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Live from the state Capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. So it all changed yesterday. My gosh, what a different landscape we wake up to this morning, Christopher Thompson, is now Danny Ford is eligible. Are the pollster scrambling at this very moment trying to figure out how this has changed the race? Drop a new poll immediately. This is, I mean, I would, I am. fascinated to find out someday somebody will explain to me why he's fought so hard and again I'm not under my I'm not saying that that was an easy thing for him to do to take on the GOP to say that your rule well what did the the judge COBEL say it was like it was it didn't make sense or it was confusing or something like that there were a lot of different things he said but bottom line is Ford is on some ballots not the ballots that have already been mailed out And maybe not your ballot, depending on where you are and how quickly your county works. Now, do we believe as, well, let me, do you agree with me that what's going to probably come out of this is Mr. Ford is not going to win. And when the expected loss comes down the pike, this will be used as an excuse. And then. The Mr. Democrat Brad Hutto will then launch another lawsuit saying that the reason my candidate was unable to win was because you penalized him with a rule that was, we've already decided that that rule doesn't make sense. The judge said so himself. And so now we're going to have to redo the entire primary. Oh, let's hope we don't go through that. I don't. I don't think it goes beyond this. But again, I'm like you. I'm not sure why Danny Ford is fighting so hard to get on this ballot, this late. When he says he's going to run again, he said this is not the end of his political future. Oh, no, it's a lifetime of political service. Well, you've served us so well here in the GOP in the last couple of weeks. This has been fantastic. Thank you, sir. The 10 people now vying for the GOP bid, only four. Russell Fry, Darlene Graham, Ralph Norman, and Mark Sanford have made the double-digit polls. I did not see, Christopher. Did you see anything about the debate from last night? How that went? I watched the first, oh, 20 minutes or so. Okay. You know, it wasn't a huge change. Different topics. Give the, give the moderators credit. They obviously had watched the night before what you and other... questioners had asked of these candidates, so different questions, but it was more the same. The Darlene Graham did not appear, correct? She did not. She said she was back in the Senate for a vote. And I guess what we'll have to talk about maybe a little bit later on in the show is strategy. The strategy, obviously the Graham campaign has been getting just hammered locally because of the lack of local media access. Well, that all changed yesterday with the announcement that the first local media to get that would be the far right wingers over at ETV.

Hmm. S-E-T-V is going to get land that very coveted first interview with Darlene Graham. Again, I saw that thing blowing up on social media like, are you flipping kidding me? There's already a vibe in the party. that the Darlene Graham candidacy is meant to distract, to possibly be, that her support of Katrina Shealy is what people say. They point to that and say, Rhino, you know, pro-abortion, those types of things. And then no interviews except for, we'll just say, the left-leaning public television stations. I cannot for the life of me understand why she would. I'm not saying you have to talk to me. I'm saying there's a bunch of right-leaning media outlets or even mainstream media outlets. Like you could go to the posting courier. You can go to any of these places. And I don't think anybody's going to give you the gotcha questions. You already know the questions that are going to come. I mean, you see them on social media all day. These are the types of questions that we're going to ask you. I'd be happy to write out my... Matter of fact, I might do that today. I might do a social media post. These would be the five questions I'd like to ask Darlene Graham. And if you'd like to add to that, you can add to that. But to go to SCE TV. This is crazy. And if you want an example of what it looks like to appear to be dodging... questions, just look at what happened to Pamela Evett, because that's exactly what it looked like when she decided to sit out a few debates and it blew up in her candidacy's face. I'm not sure you want the same type of image, especially in this carefully compressed election schedule. You're absolutely right, Christopher Thompson. Again, the people who work on the Graham team are some of the best. in the business. So this can be my only takeaway, knowing how great those people are who worked for Lindsey Graham and are now currently working for Darlene Graham. And I don't want to say this, but again, in the absence of a face-to-face on-air type of discussion with somebody who would actually throw out real questions. I have to speculate that they have come to the conclusion that she can't win if she tells, if she's in front of a camera. I completely agree. What else, what other conclusion could you draw from this? So we're going full Biden basement strategy. We're going to just hide as best we can. We're going to put out a bunch of press releases. She's for this. She's for that. She's for this. She's for that. Every time any of those positions get posted anywhere, you're quick to see people like will folks and everybody else on the right come back and say, well, how would she do so and so? How would she?

blow up the filibuster. I saw J. Kilmartin, who is a South Carolina Freedom Caucus member, he commented on one of them. Can Darling Graham explain what the filibuster is? That she's going to break from her brother on. I mean, it's getting ugly, and it doesn't need to be ugly. It really shouldn't be ugly. Again, she comes into this with a lot of... We'll say sympathy. Is that the right word? Sure. She's a sympathetic figure who, for whatever reason, Donald Trump chose and said, I want her to run. Okay, great. You've got the president's endorsement. This is a good start to a campaign. But the last 10 days or so has been... I would say mismanaged, unless the answer is she can't speak to the media because it's going to get her killed. I think Russell Fry had one of the best lines in that debate Monday, which you took part in, but kind of got glossed over. I mean, he said it kind of low key, but he said the Senate is not an on-the-job training area. You know what? I'm glad you brought that up because it reminded me of something, and it has nothing, well, it doesn't have nothing to do with Russell Fry and Darling Graham. It has a little something to do with them. It has something else to do with another South Carolina house member. We're going to talk about that because Christopher Thompson just reminded me. And if you've got things you want to get off your chest this morning or things you want us to discuss, use the talkback feature on the IHeart radio app. It is 610. Thanks for starting your morning with South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. And I hope you're off to a great start. Thanks for doing part of your mornings with us on South Carolina's morning news. So we talk mostly about things in Charleston and Columbia, because those are the two markets in which we air. But, of course, the state has other regions, most notably the upstate. And Greenville, that area is represented by a guy named William Timmons. Now, for people in South Carolina politics, the name William Timmons is one of those... my gosh, he's the guy who cheated on his wife. And there was a big scandal. And it was all over talk radio. And it was all over social media. And it was a big deal. I've met William Timmons several times. He doesn't seem very interested in knowing me. And that's fine. That's okay. I mean, I totally get it. I can't really help his career. By the way, his career seems to be ending right now because he said that he's not going to run for office anymore after this. most recent election. And, you know, good for him. I mean, he's term limiting himself, I guess. But for whatever reason, William Timmons is deciding to go out as a pro-Darline Graham person. And that's fine. Obviously, that's fine. You know, you find your candidate and cheer him on. But I don't understand why Republicans want to tear down others. And I really don't like it when somebody starts the critique or the insult by identifying the person they're about to insult as my friend. And he, last night, tweeted out, I was disappointed to see my friend, Russell Fry, falsely attacking Senator Darlene Graham.

