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Why are we changing sports? Why are we changing restrooms? Why are we doing all that? If that's the way you feel, Democrats, you should just let us know and we'll stop bending over backwards. But Christopher, Christopher Thompson, by the way, with us, as always. Kelly Nash hosting, as always. And I believe that after watch, this is a lifetime I've spent watching scandals break. And when somebody try, this is clearly the New Jersey governor attempting to get out in front of what. I assume we're going to hear from the next week or two are whistleblowers. People who are going to say, because the way this scandal started, according to her, was there was some sort of problem in 2023 at the DMV where people, when you get your driver's license, they ask, would you like to become a voter as well? 6,600 people allegedly said, I can't because I'm not a citizen, and they were then registered any way to vote. And somehow she was just made aware of this on Wednesday. last week and now their investigation is already wrapped up. It was just 6,600 people that happened to. I'm telling you you're going to add one, maybe two zeros to that. There's going to be 660,000 or something to that extent because there's no way she just breaks that news for no reason in the middle of the Save America Act because she wanted to. And does this, Kelly, does this finally end the debate? Because for years now, every time Republicans mention election integrity and saying, okay, we got to get non-citizens off the voter rules, Democrats say, we already have laws in place that prevent any non-citizens do not vote in American elections, in federal elections. You know what? That's been disproven right here. They debunked themselves. But they always, like you say, they always, that's already been debunked. There's nobody voting who's not supposed to be voting. She's going to double down on that. I'm going to take a quick break and we'll come back. I'll play you, Mickey Shirel, breaking the news and how flippant she is about it when the reporters start asking her. And who's really to blame here? This is going to be a surprise because it's not, it's not the professor in the. and the library with the wrench. It's somebody completely you would have never expected it's guilty. She'll blame the designated party next on South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. So yesterday the New Jersey governor had a press conference basically to say there's nothing to see here. I'm having a press conference to tell you nothing has happened. There's been a slight little... malfunction at the motor vehicle department where it's only 6,600 people who are non-citizens, her term, not mine, are registered to vote in our elections, which is not supposed to be happening. And so, look, I just was made aware of it last week. We've already fixed the problem. We don't think anything's ever happened. And by the way, who's really to blame she's going to give us all that in more in the next 60 seconds? Which elections were they? Did this include? Was it presidential in 2014 that involved your election? This happened between the, it started in 2023. It was cut and stopped in 2024. However, we are now actively working to remove those less than 400 voters from the rolls. So potentially this could have occurred, they could have occurred in any elections since the time they were registered.

I will be presenting the findings of that investigation. We have no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed. I think that Donald Trump has done more to undermine free elections in this country than certainly anyone in my lifetime, including Vladimir Putin. So certainly this is ongoing. He has questioned, called into question, the 2020 election, which. Let's recall, his administration ran and had every tool available to the federal government to run well. I guess they did not. Christopher Thompson. Hanging out at the pool is great. Relaxing and playing Vegas-style games on my phone at the same time. Drink in one hand and a blackjack in the other. It's all at SpinQuest. Over a thousand games including your favorite slots and table games. Be cool with this summer special. New players get $30 coin packs for 10 at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. My understanding of election laws is that the states run their elections. Unless the federal government has to step in, which maybe they should in this case. So is Mickey Mikie Sherrill blaming Donald Trump for the fact that there's illegals voting in New Jersey right now? Kelly, it certainly sounds like it. My God. These people are shameless. Absolutely shameless. And again, to my earlier point, if you're just getting started with us right now on South Carolina's morning news, the New Jersey governor, I'm sure. had no interest in having a press conference yesterday to announce that. This is the beginning of a slow rolling disaster. There is going to be whistleblowers who are coming down the pike and she's trying to get out in front of it so that when somebody comes forward and says, I work at the Department of Motor Vehicles and I know for a fact that we're registering illegals to the tunes of thousands. She's going to say, And we disclosed that. There was 6,600 roughly that were registered. Perhaps you're the one who registered the most. What are you even concerned about? We've already addressed that. But it's not going to just be one. It'll be two and then it'll be 10 and then it'll be 100 because I am rather certain that this practice has been happening in New Jersey forever. And to her earlier point of they didn't want to because they're non-citizens. My understanding is that non-citizens are... not only allowed, but are encouraged to vote in New Jersey in the local elections. So, again, the Save America Act, the point of that is not to overthrow the state's governance of a election. It's to make sure that you have a, one of the key provisions, I feel like, is this idea that in order to get into a federal election, you must have the voter ID. If you want to vote in the mayor's race, you want to vote for a...

town council member, if that's what they want in their towns, you can do it. But to step into an election booth where the president, the senator, the governor, well, the governor would be a local election. But, you know, any of the federal positions, it's against the law. And the way it's currently done in California, Minnesota, Oregon, the list of all these liberal places is we're just going to trust. that you're not going to pull that lever, that you're not going to push the button for the federal. You're going to go in and you're just going to vote for the town council members, but you're not going to vote for the senators or the president or anything like that, which is an asinine program. No doubt, but yeah, trust but not verify. That's the new slogan. A turn on the Reagan phrase. Trust but not verify. Christopher Thompson may have launched the new Democrat slogan for 2026. And again, this flies in the face of everything Democrats have been telling us for years, which is the law provides already. We don't have to worry about illegals voting because the law already says they can't. So they won't. My gosh. Yes. Again. There's no way she wanted to have that press conference. And her attitude of Donald Trump is to blame. He's done more to undermine elections than even Vladimir Putin. Oh, my gosh. Okay. Well, listen, I want to get into a break quickly here so that we can come back. I want to play a snippet. I say snippet. We'll go for about four or five minutes with Senate candidate, Mark Lynch. And, you know, by the way, I'm wondering, you know, I was thinking about this yesterday. I've seen some polls come out. By the way, Trey Gowdy's in first place, and he's not even running. Interesting. Well, he still has a few more days to file if he sees these poll numbers. But I was looking at, you know, obviously Mark Lynch came in second place to Lindsey Graham in the most recent primary. Now that Lindsay's gone, does that mean that Mark Lynch is the de facto frontrunner? I don't know. Ooh, can I answer? No. Absolutely not. We'll see if this interview propels him into first place. We'll get to play you a part of that coming up on South Carolina's Morning News. You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash. Hi there. Hope you're having a great start to your day. Yesterday, I got the opportunity to speak with Senate candidate, Mark Lynch. And, you know, I find him to be, you know, like anybody. He would be anybody who's running for the Senate. in order to get that campaign put together, that's an impressive feat. Most Americans wouldn't be able to even put together a team to run for Senate. So just off that, he's an impressive individual. I will say that he does speak slower. And unfortunately, I think that a lot of people are graded on their speech patterns when that's not really a sign of intelligence or leadership. I'll point out that in the Bible says that... Moses really couldn't speak. So if you hear the speech pattern and you try to diminish him because of that, you should factor that in, that the speech pattern's not important. What is the substance of what he's saying? I'll just preface all that. And we started off yesterday with me asking him, why did you decide to primary Lindsey Graham in the first place? I have to talk about the record. And, you know, everything points in his voting record constitutionally. He voted 57% of the time.

