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

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  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: So, were the pollsters wrong, Christopher Thompson?
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  Speaker 3: It was a pretty early.
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  Speaker 2: Evening with Darlene Graham winning. She got about 52.5% to
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  Speaker 2: Ralph's 47.5%.
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  Speaker 3: What do you think? Were they off? Well, obviously they were.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, we heard margin of error of three points
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  Speaker 4: or so, and She won by five. She won by five. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it was close.
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  Speaker 2: I would say that Donald Trump, obviously, this is Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump's campaign, right?
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  Speaker 3: Donald Trump said, vote like I'm on the ballot.
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  Speaker 2: He came and did one rally in person, did, I think,
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  Speaker 2: two tele-rallies. But the most important part of this, because
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  Speaker 2: the pollsters couldn't factor this in, was the $ 830, 000 spent on.
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  Speaker 3: Week by MAGA Inc.
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  Speaker 2: In order to get the text and calls out over Sunday, Monday,
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  Speaker 2: and yesterday. And I mean, again, she won by 5%,
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  Speaker 2: but she only won by like 18,000 votes. Does the $ 830, 000
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  Speaker 2: turn into 18,000 people coming to the polls?
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  Speaker 3: I think it does. Probably so.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, that was an extreme amount of money spent
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  Speaker 4: in the final days of this campaign.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And, but, but again, you have to tip the hat
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  Speaker 2: to the Graham campaign people. I mean, they did a
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  Speaker 2: phenomenal Darlene Graham was a legit, never heard of you
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  Speaker 2: until a few months ago, never even heard of you.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I knew she was in a couple of
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham commercials and she would have been known. I
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  Speaker 2: don't even think most people knew her name. They just
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  Speaker 2: knew it was Lindsey sister. They, they, they, they would
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  Speaker 2: have probably had more success had they run As Lindsey's sister.
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  Speaker 2: They could have just put that on the ballot. Lindsey's sister.
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  Speaker 2: But Darlene Graham has been turned into the nominee for
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  Speaker 2: the senator because of an incredible team that she has.
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  Speaker 2: The Graham campaign people, the Graham organization, whatever you want
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  Speaker 2: to call it, they did incredible work. And, you know,
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  Speaker 2: Ralph Norman ran a pretty solid campaign. I heard he
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  Speaker 2: was a little upset last night, said he doesn't understand
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  Speaker 2: why Trump had to get involved.
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  Speaker 3: Because Donald Trump wanted to get involved. That's why. Donald
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  Speaker 3: Trump does what Donald Trump wants to do. That's true.
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  Speaker 3: And he wanted Darlene Graham, and so he's got Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 2: I was wondering if we were going to be playing
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  Speaker 2: the Rolling Stones' You Can't Always Get What You Want,
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  Speaker 2: which is one of those songs that Trump plays sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: At his rallies, and I always wondered why. Why would
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  Speaker 3: you play that song? Of all the.
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  Speaker 2: Songs you could choose, that's a bizarre choice to me.
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  Speaker 2: He must just love the record. But Darlene Graham is
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  Speaker 2: the nominee, and you know what?
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  Speaker 6: Let me....
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  Speaker 2: Before, I won't play that just yet. We'll play that
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  Speaker 2: in a minute or so. The responses are coming in
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  Speaker 2: fast and furious. Democrats are excited. What I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: play for you in a minute is Annie Andrews last
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  Speaker 2: night as it was being declared. She heard it was
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  Speaker 2: declared for Darlene. What was her first response?
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  Speaker 3: It's a pretty good message. I'll be honest with you.
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  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews in real time, I mean, she was obviously
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  Speaker 2: prepped for this moment, but She delivered a great opening statement,
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  Speaker 2: I guess I'll call it, for her campaign into the center.
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  Speaker 2: And that's where they both are, right? Darlene and Annie
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  Speaker 2: both went as far to the left and to the
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  Speaker 2: right as they possibly could to win their primaries. And
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  Speaker 2: now they're going to come back to the center as
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  Speaker 2: much as possible, which I know for some of you people,
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  Speaker 2: the people who listen to our shows, Christopher, they're the
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  Speaker 2: people who are the hardest of the hardcore usually.
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  Speaker 6: True.
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  Speaker 3: That mostly to the political junkies.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Political junkies who lean hard, right. And they are right now.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of them are in a state of mourning.
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  Speaker 2: I feel like, I mean, I, I, I looking at
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  Speaker 2: my timeline this morning, just so many people feeling like
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  Speaker 2: it's the end of the world and blah, blah, blah. Listen,
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  Speaker 2: I'll remind you, most of you, most of you who
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  Speaker 2: are feeling that way, didn't like Lindsey Graham either. And
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  Speaker 2: Lindsey Graham was going to be the senator without question
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  Speaker 2: until he either passed or retired. He was never going
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  Speaker 2: to give up that seat as far as somebody going
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  Speaker 2: to take it from him. Darlene Graham, I imagine, will
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  Speaker 2: vote exactly like Lindsey would have. And so nothing has
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  Speaker 2: changed unless you do not support her. If you don't
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  Speaker 2: support her, then everything changes.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I've seen the reports, Kelly, that Annie Andrews is
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  Speaker 4: already spending half a million dollars next week to ramp
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  Speaker 4: up the campaign against Darlene Graham. So this is going
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  Speaker 4: to get heated in a hurry.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Jamie Harrison was the one who ran against Lindsay
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  Speaker 2: the last.
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  Speaker 3: Time, right? And spent hundreds of millions of dollars.
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  Speaker 8: Yes.
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  Speaker 2: At that time, it was for a very brief period.
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  Speaker 2: It was the most expensive Senate race in history. I
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  Speaker 2: think the Ted Cruz race surpassed it. But yeah, the
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  Speaker 2: Democrats have a real reason to believe that they have
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  Speaker 2: an opportunity here because Darlene Graham, I guess, technically is
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  Speaker 2: the incumbent, although she was appointed to that seat and
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  Speaker 2: she's only been in there for a couple of weeks
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  Speaker 2: and she's only got a couple of, what do we have,
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  Speaker 2: 70 days till the election now. So it's not actually
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  Speaker 2: going to have a lot of experience. And So they
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  Speaker 2: really believe that they can win this seat, and if
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  Speaker 2: they could, it would be the first Democrat elected to
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  Speaker 2: a Senate seat this century in South Carolina.
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  Speaker 3: Since 1998.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. I like to make it say this century because
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  Speaker 2: that sounds longer, doesn't it? It's like when I first
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  Speaker 2: started here in 2005, we have a guy— well, you guys
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  Speaker 2: hear Tumbleweed doing traffic locally. Tumbleweed— used to say in 2005,
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  Speaker 2: he'd be like, well, that was back in the 1900s.
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  Speaker 2: And again, it was only five years earlier. But now
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  Speaker 2: when you say back in the 1900s, that actually got
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  Speaker 2: some significance. It's 27 years later or whatever. Okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be back with the Annie Andrews opening statement and
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  Speaker 2: some other stuff. And maybe we'd love to hear your responses.
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  Speaker 2: How are you feeling this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Let us know.
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  Speaker 2: Use that talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. This is
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: Hi there, this is Kelly Nash, 6'13.
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  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson and I getting you started on the day
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  Speaker 2: after Darlene Graham's kind of surprising victory. Not that she won,
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  Speaker 2: but she won by 5%. We had been told going
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  Speaker 2: into it yesterday, we were like within tenths of a point,
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  Speaker 2: and most people thought it would be within three, but
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  Speaker 2: she pulled away with five. As the Race was being
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  Speaker 2: declared last night just after 9 o'clock. Annie Andrews was
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  Speaker 2: appearing on WIS television in Columbia. And as that news broke,
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  Speaker 2: this is what she had to say.
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  Speaker 9: So we've only had a few weeks to get to
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  Speaker 9: know Senator Graham. And most of what I have heard
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  Speaker 9: from her is about her being a rubber stamp to
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  Speaker 9: this administration, not offering the checks and balances that the U.S.
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  Speaker 9: Senate was designed to offer. No plans to solve our
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  Speaker 9: broken healthcare system, to reduce costs for healthcare across the state.
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  Speaker 9: No plans to expand access to affordable childcare. No plans
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  Speaker 9: to lower gas prices or to get out of this
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  Speaker 9: war with Iran. What we've heard from her is that
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  Speaker 9: she will be a rubber stamp for this administration. On
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  Speaker 9: the other hand, I am everything but a career politician.
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  Speaker 9: I'm a pediatrician and a mom of three public school
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  Speaker 9: kids who, when I see a problem, I want to
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  Speaker 9: roll up my sleeves and solve that problem, just like
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  Speaker 9: I've done every day taking care of sick and injured
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  Speaker 9: children at the hospital here in South Carolina. I want
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  Speaker 9: to get up to D.C., roll up my sleeves, work
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  Speaker 9: across the aisle with anyone who's willing to work with
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  Speaker 9: me to solve the problem South Carolinians are facing. We
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  Speaker 9: don't need a rubber stamp in this Senate seat, anyone
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  Speaker 9: who's allegiant to any president, or any political party. We
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  Speaker 9: need someone who wakes up and puts South Carolina first
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  Speaker 9: every single day.
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  Speaker 2: I think that message is going to play very well
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  Speaker 2: in the general election. If that's the message that they're
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  Speaker 2: going with, that's a very good message. Now, you and
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  Speaker 2: I and most conservatives can look at her problem-solving abilities
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  Speaker 2: and say they make things worse. Her answer to the
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  Speaker 2: affordability issues is to make it worse. Her answer to
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  Speaker 2: the health care issue When she says we have a
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  Speaker 2: broken health care system, why do we have a broken
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  Speaker 2: health care system? Because of Democrat solutions. The Democrats are
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  Speaker 2: the one who broke it. And so she wants to
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  Speaker 2: give you more of that. So, of course, you and
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  Speaker 2: I are going to say, well, she's ridiculous. But for
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  Speaker 2: most people, again, how many people voted yesterday?
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  Speaker 3: Three hundred and fifty thousand or so.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't it was not a ton of
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  Speaker 2: folks that that are potential voters, although we did have
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  Speaker 2: more people, Christopher, yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: Than we had two weeks ago. That's pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 4: And that shows you how powerful the get out the
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  Speaker 4: vote effort was, especially on behalf of Darlene Graham. I mean,
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  Speaker 4: you saw she won big in some key counties and
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  Speaker 4: really Ralph Norman, the upstate was his main base, but
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  Speaker 4: Graham went all over the state.
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  Speaker 2: If you wanted to be cynical, and some people are,
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  Speaker 2: they would say that that was the Annie Andrews people
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  Speaker 2: coming out to support Darlene Graham as well.
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  Speaker 3: Who knows? We'll never know who it was.
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  Speaker 2: We won't know who those extra 18,000 people that got
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  Speaker 2: involved that gave the race to Darlene Graham. But they
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  Speaker 2: were there and they voted and that's all that matters.
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  Speaker 2: So for most South Carolinians, they don't pay much attention
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  Speaker 2: to politics. Just honestly, they don't. And this idea of
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  Speaker 2: a fresh-faced, young doctor who wants to put South Carolina
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  Speaker 2: first and wants to work across the aisle to solve
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  Speaker 2: problems is going to sound very appealing.
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  Speaker 3: Sure.
