October 6, 2021 • 37 mins
We no longer have representatives in Congress. Instead, we have rulers making decisions for the American people. For this podcast, Anna exposes the establishment system that’s destroying America from within. The powers that be on both sides of the political aisle are putting their own egos and pocketbooks ahead of the country’s wellbeing and your God-given freedoms. Anna's guest is fed up with this destructive system and ready to take it head-on to help America. He’s Army veteran Graham Allen, a Republican running for Congress in South Carolina’s Seventh District. Graham and Anna give you an inside look at just how corrupt and out of touch both parties and the entire political class really are. Plus, Graham explains his policy positions, the craziest story he’s heard about himself since launching his campaign, the struggles of starting a small business, and how Facebook decimated his media company. Millions of Americans feel America isn't currently on the right track. In this episode, Graham and Anna explain why and what can be done about it. Learn More about Graham: https://www.grahamallensc.com/
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Up next Luna Talks with Anna Paulina Luna part of
the gang which we no longer have representatives in Congress.
We have rulers making decisions for the middle class. Rulers
who care more about what party leadership wants than what
their constituents need. Rulers who seek money and power, but
not to serve their country. This is a result of
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an establishment system that's destroying America from within. Guys, It's
time we reset the system and save our country. This
is Luna Talks with on a Paulina. Welcome back to
today's episode of Luna Talks with Me, your host on
a Paulina Luna. I know I have been covering some
of the trending topics, and as we know, there's no
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shortage of those, especially with the current administration. However, I
wanted to take a break from what I typically do
to cover something that you have all asked me about
at one point or another, and that question is what
is it like to run for office? And so I
want it to bring on a candidate who is running
in South Carolina seven by the name of Graham Allen.
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Some of you may have heard of him. He's known
for his viral videos on social media where he rants
and raves covering topics happening in the media. But he's
also better known for being one of the strongest conservative
voices that we currently have in this country. Some of
his videos and his own capacity before he was a candidate,
have received millions and millions of views. That's more than
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any of your prime time hits on Fox News or
CNN or MSNBC. So he is clearly a force to
be reckoned with. But what we're increasingly seeing, and something
that I've talked about to you so many times, is
that there are problems that exists within our own party
that we have to correct. One of those is that
taboo that exists about running a Republican against another Republican.
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There's that common saying thou shalt not speak ill of
another Republican, or the fact that most people look down
upon other Republicans deciding to primary others if they think
that they're not doing their job. But isn't that a
part of the American process, And that's exactly why are
Founding Father's engineered elections to be the way that they are,
so that everyone common folk like you and I have
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the opportunity to engage in the political process. Now, Graham
Allen is one of these people that has literally taken
time out of his personal life, personal capacity to put
his money where his mouth is and decided to run
for office. He clearly didn't have to do it for money.
He clearly is doing it because he believes in this country.
He's also a veteran and I've happened to known him
for several years. In fact, we first met one another
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when we were both at turning point. He's still there
as a contributor, but he also has a very very
massive brand in regards to what he's doing for the
conservative movement. And yes, he still has a day job.
In fact, he owns multiple businesses and he's doing that
all while campaigning. He is also a United States Army veteran.
He's a father, he is a husband, and he is
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arguably going to be, in my opinion, the next representative
of South Carolina seven. He has the pulling to prove it,
he has a fundraising to prove it, and he definitely
has the media and social media platform that any person
running for office would envy. Graham, thank you so much
for joining our show today. Tell Us a little bit
about yourself. You said more than I could. You know,
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it's I tell everybody, it's not that impressive in real life.
I'm just a guy that believes in America, that loves
to run his mouth for a living. Um. And you know,
I'm tired of seeing our country being destroyed from tyrannical dictators.
So we no longer have leaders in our country. We
have rulers who think that they know what's best for us, uh,
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instead of the other way around. And so if I
if I lose everything I've ever worked for in the
process of the process of exposing uh, the hypocrisy and
the the just honestly just the evil within not only
the Democrat Party but our party, is well if if
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if all of it is for me to fall on
the sword of the truth, of the veil being pulled back,
well then it's all worth it in my book. So
that's it. I'm just a guy that believes in America
and believes in the truth, um, and the truth, not
your truth or their truth, the truth and um and
I'm just here to help and and truly that's it. Well,
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let's talk about that for a second. You are arguably
one of the top ten conservative. It's like voices in
the country. I don't even want to call you an
influencer because I feel like you own multiple businesses, you're veteran,
you're clearly yeah, you're clearly more than that. But it's
interesting because people like you don't go into politics to
make money. You clearly have been financially well to do
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in your own right. It's interesting because you've sacrificed a
lot to really do what you're doing currently. I don't
think a lot of people know that. Can you maybe
go into what happened with your Facebook page because you've
taken a personal loss in order to run for office
simply because you're conservative? Yeah? So, uh, you know, I
think that we have too many doctors, too many lawyers
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in Congress, and not enough people who have started a
small businesses, people that understand what it means to Hey,
you know, I've got this idea, uh, and I think
I'm gonna run with it, and I'm gonna tank my
personal credit for the first couple of years because we're
not gonna make any money and I'm gonna have to
take out loans and I'm gonna have to pay employees
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instead of you know, I'm gonna have to flow a
house payment so I can pay employees to keep this
thing going until it gets to a point where it
actually is producing, right Like, most businesses are not profitable
until year three to five and and and so we
we don't have enough people that understand what it's like
to be denied small business loans to start off another
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business venture because you did tank your personal credit until
your business was viable enough to where the return started
coming in, and it takes years to build it back up.
So you can, you know, have a media business, and
then you have an apparel business, and we have a
charity foundation, and I even have a trucking business that
nobody knows about that I'm even you know, attached to
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I'm looking at getting into the coffee business. Uh, you
know nobody that There are too few people in Congress
making decisions for middle class America, which is the backbone
of America. The middle class is the blanket of freedom
over America. And I truly believe it because it what
it's what keeps the ruling class over a honestly a
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slave class. If you remove the middle class, the lower
class becomes a slave class to the upper class. And
and and it is so vitally important in saying that,
you know, running for Congress when you already have achieved
I don't know what's the word, uh, success to a
certain extent um. You know, people hate success, and so
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unfortunately in America, in America today, you know, you can't
talk about, oh, well, you know, I am a successful
entrepreneur these days, uh, because for some reason that's off
putting for people. But even running for Congress, we we
took a major, major financial hits on all aspects of
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business because obviously I own a media company. With that
media company has advertisers, it has obviously advertising through video
views off social media platforms, etcetera, etcetera, and that employees
a lot of Americans. The money that's made off of that,
So that entire business literally went from you know, I'm
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not going to disclose money on here, but it went
from this amount of money to to have multiple employees
to zero in three days. Literally we announced the campaign
in three days later, Facebook sends me a personal email
letting me know that, uh, not that I was in trouble,
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but because I was now a political candidate, I can
no longer make money on any social media platform through
any ad monetization, any anything, and so yes, the truth
of the matter is we have lost more money in
the past quarter and a half then most people will
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ever understand. Because we believe in America, and I believe
in America, and I believe that somebody has to be
willing to give up comfort to fight for the ideals
that we believe here in America. Has say it all
the time, at all of this crap, all this craziness,
all this tyranny, none of this ends until Americans are
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willing to become uncomfortable to stand up for what they
actually believe. And if I don't do that myself, then
who am I to tell you, know, the family that
makes fifty grand a year, that you also have to
be willing to become uncomfortable to fight for America. So
I can tell you I've obviously observed it. You are
of those people that has chosen not to just talk
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about it but actually take action. And I think that
that's a problem that we're seeing is a lot of
people can complain about it, but they don't offer solutions.