the right way. And that's the kind of records Democrats have. That's his lifetime average. When you say 57% of the right way, is that based off of what, a Heritage Foundation score or where are we getting that from? That's the Freedom Index that rates legislators on their constitutional voting record. All right, the Freedom Index, got it. The Lindsey Graham campaign. From earlier this year, one of the endorsements that he had, obviously, was Donald Trump's. And they would run that ad a lot where Donald Trump was basically calling you a lunatic and said something about you were trying to legalize cocaine or something to that extent. What is your position on that? Yeah, I'm not. Those are complete lies. I'm not for legalizing cocaine. And they brought up. an arrest record that was 42 years ago you know I've gone through the fire I've had major obstacles and hurdles in my life I've come through them I met my wife in recovery we're we're the furthest away from trying to legalize illegal drugs no way you know the biggest problem we have is alcohol in this country but um we've done ministry for 40 years helping thousands of people in addiction struggles come out of the lives of addiction into freedom in christ that's awesome uh that's a ministry that we we have and i'm a deacon in our church so i've been tested through fire And I've come out an overcomer. And I know what perseverance is about and perseverance builds character. And we need people with moral characters, godly character in our government, to bring back the foundations our country was founded on. Everybody's tired of all the career politicians. You know, I ran when Lindsay was in office. Now we have people that were in the house and they ran for governor and they lost and now they're running for U.S. Senate and they claim there for term limits. That's garbage. You know, I'm somebody that wants to get in as a deacon, a patriot, a debt-free job creator for 40 years growing a business 35 times. that my father started back in 1951. We'll be celebrating our 75th anniversary, and I have a proven track record and fruit in my life, and I was asked to run. I've never been in politics, but people know me in the community as a leader, and we've been fighting on the outside trying to clean up the mess that all these people that are running against me, the rest that are all politicians, Like, you know, handling the stuff that happened during COVID-19. I had to fight to keep my business open. We didn't wear masks. We didn't social distance. It was a scamdemic. And we saw the truth in it. And our customers loved us for it. And we lost hundreds of thousands of dollars holding the line on that.

But God blessed us for holding the line. And later, our business grew because they found out where the place you can shop, like normal still. All right. So if you want to hear the rest of that interview, I do a daily podcast. It's about a 10 to 15 minute podcast called the National Briefing on the I-Heart Radio app. And you spell that like my name, N-A-S-H, the National Briefing. And that was one of them from yesterday. Christopher, any immediate reaction? Well, I mean, he's He makes some good points. I'll give him that. I, you know, he sounds like a conservative. I'm not sure what this freedom index is. I'm going to have to research that a little further. I had not heard that one either. Yeah. So, I mean, I think most people know about the heritage polls and what comes out of that as far as conservatives go. But, hey, I mean, yeah, he speaks a little slower. I just, I just don't think he's, I don't think he has. any of the backing he's going to need to take his campaign much farther. And I think we saw that in the first election with Lindsey Graham. Well, Darlene Graham's got a lot of attention lately. And some of it's not so good. In the next hour, in the 7 o'clock hour, we're going to talk to one of the GOP leaders in this state who... I don't want to say opposes her, but he says legal questions about her ability to run for office. We'll break that down as more. Continues as we get your day started. And any, hey, if you have thoughts on Mark Lynch or anybody else, we'd love to hear about them. Use the talkback feature on the IHeart Radio app. It's South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. Hey guys, Lady Luck here. Are you going on any road trips this summer? I know I'm going to be going on a bunch of road trips. And being that I'm going to be passenger princess, I love playing on SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest has all of my favorite slot games, live blackjack, live craps. Head on over to SpinQuest right now and get yourself a $30 coin pack for just 10 bucks. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 AM, WVOC, and 943 WSC. Now, Kelly Nash. And if you've never seen me, I do not have a strand of hair on my head. But stories like this, Christopher, make me want to grow hair simply to pull it out. We've got a judge in Boston yesterday. Well, first off, let me take you back to, was it just like a week or two ago, that the United States Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration, first off, had passed a constitutional law and that they could remove. people what they call temporary protected status. And they specifically were addressing two groups, Haitian and Syrian immigrants, and they could start being deported immediately. However,

On the heels of that, a lawsuit was filed for other migrant groups. It's called Democracy Forward. And they filed this in Boston, which of course is like one of the most liberal places on earth. And they found a very tenderhearted judge, Nathaniel Gorton, who yesterday ruled with the immigrant rights group that he is now halting it. He's just going to halt the program. Now, this is not on the Haitians or the Syrians. This would be for everybody else, El Salvador, Sudan, Ukraine, anybody else who's in the TPS category, they can not be, what was the words that they used. Basically, what was going to happen beginning today was that people who employed people with TPS. status, they were going to have to recheck that to see if they were still valid. And if they weren't, they were going to have to kick them off the payroll. So the Democracy Forward President, Sky Perryman, said in a statement that this ruling ensures that tens of thousands of people will not lose their livelihoods and that the judge has now said that he will sit on this. Basically, I will decide at a later date. possibly in august as to whether or not to permanently ban this from happening who the flip is this guy and and what happens if one of these people commits a crime a serious crime oh my gosh what about if it's a crime of violence while he sits on this decision it's the I just don't under, didn't we have a ruling, like, I feel like in 2024, maybe 2025, there was a ruling that said these temporary injunctions from district courts could not be applied nationally. What happened to that? No, I don't know. And this temporary status, it's for people who are here, they're being protected. If their homeland is under a catastrophe or, you know, war or a natural disaster of some sort, they come. temporarily. I mean, the first word is temporary. And that temporary status said to be up by the Trump administration and suddenly they go to court. It's really unbelievable. And, you know, to your point, should we just take in all of Venezuela right now since they were all destroyed in a horrific earthquake? Should we just take everybody in from Venezuela temporarily for the next 30 years while they rebuild their country? I mean, we just don't have the infrastructure. We want to help the world, but we don't have the infrastructure to do that. We try and help where we can. Yeah. It's these little district court judges, they sure do have a lot of cahones. Anyway, that's what happened yesterday. So if you have TPS and you're happening to be waking up with us, you're eligible to stay longer, apparently. And congratulations on your big victory. All right. This is one of the stories that makes me feel great. We're going to get into that in just a minute. This is South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 a.m. WV.

Columbia and 94-3 WSC, Charleston. Now, Kelly Nash. Years ago, I thought I might make the segue into television, and for a short period of time, I worked at the CBS affiliate in Columbia, WLTX, while also doing radio. And one of my former co-workers there, she was a youngster just making her way in the world out of college. Her name is Alyssa Lang. She's done much better in life than I did professionally. She's certainly gone very far. And now is one of the leading voices covering SEC football for the SEC network. Well, SEC athletics in general. Anyway, yesterday she posted this. I just interviewed Nicholas Harbor. And right after we finished, he saw former Gamecock quarterback Stephen Garcia standing off to the side by himself. Garcia's currently battling cancer. Nick asked if he could pray with him. They embraced. They set a prayer together. This is a really touching moment. Christopher, I read that, and it was not, I mean, I don't know where the moisture came from, but there was some moisture in the air yesterday. I can't believe that Stephen Garcia is in this position right now, but I love the fact that Nick Harbor, and by the way, Stephen Garcia, for those of you who kind of knew him back in the day when he was here, completely different guy today than he was when he was playing for the Gamecocks. Well, you would hope so, yeah. I mean, we all grow up, but he had some well-known college run-ins in his day. specifically under Steve Spurrier wound up getting kicked off the team. But yeah, he's a much different person today. And that battle with cancer, we're certainly all rooting for him. Yeah, I think Patrick DeMarco has had a huge impact on Steven spiritually, along with some other guys as well. What was the name of the quarterback that we had for a year who was the backup? And then he's like in football. He's in the NFL not as a player, but he's like a spiritual coach or something now. I can't remember his name. He was the backup. He won that one game, I think, against Clemson that year when Connor Shaw was hurt. Oh, thinking, thinking, thinking. Yeah, that guy. Yeah, I know what you're talking about. He was a legend when it happened. And now it's like, dude, you know the guy. Anyway, I just love that story. And if you want to see more great news stories, we'll be posting those. Dylan Thompson. Dylan Thompson. You pulled it out. Thank you, Christopher Thompson. I know that can always count on you. All right. But yeah, I love that story. And we're all praying, like you said, Christopher for. Former Gamecock great Stephen Garcia. From the Midlands to the low country, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. It's like nothing happened yesterday at the State House. When I look at the posting courier front page today, at least digitally.