after his own shaky debate performance. He knows, just as I do, that Senator Graham is fulfilling her responsibility on the Senate Judiciary Committee, where she voted this morning to advance the president's nominee for Attorney General Todd Blanche. Service comes before ambition. So, again, this is the critique that she would not appear via satellite because the television stations in the low country had offered, listen, if she can't make it in, we get it, but we can do it via satellite. And she said, nah, I'm good. So then he goes on to critique Russell further. Meanwhile, Russell Fry is running for both his house seat and the open Senate seat, putting our Republican majority at risk. Now, more than ever, we cannot afford to hand this seat to a Democrat and give the left another vote for its impeachment agenda. So he's raised up this total... B.S. narrative that there's some sort of possibility that if Russell Fry is not the House nominee for that district, which votes 65 to 70 percent for the Republican every time. Every time. We haven't seen a Democrat sniff office in that area in 30 years. You're not going to, you're not going to see. My bottle of water can run against a Democrat and win in the Russell Fry's district. It's whoever wins the primary in that district gets the vote. So why would William Tim's come on out and say, my friend Russell Fry is falsely attacking Senator Darlene Graham when Russell Fry was pointing out that she was dodging a debate? She had the chance to be there even by a satellite and she chose not to do it. That's not a, A, it's not a false attack. That is a legit attack. Whether you think it has any weight or not, perhaps you, like Christopher Thompson, he watched part of it last night, said it wasn't a whole lot different than the one we saw the night before. So perhaps that was the reasoning. Hey, look, we've already had our debate. Stand on that then. Say, look, you know, yeah, I could have appeared via satellite that no votes were being taken between seven and eight last night that I'm aware of. She, you know, I was rallying the Save America Act. Okay. You could have taken an hour off for a debate if you'd wanted to. Say you don't value the debate. But for William Timmons to just come out of left field and say, my friend is falsely attacking Senator Darlene Graham. What are you even talking about? And then to imply that somehow the House is going to be lost if Russell Fry is to win the Senate seat, this is a total BS attack by William Timmons. I don't understand any of it. I've been struggling to understand the attacks because we've seen now, Fry has mentioned Darling Graham a couple of times. That's understandable because Darlene Graham's the front runner in all the polls. Mark Lynch, again yet last night. went right after Ralph Norman from the word go. And...

and it flew right over most people's heads, I think. He mentioned sylphab, which is, again, become a hot topic. You understand that on the state level, but, you know, we're talking about a Senate race, and, you know, Lynch is still bringing up sylfab and Ralph Norman's possible involvement there, which, you know, Norman again said, well, this is silly season, and, you know, here we go again. And it's pretty much the same thing you said on Monday night. But does Lynch think he has the same lane as Norman to pursue here? I'm guessing. I would think, boy, if I was advising the Lynch campaign, that's a tough one. But I'm guessing, so look, Darlene Graham has her own lane. There's nobody, you're not going to take a Darlene Graham voter away from her at this point. The rest of them are kind of fighting over the conservative position. It seems right now that... Ralph Norman is the frontrunner in that group, although there's been some new polling that shows that Russell Fry may be the frontrunner in the conservative lane. At the same time, we both have thought that Mark Sanford has done a great job. I don't know how he did last night, but... Good again. Yeah. He's very good on the stage. But the baggage is holding him back. And I don't know that he... I would guess he can't overcome the baggage. That's my guess. And then there's Mark Lynch. And Mark Lynch seems to be... I don't want to say a derogatory term, but he attracts, we'll just say the most passionate on the right. The fringe? Some would say the fringe. I'm trying to keep it positive, Christopher. I'll say fringe. He attracts the fringe. But that is also considered part of the conservative movement, and I'm thinking that he feels if I can take down the Ralph Norman team, I can. build all that up and maybe overcome Russell Fry and then get into the runoff. I'm guessing the strategy there. But again, to your earlier point, they all should be kind of attacking each other because they're all running for the same seat. So I get why you want to diminish your opponent and build up somebody else. But William Timmons doesn't have a dog in this fight. I mean, if Ralph Norman wins or... Russell Fry wins, who you claim is your friend. And then, you know, if Darlene Graham wins or whoever wins, Mark Lynch wins, Duke Buckner wins, it's still a Republican. In all likelihood, we could nominate anybody and still beat that very... I won't say a derogatory term, but a very susceptible Annie Andrews. We'll just make her a susceptible candidate. All right. But, yes, the Republican Party is in fantastic shape. But the way it gets in bad shape is when you have Republicans attacking Republicans who aren't even involved in the fight. You're now tearing down people for no possible reason. There's nothing for you to gain.

Unless there's some sort of do Senate, like do senators appoint people? I mean, could she have like some sort of administration where William Timmons, who's now term limiting himself, is going to be a senior advisor and it makes a lot of money or something? I doubt that. Yeah, so did I. So I don't understand what his angle is. But again, William Timmons doesn't talk to me because I don't. Broadcasting Greenville. I want to get on in Greenville, Christopher. We've got to push for Greenville so we could force William Timmons to a microphone. But it's not working with Darling Graham and Charleston Columbia. So I don't know. Maybe it doesn't work there either. All right. This is South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. All right. So we're running behind because I went a little long. But I will say this, that you never know who's listening. And so one of the Timmons people. not directly affiliated with Timmons, but somebody with the Republicans, we'll just put it that way, has reached out to clarify the Timmons complaint about Russell Fry, which again, The people who are talking to me about this are also saying he should shut his mouth on this. But his concern is, Christopher, that apparently under South Carolina law, that if Russell Fry wins, he'll serve as our house member till January. But under current South Carolina law, we couldn't have a... prime excuse me as some sort of an election I guess until May so there would be like five months where we would not have a representative there in that yes representing that district unless you were to get the South Carolina General Assembly back in session sooner and then they could vote on this thing that to me it seems like it's a flaw in the law that the governor would not just appoint somebody if you have a vacant seat but Apparently, that's not the way it is currently. So that is the basis of the Timmons attack on Fry. So now we understand a little bit more. All right. And so we'll give him a little grace on that. Not much. Good clarification. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right. 631. We'll be back in a second, South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 a.m. WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, Kelly Nash. All right, we're trying to figure out what is going on in Michigan. This is the most recent news that I've seen, and Christopher, you're probably better at looking at these things than I am. Abdul El-Sayed. and I was corrected yesterday, I've been saying Saeed, as many people on the media have been saying, but apparently it's pronounced Abdul El-Sayed, like Mr. Ed, Abdul El-Sayed.