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  Speaker 2: And there's going to be the knock. on Darlene of, well,
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  Speaker 2: she's just inheriting her brother's seat. This is a forever seat.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we don't want, so this is going
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  Speaker 2: to be an uphill battle. And even though there's more
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  Speaker 2: Republicans in this state, Trump won this state by 18 points, uh,
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  Speaker 2: what the Andrews people are pointing to is that Donald
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  Speaker 2: Trump's approval ratings nationwide are at an all time low
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  Speaker 2: this month. This is the lowest he's ever been at
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  Speaker 2: like 32% nationwide. So what does his support mean at
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  Speaker 2: this point in South Carolina?
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  Speaker 3: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: He, he got Darlene Graham across the finish line. Didn't
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  Speaker 2: get Pamela Evett across the finish line. Didn't get redistricting
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  Speaker 2: across the finish line. So I don't know what his,
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  Speaker 2: impact is on the state.
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  Speaker 4: But you got the feeling that Annie Andrews got the candidate,
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  Speaker 4: got the opponent that she wanted. I mean, she's been
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  Speaker 4: talking about Darlene Graham for the last couple of weeks,
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  Speaker 4: hasn't really mentioned Ralph Norman other than to say that
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  Speaker 4: neither candidate, neither Graham nor Norman were the right fit
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  Speaker 4: for South Carolina. But you got the feeling Andrews wanted
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  Speaker 4: Darlene Graham as her opponent.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know, be careful what you ask for. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: that's the other thing.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I'm reading a post here from some Democrats
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  Speaker 2: and they're very excited about that right now, Dr. Andrews'
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  Speaker 2: financial advantage, she got an advantage financially right now. Apparently,
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  Speaker 2: cash on hand, she has $ 4. 1 million, giving her a
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  Speaker 2: substantial resources and advantages over Darlene Graham as they head
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  Speaker 2: into the general election. And she also opposes corporate PAC money. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you better not because if you think you're going to
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  Speaker 2: win this race on $ 4 million or $ 14 million, you
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  Speaker 2: better put another one in front of that. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to need $ 114 million and you're not going to fundraise
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  Speaker 2: that here in South Carolina. It's going to be all
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  Speaker 2: outside cash. And so if you, you don't want the
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  Speaker 2: corporate PAC money, That's what you're going to need to
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  Speaker 2: win this race. You better get a lot of it.
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  Speaker 8: It doesn't happen often, but today I am ashamed to
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  Speaker 8: be a South Carolinian. We are just a state of
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  Speaker 8: moronic parents. who do exactly as they're told and don't
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  Speaker 8: think for themselves. What's the point of having a legislative
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  Speaker 8: branch if they're just going to kowtow to the whims
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  Speaker 8: of the executive branch? Just do away with Congress altogether
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  Speaker 8: if the president has total power.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously very upset about the results of the election.
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  Speaker 2: And I totally understand. I mean, I'll be completely transparent
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  Speaker 2: with you. I voted for Ralph Norman yesterday.
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  Speaker 3: I think... Most of my friends voted for Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 2: I think most of us are what I would– in
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  Speaker 2: my friend group, we would consider ourselves conservatives. And we
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  Speaker 2: didn't see Darlene as the conservative in this race. That
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  Speaker 2: being said– Proven conservative. Well, I don't even– either or.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just put it that way.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I would say in my estimation of who
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  Speaker 2: she is, she's probably– far more moderate than I am.
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  Speaker 3: Um, and, and that's okay. There's room.
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  Speaker 2: Look, when, when the Democrats talk about a big tent,
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  Speaker 2: they're talking about people who want to literally get rid
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  Speaker 2: of the constitution. Like not like figuratively, like, no, we,
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  Speaker 2: we don't want a Supreme court. We don't want a president.
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  Speaker 2: We don't want a Senate. We don't want borders. We
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  Speaker 2: want to redo the whole country. That's in their party. That's,
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  Speaker 2: that's their big tent. Our big tent is, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how much, How much, you know, are you willing to
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  Speaker 2: tolerate debt spending? How much are you willing to tolerate?
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  Speaker 2: Our big tent is a lot more kind of in
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  Speaker 2: the group. I don't want to say group think, but
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  Speaker 2: we kind of all see the issues similar and we
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  Speaker 2: just have different solutions or how much tolerance we have
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  Speaker 2: for each one of these types of things. And again,
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  Speaker 2: I think today is going to be a tough day
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  Speaker 2: for a lot of South Carolinians. You know, the hundred
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  Speaker 2: and how many people voted for Ralph was like one
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  Speaker 2: hundred and seventy five thousand.
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  Speaker 3: Went out and voted for him.
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  Speaker 6: Yes.
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  Speaker 3: And then she had like 193,000.
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  Speaker 2: So it was an 18,000 separation there. But for the 175,000
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  Speaker 2: who voted for Ralph, you're probably in a very morose
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  Speaker 2: type of mood. This man sounds like he's disillusioned by
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  Speaker 2: the state.
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  Speaker 3: And so on and so forth.
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  Speaker 2: And didn't like Trump's involvement. And didn't like Trump's involvement.
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  Speaker 2: And yes, Annie Andrews is going to label Darlene as
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  Speaker 2: a rubber stamp for Trump, and that will turn off
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  Speaker 2: a lot of conservatives. Trump has never been a conservative.
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  Speaker 2: Trump has always been a populist. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things about Donald Trump that I didn't like in 2016,
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  Speaker 2: but I voted for him because I looked at him
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  Speaker 2: as a wrecking ball. I wanted him to come in
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  Speaker 2: and just blow up the whole thing. And then once
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  Speaker 2: we get it leveled out, we can kind of rebuild it.
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  Speaker 2: That's how I looked at Trump. It hasn't gone exactly
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  Speaker 2: as I had hoped. I knew he couldn't destroy the
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  Speaker 2: whole process. He couldn't blow up the whole machine. But
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  Speaker 2: all things considered, I'm pretty happy with Donald Trump's results.
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  Speaker 2: All things considered. And the swamp has been certainly against him.
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  Speaker 2: And if the president wants what he is considering a
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  Speaker 2: really solid ally in his corner, he should– think about
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  Speaker 2: who's been against him.
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  Speaker 3: John Thune's against him. John Thune hates Donald Trump. Mitch McConnell.
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  Speaker 2: Mitch McConnell hates Donald Trump. Think about what he came into.
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  Speaker 2: You had– what's his name? The guy from– I used
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  Speaker 2: to call him Eddie Munster.
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  Speaker 3: I can't remember his name right now.
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  Speaker 1: Paul Ryan.
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  Speaker 3: Paul Ryan hated Donald Trump.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all of these people that were the Republican
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  Speaker 2: establishment hated Donald Trump and did whatever they could to
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  Speaker 2: obstruct him. And so for years he's been dealing with this.
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  Speaker 2: And so if he gets a couple of rubber stamps,
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  Speaker 2: so to speak, It doesn't mean he's going to get
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  Speaker 2: his way. He's certainly not getting it. He doesn't get
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  Speaker 2: his way. We joke about how he's the worst king ever.
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  Speaker 2: If he was a king, none of this stuff would
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  Speaker 2: be happening. He can't even build a ballroom. The ballroom
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  Speaker 2: is being held up. Nothing is going his way right now.
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  Speaker 2: It didn't go the way I wanted it to go yesterday.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe today's just a day for you to just
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  Speaker 2: let your frustrations out if you're one of those people
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  Speaker 2: in the Ralph Norman camp. But we do have to
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  Speaker 2: get past that. And we only got 70 days till
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  Speaker 2: we're ready for the general election. So we got to
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  Speaker 2: move on. But it is now.
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  Speaker 3: I'm speaking. I'm moving on. Goodness gracious. It's 630, Christopher.
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  Speaker 10: From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's
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  Speaker 10: Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: 635. You know, we're talking about Dr. Annie Andrews. She's
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  Speaker 3: got a.
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  Speaker 2: legitimate shot to be the next senator from south carolina
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  Speaker 2: as a democrat first one to be elected this century
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  Speaker 2: this century the year 2000s we've not had a democrat
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  Speaker 2: representing us in the senate now she's going to be
• 17:17
  Speaker 2: tacking to the center as much as possible but let's
• 17:20
  Speaker 2: not forget who she really is and i know for
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: for a lot of republicans abortion is a big issue
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: And this is an interview. I'm just going to play
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: a little snippet of this. This is from WJCL out
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: of Savannah.
• 17:34
  Speaker 3: This was Dr. Annie Andrews a couple of years ago.
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: Talking with them as she was going up against Nancy
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: Mace at the time, and this is her thoughts.
• 17:43
  Speaker 9: I have talked to so many Republican women who are
• 17:46
  Speaker 9: supporting me this cycle because this is unprecedented. The Supreme
• 17:50
  Speaker 9: Court took away rights that we've had for 50 years.
• 17:53
  Speaker 4: She was a harsh critic of her opponent supporting a
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: total abortion ban, highlighting instead her pro-choice stance.
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: I am a physician, and I know that abortion is
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: health care.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: She knows that abortion is health care, and... By the way,
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: that would mean that as a physician who understands that
• 18:10
  Speaker 2: abortion is health care, she would be part of that
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: movement in the Democrat Party to pass a national pro-choice movement,
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: meaning the states would then be overridden by federal law.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: Right now, what all they did with Roe v. Wade,
• 18:26
  Speaker 2: the Supreme Court didn't take away any rights. What they
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: said was we made a mistake. It was never supposed
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: to be a federal issue. It was always supposed to
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: be a state issue.
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Dr.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: Andrews doesn't believe that. Now, she may say she does.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: She may say South Carolina has the right, but she doesn't.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: So she'll be either lying or she'll be telling you
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: the truth that she wants a national law passed so
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: that Roe v. Wade can basically be reinstalled and then
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: probably more in the line of Massachusetts where you can
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: get abortion right on up to the day of delivery.
• 18:57
  Speaker 4: Well, that is against what most South Carolinians feel, even
• 19:01
  Speaker 4: though We see more polls saying South Carolinians are leaning
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: more toward choice. I don't think anyone wants that Massachusetts
• 19:09
  Speaker 4: law to come to fruition nationally.
• 19:12
  Speaker 3: How could you deny someone health care, though? Yeah, it's
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: health care. That's what that's what they would say.
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: By the way, I am a member of a group
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: called Citizens for Life, South Carolina Citizens for Life. If
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: you go to their website, you can see. And by
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: the way, I was talking to one of their directors
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: the other day. She one of her final conversations was
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: a couple of months ago with Lindsey Graham. And he
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: had been a very strong supporter of Citizens for Life.
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: I mean, every year that I've been there, he's been there.
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: And I've always introduced Lindsey Graham, and it's been a
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: long relationship. And she thinks that maybe the Holy Spirit
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: was moving that day because she wasn't even supposed to
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: be invited to that event. And then she ended up
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: being asked to introduce somebody else and said, well, can
• 19:52
  Speaker 2: I say some nice words about my senator before I
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: introduced that person?
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: And they said, sure.
• 19:56
  Speaker 2: So Lindsay was in the audience and she just felt
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: the need to point out, Lindsay, since you started working
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: with us, we can actually track, and I'm looking at
• 20:05
  Speaker 2: their website right now, they started this movement in 1988,
• 20:08
  Speaker 2: I believe it is. 245,503 more babies were saved. They
• 20:16
  Speaker 2: were not aborted because of the efforts of Citizens for Life.
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: 245,503.
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: And Lindsey Graham was a big part of helping to
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: save those lives. So again, Dr. Annie would have those
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: taken off the map. She doesn't want them here because
• 20:31
  Speaker 2: she needs more health care. That's going to be a
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: big a big bone of contention, I think, in the
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: general election. All right, it's 6.38 on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 20:40
  Speaker 10: This is South Carolina's Morning News on 103.5 FM and
• 20:44
  Speaker 10: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
• 20:51
  Speaker 5: Darlene Nordhain needs to up her debating game. She needs
• 20:55
  Speaker 5: to stop invoking Trump at every turn. Annie Andrews is
• 21:00
  Speaker 5: quite capable of dancing rings around Nordhain in any debate.
