South Carolina Congressman Ralph Norman delivers a fiery message as he campaigns for the U.S. Senate, declaring that Washington is “broken” and calling for major changes in government spending, term limits, election laws, and the Republican agenda. Norman strongly backs President Donald Trump, describes the political battle as a fight over America’s future, and attacks his Democratic-backed opponent over campaign funding and political strategy. With the South Carolina Senate race entering a critical stage, Norman says he is ready to take his conservative message directly to Washington and fight for an America First agenda.
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00:00You know, we were supposed to have a debate, several debates, and after Tuesday night there will be no more
00:07debates.
00:10Wow, what a crowd. Who said Donald Trump was the only one that could get a crowd?
00:20I am honored to be in Anderson County. I am honored to be here with my good friend, the Voice
00:28of the South.
00:29Tara Cervatius.
00:37I know of no one, and she's got a good team with her at the station, but Tara, when you
00:45hear her voice, you just know E.F. Hutton is talking.
00:49People listen because what she says is the truth, and what she says represents South Carolina values.
00:58So thank each one of you folks.
01:05You know, we were supposed to have a debate, several debates, and after Tuesday night there will be no more
01:13debates.
01:15She was supposed to do one Wednesday, and it just didn't happen.
01:19But no, Anderson County is a special place.
01:24We have a lot of family here, and let me ask my family, extended family, to stand up and let
01:30everyone just see y'all.
01:32Stand up.
01:43Let me tell you a little bit about myself and a little bit about my background.
01:48Senator, you did a great job of introducing me.
01:52That was perfect.
01:54From Rock Hill, Elaine and I have been married 51 years, four children, 17 grandchildren.
02:06I just turned 40, June 20th, and doing well.
02:15Went to Presbyterian College, graduated, and went into the building business, construction business, for 40 years with family.
02:25And had a successful career, and after Elaine and I raised our children, the last one was out of the
02:32house.
02:32I said, you know, public service, I've been on the private side.
02:36I hadn't been on the other side.
02:38So I decided to run for the state house, served a short time, and had always wanted to come to
02:45Congress to see what it was like
02:49and to see, you hear things about Washington, D.C., but won a special election, and been there eight years.
02:58I decided to leave.
03:00I believe in term limits.
03:02I put up term limits every year I've been in the house and in the state house.
03:11There is no reason people ought to live off government forever.
03:17Republican, Democrat, you need to come home and live under some of these laws that you make.
03:24So each time I had run for an office, the house, I gave it up.
03:30I could have kept two offices, but I didn't.
03:32Ran for Congress.
03:33Now I decided to get out of Congress.
03:35I was leaving after eight years, and the governor, I thought I could produce and work and contribute to it
03:42as governor.
03:43Didn't do that.
03:44And unfortunately, Lindsey Graham passed away.
03:47When grandson called at 2.30 in the morning, you just couldn't believe it.
03:53You think senators from South Carolina live forever.
03:57Strom Thurmond, Fritz Hollings.
03:59You know, it's just a history of longevity.
04:02But it didn't, and I think that when that came up, when he unfortunately died,
04:10and we've been campaigning for a year, but I said, I've got to do this.
04:14This is a way that Washington is broken, and maybe I can add value and fix it.
04:21So we've had a short runway, and I'm so glad I did this.
04:28You know, I was fortunate enough to make the runoff.
04:32And I have always felt like that when I offer for public service, it's not training on the job.
04:41You have to know it.
04:42You have to be in it.
04:45And that's one of the advantages that I have.
04:48But the biggest advantage is I've been in the business arena.
04:51I have made money, and I have lost money.
04:54And everybody, before you get in public service, you should have made money and lost money.
05:01I am, as the senator said, one of the most conservative members of Congress.
05:05And I say that because they watch you when the voters are not watching.
05:11It's the late-night votes.
05:13It's the votes that are obscure in a lot of cases.
