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Show Rewind 7-27-26 · South Carolina's Morning News

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  Speaker 1: Live from the state Capitol.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash and.
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  Speaker 3: For the I believe first time ever not being heard
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  Speaker 3: this morning right now on AM five sixty WVOC. Good morning, Christopher,
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  Speaker 3: Good morning Kelly. This is like a historic day.
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  Speaker 4: Well, let's hope it doesn't last long.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we're not really sure how long AM five sixty
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  Speaker 3: will be down. We had just been informed over the
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  Speaker 3: weekend that there was some sort of incident at the transmitter,
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  Speaker 3: and you know, was it an intentional incident? Was it not?
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  Speaker 3: We don't know. We don't know who did it. There's
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  Speaker 3: I guess probably some sort of an investigation. Could it
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  Speaker 3: be a homeless person who did something to the transmitter,
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  Speaker 3: could be could it be someone who has been threatened
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  Speaker 3: by our strong opinions? Could be that as well. They're
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  Speaker 3: trying to silence us, Christopher. I'm going to take it
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  Speaker 3: like that. I'm going to take it as a challenge
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  Speaker 3: that they're trying to silence, and we won't be silenced.
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  Speaker 3: We won't be shut up, we won't go quietly into
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  Speaker 3: the night.
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  Speaker 5: All right.
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  Speaker 4: Coast to Coast ended at fit five am, So we
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  Speaker 4: don't need to start the conspiracy theories here.
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  Speaker 5: We don't need to, but we like to.
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  Speaker 4: Oh far. So the problem is, you know that's that
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  Speaker 4: site is on the river and the last time we
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  Speaker 4: had an incident there was the flood of twenty fifteen
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  Speaker 4: and it took a long time to get that transmitter fixed.
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  Speaker 4: We're crossing our fingers it's not going to be nearly
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  Speaker 4: that long this time around.
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  Speaker 3: Did they have the iHeartRadio app in twenty fifteen.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know that that existed yet, did it?
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember. If I want to say we did,
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  Speaker 4: I think so.
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  Speaker 3: If we did not, many people were probably using that
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  Speaker 3: type of technology. They were still like a lot of
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  Speaker 3: phones were still like the flip phones back then. It
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  Speaker 3: was like're living in the nineteen hundreds, kids. But anyway,
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  Speaker 3: the point being is, yes, you can still listen on
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  Speaker 3: FM one oh three point five if you're in the Midlands.
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  Speaker 3: Obviously no effect to ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: But as we've always been encouraging people, a great option
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  Speaker 3: is the iHeart radio app. Whe was technology gets better
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  Speaker 3: and better and better. There's no need for you to
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  Speaker 3: have any static or to drive out of range at
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  Speaker 3: any point because you're using the iHeart Radio app, So
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  Speaker 3: if your phone's got serviced, then you've got the app,
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  Speaker 3: or you've got the ability to listen to the station
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  Speaker 3: on top of it.
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  Speaker 5: We love the feedback that we get. Christopher.
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  Speaker 3: This idea that people can instantly get in touch with
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  Speaker 3: us and let us know what they're thinking by pushing
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  Speaker 3: the talkback feature, I think is that is really revolutionizing
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  Speaker 3: radio and.
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  Speaker 4: We hear from more people every day via the talkback.
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  Speaker 4: It's easy to do. You just touch the red microphone
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  Speaker 4: on your iHeart app and give us a message. It
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  Speaker 4: will even count down for you. It'll say three, two, one,
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  Speaker 4: okay start.
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  Speaker 3: You know, when I was a kid and now this
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  Speaker 3: really is in the nineteen hundreds, I remember my parents
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  Speaker 3: would wake up listening to an AM talk show. The
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  Speaker 3: guy's name was Bob Steele on WTIC and Hartford, and
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  Speaker 3: he was kind of bragging about the fact that they
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  Speaker 3: now had the technology to actually accept phone calls, like
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  Speaker 3: they were excited about that that this is it's a
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  Speaker 3: new way because typically it had been like letters to
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  Speaker 3: the editors, that was how people express their opinions previously.
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  Speaker 3: But now through the miracle of telephones now being patched
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  Speaker 3: into the board, and it still sounded horrible because I
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  Speaker 3: think what the guys used to have to do is
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  Speaker 3: like push a button on the telephone like handset receiver
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  Speaker 3: in order to kind of mute themselves and let the
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  Speaker 3: other person talk. And it sounded horrible and it was
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  Speaker 3: not very good technology. Obviously, that improved over time, and
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  Speaker 3: by the eighties and nineties people were calling in regularly,
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  Speaker 3: but it was always a pain in the butt. I
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  Speaker 3: used to try to call radio stations I had opinions,
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  Speaker 3: and I could never get through. Phones were busy, or
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  Speaker 3: you'd sit on hold for twenty or thirty minutes trying
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  Speaker 3: to get through. Nowadays, no fuss, no must, You just
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  Speaker 3: pop off, instantaneous pop off. It's even easier, i'd say,
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  Speaker 3: than going on social media and typing your thoughts. This
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  Speaker 3: is just you talking into it. And you know, depending
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  Speaker 3: on your following, we probably have a lot more of
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  Speaker 3: an audience than your you know, your Facebook page or
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  Speaker 3: your x account or something like that. So your opinion,
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  Speaker 3: your hot takes may actually start something here.
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  Speaker 4: Blast your voice out to the world.
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  Speaker 3: That's what we want you to do. Blast your voice.
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  Speaker 3: This is this is your here in Colombia. It is
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  Speaker 3: the original call letters where the Voice of Columbia. This
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  Speaker 3: is your voice, but it also works down in WSC Charleston.
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  Speaker 3: You can get your voice on as well by using
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  Speaker 3: the talkback feature. We got a lot to get to
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  Speaker 3: this morning. New polling is out, what's going on with
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  Speaker 3: that as far as who's going to be the replacement
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  Speaker 3: for Lindsay Graham. We've got the thing in Madison, Wisconsin
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  Speaker 3: over the weekend that that was my podcast for this
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  Speaker 3: morning on the National Briefing on the iHeartRadio app.
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  Speaker 5: We'll go into that a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: There's just been a lot of interesting developments over the weekend.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to try to cover all of it and
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  Speaker 3: anything you want to get on the air as well,
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  Speaker 3: let us know about it on the talkback feature. This
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  Speaker 3: is South Carolina's Morning News people breaking.
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  Speaker 2: Into the North Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: All right, we've got the people out of the studio
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  Speaker 3: and now we're back on the air, and my goodness,
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  Speaker 3: we're looking at polls after polls, and it's not looking
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  Speaker 3: good for first off, on the national level, the Democrats
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  Speaker 3: right now have a fifty two percent favorable poll on CNN.
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  Speaker 3: Republicans are now down into the thirties. Independents. Look at
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  Speaker 3: Republicans right now, seventy seven percent unfavorable. So nationally we're
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  Speaker 3: not doing very well. If you look at the local
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  Speaker 3: polls that are going on here. We got a new
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  Speaker 3: poll out on Sunday. I think it was Darlene Graham
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  Speaker 3: goes to number one on this poll. She's at twenty
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  Speaker 3: one percent. Ralph Norman said, seventeen percent. Interesting. Pamela Evitt,
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  Speaker 3: unless through some news I missed, is not even running.
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  Speaker 3: She's at ten percent, and then Mark Lynch, Russell Fry,
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  Speaker 3: Mark Sandford all three tied at seven percent, and for
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  Speaker 3: some reason, Nancy Mace's name is still in here at
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  Speaker 3: three percent, and then Duke Buckner. Now they say that
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  Speaker 3: this poll was taken on July twenty first, six hundred
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  Speaker 3: likely voters for the upcoming special election. I can't believe
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  Speaker 3: that Pamela Evitt is doing almost as well here when
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  Speaker 3: she's not running after running so hard for the governor.
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  Speaker 4: And maybe people think she's still running for that governor's
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  Speaker 4: race and they're just transferring that to their image of
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  Speaker 4: her in that race over to this poll. Did there
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  Speaker 4: are some questions about this poll? It was done by
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  Speaker 4: Rick Quinn. There are a lot of people who still
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  Speaker 4: don't even know who Darlene Graham is, and she's not
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  Speaker 4: helping the situation by not talking to the media. She
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  Speaker 4: has done no media is so far. There are a
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  Speaker 4: lot of undecideds. And keep in mind this poll was
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  Speaker 4: taken before Mark Sandford entered the race, and he's not
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  Speaker 4: officially an until he files today, but this was before
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  Speaker 4: he announced he was running.
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  Speaker 3: The Darlene Graham mystery filing incident. I don't know if
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  Speaker 3: how active you are on social media, I think depends
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  Speaker 3: on what you.
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  Speaker 5: Know about Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 3: But right now, the mood on I'll just say social
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  Speaker 3: media regarding Darling Graham has been becoming more and more negative.
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  Speaker 3: Because when she walked into file, and I'm going to
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  Speaker 3: try to give her every benefit of the doubt, all right,
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  Speaker 3: So she came into file, there was a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: local media standing outside. Somebody said, will you answer some questions,
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  Speaker 3: and somebody else on her behalf said, well, first she
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  Speaker 3: has to file, then we'll come on out and make
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  Speaker 3: a statement. She came out and she made a statement.
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  Speaker 3: The statement basically in essence, was I'm excited to be
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  Speaker 3: in the race now officially, and it's a very difficult
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  Speaker 3: time for my family as we're, you know, getting ready
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  Speaker 3: to bury my brother. I ask for She kept using
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  Speaker 3: the word grace. I ask for your grace during this period.
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  Speaker 3: Is that Yes, it's understandable that you're asking for that.
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  Speaker 3: At the same time, you're also running in a three
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  Speaker 3: week primary where people literally have no idea who you are.
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  Speaker 3: We at this point, Christopher Thompson, Kelly Nash, do not
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  Speaker 3: know is your legal last name Graham or nor Dome.
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  Speaker 5: We don't even know that.
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  Speaker 3: Has that been reported yet somewhere officially because I keep
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  Speaker 3: saying it reported in different publications different ways, But on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot it looks like it's going to be Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 3: But yeah, you have to talk to the media. You
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  Speaker 3: don't have to talk to me. I understand. If you
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  Speaker 3: don't want to talk to me, that's that's okay. But
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  Speaker 3: at least talk to the local television outlets. Let somebody
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  Speaker 3: sit down with you and talk to you for a
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  Speaker 3: few minutes, because there's a wide world of questions which
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  Speaker 3: are being raised, which I think are very serious concerns.
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  Speaker 3: If do you not align with Lindsey Graham when it
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  Speaker 3: came to birth and abortions and making pro life. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, are you not that? Are you not in
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  Speaker 3: line with him? Because he was very, very pro life.
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  Speaker 3: She does not seem to have that same fervor we'll
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  Speaker 3: say for pro life policies. Not I don't know. It
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  Speaker 3: seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot right now.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's highly negative. The reaction to her dodging questions.
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  Speaker 4: She's done one interview, and that was the Sean Handy recorded.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it was really a canned piece. Are you running? Yes,
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  Speaker 4: here's why I'm running. I want to succeed my brother
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  Speaker 4: and carry on his legacy. That was it. We didn't
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  Speaker 4: learn anything more about her in that interview and haven't
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  Speaker 4: learned anything about her since. And yes, she deserves some grace.
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  Speaker 4: She's mourning her brother. But we are in this compressed
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  Speaker 4: peero where we're getting ready to vote for one of
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  Speaker 4: the most important people to represent South Carolina in Washington.
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  Speaker 4: We need to know more about you.
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  Speaker 5: And trying to give grace. How about this for grace.
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  Speaker 3: You're in a highly emotional state right now because your
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  Speaker 3: brother AKA also known as what I apparently I described
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  Speaker 3: him as a father figure. Apparently, she described him as
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  Speaker 3: both a mother and a father figure to her.
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  Speaker 5: So basically, the.
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  Speaker 3: Way you're look the way you're mourning right now is
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  Speaker 3: you've lost your parents and your brother two weeks ago.