is apparently clinging to a lead, but has not yet been declared the winner. Has that changed? NBC News has just declared him the winner. That just happened. Yes. All right. So the last update I had seen was 603, and he was clinging. He had a 48 point. Now, how is... Do they not go to a runoff? There must be some third candidate I'm unaware of because it's 603 this morning. He had 48.6 and she had 47.6. So I don't know if maybe Michigan rules are different. In the House, William Lawrence, who I think is just a regular Democrat, the guy, the nut job, Shri Thanedar or whatever, he lost. And if you've seen, that guy was like a multi-millionaire. whose only platform is impeached Donald Trump. And you've probably seen him. He speaks broken English. Donald Trump, he must be gone. He's like to 86 Donald Trump. Anyway, he's been like a house member for like, I don't know, six years or something. He lost last night. So some changes are coming to the Democrat Party, some good, some bad. Most bad. Mostly bad. Although the, why am I finding myself? cheering for the Hakeem Jeffries candidate in Missouri, but I am, and that's because William Lawrence, who is the incumbent, defeated, I'm sorry, not William Lawrence. What's the person's name? It doesn't matter. Cori Bush was the challenger. And Cori Bush had been a famous member of the squad until she was defeated. And she got Wesley Bell, that's his name. Wesley Bell housed her. Got 60% of the vote last night. So she had 36 and a half percent. So Cori Bush and the DSA not making a comeback in Missouri, at least in that house seat. So did you see anything last night? Because we had like five different states, I think we're having primaries. Well, I'll just go back and correct what I said about Michigan. Even though NBC News has declared Abdul El-Sayed the winner, New York Times posted three minutes ago too close to call, that there are still votes being counted and that it is not official yet. Hmm. So different reports from different media outlets. And this puts me in a trick bag because Abdul El-Sayed, the socialist, the guy who wants to put John Fetterman's head on a pike. has, I don't want to say virtually no chance, but he's got, right now, the last ones that I saw in the Calci markets, he had like a 28% chance of beating Mike Rogers in the general election. Mike Rogers is a famous, not famous, but well-known Republican in Michigan politics. Pretty centrist kind of guy, I would say. Now, the woman Haley Stevens, Haley Stevens, I would describe as, Like a Saturday Night Live character. She looks like, what's his face? Who is the guy who had the drug overdose? Well, there's a bunch of them over there. Chris Farley. She's like, if you put Chris Farley in a wig and a union jacket, that's Haley Stevens. And anyway, she's got like a 60% chance of beating Mike Rogers. So who do I want to win this race? I mean, if I'm pulling for Mike Rogers, I guess I want Abdul El-Sayed.

But if I want to just make sure that whoever wins is not... focused on destroying the country. I mean, that's pretty much his platform, is destroy America. And so that's why he has very little chance of winning in Michigan. They're saying that Michigan, which had been a reliable blue state because of the rise of the Democrat socialist and or just the more aggressive to the left policies of the Democrat Party the last few years, that Michigan has become more like Pennsylvania. It's more of like a centrist. It's up for grabs. It's a purple state now. And it shows just how divided the Democrat Party is at this point. Well, you say you want a revolution. They're having it right now in the Democrat Party. All right. Thanks for starting your day with South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC. Columbia and 943 W.S.C. Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. Christopher Thompson and I sitting in here this morning and accepting your talkbacks on the I-Hart Radio app. Are we playing one here about a guy who's got the interest in the Democrat Socialists fundraising and things? No, that's what Sean Hannity is getting ready to talk about. Oh, I thought it was, okay, my apologies, my apologies. Okay, well, it's interesting because... I was doing a segment yesterday for another radio show that I do, and we're looking at the cash on hands. And I know that we've been taught, you know, one of the things that Fox News keeps making a big deal about is the fact that the Republicans have so much more cash than the Democrats. And that's true when you look at just the actual parties. As a matter of fact, the Democrat Party has like 13 million cash on hand, and it's like $16 million in debt. So basically they're broke. and then a couple million in the whole. And the Republicans have plenty of cash to spend. However, when you look at things like... Pax and how this race, I think we mentioned yesterday, there's supposed to be $10 billion spent in this race. The vast majority of that's not coming from the parties. That's coming from PACs. And you may be wondering, well, how does money get into the race? Well, I can tell you that if, for example, if you look at the Act Blue website, they'll tell you right on the Act Blue website that they cannot accept foreign donations unless.

You're using the 501C4. That is a loophole in American politics. So the 501c3 is what most people hear about, but the 501C4, that is supposed to be or can be used for political activity. And so if you request that your money be used in a 501C4 through Act Blue, then you can affect races. And that's where the vast majority of the literal... billions of dollars that comes in from foreign entities. That is a loophole in our laws that has allowed the Democrats to fund a an open revolution against the American people. Their money is coming from China and Russia and Iran and terrorist organizations who want to have a direct impact on our races. And so I would love to see, I know Trump has talked about investigating Act Blue, possibly shutting down Act Blue, but better yet, get Congress to rewrite the laws. Live from the state Capitol, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Hey there, 703, Christopher Thompson pointing out that NBC News has called the Michigan race, but they're the only ones apparently who have called it. Fox is not. New York Times is not. It's just NBC can't wait for a socialist to win. Yeah, I haven't seen anyone else any other major outlet calling it yet. So, and does the NBC News, breaking news, where they call it for El-Sayed, do they say the percentage of the vote that he got? NBC News? Because to me, that was one of the things that we were talking about earlier is the fact that he was at like 49.3 and she was at like 48.6 or something. And so I'm wondering if there's a third candidate in there that would prohibit him from possibly getting over 50%, which then I would wonder why they wouldn't have a runoff. I haven't seen NBC News's vote total looking now. Well, that makes it easier to call the race when you don't give the totals. And that's really what the, and that's the way the Democrats like to do things. Axios just updated 34 minutes ago. Abdul El-Sayed hold slim lead. No one has called it yet other than NBC. Interesting. So other news with the elections coming up. North Carolina, you might have heard on the top of the hour there. Representative Chuck Edwards announced overnight that he is not seeking re-election now. He's out after the House Ethics Committee recommended he be formally censured over investigation into his conduct towards two former staffers. And you know what? I like this. I like the fact that this is a no fuss, no must cleaning of house by the Republicans. We've got a guy here.

Nobody's claiming he did anything criminal. They're saying he's a creep. And I know in one instance he was like at some conference or something and he had flowers delivered to his former staffer's room and was trying to buy her cocktails and whatever. He's married and that's between him and his wife how he deals with it. He says it was not meant sexually. Okay, it's creepy. And numerous women have complained about you being a creep. And so the Republican Party said, you know what? We're just going to clean it up. Unlike, you know, Rapy McBeard up in Maine, they're like trying to coalesce around them for months on end. And that wasn't just creepy allegations. Those are full on. sexual assault allegations combined with all kinds of perversions in outhouses that none of us should ever have to be exposed to even reading about ever again. So I'm thankful that that era on Politico and other news outlets, we don't have to read about Rapy McBeard up there in Maine any longer. But the James Talarico claims are going to be coming out now. They're starting to break. And so we'll watch what happens with the creepy McRippenstein of Texas. Here in South Carolina, this is just bad government in South Carolina. So we have a problem where restaurants and bars can't stay open because we passed a stupid law. And you know what? I don't blame them for passing a stupid law. Sometimes you don't understand what you're passing and you pass a law. When you realize that it's doing damage to the people of South Carolina or whatever state you're representing, you then correct it. And they tried to correct it. But because they got bogged down trying to figure out what to do with all the quote unquote excess money we took in, the South Carolina. proviso that was going to change what would have changed a permanent law which is against the right the rules according to houseways and means chairman bruce banister this was a rule violation from the beginning and now that it's been recognized it's been kicked out so the fact that we weren't able to get our budget in order when we were supposed to means that when they finally do pass it, one of the things that will not be in it is the changing of the law for the... bar owners and restaurant owners who serve liquor to carry at least a million dollars in liability insurance. And because of that, a lot of these places are now closing and or charging higher prices because of this, again, it's a bad law. And, you know, the Senate Majority Leader, Shane Messi said in April, we need to get a proviso out there to suspend this thing.