05:17And, you know, I've got A-pluses on saving the taxpayer, we the people's money,
05:23on everything from Heritage, from Club for Growth, from Charlie Kirk's Turning Point USA.
05:31All of them I rank the highest.
05:35I have backed President Trump.
05:37And in my opinion, he saved this country.
05:40If Kamala Harris had won the presidency, this country would be irredeemable.
05:46You couldn't bring it back.
05:47He saved us.
05:48And I will always be grateful for that.
05:53I will say right off what we face in Congress is a spiritual battle of good versus evil.
06:01That's the bottom line, and the prayer, Pastor, that you had pretty well said it all.
06:07This is a spiritual battle that we're fighting.
06:10And we know how the outcome is, but it's a daily struggle.
06:15And I was challenged to explain what I meant by good versus evil.
06:22And I easily said, what do you call it when somebody will kill an innocent child, even at any level?
06:32What do you call that?
06:33That's evil.
06:34What do you call it when a man who did nothing but go on college campuses, give his opinion, didn't
06:41charge anything,
06:42and then Charlie Kirk gets gunned down?
06:45What do you call that?
06:46That's evil.
06:47What do you call a man who killed a million people?
06:52And as we heard him testify, Dr. Fauci basically took the fifth on everything.
07:00He killed a million people.
07:03That's evil.
07:04He ought to be in an orange jumpsuit.
07:06I hope they will prove I hope that if it was an auto pen that signed his get-out-of
07:19-prison card that President Biden did,
07:22that they'll put him back up and prosecute this man.
07:25I stood with the front-line doctors when they called this a hoax.
07:35And we stood, as we stood on the steps of the Supreme Court, the doctors gave their time.
07:41They came from all over the country.
07:43We're just giving their opinion of hydroxychloroquine.
07:46I don't think they mentioned ivermectin as a cure, but they did.
07:50And just we're giving their opinion, professional opinion.
07:54They were persecuted, folks.
07:56A couple of them lost their licenses.
07:58A couple of them went to jail, and they persevered.
08:02A lot of them have spoken at our conservative opportunist group in Washington, D.C.
08:09That's the evil that we're fighting today, and we have to start at that premise.
08:17Why the Senate?
08:19I'll tell you why.
08:20The Senate is the one body that good bills go to the graveyard.
08:27The Save America Act, which only verifies that you're an American citizen before you vote.
08:33We can't get that passed.
08:35The American First agenda that President Trump had, peace through strength, energy independence,
08:43strong families, church, religious liberty, freedom, it's not even being talked about.
08:52So I felt like that I had to put my name on the line.
08:56I had to take my case to each one of you and say that this is why I want to
09:03serve in a body that's dysfunctional.
09:05When we got the, as I think Richard had mentioned this, we got the word two days ago that the
09:11debt in this country is $40 trillion and counting.
09:15And it's not just that.
09:16It's the Social Security, Highway Trust Fund, Medicaid, Medicare.
09:22They're broke, folks.
09:24It can't keep going.
09:25I want to be a voice for financial solvency.
09:28I want to be a voice to people that are making decisions based on keeping them in office.
09:37And y'all see it at the, Serena, you and April see it at the local level, people who will
09:41do anything to maintain office.
09:43I see how it happens.
09:44But we cannot allow that to happen.
09:48So with the state of the country, where it is, we don't have the runway to have business as usual.
09:57What I will do, and people ask me, how are you going to fix a Senate that you're one of
10:0499 others?
10:05The first thing I'm going to do is use my voice.
10:08We will have press conference after press conference on the Save America Act.
10:13We will have the America First agenda to solve the debt by cutting spending, as each one of us have
10:21to do in our business and as we do in our family budgets.
10:26We will do that.
10:28And it's going to take some rough days.
10:32When you sign up for a six-year term, which we will serve six years, you're married to that person.
10:40That's why you have to be sure who we put in office does what they say and means what they
10:47say.
10:47Now, there is a vast difference in who I'm running against.
