Host Charlie James discusses SC primary eligibility and Trump’s upcoming address.

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Transcript: Hour 1, Segment 1 Charlie James: All right, welcome to the program on your Wednesday afternoon and once again, we are just absolutely jam-packed with things to talk about. Coming up in just a little bit, Drew McKissick is going to be joining us to talk, give us an update on the primary elections that are going on. We do have a little information that we're going to give you right away, but there is some questions about the eligibility of some of these candidates to run and it has to do with uh one of the South Carolina laws uh Section 7-11-50, 55, and 60, who really determine what happens when somebody wants to leave the office that they're running for to run for another office. Lots going on with that one, but we do have some information right now. Those who voted in uh voted Republican in the Republican primary back in June, you are eligible to vote in this primary. If you did not vote in the June primary, you are eligible to vote in this primary. Those who voted Democrat in the June primary election, you are not eligible to vote. So, that's from the South Carolina Election Commission. Now, this does not—because our state legislature refuses to shut down, to close our primaries—this doesn't stop Democrats who did not vote in the last primary from voting in this Republican primary. If you're a Democrat and you did not vote in the primary, you are eligible to vote in this primary for the Republican candidate. Now, would somebody please call Columbia and say, "Hey, boneheads, you need to get this done. You need to get this taken care of." We've had every opportunity. We've been talking about it for 20 years uh closing these primaries. This has been—when, it has been on the ballot, what, five, six times? Every single time, overwhelmingly, people of South Carolina, Republicans, say, "Yes, we want to close our primaries. We don't want Democrats voting in our primaries." But every single time, our beautiful legislature down there in Columbia, they go, "Mmm, nah, nah, we're not going to do that. Nah, we're not going to do that. We don't want to do that. We don't want to..." And the reason they don't want to close the primaries is, number one, they take money from Democrat donors. Facts is facts, folks. They take money from Democrat donors. Why do you think they vote the way they do? They listen to Democrat lobbyists. They listen to Democrat special interests. So of course, they're going to allow the Democrats to vote in our primaries, because those are the people that are keeping them in office. Period. There's no other explanation. There really isn't. No other explanation whatsoever. So, they're keeping the primaries open, and because of that, Democrats who did not vote in the last primary, in the last Democrat primary, they can vote in the Republican primary if they want to. They can do that. Not sure how many of them out there there are, but they can do that. People are calling for it. They want that to happen. So, anyway, I'll say it again. I know I've said—this ought to just be the motto of this show: Here in South Carolina, we cannot blame any of our problems on the Democrats. Hard to—I'm hard to fathom, isn't it? It really is hard to fathom. Every problem that we have here in South Carolina, from the elections, to the budget, to the roads, to the bridges, to the infrastructure, to data centers, to—you name it, it's all caused by those clowns that claim to be Republicans, Republicans down in Columbia. And the sooner we get rid of those guys, the better. Absolutely. But we still keep voting them in, for whatever reason, and people just don't get it. But there you go. They'll learn. One day, I hope, hope they'll learn. So, this is the way things stand right now. Filing date for this primary election is going to be July 21st through the 28th. That starts this coming Tuesday, and it'll last a week. The early voting for this primary is going to be August 5th, 6th, and 7th. The primary is going to be August 1 ...

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