You're one of those people that is being a problem solver.
To kind of segue into the classes, and that we're
seeing down this country. Obviously, the far left is really
targeting the middle class right, and they are trying to
create this classified with wealthy people with poor people, with
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the middle class. I mean, it's it's blatantly obvious and
out there in the public. But let's talk about the
political class because you're doing something that I think a
lot of Republicans would have considered taboo previous to President Trump.
You are running against another Republican and because of that,
I've seen it. You've been stone walled by the same
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people that say they believe in America first, because you
are running against someone that literally was the worst Republican
on the face of the planet. Tom Rice, correct, correct, Um.
You know that has been the biggest shock out of
all of this. A you know, we have, Um, you know,
I wouldn't say top ten. I always say top twenty five.
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I feel like that's a very that's a very solid thing.
I would say that we we have been in the
top twenty five conservative voices over the past three or
four years. At this point, the Republican Party loved us,
the team me. However, you want to say that they
loved us over the past four years, until until we
dare step foot into the political world. And that's been
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the biggest shock is realizing that even in the Republican Party,
the Grand Old Party, that politically speaking, we might as
well be the same as the left, you know, the
current establishment that's in place, the system that are in place. Um,
this eleventh commandment that thou shall not speak ill of
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another Republican? Why why do we have that? Why do
we why do we have those rules set in place? Well,
my belief is those rules are set in place because
as those are insurance policies for people who want to
be career politicians. That's what it is. You pay your
dues into the NRCC. You know, you don't make waves
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to the upper leadership when you know when there's waves
to be made. Uh, you don't stand firm for what
your district and your constituents actually want you to do,
because you're more afraid of what the political parties are
going to do to you if you stand up for
what the people you're actually supposed to represent want you
to do. For example, this bill is gonna pass no
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matter what I do, but I don't believe in the bill,
and if I stand up to it, everybody in the
Republican Party is going to hate me for it. Very
few people in Congress today will go back to their
district see how they want them to vote and be
willing to have the fortitude, I don't know, the female
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version of having the you know, the metaphorical balls to
stand up on the show there you go whatever, Hojna's
where and and so many people don't have that, and
they won't be the lone person saying no because the
people that I represent told me to tell you no,
because I answer to them. I don't work for you,
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I work for them. And that's where we've lost our
way a lot with Honestly, probably of the people that
are in Congress right now, they believe that they have
an employer, and the employer is you know, the government.
Then you know the government, and now technically that may
be where their checks are coming from, but those checks
are only cashable because of the people. The people are
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your boss. That is the way it's supposed to go.
When we're we're focusing on the wrong boss. We have
hundreds of thousands of bosses that we're supposed to be
answering to every single day as representatives, and we have
so many people that have forgotten that. It's truly, truly sad.
And worst of all, the scariest thing I've heard is
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somebody actually wrote and they told me, well, you know, Grham,
we elect these people to be in charge of us.
And I was floored because the the the the the
private citizen in me, which I still currently am a
private citizen, was screaming at the at the no, no, no, no,
what this is America. We don't elect rulers, we don't
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elect leaders. We elect people that are supposed to preserve
the will and the freedoms that we have here as Americans.
In fact, that's literally the only reason we have a
government in the first place. That is why government was created.
That if ever the individual rights and freedoms of the
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American people were being infringed upon or being threatened, that's
when the government steps in to protect those individual rising freedoms.
And now we have a government that believes that they
can give and take away. It is a very scary
time and it is uh and is honestly a point
in our history where we're either going to right the
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course or we're gonna fall away for forever. The American
people have to remember that they are the pal I agree,
and I'm glad that you said that because so many people,
I think are now waking up. But it's been kind
of a hard process because you and I can go
blue in the face, but if people have cognitive dissidence
and they shut down, they're not necessarily gonna acknowledge that.
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I do have to break real quick for a commercial breaks.
So we'll be right back. Everyone sait today. I'm gonna
ask Graham when we get back about the craziest story
he's heard about himself since running for office. We'll be
right back. So, Graham, obviously, as you're running for office,
you're the front runner, you're clearly one of the biggest
conservative voices, and you're definitely projected to win this seat
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in South Carolina. But what is the craziest thing that
you've heard about yourself since running for office? As they
call it front runner treatment? Well, Uh, I'll I think this.
I think this time I'll talk about just the craziest thing,
not the funniest thing. The fun neest thing was the
female genitalia story, which was ridiculous. Uh, But the craziest
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thing was Graham Allen hates Christians and hates Christians, he
hates the church, she hates religion, which is absolutely not
true at all. Uh. They this was the right that
this was coming from, not the left, This was the right.
They took sixteen seconds out of a seven minute video
that I made three years ago, and the video had
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been seeing a hundred thirties seven million times. All right,
you know this video has been out there for forever.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Uh. In the sixteen second clip,
they take the part out where I say I love Jesus,
but Christianity and religion I absolutely hate because it's run
by people, and people kind of suck. That's the sixteen
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seconds that they took out of the clip. The video
was in response to a woman saying that she was
a Christian. She identified as a Christian, but she couldn't
stand to look at me because of my tattoos. I
have a lot of tattoos, and so I was responding
to the hypocrisy of that. And so the craziness of
saying that I'm that I hate Christians is just crazy
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to me. But but but my response to people is
I take a very different response. You know a lot
of people want to do damage control and all this
other kind of Ah, I don't believe any of that stuff.
Every time somebody asked me about it, I say, I'm
a Christian, love Jesus loved the Bible. Watch the full video.
End of statement. I have nothing to apologize for. Stand
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by what I said. Uh. And and I don't apologize
for things unless you can prove me to be wrong.
I have nothing to be sorry for because you don't
like the way that I say things. And you know
President Trump taught us that. Uh, Tucker Carlson does that.
All of the truly great voices and leaders in history
do that. Um. You know. I'll apologize if I'm wrong.
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I'm not above saying that I don't know everything and
that there are things that I could get wrong or mistaken.
But unless you honestly just have something that I'm wrong about,
I'm not saying I'm sorry to anybody. Uh. If you
don't like my tone, this is not a time in
our country where I could care less about you and
your thoughts about my tone. In fact, people that are
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kind in the words that they say, and and they
they smoothe people, and they wine and nine people and stuff.
That's why we're in the situation that we're in right now. Uh,
we need people that you know. One of my favorite
articles was Graham Allen has you know, proven to be
uh the front runner in the District seven race, but
has angered local GOP leaders due to abrasive comments online. Well,
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you know, I look, I tell everybody, unlike everybody else
is in this race. I have hundreds of thousands of
hours of videos, interviews, speeches, podcast Fox News, Hits, News Max, Hits,
oh A, n Hits, Blaze, Hits, whatever it is. You
can you can go and you can find out I
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have two books working on a third. You can go
back and you can look at everything that I've ever
said and I've ever done. You either think the way
that I think, you feel the way that I feel,
and you see the things that I see that are
happening to this country, or you don't. And if you're
the type of American that you don't see what I see,
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you're not gonna vote for me anyway. And and and
and that's truly how we run this campaign is you know,
we're here because we believe we can help. We're not
here because I want to be a carressman. I'm here
because I want to serve America, because I want my
children and my grandchildren to grow up and not Canada
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two point oh um. And and that that's truly what
separated in this race. Like nobody's ever seen this before.