10:52My opponent has been financed wholly by the mainstream Washington, D.C.
11:01Washington, D.C. is broken.
11:03It just is.
11:04That's who's funding her to the tune of millions of dollars.
11:08The left-wing PAC money, the dark money.
11:11If you hadn't turned on TV, I think you've seen my picture in not-so-flattering light.
11:17Somebody does not like Ralph Norman.
11:20Why are they taking such an interest in tearing me down?
11:25And, folks, the reason I wanted more debates is let's get into all these accusations.
11:30Nothing she puts up about what her accomplishments are, but she just is tearing me down on things that are
11:36just lies.
11:37On the big, beautiful bill, I pointed that out to her.
11:41I wanted to point out I didn't know South Carolina had 50 million people.
11:47I'm in the real estate business, but I didn't know it had grown that much.
11:50I thought it was 5 million people.
11:54So, but, you know, the fact that she is running on money that the others are putting up to the
12:05tune of 3, 4 million dollars, it'll be 5.
12:09I hear the attacks are coming even more.
12:11My response, bring them on.
12:13Do it.
12:21And I told a group last night, the thing that really bothers me, I don't care.
12:26They can say what they want.
12:28The record is the record.
12:30But what I hate is our young people who may aspire to run for office sees what happens, and they
12:38say, I can't take that.
12:39I don't want to be scrutinized that much.
12:41Folks, that's why we need to be involved.
12:44That's why we need to be active.
12:46And everywhere I go, if it's a high school or a group of young people, and you ask them, do
12:53you want to serve in public service?
12:55No, we hate politics.
12:56We don't like politicians.
12:58I say, well, sometimes I don't either.
13:00But I said, let me give you one example as to why you should be involved.
13:04And I pull out my wallet, and I hold it up, and I said, let me ask you something.
13:09How many of you, when you get a paycheck, is the top bigger or smaller than the bottom?
13:17And they say, oh, Congresswoman, the top is much bigger.
13:19The bottom is much less.
13:21I said, that's politics.
13:23That's why you've got a secret partner.
13:25That's why you've got to stay involved and know where your money is spent.
13:28And I would say that today, that the issue that I have with what she is doing is not good
13:36for the country.
13:36It's not good for the political arena.
13:38It's not getting young people who ought to be involved in the secret partners they have.
13:44Lisa Murkowski, the senator mentioned her voting record.
13:49She will kill a child at birth, a healthy child at birth.
13:55I mean, that's insanity and the money that's coming her way.
14:00But it's not going to be about money on this campaign.
14:03It's people, everyday people, South Carolinians that are taking an interest in this race.
14:08And I tell everybody, there is a reason they want Ms. Graham in the runoff.
14:18She'll get beat by the Democrat.
14:20Y'all saw how she debates.
14:22I mean, the candidate that the Democrat Party has put up is smart.
14:29She's a physician.
14:31She's taking all this in.
14:33I welcome going up against her.
14:35I welcome that.
14:39Let me get the chair up here with you.
14:41Okay.
14:44All right.
14:46We got a treat tonight.
14:49If you want to take one chair there.
14:53We got a treat tonight.
14:55A lot of y'all listen to talk radio in the mornings.
15:01And a lot of y'all have heard one particular host in particular talking about this United States Senate race.
15:09And we thought she's so well informed she needs to be part of this conversation tonight.
15:17So she was asked to come and she agreed to come.
15:20And she and the congressman are going to have what we call a little fireside chat here.
15:27But please join me in welcoming Ms. Tara Cervatius.
15:39Yeah, I'll get your mic.
15:47Turn it sideways.
15:48Turn it sideways.
15:49It worked that way.
15:49There we go.
15:50You think I could work a microphone?
15:51There you go.
15:53So great to be here this evening.
15:56I just want to, just for a moment.
15:59When I started really noticing something was different about Ralph Norman was this article right here.
16:05And it says, South Carolina congressman appeared in a now-banned video, had to ban it, of doctors.
