Hour 4 - Charlie James covered Rep. Cromer on SC runoffs, Talarico’s TX Senate ad, a Columbia teen takeover, Omar’s finances, and Fauci's accountability.

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00:00 Welcome back to the program. As we get ready, what? just 13 hours away from the polls. oh Yes, we're going to start counting down at 13 hours. You're exactly right. That's what we're going to do. So uh let's talk with the state representative, April Cromer, who joining us right now. April, welcome to the program. Hope you're doing well. Hey, Charlie. I'm great. I'll be doing 00:26 much better tomorrow after these runoffs. I'm telling you what, it's the right results. It's been a crazy election season. Now you have endorsed Alan Wilson and Mike Rickenbaugh ah as governor and lieutenant governor, right? That's correct. Yes, sir. That's going to be it. What did you think when you heard that the president had come out with a co-endorsement? 00:49 Well, I think in our state, it seems I don't always agree with uh Trump's endorsements. I don't know who is advising him, but I don't know that he knows the exact record of who he's supporting. So maybe he realized that somebody sold him the book of goods on the first endorsement and that is why he changed his mind. Yeah, maybe. So we got another race coming on over in the eighth. Tell us about that. Yeah, that's another race that, um, 01:18 Trump has endorsed, but one of the more liberal Republicans in the state house, Don Chapman is being challenged by Sherry Hodges. And, you know, he's one of those that campaigns one way in his district. And I see him act in a completely different way in Columbia, which we have Republicans all across the state and they claim, oh, well, you know, we have to represent differently in our part of the state. Well, 01:44 I mean, I am all for the Republican platform, but if that's what you want to use, just be honest with your constituents. what's frustrating to me is I've seen him work against conservative values and then come in his district and act like just a superior great guy. When, you know, he voted himself a pay raise in the last budget, he voted to increase income taxes on 02:12 families who earn from $150,000 to $350,000. And he defended the vampire man that was used in the bathroom at Tri-County Technical College. It's on and on and on and on, lies and lies and lies, that he comes back and tells my neighbors, you know, because our districts butt up to one another. My family members live in his district. So I'm just hoping that people will see the truth and really look beyond what he's saying and 02:42 You know, his projection onto the Sherry Hodges is his voting record. He says all these bad things about her, but it's him. It's just projection. It's the Democrat playbook. So can you just briefly describe the vampire? It's self-titled the Vampire Queen, but this is a guy that is, I mean, obviously a trans, right? Yes. He thinks 03:09 He's a woman and he's a vampire. He's married to a woman and he has children. Okay. Yes. And using the, he was using the bathroom at Tri County Tech with girls, probably 16, 17, 18, 19 years old. The girls were terrified. Yeah. And we're afraid to speak up to a mother called to let them know this was happening. And Tri County Tech said, well, it's not against our policy. if anything happens. 03:39 please let us know. Wow. Meaning like if your daughter is sexually assaulted or abused, then maybe we'll address the issue. Yeah. But it's terrifying to tell these young women to be quiet and don't speak up. That's the worst thing. It is the worst thing. And I remember that we had Lee Bright that tried to get the bathroom bill here in South Carolina and that got shot down by Nikki Haley. When are we going to get that straightened out, April? Well, we finally got legislation 04:09 signed into law, but hopefully the enforcement mechanism will be held. Yeah. We can pass on great legislation, but if it's not being enforced. it was, um, higher ed actually tried to kill the bill and remove higher education from the bill and Tri County tech. actually campaigned against me and my campaign because t ...

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