6 'OFIVERS ITS HUMP DAY!!! 6/24/26

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SPEAKER_01 0:03

Glen Guy Radio is here. And do you have his walk-up music? Um It's on the hot button. Do you know where those are?

SPEAKER_03 0:10

Uh now you asked.

SPEAKER_01 0:13

No, I'm just wondering, because uh usually we play it at the top of the hour when he's actually in the house. It's okay. Don't worry about it. The Quintern is here. Good morning, too. Come on with him.

SPEAKER_03 0:25

Come on with him. Yeah. Something like that. Okay. I missed your uh I didn't realize.

SPEAKER_01 0:34

And finally, Nick put it on the hot button. Yeah, I so you won't hear it until Tuesday next week.

SPEAKER_03 0:40

No, you might hear it. I might be able to find it.

SPEAKER_01 0:44

Eventually. All right. So we had a big election night yesterday. I'd love to hear your comments on it on the mighty, uh, the mighty text line here with the budget blinds. Text line, 843-798-talk, 798-8255. Uh yeah, a lot going on in the state of South Carolina last night. I I went over to a watch party to see what was going on to watch, because that's what you do at a watch party. Um, and Alan Wilson won by a landslide. Schlacking Pamela Evitt. Uh 68.56 he won by. He got 218,321 votes. And Pamela got uh 100 and one 100,123 votes. So he more than doubled the amount of votes. And um I uh listen, um, that's exactly pretty much what the polls were showing. And um he won by more than 37 points. Was it 37 points? I mean, that's a lot.

SPEAKER_02 1:58

I mean, you you guys were already predicting it. You said uh roughly 70% of people didn't want to have it, and in the end, it was just chive 70% that voted for Wilson.

SPEAKER_01 2:09

So here's the question that I have. And Glenn, uh, don't worry about the hot button. You want me to pay attention, and then I see his hand reaching over for it. He's still looking. But here's the thing that I'd like to ask: do you think people voted for Wilson because they wanted Wilson or because they wanted change? That is the number one question I have. I mean, I know why I voted, the main reason why I voted. Um, and you know, was the state kept in within the navigational markers of where we needed to be? Yeah. Could it be better? I mean, did we move the needle on education, on uh income, on lowering insurance, on lowering taxes, on any lowering of any any costs at all? Can we just pick a cost at all? No, we went up in gas sales tax. Um, you know, did we stomp out fraud? You know, is there what we asked this question. How much how much fraud do we have here? Are we looking into fraud like you know, waste, abuse, and fraud? Are we looking into it here like we hear other states are doing?

SPEAKER_03 3:21

I'm sure we have fraud, and everybody else seems to have it.

SPEAKER_01 3:24

Exactly. A lot of COVID fraud, yeah, the PPP and all the uh unemployment and all of that. Uh do we have illegals working here? Do we have a broken e-verify uh program uh um program? Yes. Do we have election integrity? Was that fixed? You know what I'm saying? Like I feel like nothing was fixed.

SPEAKER_03 3:47

It's amazing how fast the returns came back last night, too.

SPEAKER_01 3:50

Oh yeah. I mean I mean, there weren't that many votes to count compared to other places, but well the thing was was the writing was on the wall once 20% was in. There was no way she was going to overcome that. So AP called it. Um and I I I didn't even know AP called it. I was still sitting there looking at the returns. I'm like, oh, only one percent's in. And then I'm like, they already date they already called it. Uh yeah. That's that the there was a horse race with Stephen Goldfinch and David Stumbo. Stumbo won that. Um and Cody Simpson won. Uh Danny Ford did not. And uh, and he really um and he lost pretty badly. Uh it was 62.58% for Cody Simpson, 37.42. I think all the Gamecock fans voted against Danny Ford, which is probably what happened. I wouldn't put that past some people, actually, honestly. Um, so anyway, I'd love to get your opinion on that. And uh what are you most worried about moving forward and what are you most excited about moving forward? Um, those are definitely things um that we can talk about for sure. And the other thing I wanted to tell you is that Mam Dani, uh his slate of uh lu lefty Lucy socialists, they were all socialists like he is, uh they um they all won on the primary side of the Democrat Party. So this should this should be interesting. New York is no longer the New York I remember.