16:15And doctors who we know now were telling the truth.
16:18The truth that Anthony Fauci knew was the truth.
16:23But what's so remarkable about this article is the date of the article.
16:29And Ralph Norman didn't mention that, so I'm going to mention it.
16:32The date of this article, and this is him getting torn up by the Post and Courier.
16:36The date of this article is July 28, 2020.
16:42You know the guts it took to stand with those doctors on July 28, 2020?
16:54And he paid for it.
16:56Here's the Post and Courier article.
16:57You knew they'd do this.
16:59This was not a popular opinion.
17:01People on, and I remember it.
17:03I mean, our audience at the time was running 50-50 on the text line with people who are conservatives,
17:10but just scared because of all the lies, saying, you know, you're going to kill people.
17:14We've got to shut these businesses down.
17:15It took guts to do this.
17:17And so that's when I started paying attention to you and what you were doing.
17:22And it doesn't matter with you who's doing it.
17:26If we're going to stop that $40 trillion debt train from taking my kids and your kids and your grandkids
17:32off that cliff,
17:34we have to stand up to everybody who's spending with a pen in their hand, no matter who that is.
17:42And I...
17:45I will never forget the weekend that Kevin McCarthy, having cut a deal with y'all, Speaker of the House,
17:51having cut a deal with y'all, we're going to cut the COVID spending, we're finally going to do it,
17:55sneaks over to the Biden White House in a total betrayal and cuts a deal with the Democrats.
18:01We had worked so hard to take the House and the Senate back to save this country, and he cuts
18:07a deal to keep passing the Nancy Pelosi budget.
18:11For the record, Kevin McCarthy, we're told, is a Republican, stabs the Republicans in the back,
18:17and Kevin McCarthy had such a big fund to take anybody out in a primer.
18:22You know he did.
18:23Everybody did.
18:23It's crazy to vote against that guy.
18:25He thought, nobody's going to vote against me for a speaker.
18:28Hadn't happened since the founding.
18:29Here comes Ralph Norman and says, no, I'm taking the pen away from you.
18:34No, you betrayed us.
18:36You did that.
18:37And he did the hard thing.
18:40But the thing I really loved, it was hard.
18:45It took guts.
18:47The thing I really loved is that politicians, when they do good things, they send me texts.
18:53They call me, can I come on the show?
18:54Can I come on the show?
18:55I want to tell people.
18:55And that's great.
18:56That's what you should do.
18:57People on our side should do it, too.
18:59You should take credit.
18:59But, you know, they're politicians.
19:00They do that.
19:02Not Ralph.
19:03I have to chase him down, send him texts, get his number.
19:08Come on the show.
19:10Let me thank you.
19:11Come on.
19:11Come on.
19:11Take credit for it.
19:12He's never been one of those to chase me down.
19:15And I've done that with you a couple times.
19:17I can't believe what you just did.
19:19Come on the show and take credit for it.
19:21My audience needs to know.
19:22So that is why I'm here tonight.
19:25I don't usually do things like this.
19:27I just live in the radio world and talk about what's going on.
19:30But I just wanted to come out tonight and thank you for having the guts to stand up to Kevin
19:37McCarthy, Joe Biden, and occasionally Donald Trump when he's spending a little too much money.
19:43By the way, about that big, beautiful bill, they're hitting you for holding it up.
19:48But what did you hold it up for?
19:49Or you wanted to stop AOC's Green New Deal spending that has no business being in one of our bills.
20:00Has no business.
20:02And the beauty of it, wink, wink, nod, nod, is that when you held that bill up and you said
20:07no and you made the Republican leadership cut it, you weren't really giving Trump cover to do what he wanted
20:13to do anyway.
20:13Because what did he do?
20:14He went then and cut a lot of those deals, the solar deals, the wind deals, this doesn't work.
20:19One person had to stand up and say it was okay to do that, and that was you.
20:24And now the Democrats are coming for you like the hound of hell.