Top stories. North Charleston drops plan to allow short-term rental permit. Charleston area salmon smokehouse has roots in England and the residents of the Bishop Gadsden Retirement Community race radio control sailboats. So nothing there regarding the State House. I go over to the Post and Courier. Man charged with murder after five-point shooting, victim dies. officials at South Carolina private school leader charged with criminal sexual assault. South Carolina agency proposed charging man 2.4 million for school pollution records. Again, nothing really happening at the statehouse. But there was some massive news happening at the statehouse yesterday. So we'll have to, Christopher Thompson and I will break that down. We'll also going to have a South Carolina GOP official. who has legal concerns about Darlene Graham appearing on the ballot in a couple of weeks. Did she file yesterday, Christopher? Do we know? I don't know that she did. There were several names that we had never heard of before that did file. If you've got $10,400 in a dream. You may be. At least your name will be on a ballot. True. I mean, my name's never been on the ballot for, well, anything. Who had heard of Clark Nielsen or Samuel Shepard until yesterday? I thought they were a duo from the 60s. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Again, as I look at the local news, maybe somebody has seen it elsewhere. One of the local TVs, I have not found it. what happened yesterday at the State House. But again, that's not, I can't see everything at all times. But I will tell you, I do follow an account called the South Carolina Policy Council. And I think that they do a great job of covering the State House. So yesterday, at 1 o'clock, they were back in session, and they were trying to figure out. What are we going to do about these earmarks? Now, the Senate has pretty much said for a while, this is out of control. We don't want it. The House is like, ah, you ain't cutting off that pork. So the way this is went down yesterday, the first post came out at about 2 o'clock. The House is now offered to cut all non-profit earmarks. That would save about $17 million for the taxpayer and house earmarks. The Senate responded to that, and they said that they are willing to fund your House earmarks. Again, these are the nonprofit earmarks, but we're only going to go up to $250,000 or less. So pretty much it's a blank check for any pork project that these House members have for $250,000 or less and partially fund the remaining earmarks up to a pot of $173 million. Now, I would have thought that the House... would jump at that. Oh, my God, we got 173 million plus the $250,000. Boy, this is, we're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars that we got. No, they want it all. They want it all, Christopher. They ended it with no agreement yesterday. This is an unbelievable.

Just a money grab? Is that what we call it? Well, it's, I mean, it's money that's out there, and they're grabbing it for their pet projects in their particular districts. One of the problems the Senate has with the House is a lot of these earmarks came late in the session. So a lot of people didn't even have a chance to hear much about, okay, why are you touting this? What benefits does this particular project bring to South Carolina taxpayers? Instead, they got pushed in late. So, again, if you want to follow this account on X, it's just the SC Policy Council. So as they document, you know, in real time, what's happening at the State House yesterday, the committee recedes until 1 p.m. tomorrow has the Senate, how has, that's the great question. How is the Senate not just walked away at this point? Then the final tweet of the day came at about 6 o'clock last night. Quote, the house is not going quietly into the night. They are now intent on preventing seniors from getting a homestead exemption expansion and spending as many taxpayer dollars as possible on quote unquote community projects. The Budget Conference Committee will be back in session Wednesday, 1 p.m. Now might be a good time to contact your House member, I would think. Well, there's only three on each side. Three House members and three Senate members are the ones who are deciding all this. But if you contacted your House member, whoever he or she may be, and said to them like, Well, mine probably wouldn't give a rip. Beth Bernstein probably doesn't care what I say. But, but, and just say, put some pressure on those three. You're hearing from your constituents today. They don't want this to be dragged out. This is, this is beyond frustrating. And again, if you're a schoolteacher, if you're a senior with Medicare, Medicaid issues, all of these types of things, I don't want to say that sits in the balance. I don't want to over-dramatize it. But at the same time, We heard yesterday Medicare and Medicaid in South Carolina, they are now into reserve funding, and they're not sure how they're going to continue moving forward. They're looking for alternate solutions to the State House actually funding the programs. At the same time, you've brought up the fact that the school districts in South Carolina have to pay these pay increases, but they're going to have to end up cutting something else if the State House doesn't meet its obligations. Or reaching into their reserves as well, which a lot of school districts have huge reserves, but some. in our poor areas have no reserves. So, yeah, it's, and if you want the names on the House side, it's Bruce Bannister, who's the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, Jackie Hayes and Davy Hyatt on the Senate side, it's Harvey Peeler, Tom Davis, and Brad Hutto. those are those are the six men three from the senate three from the house who are making all these decisions and who can't get together on a final decision brad huddo's a democrat correct correct yeah but from what i've met brad several times centrist kind of democrat and so uh

Good for him for kind of holding the line on this house spending is insane. And I just don't know why this is not bigger news around the state of South Carolina, that we are kind of in a stalemate because it appears that the South Carolina house just wants a blank check to blow it however they want. And at the same time, quote, they are intent on preventing seniors from getting a homestead exemption expansion. It sounds like the final solution is going to be no earmarks for anyone and that homestead tax exemption gets thrown by the wayside too. They're almost, the South Carolina House is now reverting to like IRGC methods. We're going to just start blowing up neighborhoods or whatever until we get our way. Oh my gosh. Don't let these people near the Strait of Hormuz. I'll tell you that. Anyway, if you have thoughts on that story, let us know on the talkback feature. Coming up next, we're going to talk to the head of the Dorchester County Republicans who has, he's going to voice his concerns about Darlene Graham and her Senate run. We'll talk about that and more as South Carolina's morning news rolls on. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Forget whatever plans you have this weekend because you're staying at home and playing on SpinQuest. And there's never been a better time to sign up than right now. New users get $30 coin packs for just $10. All the table games you love with hundreds of slot games and real cash prizes. That's at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit SpenQuest.com for more details. I saw C.J. Westfall on social media talking about his concerns about Darlene Graham's candidacy for the Senate. It's one thing to be a placeholder. It's another to actually run for the office. He is the chair of the Dorchester County Republicans. And is this basically just a technical issue? I think it's a technical issue where the Republican Party specifically led by Drew McKissick. wanted to put himself in between the voters and the candidate. He wanted to insert himself and have candidates like Darlene go and ask permission from party insiders whether they could appear on the ballot or not. I think the power should be with the people, not with those party insiders. So the reason I'm raising this point is, is now that the party insiders fought so hard to have this rule change within the Republican Party, I'm asking them to be consistent and lie in the bed that they made. Wow, C.J. Westfall, not making any friends at the state level with the GOP, apparently. Wow, Drew McKissick, if he's listening, and he does listen. Good morning, Drew. And what does he have to say? I think Drew is a reasonable guy, and I supported him at the last convention. So this isn't anything personal. He's just wrong. And the rule that was just passed less than 30 days ago, Kelly, it says two of the last three statewide primaries that candidate has to have voted in in order to appear on the ballot. or they need a waiver. So I went and looked and she voted in the 2026 Republican primary. She didn't vote in the 2024 presidential primaries, but she did get up and vote for Katrina Shealy in the 24 runoff primaries. So what they're going to try to do, what Drew is going to do when they finally start answering media requests is they're going to say.

