WEBVTT - Special Friday Conversation: Mark Halperin 0:00:00.840 --> 0:00:07.080 The voice of free speech, the truth delivered common sense 0:00:07.440 --> 0:00:08.760 for the American people. 0:00:10.480 --> 0:00:13.400 Welcome to the Scott Jennings Show. 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:20.000 James Tallerico in Texas makes appalling comments about race and 0:00:20.079 --> 0:00:24.599 criminal justice. We have the audio and my commentary straight ahead. 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.520 Congressman Ralph Norman of South Carolina is coming by this hour, 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:32.159 one of two Republicans left in the runoff to replace 0:00:32.280 --> 0:00:34.919 Lindsey Graham on the November ballot. 0:00:35.360 --> 0:00:37.199 Interesting conversation ahead. 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.959 And we have breaking new polling out of Michigan on 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:45.480 both the Senate and gubernatorial races. Our friends at AAARP 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:49.280 have fresh data. John Hishta is here and you don't 0:00:49.320 --> 0:00:52.000 want to miss that. It's Friday, August the twenty first. 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.720 I'm Scott Jennings broadcasting for Salem Man, coming to you 0:00:55.760 --> 0:01:01.160 live from Louisville, Kentucky. On this day in eighteen fifty eight, 0:01:01.760 --> 0:01:06.720 thousands of people poured into Ottawa, Illinois to witness a 0:01:06.880 --> 0:01:13.040 rhetorical confrontation unlike anything America had ever seen. On one 0:01:13.080 --> 0:01:18.160 side stood the powerful incumbent US Senator, a nationally famous 0:01:18.200 --> 0:01:22.480 Democrat known as the Little Giant. On the other, a 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:28.160 lanky former congressman largely unknown throughout the country there to 0:01:28.200 --> 0:01:31.880 compete for the incumbent seat. It was a campaign debate, 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:36.280 but the question of foot was much larger. Would slavery 0:01:36.360 --> 0:01:41.399 be allowed to spread into America's western territories. The senator 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.440 argued that the people of each territory should decide the 0:01:44.480 --> 0:01:49.240 issue for themselves. His challenger warned that slavery was morally 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.440 wrong and that a nation divided against itself could not stand. 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:57.680 The format was grueling. One candidate spoke for an hour, 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:01.440 the other answered for ninety minutes, and the first then 0:02:01.520 --> 0:02:07.000 return for a thirty minute rebuttal and Ottawa, Illinois, was 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:11.040 only the beginning. The two men would meet seven times 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.720 across the state, and the incumbent senator would ultimately keep 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:20.840 his seat that November, but newspapers carried the challenger's words 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:26.680 across the country, transforming a little known Prairie lawyer into 0:02:26.720 --> 0:02:31.000 a national political figure. Two years later, the men would 0:02:31.040 --> 0:02:35.360 face each other again, this time for the presidency, the 0:02:35.400 --> 0:02:41.480 little giant Stephen A. Douglas versus the lanky lawyer Abraham Lincoln. 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:45.040 You know how that turned out, And it all started 0:02:45.440 --> 0:02:48.959 with the beginning of the Lincoln Douglas debates. On this day, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:53.520 August the twenty first, eighteen fifty eight. You know, questions 0:02:53.560 --> 0:02:57.560 of equal justice under the law have permeated our political 0:02:57.600 --> 0:03:03.240 debates for decades, and today day's Democratic luminaries appear to 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:07.320 be backtracking. I bring you the story today of James Tallarico, 0:03:07.400 --> 0:03:11.000 the Democrat candidate for the United States Senate in Texas. 