20:27The swamp is so bothered by your candidacy for Chris Larson, who spent $11 million trying to elect Kamala Harris
20:38two years ago.
20:39Think about this.
20:40I've never seen this.
20:41Has put a million dollars behind, I'm sorry, brain fart.
20:46I called her Kamala Harris.
20:50Behind Darlene Graham.
20:52A million dollars in a Republican primary?
20:56So if you look at the text that you probably have in your inbox right now, you will see their
21:03PAC.
21:04They are openly sending out texts for her.
21:09And the guy who runs it, Tom Mazze, is just openly telling the state newspaper, yeah, I'm going to take
21:15out Ralph Norman.
21:17He raised money for and ran ads for Kamala and Joe in 2020.
21:24So this shows you the level of panic.
21:26I have never seen Democrats interfere in a Republican Party primary at this level right now.
21:31The swamp is terrified of him.
21:33They are very, very scared.
21:35And so that tells me I'm in the right place, doing the right thing, with the right people tonight.
21:48So I think we were going to sit down for just a few minutes and ask some questions.
21:51Yeah.
21:57Okay, now, I'm going to start with this one.
21:59I don't want to start with the hard one, okay?
22:02So I don't know, maybe I shouldn't ask you this.
22:04It's a hard question.
22:06You ready?
22:07Are Taiwan and the South China Sea national security issues?
22:15Let me think for a minute.
22:17Yes.
22:18Yes.
22:19They're trading partners of the United States.
22:22It's a vital country to protect.
22:25So, absolutely.
22:27Okay.
22:28That seems so easy.
22:30Not to some.
22:34Okay.
22:34So, next question.
22:36It's your first day in office in the Senate.
22:39Congratulations, by the way.
22:40You won the Senate seat.
22:42It's your first day in office.
22:43What do you do?
22:45You are, man, the furniture's in.
22:46Everything's ready to go.
22:47Your wife's got the office all set up.
22:49It looks great.
22:50You are just on fire.
22:51What is the first thing you do as a senator?
22:54First thing I'm going to do, and I've been asked this a good bit, is go to Leader Thune and
22:59ask,
23:01Leader Thune, what is it going to take to pass the Save America Act per the Constitution?
23:10Where can we have a meeting of the minds?
23:13In the business arena, that's what you do.
23:15You try to find the things that you can agree on.
23:19Now, if he says that it's still we don't have the votes, even though we've got a 53 to 47
23:25majority, I'm going to say, well, Senator, you know, we just have a difference of opinion.
23:30If that's your answer, I'm going to try to replace you, and I will do that.
23:35We did the same thing to Kevin McCarthy.
23:41And Tara, I didn't realize you were following that that close.
23:43She follows us things.
23:45Behind the scenes, he had said some things and then totally reversed himself and put us in a place with
23:55the budget that the Democrats made.
23:57And we had the majority, three of us, Matt Gaetz, me, and one other one.
24:03I think it's Chip Roy.
24:05We were on the front page for a long time.
24:08I can't tell you the number of times I came in, and my wife was crying.
24:13Sean Hannity was jumping on me.
24:15Newt Gingrich was jumping on me.
24:18Trey Gowdy was jumping on me for being a whole – you know, we're stopping progress.
24:24So thank you for bringing that up.
24:26And this place is a lot better with Mike Johnson, who is a Christian and who is a man who
24:32is doing a far better job than Kevin McCarthy.
24:39For the record, I was jumping up and down because somebody finally socked it.
24:44I call him Kev.
24:45Somebody finally socked it to Kev.
24:46And it was so bad, too, because that was Nancy Pelosi's budget that the Republicans were passing.
24:54And everyone was acting like that wasn't bizarre or strange at all.
24:58I mean, all this fraud we're finding out about now they were committing.
25:01The Republicans were funding it, and you said no.
25:04And I thought that was fantastic.
25:06All right, well, that gets to the next question.
25:08$40 trillion in debt.
