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'Wildy unimpressed' Dem nominee in SC Senate primary reacts to GOP runoff · DEEP INSIGHT

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  Speaker 1: We want to bring in Democratic nominee, the woman who
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  Speaker 1: is set to face one of them, doctor Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Andrews, I appreciate your being with us here. What
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  Speaker 1: do you make of Senator Darlene Graham's appointment?
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  Speaker 2: Do you view this as nepotism? Does she have the
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  Speaker 2: experience to serve?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I don't think folks in South Carolina know
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  Speaker 3: if she has the experience to serve. And the results
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  Speaker 3: of last night were pretty much what me and my
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  Speaker 3: team expected, and frankly, for me, it doesn't really matter
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  Speaker 3: who ultimately emerges from this runoff that will take place
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  Speaker 3: on August twenty fifth, because these Republicans are offering just
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  Speaker 3: more of the same. I watched them all debate last week,
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  Speaker 3: and frankly, I was wildly unimpressed by their performance. So
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  Speaker 3: today I sent a letter to both of these runoff candidates,
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham and Ralph Norman, asking them to commit to
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  Speaker 3: a series of live televised debates because South Carolinians deserve
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  Speaker 3: to know where we stand. They deserve to hear us
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  Speaker 3: side by side, face to face, talking about our plans
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  Speaker 3: to low cost and to protect healthcare.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Andrews, so We've got Ralph Norman, We've got Darlene Graham,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of Democrats. Obviously, these are more extreme in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the candidates who are running in this primary.
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  Speaker 1: There one of them is going to move on right now,
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  Speaker 1: does that sort of help your chances to run against
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  Speaker 1: those who are further the right within their party. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: You know, both of these candidates really do represent how
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  Speaker 3: far the Republican Party has drifted to the extreme. So
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  Speaker 3: my strategy is to turn out Democrats win over independence
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  Speaker 3: and give these center right Republicans who feel like their
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  Speaker 3: party has left them behind permission to vote for a
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  Speaker 3: pediatrician rather than just another politician. This election cycle, this
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  Speaker 3: is a change election cycle. People are eager for outsiders
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  Speaker 3: who want to go up to Washington, d C. And
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  Speaker 3: solve problems. You know, I'm a pediatrician. I've taken care
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  Speaker 3: of sick and injured children in the children's hospital here
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  Speaker 3: in Charleston, South Carolina for fifteen years, and I want
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  Speaker 3: to bring that experience with me to Washington, DC.
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  Speaker 2: Let me ask you if I can for a second.
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  Speaker 1: I heard from Luke Brownan a little bit earlier in
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  Speaker 1: this new in this broadcast. He is now the congressional
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  Speaker 1: candidate for the Democrats in Connecticut here, and he was
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  Speaker 1: talking about how Democrats are looking to vote for something
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  Speaker 1: not just against Donald Trump. What is your elevator pitch
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  Speaker 1: and simple language? What do you say to those individuals
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  Speaker 1: who are considering your candidacy.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not a career politician, nor do I want to
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  Speaker 3: be a career politician. I'm a pediatrician and a public
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  Speaker 3: school mom, and I'm a public servant. I say what
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean what I say. I'm not afraid
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  Speaker 3: of a fight, and I will always tell you the
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  Speaker 3: truth every single vote. When I get to Washington, d C.
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  Speaker 3: Will be on the side that benefits America's children. And
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  Speaker 3: the good news about that is we know what's good
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  Speaker 3: for kids is good for families, and what's good for
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  Speaker 3: families is good for our communities, and what's good for
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  Speaker 3: our communities is good for our economies. So when we
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  Speaker 3: put kids first, we all win. My three priorities are
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  Speaker 3: fixing America's broken healthcare system, addressing our cost of living emergency,
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  Speaker 3: and rooting out the corruption that is act degrading American democracy.
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  Speaker 3: And if people in South Carolina are looking for something
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  Speaker 3: different in November, I would urge them to check out
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  Speaker 3: my campaign and they can read more at Doctoranie Andrews
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  Speaker 3: dot com. And we can elect the first ever pediatrician
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  Speaker 3: senator to the United States Senate. And I will go
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  Speaker 3: toe to toe with RFK Junior and push back against
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  Speaker 3: this disinformation that he is spreading from the Oval office.
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  Speaker 2: You make a point.
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  Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of Americans right now
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  Speaker 1: looking to embrace science as it relates to their decision
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  Speaker 1: making in terms of who's representing them in Washington. I
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  Speaker 1: do want to ask you, though about some of the
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  Speaker 1: daunting figures as it relates to your candidacy and Democrats
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  Speaker 1: in states like South Carolina, they're a Democrat hasn't held
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  Speaker 1: a Senate seat in what is it January of two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and five, the last time. In the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: race between Lindsey Graham and Jamie Harrison, Harrison raised what
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  Speaker 1: was a stunning figure I was covering part of that race,
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  Speaker 1: more than one hundred million dollars. He would end up
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  Speaker 1: losing by ten points. That was frustrating to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of Democrats who felt like perhaps that was a chance
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  Speaker 1: to knock off the longtime senator in the state. So
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  Speaker 1: what is the argument you made to those Democrats, not
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  Speaker 1: just in your state, who might be considering contributing to you,
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  Speaker 1: given the history and the track record, how difficult it
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  Speaker 1: is for a Democrat to pull off.
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  Speaker 2: A win in a place like South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: So twenty twenty six is a very different election cycle
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  Speaker 3: than when my friend Jamie Harrison ran in twenty twenty.
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump is not on the ballot to boost Republican turnout.
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  Speaker 3: We saw record breaking Democratic turnout in our June primary,
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  Speaker 3: and we can ride that momentum right on through November. Similarly,
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  Speaker 3: Jamie Harrison was running against a multi term incumbent. There
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  Speaker 3: is no incumbent in this race. The national political environment
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  Speaker 3: is favoring Democrats. We've seen double digit shifts to the
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  Speaker 3: left in elections all throughout the Southeast since November twenty
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  Speaker 3: twenty four. And I'm offering something different. I'm not a
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  Speaker 3: career politician. I'm a pediatrician and a mom who understands
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  Speaker 3: that politics is the path to most efficiently and effectively
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  Speaker 3: solve my patients problems and their families problem.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, politics, and it turns out pediatrics. I think, as
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  Speaker 1: everyone has said, you know, it's better to consult your
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  Speaker 1: pediatric you're pediatric doctor. You're a pediatrician instead of a politician.
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  Speaker 1: In Washington, perhaps will be one who can do both,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Annie Andrews, it's a pleasure to speak with you.
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  Speaker 2: I appreciate your making time here