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EPISODE · Jun 3, 2026 · 7 MIN

Pamela Evette and McMaster deny the running mate pressure

from The Charlie James Show Podcast

During the first segment of Hour 4 on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, The Charlie James Show focused on the fallout from a major South Carolina political controversy, breaking down a joint press conference where Governor Henry McMaster and Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette firmly denied facing any backroom pressure regarding her future ticket. The segment detailed the immense blowback the duo faced from primary rivals after Donald Trump's social media endorsement suggested that the governor's son, Henry McMaster Jr., would automatically be named Evette's running mate. Host Charlie James analyzed their strict public denials at an Aiken County campaign stop, where Evette insisted she had not made any official decisions, setting up what would become a massive campaign twist just two days later when the governor's son withdrew his name from consideration entirely.

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00:00 all right let's go the phones it's not a robert in mills river how you doing robert i'm doing good today charlie are you were i'm doing fantastic what's up man well i just that you're thinking about agriculture because i've grown up on all the farm around here and both the guys that you've had on their character line agriculture wise what the space sounds real good that takes people back here to do is that 00:29 I I understand, I mean, how it all works. A lot of folks go in and politics with the greatest intentions in the world. But you got to act just like Trump did. You got to have people in there backing you. He's seen it there in the Congress. There's so many people there who ain't backing Trump. The Supreme Court's backing him a few times better than anything. 00:54 Well, I tell you what, mean, you're right about it. It's whole culture that is really bad. I appreciate it, Robert. But that's the thing. We've got so many good people running uh for uh agriculture commissioner. That's going to be a hard choice. I'm voting tomorrow. I got to come up with some. I got to make a decision tonight on that. Right now, I'm leaning heavily towards two people. 01:20 But we'll see what happens when I get in the old voting booth tomorrow. speaking of political culture, we remember it was it wasn't long ago that President Trump issued an endorsement for Pamela. And not only did he issue an endorsement for Pamela, Evan, he also issued a sort of uh endorsement for Henry McMaster's son, Henry McMaster Jr. 01:50 Man, I'll tell you what, I don't know if you have read the comment by Hobart Lewis about that, but you need to go do that. It was pretty amazing. I reposted it over on my X page, which by the way, if you're not following me on X, shame on you. Over at Charlie on Air, that's at Charlie on Air. would love you to you follow me over there. But here you've got... 02:14 You got this deal. Now here's the way that everybody's saying the deal went. 02:21 Henry McMaster delayed calling for a special session because he wanted Donald Trump to endorse Pamela Ebbett for governor of South Carolina. 02:38 Well, President Trump wanted redistricting. So Henry said, said, Mr. President, here's what I'll do. You endorse Pamela ever, and I will call for a special session. And he did that, and it failed anyway. So that's just some of the big failures of Henry B. Baster. Didn't say a mumbling word when our state legislature 03:06 failed to comply with the one big beautiful bill, didn't say anything about that, made some half-hearted statement about redistricting. 03:15 Finally after deals were made called for a special session and then it was failed and then guess what Henry McMaster just said nothing said nothing after that did not say darn it. I hate that didn't say anything He's been quiet But the big thing about that whole thing was so Trump endorsed evit Pamela evit according to what people are saying Said okay in order to pay Henry McMaster back 03:45 I will announce Henry McMaster Jr. as my running mate. Well, when word came out about that... 03:56 Everybody, I mean it hit the fan folks. It hit the fan hard. Well, Henry McMaster and Pam Leavitt were an event and spoke about it. Here we go. Here they are. But your son on the on the ticket. Well, why do you put your reaction to all that speculation has been out there and where are you? trying to pressure Lieutenant Governor put this on your son ticket? Speculation and everybody's got the entire. 04:53 That's a bunch of crap. 04:55 The most conservative success story in America? No, not even close. Not even close. But here he reminds us, I don't know where that's coming from. Where it's coming from? 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. 05:11 President Trump, he said, how else could Henry McMaster Jr.' name, a hospitality lawyer, how could his name even be mentioned by the President of the United States if there wasn't a deal? I don't even know where that's coming from. That ...

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