Like when we show up to GOP meetings and you know,
everybody else goes up and they give this little twenty
minute speech and they stand by this podium and they talk.
I throw the podium away, I put a stool down,
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and I say, what do y'all want to talk about?
And we literally have conversation for three hours. I'll be
there for three hours talking to these people, letting them
ask whatever they want to ask. And sometimes they ask
me things I have no freaking idea what they're talking about,
and and and and I tell them, you know, I
gotta be honest. That's that's a new one. That's the
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first time I've heard about that. You know, I've learned
about I seventy three and Highway eight and all these
other kind of things that are super important to some people,
and other people couldn't give a crap about certain things
that I've learned. The top of my district hates the
bottom half, and the bottom half hates the top half.
And you know, because we're actually asking people what they want,
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what they think, and what they feel, and uh, they've
never seen that before. And so we're just gonna keep
doing what we do. Um and and it seems to
be working so far at least. Yeah. I know you're
a very you're very approachable person and I find that
and this is, you know, having run for office the
last time, what I realized is there are literally people
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that will spend their entire careers as a lobbyist and
basically becoming swampy up in Washington, d C. In preparation
so that they can move somewhere and then run for
office and that they know they'll be the pet of
whatever the party wants. And that's exactly why we have
issues in this country, is because it is about the
Beltway Washington D C. Insider getting elected to office and
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people trust them, and then they turn around and they
become absolute rhinos. I think one of the best things
that you are doing is giving people an option of
a better alternative to what they've been doing before. I
think that if anyone anticipated that you are not going
to win this election, and I think that they are,
they are out to lunch. I think that it is evident.
I went out to South Carolina. I see how the
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community loves and respects to you, and I think that
you're going to be the next representative. So to talk
about kind of what happens in d C. There's a
lot of people who don't necessarily know what it's like
to run for office. You are doing everything that you can,
obviously you've stated earlier at your own personal expense, But
can you tell me some of the problems that you're
realizing with how campaigning is done now as to maybe
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potentially why it's a problem in Washington, d C. And
why we're seeing the issues that we're seeing. Yeah, I
think this is gonna be in my next book. Actually,
I think I'm going to win or lose. I'm going
to talk about everything that they don't want me to
talk about. So this is the last podcast they ever do.
I did not kill myself on on on the podcast.
You heard it here, Yeah, you heard it here. I
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think I might do. I'm thinking about calling it red pill,
blue pill, and that'd be the name of the book. Actually,
like no one steal that idea's copyrighted already coverat it, well,
it's time staffed here if you take it, well, we
can time staff either way. Uh. The system, and there's
a system. I don't like calling it the establishment because
establishment has become such a word that, like, people automatically
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think that you're a conspiracy theorist the second you say
that word or whatever. I like to call it the system.
And this goes on both sides. Do I believe that
every single person that votes Democrat is a demon that
wants the entire world to burn down? No? I believe
that they are confused, they've been lied to, and they've
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been brainwashed. But I digress. The right, however, has just
as big as the system in place as the left
does to control who ends up on the ballot, because
they know, especially in red districts, that most people are
just gonna do alread on on voting day. That's it.
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They're just alread, alread, alread or if you're a Democrat,
all blue, all blue, all blue. And the problem is
I actually did get into a debate with a with
a woman at a GOP meeting. You know, I was
talking about this and I said that there is a
problem in place where you have to raise millions upon
millions of dollars for a job that pays a hundred
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and seventy four d seventy eight thousand dollars. See, I
don't even know how much it pays, Like that's how much,
you know? I mean seriously, like really not doing it
for money. Let's just put in that way. No, I
don't even you know is it a hundred four? I
think they just gave themselves a pay raise, ironically enough.
But yeah, well well there you go. All right, so
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um I said, it makes no sense. It's ridiculous, and
and and it's all because, especially when you're primary another Republican,
the entire system clamps down to where they'll say something
like this internally, well, we're not going to do anything
to help them, but we're not going to help you
in the process because they want everything to stay red,
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even in districts where there's no doubt that it's going
to be read like mine. They want people they would
much rather have a Tom Rice who voted to impeach
the greatest president of our lifetimes, possibly the greatest president ever.
They would much rather have an impeachment voter because he
owes favors. They can control him. They can have sway
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over them. They don't want somebody like me, or are
you going in there? Because they don't even like me now,
They're for sure not gonna like me once I get elected.
And they know this, Like you know, I was having
a conversation with somebody the other day, I said, you
want they're right not to want me to get it
because I am going to be the biggest thorn in
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their side from day one. And and we it's because
they have a system, and the system is money. That's
the first step of the system. First they lock everything down,
and then they make it to where the average everyday
American can't fundraise in their own districts because the people
that can actually write the big checks in the district
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will not do it through fear of repercussion of political backlash. Right, So,
how is a normal everyday American, the guy or girl
that works a twelve hour shift at the hospital or
whatever it is, want to put their name in the
hat to be a representative. How are they going to
raise millions of dollars to take on an incumbent when
the entire state and district has blocked down around them.
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The answer is they can't. So it has to be
people like me or you that are able to circumvent that.
We're able to be like, Okay, if you want to
lock me out of the state, I'll just take our
message and we'll go to the other forty nine states
and we'll bring on the money to be able to
fight you and take you on. And some woman she
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was she she had to been in her seventies or whatnot.
She was in there, and I come to find out
that she had been in the you know, the GOP
for like forty years. And she's like, well, you know,
I disagree with what you just said. Okay, well you
know why. She said, Well, that's just the way it is.
You know, you have to be able to fundraise to
win races, you have to be able to raise millions
of dollars to be able to do this thing. That's
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just the way it is. That's not a system in
place to keep people out. That's just the way it is.
And I simply responded with, well, ma'am, don't you think
that that's a problem. Don't you think that that is
an issue? And don't you think that the days of
saying well, that's just the way that it is, that's
what's gotten us to where we are. Why are we
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not allowed to call out a Republican that's not doing
their job? Well, you know, we need to be behind
closed doors and a unified party. Why our party? No,
we're not. But the worst part is we're not unified
behind closed doors, and we try to act like we are,
but we're worse than the Democrats. A OC will call
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out the President of the United States to its face,
and everybody gives AOC crap. I tell everybody she's the
most powerful person in the Democrat Party because she has
such a national influence. She influences everybody else's elections. That's
why she is so powerful for the Democrats, because she
has such a national voice. And if we don't start
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electing people that have the ability to combat that national voice,
that is influencing elections across the country. If you don't
think that stupid people like AOC ilhan Omar Reshid to leave, uh,
Nancy Pelosi all these people, if you don't think that
they're affecting other people's districts and other people's states, you're
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not paying attention. I tell every single person, I ain't
even told you this. I tell every person when I'm
speaking at an event. I said, it can't be just me.