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  Speaker 3: This is a highly emotional state. Perhaps you do want
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  Speaker 3: to be in politics, Today's not the day to make
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  Speaker 3: that decision. When you're in a highly emotional state, it's
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  Speaker 3: not the best time to make lifetime decisions. So maybe
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  Speaker 3: sit this one out and we'll see you again in
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  Speaker 3: a few years. That might be the best thing for
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  Speaker 3: because if you can't get up and answer questions and
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  Speaker 3: can pain the way you're supposed to. And I'm not
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  Speaker 3: saying that that's your fault, because I do understand that
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  Speaker 3: you're going through this, perhaps now not the best time
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  Speaker 3: for you to run.
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  Speaker 4: Agreed, But too late. Now she's filed, she's in. So
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  Speaker 4: if that's the case, if you're in, then it's time
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  Speaker 4: to start talking.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you can't have it both ways.
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  Speaker 3: You can't ask for the grace of nobody's going to
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  Speaker 3: probe into my personal life while at the same time
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  Speaker 3: saying I want your vote because now we're trying to learn,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I know more about Mark Lynch, and I
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  Speaker 3: never even heard of Mark Lynch until sometime in the
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  Speaker 3: middle of this summer. I know a lot more about
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  Speaker 3: Mark Lynch than I know about Darlene Graham. I know
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  Speaker 3: a lot more about Nancy Mace. I I know a
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  Speaker 3: ton more about Mark Sandford. I know about Russell Fry
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  Speaker 3: a little bit more than I know about you. And
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  Speaker 3: there's no need for me to have ever known. Russell
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  Speaker 3: Fries never represented me, you know this is he's not
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  Speaker 3: my representation. But I know more about him than I
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  Speaker 3: know about Darlene Graham. And I certainly know a boatload
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  Speaker 3: about Pamela Evatt and Ralph Norman compared to you. You
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  Speaker 3: need to play catch up right now and get out.
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  Speaker 3: But apparently, look, is it insane to think that they're
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  Speaker 3: just trying to model it off the Biden campaign, where
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  Speaker 3: we're just taking the name, We're gonna put it in
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  Speaker 3: the basement. We're gonna say it's a great name, what
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  Speaker 3: a great name. Isn't that a wonderful name? Don't don't
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  Speaker 3: South Carolinians have wonderful feelings about Lindsay Graham, Well, not
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  Speaker 3: all of them, about fifty six percent of them did.
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  Speaker 3: That's why he always won about fifty six percent of
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  Speaker 3: the GOP votes.
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  Speaker 4: But that would be enough to carry the day if
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  Speaker 4: she were to get fifty six percent here, yeah, and don't.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think she's going to do that. And unless
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  Speaker 4: she starts talking that negative force that you talked about
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  Speaker 4: on social media, that's only going to grow.
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  Speaker 3: It would seem obvious that with all these people in,
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  Speaker 3: there's going to have to be a runoff, and that's
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  Speaker 3: where it's gonna get really painful. She'll probably be in
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  Speaker 3: the runoff. Right now. It looks like it's Ralph Norman
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  Speaker 3: Darlene Graham in a runoff, and I think that and
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  Speaker 3: if that's the scenario and the campaign techniques don't change,
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be all Ralph Norman.
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  Speaker 5: That's what I'm thinking. What do you think?
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  Speaker 3: Let us know?
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  Speaker 5: On the talkback feature on South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: All right, it is six twenty six. We are again
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  Speaker 3: not on AM five sixty this morning. So if maybe
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  Speaker 3: later on today you're talking to somebody and they're like, hey,
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  Speaker 3: what happened to WVOC. There was a problem with the transmitter.
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  Speaker 3: You can listen to us on FM one oh three
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  Speaker 3: point five in Columbia or on the iHeartRadio app which
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  Speaker 3: is my favorite way to have people listen. Christopher Thompson
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  Speaker 3: with us, and you know, they they came down. It
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  Speaker 3: looks like it's going to be South Carolina. Now they
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  Speaker 3: voted on it. They got I guess one more vote
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  Speaker 3: they have to do as they set up there Democrat
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  Speaker 3: primaries for twenty twenty eight January. I believe it's the
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  Speaker 3: twenty second of twenty twenty eight will be South Carolina
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  Speaker 3: going first in the nation. Apparently the you know again,
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  Speaker 3: the whoever wins the South Carolina Democrat primary, I guess
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  Speaker 3: most often, I don't want to say it's always turns
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  Speaker 3: out to be the person that they put up, is it?
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  Speaker 5: Has there?
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  Speaker 3: Have we got it wrong in the last thirty or
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  Speaker 3: forty years as far as the Democrats go, that.
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  Speaker 4: You were aware, I'm not sure. Yeah, I'd have to look.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it feels like every time now they don't always
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  Speaker 3: win the presidency, but they always win the primary if
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  Speaker 3: they win South Carolina.
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  Speaker 5: So that's I guess part.
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  Speaker 3: Of the reason. Uh, they also want to I guess
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  Speaker 3: honor James Clyburn We're going to talk about James Cliburn.
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  Speaker 3: He had a horrible podcast over the weekend. We'll talk
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  Speaker 3: about that coming up. But the rest of the line up,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I feel so bad for like Iowa and
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  Speaker 3: New Hampshire, like you guys were so important. I'm wondering
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  Speaker 3: if we're going to continue on the Republican side. They
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  Speaker 3: said that we're not going to decide for a little
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  Speaker 3: while what the Republicans are going to do. But it
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  Speaker 3: it just as far as I mean, if I'm being
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  Speaker 3: a fiscal conservative, the idea of running two different primaries
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  Speaker 3: is costly sure, And so maybe the Republicans in South
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  Speaker 3: Carolina will say we're going to go on January twenty second.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know, But also you know.
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  Speaker 3: They're trying to reward Nevada. I think there was two
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  Speaker 3: or three others that get to go next. Then there's
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  Speaker 3: a final two that get to go, and then those
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  Speaker 3: are the only states that they said are allowed on
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  Speaker 3: the Democrat side to go before Super Tuesday. So I
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  Speaker 3: guess they don't want it to be too obvious who
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  Speaker 3: it is. They want Super Tuesday to be a really
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  Speaker 3: really big it is, isn't it? It already is a
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  Speaker 3: big deal, but they wanted to be even bigger because
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  Speaker 3: obviously there could be two different candidates or three different
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  Speaker 3: candidates that win. Say South Carolina, Michigan I think is
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  Speaker 3: one of them. Then they've got the Nevada I'm trying
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  Speaker 3: to remember, Iowa I think is in there. But if
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  Speaker 3: you have two or three different candidates winning those, all
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  Speaker 3: of them would have a great play as they go
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  Speaker 3: into Super Tuesday, keeps the the voters interested. It's interesting
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  Speaker 3: to me that we're now trying to create television viewing.
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  Speaker 3: We're trying to create a social media viewing with the
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  Speaker 3: way we run the primaries opposed to just trying to
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  Speaker 3: find the best candidates. But that's where we're at in
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  Speaker 3: social media era, and that's what the Democrats are all about,
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  Speaker 3: or emotions and feelings.
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  Speaker 4: Stilly checking the Democrat history. In two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 4: South Carolina Democrats nominate voted for John Edwards, who was
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  Speaker 4: from neighboring North Carolina, and we wound up being John
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  Speaker 4: Kerry who got the nomination. So that's I think the
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  Speaker 4: one time in recent history South Carolina Democrats have gotten
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  Speaker 4: it wrong.
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  Speaker 5: And that would have been pre haircut scandal.
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  Speaker 3: I think so and then I mean John Edwards, he
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  Speaker 3: turned out to be a horrible just a horrible person.
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  Speaker 3: He was cheating on his wife with the fake photographer
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  Speaker 3: that he had hired to come. I mean, that scandal
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  Speaker 3: was brutal to see. But anyway, I'm glad we didn't
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  Speaker 3: elect either one of those John's carry or Edwards to
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  Speaker 3: the presidency.
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  Speaker 5: I think we dodged that of.
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  Speaker 3: America, dodged a bullet that deer.
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  Speaker 5: Anyway.
• 16:57
  Speaker 3: But again, I guess congratulations to Crystal Spain and the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Party. This is what you were hoping for. You
• 17:02
  Speaker 3: got the big news Friday afternoon that it looks like
• 17:05
  Speaker 3: now they have decided that South Carolina will be first
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  Speaker 3: in the nation. And maybe we'll get to meet some
• 17:12
  Speaker 3: Democrats Christopher sometime in you know, maybe late twenty twenty seven,
• 17:17
  Speaker 3: early twenty twenty eight. They'll come strolling in here, want
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: to talk to us. We'll see if that's the case. Anyway,
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  Speaker 3: we do appreciate you starting your day with South Carolina's morning.
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: News, your news, traffic, weather and information stations. This is
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: South Carolina's Morning News on one O three point five FM,
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• 17:40
  Speaker 2: now Kelly Nash.
• 17:42
  Speaker 3: Sitting in Columbia, South Carolina, which is a university town,
• 17:47
  Speaker 3: much like Madison, Wisconsin, is a university town. But unlike Madison, Wisconsin,
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: we have strong police presence here. We have strong leadership here,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: and you know, everybody who is in positions of authority.
• 18:01
  Speaker 3: For the most part, we have pretty strong leaders. I'd
• 18:03
  Speaker 3: always agree with them, but they're pretty strong, and that
• 18:07
  Speaker 3: is an important thing. And what we saw this weekend,
• 18:09
  Speaker 3: if you were watching social media, was unbelievable. In a
• 18:14
  Speaker 3: million years, I could have never imagined what I saw
• 18:16
  Speaker 3: happening at a Madison, Wisconsin police press conference. And to
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: just kind of catch you up on the story, there's
• 18:22
  Speaker 3: a guy named Corey Ruez who is dead because Corey
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Ruez took a knife and stabbed a police officer and
• 18:30
  Speaker 3: then was shot dead. Imagine if it wasn't a police officer,
• 18:33
  Speaker 3: Imagine if it was a college student. If Corey Ruez
• 18:36
  Speaker 3: had stabbed a college student and the college student then
• 18:41
  Speaker 3: shot them dead, there would be a trial, there would
• 18:44
  Speaker 3: be an investigation, but ultimately there would be that would
• 18:46
  Speaker 3: be the end of it. Because everybody recognizes that when
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: somebody stabs you you have the right to defend yourself.
• 18:53
  Speaker 3: But apparently in Madison, Wisconsin, where they're very soft and liberal,
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: the idea that a police officer did this is too
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  Speaker 3: much to bear. Corey was the police had been called
• 19:04
  Speaker 3: on him because he was doing a couple of things.
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: One it a peard he was trying to row bicycles.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Another one that appeared he was pulling door handles like
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: you may be trying to steal a car. Somebody called
• 19:13
  Speaker 3: the cops. He ran, They gave chase, He fell off
• 19:16
  Speaker 3: his bike. I don't know if he was pushed or
• 19:18
  Speaker 3: fell off, but he ends up in the middle of
• 19:19
  Speaker 3: an intersection, which is when he stabs one of the
• 19:21
  Speaker 3: cops in the legs. They tried using a taser, didn't
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: seem to have much of effect on him. Interestingly enough,
• 19:27
  Speaker 3: Ruez's attorney admits that he stabbed the cop, but says
• 19:30
  Speaker 3: they should have given the taser more time to work.
• 19:32
  Speaker 3: He's stabbing people. We're not going to give it a
• 19:35
  Speaker 3: whole lot of time. We're not going to give a countdown,
• 19:37
  Speaker 3: or maybe we don't use fatal force. Well, we tried that.
• 19:40
  Speaker 3: We tried not killing him, but he was hell bent
• 19:44
  Speaker 3: on getting himself killed apparently that day. There's also a
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: lot of talk online this morning, and maybe you'll hear
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: this in your office about the fact that the Madison,
• 19:52
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin Police Department doesn't have body cameras on. That is
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: because the Madison City Council gave into the Democrat Socialist
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Party of America who said that the body cameras were
• 20:03
  Speaker 3: a bad idea because it could make black people targets.