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: She may not win the election, but she can make
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: Nordane look foolish.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for your talk back.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: And anybody who wants to use the talk back feature,
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: we appreciate that on the iHeartRadio app. Press that microphone.
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: Her name is Darlene Graham, so we have to make
• 21:21
  Speaker 2: that correction. Even if you're using her full name, it's Nordone,
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: not Nordane.
• 21:27
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: Did she, I think we had seen that back in the,
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: early 2020s that when you know signing things at the
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: commission for the blind she was signing it darling graham
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: yes so i guess that's always been her professional name
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: uh i don't know if in her you know life
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: if she's ever used nordone it's not really my business
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: i just know that professionally she goes by darling graham
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: it's kind of like uh you know you know dolly
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: parton we're going to be talking with sean hannity in
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: his morning minute talking about dolly parton Her legal last
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: name was not Parton. She just continued to use that
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: after she got married, even though she took Carl Dean
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: was the last name. That was her legal last name.
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: But she would sign things Dolly Parton and or Dolly
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Parton Dean. Darlene Graham is going by Darlene Graham. So
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: we'll say that.
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: And you're right.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Somebody right now, there are some wordsmiths right now crafting
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: a message. How is national security your thing? You've got
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: to make it your thing because when you get into
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: a debate, that's going to be thrown in your face.
• 22:31
  Speaker 2: Those ads are going to be running nonstop. National security
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: is not my thing. Well, it better become yours quickly.
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: By the way, just looking at the– you know what?
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: We'll take a quick break, I think, and then I
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: will come back. And surprising when– if you look at
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: the districts broken up by the congresspeople, so– Timmons, Norman, Biggs, Wilson, Mace, Clyburn, Frye.
• 22:58
  Speaker 2: Who got the most votes for Darlene? Who got the
• 23:01
  Speaker 2: most votes for Ralph? I'm a little bit surprised at
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: some of these. We will talk about that and more.
• 23:07
  Speaker 10: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 23:13
  Speaker 3: So, this show.
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: The one that Christopher Thompson and I, Kelly Nash, host
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: is basically heard in the Joe Wilson, Nancy Mace, James
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Clyburn districts.
• 23:26
  Speaker 3: And let's see. All of them? Yes, all of them
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: went for Graham.
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: Now, the one that got the most votes for Graham
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: would be the Joe Wilson district.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Got 28,500 votes for her.
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: The Nancy Mace district got 27,000 even. And in Clyburn's district, 16,100.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: The number one district by far was Russell Fry's. Russell
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: Fry got, I guess, the combo of his endorsement and
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Donald Trump doing an appearance there. 41,500 votes came into
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: Russell Fry's district.
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: Pretty incredible. That's huge. And Norman was.
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: counting on the upstate to be big, but he also
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: had to make some inroads in some of those Midlands
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: and coastal counties, and he was just unable to do it. Kelly,
• 24:19
  Speaker 4: I'll point out, you were talking about Joe Wilson's district,
• 24:22
  Speaker 4: Lexington County, which the county GOP endorsed Ralph Norman over
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: hometown resident Darlene Graham. Lexington County went 60-40 in favor
• 24:33
  Speaker 4: of Graham.
• 24:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: I guess if you're looking for something, I don't know,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: something to savor, just something that makes it a little
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: bit sweet, even though you tasted defeat for most of
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: you people who listen to this show.
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: William Timmons, who appeared on this show, what was it?
• 24:52
  Speaker 3: Did we have him on Monday?
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: Yes.
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: Representative Timmons, who is a Graham supporter, obviously. He was
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: a surrogate for the campaign.
• 25:00
  Speaker 3: In his district.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: And he said, I couldn't believe he said he would
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: not vote for Ralph in a general election.
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: He took a shot at Norman again last night after
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: the election was called.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: Well, his district.
• 25:13
  Speaker 2: Absolutely overwhelmingly went for Norman.
• 25:17
  Speaker 3: That was the biggest one.
• 25:18
  Speaker 2: Ralph won that district by 32 points and 49,000 votes
• 25:23
  Speaker 2: for Norman as opposed to 25,000 for Graham. So there's
• 25:26
  Speaker 2: a little something that you can take some pride in.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: I guess that Representative Timmons, this is his final run.
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: He got destroyed in his home district with his endorsement.
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: All right, we'll be back with more just after the
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: top of the hour on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:39
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 25:43
  Speaker 3: Hi there. It is 7.03.
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: This is Kelly Nash, Christopher Thompson here. And typically, we
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: would just talk straight politics and news of the day.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: I guess news of the day is part of.
• 25:55
  Speaker 3: What we do here.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: And how, you know, Sean Hannity brings up a good point.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: How do you have a day?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: This is the first day any of us have been
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: alive that Dolly Parton wasn't alive. Dolly Parton was such
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: a huge impact on not just music, film, culture in general,
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: and a force for good. You know, politically, I probably
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: wouldn't have aligned with Dolly closely, although she wasn't very
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: outspoken politically.
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: It's like, you wouldn't know if she was a Republican
• 26:31
  Speaker 3: or a Democrat.
• 26:32
  Speaker 6: No.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: You just knew that she was a big supporter of
• 26:34
  Speaker 3: LGBTQ rights.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: And she was like one of the first celebrities to
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: call for gay marriage and those types of things. So
• 26:40
  Speaker 2: that kind of lets you know, okay, she leans left.
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: She leans left, but she gets along great with everybody
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: on the right, it seems. And just a lovely person
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: who made it like her life's mission because, as she
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: often said, her father, by her estimation, was the smartest
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: man she ever knew. But he was held back because
• 27:04
  Speaker 2: he was illiterate. So she wanted to help everybody learn
• 27:07
  Speaker 2: how to read. And what a great goal.
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: She gave so much in so many different ways. But yeah,
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: her imagination libraries took off. I didn't realize she had
• 27:18
  Speaker 4: roots in South Carolina.
• 27:20
  Speaker 3: How so?
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: Her mother was apparently born in Lockhart. Oh, and she
• 27:24
  Speaker 4: actually came and I think she dedicated a hospital. And
• 27:27
  Speaker 4: gave money to a hospital there not too terribly long ago.
• 27:30
  Speaker 3: You know what? You're right.
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: I remember we talked about that on the other show
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: that I do. That's amazing.
• 27:35
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 27:37
  Speaker 2: She's, you know, if you look at just about any
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: local television network right now, because that's one of the
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: goals of all television.
• 27:45
  Speaker 3: Stations. How can we tie ourselves into the national story?
• 27:48
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: So there's, you know, if you're looking in the low country,
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: they're talking about how her last concert there was, I think, 2016,
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: but how the Imagination Library continues to, by the way,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: I think they've said just in South Carolina, 700,000 free
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: books have been sent out to children in South Carolina
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: by Dolly Parton's crew. This is fantastic what she's been doing.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: And it wasn't just for the the literacy campaigns, she
• 28:15
  Speaker 2: was a contributor to all kinds of campaigns, but literacy
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: was her number one issue, it seemed.
• 28:20
  Speaker 3: And so, you know, this is a great role model.
• 28:23
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I like the fact that when you drive around, you
• 28:26
  Speaker 2: see those billboards every now and again, they say, you know,
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: spread kindness, something like that. And Dolly Parton is often
• 28:32
  Speaker 2: featured in those because she is such, she was such
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: a voice for being kind, understanding that, people, human beings.
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: It's tough to be a human being. There's a lot
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: of problems in the world.
• 28:47
  Speaker 2: And, you know, if you're a Christian, you believe that
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: because you live in a sin-filled world.
• 28:52
  Speaker 3: You're in a sin-filled body. So, of course, sinners are
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: going to sin.
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: That's going to bring a lot of pain and problems
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: and troubles and addictions and lying and all kinds of
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: things are going to happen in your life where you're
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: going to be disappointed. So, You don't know what the
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: other person's going through, whoever you're dealing with that day.
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: And so give them some grace. Give them a little
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: bit of leeway. If they're going to fly off the
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: handle a little bit, like I guess we're going to
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: be playing some talkbacks here coming up a little bit, Christopher,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: where people are not so happy with us today.
• 29:22
  Speaker 3: It's true. Okay, that's fine.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: I'm going to give you the grace to go ahead
• 29:26
  Speaker 2: and pop off at us. If you want to pop
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: off at Christopher Thompson, not me as much. Go with
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Christopher Thompson.
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: Make me the target. Thanks, Kelly.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: But no, we'll take that. We understand that right now
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: a lot of you are in a bad mood. A
• 29:40
  Speaker 2: lot of you are in a celebratory mood. I would
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: say probably 30% to 40% of our audience is probably
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham supporters.
• 29:46
  Speaker 3: So they're probably in a good mood today.
• 29:47
  Speaker 2: 60% to 70% of you are not in a good
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: mood today.
• 29:51
  Speaker 3: That's understandable.
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: And if you want to take it out on us
• 29:54
  Speaker 2: or you just want to air your frustrations... That's part
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: of the reason that the Talkback feature is here, and
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: today is a great day to do it.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Get that off your chest today.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Because, like I said, 70 days from now, we're going
• 30:05
  Speaker 2: to be in a general election. So we need to
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: get that off. Don't deny your feelings. Your feelings are legit.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: And then once you get it off your chest, it's
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: kind of like when a team– Christopher, how many times
• 30:17
  Speaker 2: have you heard a coach– you've been following sports your
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: whole life. They'll say, we'll take today off, and we'll
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: just kind of say, okay, we lost.
• 30:24
  Speaker 3: The 24-hour rule.
• 30:26
  Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah.
• 30:26
  Speaker 4: You can either celebrate or you can mourn a loss
• 30:29
  Speaker 4: for 24 hours and then it's on to the next opponent.
• 30:32
  Speaker 3: That's right. We got to put it behind us and
• 30:33
  Speaker 3: move on or put it, put it behind you.
• 30:36
  Speaker 2: If you're a Darlene Graham, Hey, that was a great night.
• 30:38
  Speaker 11: Yep.
• 30:39
  Speaker 2: But guess what? There's a big mountain to climb. You
• 30:41
  Speaker 2: got to get going back to work here pretty soon.
• 30:43
  Speaker 2: So we're all doing that. We're all mourning Dolly Parton.
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: What a great talent. What a great life. What a
• 30:48
  Speaker 2: great role model for all of us. I think in
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: many ways. So if you have thoughts on Dolly Parton,
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: share those as well on the Talkback feature. It is 7.08
• 30:56
  Speaker 2: on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
• 31:01
  Speaker 3: Hi there. This is Kelly Nash.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: I see that Donald Trump got his way in Oklahoma
• 31:07
  Speaker 2: yesterday as well.
• 31:09
  Speaker 3: A guy named Mike Mazai, I think is how you
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: say his last name.
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: He has made it through on the special primary against
• 31:16
  Speaker 2: a guy named Gettner Drummond.
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: And boy, oh boy, that was a very close race.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: 50.3 to 49.7. That is kind of what we were
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: expecting here. Drummond, I guess, had given money to Joe
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Biden's campaign, and that kind of was what brought on
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: the Trump ire. And so with that support, Mazzy was
• 31:43
  Speaker 2: able to pull through in Oklahoma yesterday. But also here
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: in South Carolina, we'd been expecting a much closer race
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: than what we actually got. Got a five-point win for
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham last night. And we were talking about, you know,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: some of you are not happy with us. Some of
• 31:56
  Speaker 2: you are not happy with Ralph. Some of you are
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: not happy with whatever. You're not happy with Trump. A
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: lot of feelings are out there today. And today's the
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: day to get it off your chest. And Christopher, I'm
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: told that we have Kim from North Charleston who's not happy.