I said, everybody's got a hundred dollars a month. I said,
I don't care how much you want and complain that
you don't. Yes, you do, stop going to Starbucks twice
a week and you'll have a hundred bucks a month.
Give ten bucks to me, and then find nine other
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in the nation that you agree with and donate ten
dollars a month, every single month to those people, because
it cannot be just me, because I can't. If I
just go nothing happens. I will tell you that you're
absolutely right in the national platform, and they're actually now
to these candidates. May the candidates that you just listed
are mainly the candidates that are actually backed by an
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organization called Justice for Democrats, which runs these really progressive candidates.
But it's interesting because what I noticed is that they
are going to places. They're doing live streams on something
called Twitch, which is where video gamers are at there
being boosted on TikTok and on Twitter and on Instagram.
So you have the age range who's been pretty much
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millennials and below our age range and demographic that are
literally embracing this message. And I think the older establishment
doesn't understand that. And so I can tell you that
I was actually out to lunch with my husband here
in St. Petersburg and actually asked a waitress. I said,
I'm just curious if you can who is the most
you know, the cool candidate that you would consider a
person that's currently in office. And she goes, well, you know, um,
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there's this younger girl. I think she's from New York.
She was a bartender, and I just I really like
her style and she's really cool. And I was like,
so would you vote for She said yes, absolutely, and
her reasoning was is that she was relatable, she looked
like her. And that's the problem, is that these people
don't understand the ideologies to the trojan horse behind that
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of socialism, and people like you that should be promoted
to get to office are suppressed because you are not
controlled by those in power. And that's the problem. I
do want to ask you about your America first stances.
I do have to break one more time for a
quick commercial breaks, and we'll be right back. Alright. So Graham,
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you again, as I stated earlier, you are one of
the most conservative voices in our country. Clearly you've been
I think, yelling from the top of the hills since
the beginning of Trump's presidency about the America First Agenda.
I know that you're also fighting for that in your district.
I mean, what are those policies that you are super
passionate about in regards to what we're currently seeing in
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our country. Well, you know, first of all, I'm a
firm believer that we need to audit all fifty states. Uh,
even the states that got it right or whatever it is.
Where at this point, I love I love what they
said about the findings in Arizona, where everybody was like, oh,
the findings proved that Biden did they they did it?
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Did they really prove that? Because I read something completely
different than than than everybody else did all fifty states
need to be audited? Uh? You know, the the the
the only issue is with decertification, now that you know
Trump is not currently in the White House, is what's
the constitutional authority for those kind of things? Right? Like
like you know what I mean, Like there is no
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basis of that. So Kamala Harris is terrible, etcetera. We're
screwed all the way around in the current situation that
we find ourselves in. But we need to trust our
elections first and foremost all right, that is the de
facto number one thing that must be fixed. Americans have
to know that their vote actually matters, and that their
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vote actually counts, and that their vote actually makes it
through the system, through the ballot box, through whatever it is,
absolutely because without an honest, open, transparent election system, you
can't have America First policies in the first place. Second
of all, we got to secure the border. It is
the most We have an opioid crisis in South Carolina.
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We have women, children, dudes overdosing every single day there
on the south of the Road. It doesn't matter what
what area you're in, wherever you're at, we have an
opioid problem in South Carolina. Where are they getting all
this from, Well, they're getting it from the border because
the drug cartels are able to bring them up because
our border patrol agents are babysitting all these people coming
over illegally infected with not just COVID, nineteam, all kinds
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of things. It is. It is the absolute most insane
thing in the world. Here's what I always tell everybody
is they've got the Canadian border lockdown why because Canadians
want to get out of Canada because they see what
it's like in a crazy place like that. But the
but they have the southern border wide open because they
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want these people. Most of the states and the presidential
elections are in Arizona. It's less than it was just
over ten thousand, I believe in Arizona where what was
what by one by but in some places, even in
red states, it's only by two thousand votes. Well. And
also yeah, there was there's talk out of Georgia that
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people were coming forward there being subpoena to court that
they were told that they were literally being they were
told to remove inactive voters from the roles make them active.
And then you had, you know, these drops in the
middle of the night. That's not a conspiracy theorist. That's
testimony from these volunteers that are Democrats. So it's like
they suppress this. I think that the media is complicit
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hiding all this information. And of course you being an
America First candidate, it's like they're not going to give
you a fair shake. I think pending all goes well,
which it will for your primary according to your pulling.
I know you're kicking butt there. I mean they're gonna say,
you know, they called if they called Larry Elder the
face of white supremacy. I can only imagine what they're
gonna say about you. And that's what they do, is
they try to destroy. Apparently, if you go back into
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Nazi Germany, this is what a Nazi looked like. Apparently
that's whatever we're gonna call you a Nazi. Yeah, they're
gonna say the definition of what a Nazi looks like.
But but but back, one lass thing for for illegals
coming into the country, it is to control the elections
of blue votes. That's what they want to do. Even
the most read of states are only a couple hundred
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thousand votes. They want to bring in millions of illegal
immigrants into this country and sporadically placed them throughout our
country to influence elections. That's what all this is about.
They could care less about, you know, people seeking asylum
and all this stuff. They don't give a crap about
any of that stuff. It is about power, is about
maintaining power. Right now, the Facebook whistleblower is testifying before
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Senate right this second. Don't be fooled by this either.
This is a trojan horse. Why are people like AOC
and all these other people finally finally starting to scream
the very things that Republicans have been screaming for years,
that big tech needs to be broken up because what
big tech is doing is they are censoring viewpoints that
they don't like. That's why Republicans are conservatives have said
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big techniques to get broken up. Why now all of
a sudden are people like AOC and all these other
people saying we need to break up big tech. Well
now they're saying that Facebook's algorithms are designed to allow
hateful and divisive rhetoric to get the most engagement, which
makes Facebook the most money. Well, who gets to deem
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what content is safe, non hateful or non divisive. Any
political topic turns sometimes hateful and divisive. So what do
you think they're trying to do right now and influence
the two mid terms because they're trying to impose and
break up big tech. But what they're really trying to
do is sense or conservatives because the mid terms are
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coming up. I don't believe this woman for one second.
I think it came out that she was actually a
huge donor too. I think she's a part of the
Obama administration that she had donated to AOC And you
know you talk about you know, this divisive quote unquote
content getting the most views. They would instantly label your
videos as divisive content because you're conservative, therefore they can
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suppress you. It's like, don't believe it. But also to yes,
we need to break up big tech, but not to
censor more, not to make it in control of government,
but literally more exactly exactly, So it's completely backwards. So,
I mean, I've obviously had you on for a little
but now and I know you have to get going.
But where can people go to find your platform? Where
can they donate? And where can they follow you on
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your social media's? You can just google Graham Allen. There's
no telling what's going to pop up, but I promise
you I'll be the first one that pops up there. Uh.
And then you know, if you want to donate to
the campaign, you can go to Graham Allen sc dot
com or you could just search Graham Allen in in
every social media thing. I should be the first one
that pops up. So well, you're definitely kicking the face
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in on the fundraising. So you're doing amazing and obviously
we're going to continue to support you and follow everything
that you're doing because I do believe that you are
going to be the Trump Indors candidate for South Carolina. Seven. Right,
that's your congressionals. We'll see yes, uh s C seven Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's it. I have no doubt you've heard it
here first. I'm going to predict it, so I'm pretty
good at these things. I had Carrie Lake on actually
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for my job. I was interviewing her, and then a
couple of months later she's got the endorsements, so we
were very excited about that. But I do believe you
will be the Trump Indoors candidate. Thank you for joining
us stay here on Luna Talks, and we look forward
to having you back. Thanks for having me. Before we go,
I want to thank gram Allen again for such a
great interview, and I want to thank you guys so
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Up next Luna Talks with Anna Paulina Luna part of
the gang which we no longer have representatives in Congress.
