Charlie James discusses write-in options and local SC Senate race dynamics.

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Full Transcript Charlie James: All right, let's go to the Ingles Market Talk Line. We'll talk to Barbara in Greenville. How you doing, Barbara? Barbara: I am trying, Charlie. Um, I am not giving up, and here's the deal. Charlie James: Okay. Barbara: I think we should organize a write-in campaign for Ralph Norman. Now, I asked Grok, and this is what Grok said. It's perfectly legal. The only people that cannot organize uh a write-in campaign are the candidate and anyone who worked on his uh—in other words, his staff. Charlie James: Yeah. Barbara: And uh, why don't we do that? Because the Dems won't be crossing over, they'll be voting for Annie Anderson, I think her name is. Charlie James: Andrews. Andrews. Barbara: Andrews. Charlie James: Yeah. Barbara: Annie Andrews. She's very attractive, and I've seen a lot of her—her ads are, you know, uh, they don't include any of her crazy ideas, but— Charlie James: Of course not! Of course not! Now, her ads—her ads are out there saying, "I will work with Republicans to lower your taxes," wink wink, right? Barbara: Yeah. Charlie James: So she's trying to paint herself as some sort of a moderate. Barbara: Well, of course. Well, anyway, what do you think about—I think with the radio station, you and Tara and um, what if we all write in Ralph Norman, and we have to tell people how to do it? I guess you— Charlie James: Well, here's—here's—here's my thing, Barbara: I am going to honor the wishes of Congressman Ralph Norman when he said on this program that he is going to vote for the Republican nominee, and that would be uh—that would be Darlene Graham. Barbara: Well, you know why that is. Charlie James: Why? Barbara: When—because—and this is according to Grok—you have to sign the pledge, and then— Charlie James: Well, but still. I mean, he could—he could've—but he could have said anything. I'm just—I'm going to go along, and you know what? We'll—we'll—we'll probably get him on again and—and we'll talk about it, because there's a lot of talk out there. But I'm wondering how far—and I was talking to somebody about this today—um, these write-in campaigns, how widespread is that? Are we talking about just the 12 counties that Ralph Norman won, or are we talking about all the other counties in South Carolina? But I want to tell you something: the—I am about to—I'm literally about to send an email here in the next 5 minutes. About to send another email to the Darlene Graham campaign and say, "Listen—" I'm even—I'm even going to offer to be nice! I'm always nice, but I'm going to make it—I'm just going to let them know, "Listen, we want to get her on, want to ask her some questions, I promise I'll be respectful, yada yada yada." And let's see if maybe, maybe, just maybe we can finally get some sort of a response from the campaign. We've done this several times; going to try to do it again. Let's go to Gerald in Cowpens. Gerald, welcome. Gerald: Charlie, these people better start teaching these kids how to hunt and fish again, and uh—and get their—get their nose out of them phones. And matter of—and matter of fact, you know, some potted meat on a Soda cracker taste pretty good when you're hungry. Charlie James: Let me tell you something, that potted meat to me is a guilty pleasure. I absolutely love it. I appreciate it, Gerald. I really do love my potted meat. All right, tomorrow is the first anniversary of the assassination of Charlie Kirk. I remember that day all too well. I got a text message, and they were like, "Charlie Kirk has been shot." Checked out the monitor, and certainly it was absolutely right. And then, you know, we all saw the first video, the initial video to come along, and—and we thought maybe, maybe there's a chance that he survived it. And then when you saw it from another angle, that's when I gave you guys the warning that we were in for some bad news, and that bad news absolutely came uh later on that day. Well, tomorrow, again, the first anniversary. Ge ...

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