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South Carolina Lede — 338 episodes

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On the Trail with the Dems

2

2 Gavins 2 Furious

3

EXCLUSIVE: Former S.C. Supreme Court Justice John Few

4

Dems The Breaks

5

Darline, Darline, Darline, DARLINE!

6

Horry County: A Runoff Runs Through it

7

Special Special Election Debate Special

8

Special Election Sprint

9

Electric Election Results

10

Vehement Special Election Voter Voices

11

Send in the Candidates!

12

A Final Look Back

13

The Future without Lindsey Graham

14

The Impact of Lindsey Graham

15

SPECIAL EUROPEAN PROGRAMMING ALERT

16

Revolutionary Ideas with Jon Meacham, pt. II

17

Revolutionary Ideas with Jon Meacham Pt 1

18

Happy Birthday America

19

Good Political Will Hunting

20

Goodbye Primary Election 2026, Hello General Election Trail

21

Surprise Double Endorsement

22

Runoff Hot Mess Express

23

Endorsement Horse Race

24

Post Primary/Pre Runoff

25

What to Expect When You’re Electing

26

Double the Debate, Double the Fun

27

Republican Rumor Ripples

28

Attorneys General’s Debates Showsdowns

29

Juicy Cloture

30

Sine Die Redistricting Round Table Rundown

31

Fast & Furious Redistricting

32

SIKE Die

33

Risky Redistricting Business

34

All Aboard the Redistricting Train

35

PENULTIMATE SINE DIE POD

36

The Royal We

37

SCGOP Double Dip: Pam Evette and Ralph Norman

38

It’s Debatable: GOP and THC

39

Scout and About

40

Crossover Crossroads

41

Budgets, Bridges, and the Boys turn 701

42

It's Electric! Pt 2

43

SC: It's Electric! Pt 1

44

2026 First Gubernatorial Debate Breakdown

45

Sanford Shocker

46

It’s Bo Time, Baybee

47

Reddy or Not, Here Comes the Campaign Trail

48

The Gang Spills the THC

49

TBD THC

50

Stick to Your Gummies

51

Spring Forward into the Governors Race

52

A Few Good Men

53

America At War in Iran

54

Amendments & Endorsements & Commandments, Oh My!

55

SC Lede Book Review Episode

56

High Court Curveball

57

Super Minority Report

58

Be My Valentine?: Governor Candidates and the Legislature

59

Spicy Spin Cycle

60

Trump Endorses MAGA Warrior

61

Poller Vortex

62

McMaster’s Victory Lap

63

Transportation and Healthcare Infrastructure Deep Dive

64

SC Legislative Session, 2 Weeks In

65

King Day at the Dome 2026

66

We’re So Back, Folks!

67

Senate Legislative Preview

68

House Legislative Preview with Speaker Murrell Smith LIVE IN COLUMBIA

69

New Year’s Economic Outlook

70

SC Lede Year-End Savings Event Spectacular 2025

71

Pre Preview Season Season Preview

72

LIVE in Mt Pleasant at Hobcaw Brewing with Caitlin Byrd

73

Big Shrimp Energy

74

‘That Dog Don’t Hunt’

75

You Down with DOT? Yeah You Know Lede

76

Breaking News: Gobble Gobble Ledesgiving Spectacular!

77

Abortion Bill Stalls in Subcommittee

78

Post Shutdown with Lindsey Graham

79

Less than a Year to Election 2026

80

SC 'Fede'- Askin' Hanna Raskin about Michelin Stars

81

Shutdown Soybean Ripples and Mace Drama

82

AirPorts of Authority

83

Campaign Trails from the Crypt

84

Fresh Meat for the Campaign Trail

85

Gavin Out Sick Oops All Wind Down Halloween Edition with Sean and AT

86

On The Ground at the No Kings Rally

87

The Thousand-Year Flood 10-Year Retrospective

88

Shutdown Breakdown with Lisa Desjardins and Josh Dawsey

89

Lede Goes 1-on-1 with Lindsey Graham

90

The SC Lede Shutsdown DC

91

Clemson: Free Speech Ground Zero

92

Offseason Abortion Debate

93

Campaign Ad Nauseum

94

DEA, Drugs, Data, and You!

95

Kirk First Amendment Fracas

96

First Amendment War of Words

97

LIVE IN ROCK HILL

98

Fall Fiscal Vibe Check Y’all

99

The Epstein SC Connection

100

The Ad Wars Begin

101

Uh Oh! Big Infrastructure Pod Alert!

102

Deep Fried Rose Ceremony

103

Campaign Ketchup

104

Special Oops Our Bad Alert!

105

No Rest for the Campaign Trail Weary

106

Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham Busy in the Dog Days of Summer

107

It's Pam!

108

“Golden Age” of Campaign Trail is Upon Us

109

Doctor! Help! I’m Seeing Double Gavins!