We're going to interpret this 2024 runoff as a statewide primary. So that's going to set a totally new precedent. I think it could potentially be challenged in court because obviously a local state Senate election is not a statewide Republican primary. Talking with C.J. Westfall, chairperson for the Dorchester County Republicans. And in your estimation, Drew McKissick and the Republican Party is going to have to issue a waiver. And that seems to be rubbing you a little bit the wrong way because whenever you use the phrase like political insiders, that gets everybody's attention. They don't like that phrase. What they're telegraphing through their folks, and I could be wrong on this, and I'm happy to eat crow if I am. is that their rules committee is going to interpret, like I mentioned, that 2024 runoff vote as a statewide primary vote. So they're trying to avoid the waiver process altogether. They're trying to have a group of insiders within a group of insiders decide that, yes, she meets the requirement, even though she doesn't on paper. I would encourage them to do the right thing while the eyes of the country are on us. Everybody's following this story. It's a tragic loss of Senator Graham, and the internet has found her only ever political donation to a woman by the name of Katrina Shealy, who used to be a state senator, who, by the way, is a very nice and lovely person outside of politics, and I have nothing against her at all. But she was one of the famous sister senators who... vehemently opposed the current six-week heartbeat bill abortion ban that has saved thousands of lives in South Carolina. She rose to national prominence. There was a documentary about Katrina. And the only political donation that Darlene's ever given was to her. And she couldn't be bothered to go vote in the 2024 presidential primary for President Trump or even for Nikki Haley. But when Katrina Shealy really needed her in that runoff, she got up and voted for. That, I think, is going to become the major question in the coming days and the coming weeks. When we see all these candidates like Ralph Norman, Russell Fry, maybe Mark Sanford and some others, voters are going to want to prove in conservative, somebody that represents their values. Voters are happy with that six-week ban. They're happy with saving babies. And I would be very surprised if that didn't come up during that primary process. All right. That is C.J. Westfall, the chair of the Dorchester County Republican Party. If you have thoughts on what he just said, we'd love to hear about him on the talkback feature. Christopher and I will talk about it next on South Carolina's Morning News. You're listening to South Carolina's Morning News with Kelly Nash. That interview you just heard with C.J. Westfall, the chairperson of the Dorchester County Republicans, that was done yesterday. And you can hear the entire 15 minute or so podcast on my daily podcast called the National Briefing, which is on the I-Hurt radio app. Just look for national, spelled like my name, N-A-S-H-H. But Christopher Thompson, I had not heard that at that point about the only donation she's ever made was to Katrina Shealy. That is now, you know, Yahoo News and others have picked that up since then. That is news because we don't know anything about...

Darlene Graham's political beliefs. We know nothing about her. That was what we said yesterday. So it came as such a surprise that Trump endorsed her and she decided to jump into this race because we didn't think she was even a political person. She was simply the sister of a politician. Speaking of sister, that is the sister senators is what they were referencing. And for those of you don't remember, by the way, how funny was it that they got the, what was it called the John F. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Courage awards. Profiles and courage. Yeah. Me and McLeod and Margie Bright Matthews were both Democrats. There was no courage in them opposing an abortion ban. But, I mean, if you want to say it was courageous for Republicans to do that, I would say that they were going against the will of their voters, which is really what you're supposed to do when you're a representative. But I can see where you could also perceive that as... courage. They were trying to lead Republicans into a more open-minded arena of abortion, I'll say. So Penny Gustafson from Kershaw, Sandy Sen from Charleston, and Katrina Shealy from Lexington. And I appreciated CJ's description of Katrina because I've met her many times. She is a very lovely person. And I just, I disagreed with her. vehemently on her position regarding that. Voters in her district did too because they wound up voting her out of office. And I don't know if Lindsay would have even known that she was supporting Katrina Shealy in that capacity because I have co-hosted for, I don't know, five, six years at least, the Citizens for Life dinner here in Columbia. And Lindsay has always been there. Lindsey Graham is always one of the speakers at the Citizens for Life, and he was very pushing. I mean, this was the beginning for him. We wanted to go all the way. And so for his sister to support financially only one candidate in history, not even he got a dollar. It was the only Katrina. Now, I understand that Katrina Shealy and her friends, and maybe she wasn't even looking at, to your point, she's not very, very political possibly. And she was like, that's my friend. So I'm supporting my friend. My friend said she needed some help. I gave her $100 to help. I don't see what the big deal is. Okay, maybe. Still, that's the only record we have of her at this point politically. Yes. That's while the South Carolina Ethics Committee has put out regarding her campaign contributions. So. I'm hoping to get her on the show soon, and we'll ask her about that, obviously, if she's willing to come on. I'd love to have her perspectives on that and love to have your perspectives as well. That's why we have the talkback feature on the IHurt radio app. More next 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. The Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, told lawmakers yesterday that the cost so far for the Iranian...

offensive, we'll call it, I don't know, about $37.5 billion is what we spent on that so far. That's a lot of money. More importantly, the Pentagon now has identified a fourth service member killed in recent days. We had the 11th consecutive night of strikes. But just before those strikes began, one of the IRGC leaders, I would play you the audio, but obviously you wouldn't understand it. But he was saying, in essence that because the United States has hit some of the Iranian IRGC leaders in their residences, they're now going to be targeting our leaders in their residences. Now that's... obviously a lot of brouhaha because they've been talking for months about how they were going to blow up the White House. So they've always wanted to kill our leaders wherever they could find our leaders. And they've targeted last night another desalination plant. They are going after civilians. The Iranians are flailing around, attacking anything and everything. I thought it was interesting, Christopher, that a lot of the attacks that the United States did last night. came at the very top of what you would call the Strait of Hormuz. It's kind of on the Iraq, Iraq and Kuwait and Iran kind of meet at the tippity top of the Persian, excuse me, of the Strait of Hormuz. And that's where we saw a lot of flights going. And as Trump said, there's no military basically to stop them. So they're just having their way. I'm wondering if this is the plan to try to open up those pipelines and stuff and get the shipping, we're going to just start at the top and then work our way down. Any thoughts from you so far on this? Well, I mean, that strategy sounds like a smart one at this point because that's, and I thought Democrats raised a fair point yesterday in that peak has a Pete Hegseth hearing. The fact that didn't they know going into this conflict? that the Strait of Hormuz would be threatened and that we would have, you know, supply lines threatened. And Haguezeth didn't really have a great answer for that other than the fact that they're working to try and keep the straight open. But, you know, that was, if you were going to go into war with Iran, I mean, you knew that was going to be in play. And we said we had a solution. We heard that from several Trump administration officials, but whatever solution we had didn't work. And it's interesting because I, you and I both love sports. You obviously more than me know more about sports being the sports director and following it your entire life. But like when fans or just even like Pop Warner football guys. criticize NFL or college football coaches it's like bro they know exactly what they're doing yeah so they knew the costs they knew the risks and when we're talking about the united states military and we have a lot of military members who are listening to us sure you that they would