0:03:11.560 --> 0:03:15.880 He took to the radio airwaves yesterday to argue that 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:21.440 you should be afforded different criminal justice outcomes based on 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:26.840 the color of your skin. Let me repeat, different criminal 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:32.919 justice outcomes based on the color of your skin. Tall 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:36.680 Rico was asked to comment on the case of Carmelo Anthony, 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:40.720 the seventeen year old African American teenager who stabbed to 0:03:40.800 --> 0:03:45.680 death fellow teenager Austin Metcalf at a high school track meet. 0:03:46.360 --> 0:03:48.840 Anthony was sentenced to thirty five years in prison for 0:03:48.920 --> 0:03:53.440 that murder, and hearings are underway as Anthony's new defense 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:58.520 seeks a retrial. All of this is going on as 0:03:58.600 --> 0:04:02.600 mister tall Rico appears on a popular morning radio show 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:06.800 called The Breakfast Club. It's extremely influential in the African 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:09.480 American community. I want you to a listen to this 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:14.600 exchange as Tallarico is asked about the Carmelo Anthony trial 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:16.320 Cut seven in Texas. 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:18.360 We see what happened with Carmelo Anthony, and you said 0:04:18.360 --> 0:04:19.240 it was a tragedy. 0:04:19.400 --> 0:04:20.720 Yeah, what did you mean by that? 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:22.600 Well, I've done a lot of work in the state 0:04:22.600 --> 0:04:25.720 House on justice reform, and right now we've got a 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:29.520 system that doesn't serve all Americans equally. And we know 0:04:29.600 --> 0:04:34.520 that black Texans have been have not gotten the justice 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:38.080 they deserve in many cases. And you know, I'm not 0:04:38.080 --> 0:04:39.760 an expert on this particular case, but I know that 0:04:39.760 --> 0:04:42.880 there were no black members of the jury. And to me, 0:04:43.000 --> 0:04:48.279 that's the only evidence you need to really prove that 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.040 this system is not working for black Texans. 0:04:53.000 --> 0:04:57.039 This is astonishing. The evidence in the case is not 0:04:57.120 --> 0:05:03.040 really in dispute. Anthony killed meta. This African American kid 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:06.560 killed a white kid after an argument that attract me. 0:05:06.920 --> 0:05:11.040 Stab him in the heart with a knife, up close 0:05:11.960 --> 0:05:17.839 personal cold blooded murder. But tall Rico looks at this 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:21.880 case and says, if only there had been some black jurors, 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.880 Carmelo Anthony could have gotten away with it. 0:05:25.880 --> 0:05:27.520 Let's set up the politics of this. 0:05:27.640 --> 0:05:31.360 By the way, Talarico defeated an African American woman named 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:34.799 Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary to win this nomination. 0:05:35.360 --> 0:05:39.599 And now he's doing poorly, very poorly with black Democrats 0:05:39.760 --> 0:05:43.560 in Texas, and he thinks the way to win them 0:05:43.600 --> 0:05:46.880 over is to say, I will literally let you kill 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.320 any white person that you want. This sort of pandering 0:05:52.040 --> 0:05:55.440 is a level of racism that I cannot even begin 0:05:55.720 --> 0:05:56.520 to understand. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.560 Let's get back to Tallarrico's statements. 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:05.279 This is a civilization destroying view of criminal justice, the 0:06:05.360 --> 0:06:09.159 idea that the color of your skin, of either the 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.400 defendant or a juror should determine the outcome of a 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:17.680 murder case. Many have asserted that the jury was all white. 