110

Campaign Trail CHURNETH

111

The Ken Burn-isode: The American Revolution

112

The 2026 Campaign Trail Cometh

113

Remembering Mother Emanuel 10 Years Later: Part II

114

Remembering Mother Emanuel 10 Years Later: Part I

115

Aiken Breakin' Heart with Shane Massey

116

Gavin Gets Gaslit

117

Grand Strand with Pam

118

What is this? A Democratic wrap up for Ants?

119

Dems vs the L.O.G. Jam

120

South Carolina Check up with MUSC President

121

Bountiful Big Beautiful Bills and Budgets Bonanza

122

Gavin’s Geopolitical News Grab Bag

123

Session Debrief Part II

124

Rapid Fire Round Table Wrap up

125

Sine Die Conclave

126

Family Caucus Matters

127

Maayan Schechter & The Sine Die Sprint

128

See You Next January

129

Curtis Loftis: Don’t’ Call it an Impeachment

130

Econ Spring Break

131

State Budget: A Tradition Unlike Any Other

132

Simmer & Stocks Sink—Buy the Dip

133

Tax Reform Hits the Skids

134

Talkin’ Tax Cuts- No April Foolin’

135

Torts, Boondoggles, and Forrest Fires

136

Simmer Down Now

137

TORTal Recall

138

That Thing You scDOT

139

Big Ol Budget Bigtimes Torts

140

The Budget Vote-a-Rama Cometh

141

All Tort No Chaser

142

$1.8 Billion Boondoggle: Loftis Translation

143

March Madness Reaches the Statehouse

144

Celebrating 600 Boondoggle Style

145

The ABCs and 123s of Education Bills

146

Graham Gone Global

147

That Thing You DOGE

148

All Aboard The SS Electric

149

COFRAGE Against the Machine

150

One Month Down, a Lifetime to Go

151

How do you solve a problem like a boondoggle?

152

Graham at Ground Zero

153

$1.8 billion Boondoggle Claims Another

154

South Carolina Bids Biden Bon Voyage

155

Billion Dollar Boondoggles Are BACK!

156

Gavin Gavelin’ in the 2025 Legislative Session

157

Live in Columbia with House Speaker Murrell Smith

158

New Year, Get Ready!

159

Season of New Traditions: 2025 Hot or Not

160

2025 Econ Pod Outlook

161

House PreFiling Party

162

How Many Licks does it take to get a School Voucher Bill Passed?

163

Tariff or not Tariff, that is the Question

164

S.C. Statehouse Musical Chairs

165

Clemson Vs USC Post Election Professors

166

UAPs, Turkey, and You

167

Going to Space with Nancy Mace

168

The Devil at His Elbow: Valerie Bauerlein on Alex Murdaugh

169

Getting Our Lame Ducks in a Row

170

Finally Through the Election Void

171

Election 2024: Souls to the Polls

172

Pre-Election 2024 LIVE IN COLUMBIA

173

Campaign Trail Blitzkrieg

174

2024 Election: Record Early Turnout

175

2024 Election: Yep, Early Voting. It’s Here.

176

Boats & Votes

177

Shrinking Pool of Poll Workers a Problem in S.C.

178

A Conversation with AG Alan Wilson

179

Helene and the Misinformation Storm

180

Helene Hectic Aftermath

181

Midwestern Nice Veep Debate

182

Pod Delay Alert

183

Zelensky Visits America’s Mom and Dad

184

School Vouchers No No Explain Yes

185

Conspiracies on the Trail & Hate on the Hill

186

Viral Internet IRL

187

Big Debate Reaction Energy

188

Presidential Debate Dogfight

189

A Campaign Trail Tale of Two Candidates

190

H-O-T-T-W-O (Months) TO GO

191

All Out Election Sprint

192

Lede is BACK in Session, People!

193

DNC Day 5

194

DNC Day 4

195

DNC Day 3

196

DNC Day 2

197

DNC Day 1

198

Lede Special Announcement

199

Harris, Hurricanes, and a Hot Hot Campaign Trail

200

Pumpin’ the Breaks on the Runaway News Cycle

201

Kamala’s brat Summer Cometh

202

Biden Bombshell Rocks the Free World

203

RNC Day 4

204

RNC Day 3

205

RNC Day 2

206

RNC Day 1

207

Biden Campaign Running on Empty

208

40 Acres and a Lie

209

Introducing 'Who What When'

210

Lede Infrastructure Week!

211

A Journey to Adjournment: the 125th General Assembly

212

The Lede Goes Global! (Just Canada, Sorry….)

213

Primary Primer with Maayan Schechter

214

Great Scotts!

215

2024 SC Primary Pandemonium

216

Primary Pregame 2024

217

Supreme Leder Holding Court

218

The Trump Verdict Heard ‘Round the World

219

The Reason for the Hurricane Season

220

Gerrymandering SC (1)01

221

The Truth IS Out There -SLED

222

60 Years of Integration at USC

223

Lindsay Graham, Lloyd Austin? Oh Hail no

224

Leders Never Say Sine Die!