They would say that it's not Donald Trump making the call on how we're going to open the strait. It's the military leaders, the generals, the admirals, those people who have been in position now for decades, and they have studied this and have. kind of been trying to counterattack this idea for years. What if they do that it's like a chess game? They're going to have these little what I like to call the Nat Navy, these little power boats that they go around dropping off these little things into the water that make boats go boom. And how do we stop that? And it's not an easy answer. It's kind of like, how do you stop Clemson's offense when it's firing on all cylinders? I don't know. But we have a plan. It's just not working right now. Yeah, the plan, whatever the plan was, and we never heard what the plan was, but it didn't work because the straight immediately became an issue and is continuing to be an issue. So if that's the Trump administration attack from here on out is get the straight open at all costs, I'm for it. Yeah. And again. Four military members in the recent days have been killed. That is the one that really bothered. I mean, the 37.5 billion, those numbers are, you know, they just kind of go over our heads. Like we don't even, how much debt do we have? We're 37 trillion in debt. And we just spent 37 billion on this, whatever, whatever. Everybody's just like whatevs. But when you start talking about military members are dying. That's when, and again, they're doing this on purpose. It's not like Iran is like saying, oh, well, we're not going to target civilians and we're not going to target because we heard yesterday. Was it Rory that was on yesterday or was it two days ago where he's talking about the travel advisory for U.S. citizens, even in like Spain and places like that because they can hit those places. And they are going to be targeting you. They want to kill Americans so that the American public says to the Trump administration, you got to get the hell out. We just don't want you there. Do we want to finish the job or not? I'd be interested in your thoughts. Do you want the U.S. military to bear down and take care of this once and for all? Do you even think it's possible? Or would you rather us, just like we said before, just back off and say, you know what? Let the people in the Gulf states figure this thing out about the straight-of-horm moves. We got plenty of oil for ourselves. All right, you can use the talkback feature on the IHeart radio app. It's 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. What's up, everybody? It's Bretzky, and America is turning 250. And I can't think of a better way to celebrate that than playing on an American-owned social casino, SpinQuest.com. With all of your favorite games, live craps, bubble craps, live blackjack, there's no better place to play for free and win real cash prizes. SpinQuest.com.

SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Boy, where prohibited, visit SpenQuest.com for more details. Now, Kelly Nash. Ice is heating up. Wow, they just broke their record. So now when you look at the average or excuse me, the total initial immigration detention bookings each month, I was surprised to see how many were actually coming from the Biden administration, which I would have thought was none. But they were averaging about 7,000 a month. And it was ticking up near the end of his term. They were up to over 8,000 a month. Well, when you let that many people in. It's, you're going to round up a few. I guess, and those must have been some really bad hombres that they were, that they were putting in. The previous record, though, came in December of last year when Trump's ICE had 37,000, again, up from 8,000, up to 37,000, but they just broke it. They're now at... 39,563 initial immigration bookings last month. And so they are really ramping it up a lot because it did fall off after December with all the chaos in the country. It went from 37,000 all the way down to 28,000 the next month. So quietly, they have been ramping it back up. And that's by design. You know, we keep hearing that they don't want to be in the news. They just want to get people out of the country. Mainstream media is trying to make a big deal out of the fact that while this is ramping up, so are the detentions of what they would call, quote, civil immigration violations only. In other words, there's no pending lawsuits or legal cases against them other than the fact that they're in the country illegal. The other ones are also ramping up, by the way. So if you looked at, say, like January of last year, we had 9,772 convicted criminals that we had put into ICE detention. At the same time, we had 4,700 or so that had pending criminal charges. At that time, we only had 1,000 who had just been caught up because of a family member or whatever. Well, here we are now for the month of June, and it looks like it's about tied. It's 18,000 with the pending. It's 18,000 with the criminal already convicted, and it's about 20,000 with civil immigration violations. So they are really... putting the pressure on right now and this is again 77 million people that was the number one issue for a lot of them is clean up the country and to your point i mean these people who don't have any criminal charges pending they still broke the law by coming into this country illegally

It'll be interesting to also find out how many of them received benefits. Because I keep hearing these stats specifically out of Minnesota, the percentages of the Somalian immigrants, and it's like 80, 90 percent are receiving some sort of government check, which... In case you forgot, we're $37 trillion in debt. We can't continue to pay for, and I understand people who push back and they'll say, well, you know, the social programs aren't the leading cause of our debt. Okay. But, you know, when your family budget is, you know, over budget, cutting the cable costs might be, it doesn't fix the problem, but it starts putting you in the right direction. No doubt. And if you're not adding to the economy. by contributing with a job, we really have no use for you at all. And we want you to be a citizen and we want you to assimilate and we want to make America great again. And all these people who keep coming and not trying to make America great again by just getting a free ride, we want you out. Maybe somebody else thinks differently. Use the talkback feature. You're getting your day started with South Carolina's morning news. From the Midlands to the low country, this is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. The more I listen to and watch Democrats, the more I feel like they cosplay as intelligent people. Yesterday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani posted his social media video. As you know, he's been threatening and trying to figure out ways to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu. He finally announced yesterday, and by the way, the first three minutes or so of the video is just him talking about all the war crimes that he finds Benjamin Netanyahu guilty of. And then we get to the conclusion. Oh, it's not playing on the air? Oh, hang on. Was it? Have a new available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant with Benjamin Netanyahu came here. It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant. Duh. It's like you're the mayor, bro. You can't just start pointing at people and saying, I want them arrested. So what was the point of all that? So he was just to tell everybody, I really, really, really don't like Benjamin Netanyahu. I really don't like what's going on with Israel. I really want the Palestinians to run the river to the sea. I'd really love to end the Jewish population if possible. Can we end the Jewish state? They have been nothing but a scourge to the earth according to this great mayor, Zohran Mamdani. By the way, how great was it when he put out his ethnic map? Who the hell comes up with an ethnic map of any city? But he did, and he just happened to leave off the Irish and the Italians. I think there was one other population group that he left off as well. The whites is who he left off. Everybody else was celebrated in the ethnic map of New York City, but the Italians and the Irish. So when Benjamin Netanyahu comes to address the UN later this year.