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:18.279 That's false. 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.320 Of the twelve jurors, three were racial minorities, including Asian 0:06:22.320 --> 0:06:25.560 and Indian, eight were women, four were men. Of the 0:06:25.600 --> 0:06:30.839 eighteen total jurors including the alternate, six were minorities. But 0:06:30.880 --> 0:06:33.479 does any of this even matter in a murder case? 0:06:33.520 --> 0:06:37.520 You look at the evidence, testimony, witnesses, the weapon, and 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:40.680 you ask a jury to make a decision, and that 0:06:40.760 --> 0:06:46.160 decision cannot cannot be well even if he did it. 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:50.039 We share a skin color, so I should probably let 0:06:50.080 --> 0:06:54.240 this defendant get away with murder. But that's exactly what 0:06:54.400 --> 0:06:57.080 James Tallerco is arguing for here. 0:06:57.880 --> 0:07:00.159 Can you imagine anything more racist? 0:07:00.720 --> 0:07:03.320 Tall Rico thinks that if Carmelo Anthony had faced a 0:07:03.400 --> 0:07:06.960 jury of black people, they would have ignored the evidence, 0:07:07.160 --> 0:07:11.160 which is overwhelming, and let him go. That's what tallar 0:07:11.200 --> 0:07:15.000 Rico thinks of black voters in Texas, that they would 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:18.160 set aside their duties as citizens and members of the 0:07:18.200 --> 0:07:21.320 community in good standing to excuse a murder based on 0:07:21.400 --> 0:07:25.920 the color of the defendant's skin. This is the literal 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:31.240 opposite of what so many Black Americans fought so valiantly 0:07:31.320 --> 0:07:34.200 to achieve equal justice. 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:34.640 Under the law. 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:40.160 Means no criminal justice outcome is dependent on the color 0:07:40.200 --> 0:07:42.920 of your skin. If a black teenager commits murder and 0:07:42.960 --> 0:07:45.360 the evidence proves it, he is guilty. If a white 0:07:45.360 --> 0:07:49.080 teenager commits murder and the evidence proves it, he is guilty. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:54.560 The jury is not asked to balance the cosmic racial 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:58.320 scales in an individual murder trial. It is asked to 0:07:58.360 --> 0:08:01.280 deliver justice for the victim and to protect the community 0:08:01.320 --> 0:08:04.440 in which it serves. But in tallar Rico's view, a 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:08.640 black teenager apparently should be able to stab to death 0:08:08.720 --> 0:08:11.480 a white teenager in the name of quote making the 0:08:11.520 --> 0:08:15.640 system work for black people. I would submit that the 0:08:15.680 --> 0:08:20.240 system works for no one when the race of the 0:08:20.280 --> 0:08:24.720 defendant is more important than the evidence in the case. 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:29.960 And I would submit that tall Rico has strange, strange, 0:08:30.080 --> 0:08:34.280 even racist, one could argue views about the character of 0:08:34.320 --> 0:08:37.880 black Texans who wind up on juries. Does he really 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.720 believe that black Texans would look beyond evidence and the 0:08:41.800 --> 0:08:46.320 law to permit murder simply because the defendant was also black? 0:08:46.760 --> 0:08:50.120 Does he realize what he is saying about the character 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:54.800 of his fellow Texans, his fellow Americans. Now, we brought 0:08:54.800 --> 0:08:57.720 you the story earlier this week of Taal Rico believing 0:08:57.760 --> 0:09:01.439 that black Americans are too stupid to figure out how 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.240 to use an ID to vote. Now he apparently thinks 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:09.680 Black Americans are of such low character that they would 0:09:09.720 --> 0:09:14.640 openly permit murder in their communities because well, I guess 0:09:14.679 --> 0:09:18.880 that's what he thinks their top priorities are for their neighborhood. 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:23.680 I am flabbergasted by this man, and I sense that 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:29.720 he has no idea, none whatsoever, what these racist ideas 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:35.800 sound like coming out of his silly, unseerious pandering mouth. 