SPEAKER_03 5:21

No.

SPEAKER_01 5:22

It is very sad for me to watch socialism growing.

SPEAKER_03 5:29

And if it ever comes back, it's gonna be a long time before it comes back to what you remember.

SPEAKER_01 5:35

I just can't believe it.

SPEAKER_03 5:37

I I don't either. I mean, I'm just like what is wrong with people.

SPEAKER_01 5:41

Especially in the wake of 9-11.

SPEAKER_03 5:43

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 5:43

You know, to allow this uh this mindset to come into New York City after 9-11, it makes you wonder like, how did that happen? You know, it's gotta be social media. It's gotta be this brainwashing.

SPEAKER_02 5:59

I can absolutely believe it, weirdly enough. At least with New York specifically. Why is that? Well, like I've mentioned before, I have friends that move there, but they moved there a few years ago before Mom Donnie ever hit the scene. And I think they were pretty tired of the way that things were run, and like you were talking about, people want change. Humans are both creatures of habit, but they're not creatures that can stay stagnant.

SPEAKER_01 6:24

But there was a Democrat there.

SPEAKER_02 6:26

There was a Democrat there, but at the same time, a lot of people had a lot of issues with him publicly. Now comes along new blood, a young guy coming into the race. He's charismatic, he's not backed by any big people, he's taking uh Oh, that's that's a lie.

SPEAKER_01 6:43

I know you think that, but I'm sorry. They lied to you. No, go. He's got he was handpicked, like AOC, handpicked by high dollar people.

SPEAKER_04 6:54

All right.

SPEAKER_01 6:54

It's all they're all puppets. Every politician. They're all they're all quote unquote owned by somebody. And that's why I voted Rom Reddy the first time. He did not take a single dollar from any person, let alone pack, let alone company or business. He didn't take a single dollar. That's why I voted for him.

SPEAKER_04 7:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:17

Because he didn't he wasn't bought by anybody. But mom Donnie, you could you can look up um all the people that vote that um backed him financially. Because he he came out of nowhere.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

That's fair.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

And and he has a beautiful smile. He's a good looking guy. He's got charisma. He's got charisma. But I think that's exactly the reason.

SPEAKER_03 7:34

He wants to get in the grocery business.

SPEAKER_01 7:37

Yeah, right. But go ahead. I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_02 7:39

No, yeah, but no, you know, he comes along, and again, a lot of people I think were thinking, well, we're not happy with what's happening currently, and we need to try something new. We need change right now. And there was a lot of grassroots movements going on too. A lot of local communities saw this guy and they wanted to get behind it. I don't think it was necessarily social media because I know that there were a lot of events hosted in public. There were like block parties to try and rally behind this guy. This guy did start small on social media. You can look back and see when his posts had absolutely no likes, but slowly, I think through that concerted community effort, he built up that traction. And in the end, he also fostered a lot of goodwill between some of the other people, like Sliwa, and he really only did take to attacking Cuomo for things that he saw as viable criticisms, which I think is completely fair. And in the end, he did end up winning.

SPEAKER_01 8:35

And are you telling me that Curtis Sleewa supported him?

SPEAKER_02 8:39

Yeah. I can't believe that. Him and Sleewa, they were talking with each other.

SPEAKER_01 8:43

They might have been talking with each other, but I can't imagine Curtis Slewa.

SPEAKER_02 8:46

I don't think Slewa said, uh I think Sleewa said, if you're not gonna go for uh Cuomo, go for Mom Donnie, because I think Sleewa had more hate in his heart for Cuomo than love for Mom Donnie, which is fair. But they uh shared a lot of playful banter too. I mean, like they were very they were very polite with each other, yeah, I think. And they uh compared to some of the other candidates, I don't even know what Eric Adams was trying to accomplish.

SPEAKER_01 9:11

Curtis Sleewa is is um he's a New York folk hero. Oh my god. I mean like beyond. I mean, that guy is New York through and through. And uh it it was very I I mean I thought he had a chance. Um I really did think he had a chance. But you know what?