• 20:06
  Speaker 3: I don't even understand what that means, but they didn't
• 20:09
  Speaker 3: want the body cameras. They've also already defunded the police. Madison,
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin has like right now, two thirds of the police
• 20:18
  Speaker 3: department has been cut since twenty twelve, so they're operating
• 20:21
  Speaker 3: on a skeletal crew. They're doing the best that they can.
• 20:24
  Speaker 3: I don't know who signs up to be a Madison,
• 20:26
  Speaker 3: Wisconsin police officer.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: I don't know who'd want to live there at this point.
• 20:30
  Speaker 3: But the weakness of the leadership in Madison police department.
• 20:35
  Speaker 3: This is the police chief and I'm just going to
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: play a minute of this. He's giving a press conference
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: where he's already in apologetic mode. We've lost your trust.
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: We're so sorry that black people should never be shot
• 20:47
  Speaker 3: in Madison, Wisconsin. All that kind of rhetoric when he's
• 20:50
  Speaker 3: interrupted and then just gives over the press conference to
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: a radical must be earned continuously, and I think it
• 20:58
  Speaker 3: can be lost in a single afternoon. We don't want
• 21:01
  Speaker 3: to hear anything you've been saying.
• 21:03
  Speaker 6: You're gonna say the same thing you all say every
• 21:05
  Speaker 6: time a black.
• 21:06
  Speaker 3: Body gets shot down in this city.
• 21:08
  Speaker 5: This is a corrupt city.
• 21:09
  Speaker 7: That's right.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: Have no fear.
• 21:11
  Speaker 4: The anti Zionist is here. Do you understand me. You
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: won't be able to talk today because I'm gonna keep
• 21:16
  Speaker 4: talking because.
• 21:17
  Speaker 5: I was born to talk my talk and walk my
• 21:20
  Speaker 5: walk too.
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  Speaker 3: I told these young people back here on my way
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: here that we have the power, not that badge, not
• 21:26
  Speaker 3: that weapon.
• 21:27
  Speaker 4: We've seen it was a knife in this.
• 21:28
  Speaker 5: Young man's hand.
• 21:30
  Speaker 4: No step that's right.
• 21:32
  Speaker 5: Give me this microphone then excuse me.
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: That's right.
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  Speaker 3: My name is Carlos and I represent app tap all
• 21:38
  Speaker 3: power to all people. See roll power to zionists, seerop
• 21:42
  Speaker 3: power to capitalists.
• 21:43
  Speaker 8: See.
• 21:44
  Speaker 3: I mean, this guy doesn't even make sense. He's he's
• 21:47
  Speaker 3: talking about Zionism as if that has something to do
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: with the death of a guy who is trying to
• 21:52
  Speaker 3: rob bicycles.
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: Meanwhile, the chief says, yeah, I'll step aside, I'll step aside.
• 21:57
  Speaker 3: I mean this, And this goes on for like six minutes,
• 22:00
  Speaker 3: and so he blames the Zionism and then he blames colonialism,
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: he blames he just starts throwing out words. He has
• 22:06
  Speaker 3: no idea what the definitions even mean. And then he
• 22:09
  Speaker 3: starts talking about how you know, each one of us
• 22:12
  Speaker 3: has been separated, and he looks like he puts his
• 22:15
  Speaker 3: hands up and he's like Venezuela and there's like one
• 22:17
  Speaker 3: finger and then it's, you know, the Soudan, the Congo.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: He does throw the United States in there. All these
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: people are in the struggle, but when you close the fist,
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: that's when we have the power. So he does want
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: a revolution, and he wants a violent revolution. And while
• 22:33
  Speaker 3: he's standing there, there's a woman comes behind him with
• 22:36
  Speaker 3: a sign that says corrupt cops need to be killed.
• 22:40
  Speaker 3: And the police department is there, it's in their building.
• 22:43
  Speaker 3: It's like there's like ten cops staring at this as
• 22:45
  Speaker 3: it just plays out.
• 22:46
  Speaker 5: And so.
• 22:48
  Speaker 3: What we have is a very poorly educated population right now,
• 22:53
  Speaker 3: and like even the ones that go to college are
• 22:55
  Speaker 3: poorly educated. They don't know what they don't even know
• 22:58
  Speaker 3: what colonialism is. They don't even know what imperialism is.
• 23:01
  Speaker 3: They're using it in the wrong definition. It just means
• 23:04
  Speaker 3: anything bad to them. It's like they don't know what
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: fascism means. They don't know what any of it means.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: And then they just want power. And because the people
• 23:11
  Speaker 3: who have the authority, by the way representative, they didn't
• 23:15
  Speaker 3: seize power. This police chief didn't seize the power. He
• 23:18
  Speaker 3: won an election. I'm guessing he'll never win another one.
• 23:21
  Speaker 3: But this is a representation of who we want running
• 23:24
  Speaker 3: with our laws that we vote on. It's the opposite
• 23:28
  Speaker 3: of imperialism what's happening in America. But anyway, maybe we'll
• 23:32
  Speaker 3: go a little bit further on this one because the
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: things he says in the next part of his rants
• 23:36
  Speaker 3: are even more shocking. But that's what's going on in Madison, Wisconsin.
• 23:39
  Speaker 3: Very thankful it's not happening in Columbia, South Carolina. Any
• 23:42
  Speaker 3: thoughts on that or other stories? The talkback features open
• 23:44
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• 23:46
  Speaker 2: Is South Carolina's morning news on one O three point
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: five FM and five sixty AM WVOC Columbia and ninety
• 23:55
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• 23:58
  Speaker 1: Now, Kelly, Now, we.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Just profiled a very bizarre press conference slash protest in Madison, Wisconsin.
• 24:05
  Speaker 3: Now a protest is broken out in New York City
• 24:08
  Speaker 3: like I've never seen before.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: We'll talk about that.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: From the Midlands to the Low Country.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 24:18
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• 24:22
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• 24:24
  Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 24:27
  Speaker 3: Usually when you see a group of protesters, their college age,
• 24:30
  Speaker 3: or they're you know, people who have low incomes. Those
• 24:33
  Speaker 3: are the types of people who typically protest. But in
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: New York City yesterday you had about five hundred people
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: in the Upper west Side. Median income, by the way,
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: on the Upper west Side is about two hundred and
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: sixty thousand dollars a year.
• 24:45
  Speaker 5: Wow.
• 24:45
  Speaker 3: To get five hundred of these people on the streets,
• 24:49
  Speaker 3: something big had to have happened. And this time what
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: they're tired of is Mamdani's policies in their phrases, emboldening.
• 24:57
  Speaker 5: Attacks on Jewish people.
• 24:58
  Speaker 3: And you have a suspect who was arrested after stabbing
• 25:02
  Speaker 3: two different people two separate occasions.
• 25:05
  Speaker 5: First with a knife.
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: Then he walked a couple of blocks, stabbed another Jew,
• 25:09
  Speaker 3: this time with a screwdriver, yelling a la a la acbar, Mom,
• 25:13
  Speaker 3: Donnie's trying to go easy on this guy. They are.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: They finally had enough, and so that is I've never
• 25:20
  Speaker 3: seen a protest with all these millionaires out there before,
• 25:23
  Speaker 3: but yes, the Jewish policies in New York have gone
• 25:27
  Speaker 3: too far even for them.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Live from the State Capitol, this is South Carolina's Morning
• 25:33
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• 25:35
  Speaker 3: You know, there's lots of places you can get news
• 25:38
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• 25:46
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• 25:48
  Speaker 3: WVOC where. Well. The AM tower had an incident over
• 25:53
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• 25:55
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• 25:57
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• 26:00
  Speaker 3: anywhere in the country on the iHeartRadio app. The ninety
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• 26:07
  Speaker 3: and we appreciate that and love to hear talkbacks from
• 26:10
  Speaker 3: you as we give you news of the day. Another
• 26:14
  Speaker 3: place you could go to get sources would be Vox.
• 26:17
  Speaker 5: I've never really checked out Vox.
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: I know it's been around for decade or more and
• 26:23
  Speaker 3: they lean left. And so yesterday James Clyburn decided to
• 26:29
  Speaker 3: enter the arena over on Vox with a podcaster there.
• 26:33
  Speaker 3: His name is asteaed Herndon and a stead. I mean
• 26:37
  Speaker 3: they go thirty five minutes with James Clyburn and voxes
• 26:43
  Speaker 3: astead Herndon not giving mister Clyburn any softball questions, not
• 26:51
  Speaker 3: catering to him, doesn't seem very impressed with him. And
• 26:55
  Speaker 3: I'm just gonna play a little snippet of that.
• 26:57
  Speaker 7: I do know this, Ah the black people, why he
• 27:03
  Speaker 7: is supporting Trump. You cannot tell me that his policies
• 27:07
  Speaker 7: are good for Black Americans? Are they to black people
• 27:14
  Speaker 7: supporting them?
• 27:17
  Speaker 6: It might be because the Democratic Party hasn't delivered like
• 27:20
  Speaker 6: it might be because the leaders of investment in neoliberal
• 27:25
  Speaker 6: democratic politics has not changed their communities right like it
• 27:28
  Speaker 6: couldn't They be voting not just for Republicans but against Democrats,
• 27:33
  Speaker 6: is what you said.
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: And there is that as well. James Cliburn brings up
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: the fact that apparently I didn't read the stat earlier.
• 27:41
  Speaker 3: But James Cliburn says that in the Kamala Harris election
• 27:46
  Speaker 3: only fifty eight percent of Black people voted. Eligible Black
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: voters only turned out at fifty eight percent whether they
• 27:52
  Speaker 3: voted Republican or Democrat, they basically sat on their hands.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: He's upset with black people. He's blaming James Cliburn blames
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: black people for Donald Trump, and this young black podcaster
• 28:03
  Speaker 3: who works for vox is making the point that the
• 28:06
  Speaker 3: Black Party has kind of failed us. The Democrat Party
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: is failing the black community.
• 28:13
  Speaker 4: And it's hard to argue with that. Of course, Cliburn
• 28:16
  Speaker 4: brings home the pork for his own district at times,
• 28:18
  Speaker 4: But what has the Democrat Party done, either for South
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: Carolina or for the nation that people can stand and say, okay,
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: well that was great.
• 28:27
  Speaker 3: And you know the interesting thing is, I guess when
• 28:30
  Speaker 3: Christopher Thompson and I look at an issue, what we're
• 28:33
  Speaker 3: looking at is how much freedom are you giving a community?
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: How much freedom are you giving the people? That to
• 28:41
  Speaker 3: me is empowerment. I have the autonomy to behave in
• 28:45
  Speaker 3: a certain manner in order to improve my situation in life. Oftentimes,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: what we hear from podcasters like this young man is
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: you need to get us more what you what you
• 28:56
  Speaker 3: call it pork or whatever, right, you need to get
• 28:58
  Speaker 3: us more money into our community. I'm I'm of the
• 29:01
  Speaker 3: belief that that actually limits me because with the money
• 29:05
  Speaker 3: comes restrictions as to what I can do and can't do. Now,
• 29:08
  Speaker 3: tax breaks, that's something different. Tim Scott created the opportunity zones.
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I think that that's been great for minority communities, but
• 29:15
  Speaker 3: I also think it's been great for just entrepreneurs in general.
• 29:18
  Speaker 3: And so maybe maybe I don't know, maybe we're seeing
• 29:23
  Speaker 3: a little bit of a switch here with people like
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: this young podcaster Astead Herndon again is his name, I've
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: never heard of him before. But perhaps what we're seeing
• 29:32
  Speaker 3: is he would like to have more freedom to do
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: stuff and is tired of the restrictions and the bureaucracy
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: of the Democrat Party because at least with the Republican Party,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: like when Trump said, what the hell do you got
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: to lose?
• 29:46
  Speaker 5: You might as well vote for me?
• 29:48
  Speaker 3: I mean I remember making that plea of people are like,
• 29:50
  Speaker 3: that's this campaign thing.
• 29:51
  Speaker 5: Well, it's you.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Know, after fifty years or more of continually supporting the
• 29:56
  Speaker 3: Democrat Party.
• 29:57
  Speaker 5: What have you got to show for it?
