Charlie James urges conservative fight and discusses SC absentee ballot rules.

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(Pledge of Allegiance audio plays) Crowd: I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. (Singing of "America the Beautiful" plays) Singer: Oh, beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain! America, America, God shed His grace on thee, and crown thy good with brotherhood from sea to shining sea! Donald Trump (Audio Clip): America is back! Charlie James: Yes, sir! We are getting there. Welcome back to the program. It was... gosh, time is absolutely flying. I guess it was back in 2019. You might remember when President Trump was running against—running for reelection in that primary back then. Not a whole lot of primary going on, but still, I mean, you know. Mark Sanford decided that he was going to run for president against Donald Trump in that primary. And I was like, "Okay." So I had Mark Sanford on the program. And I asked him, I said, "Is this a real campaign, or is it just a symbolic campaign?" And he admitted that it was—it was merely a symbolic campaign. It was like an anti-Trump sort of a campaign. You know, "Somebody is an alternative to Donald Trump" campaign. And I told—I said, "That's—that—I don't like that." And I told Mark Sanford, because this was after he had written that long op-ed in The New York Times complaining about Donald Trump. He went to them first before he went to anybody else. So I said, "You know,"—he said, you know, he was kind of questioning why I supported Donald Trump. And I'll tell you why. For years, Republicans did not see the fight. We didn't see the fight. We didn't see the fight in George H.W. Bush. We didn't see the fight in John McCain. We didn't see the fight in Mitt Romney. We didn't see the fight, really, in George W. Bush. We didn't see the fight. And that's what we want. Republicans want to see the fight. We understand—we're grown up enough to know that you're not going to win every single fight that you get into. But we at least want to know that you care enough to fight. And to me, Mark Sanford did not really care enough to fight. And I'll tell you how little he cared to fight: when he was running, when he got beaten by Katie Arrington down in the First Congressional District—you remember Joe Cunningham, who went on to win that race down there? Mark Sanford never endorsed Katie Arrington to be the First Congressional District congressman. And not only that, Mark Sanford used to walk into these rooms, these gatherings with all of these Republicans, so-called Republicans—Lowcountry Republicans, if that'll tell you anything—he'd walk into a room with all of these Lowcountry Republicans, and then just a couple of minutes later, guess who would always walk in behind him? Joe Cunningham, a Democrat! He would rather Joe Cunningham win that race than Katie Arrington, the one that beat him in the primary. No fight. There's no fight. There's no fight. And there's still no fight. That's—that's the infuriating part about the Republican Party right now: they don't fight. That's the infuriating part about John Thune: there's no fight. There's no fight there. If the Democrats want something, they will fight like hell to get it! I mean, it will be—it will be (chuckles) it will be hair and teeth flying! Republicans, they just—they don't fight. There's no fight in them. So there's an opportunity, and that's the way when we look at the SAVE America Act right now, nobody's fighting for this. Who's fighting for it? Is Thune fighting for it? No, of course not. He's given up. So there are some people that actually want to get the SAVE America Act passed, so much so that they are on board with no Senate recess until the bill is passed. Those senators are Senator Mike Lee, Rick Scott, Jim Banks, Ashley Moody, Darlene Graham, Tommy Tuberville, Bill Hagerty, Katie Britt, Todd Young, Marsha ...

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