SPEAKER_02 9:32

Um He was going strong even then, though.

SPEAKER_01 9:34

I yeah, I know. He he did better than the first time, but but um I would challenge you to see, and and I'll have to do my research too exactly, uh how Mamdani was handpicked. And so when you start to learn about politics, and I I studied politics in college. I'm not sure if you studied any politics in college or how political systems work.

SPEAKER_02 10:01

I mean I took like a poly cycle, I guess.

SPEAKER_01 10:03

So um what is what what you have to understand is there are and you probably know this, entities in the universe that are trying to control us. And by doing uh by paying and picking charismatic people like some no-name senator from Chicago that all of a sudden becomes president like Obama. He has a great smile, he's got a great, you know, swagger about him, um, and then all of a sudden he's president, and you're like, how did that happen? Um that's why there's a machine behind these people. You don't all of a sudden see a s uh an American state or city go socialist. Socialist is socialism is bad. I mean, do you believe that?

SPEAKER_02 10:57

Like, I'm not a socialist myself, but I'd rather wait and see how things shake out in New York. So you're open-minded. Yeah, pretty much.

SPEAKER_01 11:05

So when you study socialism, you see it's never worked anywhere, it's failed everywhere. Um and so communism has killed more people than any other war.

SPEAKER_02 11:17

Well, there's also the the fact that a lot of uh socialist states become the target of aggression from outside sources, specifically America is a huge factor when it comes to finding socialist uh governments and destabilizing them. And you can look at the CIA, which has disclosed a lot in the United States. Yeah, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 11:36

We do mess around in other people's other countries' elections. We do. Yeah. But but I mean, you can't say that Maduro was good for Venezuelan people.

SPEAKER_02 11:46

Yeah, but I don't know if that means we have the right to stomp in and take our own authority for the other.

SPEAKER_01 11:51

Well, I mean, it would depends if it has to do with our national security.

SPEAKER_03 11:56

Yeah, and like drugs killing people. And sending in drugs and sending drugs. I mean, the socialism part's like second to that, you know.

SPEAKER_01 12:03

When you start messing with our um national security and undermining our youth and our fabric of our community with sending in fentanyl and cartel and you know, sending people, droves of people, to come into the United States to destabilize the United States, we're gonna have something to say about it. Just like how China is doing it. But if you speak to anybody from Cuba or China um that have come here, and I I I know a few people that have actually escaped from there. I mean, you could talk to anybody from Iran that now lives in, you know, they don't even say they're from Iran, they say they're from Persia. Um they don't want anything to do with Iran, but that have that escaped Iran um and and moved to most of them have moved to the California area. There is no they there's they they can't go back to Iran. They can't be themselves in Iran. Like they're they're here and they're saying, like, go, United States, yes, yes, we want our country back. Because it wasn't always the way it was, this caliphate of of um this Ayatollah and all that stuff. That wasn't there before. There wasn't Iran, that was a very, you know, people, I'm not gonna say it was like America, but it was like westernized, I guess, a little bit.

SPEAKER_03 13:24

47 years or 48 years ago. For the people. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 13:28

Um do you believe that that people having autonomy over their lives is a good thing or a bad thing? And ownership of things, do you think that's a good thing or a bad thing? Owning a home and having earning whatever they want to earn and living wherever they want to live and saying whatever they want to say and loving whoever they want to love. Do you think that's a good thing or a good idea?

SPEAKER_03 13:52

Sounds like freedom, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_01 13:55

That's not socialism. You know, in socialist countries, you can't be gay. You can't you can't own a lot of people. Well, you can be, but you get thrown off of a building or your head cut off. So we have more freedom than any other country in the world. And it's not a socialism.

SPEAKER_02 14:10

I'd argue even America, though, is trying to go back on that. I mean, we're already trying to get bills passed to uh repeal gay marriage in the House. I don't think that's necessarily an issue with an economics.

SPEAKER_01 14:22

I don't know about this state.

SPEAKER_02 14:24

No, there was a governor. I think it might have been an Illinois governor, though, that's trying to do a uh repeal on gay marriage and it's trying to get to multiple levels. I'd say that's not necessarily an issue with the economy. I'd say that's a cultural issue.

