On the Monday, May 11, 2026, broadcast of The Charlie James Show, the third hour (Hour 3) featured several key discussions centered on Republican legislative priorities and the shifting political landscape in South Carolina.Hour 3 Segments & TopicsSegment 9: The S.A.V.E. America Act & Senator ThuneCharlie James discussed the S.A.V.E. America Act, a GOP-led voter ID bill requiring proof of citizenship for voter registration. The segment focused on conservative criticism of Senate Majority Leader John Thune, who has been seen as an obstacle by some for resisting calls to eliminate the filibuster to pass the bill.Segment 10: Ralph Norman and A.I. ImpactsThe discussion turned to South Carolina Representative Ralph Norman, with commentary suggesting a perceived "softness" in current political stances toward him. The segment also addressed the economic impact of Artificial Intelligence, highlighting specific industries currently being disrupted or "hit hard" by rapid AI integration.Segment 11: Redistricting, Jim Clyburn, and the Black VoteA major focus was the redistricting of South Carolina's 6th Congressional District. James discussed how new maps could potentially eliminate Representative Jim Clyburn's seat—the state's only majority-minority district—and the subsequent impact on the Black vote and broader conservatism in the region.Segment 12: Spencer Pratt Attack Ad in LA Mayor's RaceThe hour concluded with a look at a controversial new campaign tactic in the Los Angeles mayoral race, where Democrats reportedly released an attack ad featuring reality TV personality Spencer Pratt to target an opponent

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And now, back to News Talk 98.9, WORD's exclusive Governor Series. Powered by Guzzling Electric. Once again, Charlie James and Joey Hudson.

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Welcome back to the Governor's Series on News Talk 98.9 WORD brought to you by Gosling Electric. I'm Charlie James along with Joey Hudson. We're talking with Congressman Ralph Norman. Congressman Norman, there was recently a famous exchange between Representative Mike Kasky and Representative Sarita Edgerton, where Mike Kasky said that representatives don't actually read the bills in Columbia.

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Is that truly a Republican form of government if our legislators aren't reading the bills? Both parties aren't reading the bills. What they do, what is rampant at the federal level and at the state level, your staff writes the bills and that's why it's so important to recycle people out. It ought to happen to staff too and those career bureaucrats who many are nice people but they end up writing the legislation. No, that's exactly right.

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Serita reads everything. I'm on the budget committee. I try to read as much as I can. I was on rules committee and it takes a lot of time to read. I mean, if you don't read the things that are affecting the people in South Carolina, what good are you? But he just admitted what's obvious. exactly right. One of the things that President Trump has been successful at at the federal level is to eliminate regulations that are just

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simply not needed. What would you do at the state level and give us some examples of regulatory issues that you would try to eliminate? First of all I would go to the law enforcement and ask what, where do we need to change the laws that will actually enforce some things like the Frederico case where the girl was shot and the killer was had been out 23 or 24 times.

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What needs to be changed if anything or was it just things not judges just letting them out? ah I would go to the businesses like the truckers who we got involved with because they were being charged a citation for going over bridges that they had no way of knowing that they didn't support the weight load. They did at one time. I said what needs to be changed? I'll go with the I've got a insurance uh lady that

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My chief of staff recommended that I talk with, and I called her. She says, I just want to give back the insurance and the whole medical field that's filtered through insurance companies with uh so many of the people. I can't afford it. She said, but I know the ins and outs to go to fix it. And affordable health care is non-existent. We will start to building blocks to find out what changes can we make, even if it's incremental.

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the changes you can make to make uh health care more affordable. I'm a big proponent of loser pays. things that insurance premiums we're paying, have they ever come down? No, it's like electricity bill, has it ever come down? It has not. Talk to any restaurant on the joint and several liability with the lawsuit that a uh law firm can bring in every

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restaurant that you had a drink, regardless if you got drunk at one, and bring in all these other restaurants, we're going to fix that. They did a, I call it a postage stamp as a cure for it, but it didn't happen. I'd get with some of the meanest lawyers who have nothing to gain the system, and I ask, how can we fix this joint service so that restaurant owners are not charging outlandish prices for every meal?