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: Bigger project, I mean project meaning where you live, bigger
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: restrictions on your lives. It's not a it hasn't been fruitful.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: If the Black community sat on their hands during this
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: last election, it was two reasons. One because they had
• 30:17
  Speaker 4: no vested interest in another four years of the Biden
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: Harris administration, even if it was going to be Harris
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: nominally in charge at this point. Number two, they generally
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: had good feelings about the first Trump administration when it
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: came to two key issues, the economy and border security.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: Well, it's going to be mid term time pretty soon,
• 30:41
  Speaker 3: and again the Democrats should win overwhelmingly, but they're trying
• 30:46
  Speaker 3: to let the Republicans, who have not done a very
• 30:48
  Speaker 3: good job managing this last two years, they're trying.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: To let us back in. So I don't know.
• 30:54
  Speaker 3: This is almost like political malpractice by both parties. They're
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: both running horror bowl campaigns and ideas forward. But maybe
• 31:03
  Speaker 3: we'll get lucky and the Republicans will win. But it's
• 31:05
  Speaker 3: very interesting to see James Cliburn getting kind of taken
• 31:08
  Speaker 3: to that. I'll post this video from vox on a
• 31:12
  Speaker 3: couple of my social media pages and you can try
• 31:14
  Speaker 3: to check that out. But again back to just our
• 31:18
  Speaker 3: situation again, WVOCAM is off the air until further notice.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: I haven't seen any more updates on that. It seems
• 31:24
  Speaker 3: like they've got a lot of work to get that
• 31:25
  Speaker 3: AM signal back up and running. Hopefully you can guide
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: people over We've put it up on our social media
• 31:31
  Speaker 3: pages trying to guide them over here. And so if
• 31:34
  Speaker 3: you know somebody who's struggling to hear it, this is
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: the only way iHeartRadio app or the FM in Columbia.
• 31:40
  Speaker 3: And again we're so thankful for our listeners in Charleston
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: at ninety four to three. And you know, James Cliburn
• 31:45
  Speaker 3: represents a lot of people down in that low country.
• 31:47
  Speaker 3: I wonder how they feel about James Cliburn. Are you
• 31:50
  Speaker 3: one of those people who sat out the election because
• 31:52
  Speaker 3: of the Democrat policies? Or is Crystal Spain still celebrating
• 31:55
  Speaker 3: the fact that they're going to be first in the country.
• 31:57
  Speaker 3: They got that news on Friday that the Democrat Party
• 31:59
  Speaker 3: is going to They won in South Carolina, so they
• 32:01
  Speaker 3: get to represent and get that first vote in There's
• 32:04
  Speaker 3: a lot going on with the Democrats in South Carolina.
• 32:06
  Speaker 3: We're trying to cover it all on South Carolina's Morning News.
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 32:13
  Speaker 3: You know, one of the things about being a police
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: officer is you have to be.
• 32:20
  Speaker 5: Above suspicion.
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: You have to be really one of the moral pillars
• 32:25
  Speaker 3: of the community in any form of law enforcement. And
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: what we're seeing now, Tom Homan is saying that they're
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: going to have to review they're hiring after the main
• 32:37
  Speaker 3: shooting from the ice officer, it appears and now again
• 32:44
  Speaker 3: they have not done a full investigation background check on
• 32:47
  Speaker 3: this yet, but it appears that that agent already had
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: a history of domestic violence and mental health issues, according
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: to Homan, So if that is true, he says, he
• 32:57
  Speaker 3: should have never passed the screening, he should have never
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: been hired. He's already been fired out of concern for
• 33:03
  Speaker 3: public safety. And if I'm going up to the local
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: television station in is it pronounced Bidford? I've never heard
• 33:11
  Speaker 3: of Bidford, Maine.
• 33:13
  Speaker 5: The guy.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: They're naming the guy as David Brulette. Although the Department
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: of Homeland Security has not officially named him, they're reporting
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: his name is David Brulette, and according to them and
• 33:26
  Speaker 3: the Washington Post, court records found that Brulette was quote
• 33:30
  Speaker 3: not a credible person in November during a child support
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: case where he's trying to reduce payments. Even so, I mean,
• 33:39
  Speaker 3: if a judge is finding you not a credible person,
• 33:42
  Speaker 3: that's a problem. But then they goes on to say
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: that the reason for the divorce was domestic violence. And
• 33:48
  Speaker 3: if that's the case, again, I'm all for ICE in
• 33:52
  Speaker 3: their mission. I'm all for cleaning up America, but you
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: have to do it with better officers. You can't have
• 33:58
  Speaker 3: somebody like this who's got a hit history apparently of
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: domestic violence and or mental health issues or whatever, and
• 34:05
  Speaker 3: then he's involved in a shooting. This just gives too
• 34:08
  Speaker 3: big of a window for them to come in and
• 34:10
  Speaker 3: say they're.
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: All like that, Yeah, whether the shooting is justified or not,
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: you're going to have that dark cloud hovering over everything.
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: And again, it just gives the protesters more ammunition to
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: use against ICE in the Trump administration.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's and that's a tragedy because you know how
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: many times you hear it, It's like ninety nine percent
• 34:30
  Speaker 3: of them are great, But the one percent. And I
• 34:33
  Speaker 3: don't even know if any of the other officers would
• 34:35
  Speaker 3: have known about this guy's history. Something like that might
• 34:37
  Speaker 3: be private. So it's not even like they could, you know,
• 34:40
  Speaker 3: turn on him and say, hey, look this is this
• 34:42
  Speaker 3: guy's got a problem.
• 34:44
  Speaker 5: But again, we need to do it.
• 34:46
  Speaker 3: Might have been part of the rush to ramp it
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: up back in twenty twenty four. As we started entering
• 34:51
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty five, there was a big push to get
• 34:54
  Speaker 3: a ton of new ICE agents. And you remember the
• 34:58
  Speaker 3: online ads that they were running, and they had like
• 35:00
  Speaker 3: quotas they were trying to hit as far as how
• 35:02
  Speaker 3: many they were going to hire, how many people they
• 35:04
  Speaker 3: wanted to deport, and stuff that usually doesn't go well.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: You know, you want to be methodical when you're hiring people.
• 35:11
  Speaker 3: You also want to be methodical about who you're deporting.
• 35:14
  Speaker 3: You don't want to give him the opportunity to point
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: at any mistakes. And so what you're talking about is
• 35:19
  Speaker 3: so important to the future of the country that if
• 35:22
  Speaker 3: you do it in a hurried way. And again I'm
• 35:26
  Speaker 3: with a lot of Americans who are like, it's not
• 35:27
  Speaker 3: going fast enough. I understand because they pour it in,
• 35:31
  Speaker 3: but you can't just kick them all out. At the
• 35:33
  Speaker 3: same time, you've got to take your time and do
• 35:35
  Speaker 3: it right. And so that we're above reproach. I say
• 35:38
  Speaker 3: we meaning the country. We don't want to be having
• 35:41
  Speaker 3: people caught up in this that don't need to be
• 35:43
  Speaker 3: involved in it. And I'm just sorry to see that.
• 35:46
  Speaker 3: Tom Well, Tom Holman, I think he's doing the right
• 35:48
  Speaker 3: thing here. I support him for taking that bold step,
• 35:51
  Speaker 3: but again, future hires at any level need to be
• 35:55
  Speaker 3: very carefully done.
• 35:56
  Speaker 5: That's my take. What's your take?
• 35:57
  Speaker 3: Let us know On the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio
• 36:01
  Speaker 3: app with South Carolina's Morning News.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 36:07
  Speaker 3: It's always interesting when you look at like fundraising. People
• 36:10
  Speaker 3: like to look at fundraising and think that that's indicative
• 36:13
  Speaker 3: of who's going to win a race in South Carolina.
• 36:16
  Speaker 3: There's a headline now this morning talking about how Ellen
• 36:19
  Speaker 3: Weaver retains and she's the Superintendent of Education. For those
• 36:23
  Speaker 3: of you who don't know, she retains a cash edge
• 36:28
  Speaker 3: over her Democrat opponent despite the close fundraising totals. In
• 36:33
  Speaker 3: other words, the Democrat had a aggressive primary challenger and
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: so she had to spend a lot more money than
• 36:40
  Speaker 3: Ellen Weaver has and so, but their fundraising has been
• 36:44
  Speaker 3: about the same. I'll point out that when Jamie Harrison
• 36:46
  Speaker 3: was running to be to replace Lindsey Graham, he outspent
• 36:50
  Speaker 3: Lindsey Graham by about fifteen million dollars. Now, they both
• 36:55
  Speaker 3: spent a boatload of money. It was about one hundred
• 36:58
  Speaker 3: and fifteen million for Lindsay about one hundred for Jamie Harrison.
• 37:02
  Speaker 3: And Jamie Harrison did not move the needle one iota.
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: Despite spending all that money.
• 37:07
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it was the exact same Democrat totals from like
• 37:10
  Speaker 3: six years early. They just it because the policies only
• 37:17
  Speaker 3: they only impactful to certain people. So when I go
• 37:20
  Speaker 3: to this lady Wright, what is her first name? I
• 37:22
  Speaker 3: forget now Sylvia Sylvia Wright's website. I don't need any
• 37:27
  Speaker 3: you don't need to spend any money to let me know.
• 37:30
  Speaker 3: I would never vote for this woman. The very number
• 37:33
  Speaker 3: one thing that she puts on her right for SC
• 37:37
  Speaker 3: education is that we need in order to set our
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: children up for success, we must meet each student where
• 37:43
  Speaker 3: they are and ensure their basic needs.
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: Okay, I'm with you on that.
• 37:46
  Speaker 3: One number one priority social emotional learning Nope, you already
• 37:51
  Speaker 3: lost me. I'm already out. I'm already out. When you
• 37:55
  Speaker 3: start talking about social emotional learning, I am not interested
• 38:00
  Speaker 3: in that. I believe that what's happened in America and
• 38:03
  Speaker 3: Western culture in general is that we're falling further and
• 38:06
  Speaker 3: further behind Asian countries and other places because we do
• 38:11
  Speaker 3: focus on your feelings. Stop focusing on your feelings because
• 38:15
  Speaker 3: it just enhances your problems.
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: Focus on the actual basics.
• 38:20
  Speaker 3: The three rs. Christopher, we all remember the three rs. Sure, reading, writing, arithmetic.
• 38:25
  Speaker 3: If you had a problem with it, did your teacher
• 38:27
  Speaker 3: come over and rub your back and go, Christopher, are
• 38:30
  Speaker 3: you struggling with two plus two? Maybe maybe it's racist
• 38:34
  Speaker 3: that we have two plus two. It should it shouldn't
• 38:37
  Speaker 3: be that way. What would you like it to be
• 38:39
  Speaker 3: two plus two equals cat. That's if that's your truth,
• 38:43
  Speaker 3: we're going to support that. Now you can feel good
• 38:45
  Speaker 3: about yourself. Didn't work that way back then, and it
• 38:48
  Speaker 3: shouldn't work that way now. It actually doesn't work that
• 38:51
  Speaker 3: way now. That's why we have the problems that we have.
• 38:54
  Speaker 3: Social emotional learning. If that's your number one priority, I'm
• 38:58
  Speaker 3: already out. If Ellen Weaver wants to run and just
• 39:00
  Speaker 3: say go look at Wright's website. That's all you gotta
• 39:04
  Speaker 3: do to win. For Ellen Weaver to win the vote,
• 39:06
  Speaker 3: I'm not going to focus on social emotional learning, but
• 39:09
  Speaker 3: that's that's the way I think most normal people, not
• 39:15
  Speaker 3: just Republicans, normal people understand that education is not about
• 39:19
  Speaker 3: enhancing the emotions of the student. But we'll see, perhaps,
• 39:24
  Speaker 3: perhaps we'll be in for a big upset this year.
• 39:26
  Speaker 3: Ellen Weaver says she's not going to back off her fundraising,
• 39:29
  Speaker 3: although she does according to Matt Moore, who I think
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: is he's the former head of the South Carolina GOP.