0:09:36.280 --> 0:09:39.600 Scott Jennings is broadcasting to you on Salem. 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By the way, Coming up in about 0:12:03.640 --> 0:12:07.440 ten minutes, we have Ralph Norman of South Carolina here. 0:12:07.480 --> 0:12:11.240 He's one of the two remaining Republicans vying to replace 0:12:11.320 --> 0:12:14.600 Lindsey Graham on the November Senate ballot. The other is 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:19.200 Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister. She has the President's endorsement. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:24.600 But Ralph Norman finished second in that runoff. He's a congressman. 0:12:24.679 --> 0:12:26.840 He ran for governor this year. Some people think he 0:12:26.880 --> 0:12:30.880 may actually be ahead in that campaign. It's close and 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.040 he's coming by. He's being outspent, and the President's working 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:38.160 for his opponent, but Ralph's hanging in there. I don't 0:12:38.160 --> 0:12:40.960 know where you all stand on this, but I'm looking 0:12:40.960 --> 0:12:43.280 forward to talking to Ralph. I've known Ralph Norman for 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:46.640 twenty years and I'm kind of fascinated by his journey. 0:12:46.720 --> 0:12:49.840 So we'll have that conversation in a minute. I remain, 0:12:50.320 --> 0:12:54.840 by the way, flabbergasted at this James Talerico story. We 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.719 just brought you the idea that a candidate for the 0:12:58.800 --> 0:13:03.120 United States Senate would argue that you perhaps should get 0:13:03.160 --> 0:13:06.320 away with murder because of the color of your skin, 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.480 or that a juror might find you guilty or not 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.959 guilty based on the color of your skin. I mean, 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:16.120 tall Rico's clearly implying in his comments that if we 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.160 could just get some black jurors, you guys could get 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:22.600 away with murder. It is so racist what he is saying. 0:13:24.160 --> 0:13:28.880 He has this need to pander, and it leads to 0:13:28.920 --> 0:13:36.199 these appallingly racist statements. Earlier, he was saying, effectively that 0:13:36.360 --> 0:13:38.520 black voters are too dumb to figure out how to 0:13:38.600 --> 0:13:39.640 use an ID to vote. 0:13:39.679 --> 0:13:40.640 Now he's saying. 0:13:40.800 --> 0:13:42.880 Black jurors will let you get away with murder as 0:13:42.920 --> 0:13:45.520 long as you're black. Does he not understand what he 0:13:45.600 --> 0:13:48.520 is saying about the intelligence and the character of these 0:13:48.600 --> 0:13:49.280 voters that he. 0:13:49.240 --> 0:13:54.319 Seeks to persuade. It's insulting Black Texans. 0:13:54.400 --> 0:13:58.959 Black Americans do not need tallar Rico or any other 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.880 Democrat to grant them permission to disregard the law to 0:14:02.880 --> 0:14:08.600 commit violence and murder. They need safe neighborhoods, They need 0:14:08.679 --> 0:14:14.120 prosecutors who prosecute They need juries who honestly examine evidence 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:19.880 and hold criminals accountable. And they need political leaders who 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:25.120 believe they possess the same judgment, integrity, and sense of 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.040 civic responsibility as any other American. 0:14:28.640 --> 0:14:30.480 All men are created equal. 0:14:31.120 --> 0:14:35.640 All Americans deserve equal justice under the law. There's a 0:14:35.680 --> 0:14:42.760 reason that Lady Justice wears a blindfold. But with this 0:14:42.840 --> 0:14:47.760 obscene pandering, tall Rico thinks he is flattering Black voters, 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:54.280 He's actually insulting them. He is reducing responsible citizens down 0:14:54.320 --> 0:14:57.800 to racial partisans who cannot or will not follow the 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:00.920 evidence or the law when another, the human being, has 0:15:00.920 --> 0:15:01.600 been murdered. 