Because it's crushing businesses in South Carolina. So he was right to suggest it. But again, I'll point out, majority leader, Shane Thomas Massie, unable to pass it. So it got through the Senate, but the- Bog down over the earmarks. Well, the House rules say that you can't change a law with a proviso. So shouldn't the Senate majority leader know? the house rules when he's trying to push something through. I'm not blaming Shane Thomas Massie for this. This has gone on for a number of years now. But still, if he was providing a fix, shouldn't he know this fix wasn't going to work? At least it wasn't going to get through the house as well. You would think that somebody. somebody somewhere, somehow, should have known that. Don't they talk to each other? Doesn't the House members and the Senate members talk to each other? Houseways and Means, again, Chairman Bruce Bannister, it was a rule violation from the beginning, and I think that was recognized. So when he says, I think it was recognized, is he saying now it was recognized, and that's why we had to kick it out of the budget? Or is he saying it was recognized, and I'll make it sinister? by Shane Thomas Massie when he proposed it and was grandstanding the whole time. Hmm. Makes you wonder. Because it's like all those times that we had the Republicans ready to repeal Obamacare until they actually knew they had the vote, and then they stopped proposing to repeal Obamacare. So I don't know what's going on in Colombia with that, but I can tell you that all South Carolinians have to pay higher food and beverage costs if they serve alcohol there because of this bad governance in South Carolina. So that's my take on it. You got thoughts on it. You can let us know on the talkback feature on the IHeart Radio app with South Carolina's Morning News. North Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. You know, it's nice to see a wish of Donald Trump's come true. I think this might have been Monday night. I'm not sure when it was. I saw it late last evening. Caitlin Susan Collins. Caitlin, you're a beautiful woman. You've got a great job at fake news CNN. You should smile more often. She actually did smile while interviewing the sudden new frontrunner for the Wisconsin governor. The answer is so ridiculous that, yes, Caitlin Susan Collins is almost in laughter. Do you still believe that Thanksgiving should be canceled? I'm a chef. And one of the first meals that I made that was for the community when I was 16 was a Thanksgiving meal. I always think my hospitality background in owning a restaurant for seven, eight years that bringing folks around the table to share conversation and build community is always a good thing.

But Thanksgiving is also a time that's incredibly painful for many people in our communities. And so I think there, I wanted to make sure that people understood that there are multiple views, but views can evolve. And the position that I'm running for right now, and I think my background as a chef, will actually help me become a better governor that's able to bring more people to the table. Her name is Francesca Hong. She describes herself as a chef and a former business owner. In reality, she was married to a guy who owned a ramen noodle shop. And I guess she was the chef who heated the ramen noodles. They're now divorced. I think the main reason they're divorced is because he's white. She doesn't like white people. And that puts her at a disadvantage because her only son is half white. And she talks about, now again, this woman is Korean in, you know, but her parents are. are both Americans born in America of Korean descent. She was born in Madison, Wisconsin. So it's a second generation American family. And again, she talks about assimilation. I wasn't always aware of the struggles of other communities of color because for me, assimilation always kind of took over. And so I did marry. In proximity to whiteness continues, right? My son is biracial. He's half white and half Korean. And I think navigating, you know, what his identity is and how people perceive him is always at the back of my mind as well. One day this kid's going to grow up and go, my mom actually hates me. Yeah. She's uncomfortable being around her son because he's white. and assimilating to American culture. Now, I don't know if this is actually, in my mind, this is the way I imagined it, Christopher. I see the video, and it's obviously some sort of far-left podcast thing happening where they've got like multiple people on. But I feel like they were playing a game of... Can you make it racist? Like, we'll just throw out a word, vacuum cleaners. How do you make it racist, right? So she's now, she was a chef and a business owner. She's currently, not a joke, a bartender. That's what she does for a living, not to diminish that, but that's what, that's where she is following the Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, you know, roadmap to success. And I feel like the question was, can you make bartending? racist. Kind of is rooted in white supremacy, that tipping in itself, if we look at the history of tipping and how racist it is and how it has kept wages low for black people for very long time. And if you look at tipping now, how different the scales are in terms of who receives higher percentages of tips over other folks. Apparently white people get all the tips. Wow. Everything can be racist. But again,

She is the front runner. And again, this is the most recent poll they have out in Wisconsin. Fox 6 has her at 38% right now. In second place, was, and I'm using past tense, because was last week, the current lieutenant governor, Mandela Barnes, was at 16%. So more than 20 points behind. But I guess Monday or Tuesday, Mandela Barnes dropped out of the race. I don't know why. If you're in second place, why you would drop out. Maybe there's a scandal I'm unaware of. But it appears that that is going to be the Democrat nominee for governor in Wisconsin. The current bartender who hates white people. She said in 2021, she wrote, police exist to uphold white supremacy, defund, then abolish. So she's got the playbook. She's not walking any of it back. But I'll just play this real quick. Is there anything you disagree with on the DSA? Should they change any other platform after we heard it last week? I think there should be a right to self-determination, that everyone has the freedom to be themselves and that we're protecting communities and their right to be able to be themselves. We actually had that. At one point, it was called the Declaration, where all men were created equal by their creator and amongst them certain unalienable rights and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, as Joe Biden said. But apparently when the DSA finally does take over America, we're throwing that away, the Constitution away, and whatever. And Thanksgiving. And they, of course, Thanksgiving. That colonization racist thing that happened many years ago. There's so many mixed emotions around Thanksgiving. 99% of Americans don't even think about the pilgrims or any of that crap. They think about Cowboys football and how stuff can I get with Turkey. Never mind stuff in the turkey. Anyway, she has mixed emotions. But anyway, I just wanted to laugh at the current frontrunner for governor in Wisconsin, although it probably shouldn't be laughing. It's sad that that's where the party is. heading. 720 on South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Well, me, there he is. Accept it. Okay, make vacuum cleaners racist. All right, here we go. Vacuum cleaners suck. And so do white people in this case, or whichever particular race you're deciding to criticize. Anyway, okay, glad to do it for you. Glad I can help. Now, this is Boudreau. I'm like a fat kid stealing second base. I'm out. Thank you. Uncle Boudreau, and he accepted the challenge that we were talking about the Wisconsin frontrunner for the Democrat nomination for Governor Francesca Hong was, again, the game was not a game show of Can You Make It Racist? It just felt that way as she confronted the racist history of bartending and other things. And also made it pretty clear she's very uncomfortable that her child is half white. And she's got to actually spend time with him.

