TALK 94.5 Liz And Nick
TALK 94.5 Liz And Nick
MARK LYNCH CHECKS IN WITH LIZ AND NICK THIS MORNING 8/7/26
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The 2026 election season is here. And the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summer are bringing you the voices and candidates.
SPEAKER_01We're helping you make informed decisions for this year's midterms and statewide campaigns.
SPEAKER_00Right now on the Liz Callaway Show with Nick Summers.
SPEAKER_01All right, so we are so excited to have here in the studio. We appreciate you making the extra effort. I didn't know that you were actually going to come in. I had no idea he was out there either. Yeah, so we go with the flow here on the Liz Callaway Show. Uh Mark Lynch is here. Fight for America is his tagline, and you can go to lynchforsenate.com to get more information. And Mark, the last uh couple of times that you were interviewed here, I happen to be out. So it's kind of cool now that we actually got to meet uh you you had spoken with Nick Summers in the um in the past interview. So, Mark, tell us um a little bit about yourself and and why you want to run.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, thank you for having me today, Liz. It's it is it's an honor to meet you, and we've been on the show, like you said, so it's it's great to be here. Um, you know, I'm a lifelong South Carolinian. Uh, grew up in Greenville. We now live in Woodruff. I took over my family business from my dad uh back in 1985. We had a buy-sell agreement and I bought the business. And the last 40 years with God at the center, we've grown our business 35 times debt-free. I'm an ordained deacon. My I'm married. My wife Sarah's here today with us, and we've been married 38 years. We have two children, four grandchildren, and uh America is an awesome opportunity. We've lived that dream, and we want to make sure we can afford that for our young generations coming out of school because they've they're they have a lot of pain points. You know, we've been traveling around the state for 16 months in the first primary when we ran against Lindsay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_00And uh there's a lot of guys that have jumped in now that there's not as much risk and there's just a quick turnaround, and so they're all throwing their name in the hat, all these career politicians that say they're for term limits, but I don't I don't see that. You know, Ralph Norman is was in the House, he ran for governor, this came open, he's running for U.S. Senate. Russell Fry's running for two seats at the same time. I don't I don't know how you do that. We've got Queen Darlene that centered the race, and our state doesn't want a coronation of a queen. That's not how we do things, and she's ineligible to run. But our state election rules committee made an exception for her, and uh because she didn't vote in two out of the last three statewide primaries.
SPEAKER_01That's what we hear, but and that's what was confusing about Danny Ford um now being allowed to run, and and they were saying that the rules are too confusing. You guys can't impose these.
SPEAKER_00He got turned down for the same thing. Yeah. And then he had to sue to get on the ballot, and Darlene didn't have to do that. So it's interesting. Uh you know, we hate to fight against our own Republican Party in the state, but it's that's an election integrity issue, if you ask me.
SPEAKER_01Well, I have to ask you, Mark, um, we've seen this rise of uh the acceptance of socialism and like as an option. And uh many of us in my age group, I'm almost 60, I I think about how did this happen? How in the world did this happen? Um how are we electing a Mamdani in New York? I'm originally from New York, lived through 9-11, both both bombings uh of the World Trade Center. Um, and and so I think about this, and it's because kids have feel like they don't have a future and they are the fuel that's behind these young candidates, charismatic, great on social media, they have gotten the brain cells of these young people that just feel disenchanted that the American dream is not for them and there is no American dream. It was all a lie. I mean, what are we saying to those people we uh for a Republican messaging?