• 32:12
  Speaker 12: No wonder the Republican Party can't get it together. You
• 32:15
  Speaker 12: guys bash every Republican other than the ones you want.
• 32:19
  Speaker 12: She might not know foreign policy very well. It doesn't
• 32:23
  Speaker 12: mean she can't learn it. I just don't like the
• 32:26
  Speaker 12: way every Republican bashes all the other Republicans. It's just terrible,
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: and you guys are doing it on radio. We need
• 32:34
  Speaker 12: to come together as a party.
• 32:36
  Speaker 3: Well, there you go. Thank you, Kim. Um, I, I
• 32:39
  Speaker 3: agree with her message. You do need to come together.
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: I thought I'd been saying that perhaps not clearly enough
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: that we need to come together as a party and
• 32:46
  Speaker 2: support whoever wins this nomination because whatever's on the other
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: side of the aisle is far more dangerous than anything
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: you might imagine. Whatever you thought Ralph Norman might've been,
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: or whatever you thought that Darlene Graham might be, it's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: nowhere near as horrific as what a Democrat would be.
• 33:03
  Speaker 4: Kelly, it Tim's comments came in, or talkback came in,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: after what you said about William Timmons. That might have
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: been what she was referring to. But, I mean, you
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: were simply pointing out that Timmons didn't carry the water
• 33:16
  Speaker 4: for Darlene Graham. She went a lot of counties and
• 33:18
  Speaker 4: won big in a lot of places, but his endorsement
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: didn't seem to mean nearly as much as Russell Fry's.
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: For example.
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and Russell, we were mentioning in the, I guess
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: it was before the top of the hour we were
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: talking about that, that Russell Fry, his district was by
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: far the number one district for darling Graham.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I mean, it wasn't even close.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: He brought in, I say, he obviously Trump did a
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: rally in the, in that district, uh, 41,500 votes. She
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: won 70% of the vote there. Um, it was, I mean,
• 33:50
  Speaker 2: nobody came now, Norman in Timmons district, by the way,
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: the biggest vote getter in any district was Ralph Norman
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: in Timmons district. Ralph got 49,200 votes. So he won
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: that district 66 to 34 percent.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: But that's Norman's home area, too. Yes.
• 34:10
  Speaker 2: But Timmons very actively and vocally putting down Ralph the
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: whole time. I mean, if you want to talk about
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: bashing Republicans, I mean, I think Timmons is the band
• 34:21
  Speaker 2: leader of bashing Republicans and making up things about about Ralph,
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: you know, things that weren't true, that were demonstrably false.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: He would just plainly state those things about him taking
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: the COVID money and all that sort of stuff. Demonstrably
• 34:35
  Speaker 2: not true. Not even associated with the business at the
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: time when that COVID loans came in, nor was there
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: anything on, you know, there was nothing illegally done yet.
• 34:45
  Speaker 2: He made it seem as if Ralph Norman was engaging
• 34:48
  Speaker 2: in some sort of illegal activity to try to sully
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: his reputation. Now, is all of this standard fair for
• 34:55
  Speaker 2: a primary?
• 34:56
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Every primary is ugly. And when you have a special
• 35:00
  Speaker 2: runoff primary, it's especially ugly. I was reading yesterday about, oh,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: why am I drawing a blank? I get up too early.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: That's the problem. I get up too early. What was
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: the young man's name? He unfortunately passed so early.
• 35:15
  Speaker 3: He's from Columbia.
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: He's buried literally right down the street here, who helped
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: Reagan get elected. He was just so big in They
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: called him like the king of the dirty tricks.
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: Lee Atwater. Lee Atwater. Lee Atwater.
• 35:28
  Speaker 2: Now, Lee Atwater, if you think any of this is unseemly,
• 35:34
  Speaker 2: you should see what he did to the primary opponents.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Never mind what he did to the Democrats. But, I mean,
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: that's just the nature of the beast. And so it's
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: not the perfect— it' s kind of like capitalism. People say, well,
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: it's not perfect. No, it's not perfect. And there's a
• 35:48
  Speaker 2: lot of ugliness in capitalism. But it's the best thing
• 35:50
  Speaker 2: we've got. So— this form of democracy that we currently
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: have in the United States, it's not perfect.
• 35:56
  Speaker 3: It leads to a lot of hurt feelings. It leads
• 35:58
  Speaker 3: to people sometimes feeling disenfranchised. It feels, whatever. But it's
• 36:02
  Speaker 3: the best thing we got. It's a lot better than.
• 36:04
  Speaker 2: Just letting your overlords decide what's best for you.
• 36:08
  Speaker 4: And Kelly, we saw a lot of talk on social
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: media from political operatives last night. How many people did
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: you say or did you see say that Russell Frye
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: was a big winner last night because he carried so
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: much water for Darlene Graham in that win.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: Well, I mean, Russell Frye, if he's trying to be
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: MAGA associated, you couldn't be any more MAGA associated than
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: he is right now. I mean, because remember back in
• 36:34
  Speaker 2: the primary, Russell Frye was the most aggressive attacker of
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham. I think out of all of them, Ralph
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: Norman didn't attack her anywhere near as much as Russell
• 36:42
  Speaker 2: Frye did. And so Russell Frye to flip as soon
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: as he was eliminated from the contest to almost within
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: 24 hours, giving his support to Darlene Graham, that puts
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: him back in good graces with quote unquote MAGA, whatever
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: MAGA is, there is no official MAGA, but you know,
• 37:00
  Speaker 2: do you know, well, there is there it's called MAGA Inc.
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: And they're the ones who spent $ 830, 000 to help Darlene Graham. But, uh,
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: you know, I, again, if you're a, if you're just
• 37:08
  Speaker 2: a huge supporter of the, of Trump, you appreciate Fry's support.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: You were probably angry when he got into the race
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: because again, Donald Trump's endorsement of Darlene Graham was meant
• 37:19
  Speaker 2: to keep Russell Fry out. He came in because he
• 37:22
  Speaker 2: knew that Fry wanted this seat. And he put that
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: endorsement in real early for Darlene Graham. And Russell Fry said,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: South Carolina is too important. I'm fighting for it. And
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: he put his hat into the ring. Didn't go the
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: way he wanted. But then he got back on the
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: bandwagon with Trump. And it paid off big dividends last night. 41,500
• 37:41
  Speaker 2: votes come in for Darlene Graham and Russell Fry's district.
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: So it was a competitive race, and it was an
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: interesting race. And again, if you have emotions and you
• 37:50
  Speaker 2: want to get them out, we're here for it. Go
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: ahead and use the TalkBack feature. We're going to do
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: that today. Tomorrow, we're not going to do that. Tomorrow,
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: we're going to be moving on.
• 37:58
  Speaker 3: But today, if.
• 37:58
  Speaker 2: You've got bad feelings, hurt feelings, you're ecstatic feelings, you're
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: a Darlene Graham supporter, let's celebrate with it. Do all
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: of that and more on the TalkBack feature at 720.
• 38:08
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• 38:12
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• 38:23
  Speaker 2: This is Kelly Nash, and I know a lot of
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: us feel divided right now on the Republican side, and
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: maybe you feel divided as Americans or whatever. Listen, I
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: want you to also know that the Democrats have huge problems.
• 38:36
  Speaker 3: This is Hakeem Jeffries. He filmed a video yesterday.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: I'm not going to play all of it, but he's
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: standing there in front of the projects in Brooklyn and
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: he's wearing his flat brimmed green Yankees hat trying to
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: get himself some street cred. And he's the guy is
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: getting killed right now online. He's absolutely being slaughtered online
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: by Democrats. And the number one complaint right now is
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: he took a meeting with Jared Kushner.
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: And this is this is him talking about it. He
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: asked for a meeting. And I took it.
• 39:09
  Speaker 13: To discuss the affordability crisis that exists that is not
• 39:12
  Speaker 13: a hoax. At the same period of time, I shouldn't
• 39:16
  Speaker 13: have to say it, but I am. No one is
• 39:19
  Speaker 13: going to get a pass. We're going to hold every
• 39:25
  Speaker 13: single member of the Trump cartel accountable.
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: So there you go.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: The Democrats are going to hold the Trump cartel accountable,
• 39:34
  Speaker 2: including family members. So how serious? What does that look like?
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: What does that actually mean? Nobody knows. But right now
• 39:44
  Speaker 2: on that video, 12,000 comments said, And when I say ratioed,
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: if you don't know what ratioed means, ratioed means that
• 39:53
  Speaker 2: there's more people against you than for you on your post.
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: It's probably about 10,000 negative comments.
• 39:59
  Speaker 3: He's backtracking.
• 40:00
  Speaker 4: There were reports that the Trump administration wanted to reach out,
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: knowing that the House is in jeopardy in this upcoming election.
• 40:08
  Speaker 4: And so they wanted to reach out and try to
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: establish some kind of a relationship if Democrats wind up
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: winning the House or Senate or both in the midterms.
• 40:17
  Speaker 3: And I guess....
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: Jeffries just got absolutely hammered by his own side after
• 40:23
  Speaker 4: he took that meeting.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: Yeah, they don't want peace. They're not looking for bipartisanship
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: on the left. So like when you hear Annie Andrews
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: coming up and she'll say, you know, I'm looking to
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: reach across the aisle. You better not be. That's not
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: what the Democrats want. And by the way, I don't
• 40:39
  Speaker 2: think Hakeem Jeffries, if they were to win the House,
• 40:42
  Speaker 2: I don't think that's your speaker.
• 40:43
  Speaker 11: No.
• 40:44
  Speaker 3: I don't know who it would be, but it would
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: be not him. Well, we'll see.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: It'll play out. Anyway, we'll take more of your talkbacks.
• 40:51
  Speaker 2: Just use the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio app. Either
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: you're celebrating Darlene Graham, you're upset today, you're angry with
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: Christopher and I, whatever. Just get it off your chest
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: because we're getting ready to move on to the general
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: election at 728. From the Midlands.
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: To the Lowcountry. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: You can use the Talkback feature this morning on the
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app to let us know your feelings, whether it's
• 41:12
  Speaker 2: in regards to last night's rather easy victory for Darlene Graham,
• 41:18
  Speaker 2: or maybe you have other thoughts on your mind this morning. And, oh,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: Christopher says we do have one. Hey, guys, if the
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: Republicans lose this Senate seat, we have nobody to blame
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: but those people who voted for Darlene Graham.
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: That's the end of the Talkback. Okay.
• 41:34
  Speaker 2: Obviously, a Ralph Norman supporter, not too happy. Look, again,
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: please get your emotions out here today. We want them out.
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: We want to hear the pain. We want to hear
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: the celebrations that people are having. Politics is all about
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: getting votes. And so, you know, if Ralph Norman had
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: gotten more votes, then he'd be the nominee. But Darlene
• 41:58
  Speaker 2: Graham got more votes. And so if Darlene Graham gets
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: more votes than Annie Andrews, she'll be the next senator.
