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All right, you guys, introducing Mark Lynch.

He is a state senator from South Carolina, and he is running against Lindsey Graham in the

primaries here trying to finally spare our country of this menace.

Welcome to the show.

How you doing, Mark?

Doing fine. Thank you for having me on, Scott. Very happy to have you here on the show with us today. And this is something

that I know a lot of people have been dreaming of for a very long time and even wondering why this

hasn't happened. Why must the state of South Carolina continue to inflict this horrible man onto the rest of our society and the planet Earth for that matter?

And you're finally willing to get out there and do something about it, huh?

Yes, sir. Yep.

All right. So tell us what's your motive for getting in this race?

Well, I've been asked to get in.

People met me when I ran for a state Senate seat back in 2020.

I've worked with these guys at the National Security consulting some of the best people in the country that are willing to risk their lives and fighting our evil terrorists and things in the United States and working with them, being on their board and understanding a lot of that and running for a state Senate seat.

I almost won. I lost by 5% back in 2020.

And people have asked me to run again, that they're looking for somebody that won't compromise,

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