0:15:03.920 --> 0:15:09.360 It is utterly disqualifying for high office. Unbelievable. 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:11.400 It's close race in Texas. I don't know what's going 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:14.680 to happen. By the way, close race down there another 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.920 story I want to bring you. Jill Biden has sat 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:23.040 down for a podcast interview, and in it she raised 0:15:23.280 --> 0:15:29.440 or affirmed that at least the possibility exists that Joe Biden. 0:15:30.640 --> 0:15:31.800 Was roofed. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:36.320 Before that fateful debate against Trump in the summer of 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:36.960 twenty four. 0:15:37.680 --> 0:15:39.240 Let's hear a little audio from the debate. 0:15:39.280 --> 0:15:41.960 Guys, play that, and I'm going to continue to move 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:46.720 until we get the total band on, the total initiative 0:15:47.000 --> 0:15:49.240 relative to what we're going to do with more border 0:15:49.280 --> 0:15:52.000 patrol and more asymnum officers. 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:54.760 President Trump, I really don't know what he said at 0:15:54.760 --> 0:15:56.760 the end of this. I don't think he knows what 0:15:56.800 --> 0:15:57.360 he said either. 0:15:57.480 --> 0:16:04.280 Look, you remember Biden was absolutely I don't even know 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:06.680 how to describe it now. I mean, you remember what happened, Well, 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.440 listen to Jill Biden talking about it now cut Ford. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:12.360 Still to this day, you don't have a gut instinct 0:16:12.360 --> 0:16:16.120 on what was that moment? No, I mean, there's all 0:16:16.240 --> 0:16:18.520 kinds of there is. You know, he had been traveling. 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.200 I know he was tired, he didn't feel well that 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:30.400 day when I saw him, But there was nothing definitive 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.560 that I could point to. And I had been on 0:16:32.600 --> 0:16:36.480 the road for two weeks up until that moment, so 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:40.920 I wasn't with him. I didn't see him days before, 0:16:41.120 --> 0:16:43.960 weeks before. I saw him maybe one hour before. 0:16:45.080 --> 0:16:48.400 And there's no way anyone could, of God forbid, laced 0:16:48.480 --> 0:16:49.360 his drink. 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:50.520 Or knows who knows. 0:16:52.160 --> 0:16:52.360 Right? 0:16:52.520 --> 0:16:53.680 Who knows? 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:57.680 Listen to that? Could anyone have laced Joe Biden's drink? 0:16:57.800 --> 0:17:01.200 The President of the United States, Jill Biden says, Oh, 0:17:01.160 --> 0:17:04.840 I'm sorry, doctor. Jill Biden says, who knows? 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:06.320 What do you mean? 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:06.960 Who knows? 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:12.720 This man is surrounded by the Secret Service, and you're 0:17:12.760 --> 0:17:15.240 saying somebody could a roofied Joe Biden? 0:17:15.240 --> 0:17:19.159 Who knows? I guess we'll never know. Do you know 0:17:19.240 --> 0:17:21.000 how insane this sounds? 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.720 These Biden's were the most irresponsible people to ever hold 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:29.640 this office. Listen to them now, heck, listen to them. Then, 0:17:30.359 --> 0:17:31.760 all right, we got to take a break. When we 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:36.119 come back, Ralph Norman is here South Carolina politics. 0:17:36.119 --> 0:17:37.439 It's wild stay with us. 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.240 No for America's favorite pundit, it's Scott Jennings. 