We have rulers making decisions for the middle class. Rulers
who care more about what party leadership wants than what
their constituents need. Rulers who seek money and power, but
not to serve their country. This is a result of
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an establishment system that's destroying America from within. Guys, It's
time we reset the system and save our country. This
is Luna Talks with on a Paulina. Welcome back to
today's episode of Luna Talks with Me, your host on
a Paulina Luna. I know I have been covering some
of the trending topics, and as we know, there's no
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shortage of those, especially with the current administration. However, I
wanted to take a break from what I typically do
to cover something that you have all asked me about
at one point or another, and that question is what
is it like to run for office? And so I
want it to bring on a candidate who is running
in South Carolina seven by the name of Graham Allen.
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Some of you may have heard of him. He's known
for his viral videos on social media where he rants
and raves covering topics happening in the media. But he's
also better known for being one of the strongest conservative
voices that we currently have in this country. Some of
his videos and his own capacity before he was a candidate,
have received millions and millions of views. That's more than
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any of your prime time hits on Fox News or
CNN or MSNBC. So he is clearly a force to
be reckoned with. But what we're increasingly seeing, and something
that I've talked about to you so many times, is
that there are problems that exists within our own party
that we have to correct. One of those is that
taboo that exists about running a Republican against another Republican.
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There's that common saying thou shalt not speak ill of
another Republican, or the fact that most people look down
upon other Republicans deciding to primary others if they think
that they're not doing their job. But isn't that a
part of the American process, And that's exactly why are
Founding Father's engineered elections to be the way that they are,
so that everyone common folk like you and I have
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the opportunity to engage in the political process. Now, Graham
Allen is one of these people that has literally taken
time out of his personal life, personal capacity to put
his money where his mouth is and decided to run
for office. He clearly didn't have to do it for money.
He clearly is doing it because he believes in this country.
He's also a veteran and I've happened to known him
for several years. In fact, we first met one another
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when we were both at turning point. He's still there
as a contributor, but he also has a very very
massive brand in regards to what he's doing for the
conservative movement. And yes, he still has a day job.
In fact, he owns multiple businesses and he's doing that
all while campaigning. He is also a United States Army veteran.
He's a father, he is a husband, and he is
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arguably going to be, in my opinion, the next representative
of South Carolina seven. He has the pulling to prove it,
he has a fundraising to prove it, and he definitely
has the media and social media platform that any person
running for office would envy. Graham, thank you so much
for joining our show today. Tell Us a little bit
about yourself. You said more than I could. You know,
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it's I tell everybody, it's not that impressive in real life.
I'm just a guy that believes in America, that loves
to run his mouth for a living. Um. And you know,
I'm tired of seeing our country being destroyed from tyrannical dictators.
So we no longer have leaders in our country. We
have rulers who think that they know what's best for us, uh,
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instead of the other way around. And so if I
if I lose everything I've ever worked for in the
process of the process of exposing uh, the hypocrisy and
the the just honestly just the evil within not only
the Democrat Party but our party, is well if if
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if all of it is for me to fall on
the sword of the truth, of the veil being pulled back,
well then it's all worth it in my book. So
that's it. I'm just a guy that believes in America
and believes in the truth, um, and the truth, not
your truth or their truth, the truth and um and
I'm just here to help and and truly that's it. Well,
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let's talk about that for a second. You are arguably
one of the top ten conservative. It's like voices in
the country. I don't even want to call you an
influencer because I feel like you own multiple businesses, you're veteran,
you're clearly yeah, you're clearly more than that. But it's
interesting because people like you don't go into politics to
make money. You clearly have been financially well to do
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in your own right. It's interesting because you've sacrificed a
lot to really do what you're doing currently. I don't
think a lot of people know that. Can you maybe
go into what happened with your Facebook page because you've
taken a personal loss in order to run for office
simply because you're conservative? Yeah? So, uh, you know, I
think that we have too many doctors, too many lawyers
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in Congress, and not enough people who have started a
small businesses, people that understand what it means to Hey,
you know, I've got this idea, uh, and I think
I'm gonna run with it, and I'm gonna tank my
personal credit for the first couple of years because we're
not gonna make any money and I'm gonna have to
take out loans and I'm gonna have to pay employees
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instead of you know, I'm gonna have to flow a
house payment so I can pay employees to keep this
thing going until it gets to a point where it
actually is producing, right Like, most businesses are not profitable
until year three to five and and and so we
we don't have enough people that understand what it's like
to be denied small business loans to start off another
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business venture because you did tank your personal credit until
your business was viable enough to where the return started
coming in, and it takes years to build it back up.
So you can, you know, have a media business, and
then you have an apparel business, and we have a
charity foundation, and I even have a trucking business that
nobody knows about that I'm even you know, attached to
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I'm looking at getting into the coffee business. Uh, you
know nobody that There are too few people in Congress
making decisions for middle class America, which is the backbone
of America. The middle class is the blanket of freedom
over America. And I truly believe it because it what
it's what keeps the ruling class over a honestly a
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slave class. If you remove the middle class, the lower
class becomes a slave class to the upper class. And
and and it is so vitally important in saying that,
you know, running for Congress when you already have achieved
I don't know what's the word, uh, success to a
certain extent um. You know, people hate success, and so
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unfortunately in America, in America today, you know, you can't
talk about, oh, well, you know, I am a successful
entrepreneur these days, uh, because for some reason that's off
putting for people. But even running for Congress, we we
took a major, major financial hits on all aspects of
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business because obviously I own a media company. With that
media company has advertisers, it has obviously advertising through video
views off social media platforms, etcetera, etcetera, and that employees
a lot of Americans. The money that's made off of that,
So that entire business literally went from you know, I'm
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not going to disclose money on here, but it went
from this amount of money to to have multiple employees
to zero in three days. Literally we announced the campaign
in three days later, Facebook sends me a personal email
letting me know that, uh, not that I was in trouble,
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but because I was now a political candidate, I can
no longer make money on any social media platform through
any ad monetization, any anything, and so yes, the truth
of the matter is we have lost more money in
the past quarter and a half then most people will
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ever understand. Because we believe in America, and I believe
in America, and I believe that somebody has to be
willing to give up comfort to fight for the ideals
that we believe here in America. Has say it all
the time, at all of this crap, all this craziness,
all this tyranny, none of this ends until Americans are
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willing to become uncomfortable to stand up for what they
actually believe. And if I don't do that myself, then
who am I to tell you, know, the family that
makes fifty grand a year, that you also have to
be willing to become uncomfortable to fight for America. So
I can tell you I've obviously observed it. You are
of those people that has chosen not to just talk
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about it but actually take action. And I think that
that's a problem that we're seeing is a lot of
people can complain about it, but they don't offer solutions.
You're one of those people that is being a problem solver.