225

I Saw the Sine Die

226

Sine Die Another Day

227

May the 4th District Be With You

228

1 Billion 800 Million Misplaced Dollars. How Do you Measure a Discrepancy? (It’s a RENT Joke)

229

Big Judicial Energy with Russ and Maayan

230

Billion dollar lost and found

231

Campaigns and Gains

232

Putting the FUN in Perfunctory Session!

233

Total Crossover Eclipse

234

Spring Breaking with Nancy Mace and Jim Clyburn

235

DEI Hard

236

These Ears are Made for Markin’

237

March Statehouse Madness

238

Judiciary Spring Cleaning

239

Big Budget Energy

240

Dog Days of Session

241

Stupor Tuesday: Nikki Haley Calls it Quits

242

Super Tuesday Super Sprint for Second

243

There's Something About Primary

244

SC Lede 2024 GOP Primary Radio Special

245

SC Republican Primary: Today is the Day

246

SC 2024 - The End of Days

247

Haley and Trump Battle For SC

248

On The Bus With Nikki Haley

249

Failed Joint Session

250

Post Democratic Primary Meg-Tacular

251

Finally First: The SC Democratic Primary

252

Biden Wins! (the SC Primary)

253

S.C. Primary: Voters' Paradise

254

New Hampshire Results Show

255

Nikki Haley’s Comet

256

Lede Free or Die

257

Raucous Caucus

258

All Eyes on Iowa

259

2024 Legislative Preview

260

Coming in for a Soft Landing

261

The Rise of Trump

262

2023 December to Remember Lede-a-Thon Year End Sales Event (0% APR Financing)

263

Twas the Night Before Econ Pod-mas

264

Breaking Sununu News!

265

Newt in 2012: The Streak is Broken

266

The Field Goes Nuclear on Nikki Haley

267

All's NOT Quiet on the DeSantis Front

268

Nikki Haley: Hypebeast of the Southeast

269

McCain vs South Carolina

270

It’s Giving Thanksgiving

271

Katrina Shealy: Courage in the Face of Peer Pressure

272

100 Days til SC 2024

273

SC 2024: Why We Love to Hate Polls

274

Miami Heat: Haley vs DeSantis vs Etc

275

Mean Girls Take Miami

276

Lindsay Graham Slams Blockade

277

Dirty Tricks & Politics

278

South of Spooky Halloween Special

279

The Lede Goes Local

280

Lindsay Graham Goes to Israel

281

SC Lede: International Lede

282

How to Run a Campaign in SC

283

SC01 Goes to the Supreme Court

284

No One Paints Nancy Mace in a Corner

285

ECON POD ACTIVATED

286

Who are the SC GOP Primary Voters? Part 2

287

Scott Gets Spicy, Haley Gets Heated

288

A Whale of a Trump Rally in Summerville

289

DC Lede: Republicans in Disarray

290

Who are the SC GOP Primary Voters? Part 1: Regions

291

Abortion: Finding Common Ground

292

Graham Jury

293

Nikki Haley Plays the Hits

294

SC 2024: What Makes SC So Important?

295

You Gotta Have Faith… on the Trail

296

Haley and Scott with Some SC Home Cookin’

297

Debateful 8

298

Debating to Exhale

299

Lindsey Graham: Not a Co-Conspirator

300

Fair and Loathing in Iowa

301

Haley, Scott, and Trump Hurtling Towards the Debate

302

Trump and the Silver Elephant in the Room

303

Miami Lede

304

Palmetto Perspectives: Human Trafficking in SC

305

Beam Me Up, Nancy! Set Phasers to Stun

306

New Jersey Lede?!

307

DeSantis Part Deux

308

IoWHAT THE...?

309

Bidenomics Arrives in the Palmetto State

310

Trump Train Rumbles Through the Upstate

311

Mo' Money, Mo' Projects

312

Climate Change and Hurricane Season Preview

313

Obama Has Entered the 2024 Chat

314

Trials and Trails

315

Trump Indictment Fallout

316

See You Next Term!

317

Noted Florida Man Stumps in SC

318

One on one with former Supreme Court Justice Kaye Hearn

319

WANTED: Lindsey Graham

320

Hittin' the Trail with Tim Scott

321

The Ballad of Tim Scott

322

Abortion Ban Marathon Debate

323

McMaster Convenes Summer School

324

Sine Die...ish

325

Lede, Laugh, Love — Live From Columbia

326

A Conversation with Nikki Haley

327

Tim Scott? Oh, He's Runnin'

328

Abortion Debate Deja Vu

329

Sunday Funday with Nancy Mace and Lindsey Graham

330

DeSantis: The Blueprint

331

Talking Gun Reform with SLED Chief Mark Keel

332

Lede, Laugh, Love — Live From Clemson

333

Statehouse Crossover Portal Activation Alert NOW

334

Spring Break Blockbuster Bill Bonanza

335

Final Countdown to Crossover

336

Medical Marijua- Nah, Bro

337

Dial M for Murdaugh

338

Trail Bites: March 23, 2023