FULL SHOW - 8.18.2026 - The Charlie James Show - The show covers early voting for SC's Senate runoff, debate prep, and contrasting views on local GOP candidates.

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Transcript All right, welcome to the program on your Tuesday afternoon. A couple of hot days we have had. 76 days until the midterms, and guess what starts tomorrow, ladies and gentlemen? Early voting in the Senate runoff race. That's right, starting tomorrow at 8:30. Now, where do you go early vote? All right, wherever you early voted last time is more than likely going to be the same place you early voted this time. Now, that may have changed. We don't know. So here's what you need to do: you need to go to scvotes.gov. That's scvotes.gov. They will have all the places in your county where you can early vote. Most counties have one place, some counties have two, but most counties here in the Upstate have one place that you can early vote. But I highly recommend that you go to scvotes.gov to find out exactly where you're supposed to vote. Now, early voting tomorrow is going to run from 8:30 to 5:30. This is not like Election Day. This is—I'm sorry, 8:30 to 5:00, not 5:30. 8:30 to 5:00 for early voting. This isn't like Election Day, where it's 7:00 to 7:00. Early voting, 8:30 to 5:00. All right? So, go to scvotes.gov, find out where you're supposed to early vote, 8:30 to 5:00, get out there and early vote. If you don't early vote today—I'm sorry, tomorrow, Thursday, or Friday—you will be voting day of. And I highly recommend, I urge you, I beseech you, I plead with you to get out and vote in this election. Every single vote is going to matter, big time. Because, I mean, what we had, 11%? Something like that? 11% voter turnout in the primary? I'm going to predict we're going to have about 6 or 7% turnout on this one. Now, we know one thing for absolute certainty: the Darlene Graham folks are motivated. They are motivated individuals, and we'll talk more about that coming up in just a second. But, we've also got the debate tonight from the Newberry Opera House. It's going to be at 7:00. You can watch this on SCETV or on Newsmax. All right? Those two places. I think you can also stream it on SCETV. I've got my DVR ready. I'm going to be recording this tonight, going to be watching it when I get home. And, by the way, if you are a Newsmax fan, I will be on Newsmax tomorrow morning at about 8:45, 8:50-ish. I will be on Newsmax tomorrow morning and we'll be talking about tonight's debate. So, what would you like to see in the debate tonight? I mean, that's the big question. I mean, we all know, you know, we had all the hoopla over Joey Hudson in this debate, and who wanted who to be there, and it was a big mess. It really, really was. And we've had several different sides of the story. I've heard the story from Joey, I've heard the story from the folks over there at the Darlene Graham campaign, I've heard the story from the South Carolina GOP, and the actual truth is somewhere in the middle. But we just don't know whose decision it was to have Joey removed. I think that was a stupid choice. But the choice has been made, now you're going to have to deal with it. All right, so tomorrow morning, I will be on Newsmax to talk about this debate. But again, what would you like to see in this debate tonight? My big question for these folks—and of course, it's all going to revolve around support for Trump, and they're both going to say that they're going to support Trump, absolutely 100%, 150% even. They're both going to say that, they're both going to say that they are going to be voting for the Save America Act, they're both going to say they want to do away with the filibuster. So, my big question is, would you be willing to boot John Thune in order to do it? Now, a texter just came out with a perfect way to phrase this: Do you want 6% of the people of South Carolina—6% of the people of South Carolina—do you want them deciding who the next Senator is going to be? Because I don't. I don't want that to happen. I want to be a part of that. Do you really want 6% of the folks in South Carolina to make a decision for you, for the other 94%? ...

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