• 42:04
  Speaker 2: If she doesn't, you can't blame the people who voted
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: for Darlene Graham and say that she was an inferior candidate.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: That was the will of the people last night. The
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: will of the people is what it is. I think
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: even Ralph Norman said something along that lines. He's disappointed
• 42:19
  Speaker 2: by it. He was disappointed that Trump got involved. But
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: it is the will of the people. And so this
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: is what South Carolina... you know, the Republican Party is
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: putting forth Darlene Graham. By the way, I know we
• 42:34
  Speaker 2: had mentioned Annie Andrews. People had reached out to me.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: I responded yesterday. I'm willing to interview her. So maybe
• 42:42
  Speaker 2: we'll be having Annie Andrews on. I also heard from
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: the Libertarian Party. I think that they're telling me that
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: their candidate, because they do a radio show, is not
• 42:52
  Speaker 2: going to come on the show and be interviewed.
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: I'm not.
• 42:56
  Speaker 2: I'm not upset that Casey Whitener, I think is her name,
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: does another radio show in town, and I'm in Columbia.
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: It doesn't bother me. If she wanted to come on,
• 43:05
  Speaker 2: I would interview her. And I have not heard anything
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: from the Constitution Party. I saw WIS also tried to
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: get the representative from the Constitution Party on yesterday, and
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: they were unable to get a response.
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: So I don't.
• 43:19
  Speaker 2: Feel slighted, because if you can't respond to WIS, you're
• 43:22
  Speaker 2: not going to respond to Kelly Nash.
• 43:23
  Speaker 4: Well, if you're hearing from Annie Andrews, So is everyone else.
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: I mean, she's already running ads. She's spending supposedly half
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: million dollars next week in a blanketed, mainly TV, but
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: a blanketed approach to, you know, the aftermath of the
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Graham win last night.
• 43:42
  Speaker 3: And I mean, there's I.
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: Get the sense that her campaign was happier, felt more
• 43:50
  Speaker 4: confident with Darlene Graham as an opponent than Ralph Norman.
• 43:54
  Speaker 3: Maybe so. But, you know, it's kind of like we
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: always say, be careful what you wish for.
• 43:58
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 43:59
  Speaker 2: The Graham campaign... I'm going back to my old rap days.
• 44:04
  Speaker 2: Graham campaign ain't nothing to blank with. Those people are legit.
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: They are assassins.
• 44:10
  Speaker 3: They win. That's all they do. Team Graham.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: All they do is win, win, win, no matter what.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: And so they're going to, I imagine they're going to win.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: And I imagine they're going to win rather comfortably against
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews, who is a pretty good candidate. I'd say
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: she was a better candidate than what's his face was
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: Jamie Harrison for a number of reasons. But the fact
• 44:31
  Speaker 2: that she's a doctor and she's a pediatrician and she
• 44:36
  Speaker 2: can speak very mom-like and appeal to mothers, I think
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: that that makes her a very attractive candidate. And she's
• 44:43
  Speaker 2: going to come across as such a moderate. Oh, my gosh.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: She's going to be just common sense reforms people. When
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: she starts talking about, don't you want less gun violence?
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: I'm not looking to take your guns.
• 44:55
  Speaker 3: Of course not. Go hunting. Enjoy yourselves.
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: Have a great time. I'm just saying let's get them
• 44:59
  Speaker 2: out of the hands of the criminals. That's not what
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: she means. That's not what she means. But that's what
• 45:03
  Speaker 2: she'll say.
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: It's like every Democrat across the country. Forget everything I've
• 45:07
  Speaker 4: said the last five to six years. Now I'm going
• 45:10
  Speaker 4: to move to the center and pretend I'm one of you.
• 45:13
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 45:13
  Speaker 3: You know what?
• 45:14
  Speaker 6: Great.
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: Christopher, you've just reminded me of a clip that I
• 45:18
  Speaker 2: played last week. Now, last week I was on vacation,
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: but I still did my podcast, The National Briefing. And
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: I hope you guys get a chance to check that out.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: That's on the I Heart Radio app. It's a 10-minute
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: morning podcast that I put up before 6 a.m. So
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: I can get on the air here at 6 a.m.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I'll be honest with you. I wasn't on before 6 a.m.
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: Last week.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: Most of those podcasts went up later in the day,
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: but I still did a bunch of them. But I
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: am going to be just because you reminded me of it.
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: We are going to get a history lesson from Ronald
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: Reagan talking about Democrats. And Ronald Reagan is quoting Abraham Lincoln.
• 45:53
  Speaker 3: Talking about Democrats.
• 45:55
  Speaker 14: Wow.
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: This is this is a strong reminder for us to
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: launch into the general election. We'll get to that and
• 46:00
  Speaker 2: more coming up on South Carolina's morning news.
• 46:02
  Speaker 10: This is South Carolina's morning news on one Oh three,
• 46:05
  Speaker 10: five FM and five 60 AM WVOC Columbia and 94,
• 46:11
  Speaker 10: three WSC Charleston.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: His name is Christopher Thompson. My name's Kelly Nash. It
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: is seven 43 and I'm juggling a lot of plates.
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: I hope I got to the actual right clip on
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: this speech. This was 1992, the Republican national convention. And
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: last week I was reminded of this, uh, Ronald Reagan.
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: So I'm going through his 40-minute speech or so, and
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: I think I've found the clip where Ronald Reagan is
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: reminding us that you can never trust Democrats and that
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: their solutions never work.
• 46:46
  Speaker 11: I heard those speakers at that other convention saying, we
• 46:51
  Speaker 11: won the Cold War. And I couldn't help wondering just
• 46:56
  Speaker 11: who exactly do they mean by we?
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: And, all right, and to.
• 47:12
  Speaker 11: Top it off, to top it off, they even tried
• 47:16
  Speaker 11: to portray themselves as sharing the same fundamental values of
• 47:21
  Speaker 11: our party. But they truly don't understand the principles so
• 47:29
  Speaker 11: eloquently stated by Abraham Lincoln. Quote, you cannot strengthen the
• 47:35
  Speaker 11: weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage
• 47:49
  Speaker 11: earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot help
• 47:56
  Speaker 11: the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot help men
• 48:03
  Speaker 11: permanently by doing for them what they could and should
• 48:08
  Speaker 11: do for themselves.
• 48:10
  Speaker 3: And the crowd goes wild.
• 48:12
  Speaker 2: I was probably one of those young Republicans in 1992
• 48:15
  Speaker 2: cheering on Ronald Reagan.
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: And it's true.
• 48:18
  Speaker 2: Now, listen, I know there's some controversy. Was that actually
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: from Abraham Lincoln? If you look online, there's some debate
• 48:24
  Speaker 2: about whether or not it's from Reagan or, excuse me,
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: from Lincoln, or if it was from a pastor named
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: William Botecker. It doesn't matter who it's from, to be
• 48:33
  Speaker 2: honest with you at this point. Can you deny the
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: truths that are in there?
• 48:36
  Speaker 3: Inspiring stuff. Yeah.
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: And Reagan rightly pointing out they act as if they
• 48:42
  Speaker 2: share your values. That's the only way they can win
• 48:44
  Speaker 2: votes is to act as if they share the same
• 48:47
  Speaker 2: values that you have.
• 48:48
  Speaker 3: Democrats have never. Well, not in my lifetime.
• 48:52
  Speaker 2: They have never shared the same values as Republicans. They
• 48:55
  Speaker 2: always act like they do. And they put forward candidates
• 48:57
  Speaker 2: around election time. around election times. And then, but they, they,
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: their solutions are completely backwards and their values do not
• 49:07
  Speaker 2: align with ours. So let's remember that as we head
• 49:09
  Speaker 2: into this general election with Annie Andrews, that is who
• 49:12
  Speaker 2: you need to defeat. Let's not tear each other apart.
• 49:14
  Speaker 2: Let's get fired up to win another victory and keep.
• 49:17
  Speaker 3: The streak alive.
• 49:18
  Speaker 2: No Democrat's to the Senate from South Carolina this century.
• 49:23
  Speaker 3: It's 746.
• 49:23
  Speaker 7: Live from the state Capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 49:30
  Speaker 5: Hey, everyone.
• 49:31
  Speaker 15: Is it really that surprising that Graham won?
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: Let's face it. Think about the people that voted for Trump.
• 49:36
  Speaker 3: They did not want a politician in office.
• 49:38
  Speaker 6: They want somebody who's fresh. Those people spoke again and
• 49:41
  Speaker 6: voted for Graham.
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: There you go. That is a Graham supporter, I'm assuming.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: John from Somerville, thank you for checking in on the
• 49:48
  Speaker 2: iHeartRadio app, using that talkback feature and letting your voice
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: be heard. That's what we're all about here this morning,
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: responding to the... Again, I am shocked because I was
• 49:58
  Speaker 2: looking at the polls, and we had multiple polls yesterday
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: that came out saying they were within tenths of a
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: point of one another. And then Darlene ends up running
• 50:08
  Speaker 2: away with it with a five-point win. I credit that
• 50:11
  Speaker 2: to the MAGA Inc. $ 830, 000 buy that came in to
• 50:17
  Speaker 2: get more texts and calls out over the weekend. She
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: separated herself by 18,000 total votes. And I think that
• 50:26
  Speaker 2: that's probably what did it. The polling probably wasn't inaccurate.
• 50:30
  Speaker 2: It probably, when they did it on friday saturday whatever
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: it was still accurate but by by tuesday things had
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: changed because so many calls and text messages went out
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: and i heard i read a lot of people saying
• 50:43
  Speaker 2: look i so my name i actually knew yeah it
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: was darling graham i hadn't even really heard about this
• 50:48
  Speaker 2: guy ralph norman.
• 50:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah kelly that ad blitz was extremely effective as was
• 50:52
  Speaker 4: graham and let's give credit to lindsey graham staff i
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: mean they know how to get out the vote they've
• 50:57
  Speaker 4: done it before they did it again yesterday every place
• 51:01
  Speaker 4: she needed More votes.
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: She got them.
• 51:04
  Speaker 4: Every place Norman needed more votes, other than the upstate,
• 51:07
  Speaker 4: he didn't get them.
• 51:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's what I'm saying. That Graham team is, they're killers.
• 51:13
  Speaker 2: It's hard to go against them.
• 51:15
  Speaker 3: All they do is win, win, win, no matter what.
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: Now, speaking of your requests, we put it out earlier
• 51:21
  Speaker 2: this week. Would you like me to talk to Annie Andrews? Now, obviously,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: I'm not a sympathetic ear for her to talk to,
• 51:30
  Speaker 2: but she has requested that. And so I said earlier
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: to the show, I've responded. I don't know if Annie's
• 51:36
  Speaker 2: listening on the iHeartRadio app, but if she is, good morning.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: She's apparently ready to go. So next Friday, we're going
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: to have Annie Andrews on the show.
• 51:44
  Speaker 3: Fantastic.
• 51:46
  Speaker 2: And again, I will be as respectful as possible. but
• 51:50
  Speaker 2: still push back on, I'm sure, all of her solutions.
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: All of her solutions will be pushed back upon because
• 51:58
  Speaker 2: just reading her website, I can tell you there's about
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: 18 problems I see on her website right now. So
• 52:04
  Speaker 2: we'll have our little discussion next Friday morning, but excited
• 52:07
  Speaker 2: to have Annie Andrews on the show. And like I said,
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: I can't get the Libertarian on apparently because they're on
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: the radio competing with us. And I think that there's
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: some sort of I don't know what that is. But
• 52:19
  Speaker 2: according to– I got an email from somebody at the
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Libertarian Party apologizing. So I'm assuming that that means it's
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: a no-go. But we'll also reach out to the Constitution Party.
• 52:29
  Speaker 2: And I think everybody– there's like eight other people I
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: saw that are going to be write-ins.
• 52:33
  Speaker 6: Oh, boy.
• 52:33
  Speaker 3: So I don't know.