To kind of segue into the classes, and that we're
seeing down this country. Obviously, the far left is really
targeting the middle class right, and they are trying to
create this classified with wealthy people with poor people, with
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the middle class. I mean, it's it's blatantly obvious and
out there in the public. But let's talk about the
political class because you're doing something that I think a
lot of Republicans would have considered taboo previous to President Trump.
You are running against another Republican and because of that,
I've seen it. You've been stone walled by the same
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people that say they believe in America first, because you
are running against someone that literally was the worst Republican
on the face of the planet. Tom Rice, correct, correct, Um.
You know that has been the biggest shock out of
all of this. A you know, we have, Um, you know,
I wouldn't say top ten. I always say top twenty five.
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I feel like that's a very that's a very solid thing.
I would say that we we have been in the
top twenty five conservative voices over the past three or
four years. At this point, the Republican Party loved us,
the team me. However, you want to say that they
loved us over the past four years, until until we
dare step foot into the political world. And that's been
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the biggest shock is realizing that even in the Republican Party,
the Grand Old Party, that politically speaking, we might as
well be the same as the left, you know, the
current establishment that's in place, the system that are in place. Um,
this eleventh commandment that thou shall not speak ill of
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another Republican? Why why do we have that? Why do
we why do we have those rules set in place? Well,
my belief is those rules are set in place because
as those are insurance policies for people who want to
be career politicians. That's what it is. You pay your
dues into the NRCC. You know, you don't make waves
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to the upper leadership when you know when there's waves
to be made. Uh, you don't stand firm for what
your district and your constituents actually want you to do,
because you're more afraid of what the political parties are
going to do to you if you stand up for
what the people you're actually supposed to represent want you
to do. For example, this bill is gonna pass no
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matter what I do, but I don't believe in the bill,
and if I stand up to it, everybody in the
Republican Party is going to hate me for it. Very
few people in Congress today will go back to their
district see how they want them to vote and be
willing to have the fortitude, I don't know, the female
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version of having the you know, the metaphorical balls to
stand up on the show there you go whatever, Hojna's
where and and so many people don't have that, and
they won't be the lone person saying no because the
people that I represent told me to tell you no,
because I answer to them. I don't work for you,
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I work for them. And that's where we've lost our
way a lot with Honestly, probably of the people that
are in Congress right now, they believe that they have
an employer, and the employer is you know, the government.
Then you know the government, and now technically that may
be where their checks are coming from, but those checks
are only cashable because of the people. The people are
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your boss. That is the way it's supposed to go.
When we're we're focusing on the wrong boss. We have
hundreds of thousands of bosses that we're supposed to be
answering to every single day as representatives, and we have
so many people that have forgotten that. It's truly, truly sad.
And worst of all, the scariest thing I've heard is
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somebody actually wrote and they told me, well, you know, Grham,
we elect these people to be in charge of us.
And I was floored because the the the the the
private citizen in me, which I still currently am a
private citizen, was screaming at the at the no, no, no, no,
what this is America. We don't elect rulers, we don't
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elect leaders. We elect people that are supposed to preserve
the will and the freedoms that we have here as Americans.
In fact, that's literally the only reason we have a
government in the first place. That is why government was created.
That if ever the individual rights and freedoms of the
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American people were being infringed upon or being threatened, that's
when the government steps in to protect those individual rising freedoms.
And now we have a government that believes that they
can give and take away. It is a very scary
time and it is uh and is honestly a point
in our history where we're either going to right the
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course or we're gonna fall away for forever. The American
people have to remember that they are the pal I agree,
and I'm glad that you said that because so many people,
I think are now waking up. But it's been kind
of a hard process because you and I can go
blue in the face, but if people have cognitive dissidence
and they shut down, they're not necessarily gonna acknowledge that.
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I do have to break real quick for a commercial breaks.
So we'll be right back. Everyone sait today. I'm gonna
ask Graham when we get back about the craziest story
he's heard about himself since running for office. We'll be
right back. So, Graham, obviously, as you're running for office,
you're the front runner, you're clearly one of the biggest
conservative voices, and you're definitely projected to win this seat
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in South Carolina. But what is the craziest thing that
you've heard about yourself since running for office? As they
call it front runner treatment? Well, Uh, I'll I think this.
I think this time I'll talk about just the craziest thing,
not the funniest thing. The fun neest thing was the
female genitalia story, which was ridiculous. Uh, But the craziest
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thing was Graham Allen hates Christians and hates Christians, he
hates the church, she hates religion, which is absolutely not
true at all. Uh. They this was the right that
this was coming from, not the left, This was the right.
They took sixteen seconds out of a seven minute video
that I made three years ago, and the video had
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been seeing a hundred thirties seven million times. All right,
you know this video has been out there for forever.
Blah blah blah blah blah. Uh. In the sixteen second clip,
they take the part out where I say I love Jesus,
but Christianity and religion I absolutely hate because it's run
by people, and people kind of suck. That's the sixteen
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seconds that they took out of the clip. The video
was in response to a woman saying that she was
a Christian. She identified as a Christian, but she couldn't
stand to look at me because of my tattoos. I
have a lot of tattoos, and so I was responding
to the hypocrisy of that. And so the craziness of
saying that I'm that I hate Christians is just crazy
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to me. But but but my response to people is
I take a very different response. You know a lot
of people want to do damage control and all this
other kind of Ah, I don't believe any of that stuff.
Every time somebody asked me about it, I say, I'm
a Christian, love Jesus loved the Bible. Watch the full video.
End of statement. I have nothing to apologize for. Stand
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by what I said. Uh. And and I don't apologize
for things unless you can prove me to be wrong.
I have nothing to be sorry for because you don't
like the way that I say things. And you know
President Trump taught us that. Uh, Tucker Carlson does that.
All of the truly great voices and leaders in history
do that. Um. You know. I'll apologize if I'm wrong.
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I'm not above saying that I don't know everything and
that there are things that I could get wrong or mistaken.
But unless you honestly just have something that I'm wrong about,
I'm not saying I'm sorry to anybody. Uh. If you
don't like my tone, this is not a time in
our country where I could care less about you and
your thoughts about my tone. In fact, people that are
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kind in the words that they say, and and they
they smoothe people, and they wine and nine people and stuff.
That's why we're in the situation that we're in right now. Uh,
we need people that you know. One of my favorite
articles was Graham Allen has you know, proven to be
uh the front runner in the District seven race, but
has angered local GOP leaders due to abrasive comments online. Well,
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you know, I look, I tell everybody, unlike everybody else
is in this race. I have hundreds of thousands of
hours of videos, interviews, speeches, podcast Fox News, Hits, News Max, Hits,
oh A, n Hits, Blaze, Hits, whatever it is. You
can you can go and you can find out I
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have two books working on a third. You can go
back and you can look at everything that I've ever
said and I've ever done. You either think the way
that I think, you feel the way that I feel,
and you see the things that I see that are
happening to this country, or you don't. And if you're
the type of American that you don't see what I see,
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you're not gonna vote for me anyway. And and and
and that's truly how we run this campaign is you know,
we're here because we believe we can help. We're not
here because I want to be a carressman. I'm here
because I want to serve America, because I want my
children and my grandchildren to grow up and not Canada
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two point oh um. And and that that's truly what
separated in this race. Like nobody's ever seen this before.