SPEAKER_01 14:37

I don't I don't even know about um why they would repeal uh such a thing.

SPEAKER_02 14:44

Well, because you have a lot of uh sentiment, I think, that's talking about um trying to link uh gay people and pedophilia specifically. I think you see a lot of backlash coming from there. And I think it's uh disingenuous to talk about how gay people are being thrown off roofs when just as recently as the 70s, within living memory of a lot of people, you have gay people who are not allowed to go out in public. You have it ruining careers. I mean it's a Roy You have Roy Cohn. I'd say that people are trying to take back steps on that, though. I mean, we're talking about the fact that um you know, a lot of people don't like to hear about Pride Month, but think about the fact that Roy Cohn is a very good thing. A little much we don't know about Pride Month. Roy Cohn, who is one of Donald Trump's own mentors in the early 80s, was a closeted gay man who let himself die of AIDS because the culture of the time meant he would rather hurt his own kind, take steps to uh defund AIDS AIDS uh like health programs than come out. I think that's very telling of how America, as recently as that, has viewed uh I don't know anything about uh what he did, but that's on him if he if he wasn't brave enough to come out. But the thing is, it's it can't just be on him because he was directly affecting the lives of other people as well because of that. He let himself and a lot of other people. That doesn't make sense.

SPEAKER_01 16:11

It sounds like he's a very um that's not a brave, courageous person.

SPEAKER_02 16:15

He's not. It doesn't make sense. But he was one of the things.

SPEAKER_01 16:19

Trump has a lot of gay people in his administration, namely Scott Bessant, who's brilliant Treasury Secretary. And we had Rick Grinnell. We have a a lot of openly gay people. We don't have any problem with gay people being in government. I mean gay marriage is legal here in South Carolina.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

I know, but there are people who are trying to step back on that. I'm saying that I don't think we should make it a lot of issue.

SPEAKER_01 16:42

There are people that are religious that are not they don't like the concept of gay marriage, but it is law here and now. Actually, I was surprised that that even happened in recent years here in South Carolina before marijuana. I I thought for sure marijuana would be legalized before getting married.

SPEAKER_02 17:04

I remember whenever that uh it first got legalized. I was in like middle school, and I remember one of my teachers sat down and he was like, You're gonna remember this moment for the rest of your lives. You're gonna be very confused when you get older about what other things still aren't legal.

SPEAKER_01 17:17

Yeah, yeah. And um and still they're fighting that marijuana battle.

SPEAKER_03 17:22

Well, and if you go back to uh trans gay, what have you, I mean, we've had some mass shootings that turned out to be trans. Yeah. You know, and that is a concern of all all the Americans, whether they're straight or gay, that there is some type of mental imbalance that causes people to do that. And, you know, it kind of it's like the the pot call in the kettle black, you know, where something happens and then that group of people gets looked at a little differently because of mass shootings. And like you said, it affected it affects other people's lives, a lot of other people's lives ruins their lives because they lost their kids or what have you. Um so that that's a stigma, if you want to call it that, but that's a problem too.

SPEAKER_02 18:08

I was about to say too, though, again, I think it's very much an American issue because again, you look at a lot of uh mass shootings too, and a lot of them are like uh plain, just like guys that look like me, just a a regular, like white guy. Right. And I think there is uh a need to go to the identity of the person because I feel like that almost gives some sort of clarity where it's like, oh, because this person is gay or because they're transgender, that must be the reason why. And I don't even think anyone really knows why. There's just some undercurrent of in America. I think it also has to do with uh like the rise of celebrity culture in a way. Not celebrity culture, but the the need to be seen. I think it results in a lot of people going to drastic measures. Yeah, validation. A great movie was released on this recently called uh The Drama stars Robert Pattinson and Zendaya. I'm not gonna spoil it, but it goes into this topic and it goes into the perspective of a young person who's um falling into this mindset, the glorification of violence and the idea that it'll make you seen and heard in some way. And then a switch flips and this character goes, Oh no, this is completely wrong. I I mean, like, I know there are people smarter than me who have done way more research that have gone into the um effects, I think, of why a lot of people turn to violence as their way to be heard.

