BREAKING: Lindsey Graham’s sister caught in NEW SCANDAL ahead of midterms

So we have seen numerous instances where. Lindsey Graham's sister has proven. herself to be pretty inept when it comes. to issues of international relations or. or anything outside of the borders of. the United States. One example of that. is sprouting up yet again. I'm joined by. Dr. Annie Andrews who's running for the. US Senate in South Carolina against. Darlene Graham. So can you give your. response to this new story that's broken. out which is that Darlene Graham. has pledged like her late brother to. crack down on China. But it turns out.

her own husband is is working at a. management role in a company that relies. on Chinese manufacturing. Can I have. your response to to the to the fact that. she can say one thing on the campaign. trail but then in her own household. relies on exactly that? >> Yeah, that's exactly right. This. Washington Post story showed that. Darlene and her campaign were hiding her. family's business interests in China. And she's a sitting US Senator. So she. has a lot of questions she needs to.

answer for the people of South Carolina. We didn't get to it in the debate last. night because we only had one 60-minute. debate and she has refused to debate me. any additional times. But I don't think. it's appropriate for a sitting US. Senator to be lining their pockets with. money from China. And it is also. hypocritical because she does tell us. she talks tough on China. She says South. Carolina needs to be less dependent on. China. But I guess that rule doesn't. apply when her own family is getting. rich. >> What was one moment in the debate.

yesterday that stuck out at you as a. pretty apt microcosm for the race as a. whole? >> I mean a series of moments but you know. as a pediatrician as a physician the. fact that she supports wholeheartedly. full-throatedly supports these Medicaid. budget cuts that will be devastating to. so many people here in South Carolina is. just appalling to me. You know I've been. hustling out there out-hustling Darlene. for sure on the campaign trail and just. in the past couple of weeks I've been to.

Allendale County, South Carolina, where. they have one hospital that's going to. be totally on the chopping block if. these budget cuts come through. In this. county, they have no maternity health. care, they have no OBGYNs, there's no. mental health care providers, there's. one pharmacy that will also close if. these Medicaid budget cuts go through. And then a couple days later I was in. Bennettsville, South Carolina, standing. in front of their only hospital that. closed 11 years ago. So, you know, we. have a very fractured, underfunded. health care system in South Carolina,

and I just can't believe she's so out of. touch with the people of South Carolina. that she thinks these Medicaid budget. cuts are okay. >> On the flip side though, we will have a. triumphal arch. So, it doesn't that make. it all worth it? >> Absolutely. You know, those sick kids. with asthma who can't see a doctor when. they have trouble breathing, I will be. very happy to know there's an arch in. DC. >> What what have people in South Carolina. said to you about the state of the. health care system? I'm just look, you're coming from South Carolina, this.

is not exactly uh a liberal stronghold, and so I'm assuming that when you're. talking to folks, you're not talking to. any, you know, tried and true Democrats. These are probably, you know, in large. part long-standing Republicans. And so, what have those people told you about uh. the state of the health care system, especially under Republican control, and. especially um you know, in the hands of. somebody like Darlene Graham. representing your state? >> So, you know, just two stories. One. story from this morning, we just had a. small campaign event at a local small.

business, a coffee shop and a wine shop, and I was talking to the owner who said. that he and his wife were so grateful. for the ACA because that was the first. time in his adult life he ever had. insurance. But just this past year, his. his premium for he and his wife went. from $500 to $1,500. >> Right. >> I I recently at a pharmacy in Rock Hill, one of the only independent pharmacies, talking to the pharmacist there about. abandoned prescriptions. And that's when. a patient goes in to pick up their.

prescription that their doctor has. prescribed, they see the price tag, and. they say, "Oh, never mind, I can't. afford it." And when I asked these. pharmacists what prescriptions get. abandoned most often, it's not, you. know, multivitamins, which are important. to take, but it's high blood pressure. medicine and cholesterol medicine and. blood thinners, you know. And I know as. a doctor that if you don't take your. high blood pressure medicine, you're at. high risk for a stroke or a heart. attack, and that ultimately, honestly, it's it's the wrong thing to do, but. ultimately that's going to cost our. health care system more money. So, it.

doesn't matter if you're traditionally a. Democrat or a Republican or an. independent, this assault on our health. care system touches everyone. And of. course, this is in the context of. everything else also costing more. Folks. are struggling to fill up their tank, to. buy groceries, and now they see their. health insurance premiums triple because. of decisions that are being made in. Washington DC, which is why we need an. independent voice in the US Senate from. South Carolina rather than Darlene. Graham, who will work as a Washington. ambassador to South Carolina in this.

role. >> On that point of working as a Washington. ambassador, is is there any indication. that Darlene Graham even has her own. opinions about, you know, any of these. issues as opposed to just serving as a. rubber stamp for Donald Trump? >> I mean, my honest assessment is no. You. know, I stood next to her for 60 minutes. on the debate stage last night, and I. heard a lot of repeated, sort of dusty. old Republican talking points. You know, she would attack me for something that. isn't true, isn't aligned with a.

position I have, and I'd I'd defend. myself and correct her, and she'd say. the same thing again. So, she's just. going off of a script that's been. written by folks in Washington DC who. hand-picked her to run for this seat. because they see in her someone that. they can buy. You know, she has. supported um the gutting of the health. care system and so now we have big. pharma propping up her campaign. She has. helped give billions of dollars of tax. cuts to data center companies and now we. have data center companies propping up. her campaign. So people in Washington DC.

and special interest groups see in her. someone that they can buy. I'm running. to be an independent voice for South. Carolina. I don't take corporate PAC. money. I didn't get recruited to run. Nobody handpicked me or handed me. anything. I got involved because I was. tired of watching broken policies coming. from Washington harm my patients and. their families. >> Yeah. And and by the way, like I when I. when I was in my 20s, that was the first. time I had health insurance either. I. mean even prior to my 20s thanks to the.

