Host Charlie James talks SC primary law, federal claims, and Trump address.

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Charlie James: All right, we—I just had a question about whether why the FBI was at Lindsey Graham's home after he passed away. I—I just think that's an overabundance of caution. I—I—I would pretty much imagine that if any Senator dies in their home, the FBI is going to show up. That's just the thing. And until I hear otherwise, I—I—I have—I have no idea. So, we got a lot of people running for this office. People have been floating around the name of Mark Sanford. Oh! Somebody said yesterday, "Nope, Mark Sanford needs to keep taking his hikes." That's—that's what he needs to keep doing, and I agree 100%. So we've had Mark Sanford, we've had Pama Vette, we've had Ralph Norman, who announced that he's running. Of course, we've got—uh, Mark Lynch is in the race. We've heard Nancy Mace, we've heard Nikki Haley, we've heard—I mean, just—Scott Bessent. We've heard all of these people. But the one that—that somebody sent me a text this morning, um, is Russell Fry. Now, Russell Fry, from what we have heard, is going to be endorsed in this race by President Donald Trump. Because what President Trump wants is—is a Senator in there that is going to help him go—get that policy moving, get his agenda moving forward. And we absolutely need that. Um, Trey Gowdy was actually mentioned. I—I—I believe Trey Gowdy, uh, would be a disaster. I just to tell you—plain out, I—I—I hope that's not the case. But there is law out there on the South Carolina books, it's 7-11-50: "Substitution when party nominees die, becomes disqualified, or resigns for legitimate non-political reasons." Okay, now this is what it says, and then somebody sent me a text about this today: "If a party nominee who is nominated by a—nominated by a method other than party primary election dies, becomes disqualified after his nomination, or resigns his candidacy for a legitimate non-political reason as defined in this section, and sufficient time does not remain to hold a convention to fill the vacancy or to nominate a nominee to enter a special election, the respective state or county party executive committee may nominate a nominee for the office, who must be duly certified by the prospective county or state chairman." I don't believe this law actually comes into play. I just sent out to—to to get some sort of a confirmation here, but listen to—it's the first sentence here: "If a party nominee who is nominated by a method other than party primary election..." Well, Fry and Timmons, they were both nominated by a—a primary election. So I'm not sure that this would prevent them. Now, if this were the case and they were not allowed to run, that means the GOP could not fill that vacancy. That would be basically a walk—you know, walk-off home run for the Democrats in that district. But I don't believe this comes into play as far as Russell Fry or—or William Timmons is concerned. But there are some other things that may come into play here. According to FitsNews, um, folks over there at FitsNews say, "Sources familiar with the situation tell us that the Justice Department is currently reviewing four distinct violations of federal law in connection with South Carolina's recently scheduled August 11th, 2026 primary—special primary election." SC Votes has reportedly been in contact with the Feds, but there is no immediate response from the agency regarding these alleged violations. So, I mean, you—but you got to think, man. I mean, look—look how quickly. We just got the news about this Sunday morning, early Sunday morning. Then they made that decision on all of this stuff by—I mean, they hardly even had a full day to work on any of this. So we will have to see what happens. We—we do not know. So all of these dates that I'm about to give you are pretty much tentative right now because I don't know what violations they're talking about. And then we talked to Drew McKissick yesterday, and—and he said that, you know, he had checked with—with the Elections Commission. They' ...

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