Like when we show up to GOP meetings and you know,
everybody else goes up and they give this little twenty
minute speech and they stand by this podium and they talk.
I throw the podium away, I put a stool down,
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and I say, what do y'all want to talk about?
And we literally have conversation for three hours. I'll be
there for three hours talking to these people, letting them
ask whatever they want to ask. And sometimes they ask
me things I have no freaking idea what they're talking about,
and and and and I tell them, you know, I
gotta be honest. That's that's a new one. That's the
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first time I've heard about that. You know, I've learned
about I seventy three and Highway eight and all these
other kind of things that are super important to some people,
and other people couldn't give a crap about certain things
that I've learned. The top of my district hates the
bottom half, and the bottom half hates the top half.
And you know, because we're actually asking people what they want,
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what they think, and what they feel, and uh, they've
never seen that before. And so we're just gonna keep
doing what we do. Um and and it seems to
be working so far at least. Yeah. I know you're
a very you're very approachable person and I find that
and this is, you know, having run for office the
last time, what I realized is there are literally people
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that will spend their entire careers as a lobbyist and
basically becoming swampy up in Washington, d C. In preparation
so that they can move somewhere and then run for
office and that they know they'll be the pet of
whatever the party wants. And that's exactly why we have
issues in this country, is because it is about the
Beltway Washington D C. Insider getting elected to office and
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people trust them, and then they turn around and they
become absolute rhinos. I think one of the best things
that you are doing is giving people an option of
a better alternative to what they've been doing before. I
think that if anyone anticipated that you are not going
to win this election, and I think that they are,
they are out to lunch. I think that it is evident.
I went out to South Carolina. I see how the
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community loves and respects to you, and I think that
you're going to be the next representative. So to talk
about kind of what happens in d C. There's a
lot of people who don't necessarily know what it's like
to run for office. You are doing everything that you can,
obviously you've stated earlier at your own personal expense, But
can you tell me some of the problems that you're
realizing with how campaigning is done now as to maybe
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potentially why it's a problem in Washington, d C. And
why we're seeing the issues that we're seeing. Yeah, I
think this is gonna be in my next book. Actually,
I think I'm going to win or lose. I'm going
to talk about everything that they don't want me to
talk about. So this is the last podcast they ever do.
I did not kill myself on on on the podcast.
You heard it here, Yeah, you heard it here. I
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think I might do. I'm thinking about calling it red pill,
blue pill, and that'd be the name of the book. Actually,
like no one steal that idea's copyrighted already coverat it, well,
it's time staffed here if you take it, well, we
can time staff either way. Uh. The system, and there's
a system. I don't like calling it the establishment because
establishment has become such a word that, like, people automatically
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think that you're a conspiracy theorist the second you say
that word or whatever. I like to call it the system.
And this goes on both sides. Do I believe that
every single person that votes Democrat is a demon that
wants the entire world to burn down? No? I believe
that they are confused, they've been lied to, and they've
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been brainwashed. But I digress. The right, however, has just
as big as the system in place as the left
does to control who ends up on the ballot, because
they know, especially in red districts, that most people are
just gonna do alread on on voting day. That's it.
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They're just alread, alread, alread or if you're a Democrat,
all blue, all blue, all blue. And the problem is
I actually did get into a debate with a with
a woman at a GOP meeting. You know, I was
talking about this and I said that there is a
problem in place where you have to raise millions upon
millions of dollars for a job that pays a hundred
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and seventy four d seventy eight thousand dollars. See, I
don't even know how much it pays, Like that's how much,
you know? I mean seriously, like really not doing it
for money. Let's just put in that way. No, I
don't even you know is it a hundred four? I
think they just gave themselves a pay raise, ironically enough.
But yeah, well well there you go. All right, so
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um I said, it makes no sense. It's ridiculous, and
and and it's all because, especially when you're primary another Republican,
the entire system clamps down to where they'll say something
like this internally, well, we're not going to do anything
to help them, but we're not going to help you
in the process because they want everything to stay red,
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even in districts where there's no doubt that it's going
to be read like mine. They want people they would
much rather have a Tom Rice who voted to impeach
the greatest president of our lifetimes, possibly the greatest president ever.
They would much rather have an impeachment voter because he
owes favors. They can control him. They can have sway
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over them. They don't want somebody like me, or are
you going in there? Because they don't even like me now,
They're for sure not gonna like me once I get elected.
And they know this, Like you know, I was having
a conversation with somebody the other day, I said, you
want they're right not to want me to get it
because I am going to be the biggest thorn in
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their side from day one. And and we it's because
they have a system, and the system is money. That's
the first step of the system. First they lock everything down,
and then they make it to where the average everyday
American can't fundraise in their own districts because the people
that can actually write the big checks in the district
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will not do it through fear of repercussion of political backlash. Right, So,
how is a normal everyday American, the guy or girl
that works a twelve hour shift at the hospital or
whatever it is, want to put their name in the
hat to be a representative. How are they going to
raise millions of dollars to take on an incumbent when
the entire state and district has blocked down around them.
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The answer is they can't. So it has to be
people like me or you that are able to circumvent that.
We're able to be like, Okay, if you want to
lock me out of the state, I'll just take our
message and we'll go to the other forty nine states
and we'll bring on the money to be able to
fight you and take you on. And some woman she
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was she she had to been in her seventies or whatnot.
She was in there, and I come to find out
that she had been in the you know, the GOP
for like forty years. And she's like, well, you know,
I disagree with what you just said. Okay, well you
know why. She said, Well, that's just the way it is.
You know, you have to be able to fundraise to
win races, you have to be able to raise millions
of dollars to be able to do this thing. That's
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just the way it is. That's not a system in
place to keep people out. That's just the way it is.
And I simply responded with, well, ma'am, don't you think
that that's a problem. Don't you think that that is
an issue? And don't you think that the days of
saying well, that's just the way that it is, that's
what's gotten us to where we are. Why are we
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not allowed to call out a Republican that's not doing
their job? Well, you know, we need to be behind
closed doors and a unified party. Why our party? No,
we're not. But the worst part is we're not unified
behind closed doors, and we try to act like we are,
but we're worse than the Democrats. A OC will call
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out the President of the United States to its face,
and everybody gives AOC crap. I tell everybody she's the
most powerful person in the Democrat Party because she has
such a national influence. She influences everybody else's elections. That's
why she is so powerful for the Democrats, because she
has such a national voice. And if we don't start
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electing people that have the ability to combat that national voice,
that is influencing elections across the country. If you don't
think that stupid people like AOC ilhan Omar Reshid to leave, uh,
Nancy Pelosi all these people, if you don't think that
they're affecting other people's districts and other people's states, you're
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not paying attention. I tell every single person, I ain't
even told you this. I tell every person when I'm
speaking at an event. I said, it can't be just me.
I said, everybody's got a hundred dollars a month. I said,
I don't care how much you want and complain that
you don't. Yes, you do, stop going to Starbucks twice
a week and you'll have a hundred bucks a month.
Give ten bucks to me, and then find nine other
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in the nation that you agree with and donate ten
dollars a month, every single month to those people, because
it cannot be just me, because I can't. If I
just go nothing happens. I will tell you that you're
absolutely right in the national platform, and they're actually now
to these candidates. May the candidates that you just listed
are mainly the candidates that are actually backed by an
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organization called Justice for Democrats, which runs these really progressive candidates.
