H4, Segment 1 - Charlie James questions Donald Trump's endorsement of Darlene Graham.

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Transcript Charlie James: All right, we got 53 minutes until the debate tonight, and I... yeah, this is going to be it. This is going to be it. Darlene Graham is... is going to enter this race having done two debates. That's... not enough. Sorry. Just not enough. I'd like to see more. I... and I know this is a very special circumstance. But this is a very important decision. So, we'll see what happens. Um, Ralph Norman, I hope he is prepared, because I know she's going to be. I know Darlene Graham Nardone is going to be prepared for this debate. Because why? It's just like, you know, if you... it's like the New England Patriots and their coaching staff. They know how to get you ready for the Super Bowl. They know how to get you ready for the playoffs. The team that she's got behind her... you would be hard-pressed to find a better. And that's... that's got nothing to do with... with policy. That's got nothing to do with ideology or anything like that. Just simple preparation and being professional at what they do and what they want to accomplish. You would be hard-pressed to find anybody better than the team that Darlene Graham Nardone has behind her right now. So if she messes up tonight, it's not going to be their fault. That's... that's all going to be on her. But we'll see what happens, all right? I don't... she's got to get through this debate tonight without injuring herself. Without injuring herself. Somebody wanted to know if I've heard from William Timmons yet. No, I have not heard from Congressman William Timmons, because I... I was waiting because I wanted to hear from him, because I wanted to ask him about exa—I wanted to hear from his lips exactly why he is endorsing Darlene Graham Nardone. I'd like to know. And I'm pretty sure... and I can't... I don't want to... well, I don't want to speak for him, but... when... when we talked to him before, I mean he was like pro-Graham, pro-Graham, you know, Graham's a mentor, and all of that. He didn't like... he didn't like the fact that some people came out and announced they were running for that seat before the funeral. Even though basically she did it herself, right? No, no, no, not basically, she did it herself with Sean Hannity! On that interview with Sean Hannity, she came out and said, "I'm in." That's what she said. But Timmons got very upset with all these people that... that were announcing they were running for this position before the funeral. Well... she did it too. Okay, so... no, I have not heard from him. So, let's see... um... "Charlie, she has the best team that Democrat money can buy." Ooh, we're hearing about that, yep. "Charlie, you might want to know why Trump is endorsing her as well." And I do want to know that! I do want to know that! I mean, you could almost understand... the Trump endorsement... of Pamela Evette, right? We got... here's Henry McMaster. But then again... but then again... well, that was a different story, but... so you got McMaster. He was the first public official to come out and endorse President Trump. Number one. So Trump's always had loyalty to... loyalty to him because of that. McMaster got Trump to endorse Pamela Evette, and then—my belief here, I don't have any evidence of this, but this is the common belief—then she was going to pick Henry McMaster Jr. to be her running mate for Lieutenant Governor. Well, because Henry McMaster did not get the one big, beautiful bill passed here in South Carolina, because Henry McMaster did not call for redistricting here in South Carolina... couldn't get that done... President Trump came out and spilled the beans. Right? Spilled the beans about that. And then she had to go back and she had to deny it, because she... there was no way that she was going to announce who her running mate was going to be before she had won the nomination. There was no way in hell she was going to do that. Then everybody would have been like, "What? You've got to be kidding me." So... um... ...

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