25:10Is it too late?
25:12Can we unravel this?
25:14And what do we do?
25:17Well, it's the proverbial saying, you know, if you're in a hole, stop digging.
25:23We're digging ourselves in a hole that we can't get out.
25:25I'm doing this for the next generation, for young people, because it will not be a future if we continue
25:32like we're going.
25:33The first step you do that we have to do is what we failed to do before is, before any
25:39spending, have severe cuts as identified by the Doge Commission.
25:44I could take any of the things that Elon Musk did and show you of the $100 million that went
25:51to walls in Libya, the millions that went to fish hatcheries in the South Pacific.
25:57I mean, you name it, it's ludicrous, and it all boils back to politicians.
26:02The reason you can't get the votes is because the money comes back in some form or fashion.
26:09You start having offsets, and you basically go to the – and I'm on the budget committee in the House.
26:15I would love to be on the budget committee in the Senate, but the Senate has all different rules.
26:20It's seniority, so you basically get in line.
26:24But I love that because I don't have to be the chairman of the committee.
26:29You put me on a committee.
26:31It's like I told Kevin McCarthy when he came in to try to cut a deal for not going against
26:35him.
26:35He said, what committee do you want?
26:37I said, Kevin, I don't want a committee.
26:39Put me on a grass-cutting committee.
26:40I don't care.
26:41And bottom line is we can do – when the House sends the bills over, we can make it leaner,
26:50and I would love to play a role in that because it's to the point now, folks, the trillions, the
26:55interest we're paying on the debt is exceeding the military expenditures of a trillion dollars a year.
27:01So we've got a short runway, and we will know in the first two, three years that we're going to
27:10make this happen.
27:11And to be honest with you, I'm ready to blow up the place as far as regulations.
27:17I'm ready to call the people out.
27:20If you're going to keep playing – you know, these three-piece politicians who campaign as Republicans, who are rhinos,
27:27and many – you have a lot of them here in South Carolina.
27:31But it's time to do whatever it takes and to expose it and to put sunlight on it, and we
27:37will do that.
27:39And then you go Social Security.
27:42You deal with that.
27:43You make the necessary changes that will make Social Security solvent.
27:48Highway Trust Fund, the same way, going broke.
27:51Medicare, Medicaid, they jumped on us on the committee as cutting – on the Medicaid, and we try to get
27:57work requirements in.
27:58They basically use that as a means to say we're cutting children from eating, stopping children from eating.
28:08That's the kind of thing I'm dealing with, but you can't care about what the media says.
28:13Not all of them are like Tara, but you move on, and we can do so many good things.
28:21But I will tell you it's going to be a challenge.
28:23But like the longest stairway starts with the first step, we will take that first step and many more.
28:29Thank you so much.
28:34Numbers USA is the gold standard conservative anti-mass immigration, anti-open borders group.
28:42I'm a long time – had Rosemary Jenks on my show for a long time.
28:47Love Rosemary Jenks.
28:48It's a big deal to win an A-plus rating from Numbers USA.
28:52Just 33 members of Congress, House and Senate, so 535 have that, 6% of Congress.
28:59You have an A-plus rating from Numbers USA.
29:03The two amnesties co-sponsored – and one was Farm and one was supposedly Dreamer Amnesty – co-sponsored by
29:12Lindsey Graham,
29:13so the Lindsey Graham machine, and Chuck Schumer in 2019.
29:16A lot of people don't realize there was one of those, and they were going to try to push that
29:22through the House.
29:24You voted no.
29:25I checked.
29:26I double-checked.
29:27I checked again.
29:28You voted no on the Farm Amnesty.
29:30Republicans think they're going to try this again after the midterms.
29:35There's another amnesty sitting there.
29:36They've been pushing on Fox News.
29:38What do you think about that, and what can we expect from you going forward?
29:41We're going to go vote against it and be very vocal about it.
29:44That's pure and simple.
29:45We've got to get the illegals out.
