusion,
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  Speaker 2: doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I mean, does she really? We don't
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  Speaker 3: know anything about her. We don't know that she has
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  Speaker 3: the political mindset to jump into this race. At this point.
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  Speaker 3: All we've heard is that she's expressed some interest and
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  Speaker 3: she's got the endorsement of the president. But she has
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  Speaker 3: not been a political person.
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  Speaker 2: To this point, I had mentioned earlier in the show
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  Speaker 2: that Darlene had not voted in the twenty was it
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  Speaker 2: twenty twenty excuse me, twenty twenty two, and twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: four primaries, which we thought would make her ineligible under
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  Speaker 2: the new state GOP rules where you have to vote
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  Speaker 2: in two of the last three primaries. However, she did
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  Speaker 2: vote in the twenty twenty four special election runoff. I
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  Speaker 2: made an offhanded comment, I'm surprised she didn't just get
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  Speaker 2: in and vote for her brother. Thank you to my
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  Speaker 2: friend gruff on X who pointed out Lindsey Graham was
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  Speaker 2: not in the primary in twenty twenty so.
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  Speaker 3: That's yeah, that would have been four years ago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's why she didn't vote in twenty twenty
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  Speaker 2: two or twenty twenty four because it wasn't affecting him.
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  Speaker 2: It was twenty twenty six, that was the next time
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  Speaker 2: he was on So she's apparently eligible to run, although
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  Speaker 2: she does not actively participate in GOP politics, apparently unless
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  Speaker 2: her brother was on the ballot.
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  Speaker 3: And the other question now is what happens to Russell
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  Speaker 3: Frye's House seat, because that's if he declares, will he
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  Speaker 3: run for both.
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  Speaker 2: I believe that is what's happening, because that's what the
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  Speaker 2: initial pushback against Russell Fry was. Exactly what you're saying.
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  Speaker 2: He'd make a great candidate. However, what happens to the
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  Speaker 2: House seat? Does he keep it if he loses? Well,
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  Speaker 2: he's still running for that, so it would seem that
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  Speaker 2: he's trying to hedge his bets. We haven't heard any
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  Speaker 2: updates from him saying I'm not running for the House seat.
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  Speaker 2: I'm all in on the Senate. He just said I'm
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  Speaker 2: all in on running for the Senate. Maybe we can
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  Speaker 2: interpret that as suddenly the Republicans need to get another
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  Speaker 2: primary candidate for that situation.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe, so.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not as concerned about the House seat there. I
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  Speaker 2: don't think that that's in any jet where he is
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  Speaker 2: more I would be more concerned. I am more concerned
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  Speaker 2: about what's happening in Charleston for District one than I
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  Speaker 2: would be for Russell frysee, because but they do say
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  Speaker 2: they keep telling me that District one is going to
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  Speaker 2: be very conservative. So I hope. So you people down
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  Speaker 2: there listening on ninety four three, it's your job to
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  Speaker 2: get out there and make sure that your friends and
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  Speaker 2: neighbors are all going to vote Republican. Whomever we do, well,
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go with what we already picked our nominee.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a drawn a blank on her name. By the way,
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  Speaker 2: if you're a friend of hers, let her know. We'd
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  Speaker 2: love to talk to her. We'll put her on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe not that we're helping her in the Midlands, but
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  Speaker 2: would certainly help her in the low Country. We'd love
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  Speaker 2: to talk to her. So there is so much happening
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  Speaker 2: in politics. My head's spinning this morning, Christopher. What a
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  Speaker 2: whirlwind we've just gone through.
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  Speaker 3: And that's just the candidates that we know about. As
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  Speaker 3: we get to the filing opening tomorrow, who else might
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  Speaker 3: jump in? Will and Mark Sandford jump in, Will and
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  Speaker 3: Andre Bauer jump in.
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  Speaker 2: From the time we started this show at six to
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  Speaker 2: the time we're ending it now, things are completely different.
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  Speaker 2: But we'll be back for more of the fun and
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  Speaker 2: frivolity tomorrow morning six to nine on South Carolina's Morning News.