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:48.359 In about thirty seconds, we bring Congressman Ralph Norman to 0:17:48.920 --> 0:17:52.480 the Scott Jennings Show. He's on the ballot in South Carolina, 0:17:52.560 --> 0:17:57.040 one of two Republicans remaining buying to replace the late 0:17:57.080 --> 0:18:00.960 Senator Lindsey Graham on the November ballot. The other is 0:18:01.040 --> 0:18:04.600 Darlene Graham, Lindsey Graham's sister. It is quite a strange 0:18:04.640 --> 0:18:08.359 situation in South Carolina. But Ralph Norman is one of 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:11.400 the conservatives that you know and have known for many 0:18:11.480 --> 0:18:14.200 years who's in the final two, and I want to 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:16.920 have a conversation with him about how this campaign is 0:18:17.000 --> 0:18:18.960 unfolded in just a moment. First, I do want to 0:18:18.960 --> 0:18:21.000 give you a message, and that is this, For nearly 0:18:21.440 --> 0:18:25.080 two hundred and fifty years, America's founding principles have given 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:29.000 people the freedom to dream big, take risks, and build 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:32.240 something of their own. And that spirit is alive in 0:18:32.320 --> 0:18:36.440 American small business today. 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They're doing 0:19:03.880 --> 0:19:06.480 a great job helping us all celebrate America two fifty. 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:10.400 That's the next iteration in this All right, The primary 0:19:10.480 --> 0:19:14.280 season is almost sorted out in America, but not quite 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:18.840 yet in South Carolina, where as you know, Senator Lindsay 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:22.080 Graham passed away several weeks ago and they had an 0:19:22.119 --> 0:19:24.960 initial election to replace him, and it got down to 0:19:25.000 --> 0:19:27.760 a runoff between Darlene Graham, who was appointed to the 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.680 US Senate by South Carolina's governor and then she decided 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:35.919 to run for the full term, and Ralph Norman, US Congressman. 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.679 He just ran for governor earlier this year in that 0:19:38.760 --> 0:19:42.440 Republican primary. He's now in the Senate race. Let's hear 0:19:42.480 --> 0:19:45.119 what Ralph Norman is telling the people of South Carolina. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:45.640 Cut one. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.480 I spent my career building a business, but I couldn't 0:19:49.520 --> 0:19:52.800 stand by while Washington spent money it didn't have. So 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.320 I got in the fight and I never forgot who 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:59.000 elected me. This election is about the America we pass 0:19:59.080 --> 0:19:59.919 on to your family. 0:20:00.160 --> 0:20:00.480 Mind. 0:20:00.840 --> 0:20:04.600 We inherited freedom, and that's our turn to defend it, 0:20:04.640 --> 0:20:07.679 to strengthen it, and to leave America stronger than we 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.560 found it. You shouldn't have to guess where your next 0:20:10.600 --> 0:20:12.119 senator stands with me. 0:20:12.640 --> 0:20:13.399 You already know. 0:20:13.760 --> 0:20:16.440 I'm Ralph Norman, and I approved this message. 0:20:17.200 --> 0:20:21.040 And joining us live to discuss this campaign is Ralph Norman, Congressman. 0:20:21.040 --> 0:20:22.920 Thanks for joining us here on the Scott Jenning Show. 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:25.080 Well glad to be with you, Scott. 0:20:26.240 --> 0:20:28.480 Well, I'm glad to hear your voice today, and I'm 0:20:28.520 --> 0:20:32.240 interested in this campaign. It's one of the most unusual situations. Obviously, 0:20:32.520 --> 0:20:36.520 our friend Lindsey Graham. His passing shocked Washington. I know 0:20:36.560 --> 0:20:40.200 it shocked you, and this race to replace him is 0:20:40.320 --> 0:20:46.000 unfolded in a very strange situation. The Senator's sister was 0:20:46.040 --> 0:20:48.520 appointed as a caretaker for the rest of this term, 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.119 but that ends in January, and Senator Graham was facing 0:20:52.160 --> 0:20:55.000 election in November for a new six year term. 