29:47We've got to – you know, this – what's going on now with what the Supreme Court did on birthright
29:55citizenship is crazy.
29:58I'm glad the president is putting executive orders to try to get around that.
30:02But the problem is we've got a lot of members who are making a lot of money on this.
30:06It all boils back to that, folks.
30:08What I've learned in my short time, my years, is money.
30:11It's money.
30:12And so it's dead on arrival with me, but I will take it further in showing every South Carolinian where
30:19I stand on it
30:20and why everybody ought to get involved and try to get the other senator from South Carolina on board with
30:27us,
30:27which hopefully he will, and others.
30:30Rick Scott called me this afternoon.
30:32He's ready to fight on this issue but on many more.
30:35Mike Lee is ready to fight.
30:37Ted Cruz is ready to fight.
30:39There's so many now that will – we've got a nucleus of people that we have been meeting with for
30:46a number of months.
30:48So they're ready to fight.
30:50They know the severity of it.
30:51But to answer your question, yes.
30:53And we're going to get the illegals out regardless of what the press says.
30:56And we're going to find – we will make this country not only greater but get them off the rolls
31:02that they're on now,
31:04which are sapping every dollar that we have.
31:12And finally, I want to get your take on this because I've been following politics of the Carolinas for 20
31:17years.
31:17I have never seen Democrats put a million dollars, closer to two, actual bona fide Democrats,
31:26not just people who are saying Democrats, but, I mean, you know.
31:30Chris Larson, again, who supported Kamala Harris, 11 million bucks in 2020, is in the Republican primary against you.
31:38All those ads – a lot of those ads going out are paid for by actual Democrats pretending to be
31:43Republicans.
31:44I've never seen anything like it.
31:47Why do you think the Democrats are spending so much money, especially the Invest in Tomorrow campaign, against you personally?
31:57I've never seen it in 20 years.
31:59It's fascinating.
32:00I haven't seen it to this extent.
32:02To have this much money spent against me, I've never – and I don't know.
32:06I've talked to a lot of my companions in Congress.
32:09They haven't seen it either.
32:10They just see South Carolina as a linchpin.
32:14We're first in the state and in the primaries.
32:17Their candidates are winning, folks.
32:19I battle – my battle is not with Ms. Graham.
32:22My battle is with the socialist communists that are taking over this country.
32:27And if we lose this fight, we lose our country.
32:32And they're just – they want – two things.
32:35They want Ms. Graham because they know she's weak.
32:37I mean, she cannot stand up against the Democrat.
32:42The Democrat, Dr. Annie, is going to – it's like a lot of Republicans.
32:47She's going to cast herself as a moderate.
32:51There are no moderates today.
32:53There are no moderates.
32:54You either – if you're a Democrat, you're a socialist, or you agree with their policies, which are radical,
33:02or a strict conservative, which we've got to grow our bodies, we've got to grow the number of people who
33:09will stand up,
33:11it's not business as usual.
33:12I feel the pressure to really change the course of this country, burn it down, do whatever it takes to
33:20–
33:20and I don't mean literally what the press says, it's not literally burn it down.
33:24I'm talking about burn it down as far as do what it takes, no matter the traditions of the Senate,
33:30no matter what has been done in the past to flat go after saving this country.
33:37It boils down to one word, freedom.
33:39It's freedom.
33:46Anything else that you want to add that we haven't covered?
33:50No, I'll just add, with them coming after me like this, they don't give up.
33:56This election is going to be close.
33:58Don't think it's not.
33:59I've heard what's going on behind the scenes.
34:03The ones that are going to get to the polls, they're banking on a low turnout,
34:07and they're banking on their side getting out, whatever means that that takes.
34:13So what I would say is five votes, 50 votes could make a difference in this election.
34:19And this state will never be the same if it goes Democrat.
34:25And with either Ms. Andrews or Ms. Cordon, yeah, I was trying to think of the last name.