ACA. That's the only reason because. because of the provision mandating. employers give health care to families. including kids under 26. Like that's the. only reason that I had health care. growing up. I'm sure a lot of. millennials are in the exact same. position as I am, but but it just seems. so antithetical to what any human being. [snorts] would want in this country that. you would want to take away the one. thing guaranteeing people access to. health care in the United States. It. just seems absolutely crazy. >> Yeah, and you know, the the ACA is.

certainly not perfect, but I was. practicing as a pediatrician when that. went into effect and I watched as it. helped families. Families who had kids. with serious pre-existing conditions. They got better coverage. They you know, I watched these young young people as. they graduated from high school be able. to stay on their parents plans as you. just said. It you know, it was an. improvement in the health care system, but you know, I want to take it a step. further and I've been focusing a lot on. the public option because to me then. that gives anyone the option to purchase. an affordable plan an affordable public.

plan if they choose and that would. remove the profit motivation from that. transaction and the profit motivation. all this money that you and I pay on our. premiums and our co-insurance and our. co-pays, and our deductibles, and all of. those things, so much of that money. actually just goes to pad the profits. and pockets of insurance company. executives and shareholders, not. actually to the provision of health. care. So, we could build a much more. cost-effective health care system if we. removed that profit motivation from it,

which is why I think the public option. is the next most pragmatic step to build. the health care system that we really. need. And certainly, we have to stop the. Medicaid budget cuts. >> What is something that somebody's told. you on the campaign trail that's that's. stuck with you? Perhaps something that that you haven't. heard from, you know, a regular Democratic voter. >> Oh, that's a good question. I mean, I. was just when I was just in. Bennettsville, we were standing outside this closed. rural hospital and this woman who works.

in health care, she was there in her. scrubs and she had her 4-year-old son. with her. And, you know, she was just so. grateful that we had showed up to even. have a conversation to shine a light on. the fact that this county is really. suffering without access to health care. And this 4-year-old little boy was so. sweet, he followed me around for the. whole event and I hugged him goodbye and. he cried when I was leaving. And I just. I have his the image of him in my brain. right now when I think about what I'm. fighting for and how important it is. that this little boy, you know, if he.

gets sick, if he falls out of a tree, if. he has an asthma attack, he deserves to. have a hospital that he can go to. And. so, it's just, you know, the fact that. I've been at this for 18 months talking. to people everywhere. Um, you know, I. was also in Mount Pleasant in the low. country recently on a dock talking to. shrimpers, shrimpers who have been. crushed by these diesel prices. And I. heard from some of them that the diesel. prices are so high and their margins are. so thin already that they've started. using the tide to go out to sea so they.

don't have to burn diesel fuel to get. out to where they can actually do the. shrimping. And you know, these people. are not traditionally necessarily, you. know, political or Democrat or whatever, but it you know, it's these decisions. that are being made in Washington D.C. that are having a really negative impact. on so many people across South Carolina, and they're just so grateful to have. someone show up and listen and offer to. give them a voice in D.C. >> You know, when I think about Joe Manchin. in in West Virginia back when he was. serving in the Senate, um he was able.

as, you know, the 50th vote or the 51st. vote, I can't remember even what it what. it was at this point. I think it was 50. or 51. Um in any case, because he was a. a Democrat in a red state, he was able. um. to really bring stuff home for his state. in a way that, you know, the senator for. Rhode Island or California uh wasn't. able to do because he was that swing. vote and because everybody kind of knew. that he um that that anything passing.

the Senate hinged upon his support, he. had a lot of leverage. What would that. mean for somebody like you in a state. like South Carolina if you become the. 51st vote in the U.S. Senate? >> You know, it's really exciting to think. about all the good I could do for South. Carolina, you know, investments and. infrastructure and our healthcare. system, you know, some relief um for. these farmers and shrimpers that are. really being crushed right now, and just. to be able to be an independent voice um.

for the folks in South Carolina. You. know, you and I both know how. hyper-partisan this moment is and how. hyper-divisive it is and how we all just. retreat to our partisan corners, but I. think I'll have a really unique. opportunity when I am elected to, you. know, align my votes with what is in the. best interest of South Carolinians, to. be a loud voice, a loud advocate for. South Carolina in the U.S. Senate rather. than just being a rubber stamp for my. party because, you know, this Senate. seat does not belong to one family,

certainly, and it doesn't belong to one. political party. My opponent has already. pledged 100% loyalty to whatever her. party bosses tell her, and that doesn't. do South Carolina any good. So, you. know, I do think I'll have an outsized. influence in what's happening in the US. Senate given that I will be representing. the state of South Carolina, and that. can only mean good things for the people. in South Carolina. >> For those who are watching right now and. they want to support your campaign, where can they go? >> Yeah, they can go to Dr. Annie. Andrews.com. You know, we are 3 weeks.

away from this critical election. We. have a real opportunity to win this seat. in South Carolina. The difference could. not be more obvious. Darlene is going to. be a rubber stamp. She's going to do. whatever her special interest groups and. party bosses tell her to do. And I, as. I've said, I'll be an independent voice. Darlene is pro-war, pro-data center, pro-Medicaid cuts, and I will be a a. voice for South Carolina, and I will. focus on lowering costs and fixing our. health care system, and rooting out the.

corruption on both sides of the aisle. >> Awesome. I'm going to put that link. right here on the screen, and also in. the post description. For those who are. listening on the podcast, I'm going to. throw it in the show notes. Dr. Andrews, thank you so much for taking the time. today. Best luck in these final 2 and. 1/2 weeks until we get to election day. >> That's right. Thanks for having me. >> [music].