SPEAKER_03 19:48

Fifteen minutes of fame. Exactly. You know, I've I've I have said forever, and Liz, you probably thought the same thing. Why do we keep saying the person's name that commits these terrible crimes? Yeah. Why do we show their pictures on TV? And and why if we take that away, we're really taking away the 15 minutes of fame that some seem like they're looking for.

SPEAKER_01 20:08

It's way more than 15 minutes, unfortunately. They become a few. People still talk about Columbine. People still talk about Columbine. Like think about that.

SPEAKER_02 20:15

Yeah, exactly.

SPEAKER_01 20:16

But they idolize that's been found that when they go into the archives of these people's computers and searches, and it's always an you know, they're uh idolizing these mass shooters.

SPEAKER_04 20:30

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 20:30

And, you know, correcting whatever wrong they think they're correcting. But it is 628. We're very late, Glenn. Well, we're good. Let's uh take it. We've got all day. All right, Glenn. I know we're running way behind. But I I wanted to read that um last week, uh in not last week, but I'm reading the article. It says last week, Forbes combed through campaign finance records um to find that 26 billionaires poured 22 million dollars to stop momdani. They were you know, remember Bloomberg came out and and s and said, hey, we don't we don't want this we don't want this to happen. But it was like the clash of the billionaires of the Titans, because there are certain factions that I don't know why, and I really wish I understood it more. But um when you study uh different forms of government like socialism, communism, you know, people like to throw out the word fascism, uh capitalism I don't think any particular government political system is perfect. I really don't, but the only one that believes in the strength of the individual, and that's God made individuals. So if you believe in God and you have a religion of Christianity or otherwise, um, when you think about God giving you your individual rights and your ability to think for yourself and have free will, when a government entity takes over your life and your decisions and tells you your that's why certain things people like me have problems with our current system because things are like, wait a minute, that's really not that's more like a socialist approach. That's like a social program. And I'm not saying we don't help we shouldn't help people that are down and out or disabled or uh can't work and that's not what we're talking about here. We're talking about your individualism, your ability to earn a living, to earn whatever you want. When I went to Mexico, which is primarily a communist country at this point, the mentality of the people there is they have enough of a house, they have enough of a salary, they have enough of a vehicle, they have enough, and they don't they don't want for anything. They don't want to um there's no desire to further themselves in education and in um income or anything like that. They get a little government house and they're given a government salary and a government um pension and a government health care. And you know what I found? When someone is sick, the entire family pitches in because the last thing they want their loved one to go into is the government healthcare system. And when Javier's cousin broke her leg, the entire family pitched in to send her to a private hospital because nobody wants the single-payer junk hospital, and it's the same doctors, you know. Get this Javier's gr uh aunt fell and broke her hip. She had to wait ten days to get a hip replacement surgery. For ten days, they put her in a semi-coma.

SPEAKER_03 24:19

She was just suffering.

SPEAKER_01 24:21

Till they they got the supplies, and then they said they would be in on Monday, and they still weren't there, and that was in the private hospital. That's what you get with socialism and communism. Everything is but you see, you don't realize it yet because you're benefiting from capitalism right now. And slowly, as the creep of socialism comes in, if we don't stomp it out and destroy it, it will destroy you. It destroys the individual. And you could do the research. You know, they're they're talking about free grocery stores right now and you know, rent and all that. It's just not gonna happen.

SPEAKER_03 25:02

I don't think we should have free grocery stores by any means.

SPEAKER_01 25:04

Well, that's what mom donny wants.

SPEAKER_03 25:05

Look how the World Cup people coming into our country, all these foreigners coming in and are just amazed at how great America is. But that's also the tourism effect.

SPEAKER_02 25:14

Whenever you whenever you come to a new place and you're like, wow, look at all these amazing things that I don't have in my own life. Yes.