And now Zohran Mamdani's backing down saying he's not going to have him arrested? I don't have the authority. I don't have it. So he'll just scream from the sidelines, I guess. You're bad. Yeah, he said he's not welcome here. Oh, okay. Oh, he's not welcome. Oh, wow. Well, that doesn't work with the UN to start with. But even if Zohran Mamdani, as mayor of New York, told him he wasn't welcome, okay. Again, it is, you're right, Kelly, it's performative. That's all this is. And I don't know who listens to this type of stuff. Obviously, the far left, they love it. They lap it up. He's so brave. He's willing to do what Trump won't do. He'll stand up to Benjamin Netanyahu not be his lap dog. Donald Trump told Benjamin Netanyahu to go blank himself. He doesn't care about Benjamin Netanyahu. He's not scared of him. No American politician is afraid of any... politician around the world. So for this whole idea that he's only doing it because he's afraid of Israel. No, it's because Benjamin Netanyahu is not a war criminal. That's why it's a sham court that has been identified as a sham court by most countries on earth. And is New York City perfect now that Zohran Mamdani has all this spare time for foreign policy? Yes, he's already taken care of that city. Live from the state capital. This is South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. Christopher, you and I do not get our paycheck from China. No. China, China, China. You know, it's amazing to me how much we start to learn as far as China's influence in the United States. It seems ever growing. And to me, the first time, like my jaw kind of dropped was when I learned about the Joe Biden, whatever they called it, the presidential center or something at the University of Pennsylvania that was... revealed to be nothing more than an empty office with like a phone that wasn't even connected. That was Joe Biden's office. And he was being paid a million dollars a year by China to have that office there. What? How could that possibly be? Well, I'm reading more and more about this today. And, you know, Trump was calling out the Chinese for their... involvement in trying to influence, we'll say, our elections. And at the very least, hacking into and learning all kinds of things about American voters. This was this was not revealed until I think like this week. So our State Department was told in 2020 that one of the state-run media outlets from China. had paid u.s media outlets nineteen million dollars nineteen million dollars in advertising and four point six of it went to the washington post six million into the wall street journal so they're spreading their money around

Not announcing this is China trying to influence stuff. They're just buying time on television, on newspapers. It doesn't, as far as I can see, no radio. station's got any of the benefit, which is a stupid investment on your part. Radio is the best return on investment, China. There you go. If you want to win an election, you'll advertise on iHeart. But, I mean, this is crazy. How is it that we knew that in 2020, but we're fighting out about it in 2026? I have no idea. Why is it take so long? And I ask a rhetorical question. We know why it takes so long because the deep state, it doesn't matter who the president is. It doesn't matter who owns Congress. If it's all Republican or all Democrat, the deep state is not the people who are elected. The deep state is the people working there. And they're the ones who continue to hide information that we should have certainly known that there was $19 million being spent by China in the 2020 election. Remember about 20 years ago when we started learning how much land China was buying in the United States? And that was the controversy for a while. I mean, we were losing even some, you know, key parks and it was just, I mean, they were making a massive land grab in places you wouldn't have expected, like California, for example, where it's already pretty friendly to China. You're absolutely right, Christopher. And... By the way, coming up in just a minute, we're going to talk with Mark Lynch, if you missed that from the 6 o'clock hour. Mark Lynch running for Senate, obviously already primaryed Lindsey Graham and lost, but did come in second. So I don't know, does that make him the frontrunner? We'll talk to him about that next. But one of the points I don't think we got on the radio interview, which is in the podcast, is he was bringing up that point about China buying up farmland, and we need to stop that. And we can't allow them to invest into our real estate at all. They are... buying up not just large swaths of land, they're also buying up communities. They're part of the reason that housing prices are on the rise. Now, they could say, we're just doing it for investment purposes. Some might think it's a little more shady than that. I'll tell you what was really shady, which still ticks me off to this day. We had a weather balloon. quote unquote, weather balloon that finally got shot down right off the coast of Myrtle Beach. But that thing floated amazingly just through Alaska and then over, it seems every military base we had under the Joe Biden administration until it was finally shot down just off the coast here in Myrtle Beach. The Chinese are so egregious in how they're working us. And Donald Trump is trying to stop it. It seems, though, that everybody in D.C. is against Donald Trump and anybody else who wants to make America great again. And it's very frustrating. But at least we're getting some of this information. Whoever's in the Trump administration getting this information out, we thank you to that, you're going back through the files and finding out things that the deep state was hiding from us. So.

And it's our job here, Christopher Thompson and myself, to bring it to you. And then you can let us know what you think about it. Or if you're hearing other stories that we're not talking about, use the talkback feature as well. That's on the IHeart radio app, that interview with Mark Lynch, who wants to be your next senator next on South Carolina's morning news. You know what? It sucks to be bored. But when I get on my phone and play real casino games on SpinQuest.com, the time flies by. That two-hour wait at the DMV seems like 10 minutes. Play your favorite slots. Live blackjack, live prep, with a live dealer. New players, $30 coin packs are on sale for $10.00. Play SpinQuest.com and you'll never be bored again. SpenQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. A lot going on yesterday, opening for the filing to be the next senator from the great state of South Carolina. Several people showed up, as Christopher Thompson mentioned earlier, some names we had not heard of. Maybe we'll talk about them in just a little bit. But first, one of the people who was first in line, maybe actually the first person to file, was Mark Lynch, who did primary Lindsey Graham lost in June. to Lindsay, but I asked him yesterday, had him on for a little while. Why did you primary Lindsay to begin with? I have to talk about the record. And, you know, everything points in his voting record constitutionally. He voted 57% of the time the right way. And that's the kind of records Democrats have. That's his lifetime average. When you say 57% of the right way, is that based off of what, a Heritage Foundation score or where are we getting that from? That's the Freedom Index that rates legislators on their constitutional voting record. All right, the Freedom Index. Got it. The Lindsey Graham campaign. from earlier this year, one of the endorsements that he had, obviously, was Donald Trump's. And they would run that ad a lot, where Donald Trump was basically calling you a lunatic and said something about you were trying to legalize cocaine or something to that extent. What is your position on that? Yeah, I'm not, those are complete lies. I'm not for legalizing cocaine. And they brought up an arrest record that was 42 years ago. You know, I've gone through the fire. I've had major obstacles and hurdles in my life. I've come through them. I met my wife in recovery. We're the furthest away from trying to legalize illegal drugs. No way. You know, the biggest problem we have is alcohol in this country. But we've done ministry for 40 years, helping thousands of people in addiction struggles come out of the lives of addiction into freedom in Christ. That's awesome. That's a ministry that we have. And I'm a deacon in our church. So I've been tested through fire.

and i've come out an overcomer and i know what perseverance is about and perseverance builds character and we need people with moral characters godly character in our government to bring back the foundations our country was founded on everybody's tired of all the career politicians You know, I ran when Lindsay was in office. Now we have people that were in the house and they ran for governor and they lost and now they're running for U.S. Senate and they claim there for term limits. That's garbage. You know, I'm somebody that wants to get in as a deacon, a patriot, a debt-free job creator for 40 years growing a business 35 times. that my father started back in 1951, we'll be celebrating our 75th anniversary, and I have a proven track record and fruit in my life, and I was asked to run. I've never been in politics, but people know me in the community as a leader, and we've been fighting on the outside trying to clean up the mess that all these people that are running against me, the rest that are all politicians, Like, you know, handling the stuff that happened during COVID-19. I had to fight to keep my business open. We didn't wear masks. We didn't social distance. It was a scamdemic. And we saw the truth in it. And our customers loved us for it. And we lost hundreds of thousands of dollars holding the line on that. But God blessed us for holding the line. All right. We've got a lot more with Mark Lynch. If you want to hear the entire interview, you can go to my national briefing podcast, and you spell that like my name, N-A-S-H-I-O-N-A-L, the National Briefing. On the I-Hart Radio app, when we come back, Christopher Thompson and I will talk about Mark Lynch. We'll talk about maybe some of the other candidates, some surprise candidates throw their names into the hat and a surprise poll dropped yesterday. With a who would have thunk as the frontrunner, we got all that in more on South Carolina's morning news. You're listening to South Carolina's morning news with Kelly Nash. All right. Just heard from Mark Lynch who filed yesterday to run for Senate, and there's a bunch of other people who filed yesterday. I think we're now up to five official, probably eight candidates. I don't know how many we'll get to speak to, but we'll work on that here on South Carolina's morning news. Christopher Thompson, there's a poll out this morning, or came out yesterday morning. It was conducted between Saturday and Monday, and apparently they got 900, what they described as likely GOP voters for this South Carolina Republican special primary election. So just to set the timeline, Kelly, this came out after the Trump endorsement of Darlene Graham. Well, they asked. Two questions. So the first one is if the Republican primary election for U.S. Senate was held today, whom would you vote for? Number one answer, and I don't know where the heck this is coming from, but 38 percent, according to peak research, said Trey Gowdy. Wow.