SPEAKER_00I tell you, Liz, they're waking up, they they are asking great questions when we talk to the young people at universities, the young Republican clubs, and they're concerned about their future. One of one of the uh engineering students at Clemson asked me, he said, Mr. Lynch, I appreciate your stance on the border and mass deportations, but I'm a junior and I graduate next year with an engineering degree, and I'm gonna be competing against foreign citizens that have H 1B visas. They'll take my job for half the pay. They'll never assimilate into our culture here in America. And um, I was born here. You know, what are we what are we doing about that? So I'm definitely against the H 1B visas. An American first candidate like myself understands what that means. We've got to bring back American manufacturing, hire Americans. We've got to deal with our national security issues here at home. You know, uh Lindsay's passed, but he was known as a warmonger. He was more concerned with every other country's war efforts than what we're fighting right here in at home in America, like the Democratic Socialist Party, where f China has declared war on America. They're distributing fentanyl through Mexico, and we have an average of 70,000 Americans dying from fentanyl overdose in our country. And I contrasted that in the debate. The Vietnam War, we lost 58,000 over 10 years of our American soldiers that were willing to sacrifice their lives for uh need another needless, endless war for 10 years. But at home, we're not dealing with those issues. You know, we have an Islamic infiltration in our country. You mentioned Mamdani. They talked about him being a Muslim for about two weeks, and then we never heard that again. We just heard socialist. The biggest problem with him is is is jihad. We've seen what happened to Great Britain with a Muslim mayor, and that's happening to New York.
SPEAKER_01Did you see what happened in Nashville? That's actually happening in Nashville now. Yeah. Uh they elected this mayor that's doing you know what it is, what gets me on that whole topic, and uh it's the socialism and even Muslim don't go together. They don't go together either because they don't care about the the bottom line is the people. You know what I mean? Right. It's a lie, it's all a lie, and socialism is based on a lie. Right. Um, it's just not compatible with American values uh in general. And but back to you, um, we're speaking with Mark Lynch. He's running, he's uh a businessman, debt-free businessman. Uh and and that is something that's hard to come by for young people, especially with school loans and all that. They're struggling carrying that too. Uh but uh I uh he's running for Senate, and you can go to lynchforsenate.com. Tell me what you can do about these issues. What I I we we understand what the issues are, but just tell me so what so people understand how you're going to do it. What's your plan?
SPEAKER_00Yeah. You know, the problem exists in Congress and in the state house here in South Carolina. The the people that are in have allowed these problems to escalate into a a real, true, uh horrible situation. You know, America's falling. We're being taken over. All the illegal immigration that's coming to the country, we were looking at these numbers the other day. Uh almost one-third of the American population are people that have come in in the last several years under immigration issues where we've had open borders and terrorists are walking in here, and drug cartel members and criminals for other country that are raping and killing our children, uh, causing all kinds of accidents. They don't speak our language, they can't read our traffic signs. That's just a problem. We're infiltrated to the hilt. Our school curriculums, you know, have been infiltrated. Yeah. And we're not teaching the truth about America. And so uh our young kids coming out of school think socialism's cool and they they like that. They want to live free and get an Obama phone and have the government take care of them. And uh socialism's just communism for dummies, right? And then the Islamic infiltration, when we saw in 2020 all these cities burning for four months and nobody stopped it, nobody did anything about it. I asked and interviewed people when we're doing political activist work. That's uh one of the reasons I've been noticed in the state, and we've been fighting hard from the outside, and people ask me the run, so I'm answering the call, and I'm running for the U.S. Senate because of that. Because um, you know, I'm a I'm a strong uh uh person. I've done well in life. I've come through the fire in my personal story uh 42 years ago fighting a drug addiction issue, and so I've I'm I'm a person that's persevered and gone through a lot of things in my life. And uh I'm an ordained deacon at our church, and it takes godly character to hold the line and not compromise in the swamp in D.C. But anyway, I understand the national security issues working with General Mike Flynn. I have his full endorsement, uh, meeting John Guandolo, who was the head of the anti-terrorism division of the FBI after 9-11, who worked closely with Philip Haney, who was the director of homes homeland security after 9-11. And uh so we understand the issues here at home and the attacks of uh our enemies using things like a hate crimes bill. You know, CARE, the Council of American Islamic Relations, a Hamas terrorist organization, and they're still located in Minnesota. Nahadawad is still the director, and um they're using things like a hate crime bill to get rid of our First Amendment, freedom of speech, and they're all obligated to establish a caliphate under Sharia law. And so when we lose our right to speak up against enemies or the right to share the gospel of Jesus Christ, we're under Sharia law and they're ushering that in. They're obligated to that.