SPEAKER_03 25:20

That they don't have in their own country. That's the thing. They can go to tours.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Well, I go on I go on tours. I I've been out of the country and I come back and kiss the ground. Yeah. I said, Thank God I'm American. I I look I go to Praise the Lord. I go to I went to Italy, Bermuda, um Mexico. Um I can't even think of where else I've been, but but when I come back to the country, I'm like, the Bahamas. I'm like, ooh.

SPEAKER_04 25:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

You know, yeah, they have nice trees and flora and fauna and interesting food and fruit.

SPEAKER_03 25:52

Oh, and they love air conditioning here too, by the way. Look what's going on over where is it, in Paris? Or uh there's 104 degrees right now? Oh, the UK. Yeah, and there's like no AC there.

SPEAKER_02 26:03

So the people here. Well, it's because they've never uh needed AC because a lot of the weather has been very.

SPEAKER_01 26:09

I do remember that when I went to Italy in October, there was no air conditioning at all. I was like, what do you mean you have no air conditioning? Um that is that is weird.

SPEAKER_02 26:19

Just getting hotter over in Britain, apparently. Like they're just like record heat waves are coming in for them.

SPEAKER_01 26:23

We had we had a heat dome yesterday. We're good now.

SPEAKER_03 26:27

Well, for today, but not this weekend. It's gonna be dangerous heating.

SPEAKER_01 26:30

I think it's gonna be isn't the Riverfest Rivertown. It is.

SPEAKER_03 26:33

Riverfest is on Saturday in downtown Conway, and it's gonna be a very warm.

SPEAKER_01 26:38

They better have cooling stations.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 26:40

Um yeah. So um, yeah, there is a battle for good and evil.

SPEAKER_03 26:44

It's it's Satan. He's always coming after you, man. He don't take no days off.

SPEAKER_01 26:48

Yeah, but you know, they don't they don't like individualism. Uh and and individualism is very dangerous. It's very dangerous for those types of entities, right? They want that collective think, the mob mentality, the chaos, the rob, the uh mobs, you know, all that.

SPEAKER_02 27:10

Join our club. Again, though, I think we still got some of that in current America, too.

SPEAKER_01 27:14

Oh, yeah, that's what I'm saying. Satan's at work.

SPEAKER_02 27:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:17

Burning down cities. All right, 640, we're gonna take a break. We'll be back in a moment. All right, it is 647. I'm gonna cleanse the palate here of socialism by playing the concession?

SPEAKER_02 27:38

No.

SPEAKER_01 27:39

I was that's my next speech I'm gonna play. I'm gonna play the acceptance speech for the victory. Uh here, I'm gonna I'm gonna pick it up after he thanks everybody and he starts talking about Mike Rickenbach. Okay? I mean, yeah, he's a really great family. He's a guy and his you know, man and his wife and his kid, you know. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 28:03