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because of the premiums you're having to pay. Had one OBGYN tell me I got rid of all my malpractice, he was OBGYN, he said I've had it, I'm not going to work. I think he said five months of the year paying a premium. I go to the businesses that understand it. If it were in your field, I'd say what regulation in the media world is redundant or doesn't make sense or costs you money. And then I weigh it and then that's how I...

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that's how we'll cut regulations, that's how we'll solve or start solving the aff ...

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And a very uh good afternoon to you. Hope you had a fantastic weekend. Thank you for joining us right here on the program. Well, as you just heard, our governor series is going to continue this afternoon coming up at four o'clock. We're going to be speaking with Fifth District Congressman Ralph Norman about his bid to be the next governor of South Carolina. Now, this is going to be an important race. It really is. Because we've got so

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much to do here in South Carolina. And I know it's crazy because everything that we have to do, listen, I want you to listen to this. Everything that we need to do here in South Carolina.

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should have already been done. Everything should have been done by now. We should have had funding for roads. should have had funding for infrastructure. should have all of this stuff. Every remember most of the things that these people in the state legislature are running for. When they come glad handing you asking for your vote, why don't you ask them? Why haven't you done this before?

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Why, yeah, I'm state representative, Fawkes and Mouth, and I'm going to do something about our roads. Well, hell, you've been in Columbia for 30 years. Why haven't you done something about them yet? That's what I want to know. You've known that our bridges were absolute garbage for at least a decade now. Why haven't you, why didn't you do it? No, no, no, no, no, can't do that. Can't do that.

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That doesn't satisfy our Democrat overlords, which is what they have. And that's the only way you can explain it. Democrat overlords is what these rhinos have in Columbia. That would not make them happy. A well-run state would not make them happy. They're more in the line of, let's have a whole lot of chaos and let's do all of this spending $330 million in earmark.

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They built, well I don't know if they're building them, but at very least they're buying them.

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They're buying dwellings. I don't know if they're homes. I don't know if they're cabins. I don't know what they are. But they're dwellings so that tired artists can take a rest. Oh, I can't wait. My wife's an artist. My wife is tired. We're gonna go, I wanna see what this is like. And when I do, I'm gonna live stream it.

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I want you to I want to put in the application. We're going to find out where these things are and we're going to go and my wife is going to have a rest. Literally. That's crazy.

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Wait a minute, hold on. Where are the restful destination for talk show host? Can I be considered an artist? Can I please? What about you? You folks who work at BMW. You folks who work anywhere in the upstate. Do you get a special place that you can go and rest? No, but the artist, Charlie. Oh, Charlie.

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We've got to think about the artist, Charlie. It's the artist. That's what we got to think about. Well, that was that was something like three million dollars. Ridiculous. Let's go to John in Spartanburg and talk to him. John, welcome. Hey, Charlie, how doing? I'm great, bud. What's up? I got one question for you. OK, you go. You don't go get your vaccine.

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I'm gonna roll my arm up. I'm gonna get the the hantavirus vaccine. I'm gonna put on my mask. I'm gonna do social distance. I can't wait for Walmart to put those arrows up. Let me know which which aisle I can I can go down. it's gonna be crazy John. did you know this in the past since last week? Do you know how many articles have been written about hantavirus? 100,000. oh

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taking it. Oh yeah absolutely it's a coming it's coming I appreciate it.

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There you go. There you go. Appreciate it, buddy. Thank you. Oh, yeah. We'll talk about hantavirus coming up in just a little bit. But some of the big news of the day is that attempted Trump assassin Cole Allen has pled not guilty. In federal court, and I'm going to tell you something, I'll be honest with you. I don't blame him. I don't blame him. I plead not guilty to.

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That's exactly. And I tell yo ...