Charlie James previews Primary Eve and early voting data in South Carolina

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Charlie James: And welcome to the program on your Monday afternoon. It is primary Eve, ladies and gentlemen, as the candidates are getting ready, and you are getting ready to go to the polls tomorrow. We'll tell you a little bit about that coming up. But this afternoon, at 4:06, we're going to be talking with Mark Lynch, who is running for Senate here in South Carolina. At 5:35, we're going to be talking with Russell Fry. That means every candidate—every major candidate that was running for the Senate here in South Carolina—has called into this show... Oh, wait a minute, hold on! I'm wrong! Oh! Oh! Oh! Almost all of them. Not quite all. There's one glaring omission, ladies and gentlemen. And it seems like a person that does not want to talk to you on this radio station, and that is one Darlene Graham Nardone. Darlene Nardone has not called into this show, or anywhere else on this radio station. So, just... Hey! You make of that what you will. Maybe... maybe somebody would ask her a tough question. Maybe somebody would ask her something like, "Ms... Ms. Nardone... Oh, I'm sorry, it's Graham, it's just Graham. Okay, well it was Nardone, but... okay, Ms. Graham... We were told that you were only going to be an interim senator, and that's why you were appointed by Governor Henry McMaster. At what point did you decide... First of all, did that conversation ever take place? And second of all, when did you decide to go against the plan?" Because if that plan was indeed in place—and that's what we heard, that's what everybody heard, even Drew McKissick... He was shocked as well. We heard that she was going to be a temporary placeholder so that... because she was not going to run for the seat, so that we could have a clean primary. That's what we heard. Everybody heard that. That was what... that was all the scuttlebutt. And then all of a sudden... And then the next question would be: What was talked about in that meeting with President Trump? What promises were made in that meeting with President Trump? That's what I would like to know. So, some questions that, you know, some people out there just haven't asked her. "Charlie, this Senate primary feels like it's gone on forever! And you forgot, in November, we still got to vote for a governor!" Yes, yes. And a senator! And a whole lot of other races, too. Let's go to Jeff in Easley. Jeff, welcome. Jeff: What's up, buddy? Charlie James: You, man! What's going on? Jeff: Uh, two things. Uh, I seen a poll this morning on X. Say, uh, Mark Lynch is in first, then Darlene, then Ralph Norman. All right, before you get into that... Charlie James: Yeah. Jeff: When you get Russell Fry on the phone, I want you to ask him about this gas tax that uh, everybody keeps talking about that he called for us, 12 cents a gallon. Ask him that, please. Charlie James: I am going to do that this afternoon. I promise you, Jeff. In fact, before we talk to Russell Fry at 5:35, I'm going to give you a little primer. Maybe a lot of people have forgotten a lot about that gas tax. Maybe we forgot how that thing actually came about. But I will refresh your memory coming up later on. Uh, in fact, I'm going to do that at 4:35 this afternoon. 4:35, going to give you a little primer, a little refresher course in the gas tax here in South Carolina. And it's going to bring up some memories. It's going to bring up some memories. So, yeah, had a lot of early voting going on here in South Carolina. Um, we had 61,775 people early voted. Anderson County—these are totals all three days, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday—Anderson County, 2,681. Charleston County, 1,891. I guess all the Democrats down there already voted. Um, let's see, let's go down to Greenville County, 6,411. Horry County leading the pack with 6,781. Let me see, Newberry, 763. Pickens, 2,052. Richland County, 2,302. Spartanburg, 3,252. York, 2,732. And if you go up to Hampton County, they had a whopping 33 people voting early in this ...

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