But it's interesting because what I noticed is that they
are going to places. They're doing live streams on something
called Twitch, which is where video gamers are at there
being boosted on TikTok and on Twitter and on Instagram.
So you have the age range who's been pretty much
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millennials and below our age range and demographic that are
literally embracing this message. And I think the older establishment
doesn't understand that. And so I can tell you that
I was actually out to lunch with my husband here
in St. Petersburg and actually asked a waitress. I said,
I'm just curious if you can who is the most
you know, the cool candidate that you would consider a
person that's currently in office. And she goes, well, you know, um,
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there's this younger girl. I think she's from New York.
She was a bartender, and I just I really like
her style and she's really cool. And I was like,
so would you vote for She said yes, absolutely, and
her reasoning was is that she was relatable, she looked
like her. And that's the problem, is that these people
don't understand the ideologies to the trojan horse behind that
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of socialism, and people like you that should be promoted
to get to office are suppressed because you are not
controlled by those in power. And that's the problem. I
do want to ask you about your America first stances.
I do have to break one more time for a
quick commercial breaks, and we'll be right back. Alright. So Graham,
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you again, as I stated earlier, you are one of
the most conservative voices in our country. Clearly you've been
I think, yelling from the top of the hills since
the beginning of Trump's presidency about the America First Agenda.
I know that you're also fighting for that in your district.
I mean, what are those policies that you are super
passionate about in regards to what we're currently seeing in
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our country. Well, you know, first of all, I'm a
firm believer that we need to audit all fifty states. Uh,
even the states that got it right or whatever it is.
Where at this point, I love I love what they
said about the findings in Arizona, where everybody was like, oh,
the findings proved that Biden did they they did it?
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Did they really prove that? Because I read something completely
different than than than everybody else did all fifty states
need to be audited? Uh? You know, the the the
the only issue is with decertification, now that you know
Trump is not currently in the White House, is what's
the constitutional authority for those kind of things? Right? Like
like you know what I mean, Like there is no
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basis of that. So Kamala Harris is terrible, etcetera. We're
screwed all the way around in the current situation that
we find ourselves in. But we need to trust our
elections first and foremost all right, that is the de
facto number one thing that must be fixed. Americans have
to know that their vote actually matters, and that their
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vote actually counts, and that their vote actually makes it
through the system, through the ballot box, through whatever it is,
absolutely because without an honest, open, transparent election system, you
can't have America First policies in the first place. Second
of all, we got to secure the border. It is
the most We have an opioid crisis in South Carolina.
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We have women, children, dudes overdosing every single day there
on the south of the Road. It doesn't matter what
what area you're in, wherever you're at, we have an
opioid problem in South Carolina. Where are they getting all
this from, Well, they're getting it from the border because
the drug cartels are able to bring them up because
our border patrol agents are babysitting all these people coming
over illegally infected with not just COVID, nineteam, all kinds
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of things. It is. It is the absolute most insane
thing in the world. Here's what I always tell everybody
is they've got the Canadian border lockdown why because Canadians
want to get out of Canada because they see what
it's like in a crazy place like that. But the
but they have the southern border wide open because they
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want these people. Most of the states and the presidential
elections are in Arizona. It's less than it was just
over ten thousand, I believe in Arizona where what was
what by one by but in some places, even in
red states, it's only by two thousand votes. Well. And
also yeah, there was there's talk out of Georgia that
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people were coming forward there being subpoena to court that
they were told that they were literally being they were
told to remove inactive voters from the roles make them active.
And then you had, you know, these drops in the
middle of the night. That's not a conspiracy theorist. That's
testimony from these volunteers that are Democrats. So it's like
they suppress this. I think that the media is complicit
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hiding all this information. And of course you being an
America First candidate, it's like they're not going to give
you a fair shake. I think pending all goes well,
which it will for your primary according to your pulling.
I know you're kicking butt there. I mean they're gonna say,
you know, they called if they called Larry Elder the
face of white supremacy. I can only imagine what they're
gonna say about you. And that's what they do, is
they try to destroy. Apparently, if you go back into
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Nazi Germany, this is what a Nazi looked like. Apparently
that's whatever we're gonna call you a Nazi. Yeah, they're
gonna say the definition of what a Nazi looks like.
But but but back, one lass thing for for illegals
coming into the country, it is to control the elections
of blue votes. That's what they want to do. Even
the most read of states are only a couple hundred
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thousand votes. They want to bring in millions of illegal
immigrants into this country and sporadically placed them throughout our
country to influence elections. That's what all this is about.
They could care less about, you know, people seeking asylum
and all this stuff. They don't give a crap about
any of that stuff. It is about power, is about
maintaining power. Right now, the Facebook whistleblower is testifying before
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Senate right this second. Don't be fooled by this either.
This is a trojan horse. Why are people like AOC
and all these other people finally finally starting to scream
the very things that Republicans have been screaming for years,
that big tech needs to be broken up because what
big tech is doing is they are censoring viewpoints that
they don't like. That's why Republicans are conservatives have said
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big techniques to get broken up. Why now all of
a sudden are people like AOC and all these other
people saying we need to break up big tech. Well
now they're saying that Facebook's algorithms are designed to allow
hateful and divisive rhetoric to get the most engagement, which
makes Facebook the most money. Well, who gets to deem
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what content is safe, non hateful or non divisive. Any
political topic turns sometimes hateful and divisive. So what do
you think they're trying to do right now and influence
the two mid terms because they're trying to impose and
break up big tech. But what they're really trying to
do is sense or conservatives because the mid terms are
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coming up. I don't believe this woman for one second.
I think it came out that she was actually a
huge donor too. I think she's a part of the
Obama administration that she had donated to AOC And you
know you talk about you know, this divisive quote unquote
content getting the most views. They would instantly label your
videos as divisive content because you're conservative, therefore they can
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suppress you. It's like, don't believe it. But also to yes,
we need to break up big tech, but not to
censor more, not to make it in control of government,
but literally more exactly exactly, So it's completely backwards. So,
I mean, I've obviously had you on for a little
but now and I know you have to get going.
But where can people go to find your platform? Where
can they donate? And where can they follow you on
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your social media's? You can just google Graham Allen. There's
no telling what's going to pop up, but I promise
you I'll be the first one that pops up there. Uh.
And then you know, if you want to donate to
the campaign, you can go to Graham Allen sc dot
com or you could just search Graham Allen in in
every social media thing. I should be the first one
that pops up. So well, you're definitely kicking the face
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in on the fundraising. So you're doing amazing and obviously
we're going to continue to support you and follow everything
that you're doing because I do believe that you are
going to be the Trump Indors candidate for South Carolina. Seven. Right,
that's your congressionals. We'll see yes, uh s C seven Yeah, Yeah,
that's that's it. I have no doubt you've heard it
here first. I'm going to predict it, so I'm pretty
good at these things. I had Carrie Lake on actually
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for my job. I was interviewing her, and then a
couple of months later she's got the endorsements, so we
were very excited about that. But I do believe you
will be the Trump Indoors candidate. Thank you for joining
us stay here on Luna Talks, and we look forward
to having you back. Thanks for having me. Before we go,
I want to thank gram Allen again for such a
great interview, and I want to thank you guys so
much for listening. If you enjoyed today's show, please leave
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