Tim Scott has touted Trey Gowdy, but Gowdy has said he wasn't interested. A distant second was Ralph Norman at 13%. So 38 for Trey, Ralph at 13, Russell Fry, Darlene Graham, Mark Lynch, Nancy Mace at that point was still in it, Pamela Evitt, Mark Sanford. That's how they rounded it out, and all pretty much together. The second question was President Trump has asked Darlene... Graham to run in this special election. Knowing that she has his endorsement, who would you vote for? Trey Gowdy only loses three points. He goes from 38 to 35. Darlene jumps up. She was at 9. She then goes to 16. And Ralph Norman at 10%. And third. Wow. Is that just because, you know, Trey Gowdy's gone from being a congressman to now he's just been in the media for a while and, you know, he loses. I mean, there's so much negativity surrounding government these days. If you're out of government, you're more popular than if you're in government. I want to know who paid for this poll. Was it? Trey Gowdy's pack? I mean, how does Trey Gowdy just out of left field become the dominant number one frontrunner? I don't know. I have no idea. I would not have expected that. That was very much a surprise. The rest of the... The numbers seem rather in line with what we had already heard. Ralph Norman at, you know, 13% or so. Russell Fry, roughly at 10%, because Russell Fry is not a statewide name as of yet. Ralph Norman, at least ran for governor. He was able to get his name out there. Russell Fry, very popular up in that Ory County area. Darlene Graham is going to get the name recognition just based off her brother. Mark Lynch, you know, came in a distant second to Lindsey Graham. There was like three other people running in that primary. But I think Mark Lynch got about 30% of the vote. That's more of a protest vote against Lindsey Graham than it is, in my estimation, a support of Mark Lynch. Nancy Mace was still polling at 6%. Although I think was it yesterday or the day previous, Nancy endorsed Ralph. Right. So I don't know how much that helps. He was touting it online, as you should. If you've got a sitting member of Congress endorsing your run for the Senate, of course you make a big deal out of it. Mark Sanford is not, we have not heard anything other than what I, I even heard it reported. You're the only guy I know who knows about this, that Mark Sanford, what did he do again? He changed his. Yeah, he did. Well, this was, again, reported by the AP that he changed his house filing, his house election filing committee. The name is now Sanford for Senate.

So we have to assume that when you do a move like that, you are going to be running. Or at least flirting with the idea. That's a very serious flirt that's going on there. And so yesterday we did not get filings from Darling Graham, Russell Fry, Ralph Norman. But the five that did was Duke Buckner. We've mentioned him. He's run against Jim Clyburn several times. Mark Lynch, who primaried Lindsey Graham and lost. And then... Three never heard he is. Mark McBride, Clark Nielsen, and Samuel Shepard. And if you had said to me, well, not me, but the man on the street, who are these three? I bet you some would have said, aren't they the three who went to the moon first? Well, people in Ory County know who Mark McBride is because he was on city council for a while, made him name for himself in Myrtle Beach. Okay. So they at least know that. All right. He ran for the state house for the 7th District back in 2022. So maybe at least, I'm not even sure Clark Nielsen lives in South Carolina. Are you serious? According to the last report, he lives in Charlotte. Oh, my gosh. So I don't know about him at all. And Samuel Shepard, do we have any intel? Samuel Shepard is a, according to his bio, an internationally recognized biochemical, medical engineer, physicist, inventor, businessman, forensic investigator, cosmologist, dinosaur hunter, author, and entrepreneur. That sounds like the perfect guest for our overnight show. Coast to Coast, starring Samuel Shepard. Yeah, Samuel Shepard will come on in and entertain you on the overnights. I don't know who those three are. Christopher Thompson more plugged in than I am when it comes to this. And so we appreciate you doing some research to let us know who those individuals are. But again, five filed yesterday. Three more expected in Darlene. Russell Fry and Ralph Norman are expected to file soon. As a matter of fact, I think I'm speaking with Ralph Norman today. We'll put that out on the National Briefing podcast and then play it back tomorrow. If in fact my memory is correct that I'm speaking with Ralph today, we're working with Darlene Graham's team, try to get her on. I've reached out to Russell Fry. No contact. Nobody's getting back to me on Russell Fry. So I don't know if we'll have better luck with Clark Nielsen and Sam Shepard. Did you see that Russell Fry called for a debate yesterday? He said South Carolinians deserve to know who's running. And the only way to find out is put them on a debate stage together. Well, if... I mean, I'm one of those people who is like, they've got to be a serious candidate, meaning they have an actual opportunity to win. Do I want to hear Mark McBride, Clark Nielsen, and Samuel Shepard eating up the time and in one hour debate while it's really, I mean, like, if I'm being honest.

It's really Ralph, Russell, and Darlene would be the three that I think most people would want to hear from. I'll put Mark Lynch in just because he did run and got 30% of the vote in the last time. But that would be the four that I would put on stage. And if Sanford decided to run, then I'd make it those five. Or Gowdy. Trey Gowdy's not running. I don't think he is, but, you know, he may see these poll numbers and start to reevaluate. I don't know what he gets paid at Fox, but I'm sure it's more than being a senator. So I'm not expecting Trey Gowdy. But maybe you people know something I don't. You know, we've got ears all throughout the state. Let us know on the talkback feature what you're hearing. This is South Carolina's morning news. Your news, traffic, weather, and information stations. What's going on, everyone? It's Bluff here, and we're driving through the States in the BluffMobile, and the best thing that we can do is play our favorite casino-style games on SpinQuest. They have over 1,000 games, including Live Dealer, Blackjack, and Crapes, with tons of slots and unlimited. You can get a $30 coin pack for just $10 for new users. Sign up today. Go to SpinQuest.com right now. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spendquest.com for more details. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM, 560 a.m. WV-O-C and 94-3 W-W-S-C. Now, Kelly Nash. There's a fella on X, I don't know if he's on other social media platforms, and it just goes by the name Mays, M-A-Z-E. He does a great job of... kind of investigating stuff and putting out videos regarding it. This is a clip of a video he just posted about 30 minutes ago. And in it, what you see, and I'm not going to play it the whole thing, but you see the then vice president and you see the director of the, or excuse me, the head of the Central Intelligence Agency at the time, Mike Pompeo. And they're talking about the Russia, Russia, Russia collusion story. And Jake Tapper is going to fact check them. and correct them. He's basically implying that the director of the CIA is lying to the American public. Did not affect the outcome of the election. So is this true? Is it, as Vice President Mike Pence said, the universal conclusion of the intelligence community that Russian election interference had no impact on the result of the election? No. That is not true. The intelligence community writ large in January 2017 issued a report looking at Russian election interference in the 2016 presidential election. And they very specifically said in their report that they were not going to assess whether the interference had an impact on the election. They wrote... Now, before we go any further with that, I don't know they're going to need to play any more of it. Obviously, he's saying that... that they're lying to you because James Clapper is who he's quoting. James Clapper said, we're not going to make an assessment as to whether or not that interference played a role or not. And then Clapper went on to say, I think that they showed a clear preference for Donald Trump in order to just try to make a, it seemed like they would have been incentivized to get Donald Trump. What he didn't know, James, that.