SPEAKER_01You know, this was a conversation uh probably about uh I would say about ten years ago, where uh there were states and communities that were trying to put safeguards in place to battle Sharia law it locally. Is that something that should be federally codified?
SPEAKER_00Absolutely. We have to name them an enemy and deal with enemies in our country. It's uh Islam's not a religion. They say that in their own books and there's no other version of Islam taught anywhere in the world. They're not a problem.
SPEAKER_01Well, what do you say to people who are Muslim or of that heritage that they they don't subscribe to that uh concept of of, you know. I mean, I'm just saying to to not alienate people that might see things your way, but um their heritage is Muslim.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, you know, I pray for them. If I grew up in Afghanistan and I was told to hate Christians and Jews and look for them behind every tree and underneath every rock and find them and kill 'em or convert 'em, uh, I would believe that's the right way. So, you know, we this nation was founded under God. Everybody loved Jesus Christ when we came here and created this great experiment. And uh God di uh divinely inspired our framers when they wrote the Constitution. And so we our laws have to equal God's laws. You can still you're you're free to be a Hindu or uh uh Islam again is not a religion. It's a perfect way of life, it's a military cult um and it's a it's a very horrible belief system. And um Sharia law is not compatible with what we do. But all these cities back in 2020 that were burning, those are areas they've already taken over. The city administrator is for them, the mayor, the sheriff's department, so they don't arrest themselves. So, you know, they taped it off and said you can't come in, we're gonna burn your cities to the ground and we're gonna be able to do that.
SPEAKER_01No go zones in our own country.
SPEAKER_00That's right.
SPEAKER_01Um so Mark, before we're just about out of time, so I would like to give you um a minute or so here to ask for the vote. Mark Lynch running for Senate.
SPEAKER_00Yes. You know, people are all the polling shows we're tired of career politicians and attorneys. We we've seen what President Trump has done for America. He's been awesome. He's a successful businessman. I mean, way bigger than me. But um, you know, we know how to run a budget, we know how to run an adding machine, we know how to get rid of the fat and things that aren't working in our our company every day. We have to win every day, or we go bankrupt. And we need to win again in America, and we need people in Congress that can speak up, stand strong, hold the line on America First Principles, support South Carolinians, support America. You know, I I hate to bring it up again, but you know, we can't have mass amnesty, and we can't support enemies of our country by allocating, you know, like Lindsay did, $5.67 billion in the fourth quarter of 25 and the first quarter of 26 of our tax money funding illegal aliens in this country. What are we doing? We're bankrupt, we're trillions of dollars in debt, and everything we do has to be focused on America. We have to quit spending, start hiring our own citizens in this country, and bring back common sense in the Senate and pass a clean Save Act bill. I hate I hate we have to have a SAVE Act. You know what that is? That's a symptom of the front gate not being managed at the border. So we have, you know, all these millions of illegals in here, and we're if we don't catch them, then we're hoping we can catch them through an e-verify system.
SPEAKER_01Which is broken.
SPEAKER_00Right. None of that's working. So we've got a we've got a lot of work to do, and we gotta focus on things at home for America.
SPEAKER_01All right. Mark Lynch, fight for America is his slogan. Go to lynchforsenate.com. Early voting ends today at I think five o'clock, right?
SPEAKER_00I think.
SPEAKER_01I think so. Five thirty, something like that. Uh and then of course there's August 11th, election day. Yep. So good luck to you. And thank you so much for or for coming in. It really means a lot.
SPEAKER_00It's a joy to meet you.
SPEAKER_01Um yeah, so it really means a lot, I know, for our listeners to hear. Um, you know, it's always better in person. So we thank you for that.