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: We're probably not going to deal with the write-ins. You've
• 52:37
  Speaker 2: got to be nominated by a party. That's my golden rule.
• 52:40
  Speaker 3: Okay.
• 52:40
  Speaker 2: 754– More of South Carolina's morning news coming up after
• 52:45
  Speaker 2: the top of the hour.
• 52:46
  Speaker 3: Hope you're having a great start to your day.
• 52:48
  Speaker 1: This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 52:52
  Speaker 6: Which endorsement made the best splash? Would it be Tim
• 52:55
  Speaker 6: Scott or ultimately would have been from Donald Trump? I'm
• 53:02
  Speaker 6: leaning towards Tim Scott making more of an impression with
• 53:06
  Speaker 6: Darlene Graham.
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: I appreciate the talk back.
• 53:10
  Speaker 6: I wish.
• 53:11
  Speaker 3: Please leave your name and what town you're from.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: I would love to address you and let you know
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: how much I appreciate you, whoever you were.
• 53:18
  Speaker 3: That was Scott from West Ashley. Scott from West Ashley.
• 53:22
  Speaker 2: Christopher got the inside info on you. So thank you,
• 53:25
  Speaker 2: Scott from West Ashley. Yeah, I can see where you
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: would come down with that. I was just reading Donald
• 53:32
  Speaker 2: Trump had a rough month. He had six candidates that
• 53:38
  Speaker 2: he endorsed lose in the last month. three last week.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: So last night he got not only Darlene Graham across
• 53:47
  Speaker 2: the finish line, but he also got the Oklahoma governor's
• 53:51
  Speaker 2: race to go the way he wanted. And that was
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: very tight. Mike Mazai, I think is his name. He
• 53:57
  Speaker 2: got 186,000 votes to Ginter Drummond, 184,700 votes. I mean,
• 53:59
  Speaker 2: it was just a couple, it's like not even 2000
• 54:01
  Speaker 2: votes really separated those two.
• 54:02
  Speaker 3: So that was a very tight race.
• 54:11
  Speaker 2: And Oklahoma and Trump's endorsement certainly would have helped a
• 54:14
  Speaker 2: little bit there. When you look at the Trump rally
• 54:18
  Speaker 2: in Horry County, I mean, we were talking about this earlier.
• 54:22
  Speaker 2: The Horry County, well, not just Horry County, but all
• 54:25
  Speaker 2: of Russell Fry's district was the biggest Graham supporting district.
• 54:33
  Speaker 2: That really moved the needle, I think, would not only
• 54:36
  Speaker 2: be the rally, but Russell Fry's endorsement. People put a
• 54:39
  Speaker 2: lot of stake, I think, in him switching so quickly
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: to her. But the argument for Tim Scott is it's
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: been a quiet endorsement, I would say, but it's also
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: kind of what you would expect from a senator. You
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: don't expect him to be too splashy like a House member.
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: You expect him to be a little more flashy, I guess.
• 54:59
  Speaker 4: Kelly, he was all over the media after that debate
• 55:03
  Speaker 4: Tuesday night. I mean, he really strongly came to her defense.
• 55:08
  Speaker 4: And not only that, but he also had a lot
• 55:10
  Speaker 4: of money to bring with him because he's the chair
• 55:12
  Speaker 4: of what the national Republican senators, whatever the reelection campaign
• 55:18
  Speaker 4: that national Republicans run on behalf of senators. He's in
• 55:21
  Speaker 4: charge of that right now. And he brought a lot
• 55:23
  Speaker 4: of money to bear with that, too. And you're allowed
• 55:25
  Speaker 4: with that to coordinate with the campaign, unlike Pax. So
• 55:30
  Speaker 4: he actually spent money in coordination with the Graham campaign.
• 55:34
  Speaker 4: And it worked out.
• 55:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah. And again, she won by 18,000 votes.
• 55:38
  Speaker 2: So are you saying that it's his endorsement or are
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: you saying it's his money that helped?
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: Well, again, you know, there were a lot of people.
• 55:46
  Speaker 4: There weren't many people coming to Darlene Graham's defense after
• 55:50
  Speaker 4: that foreign policy flub on Tuesday night in Newberry. He
• 55:53
  Speaker 4: was one of the first, one of the loudest and
• 55:56
  Speaker 4: one of the most consistent people. I mean, he, I
• 55:58
  Speaker 4: think he was on every one of the talk shows
• 56:00
  Speaker 4: on Sunday, talking her up. He did a lot of
• 56:02
  Speaker 4: appearances on Fox news the last few days before the campaign.
• 56:06
  Speaker 4: And he really, he built her campaign back up after
• 56:09
  Speaker 4: that flub.
• 56:10
  Speaker 2: Well, and let's not act as if there weren't other
• 56:13
  Speaker 2: people who were defending her. I mean, we have, uh,
• 56:15
  Speaker 2: obviously on Friday, you've got the governor of the state
• 56:18
  Speaker 2: of South Carolina coming to her defense and endorsing her.
• 56:21
  Speaker 2: You've got the president, you've got, uh, pretty much every
• 56:26
  Speaker 2: elected official it felt like in this state was for
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham, which some would say that was actually working
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: against her. Some people, I think a lot of the
• 56:37
  Speaker 2: Norman supporters looked at it that way, like, oh my gosh,
• 56:39
  Speaker 2: if they're all for her, that can't be a good thing.
• 56:42
  Speaker 4: That makes her the establishment was their argument.
• 56:44
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's the way a lot of Norman supporters interpreted
• 56:48
  Speaker 2: that data. But yeah, I would say certainly Tim Scott
• 56:53
  Speaker 2: holds a lot of weight in this state and his
• 56:56
  Speaker 2: endorsement certainly, I would think factored into at least some
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: of those people who made a late decision to vote
• 57:03
  Speaker 2: for Darlene Graham. And we also have to point out again,
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: we had more people turn out yesterday than we did
• 57:09
  Speaker 2: two weeks ago.
• 57:10
  Speaker 3: That's incredible.
• 57:11
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 57:11
  Speaker 4: When does that happen? A runoff after school has started
• 57:15
  Speaker 4: in the middle of August. Yeah. I mean, that just
• 57:19
  Speaker 4: shows how many people were invested in this race.
• 57:22
  Speaker 6: Exactly.
• 57:23
  Speaker 3: Which bodes well for November. Well, if you can unify them.
• 57:26
  Speaker 3: If you can unify them. That's the whole thing. Kelly,
• 57:28
  Speaker 3: great point.
• 57:29
  Speaker 2: We have 175,000 Ralph Norman voters, and I would say
• 57:34
  Speaker 2: probably 100,000 of them are really angry right now, it
• 57:37
  Speaker 2: feels like. I mean, we heard from the guy, I'm
• 57:40
  Speaker 2: embarrassed by my state. If you're on social media, my gosh,
• 57:44
  Speaker 2: it is so ugly on social media. I don't even
• 57:46
  Speaker 2: know why I go on there. It's just brutal what
• 57:50
  Speaker 2: these people, what you say to each other on social media.
• 57:53
  Speaker 2: You know, we talk to Abby every now and again.
• 57:57
  Speaker 2: She is, she's one, I think the press, I think
• 57:59
  Speaker 2: her official title is like press secretary for Darlene Graham.
• 58:02
  Speaker 2: You'll see her usually in the background. She'll always, like
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: if Darlene Graham's in a shot, you'll probably see Abby
• 58:08
  Speaker 2: near her. All she posted was Team Graham forever last night.
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: And you would have thought she would have said, I'm
• 58:17
  Speaker 2: for killing babies or something. I mean, the response that
• 58:20
  Speaker 2: she's getting, like, you're a traitor. You're a blankety blank rhino.
• 58:25
  Speaker 3: You're this. I mean, people, we're all on the same team.
• 58:30
  Speaker 2: I mean, it might not be who you wanted to
• 58:33
  Speaker 2: be the starting quarterback, but that's who our starting quarterback is.
• 58:35
  Speaker 3: So we got to rally behind the starter.
• 58:38
  Speaker 4: And Kelly, if you're a Norman supporter, your credentials, his
• 58:43
  Speaker 4: credentials certainly were more established conservative credentials than anything we
• 58:48
  Speaker 4: knew about darling if you're conservative who supported ralph norman
• 58:53
  Speaker 4: how can you possibly think about voting for anyone on
• 58:56
  Speaker 4: the other side in this upcoming november election.
• 58:58
  Speaker 2: I'm not concerned that they would vote say for the
• 59:02
  Speaker 2: libertarian or the constitutionalist or a right and i'm not
• 59:05
  Speaker 2: concerned with that i'm concerned that they're going to sit
• 59:08
  Speaker 2: it out OK.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: And they're certainly not going to vote for any Andrews.
• 59:12
  Speaker 6: Right.
• 59:12
  Speaker 2: If you're there's no way she's converting a Norman supporter
• 59:16
  Speaker 2: to her team.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: Exactly.
• 59:18
  Speaker 2: But we we need all of you. Every one of
• 59:22
  Speaker 2: your votes is important. Look, last night was 18,000 votes.
• 59:26
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to be that close. I
• 59:28
  Speaker 2: hope it's not that close. I don't want it to
• 59:30
  Speaker 2: be that close. I want it to be, you know,
• 59:33
  Speaker 2: Trump's too big to rig phrase. I don't think that
• 59:35
  Speaker 2: we're going to have any rigging or any shenanigans in
• 59:38
  Speaker 2: our elections. But I also want to send a clear
• 59:40
  Speaker 2: message that the Republican team dominates South Carolina.
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: That is not and it's not in question.
• 59:49
  Speaker 2: As somebody in the media, I appreciate the fact that
• 59:51
  Speaker 2: the Democrats want to spend a lot of money.
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: On media down here. Please invest.
• 59:55
  Speaker 2: Come on down and try to get some of our
• 59:57
  Speaker 2: listeners to vote for your Democrat candidates.
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: I encourage that. We like money. We like capitalism.
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 2: We're all about it. But I want them to be discouraged.
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 2: Kobe Bryant once had a phrase, which I loved. They
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 2: were saying to him, like, why do you go so
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 2: hard on like a Tuesday night in Memphis in a
• 1:00:13
  Speaker 2: game where you're already up 20? And he said, my
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 2: goal is not to win the game. My goal is
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 2: to make you regret that you ever decided to be
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 2: in the NBA. I want Democrats to regret their decisions.
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: I want them to know that they are not welcome.
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 2: Your liberal policies, we do not tolerate them here. We
• 1:00:33
  Speaker 2: don't want liberalism. Liberalism is a slippery slide to death.
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 2: There is no positive things that come from liberalism. Zero, zilch,
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: never happened, never will. We reject it in South Carolina.
• 1:00:46
  Speaker 2: That's the message I want them to get. Hopefully we'll
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: get that in the general election, Christopher. We'll see how
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: it turns out. It's 8-11 now on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:00:55
  Speaker 1: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 16: Good morning, gentlemen. This is Christy from Mount Pleasant. Just
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 16: to let you know, I voted for Darlene Graham for
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 16: a multitude of reasons, but primarily because I think she'll
• 1:01:09
  Speaker 16: support the Save America Act. I also like that she's
• 1:01:12
  Speaker 16: a mom going up against Annie Andrews. I think that
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 16: will be effective on abortion issues and boys and girls sports. Also,
• 1:01:20
  Speaker 16: because I like the idea of going back to citizens
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 16: serving in Congress and the Senate.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: What was her name again, Christopher? Christy from Mount Pleasant.
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: Christy from Mount Pleasant. Thank you for your talk back.
• 1:01:34
  Speaker 2: And citizens serving... In the Congress. I know that was
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 2: a motivating factor for a lot of folks. And it'll
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: be interesting to see. We expect Darlene Graham to win.