Well, she's going to try to educate the white out of him, I think. I don't know how you do that, but she's going to work her best on that. Half of you should be ashamed. How's that? That half of you that comes from your father. So in Charleston, I saw this story. This is interesting. It says if you're frustrated in Charleston by anything, you know, whether it's the traffic problems, the soaring rents, the why does the city continue to flood, all these types of issues, whatever you are frustrated by, you perhaps will have a better understanding as the city is now launching their first, quote, resident academy. to improve transparency and strengthen relationships. You can really, quote, really dive in, ask questions, walk away feeling empowered, says Becky Hopkins, or Becca Hopkins, the city's neighborhood services manager. This was released, I guess, yesterday. And they're comparing it to law enforcement citizens academies, how they, how those function. Now, it says here, speak directly with city leadership during four. in-person sessions that begin August 20th and conclude October 6th. So I guess you're signing up to go to four meetings. And they're saying that they expect this thing to sell out very quickly. I guess it's, you know, give out or whatever, just because I think it's free. But they do suggest that you sign up by August 8th. So you got like three days to get yourself. uh an application at their website and i think it's just what is it like charleston i think it's charleston dash sc.gov is the city website um I like the idea of people learning about how government works and why things happen and blah, blah, blah. I don't think that there's going to be a big appetite for this, though, Christopher, do you? I don't know. I mean, there'll be, you know, there are always critics out there. Sometimes, though, the critics are uninformed. So like you said, this is a good idea to at least learn about what you're criticizing. And, you know, everybody's got a problem with. government, whether it's the city of Charleston, whether it's Charleston County, whether it's Richland or Lexington County, you know, everybody's always got a problem. But yeah, you should, you should look behind the scenes and realize how things are done, and then you'll have a better understanding of, you know, what you're criticizing. I have a suggestion for Charleston, and I know we're tight on time. So here's my quick suggestion. All right. film all of this, whatever you do over those next four meetings and make them available on YouTube. Great idea. Now, everybody can see it. We don't have to sign up and go down there and give you. We can watch it at our own leisure in our pajamas and just like we're going to Walmart.

All right. It is 729 on South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 943 WSC. Now, Kelly Nash. You know, if you look at the Jim Clyburn District, it pretty much... Kind of covers all the 26. I don't live in his district, but I'm neighboring it. You're close. I'm very close. Most of us are close. Yeah, and a lot of us in Richland County are part of Jim Clyburn's district, and it goes all the way down there into the Charleston area. And so a lot of folks may be listening today. That is your representative in Congress. How do you feel about Jim Clyburn? Last night he tweets, what a sad state our country is in. When the Senate has to debate whether a president's former personal lawyer, you got to say that like it's something bad about that, who has led the burying of the Epstein files. Oh, here we go again with the Epstein files. Should be our nation's highest law enforcement officer. When you throw the shade out, the president's former personal lawyer, for some reason that feels like he's implying that it's bad. I would point out that if you have a personal lawyer, someone you've done business with, you can trust that person. You kind of understand that person. You get how that person thinks, unlike the first AG. Jeff Sessions, who was an absolute total disaster of an attorney general, and if you look back at that, Jeff Sessions is sitting there at his desk. Hi there, I'm Jeff Sessions. I'm a statesman, and I'm given some documentation here. It says, oh, the entire Russia thing is all made up by the Clinton campaign and some kook over in England. Okay, now I know that it's fake. Well, can we stop the Democrats from actually prosecuting the president over it? I should probably recuse myself from all of this, even though I know it's totally fake because it's documented by the Clinton campaign to be fake. Oh, well, not leads the country into complete chaos because Jeff Sessions, it was soft as tissue paper. So I like the fact that Trump knows this guy. And by the way, I don't have a problem with Barack Obama using Eric Holder, who he knew personally. Did you have a problem with that, Jim Clyburn? I never remember you coming out and saying, oh, well, you know, Eric Holder should have never said that he was the president's wingman. You never said any of those types of things. And what the flip are you talking about has led the burying of the Epstein files? Have the Epstein files been buried? I thought we had seen all we were going to see. Like literally like millions of them, correct? And why was he the lead on that one? He's never even been the lead of anything. He's never been the lead. I mean, other than Trump's defense team, he was never the lead at any level, whether it was Pam Bondi or whomever, they were the lead.

So what is Jim Clyburn even saying? Does anybody know? Does Jim Clyburn know? I feel like Donald Trump. I don't think he knows what he's saying. I don't know what he's saying. I don't even think he knows what he's saying. Speaking of the Senate, I noticed Susan Collins yesterday came out with a long post saying why she is voting against Todd Blanche. Do you think that Susan Collins wrote that? I don't know. Probably a staffer. Probably AI and then cleaned up by a staffer. Susan Collins. Anyway. But, yeah, in South Carolina, we're still represented by Jim Clyburn. And redistricting cannot arrive soon enough, in my estimation. I'll just leave it with that. I thought you were going with retirement, but that too. Yeah, retirement, redistricting, retreading, re-whatever. Let's get moving on. It's 739 on South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC, Columbia, and 943 WSC, Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. I'm calling regarding the issue over Congressman Frye having to vacate his house seat, should he win the Senate. Take a look at H-3557, which the General Assembly passed earlier this year, and it became law in May, which established four separate special election dates. Based on when Congressman Fry would have to vacate his seat, it seems that his special election would fall on the fourth Tuesday of January. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, because he wouldn't be going in until then. So he would be our Congress representative into January. So then you've got to wait until that can happen. And so what they're estimating, according to the GOP, is it would be about 20 weeks before you could fill that seat. So that's... I'm looking at that law that she referenced, and boy, it is confusing the way it's written. on or following the 11th Tuesday after a vacancy occurs. A primary must be held on the 11th Tuesday after the vacancy occurs. There's provisions for a primary runoff and a special election. And then it sets four dates, the fourth Tuesday in January, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in April, the second Tuesday in June and even numbered years only, and the fourth Tuesday in August and the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. I mean, my head is spinning and my eyes are glossing over. I'm, look, we're just guys on the radio. Let's be honest. And most people who are listening are not, quote unquote, political insiders. We do have political insiders who listen. And we're thankful for their expertise. So it has been.

Earlier in the show, for those of you who missed it, I was criticizing William Timmons, and I stand by my criticism of Representative Timmons, who represents the upstate in Greenville after he attacked Russell Fry. And his attack was mainly based off his support of Darlene Graham. He endorsed Darlene Graham. And again, I encourage people, kind of like the Attorney General Alan Wilson has said. You know, listen, cheer hard for your candidate. Say what you can for your candidate. But let's remember, you know, the 11th commandment of Ronald Reagan, thou shalt not talk badly of other Republicans. Well, that was violated in a big way by William Timmons last night, who came out pretty aggressively against Russell Fry, and whom he describes as my friend, which I hate it when you're about to critique somebody publicly, and then say it's my friend. But he was making the point that the 7th district, his point, the way he worded it, it sounded like he thought there was a chance that a Democrat would win Russell Fry's seat if that was to become open if Frye was to win the Senate seat. And I went bonkers on that because that is nowhere ever near going to happen. We haven't had a Democrat polling above like 40% in many decades there. So. Somebody, a political insider, who I trust, sent me a message that said his criticism was not nuanced enough, but the way the state law is written is we're going to be. Russell Fry has to finish his term as a Congress, House member, before becoming a senator. So he wouldn't be sworn in until January 20th or whatever, right? January 3rd is when the next new Congress starts. But when would he be sworn in? Would he be sworn in on the 3rd? On the 3rd. Okay. And then you've got to wait, according to South Carolina law. You have to wait. How many weeks? What did it say? How many Tuesdays? The 20th? The 11th Tuesday after the vacancy occurs. All right. So you've got to wait at least 11 weeks before you can fill it the way the law was passed. And so now, could there be some sort of emergency session held where our statehouse changes the law that they've already passed to deal with these types of things? Sure. It sounds like they're passed a stupid law here to begin with. But the people that we trust that work inside the GOP, we're the ones who contacted us and said it would be vacant for many weeks waiting for... somebody to take it you can't it's not like just the governor appoints to somebody or you can have an election like the next week so that's that's where that all comes from so i know that there's and i'm i'm i'm a big Russell Fry supporter i think i think he's a fantastic candidate i i'm you know i'm a Ralph Norman supporter i'm i like a lot of them i'll be honest with you but that is a legit criticism