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:56.359 That's where you come in. 0:20:56.400 --> 0:20:59.240 A bunch of Republicans ran for his nomination and it 0:20:59.280 --> 0:21:02.479 got down to a final two between Darlene Graham and 0:21:02.560 --> 0:21:06.520 now you. President Trump is with Darlene Graham. You've been 0:21:06.560 --> 0:21:09.159 an ally of President Trump on many issues over the 0:21:09.240 --> 0:21:12.159 years as well. I want to start there. How is 0:21:12.200 --> 0:21:14.679 all that sitting with the voters of South Carolina? Is 0:21:14.720 --> 0:21:17.000 that going to be determinative or can you overcome it? 0:21:18.840 --> 0:21:22.159 Well? I think well, first of all, what President Trump 0:21:22.280 --> 0:21:26.399 has done for this country is something I'll always be 0:21:26.480 --> 0:21:30.080 grateful for. With a Kamala Harris, had she won, this 0:21:30.200 --> 0:21:35.200 country would not be able to have survived. And he's 0:21:35.240 --> 0:21:38.000 the one who did it. And I'll always be honored 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.920 to serve with him and to buck him, which I've done. 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.640 Now I ask him for the for his endorsement, which 0:21:44.680 --> 0:21:48.720 is good for any candidate in particularly South Carolina. We're 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:51.120 a red state, going to stay at red state hopefully. 0:21:52.280 --> 0:21:54.560 But that being said, the people of South Carolina are 0:21:54.560 --> 0:21:57.639 going to pick the next senator and they're engaged. I 0:21:57.680 --> 0:22:01.880 think from early voting it's we've got to increase turnout 0:22:01.920 --> 0:22:06.120 in good areas. So but he'll be He's coming down 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.800 and we've got a big rally tonight and Anderson that 0:22:09.040 --> 0:22:12.560 we're going to attend. But you know, it's all so 0:22:12.680 --> 0:22:17.520 unfortunate that Lindsey died to you know, it's unconventional that 0:22:17.600 --> 0:22:20.360 we're facing this at this point. It was such a 0:22:20.400 --> 0:22:25.080 short runway to campaign and take our message to the voters. 0:22:25.359 --> 0:22:28.000 You did have a debate Congressman the other night, and 0:22:28.040 --> 0:22:30.920 this of course has made the national political news this week. 0:22:30.960 --> 0:22:34.400 There was a question about foreign policy that was raised 0:22:34.480 --> 0:22:38.439 in the debate, and Darlene Graham gave an answer that frankly, 0:22:38.480 --> 0:22:40.320 has ricochet around the political world. 0:22:40.359 --> 0:22:42.680 Let's take a listen to that and cut number three. 0:22:42.680 --> 0:22:46.000 All ur Taiwan and the South China see National Security 0:22:46.040 --> 0:22:47.440 issues for the United States. 0:22:47.480 --> 0:22:49.520 And if so, lie or how. 0:22:50.880 --> 0:22:53.320 I'm just going to be honest here. I'm not on 0:22:53.480 --> 0:22:57.000 national security that I'm not that informed on national security. 0:22:57.200 --> 0:23:02.760 So but I do support the military. My brother was 0:23:02.800 --> 0:23:06.199 in the Air Force for thirty three years, so I 0:23:06.240 --> 0:23:10.040 will do everything I can to support the military. My 0:23:10.640 --> 0:23:13.640 dad was in the Army. I'm not a polished politician 0:23:13.720 --> 0:23:17.920 up here. National security is not my thing, not my 0:23:18.040 --> 0:23:20.920 area of expertise, but I do support the military. 0:23:22.440 --> 0:23:24.240 Congressman, how do you respond to that? 0:23:24.359 --> 0:23:27.879 And is foreign policy the top issue for voters in 0:23:27.880 --> 0:23:30.640 this election? Does she have a point that maybe it's 0:23:30.680 --> 0:23:33.240 not that vital for the next senator from South Carolina 0:23:33.320 --> 0:23:34.600 to know that much about this stuff. 0:23:35.560 --> 0:23:39.160 Anybody serving and I don't care what office it is, 0:23:39.480 --> 0:23:45.080 national security is upmost concerned. I mean, it's sad that 0:23:45.800 --> 0:23:47.960 you and I know she would take it back if 0:23:47.960 --> 0:23:51.159 she could, but you know, being up there with her, Scott, 0:23:51.240 --> 0:23:53.280 she just didn't want to be there, you could tell that. 0:23:53.320 --> 0:23:56.920 But she owes it to the voters in South Carolina 0:23:57.040 --> 0:24:01.560 to get under the lights, to take any all questions. 0:24:00.920 --> 0:24:03.600