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, I saw the calci markets got her at
• 1:01:48
  Speaker 2: like a 78% chance of winning right now. Democrats are
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: smelling blood in the water. They're going to be spending
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: a lot of money here to make that not happen.
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 2: But if she's fortunate enough to get through, maybe I
• 1:01:59
  Speaker 2: should say if we are fortunate enough to get the
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: Republican through— Um, would she run for a second term?
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 2: Would she want to, would she be, or would she
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 2: term limit herself and say, look, I did six years
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: and two months or whatever. And, uh, that's probably enough.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 2: And she'd be in her seventies, I think by then, uh,
• 1:02:16
  Speaker 2: would she, or she'd be at least approaching 70 or
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: would she say, no, no, no, we're going to go
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 2: for another one and maybe another one.
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: Who knows? Maybe, I don't know.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 2: Will it be become the Graham seat? So to speak,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: Debbie Dingle is, uh, somebody who maybe you don't know.
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: She's a house member. from Michigan, the Dingle family, it's
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 2: in the third generation.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: The Dingles have had that. And her husband was the
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: longest running. I think he still is the longest running
• 1:02:45
  Speaker 2: house member in history. It was like 58 years or something.
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 3: He was up. It was ridiculous. I mean, and his
• 1:02:51
  Speaker 3: father started it.
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: And so his wife won the seat and she's won
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: it like three or four times now as well. So
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: it could become the Graham seat, like the Dingle seat
• 1:03:02
  Speaker 2: in Michigan.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 1:03:03
  Speaker 4: Well, at what point, Kelly, do you become not a citizen,
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 4: but a politician? And then you have to turn and say, well, OK,
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 4: we wanted you to elect us before because we're not
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 4: a politician. But after six years, aren't you a politician?
• 1:03:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, do people consider Donald Trump a politician? I
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: don't know.
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 2: I think a lot of them still think he's a businessman.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: And I would say that his first term, there was
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of flubs because he was a businessman. And
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: he made some political errors and trusted some people that
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 2: had he been around Washington, he would have known don't
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 2: trust these people. He's not making as many of those
• 1:03:44
  Speaker 2: types of mistakes anymore. He's cleaned up the game. But
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 2: it's an ugly business. And so sometimes you need professionals.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 2: And that's what the staffs are for. I know a
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 2: lot of people don't want to hear that. But the
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 2: staffs do a lot of the heavy lifting. And so
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 2: the Graham staff is one of the best. And so
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 2: they'll do a lot of the heavy lifting and they'll
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 2: help guide her through this. And so it'll be, I
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: don't want to say it's the same as if Lindsay
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: was there because Lindsay was actually somebody who was crafting
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: policy alongside the president and nudging the president in certain directions.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 2: I was talking to Chris Ruddy, the guy who runs
• 1:04:24
  Speaker 2: Newsmax at the Graham funeral. And he was talking about
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: how Lindsey Graham would contact Newsmax and Fox and say, put,
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 2: get this out, get, get this kind of vibe out about,
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 2: I think it was about the memorandum of understanding with
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 2: the Iranians, what he wanted put into that.
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: And cause it wasn't in there. And so they would
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: have people saying, Oh, it's not in there. Okay. And
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: they would get an op-ed piece on the air.
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 2: And then sure enough, you know, 15 hours later, Donald
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 2: Trump's on truth social going, Hey, we're going to put
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 2: this in there.
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 3: The white house reacts.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 3: They, Lindsey Graham had that ability. I don't expect Darlene.
• 1:05:01
  Speaker 2: Will because again, national security is not her thing.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 4: Well, going back to the, I'm a citizen, not a
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 4: politician argument. Remember that's the argument she and her surrogates
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 4: used after the Tuesday night debate. And it, it wound up,
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 4: you know, a lot of people felt comfortable with that saying, okay, well,
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 4: you know what?
• 1:05:19
  Speaker 3: She was honest. She's not a politician. Oh, she's, she,
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 3: she is very honest.
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 2: She is a, from what I can tell, I've never,
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: I spoken to her briefly, not on air, but, but
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: just in person for, you know, not even a minute,
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: I don't think. But from what I can see from
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 2: her public persona, she's not going to lie per, you know,
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 2: per se. I mean, there's always some sort of bending
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 2: of the truth in politics, but I don't expect her
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 2: to ever come on out and just tell you a lie.
• 1:05:46
  Speaker 2: like you would expect from most politicians. I think she's
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 2: going to be very honest. And I think that she
• 1:05:52
  Speaker 2: would probably tell you the staff is doing the heavy lifting.
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: And that's why you should feel comfortable. And again, I
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: know a lot of our listeners didn't like Lindsey Graham.
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 2: So you're probably not going to like his sister either.
• 1:06:03
  Speaker 2: But Lindsey Graham overwhelmingly won this state numerous times. And
• 1:06:10
  Speaker 2: I expect her to do the same. But again, if
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 2: you missed the news earlier, we're going to have Dr.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 2: Annie Andrews will be a guest next Friday. That's according
• 1:06:18
  Speaker 2: to her press people. They've reached out and we've aligned that.
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: So next Friday morning, we'll be talking to the Democrat
• 1:06:24
  Speaker 2: nominee for Senate. Maybe we'll get the Republican. Again, we've
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 2: invited Darlene Graham numerous times. Maybe now that we're out
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 2: of the primary season and into the general election, I
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 2: hope to have her on the show as well.
• 1:06:36
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• 1:06:53
  Speaker 5: Roy in Charleston.
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  Speaker 15: I want you to know that if we do not
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 15: vote for Graham, which I did not. We're going to
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 15: lose the Senate. We're going to lose the House. This
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 15: midterms will be a wreck of nothing but impeachment investigations
• 1:07:08
  Speaker 15: against Trump, and we will get nothing done. We already
• 1:07:11
  Speaker 15: haven't got anything done, thanks to Thune, but we've got
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 15: to save this republic by saving our leadership in the
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 15: House and Senate.
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 1: All right.
• 1:07:23
  Speaker 2: Appreciate the talk back from Charleston. And the, uh, look, I,
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 2: I totally agree in the sense that we need to,
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 2: it's great to hear he didn't vote for Graham, but
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 2: he's all team Graham today.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 3: He's ready to unify the party.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 11: Yeah.
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 2: I mean, I, I'm not expecting everybody to get on
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 2: board that quickly. Like I said, today's Christopher was reminding
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 2: us of the 24 hour rule that, uh, I guess
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 2: what a lot of coaches.
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 4: Use this coaches say you can celebrate a victory or
• 1:07:52
  Speaker 4: you can mourn a loss for 24 hours. And then
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: it's onto the next opponent.
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  Speaker 2: So you have until tonight at 9 o'clock to be
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 2: in mourning, be upset if you're a Team Ralph, if
• 1:08:04
  Speaker 2: you're a Darlene supporter, have a great time until 9
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: o'clock tonight. Then recognize that everything shifts and we have
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: to get back into campaign mode and we do have
• 1:08:15
  Speaker 2: to unify the party. I will tell you that when
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: you look at the Democrats' chances of winning the Senate,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: They're not considering South Carolina a competitive race, but they
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: would still need to win seven out of nine competitive races,
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: which would be pretty shocking for them to pull off.
• 1:08:33
  Speaker 2: I fully expect the Senate to remain with the Republicans.
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 2: The House, not so much there. But the Senate does
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 2: serve as a little bit of a buffer. Obviously, when
• 1:08:44
  Speaker 2: it comes to impeachments and things like that, the House
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 2: can impeach all day long.
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 3: Just keep throwing.
• 1:08:50
  Speaker 2: You don't want that, but that's what they can do.
• 1:08:53
  Speaker 2: But if they don't have the Senate, then nothing's really
• 1:08:55
  Speaker 2: going to happen. And that's really what we're going to be.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 6: At.
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 3: We're going to be at a stalemate.
• 1:08:59
  Speaker 2: For the last two years of the Trump administration. And
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: then pray for the best, you know, pray you don't,
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 2: oh my gosh, I can't even imagine if they were
• 1:09:11
  Speaker 2: to win the presidency and have the house, even if
• 1:09:14
  Speaker 2: they didn't get the Senate in two years from then.
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  Speaker 3: But Anyway, we're going to take a quick break.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, we're still in mourning as a nation
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 2: over Dolly Parton. Flags are at half-mast under the president's
• 1:09:26
  Speaker 2: orders for a week, I believe it is. But there
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 2: is another very popular musician who I think was kind
• 1:09:32
  Speaker 2: of walking down that path of Dolly Parton-dom, meaning they
• 1:09:37
  Speaker 2: were straddling the political fences and were just unifying everybody, threw.
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  Speaker 3: All of that away last night.
• 1:09:43
  Speaker 2: I'll play you that clip and more as we continue
• 1:09:45
  Speaker 2: with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 10: Midlands to the Low Country. This is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 3: You know, America is in mourning.
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  Speaker 2: Even if you didn't like country music, you probably liked
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  Speaker 2: Dolly Parton.
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  Speaker 3: She was fun.
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  Speaker 2: She always lit up the room. She was always being kind.
• 1:10:06
  Speaker 2: She was always trying to unify people. And she did
• 1:10:10
  Speaker 2: so much great charity work. And so now the flags
• 1:10:14
  Speaker 2: will be at half-mast this week for her passing. And
• 1:10:17
  Speaker 2: we all are sad to see her go there. There
• 1:10:20
  Speaker 2: are very few people who could walk in those shoes,
• 1:10:24
  Speaker 2: but there has been a musician in Tennessee who I
• 1:10:27
  Speaker 2: don't want to say similar backgrounds, but also from Tennessee,
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 2: also from a poor background, but also I shouldn't say
• 1:10:34
  Speaker 2: also uniquely went to prison for a, for a while.
• 1:10:39
  Speaker 2: And we've all been cheering on jelly roll. Jelly roll
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  Speaker 2: has turned his life around. Um, lost a ton of weight,
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  Speaker 2: very successful musician now, is doing a lot with charities,
• 1:10:53
  Speaker 2: got the Buddy DeFord Charitable Fund. That was in honor
• 1:10:56
  Speaker 2: of his father. Support prisons, ministry, homelessness, food, mental health programs,
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  Speaker 2: all that sort of stuff. Regularly donates 100% of the
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: profits from specific merchandise to help out with mental illness.
• 1:11:10
  Speaker 2: And again, this is a guy who's got a platform that,
• 1:11:16
  Speaker 2: possibly could have kind of walked in that. I don't
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  Speaker 2: think he's as shiny. He's not as fun maybe as,
• 1:11:23
  Speaker 2: as Dolly Parton was, but he's in that ilk. And
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: it's very sad to see that last night he decided
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: to host the Jimmy Kimmel show. Not that that's bad.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously most of us are not Jimmy Kimmel fans. However,
• 1:11:37
  Speaker 2: he chose to go Jimmy Kimmel style quote, Think about this, y'all.
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: In the last few years, I've lost over 300 pounds.
• 1:11:46
  Speaker 2: That means I lost an entire Donald Trump. And based
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 2: on his approval ratings, it seems like most of the
• 1:11:51
  Speaker 2: country wants to do the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: That's okay. All right.
• 1:11:54
  Speaker 2: That's a little bit of a political shot. Dolly would
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: have never said anything like that, I don't think. But
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: let's go even further. And I'm playing this now at
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 2: 837 because I think 8.30 is the latest school's start.
• 1:12:06
  Speaker 2: I wouldn't even feel comfortable playing this if I thought
• 1:12:09
  Speaker 2: kids were listening. Although I know it's cleared for airplay
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: because it was on ABC last night.