Although William Timmons should shut his mouth on that. To be honest with you, William Timmons should be supporting Darling Graham and not taking down Russell Fry. That's where I stand. Anyway, it's South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. I am reading a story right now. I have to digest this before I can put it back on the air. But we have apparently a South Carolina politician who is not just double dipping. That's shameful enough when you double dip. How about a triple dip? A triple dipper? No, this guy goes all the way for the quadruple dipping. Wow. Quadruple dipping, the quad. This is like seeing Bigfoot, Sasquatch. It's been rumored to happen. But we have a quadruple dipper in South Carolina politics. And it's you and I and every sucker who pays taxes. We're all getting taken for a ride. I got to finish reading this story over the top of the hour news and then just come back and just shred this individual. Stand by for shredding. Live from the state capital, this is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. So it's called Pometto State Watch Foundation. And they're one of those watchdog groups that kind of keeps an eye on politics in the state. I would describe them as... nonpartisan because I've seen them shred Republicans. I've seen them shred Democrats. I think they're also in partnership with an outlet called The Nerve, which I have quoted in the past. Now, they've got a story today. And I love how they said, this is great. The pattern that no one can refute. Scout Motors arrived in South Carolina as a backroom deal and has stayed one ever since. The legislature rammed through a $1.3 billion incentive package, including $400 million in cash, that most people, including certain legislators, had no idea even existed. The legislators voted on things that they didn't know. That's crazy. So that's why it's a $1.4 billion deal is what they're really calling it because of the $400 million in cash. Now, I think it was last week that we announced that a Richland County Council member was suddenly taking a job working at Scout Motors. While keeping his position on Richland County Council. And that guy's name is Derek Pugh. Derek apparently, I'm trying to be generous and gracious here, may have conflicts of interest. I'll just put it that way. He's at least, well, okay, first off, Derek Pugh's already registered agent for three different nonprofits, many of whom are receiving, well, I think all of whom are receiving government money, including one where his wife is the head of it.

So that, I mean, these things where I'm voting on, like, I'm trying to imagine my wife running a nonprofit. And then she's like, well, do you think that Richmond County could help out a little bit? Let me see what I can do there, darling. You should, again, according to the laws, I guess he does not have to recuse himself for a conflict of interest on these types of things. And here's a tweet from just the other day. Scout Motors may be indirectly receiving more government benefits. Now from the federal government, the city of Columbia is seeking 11.4 million from the U.S. Economic Development Administration for the Scout Water Storage Tank and Transmission Main Project that continues to grow. Two months before the Scout deal. became public. Nobody knew about it. Richland County entered into a non-disclosure agreement with Scout Motors. So this deal was done before any of us even really knew about it. Derek Pew signed an NDA regarding Scout Motors early on. We're not sure if he personally signed it. As part of the Economic Development Committee, Pew voted in favor of the Blithewood Road widening contract that would serve as the main artery for the scout plant. So there goes some of your tax dollars to try to help him get future employment. He goes on to say that this is just fantastic. Quote, this is him talking now in a public meeting. February. Scout Motors should take a loan, look for other investors, and use their cash reserves because small business, which is the backbone of this community, rarely, if ever, gets this kind of special treatment. They just foot the bill, along with the rest of the taxpayers for these big corporations. So that's what he was saying publicly. Meantime, he's like, hey. You guys got a lot of money. Maybe I could tone down the rhetoric, and perhaps, you know, you could slide a little bit of that cash my way. Now, his wife is the diversity officer for the Junior League of Columbia, which has received checks from the Richland County Council, February of every year. Every February, put it in like clockwork. 20 grand, 25 grand, 20 grand, they just keep coming, the checks. So. That's fantastic news for them. Here we go. This isn't the first time we've got Pew giving hard-earned taxpayer dollars to his personal special interest. Pew's own fraternity has collected $10,000 in fiscal year, 2023, 2024 budget. Why is this fraternity getting anything from Richland County? I mean... How does that serve the county taxpayers? It's one of the more unbelievable things that it can be so open and nobody seems to care. Like you and I are incensed. You and I and the people who I don't know at Palm Meadow State Watch, and I've seen a couple of people on X and Facebook and others, but it's so quiet. It's like it's not even happening. And every...

Why doesn't anybody care that you have legislators that do this type of thing? And we don't change the rules. So they, at minimum, have to recuse themselves for voting on things where they're employed at. If I was a legislator and IHartMedia had some sort of tax break benefit coming up, I as an IHartMedia employee would say, well, that sounds like a good idea. Help them stay afloat. But maybe as somebody who is looking out for the best interest of the taxpayer, I might, I might, I don't know what that position would be, might say, you know what? Like, what did he say about these small businesses? Small businesses never got these tax breaks? Why should we give it to the big corporations like Scout Motors? That's a great question. Has he ever answered it? Hmm. I think he answered it by taking employment with Scout Motors. He's working for Scout Motors. He's giving money to his wife. He's also working for some of the, he's working for Allen University right now. Where else is he working at? He's got like five jobs this guy. They were listing all of the different jobs that he's working at, including on the Economic Development Committee. That's great. Apparently, as the Economic Development Committee, is ways that I can improve my economics. as an individual. So we'll just continue to use taxpayer money to help corporations that may or may not hire me. The ones that hire me will get more tax breaks. That's what it looks like. That's the apparent end result of what we're seeing at the Pomato State Watch Foundation and their investigation into all of this. I hope somebody cares besides Christopher Thompson and I. I really do because that's the only way you can save. Save the entire dang thing. Save your own money. It's taxpayer money. It's all going to implode here, collapse upon itself if we're not careful. All right, 809 on South Carolina's Morning News. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Social media is a fun place to play. I took a story that you may have seen come out yesterday. Transgender basketball player, I believe the name is pronounced Julie Tatart, who is 6-3-196. Again, transgender, 28-year-old French basketball player, is apparently dominating French women's basketball right now. was named Player of the Year, averaging like 20 rebounds per game. And I just, there's nothing anybody can do against little old sweet Julie at the rim for some reason. And put out a statement that if the WNBA contacted me, I wouldn't say no. So I just took that story and I retweeted it. And I said, does Minnesota Lynx coach? Coach Reeve know about this amazing opportunity. This is a great way to finally get the upper hand on Sophie and Caitlin. Well, somebody took that as me seriously thinking that this was a great idea. I am now getting flooded with hate email right now on X. From people protecting women's sports. Yes, you're a disgusting human being.