• 39:34
  Speaker 3: He's the current I guess campaign manager for Ellen Weaver.
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: He's quoted in the story of saying she has seven
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: times more cash on hand than miss Right.
• 39:42
  Speaker 5: So she's in a good position.
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: But she's the incumbent too, and she's her company good position.
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: She's a Republican in South Carolina. Republican policies tend to
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: win around here because we like normalcy around here. We're
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: not looking for the chaos that the Democrats are trying
• 39:58
  Speaker 3: to introduce.
• 39:58
  Speaker 5: So anyway, the.
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: Look to Ellen Weaver and I appreciate your feedbacks on
• 40:04
  Speaker 3: these stories. You can always use the talkback feature on
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• 40:08
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• 40:13
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• 40:23
  Speaker 2: NOW Kelly Nash.
• 40:25
  Speaker 3: When I moved to South Carolina in two thousand and three,
• 40:28
  Speaker 3: I had never heard of the town Pageland, South Carolina.
• 40:32
  Speaker 3: It's a little town and a little county. Apparently they
• 40:35
  Speaker 3: made good football players. Corey Miller, former Giants linebacker and
• 40:41
  Speaker 3: game cut great, Robbie Caldwell, current offensive line coach over
• 40:45
  Speaker 3: at Clemson, Justice Cunningham selected in the twenty thirteen NFL Draft.
• 40:49
  Speaker 5: All these people and more from Pageland. So they're on
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: the map.
• 40:52
  Speaker 3: But they are also on the map because earlier this
• 40:55
  Speaker 3: month their two flock cameras were cut to the ground,
• 41:00
  Speaker 3: and the flock camera controversy continues. We were talking last
• 41:04
  Speaker 3: week about how IRMO had just increased their budget to
• 41:08
  Speaker 3: get more flock cameras into the community, and then I
• 41:12
  Speaker 3: see today in Bluffton a half dozen flock cameras located
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: on a busy two mile stretch of the Buckwater Parkway
• 41:20
  Speaker 3: have been damaged, according to the Blufton Police Department. So
• 41:24
  Speaker 3: South Carolinians not cottonan to the flock cameras apparently, And
• 41:31
  Speaker 3: in this story that I'm reading in the Posting Courier
• 41:33
  Speaker 3: in Greer, two police officers were fired last month after
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: an audit showed that they had used the cameras to
• 41:41
  Speaker 3: track certain residents, specifically someone in a relationship with one
• 41:46
  Speaker 3: of the officers.
• 41:46
  Speaker 4: That's we mentioned that last week. That's one of the
• 41:49
  Speaker 4: problems with that. There's not enough oversight, apparently of who's
• 41:54
  Speaker 4: using these flock cameras and for what reason. Now we've
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: talked about the fact that they can be great in
• 41:58
  Speaker 4: aiding law enforcement, but you know, if you've got a
• 42:01
  Speaker 4: rogue officer out there who decides to track his ex wife,
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: for example, or track someone he's dating, or I've even
• 42:08
  Speaker 4: seen that some people are using it to some pedophiles
• 42:11
  Speaker 4: are using it pedophile police officers to track kids. Goodness gracious,
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: but I don't you know, there are a lot of
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: things that can be used for bad but are overall
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: beneficial to the community. I think more oversight and you
• 42:27
  Speaker 4: could probably get away with these flock cameras.
• 42:29
  Speaker 3: The Hilton Head flock cameras were used to locate suspects
• 42:34
  Speaker 3: involved in a fourth of July shooting at the beach
• 42:36
  Speaker 3: that had injured eight people. So there's a good thing, sure,
• 42:41
  Speaker 3: you know, and it depends on who's doing It's like
• 42:45
  Speaker 3: anything else. Government is about who's running the government. And
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: it can be used for good, it can be used
• 42:51
  Speaker 3: for bad. And so whoever's doing the oversight, if they're
• 42:55
  Speaker 3: in on it, it's a bad thing. And if they're
• 42:59
  Speaker 3: law abiding, law god fearing people. If you're a God
• 43:03
  Speaker 3: fearing person, then you're probably well, you are going to
• 43:07
  Speaker 3: do the right thing because you're not answering to yourself
• 43:11
  Speaker 3: or to another human being, you're answering to God. But
• 43:14
  Speaker 3: if you're somebody who's just in it to promote yourself
• 43:18
  Speaker 3: or promote the business, or promote whatever it is that
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: you're I don't know, you're ideologically ideologically lined up with
• 43:27
  Speaker 3: whatever that is, it can be very dangerous. We're giving
• 43:29
  Speaker 3: more and more power to law enforcement, which again law
• 43:34
  Speaker 3: enforcement is supposed to be here to help us, but
• 43:37
  Speaker 3: we have just you know, we just got a couple
• 43:39
  Speaker 3: of examples here where it wasn't used to help us,
• 43:41
  Speaker 3: and we continue to see more and more of that.
• 43:44
  Speaker 3: We were talking about the guy from Ice earlier who
• 43:46
  Speaker 3: has apparently got a case of mental health struggles and
• 43:50
  Speaker 3: or domestic violence charges who ended up in the shooting
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: in Maine. So hiring law enforcement is so important. But
• 44:00
  Speaker 3: these flock cameras, I don't think this is going to
• 44:02
  Speaker 3: go away. I think that this scandal, or it's not
• 44:05
  Speaker 3: a scandal, it's a controversy. Right, Should we have more
• 44:09
  Speaker 3: flock cameras? Iermo said yes, although there's a bunch of
• 44:12
  Speaker 3: people protesting in Iermo. We see them now down in
• 44:15
  Speaker 3: Bluffton literally damaging them. We saw them in Pageland cutting
• 44:19
  Speaker 3: them in half. Wouldn't the flock camera know who cut
• 44:24
  Speaker 3: it in half?
• 44:26
  Speaker 4: You would think so.
• 44:27
  Speaker 3: I mean, I guess maybe if you're wearing a mask
• 44:32
  Speaker 3: or something, somehow they walked up on it.
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: There's no license plates.
• 44:35
  Speaker 3: But yeah, this idea that they're tracking their ex girlfriends
• 44:38
  Speaker 3: or whatever, this is scary stuff.
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: But if you're law abiding and you're on either side
• 44:44
  Speaker 4: of the issue, either the police side or if you're
• 44:47
  Speaker 4: a citizen, you should be okay.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: So do you want more flot cameras? South Carolina or
• 44:52
  Speaker 3: would you like less. I know we have a couple
• 44:54
  Speaker 3: of bills. By the way, we have four bills at
• 44:56
  Speaker 3: the State House House Bill forty six, seventy five, thirty
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: one fifty five forty thirteen, along with the Senate Bill
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: four forty seven, and they're supposed to impose limits on
• 45:09
  Speaker 3: the use of the automated license plate reading cameras, though
• 45:12
  Speaker 3: none have moved out of the committee as of yet.
• 45:15
  Speaker 3: So perhaps you want to encourage your your your House member,
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: or your state senator to do more to limit the
• 45:22
  Speaker 3: flock cameras something to be aware of, or perhaps you're thinking,
• 45:25
  Speaker 3: like you know, Christopher said, law abiding citizens should have
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: nothing to fear unless you happen to be dating one
• 45:30
  Speaker 3: of these police officers. More thoughts on that and other
• 45:34
  Speaker 3: stuff coming up a South Carolina's Morning News.
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News on one O three
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: point five FM and five sixty AM WVOC, Columbia and
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: ninety four to three WSC Charleston.
• 45:48
  Speaker 1: Now, Kelly Nash.
• 45:51
  Speaker 3: You know, we like to think of ourselves here in
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: South Carolina is above fear of the Democrat Socialists of America.
• 46:01
  Speaker 3: But Saturday, eighty people gathered in Charleston to march for
• 46:07
  Speaker 3: the Democrat Socialists. They have a petition that is now received.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: What do they say about five hundred signatures? Now sixteen hundred,
• 46:15
  Speaker 3: I'm sorry, sixteen hundred signatures have signed their petition and
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: they're making their case and their petition. They point out
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: a couple of different protests that have taken place. In
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: twenty twenty four, a pro Palestine demonstration resulted in two
• 46:30
  Speaker 3: protesters being arrested and criminally charged. They say that these
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: the law enforcement is infringing upon their First amendments, also
• 46:40
  Speaker 3: pointing out a peaceful gathering in Marion Square to protest
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: the mass Ice arrests ended with the arrests of seven protesters,
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: and they're saying that this is an infringement upon their
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: First Amendment rights. Again, I'm shocked that there's sixteen hundred
• 46:55
  Speaker 3: people who would signed this, but I mean, there's like
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: nine hundred thousand people who live in the metro for Columbia,
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: so I guess it shouldn't be surprising that there's you know,
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: two or three thousand loans. However, let's just give them
• 47:11
  Speaker 3: a quick history lesson. This is just a very quick
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: history lesson. You got the First Amendment in seventeen ninety one.
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: In seventeen ninety two, the government realized they had made
• 47:22
  Speaker 3: a mistake in giving too much of a good thing
• 47:25
  Speaker 3: to you, because that's when you had people launching these
• 47:29
  Speaker 3: violent protests. There was something called the Shay's Rebellion and
• 47:32
  Speaker 3: the Whiskey Rebellion, and because of that, on May second,
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: seventeen ninety two, it was called the Calling Forth Act
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: was then put into place, which gave the president the
• 47:41
  Speaker 3: power to put in a militia to break you up.
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: That's when you started needing permits. So it's one of
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: these things that's since seventeen ninety two, the United States
• 47:52
  Speaker 3: is recognized you just can't have mobs wandering the streets
• 47:55
  Speaker 3: saying whatever the hell they want. It's insane that we're
• 47:59
  Speaker 3: now re litigating something that was settled two three hundred years.
• 48:04
  Speaker 4: Ago at this point, and this is in Charleston. I
• 48:07
  Speaker 4: guess this all blew up when the Francis Marian statue
• 48:11
  Speaker 4: came down and there was a lot of controversy there
• 48:14
  Speaker 4: and there were protests, and I think that's where this
• 48:19
  Speaker 4: all originated. But the Democrats, socialists, first of all, they're
• 48:23
  Speaker 4: exercising their First Amendment rights. By protesting, correct, by even
• 48:28
  Speaker 4: signing something, they're exercising their First Amendment rights.
• 48:31
  Speaker 5: Correct.
• 48:31
  Speaker 4: But yeah, there are rules in place. You can protest,
• 48:34
  Speaker 4: but you know, you can't infringe upon the public's right
• 48:38
  Speaker 4: to move freely. For example, you can't just block an
• 48:41
  Speaker 4: intersection to protest. I mean, there have to be certain
• 48:45
  Speaker 4: rules in place.
• 48:46
  Speaker 3: That's one of the things that they love to do
• 48:47
  Speaker 3: is that you'll see protesters who really have no traction
• 48:51
  Speaker 3: with their argument. They will then shut down a highway
• 48:54
  Speaker 3: and then people are unable to get to work or whatever.
• 48:57
  Speaker 5: And of course.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Violence is going to ensue at that point because people
• 49:00
  Speaker 3: are beyond frustrated. I can't get to work because you
• 49:03
  Speaker 3: got these morons lying in the streets. Get them off
• 49:06
  Speaker 3: the streets.
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, they do more harm than good for their own cause.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: But or they go and they start throwing paint on
• 49:12
  Speaker 3: people and things of that nature, and then call that
• 49:14
  Speaker 3: free speech. The DEMO just taking the name Democrat Socialist,
• 49:19
  Speaker 3: let you know, this person is a loon, and so
• 49:22
  Speaker 3: I don't take anybody serious who's a DSA member or
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: a Black Lives Matter member. All of these people are
• 49:30
  Speaker 3: fringe loons. And so the fact that you got eighty
• 49:33
  Speaker 3: of them to protest, I guess hoay, Charleston, that it
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: was only eighty good for you. I mean again, you're
• 49:40
  Speaker 3: almost nine hundred thousand people living in that area and
• 49:42
  Speaker 3: only eighty showed up. That shows you how little support
• 49:45
  Speaker 3: they have. Let's keep it going, Charleston. Let's keep sanity
• 49:48
  Speaker 3: raining in South Carolina. This is South Carolina's morning news.