There was no way for Jake Tapper to know that we would find out years later that, oh, Clapper was lying. That none of that was true. Your fact check was false, Jake. And this is the kind of stuff that we have to tolerate. I knew it was false when he said it. But you're going to overrule the CIA. You're going to say that James Clapper is a non-biased dignitary of people, and he's going to tell us the truth, unlike Mike Pompeo, who's got all of the files. It's kind of like when they tried to undermine Tulsi Gabbard. Tulsi Gabbard didn't have an axe to grind. She was pure as the driven snow when it comes to revealing what happened in the Obama administration. And yet all you try to do is cut her legs off, Jake and the rest of the mainstream media. Christopher, these people make me sick. And it's not only sickening. It's, I mean, God, how many times have we heard danger to democracy, you know, said about either Trump or members of the Trump administration? Yet you had democracy being undermined by a sitting president and his staff. Absolutely. Actively engaging in corruption to win elections. And I don't care what the mainstream media wants to tell you. That has been proven. And it continues to be proven. Maybe we'll play more of Mickey Shirel from New Jersey yesterday. And I think that that's the beginning of a huge scandal for the Democrats, although... not being covered hardly anywhere. But there's a lot to get to with the illegals voting and all this other stuff with the voting machines. This is just the tip of the iceberg started cracking yesterday. Yeah, we'll touch on that next. This is 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. Yesterday, the governor of New Jersey, Mickey Shirell, held a press conference to announce that last week she was informed that there was roughly 6,600 people registered to vote in New Jersey who are not citizens and should never have been. allowed to register to vote. Oops. She blamed that on the fact that there was a machine malfunction or something at the Department of Motor Vehicles. When people register to drive, they're asked if they want to vote, and somehow these people said no, but then they ended up on the voter rolls. That's a machine mistake, not a human mistake. She estimates only 400 or so of those people voted. This is her responding to one of the reporter's questions. Which elections were a... Did this include? Was it presidential in 2021 that involved your election? This happened between the, it started in 2023. It was cut and stopped in 2024. However, we are now actively working to remove those less than 400 voters from the rolls. So potentially this could have occurred, they could have occurred in any elections since the time they were registered.

I will be presenting the findings of that investigation. We have no evidence at this time that any elections were swayed. Of course not. So she goes on and on to minimize it and then ends up blaming Donald Trump for all of this. In the meantime, the guy who, the Democrat, who actually sponsored the motor vehicle registration bill, a guy named Jamal Holly. I just retweeted him on X. He said, quote, now this is the guy who sponsored the bill that she's talking about that allowed these 6,600 or so illegals to become voters. He says, I hate to deliver more bad news. But the problem extends well beyond those 6,000 cases. It's going to be way more, which is why we must pause that bill immediately until better safeguards can be put in place. And I'm quoting a Democrat in New Jersey. This is precisely why we must pass the Save America Act. Wow. Okay, so, hmm, who's a senator from New Jersey? Cory Booker? Cory Booker will now be the Senate sponsor of the Save America Act. Jamal Holly, if you follow me on X, I'm at Kelly Nash Radio, is a black New Jersey Democrat. who's calling for the past the Save America Act because he even recognizes that if you're going to have fair elections, you cannot have illegals voting in them who are then neutralizing Americans will. Wait, wait a minute, Kelly. I'm going to stop you right there. Okay. I've heard the Democrats for years now say it's impossible for illegals to vote. We already have laws against it. There's no need for the Save America Act because illegals can't vote. It doesn't happen. I've also heard them say that no one is illegal. Well, then there's that. We're also, our democracy should extend to the world. Everybody should get a vote on who is the president or the governor or whatever. You get a vote. You get a vote. Exactly. But again, when we were talking about this story this morning. I said that this is the tip of the iceberg. Mickey Shirel is trying to get out in front of what's going to be a massive scandal in New Jersey and try to neuter it. This is not going to be neutered, and Jamal Holly is not doing her any favors by telling the truth that it's going to be a lot more than 6,000 illegals are registered to vote in New Jersey. I can't wait for this story to implode in her face. It is going to be a fantastic day when we find out that you got to add a zero. or maybe two zeros to that number of illegals that are voting in New Jersey. And it did sway elections. I'm confident of that as well. This scandal is going to be rolling for months.

Probably won't have much effect on the midterms. They'll try to keep it quiet throughout that, and she'll just keep saying, of course we have whistleblowers. We already talked about it. We already know the problems. We're fixing them. Anyway, we'll keep our eye on that. This is South Carolina's morning news. This is South Carolina's morning news on 103.5 FM and 560 AM WVOC and 943 WSC. Now, here's Kelly Nash. It's almost time to put a little bow. on this edition of South Carolina's Morning News. But Christopher Thompson, you do a great job of getting out a daily podcast for the people. Well, if you, yeah, if you miss the show or any portion of the show, you can go back, you can search on the IHeart Radio app, South Carolina's Morning News, and you'll find the show rewind, and you can hear every minute or just the part you missed. That's right. And speaking of the IHeart Radio app, that's also where I have my daily 10-minute podcast, roughly 10 minutes. Sometimes I go a little over with the national briefing. And that's where those interviews in their extended form took place. We had the chairman of the Dorchester County Republicans who is questioning the legality of Darlene Graham being able to run on the Republican ticket. You can hear. all of what he had to say about that. And also you can hear our interview with Mark Lynch. I just checked. I am speaking with Ralph Norman today. And so that will go up there later on. And we will play parts of that back tomorrow for you, Ralph Norman fans. He's got a very passionate fan base. I don't know if you've noticed that. He might have the most passionate fan base. He might not have the most, but he has the most passionate. And they were excited that he was getting into this race, and I think they're still excited. Absolutely. In spite of the Trump endorsement of Darlene Graham. Yeah, which did not seem to keep the people out that he was hoping to keep out. So maybe we'll talk to those people as well. But it's been a fun morning, Christopher. Absolutely. Let's do it again tomorrow. I like it. We'll be here just after 6 o'clock for another edition of South Carolina's morning news. Have a fantastic Wednesday. Hanging out at the pool is great. Relaxing and playing Vegas-style games on my phone at the same time. Drink in one hand and a blackjack in the other. It's all at SpinQuest. Over a thousand games including your favorite slots and table games. Be cool with this summer special. New players get $30 coin packs for 10 at SpinQuest.com. SpinQuest is a free-to-play social casino. Avoid where prohibited. Visit spinquest.com for more details.