I guess sarcasm is something that just doesn't translate well on social media. Sometimes it doesn't. But that is interesting. I didn't know that in France, they allowed the transgendered to participate. And not surprising that Julie, who's 28, who apparently switched from the men's league after not being able to make it as a pro. decided to become a female in 2022 for the 2022 season suddenly became one of the best women's basketball players in the world funny how that works i know isn't that amazing and he she is what six three you said six three so not not like a height advantage i think we have women that are taller than julie that are currently i mean how old is asia wilson like six three Something like that, I think. I mean, I remember meeting Rebecca Lobo years ago. Rebecca Lobo was a Yukon great when I lived in Connecticut. And in all honesty, I would have been intimidated playing Rebecca Lobo. And she was like, well, again, she was probably wearing heels when I met her, but she seemed like she was like 6-8. Asia's listed as 6-4. So, yeah, so bigger. Not going to be stronger than Julie. By the way, if you haven't seen that, there's a video of Julie to Tart doing a workout where Julie to Tart, I mean, when they say trans, apparently no surgeries have been done because this person is jacked. I mean, they're like squatting like 800 pounds. They are full on beast mode. But they have a cute ponytail. So I guess the cute ponytail is all you need if you want to play in the French women's basketball league. And I don't blame the women for just saying, no, I'm not going up against that. Why is Julie getting so many rebounds? Nobody wants to go up against her. Her. I said it. I said her. So don't call in here with your. I guess now I have people calling and complaining going, it's not a her. I'm trying to make you people happy. It's very difficult on social media and on the radio. I just do the best I can do. All right, we'll be back with maybe some more serious news. It's 818. This is South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. So down in Texas, James Talarico catching some traction with his latest campaign ad. And let's play the clip of that. And you are all three women who have been Republicans for most of your voting lives. Who's voting for James Talarico? All the handschool. Also gave him my money. Yeah. I like him. Yeah. He was a middle school teacher in public school in Texas, and they started cutting all his funding. And he said, well, if I can't change my school, then I'm going to need to change my state. And that's so becoming of a leader. I want a middle school teacher who's like, hey, this is broken. Somebody needs to fix it. Why not me? And I never send money to state people. But this year I did. I'm like, not only I'm going to vote for you, I'm going to give you some money. I think Republicans are having a lot of moments like that where we're saying, this is not what I signed up for. Give me somebody who's not extremist. I don't care what party they are. I'm going to vote for whoever is the most common sense and who I think would be the most likely to protect my kids. Okay. So, I mean, this is, this is comical because just what they're arguing. First off, the funding was not cut for Texas.

school kids. So that's a total lie. Secondly, when you make the argument, who is most likely to protect my kids and James Talarico comes to your mind as for protect your kids for what? I mean, he's the one who said it is the duty of society to change the gender of a child. It's your duty. That needs to be taxpayer funded, and it needs to happen earlier, the better, according to James Talarico. So this guy is not common sense. This guy is all the, but interestingly enough, thank you to the Dallas Express, apparently, newspaper. They're the ones who discovered all three of those women, not Republican moms. This is all a con job. Well, it's not a con job. It's an ad. I mean, you know what? Does everybody in a car commercial buy those cars? You know, remember years ago, Joe Cunningham was running here in South Carolina for what is District 1. And he had an ad where he said, I'm a oceanographer. And he had like a video of himself standing in the ocean. And I can't remember it was a Republican candidate. Who would have been, what, Katie Arrington, if I remember correctly? Or if it was the Republican Party or if it was a voter group. Somebody sued over that because he was not an oceanographer. And again, I'm paraphrasing the judge because the way it came out was basically... he's a politician. There is no expectancy that he will actually tell you the truth. That was what the... Yes, no, he's lying about being an oceanographer, but that's okay. It's a campaign. You're supposed to lie. So, yes, no, these people hate Republicans, and nobody thinks that James Talarico is a moderate, for God's sakes. Of course not. But that is getting some traction. Talks about changing the state. He's changed his own image in the last year. I mean, you know... Here's the guy who hated meat. They had to go have a barbecue. Yeah. Everything about him is different than it was, you know, a year and a half ago before he considered running. So, I mean, well, he has been serving as a statehouse member, which is weird in Texas. They only have their sessions like every two years, which is so bizarre. So that's been his quote unquote full-time employment working four months every two years. Other than that, his mom has been the only contributor contributor to the checking account. He has a joint checking account with his mother. This is a man in his 30s who has a joint checking account with his mother. His mother is the only one making contributions to said checking account. In other words, your mom's paying for it all. This is very similar to, you know, rapy McBeard up in...

Maine, whose only client of his oyster farming efforts was his mother in her restaurant. So they have some odd candidates. It'll be very interesting to see how this James Talarico things comes forward. And again, just looking at those women, I didn't think any of them were Republicans to begin with. But now that the voting records are coming out and they've been voting in the Democrat primaries, okay, then no, you're not Republican moms after all. All right. We'll take a break. It is 828 on South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 a.m. WVOC and 943 WSC. Now. Kelly Nash. I have not checked the times. Perhaps Christopher, you have checked it, the times that the polls open, I'm thinking it's 9 a.m. today for early voting. Does that sound about right? 9 to 5? 8.30 to 5. So they just opened. Three minutes ago, the South Carolina GOP Senate primary started three minutes ago. And again, we have Danny Ford on there. So good news for all you Ford supporters. Maybe. I mean, they're trying to put his name on all the ballots as quickly as they can. Some counties probably will respond slower than others. Haters. It's just the mechanics of it all. And who winds up paying for that move, Kelly? The fairy godmother? I mean, a judge made a decision yesterday, but we weren't told how we were paying for that change. I give Daniel Kobol credit. At least he was realistic about it because they asked him about the military ballots and the absentee ballots that had already been mailed out. He said, look, this is just for from today on. We can't go back in time. If ballots have already been mailed out, so be it. But from here on out, Danny Ford will appear on ballots. Well, and again, I don't, I've never spoken with Danny Ford. I don't even think I've ever heard Danny Ford's voice. Like, I don't think I've actually ever heard him speak. So I don't know anything about the guy, other than the ran for Ag Commissioner and lost pretty badly to that guy Simpson. But... He seems very litigious, and he seems to want to be a thorn in the side of the Republican Party, because at no point did anyone think that you had statewide name recognition going into this thing, like you would be a credible challenger to win. Now, again, in a very short primary season, the number one thing you can have is name recognition, which is why... people kind of handicapped it as Ralph Norman and Darlene Graham were the frontrunners. Then Sanford got in, but Sanford comes with the baggage, and everybody understood that. Russell Fry, very popular in his district, the 7th District, doesn't have a lot of name recognition elsewhere. He's working to fix that, but he's already in elected office. Other than you being the son of a national championship coach for Clemson, nobody knows anything about you.