• 49:51
  Speaker 1: TRONA Midlands to the Low Country.
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
• 49:57
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• 50:01
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• 50:03
  Speaker 1: Now here's Kelly Nash.
• 50:06
  Speaker 3: Last week, the Census Bureau put out a press release
• 50:09
  Speaker 3: that foreign born US residents is now at fifty point
• 50:15
  Speaker 3: two million people. This is a fourteen point eight percent
• 50:19
  Speaker 3: of the population, which ties the record high of eighteen ninety. Now,
• 50:25
  Speaker 3: the big difference between eighteen ninety and twenty twenty four
• 50:29
  Speaker 3: is the fact that in eighteen ninety, when you came
• 50:31
  Speaker 3: to the United States, there was nothing here to welcome you, you
• 50:36
  Speaker 3: know what I'm saying.
• 50:36
  Speaker 4: And plenty of land there was.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: There was a lot of land, there was some opportunity,
• 50:41
  Speaker 3: no safety nets, there was no government assistance on anything,
• 50:45
  Speaker 3: and so the people who came here really were looking
• 50:48
  Speaker 3: for freedom and an opportunity. It had been rising since
• 50:52
  Speaker 3: like eighteen fifty, when we were somewhere at around nine percent,
• 50:57
  Speaker 3: So the peak was eighteen ninety. We were down to
• 50:59
  Speaker 3: four percent in the nineteen seventies, and now ever since,
• 51:03
  Speaker 3: these social programs have been expanded and expanded. That's the
• 51:08
  Speaker 3: reason for why so many foreigners want to come here,
• 51:12
  Speaker 3: not because they want to work and contribute, but because
• 51:14
  Speaker 3: they want to get a free ride in the United States.
• 51:17
  Speaker 3: And that's costing all of us who are American born
• 51:21
  Speaker 3: tremendously with our tax.
• 51:22
  Speaker 4: Dollars and who are working hard. And I'm not saying
• 51:25
  Speaker 4: all of these illegals aren't. Some of them aren't working,
• 51:28
  Speaker 4: but the problem is there are too many who are
• 51:30
  Speaker 4: just sucking off the lifeline that is there for the
• 51:35
  Speaker 4: rest of us that we've worked so hard for all
• 51:37
  Speaker 4: our lives.
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: The other big difference was in eighteen ninety they wanted
• 51:40
  Speaker 3: to assimilate and to the American culture. These people are
• 51:43
  Speaker 3: trying to change the culture. That's why you see all
• 51:45
  Speaker 3: these Palestinian flags flying and all that other stuff. America
• 51:50
  Speaker 3: is at a tipping point when it comes. If you
• 51:53
  Speaker 3: got fifty point two million people that we know of
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: that were not born in America, how many of them
• 51:58
  Speaker 3: are swearing allegiance to the United lace State. How many
• 52:00
  Speaker 3: of them are here to just be you know, insurrectionists,
• 52:04
  Speaker 3: crazy people. People want to take over our culture and
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: our government. That's the problem. So I'm wondering if that
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: story will get more attention. It came out last week.
• 52:12
  Speaker 3: Not a whole lot of people talking about it that
• 52:14
  Speaker 3: I've heard over the weekend, but I wanted to drop
• 52:16
  Speaker 3: that in for you so you can that's something you
• 52:18
  Speaker 3: can chew on at the water cool this morning when
• 52:20
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• 52:41
  Speaker 1: From the State Capitol.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Eight oh three. And you know it was about the
• 52:52
  Speaker 3: seventy two hours ago. So we were getting ready for
• 52:55
  Speaker 3: the big White House Correspondence Association dinner and went off
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  Speaker 3: without a hitch for the most part. But Christopher, what
• 53:04
  Speaker 3: were your thoughts on the president's You know, he had
• 53:08
  Speaker 3: Every president tries to be funny at these things.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, how did you think? Trump did? Pretty pretty poorly?
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  Speaker 4: He started okay, but I mean even he at some point,
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  Speaker 4: you know, went off the teleprompter and said, who's writing this?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he did say that that was hysterically it was.
• 53:25
  Speaker 4: It was pretty bad. And I mean, you know what
• 53:28
  Speaker 4: I love when Trump throws his critics curveballs. It would
• 53:32
  Speaker 4: have been great if he had gone up there and
• 53:35
  Speaker 4: been a little more self deprecating, a little more okay.
• 53:38
  Speaker 4: You know, you know, the media and I have had
• 53:40
  Speaker 4: our issues, but you know, I've got some issues on
• 53:42
  Speaker 4: my own in my administration and maybe poked a little
• 53:46
  Speaker 4: more fun at himself or those like RFK Junior, who
• 53:49
  Speaker 4: he did call out once or twice. But oh, that
• 53:51
  Speaker 4: was a great.
• 53:52
  Speaker 3: Line on RFK talking about how the stake or whatever
• 53:54
  Speaker 3: had been Robert Bobby Kennedy. He ran over the cow himself.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, he had some good stuff in there, but yeah,
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  Speaker 4: It's just it became too mean spirit It was kind
• 54:05
  Speaker 4: of what you expected.
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  Speaker 5: It was mean spirited.
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  Speaker 3: It was also, you know, it was compounded by the
• 54:11
  Speaker 3: fact that they're not going to laugh no matter what
• 54:14
  Speaker 3: you say for the most part, so it feels kind
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  Speaker 3: of flat. I'm wondering, you know, in his mind, why
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  Speaker 3: he would even do it. I love the President. I
• 54:24
  Speaker 3: love that he's a fighter. I love pretty much everything
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  Speaker 3: about him. But I don't like that he says he
• 54:30
  Speaker 3: wants to be a unifier and you're going into an
• 54:33
  Speaker 3: audience you know, doesn't want to be unified, and then
• 54:35
  Speaker 3: you're throwing stuff at them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: I just thought that was an ill conceived plan for
• 54:41
  Speaker 3: Friday Night.
• 54:42
  Speaker 4: And I'll say this, I wasn't a big fan when
• 54:44
  Speaker 4: they started hiring all the comics that would go up
• 54:48
  Speaker 4: on stage and try and skewer the president for three hours,
• 54:51
  Speaker 4: no matter if it was a Republican or a Democrat.
• 54:55
  Speaker 4: The whole thing's gotten too mean spirited over the years.
• 54:57
  Speaker 4: It was no longer funny, it was no longer humorous.
• 55:01
  Speaker 4: It was no longer all that entertaining to see, you know,
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  Speaker 4: these celebrities sitting in the audience, you know, rubbing elbows
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  Speaker 4: with politicians. It's it's a waste of time.
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  Speaker 3: And we what year was it that Barack Obama insulted Trump?
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  Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, and that was said to launch the Trump campaign.
• 55:18
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm trying to remember what year that was, like
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  Speaker 3: twenty fourteen or something like that. Is when he, you know,
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  Speaker 3: he's making fun of and Donald he's gonna make the
• 55:26
  Speaker 3: big decisions like he did about fire and Lil John
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  Speaker 3: and Trump sat there and took it and then launched
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  Speaker 3: his presidency. And he came in and he you know,
• 55:36
  Speaker 3: Trump's never gonna win the and he won the president.
• 55:38
  Speaker 3: So I'm wondering, now, should we look for a candidacy
• 55:40
  Speaker 3: in a couple of years from Caitlyn commins? Are we
• 55:43
  Speaker 3: gonna get Caitlyn? Because she she took the worst of it,
• 55:46
  Speaker 3: It felt for those of you who didn't see it.
• 55:48
  Speaker 3: He was comparing her to what was that the person
• 55:51
  Speaker 3: Dylan mulrooney, whatever the name is that, the trans person
• 55:56
  Speaker 3: who became the face for bud Light who then lost
• 56:00
  Speaker 3: is Trump pointed out thirty billion dollars in market cap
• 56:03
  Speaker 3: for bud Light, and I guess you could see somewhat
• 56:06
  Speaker 3: of a resemblance there wasn't particularly funny, I thought, But
• 56:10
  Speaker 3: perhaps you guys have other opinions on that. Maybe you
• 56:13
  Speaker 3: loved it that he just there is a group of
• 56:16
  Speaker 3: people in America that love the fact that Trump will
• 56:18
  Speaker 3: stand right up to his critics and just call them
• 56:21
  Speaker 3: out right to their face.
• 56:22
  Speaker 5: He's not going to back down. He doesn't.
• 56:24
  Speaker 3: He doesn't flinch on that, and maybe that you're one
• 56:26
  Speaker 3: of those people be interested in hearing your Did it
• 56:29
  Speaker 3: help his cause on Friday night? Absolutely not. Christopher and
• 56:33
  Speaker 3: I seem to be in agreement on that one. I
• 56:34
  Speaker 3: don't think it helped our causes to try to unify
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  Speaker 3: the country or anything. But again, I'm not trying to
• 56:38
  Speaker 3: unify the country by weakness. I'm not trying to say, oh,
• 56:41
  Speaker 3: your truth is our truth or whatever either. I'm just saying,
• 56:45
  Speaker 3: if you're trying to unify, don't go into a hostile
• 56:48
  Speaker 3: environment and then ramp up the situation with more hostility.
• 56:51
  Speaker 3: I would even gone to it, to be honest with you,
• 56:53
  Speaker 3: I thought the right decision was the four years where
• 56:55
  Speaker 3: he said I'm not going. Why would I go to
• 56:57
  Speaker 3: this thing? It's stupid, I'm not going. I think he
• 57:00
  Speaker 3: should continue that policy, and perhaps he will and perhaps
• 57:03
  Speaker 3: we'll get the you know, maybe somebody again will credit
• 57:05
  Speaker 3: him for having the White House Ballroom for future events,
• 57:09
  Speaker 3: because that will be a much safer and more convenient
• 57:12
  Speaker 3: location for all of DC to celebrate their whatever events
• 57:15
  Speaker 3: they want to celebrate.
• 57:16
  Speaker 5: But that's where we're standing on it this morning.
• 57:18
  Speaker 3: Where are you.
• 57:18
  Speaker 5: Standing on it?
• 57:19
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
• 57:44
  Speaker 3: So the candidates were lining up to file to run.
• 57:48
  Speaker 3: I think it was Friday is when we got a
• 57:49
  Speaker 3: bunch of them in Columbia filing to run. And the
• 57:53
  Speaker 3: one that got the most I don't know, controversial response
• 57:56
  Speaker 3: would be Darlene Graham Nordona. Are we using Nordona?
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  Speaker 5: We don't know.
• 58:03
  Speaker 3: She didn't answer any questions, she gave a statement and
• 58:06
  Speaker 3: basically said, I'm asking for grace as we go through
• 58:09
  Speaker 3: this time of mourning for my brother, which again understandable.
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  Speaker 3: But she is inheriting about a million dollars in order
• 58:19
  Speaker 3: to run with thanks to a Lindsey Graham pack, they've
• 58:24
  Speaker 3: raised nine hundred and sixty thousand dollars. I think it
• 58:27
  Speaker 3: was since she and I she was running. That's going
• 58:29
  Speaker 3: to help her out tremendously. At the same time, she's
• 58:32
  Speaker 3: not answering questions. Russell Frye has apparently already raised a
• 58:38
  Speaker 3: half million dollars since he declared. But the difference between
• 58:42
  Speaker 3: Russell Frye and maybe some of the others is the
• 58:44
  Speaker 3: fact that Russell Frye is basically when he says I'm
• 58:46
  Speaker 3: America first, he doesn't even have a policy position, it appears,
• 58:51
  Speaker 3: regarding foreign policy. It's just let's focus on America. Maybe
• 58:55
  Speaker 3: some people like that. I'm gonna hopefully get Mark Sandford
• 58:59
  Speaker 3: on to I'm hoping he files today. Yeah, so I'm
• 59:03
  Speaker 3: hoping that today is the day we get Mark Sandford.
• 59:05
  Speaker 3: I was talking to some of his people over the weekend,
• 59:07
  Speaker 3: so tomorrow we can have some of the Mark Sandford interview.