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  Speaker 3: Well, Mr.
• 1:12:15
  Speaker 2: President, from one fat pig to another, take it from
• 1:12:17
  Speaker 2: me that physical fitness is very important.
• 1:12:20
  Speaker 3: And trust me, you'll be happy to see your penis again.
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 3: I do speak from a little bit of experience here, y'all.
• 1:12:30
  Speaker 3: The first time I seen mine recently, I was surprised
• 1:12:32
  Speaker 3: at how cute it was. There you go. So there's
• 1:12:35
  Speaker 3: Jelly Roll talking about the president's privates, and why would
• 1:12:41
  Speaker 3: you do this? Christopher, you're stunned silent. I am stunned.
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 4: I knew you were setting me up for a letdown
• 1:12:48
  Speaker 4: when it came to Jelly Roll. I didn't know which
• 1:12:50
  Speaker 4: direction he was going to go, and that's not what
• 1:12:52
  Speaker 4: I expected.
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  Speaker 3: No, very disappointing.
• 1:12:55
  Speaker 4: And again, and very anti Dolly Parton. I mean, Dolly Parton,
• 1:12:58
  Speaker 4: she was the master of making a joke about her
• 1:13:01
  Speaker 4: body shape, but yes, did it in a self deprecating way,
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 4: not taking shots at other people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Last night, I I'm sure a lot of people did this.
• 1:13:09
  Speaker 2: I spent a lot of yesterday kind of reliving the
• 1:13:11
  Speaker 2: Dolly hits. And, and there was like a video, somebody
• 1:13:14
  Speaker 2: put out like the top 20 Dolly moments. And one
• 1:13:17
  Speaker 2: of them was, there was a bunch of them where
• 1:13:20
  Speaker 2: she was on like, like some sort of talk shows
• 1:13:22
  Speaker 2: and she would just kind of off the, off the cuff.
• 1:13:25
  Speaker 2: Like one of the, I love the line where some
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 2: lady said, how long does it take you to do
• 1:13:28
  Speaker 2: your hair?
• 1:13:29
  Speaker 3: And she said, how would I know? I'm never there
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 3: when they do it.
• 1:13:33
  Speaker 2: There was some, another bald guy kind of, you know,
• 1:13:36
  Speaker 2: he had like the, the hair that I would have
• 1:13:38
  Speaker 2: if I didn't shave my head, you know, just nothing
• 1:13:40
  Speaker 2: on top, some on the side. And he said, you know,
• 1:13:42
  Speaker 2: I know you invest a lot in wigs. Should I
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: consider getting hair transplants or maybe I should go with
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 2: a toupee or And she said, well, just because you
• 1:13:49
  Speaker 2: lost your fuzz don't.
• 1:13:50
  Speaker 3: Mean that you're not a peach. She had great lines.
• 1:13:54
  Speaker 3: She did. But she never really put anybody down. Other
• 1:13:58
  Speaker 3: than herself. Other than herself. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And Jelly Roll, again, I'm not saying this is the
• 1:14:03
  Speaker 2: end of his career or anything, but he leaves a
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: bad taste in a lot of people's mouths this morning. Again,
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 2: you could have filled in for Kimmel without being as
• 1:14:11
  Speaker 2: hateful as he is. But that's not the road he.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 3: Chose to go on.
• 1:14:14
  Speaker 2: I guess maybe he probably just used the Kimmel writers instead.
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 2: And that's what they gave him.
• 1:14:18
  Speaker 11: All right.
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 2: Well, we'll be back with more. I guess we got
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 2: a bunch of your talkbacks. We're going to get to those.
• 1:14:22
  Speaker 2: And if you've got a talkback, use the talkback feature
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 2: on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 3: It's 839.
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  Speaker 10: This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and
• 1:14:30
  Speaker 10: 560 AM, WVOC, Columbia, and 94.3 WSC, Charleston.
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  Speaker 17: This is Ron from Columbia, South Carolina. Her getting elected
• 1:14:42
  Speaker 17: last night just proves that the swamp is in control.
• 1:14:44
  Speaker 17: The taxpayers have no say. And move over Murkowski and Collins.
• 1:14:49
  Speaker 17: South Carolina's got her now.
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  Speaker 3: Okay. Some hurt feelings, obviously. A little harsh, perhaps.
• 1:14:57
  Speaker 2: I appreciate the talk back. Like we said, Christopher, you
• 1:15:01
  Speaker 2: gave them the 24-hour rule. So you got until 9
• 1:15:03
  Speaker 2: o'clock tonight to get it off your chest.
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: You're upset. Throw the temper tantrums. Have at it. this
• 1:15:10
  Speaker 3: is your safe space. You're in a safe space.
• 1:15:13
  Speaker 2: Now, I don't know if you, you might not be
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 2: in a mental state to hear what I'm going to say,
• 1:15:19
  Speaker 2: but I, I think it's important that you understand Darlene
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: Graham is going to be more conservative than most senators
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 2: than most. And I'll, and he threw out the name
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 2: Collins and Murkowski. Well, even they, I'm just looking at
• 1:15:40
  Speaker 2: Lisa Murkowski right now. Lisa Murkowski voted with the president
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: 73% of the time. Susan Collins voted with the president
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: 77% of the time. Go and check somebody like Bernie Sanders.
• 1:15:54
  Speaker 2: How often does he vote with the president? Elizabeth Warren.
• 1:15:58
  Speaker 2: I mean, you're talking about less than 10% of the time.
• 1:16:02
  Speaker 2: And that's where Dr. Annie Andrews would be. So even
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 2: if she was the Collins or Murkowski of the South,
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 2: It would still be a vast improvement. It would be
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: an upgrade over Annie Andrews by about 100%. So, listen,
• 1:16:19
  Speaker 2: I get it that you didn't get the candidate you wanted,
• 1:16:22
  Speaker 2: and it doesn't mean that the swamp won. Donald Trump,
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: unless you're saying Donald Trump is the swamp, if Donald
• 1:16:28
  Speaker 2: Trump is the swamp, then the swamp won.
• 1:16:30
  Speaker 3: But if Donald Trump's the swamp, then we're all in trouble.
• 1:16:32
  Speaker 2: Because that's the guy that we're, that we sent to
• 1:16:34
  Speaker 2: fight the swamp. And he said, this is the person
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: I want. And that held a lot of weight. And
• 1:16:41
  Speaker 2: Tim Scott is Tim Scott, the swamp. This is who
• 1:16:43
  Speaker 2: he said he wanted. I mean, everybody on the Republican
• 1:16:48
  Speaker 2: machine said they wanted her and they got her. Now,
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 2: can they get us across? Can they get her across
• 1:16:53
  Speaker 2: the finish line? I'm thinking they can, but I'm not
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 2: 100% sure. Just based off a lot of, again, Ralph
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 2: Norman got, what, 175,000 votes?
• 1:17:00
  Speaker 3: She had 193,000 votes.
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 2: Of the 175,000, we're going to need about 174,000 of
• 1:17:02
  Speaker 2: you to come along. A thousand of you can sit
• 1:17:04
  Speaker 2: it out if you want. But of the other 174,000,
• 1:17:05
  Speaker 2: you need to get on Team Republican, Team Graham.
• 1:17:17
  Speaker 3: Starting tomorrow. Again, you've got until 9 o'clock to moan
• 1:17:20
  Speaker 3: about this. And do it. Get it off your chest.
• 1:17:23
  Speaker 2: Feel better about the fact that you're going to vote
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: for a candidate that is infinitely better than Annie Andrews.
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 3: Infinitely.
• 1:17:30
  Speaker 2: By the way, Annie Andrews will be appearing on this
• 1:17:32
  Speaker 2: show next Friday. So we'll see what she has to
• 1:17:35
  Speaker 2: say for herself then.
• 1:17:36
  Speaker 3: It's now 8.47.
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  Speaker 7: Live from the state capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
• 1:17:43
  Speaker 3: Good morning, Dan from Somerville. First of all, rest easy,
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 3: Miss Dolly. Second of all, I see.
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 14: Yesterday's election as a choice between cheese pizza or pepperoni pizza.
• 1:17:56
  Speaker 14: I'm going to eat either one. But the election November
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 14: is between pizza and a really bad wilted salad.
• 1:18:04
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 1:18:05
  Speaker 3: Have a great day.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 2: Well, Dan from Somerville, that is a great final talkback
• 1:18:11
  Speaker 2: of the day. I really appreciate that perspective, and that
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 2: is a good way of putting it. You have your
• 1:18:16
  Speaker 2: choice between maybe you love pepperoni, but you didn't get pepperoni.
• 1:18:21
  Speaker 3: You got cheese pizza.
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 2: Heck, you might have even gotten the Hawaiian pizza that
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: nobody likes with the stupid pineapple and bacon on it.
• 1:18:28
  Speaker 3: I don't know. A bad pizza is still pizza. Damn
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 3: right it is. Damn right. And the wilted salad. You
• 1:18:37
  Speaker 3: know what?
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 2: I don't know if Dan meant it to be this deep,
• 1:18:41
  Speaker 2: but I'm going to take it deep.
• 1:18:42
  Speaker 3: Oh boy.
• 1:18:43
  Speaker 2: A wilted salad is a perfect analogy because it, if
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: you don't know that it's wilted, you think it's a
• 1:18:50
  Speaker 2: healthy thing. You think this is a good thing and
• 1:18:52
  Speaker 2: then you eat it and it makes you sick. That's
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: what the Democrats will do. They will make you sick.
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: They pose as something healthy. Oh, I'm a fruit and
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: I'm a vegetable. Oh, but you're filled with that stuff
• 1:19:03
  Speaker 2: that gives me explosive diarrhea.
• 1:19:06
  Speaker 1: That's what that is.
• 1:19:08
  Speaker 3: Democrats, you give me explosive diarrhea.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: Christopher, this has been a lot of fun today. I
• 1:19:15
  Speaker 2: think we served the community well today. We were a
• 1:19:18
  Speaker 2: sounding board. We didn't even get to all the talkbacks.
• 1:19:20
  Speaker 2: This is the first show I think that we've done
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: where we couldn't get to all of them today.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 4: We were a sanctuary. For those who felt, you know,
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 4: uncomfortable with last night, you had a chance to weigh in.
• 1:19:30
  Speaker 4: If you liked what happened last night and you're looking
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 4: forward to the general, you had a chance to weigh in.
• 1:19:35
  Speaker 4: Now it's time to motivate toward November.
• 1:19:38
  Speaker 3: Yes.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: But again, using Christopher Thompson's 24-hour rule, you'll have until
• 1:19:41
  Speaker 2: 9 o'clock tonight to mourn.
• 1:19:44
  Speaker 3: You won't—and celebrate. And celebrate. Again, there's a lot of
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham supporters who are celebrating today. And good. Have
• 1:19:50
  Speaker 3: a big time.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: Enjoy it. Or if you're upset, mourn it. But recognize
• 1:19:55
  Speaker 2: that you still have more pizza to eat. We're going
• 1:19:57
  Speaker 2: to get to the pizza. It's going to be a
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: big pizza party moving forward. We're all getting on board
• 1:20:02
  Speaker 2: as we try to unite the Republicans and get ready
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: for the general election in just 70 days or so.
• 1:20:07
  Speaker 6: All right.
• 1:20:08
  Speaker 3: Have a great day or a sad day. Either way.
• 1:20:12
  Speaker 2: We'll be back tomorrow, though, to get you all back
• 1:20:14
  Speaker 2: on the right track on South Carolina's morning news.