34:36Ms. Graham, if either one of those are not going to be what represents South Carolina.
34:41We will not keep South Carolina if one of those two go in.
34:44It's one and the same.
34:45And you can see who's financing them.
34:48And that's why take your family, get people to the polls, and then we can win this election.
34:54And, folks, the polls are looking our way.
34:57They would not be jumping on me to this extent if I wasn't winning.
35:02But we're going to win the election, and we're going to make a difference in this country,
35:06and we're going to make a difference in South Carolina.
35:08And I will close with this.
35:10Winston Churchill said during the darkest times, there will be a time when doing your best isn't good enough.
35:16You've got to do what's required.
35:18We have got to do what's required to save this republic.
35:21We can do it.
35:22But like the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, you go to war.
35:26You do whatever it takes, and we're ready.
35:30We've got a body that's willing to do that.
35:32And it starts right here in Anderson County and spreading all over the state.
35:47And I just want to add, too, truly, this is a once, I believe this, a once-in-a-generation
35:55chance
35:56to take this state back from a machine that has not been good to it.
36:03Honestly, that was inherited all the way up through Reconstruction.
36:06It goes back that far, passed on by Hugh Leatherman and people like that
36:10who switched their registration from Democrat to Republican.
36:13We can take that machine back.
36:15We can also shift the center of power in the state where it belongs,
36:19and that's right here in the upstate.
36:22Like, we do not need, you know, the days when Myrtle Beach and Charleston
36:27were the tourism center, you know, of the state, and that was the economic engine,
36:30those are over.
36:31Those people don't need to be running the state anymore.
36:33They have not done a good job at it at all.
36:40So I want to ask one more thing.
36:43Anybody you know, who's your Facebook friend you worked with five years ago,
36:47ten years ago, good Republican?
36:50Send them a message on Facebook.
36:51Who do you know?
36:51Five people.
36:52Who do you know?
36:53Talk to them.
36:53Drop out of the blue.
36:54Ask them.
36:55They need to go to the polls on Tuesday.
36:58And just want to thank you again, Ralph Norman,
36:59for having the courage to stand up all the times I've seen you do it
37:02when you didn't know I was looking.
37:04I did.
37:05I did not.
37:13Thank you, Ralph.
37:14Thank you, Tara.
37:16So Tara just told us, folks,
37:18and I want to repeat what she said.
37:21It's the upstate.
37:22It's the upstate that needs to lead the way.
37:25The upstate.
37:27We've got to get our friends,
37:29we've got to get our family to the polls.
37:32Hey, I've already voted.
37:33If you haven't voted,
37:35Tuesday's coming,
37:36but the upstate has got to carry the weight
37:38of sending Ralph Norman to the United States Senate.
37:43Absolutely.
37:46Let me give these two fine patriots
37:49my congressional coin as a memento
37:52of you being here, Tara,
37:54Senator, what you're doing in the South Carolina House.
37:57It's the nicest coin in Congress,
37:58and I want you to have this,
38:01and this is special.
38:02This day is special.
38:04And keep this as remembrance of what you're doing.
38:09Folks, we are coming to the end here.
38:12I want you to know that...
38:15That Ralph is going to stick around for a few minutes.
38:19If you have an individual question
38:21or you want to get a picture with him,
38:23he'll be off to the side here.
38:25Just make your way to the front.
38:26I don't know what Tara's schedule is,
38:29but if she sticks around,
38:30I'm sure you're going to have some questions for her as well.
38:33But I do want to thank Tara Servatius.
38:35She came out on very short notice
38:37to help us out
38:38because she knows how important this is.
38:45And I want to thank Ralph's family.
38:48And I know it's tough
38:51when he's on the road all the time.
38:54And he has run hard and he's run well.
38:57And I think victory is within grasp,
39:00but let's not let up before Tuesday.
39:02Let's keep contacting people
39:04and get the boat out.
39:05Thank you all for coming tonight.
39:07Thank you all for coming tonight.
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