• 59:09
  Speaker 3: When we look at the most recent poll, Christopher Thompson,
• 59:13
  Speaker 3: you were pointing out some of the I don't know
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: wonkiness of it.
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  Speaker 4: Well, for starters, that poll was taken before Sandford officially
• 59:21
  Speaker 4: entered the race. It was speculated, but we didn't know
• 59:23
  Speaker 4: for sure if he was in. He got in, but
• 59:26
  Speaker 4: after the poll was taken, and there's still a huge
• 59:29
  Speaker 4: number of undecideds in that poll and the and maybe Kelly,
• 59:36
  Speaker 4: you've pointed this out over and over again, the fact
• 59:38
  Speaker 4: that we're not even sure what to call Darlene Graham.
• 59:41
  Speaker 4: Maybe that has led to some name recognition issues, but
• 59:45
  Speaker 4: there are a awful lot of people out there who
• 59:47
  Speaker 4: still don't even know who she is, and she's not
• 59:49
  Speaker 4: helping by not doing any media and telling people not
• 59:53
  Speaker 4: only who she is, but what she stands for.
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  Speaker 3: In the six o'clock hour when we discussed this, I
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: was speculating that she or whoever's in charge of the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 3: campaign is kind of putting in the Joe Biden policy.
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: Let's just keep him in the basement, run off the
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: name alone, see how it goes. I don't know if
• 1:00:11
  Speaker 3: they're trying to help or hurt her, but apparently John
• 1:00:16
  Speaker 3: Thune has come out with his support for Darlene Graham.
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  Speaker 3: Does that help her her? I don't know that that
• 1:00:20
  Speaker 3: helps right. He's not the most popular person with Republicans
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  Speaker 3: right now, with the you know, everything that's not happened
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 3: in Washington, including the Save America Act. I don't know
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  Speaker 3: that that's going to move the needle a whole lot
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 3: for Darling Graham. It may move it in the wrong direction.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They also pointed out that Tom Cotton is a supporter,
• 1:00:37
  Speaker 3: and Tom Cotton has a good reputation with the conservative base.
• 1:00:43
  Speaker 3: Ralph Norman is picking up some impressive endorsements, so I'll
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 3: say that from the conservatives, he's in second place in
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: this poll. That again a little bit wonky, conducted before
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  Speaker 3: Sanford even got in, and then it a little bit
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 3: of a drop off between Darlene and Ralph before you
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 3: get back to the you know, a bunch of them
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 3: at like seven percent ish, including Pamela Evitt, who at
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: this point I don't believe is running. We haven't heard
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  Speaker 3: any more from her, have we.
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  Speaker 4: That's a head scratch or no, we haven't heard any
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 4: more from her other than she made a vague statement
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  Speaker 4: last week about, you know, it's time to ask for
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 4: healing or something like that. As we you know more
• 1:01:24
  Speaker 4: in the loss of Lindsey Graham. She didn't say she
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 4: was getting in. It almost sounded if she was, as
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 4: if she was hinting at getting in. But the field
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 4: is almost so full at this point, I'm not sure
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 4: how if you're Pamela Evitt you stand out from the crowd.
• 1:01:40
  Speaker 5: Well.
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  Speaker 3: Again, going off this poll that was six hundred likely
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: voters conducted on July twenty first, which is before Sandford
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 3: got in, it was Darlene Graham at twenty one percent,
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  Speaker 3: Norman at seventeen, Evid at ten, Lynch Russell, fry Mark
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 3: Sandford all at seven. For some reason, Nancy Mace's name
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: popped up at three percent, although she's I think by
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: the twenty first had already given her endorsement to Ralph Norman, right,
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 3: and then Duke Buckner. Okay, I would love to talk
• 1:02:08
  Speaker 3: to a Duke Buckner. If you're a Duke Buckner voter.
• 1:02:12
  Speaker 3: He has been primary, not primary, but running against James
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: Clyburn as a Republican for most of my life. I
• 1:02:18
  Speaker 3: would love to hear from you. How did Duke get
• 1:02:21
  Speaker 3: your vote? I would love to know about that, But
• 1:02:23
  Speaker 3: use the talkback feature, But Darlene Graham apparently is not
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 3: going to answer questions and early voting starts when like
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: next week.
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  Speaker 4: Early voting starts. Let's see Wednesday out Wednesday, August fifth.
• 1:02:36
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so we're literally nine days away from
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: the election beginning and we don't even know her last name?
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: This is wasn't that that country song? I don't even
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: know my last name or something like that?
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  Speaker 4: Well, and the debate will be two days prior to that.
• 1:02:50
  Speaker 4: I mean, how's she going to perform in a debate
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 4: if she takes part, if she hasn't even answered any
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 4: questions about you know, who she is, what her platform is.
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm talking with Alan Wilson today. We'll play that
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 3: back tomorrow. He's going to be moderating a situation with
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 3: I guess you'll be at that one. I think she
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: said she's coming to that one, So we'll see how
• 1:03:12
  Speaker 3: that plays out. But what kind of questions is Alan Wilson?
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 3: Do you have a question you would like for me
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 3: to get to Alan Wilson so he can ask them
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 3: on stage. You can use the talkback feature for that
• 1:03:22
  Speaker 3: as well. Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's
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  Speaker 3: Morning News.
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning.
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  Speaker 8: You know. I'm Lady Johns Dearly and I'll listen every day.
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 8: But if you are beating up Darleen, it seems to me,
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 8: if you have seen her resume, she's very qualified for
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 8: the job, and I think we just need to give
• 1:03:42
  Speaker 8: her a chance and do exactly what she said, give
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 8: her some grace right now. I think she'll come forward
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 8: before time to actually get out and vote for I'll
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 8: have a blessed day.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: Well, thank you very much.
• 1:03:53
  Speaker 3: And obviously you're a Darlen Graham supporter, and I don't
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: think we're being tough on Darling Gram. If you were
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 3: to just take the name Graham off the name Darlene
• 1:04:05
  Speaker 3: and just say this was a candidate who decided to
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 3: run for office. I mentioned in the six o'clock hour.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 3: Perhaps what she told Sean Hannity is true that she
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 3: wants to not run off her brother's name, that she
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 3: wants to make a name for herself, that she has
• 1:04:21
  Speaker 3: different opinions maybe on certain issues, and that's fantastic. Good
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: for you, But if now is not the time, because
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 3: you're in a season of mourning, which would be completely
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 3: understandable to lose your brother and your father and she
• 1:04:39
  Speaker 3: said slash mother figure all in the same week, just
• 1:04:43
  Speaker 3: days ago. Maybe now's not the time to run. If
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 3: you want to make your name for yourself in politics,
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 3: maybe sit this one out and then come back. But
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 3: if you are serious about trying to be the next
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 3: Senator from South Carolina, you're aspiring to a very powerful position.
• 1:05:00
  Speaker 3: There's only one hundred people on earth that get this position.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 3: There's only two in each state that get this position.
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 3: In order to have that kind of power, you need
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 3: to be fully vetted. I just don't want to read
• 1:05:12
  Speaker 3: your resume. There's a zillion people who have great resumes
• 1:05:15
  Speaker 3: who turn out to be failures when they get an
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 3: opportunity at the next level. This would be a huge
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 3: step up, no matter what kind of public service you've
• 1:05:24
  Speaker 3: had to become a senator to actually mold craft policy
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 3: for the United States to then present to the President.
• 1:05:33
  Speaker 3: This is a massive position, and you need to be accessible.
• 1:05:38
  Speaker 4: That the timetable is drastically It's unfair to every one
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 4: of these candidates. Certainly it's unfair to someone who's in
• 1:05:45
  Speaker 4: mourning for her brother while she's ramping up a campaign.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 4: But nonetheless, the timetable is what it is. We are
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 4: going to vote coming up. Well, as you mentioned, early
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 4: voting starts next week. We are voting very soon. We've
• 1:05:57
  Speaker 4: got to know more about you, what you're thing thoughts are,
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 4: what your goals for South Carolina are, what your policies are,
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 4: what you believe, and we can't make a decision and
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 4: we certainly can't support you until we know what your
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 4: policies are.
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is not a position.
• 1:06:14
  Speaker 3: I think the call the talkback feature, she said something
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 3: about give her a chance. I'm not in a position
• 1:06:21
  Speaker 3: to give you a chance at this job, because once
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 3: you're in, you're in for six years. It's like saying
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 3: it's almost as bad as giving you a chance of
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 3: being a Supreme Court justice. Katanya Jackson Brown has ruined
• 1:06:31
  Speaker 3: that for all future candidates, we can't give you a chance.
• 1:06:35
  Speaker 3: But Christopher Thompson, we've got the early voting starting, and
• 1:06:40
  Speaker 3: I believe we're going to go to a runoff. I
• 1:06:42
  Speaker 3: don't think that anybody's going to get more than fifty
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 3: percent in this do you Is it possible?
• 1:06:47
  Speaker 4: I don't think so.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 3: So at that point, and so we can give her
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 3: a little bit of grace, as she said, I can't
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 3: remember exactly the lineup for the funerals. I think we
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 3: have one Tuesday in that's the one in DC, right
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 3: is tomorrow, and then Wednesday, I think it's going to
• 1:07:03
  Speaker 3: be here at the State Capitol. And then finally late Wednesday,
• 1:07:06
  Speaker 3: if I remember correctly, it's going to be in Pickens County.
• 1:07:09
  Speaker 3: That's a private, for the family only type of event.
• 1:07:13
  Speaker 3: And so, okay, we'll give you all that, and then
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 3: when does she hit the campaign trail and say this
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 3: is who I am. You wanted to make a difference
• 1:07:22
  Speaker 3: between you and your brother. What are those differences? We
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 3: want to know who you are, Where do you stand
• 1:07:27
  Speaker 3: on issues? And how do you expect to lead? Having
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 3: at this point no experience in government? Again, that's always
• 1:07:36
  Speaker 3: been a great question for Donald Trump.
• 1:07:38
  Speaker 5: How did you expect to lead?
• 1:07:39
  Speaker 3: You have no experience as the president, you have no
• 1:07:41
  Speaker 3: experience at the Senate, you have no experience as the governor.
• 1:07:44
  Speaker 3: How can you expect to be the president of the
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 3: United States? He answered those questions enough that people felt
• 1:07:50
  Speaker 3: comfortable enough people did to put him in as the president.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 3: We'll see if she can answer those questions.
• 1:07:55
  Speaker 4: Well, there are a lot of questions to answer in
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 4: a very short period of time, even if she gets
• 1:08:00
  Speaker 4: into a runoff. I mean that runoff is in less
• 1:08:03
  Speaker 4: than a month. Yes, this is such a compressed schedule
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 4: that you've got to be I mean, we saw all
• 1:08:10
  Speaker 4: the candidates were campaigning all weekend, and she's not telling
• 1:08:14
  Speaker 4: us a whole lot while they're giving their life story
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 4: out on the campaign trail, it's time to start talking.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 4: If you're Darling Graham.
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  Speaker 3: You mentioned that they were campaigning this weekend, and I
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  Speaker 3: saw a couple of them, like Russell Fry, Mark Sandford.
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  Speaker 3: They were kind of popping up in my timeline. I
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  Speaker 3: think I saw Ralph Norman at an event. I didn't
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  Speaker 3: see anything from her. Did she do anything this weekend.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know that she did. I'm not sure.
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  Speaker 3: And we're two guys who are pretty attuned to what's
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  Speaker 3: going on. So if we didn't know the overwhelming majority
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  Speaker 3: of South Carolinians, even if she did do something or
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  Speaker 3: unaware of it, it didn't pop up in my news
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  Speaker 3: feed or anything like that. So again, this might not
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  Speaker 3: be her time. That's what I'm not saying. She's not
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  Speaker 3: qualified to be the senator. I'm not saying that she
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  Speaker 3: couldn't be a great senator. What I'm saying is, if
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  Speaker 3: you're not able to get yourself in a position to
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  Speaker 3: hold press conferences and things of that nature, this might
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  Speaker 3: not be your time. You might have to just come
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  Speaker 3: back and maybe run for a House seat, or you
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  Speaker 3: could wait six years and run for the Senate. But
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  Speaker 3: this I don't have a good feeling about it. There's
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  Speaker 3: just the way it's going say. I'm not passing judgment
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  Speaker 3: on her. I'm just saying, in the current environment, it
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  Speaker 3: doesn't feel right to me. But I do appreciate the talkback.