He was in the ag race. He was the quote unquote the farmer, the one who was actually serving as a farmer versus Cody Simpson, who was more about the bureaucratic side of farming and had served on agricultural committees, et cetera, who knew the way around government. But I did see Cody Simpson owns blue jeans and all his ads. He had overalls her blue jeans. So I knew I knew he could trust him. But, you know, again, to the bigger point, you're paying $10,400 to get into a race that nobody would expect you to win. Nobody would expect you to get to a runoff. Nobody expected you to be in the top five. To be honest with you, Lynch comes in with far more name recognition than Danny Ford at this point. So, you know, if you're just handicapping it, Darlene Graham suddenly shoots to the top with the president's endorsement and the sympathy vote of she lost her brother. So she's the frontrunner. Number two is probably Ralph Norman. Three would have probably been Sanford. He might have even been number two, but with all the baggage. And then, you know, Russell Fry. kind of already an elected office so he's going to be in the top three or four obviously and then the rest of them you got lynch who just ran for the statewide office of governor so he built out a team and he did all the hard legwork the rest of you are also rans and i don't know you know i'd hate to break the news to gale for rails but you're probably not going to win you're probably not going to get more than 1% of the vote, and that will just be some sort of obstructionist vote. And Danny Ford, I wouldn't have expected him to get more than 2%, maybe 3%, but to me, this sets him up. If he is what I'm afraid he is, it's somebody who wants to take down the Republican Party. And that's why he challenged, and that's why he waited until the last day to file. He could have filed a week earlier. He could have also asked for a waiver, which the Republican Party said they were willing to give a waiver, at least consider a waiver, but he never asked. So I don't want to think the worst of the man, but it does seem like he just wants to be a thorn in the side of the Republican Party, which is setting him up nice. If that's what you want to be, again, you used Brad Hutto, you know, like number two or three Democrat in the state. in order to sue the Republican Party. I would imagine Mr. Huddo would be interested in suing the Republican Party again after this primary to say that his client didn't get fair opportunity to win because he wasn't on some of the ballots and he didn't get into the mail-in votes and all that other stuff. This just stinks to high heaven. The other curious part about this, Kelly, is, you know, Ford was disqualified. According to the state Republican Party rules, which just got passed last month, or June, sorry, in June, which said that you had to vote at least in a couple of primaries. Two of the last three, right? Two of the last three. You know, we were talking about those same qualifications and wondering about Darlene Graham, and that story kind of got glossed over when she entered the race.

Well, again, I can't remember if we actually had the GOP chair on to talk about it, but I know I spoke with them. I don't remember if it was on air or off air. But the way they looked at that was she did vote in two of the last three because they do count the runoff elections. Like if you vote right now, like if you have not voted in the Republican primary, but you vote today through whatever, the 11th or whatever it is, if you. That will count as a vote in the South Carolina GOP primary. Some people were saying the fact that because she did not vote in the general primary, but only in the runoff primary, that that shouldn't count. That was the argument against Starlin Graham, and they rejected that argument and said, no, no, she voted in 26 and 2024, so she counts. Again, I don't have a qualm with it. I actually do appreciate the fact that parties want to control who can run. I think that the Democrats did a great job of blocking Bernie Sanders but didn't do a great enough job of blocking Democrat socialists. Democrat socialists shouldn't be allowed to run as Democrats. And I think you see some of the Democrats saying that. Go start your own party now. If you don't want to be in our party, you don't like our platform. You have a different platform than the Democrats. Go start your own platform and your own party and stop running in ours. And I think that if you're a Republican, you should have the right to say we are the Republican Party. It's our party. There's the Green Party. There's the Libertarian Party. You can create your own party. I remember, what was it, Jim Rex and Oscar Lovelace or whatever? They started their own party for a couple of months. Maybe a year or two. I don't remember how long it lasted. I can't remember the name of it, but that's it's possible. It's not easy. But again, I think that the parties should control maybe a little bit more who runs in their own parties because you have your own platform. All right, I'm running long here. I didn't even mean to talk about any of that. I had something else I was going to talk about. We'll get to that something else next on South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WVOC, Columbia and 943 WSC, Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. All right. So Donald Trump is saying this morning that even more progress has been made on the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. And we could have an announcement today regarding that. U.S. Now, this is an interesting thing that CBS News is reporting. The U.S. has used nearly all of its global stockpile of long-range precision missiles during the war with Iran. Two sources with direct knowledge of the matter have told CBS News. Yesterday, Pete Hegseth had put out a tweet with a screenshot of CNN saying something similar in saying this is a complete lie. I don't know.

What the media, and I say the media, I just use a general phrase, what do they hope to accomplish? Either you believe the defense secretary or you don't. But by putting that out there, you are, in fact, trying to help the enemy. You're emboldening the enemy. Yeah, absolutely. Enemies. Multiple. Exactly. Exactly. And so I don't know what they're hoping to accomplish by reporting whether it's fake news or even if it's real news. Does this benefit the American people? Is this something that we... deserve and need to know that our long-range precision missiles may in fact be nearly completely depleted. I don't think that that is something that the United States public needs to know. But that is something that they want to put out there because, as you said, it emboldens the enemies. And I don't like it. And I wish, what do they say? You can't hate the mainstream media enough? I don't know. I'm trying. I'm giving it a shot, Christopher. All right, we'll take a quick break. Be back with more. It is South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the Lowcountry, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. So the GOP Senate primary special runoff is on. Doors are open. 830, I think most of the places we said. Around the state, vote early and often is the Chicago. Democrats would tell you. Check your polling place. It's probably different for the special election than it might have been for, you know, a primary or even the general. So check where you can vote. Absolutely. The hooties or hoothies, depending on which news network you're listening to, I like to call them hooty because it reminds me of Darius and the guys, although Darius and the guys probably would not wear what the hooties wear, which is their flag says God is the greatest. Death to America, death to Israel, curse upon all Jews, victory to Islam. That's their actual flag. They've got a lot of words on their flag. Anyway, they're very proud of themselves this morning. According to a spokesperson, they have their eighth Saudi oil tanker targeted this morning. Congratulations. The Houthi military said that we have successfully targeted another Saudi oil tanker. Wafa in the Red Sea this morning. Got it with some ballistic missiles. They say that this is only going to continue to escalate as the Saudis try to avoid.

the blockade and all that other stuff. Well, there's no escape because, again, Iran owns the Houthis, which is about 350 to 400,000 radical nut jobs in Yemen. And they are willing to die for their cause. And so they're going to just continue to attack anything and everything that looks like it might be trying to bring oil to the world. So that was their big declare declaration this morning. They got another. And they're also, I'm sure that there's lots of, you know, automatic weapon fire happening right now in celebration all over Yemen. Shooting up in the air? Exactly. Bomb them too. If I'm bombing everybody. I, oh my gosh. It sounds like he's coming off the trigger, so I don't know. He said he's hopeful that today we're going to get the straight open. I would love for it to happen. I highly doubt that it's possible to speak these people into any kind of rationale. Anyway, Christopher Thompson and I will be back tomorrow morning just after six on South Carolina's morning news. Have a great day.