In all seriousness, Mike's audio, but you've literally become like my family. And when we uh we started talking in uh in or I guess it was August, we had our first conversation, and the decision was made in early December, ladies and gentlemen. I remember talking to Mike, and when I when I asked him what was the most important issue facing South Carolina, it was his answer that really sealed the deal for me. It made me want to make him my running mate, to make my make him my partner in this journey. And he said, families. It's all about families. And uh I never forgot about that, and I will never forget that, Mike, so thank you so much. I want to thank the hundreds, if not thousands, of volunteers. The volunteers who were out of the house, I'm gonna fast forward Glenn a little bit after he thanks all these people. I told you guys two weeks ago, and I'm gonna tell you again tonight, this morning when I woke up, I prayed. And I didn't pray for a win. I prayed to be in God's will. And if God's will was for me to lose, I was praying that he would give me the grace to accept it. And if his will was for me to win, I would pray for the courage and the wisdom to do what needs to be done to lead this state into the future. And so I want to thank God. Folks, I want to also a number of people ran for this race. There was a lot of competition over the last year, and I want to give a shout out because they didn't have to. But I want to thank Josh Kimbrell, who endorsed me before the primary even. Josh is a firebrand in the Senate, he's gonna continue to help fight to move South Carolina for, and I look forward to working with him. I want to thank Nancy Mace. And I want to say You know, things didn't start out too cool with Nancy and me. I don't know if I don't know where Nancy's not here right now. She couldn't be, or she's out of town, but I want to thank her. But once we got a chance to sit down and once we got a chance to talk, we were both able to rise above our differences. We were bit we were able to come together. And on election night two weeks ago, she decisively and early the first one to endorse me after the polls closed. I mean, she mattered right after they had called the race, she was the first call I got. And she jumped on board. And I want to give her a shout out to say thank you, Nancy, for your support. I want to thank Renf Norman. A very honorable man. He was a man with strong beliefs. He was a conservative juggernaut who believed in a movement, and I believe in that movement too. And he was a little bit more thoughtful. He took a little longer, but we had several conversations. No, that's a good thing. He wanted to make sure he got it right. And I remember sitting down and we had a conversation. I want to thank thank Congressman Norman. I want to thank his family for their service to the state of South Carolina. I want to thank Rom Reddy, who was an outsider businessman with a real message of reform, and he brought a lot to the table. And a lot, if not all, of what he talked about, I support and agree with. And I appreciate I appreciate him being part of this race and being part of this movement as well. Folks, they each brought something unique to this election cycle. And all of these candidates, while we were competing against each other, they made me a better candidate. They taught me resilience. They helped me find the courage I needed to find. They lifted me up by pushing against me. And I pushed against them because that's what you do in a competition. But I want to thank them. I want to thank the supporters. I I invited all the supporters of Mr. Campbell, Miss Mays, Mr. Norman, and Mr. Reddy to come, to come, come to Wilson, Team Wilson. This is your home if you want it. Not that they come here, man. I mean, they literally kicked open the door and they made they started sleeping here full time, right? It was like a frat house. Um all over the state, people from these camps, they said, Alan, we're gonna give you a chance and we're gonna we're gonna choose to believe in you. And I want to thank the supporters from all of those camps who gave me the chance to represent you these last two weeks. I also want to thank Pamela Yvette. And like I said with the other, you I would encourage you to applaud her. I said this two weeks ago about the other folks who didn't make the runoff, and I'm gonna say it again about Miss Yvette. She is not my enemy. Her supporters are not our enemy. They're our they're our kinsmen, they're our they're our fellow citizens. And Pamela, for eight years, faithfully served Governor McMaster in the state of South Carolina, and she did a good job as Lieutenant Governor. And while we had different approaches and different views, and while we compet, you know, we competed, and it was sometimes very tough, I want to thank her for throwing her name into the ring, being the woman in the arena. It's tough, and it's difficult for what she and her family are going through tonight. But I want to thank her for that too. And I look forward to sitting down with her in the future. She did call me a little while ago and congratulated me, and she's to be commended for that. So please come. To all of the event supporters out there, you fought hard for your candidate. You fought hard for her. And you're to be commended. I would ask that you give me the opportunity to fight for you as we go into the general election. Give me that opportunity, and I will fight as hard for you as you fought for her. You two have a home here with Team Wilson. Just make yourselves at home. Everyone else did. Beers in the fridge. Folks, together, over the coming days and the coming weeks, we're gonna unify. We need to unify. We can't focus on what divides us. We have to focus on what unites us. That's what's important, South Carolina. Also, I want to give a shout out to President Trump. I was honored to receive his endorsement. He he co-endorsed me late last week because, first, I believe he recognized what we've been doing for the last 10 years to support the things he was trying to accomplish with his administration. But also, I think he saw the fight that he in our campaign, the energy in our campaign. And I think I think he likes a fighter, and I think that's what won him over. I want to thank you, Mr. President. I was honored to receive your support, and I look forward to working with you as we move forward. I want to thank Senator Tim Scott uh for doing what he did.

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When we come back, I'll play a little bit more because his message at the end of his speech is really great, but I I love that he was addressing everybody that maybe wasn't there first day.

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Right.

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And um I I like his message so far. I'll play the other part. I want to see how you feel because you're um a supporter of Pamela Evitt. Like to hear what you think. I also have um Pamela Evitt's speech, and I have uh Dr. Jermaine Johnson for you. Yeah, his commentary about the win of Alan Wilson uh for the primary GOP nomination.