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  Speaker 3: If there's more, let us know on the iHeartRadio app
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  Speaker 2: Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: I'm reading a story in the Daily Signal which celebrates
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina because South Carolina has the most common sense people,
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  Speaker 3: according to this I'm reading bet Ryan Byrne, who works
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  Speaker 3: at ballot Pedia, says citizenship verification has never lost on
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  Speaker 3: the ballot. It was on fifteen different state ballots between
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  Speaker 3: twenty eighteen and twenty twenty five. It passed in everyone.
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  Speaker 3: The lowest was Kentucky at sixty two percent. The highest
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  Speaker 3: South Carolina. Over eighty percent of South Carolinians voted that
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  Speaker 3: you must have citizenship verification. Interestingly, they're a bunch of states,
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  Speaker 3: including just to our north. North Carolina will have it
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  Speaker 3: on the ballot this November. So it's not the same
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  Speaker 3: America Act. It's a voter excuse me, a citizenship verification
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  Speaker 3: Act in the middle of what we think is rigged
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  Speaker 3: elections because illegals are voting, so this was to prevent
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  Speaker 3: them from voting. So I'm wondering if they will pass anyway,
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  Speaker 3: and it's actually going to be on the ballot this
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  Speaker 3: November in California. The hopes are so high that perhaps California,
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  Speaker 3: which so far the federal government has already identified almost
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  Speaker 3: two hundred thousand people in California who are registered to
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  Speaker 3: vote that are non citizens, that if it can pass
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  Speaker 3: in California despite all of that, that this would send
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  Speaker 3: America back towards normalcy and only allow the citizens of
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  Speaker 3: the country to vote.
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  Speaker 4: It's hard to believe that you're reporting that as a
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  Speaker 4: news story. This just in citizens believe that citizens should
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  Speaker 4: be the only ones who decide elections.
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  Speaker 3: And we're going to allow again in California, non citizens
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  Speaker 3: are going to be voting on this ballot. So if
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  Speaker 3: they can overcome the non citizens vote, wow, where there?
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  Speaker 3: So you have an opportunity, as a non citizen of
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  Speaker 3: California to vote, to save your right to vote, to
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  Speaker 3: influence US politics or again the Californians. If Gavin Newsom's
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  Speaker 3: listening on the iHeartRadio app, good Morning Gavin. But I'd
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  Speaker 3: also point out that he would want to make the
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  Speaker 3: distinction that in California, what we're saying is they can
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  Speaker 3: vote in local elections, not federal election.
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  Speaker 4: Sure. Sure, but that's that's not a slippery slope. Let's
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  Speaker 4: let them vote in everything but the big ones. Okay,
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  Speaker 4: all right, And they will go to the ballot and
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  Speaker 4: they will choose their sheriff and their dogcatcher and the
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  Speaker 4: head of transportation. But they'll stop at that. They won't
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  Speaker 4: go to the next page on the ballot.
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  Speaker 5: I'll be honest.
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  Speaker 3: One of my favorite things about South Carolina's morning news
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  Speaker 3: is when we get the Christopher Thompson sarcasm sorry, but
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  Speaker 3: it's fantastic.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be sorry. I love it.
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  Speaker 4: It's and again, Kelly, it's just it's common sense. And
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  Speaker 4: it's hard to believe that common sense is not winning
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  Speaker 4: in all of these states, but it's not.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, And we have some other weird stuff going on.
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 3: Massachusetts voters are going to consider a top two primary
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  Speaker 3: system to replace the party primary system. This is what
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  Speaker 3: we call the jungle primary, like they have in California.
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  Speaker 3: Like they have in California. So there's gonna be all
• 1:13:05
  Speaker 3: kinds of things coming down this November. But if we
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  Speaker 3: could just get that passed, despite the best efforts to
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  Speaker 3: stop the Save America Act, it might not help for
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  Speaker 3: the twenty eighteen election because again it's the ballot. Is
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  Speaker 3: that it's the same day that you're voting on your candidates.
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  Speaker 3: Are you voting this? We may end up losing the
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  Speaker 3: primaries overwhelmingly. But at the same time, if you can
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  Speaker 3: get these states to pass that, especially California, who else
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  Speaker 3: we got Maryland, Vermont, there's some liberal states that are
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 3: going to put it on the ballot if they can.
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  Speaker 3: If we can win those, you might have a hope
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  Speaker 3: to save actual US democracy moving forward. Oh, hope, not
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  Speaker 3: a guarantee.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, some of the Democrats are actually arguing, well, if
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  Speaker 4: it's not going to matter to this election, why should
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  Speaker 4: we care. That's exactly it. We're not just worried about
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  Speaker 4: the integrity of this election. All future elections hinge on
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  Speaker 4: issues like this.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely, Absolutely, you have to lock down the elections and
• 1:14:04
  Speaker 3: make sure you know who's voting. Again, hard to believe
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  Speaker 3: that we have to report that, but we do have
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 3: to report that, and we have to encourage Americans to
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  Speaker 3: make sure that your elections are secure. Again, for those
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  Speaker 3: of you who love democracy, you don't have a democracy
• 1:14:17
  Speaker 3: if you have fake voters in the elections. That's just
• 1:14:20
  Speaker 3: the reality. If the dead keep voting, you don't have
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  Speaker 3: a democracy. All right, this is South Carolina's Morning News.
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  Speaker 2: This is South Carolina's morning news on one O three
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  Speaker 2: ninety four to three WSC Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: The UN Ambassador Mike Waltz said yesterday that the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration was stopping their attacks on Iran to give diplomacy
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  Speaker 3: a little room to talk. I am so against this,
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  Speaker 3: I can't even tell you I'm just taking the Trump
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  Speaker 3: administration as at their word that we have all that
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  Speaker 3: we need, because I know there's been some rumors floated
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  Speaker 3: that we're kind of running low on AMMO and things
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 3: of that nature. According to the Pentagon, we've got more
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  Speaker 3: than enough stuff. We're ready to go at any time,
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  Speaker 3: but we're just going to give diplomacy another shot. There's
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  Speaker 3: nobody to talk to, Christopher, That's my opinion. There's nobody
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  Speaker 3: we can talk to when Iran.
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  Speaker 4: It is disturbing to see these rumors start flying around
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  Speaker 4: Washington that we are out of munitions, because you know,
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  Speaker 4: Russia and China are paying close attention to what is
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 4: happening with the United States in this conflict and would
• 1:15:34
  Speaker 4: love to take advantage if we were low. So in
• 1:15:37
  Speaker 4: a sense, it makes you wonder do those rumors are
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  Speaker 4: they based in fact or is that just somebody trying
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  Speaker 4: to start trouble?
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  Speaker 3: If that well, either way, I feel like at this point,
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  Speaker 3: this is my opinion. If you have different ones, love
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  Speaker 3: to hear them on the talkback feature on the iHeartRadio
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  Speaker 3: app walk Away, Just walk Away. The mission, the original
• 1:15:59
  Speaker 3: mission of preventing I Ran from getting a nuclear weapon,
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  Speaker 3: has been achieved the second mission that was kind of
• 1:16:06
  Speaker 3: launched when they started messing around with the Straight of
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  Speaker 3: horror moves is not our problem per se.
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  Speaker 5: It does raise gas prices for everybody.
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  Speaker 3: I imagine it would get a lot less of a
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  Speaker 3: problem if there was no US military in the region
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  Speaker 3: and just let the golf nations deal with it. If
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  Speaker 3: the golf nations want to handle it and take there's
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  Speaker 3: a bunch of countries that are on the straight. If
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  Speaker 3: you want to defend the straight and keep it open
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  Speaker 3: so that your oil prices can be competitive moving forward, fantastic.
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  Speaker 3: If you don't, that's fantastic too. You want Iran to
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  Speaker 3: run the golf, let them run the golf's or the straight.
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  Speaker 3: That's up to you, guys. We're we've already done what
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to do. If we're not going to finish
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  Speaker 3: the job, then let's just get out of there.
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  Speaker 4: Israel says we haven't done what we did. Netanyahu was
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  Speaker 4: on the talk shows this weekend saying that it Ran
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  Speaker 4: is still a nuclear nation until we decide otherwise.
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  Speaker 3: Well, mister Netanyahu, you can continue to your attacks. Then
• 1:17:01
  Speaker 3: you needed us for the bunker busters. We gave you that.
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  Speaker 3: We did that we've followed up with that, we've gotten
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  Speaker 3: rid of the ballistic missile program. For the most part,
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  Speaker 3: we've knocked them back a decade or more. You can
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  Speaker 3: handle it from here.
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  Speaker 4: So do you think this is the beginning of a pullback,
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  Speaker 4: the fact that we haven't bombed in three days.
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  Speaker 3: I'm afraid it's not. I'm afraid. What we're doing is
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  Speaker 3: allowing the Iranians to gain strength. They're going to fool
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  Speaker 3: around at the negotiation table and then we're going to
• 1:17:27
  Speaker 3: see more of the Hoothies attacking. We're going to see
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  Speaker 3: more of Hamas attacks. We're going to see all that.
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  Speaker 3: And that is Iran. When we say the hoodies did this,
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  Speaker 3: or Hamas did that, or Hesbala did that, you should
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  Speaker 3: just change the word to Iran did that. And they're
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  Speaker 3: going to escalate because they want to exert dominance. And again,
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  Speaker 3: their ultimate goal is world domination. So they're a long
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  Speaker 3: way from world domination. But we're just fooling around with them.
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  Speaker 3: We're like a cat playing with a mouse over here.
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  Speaker 3: And I don't know why. I don't know why we
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  Speaker 3: don't go in and when we say bomb the crap
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  Speaker 3: out of them. Yes, civilians have to die if we
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  Speaker 3: are going to do that, unfortunately nobody likes that. But
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  Speaker 3: if you're going to take out the IRGC, civilians will die.
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  Speaker 3: You can't be that precise to just go after a
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  Speaker 3: couple of people here and a couple of people there.
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  Speaker 3: You have to do mass damage. War is about breaking
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  Speaker 3: things and killing people. That's what war is, and Americans
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  Speaker 3: don't have an appetite for it. Few countries do. But
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  Speaker 3: you're not selling us on this right now. Again, what
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  Speaker 3: did I see a poll today? Nineteen percent of Americans
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  Speaker 3: are hopeful for a positive outcome, and I ran now
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  Speaker 3: nineteen percent. Nobody believes that this is going well. So
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  Speaker 3: the pause is actually making it worse, not better, in
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  Speaker 3: my opinion. Although I guess we'll probably get a little
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  Speaker 3: break in oil prices, a small one. If that's your concern,
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  Speaker 3: you can let us know on the talkback feature. This
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  Speaker 3: is South Carolina's morning news from.
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  Speaker 1: Now Here's Kelly Nash.
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  Speaker 3: I mentioned earlier that I will be speaking with Alan
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  Speaker 3: Wilson today. We'll play that back tomorrow on this show.
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  Speaker 3: Are there any questions you want me to get Alan
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 3: Wilson to ask the candidates that are running for Senate,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 3: You can let us know on the talkback feature. I
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 3: also just confirmed about five seconds ago that we will
• 1:19:27
  Speaker 3: have Mark Sandford on the show. I'll be talking to
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 3: him today specifically. Do you have questions from Mark Sandford
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  Speaker 3: that you'd like to ask. You can use the talkback
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 3: feature on the iHeartRadio app and we'll get those on
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  Speaker 3: the air tomorrow as well. So busy little day, Christopher's
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  Speaker 3: we get ready for a busy little morning.
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  Speaker 4: No doubt about it. Sandford is an effective campaigner. It's
• 1:19:46
  Speaker 4: don't don't discount his chances in this race. He's gotten
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  Speaker 4: in a little later than the others, but he may
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  Speaker 4: make an impact.
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