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Greenville news, the island packet, the beaufort gazette, the sun news of myrtle beach, the herald of rock hill and the sumter in 10 summer item present the debate for u. S. Senate republican candidates. And now, your moderator, charles beer bauer. Good evening and welcome to tonights primary debate among the republican candidates for the u. S. Senate. Joining me to ask questions of the candidates are but padgett from the Greenville News best padgett from the Greenville News. And our candidates. Before we begin tonight, some ground rules. Each candidate will have one minute to respond to the question. Necessary, we will allow time for a rebuttal. To decide who would start. We begin with mr. Connor. This would be a contentious race assessments. Some of you have made some accusation so far, but what i would like to know is if this is a referendum on then, do youm, why have a target on your back and why is this such a visceral against mr. Graham . 20 years is too long. Senator graham, i think when you came in, you had a lot of good ideas, but as for voting for Justice Sotomayor, Justice Kagan, the tart bailout, a lot of these things, it has come time for someone else to come in. , how long do is . Ou stay George Washington took eight years to set the country on its course. The varioushrough points, but i think all of us are getting time getting tired of the things we have seen over time. Action, in the way of senator. Senator graham . We are electing a senator to serve in the next six years. And gentlemen, i think i am the best qualified to serve our state, and i say that humbly. If we dont get that right, we are in trouble. When my state needed me to fight the unions, i was there, in an effective way to keep the nlrb boeing. Tting down i have a fiscally conservative record and a 100 prolife record, but this is about the future. Country is at risk. Policies ares failing. There is nobody in the senate that has their back better than i do. Purpose toith a rebuild this party and to take care of those who have had our back and make sure that we in South Carolina have a voice that people will listen to. First of all, i want to thank you all for having us here this evening in our first debate with senator grand. I want to say first of all that i am not a politician. I am a wife, a mother, a successful Small Business owner. Six years ago, i started my own company doing marketing and consulting. I have worked with Small Businesses, start up companies, entrepreneurs, and Larger Companies as well. I believe that career politicians are the problem, not the solution. I have spent months of this campaign and listening to the people of South Carolina and i firmly believe they are ready for someone new. Theyre ready for a principled leader. They are ready for a new voice and i am here tonight because i am ready and willing to step up to the plate, and so are the people of South Carolina. I will be a conservative voice every year, not just in an election year. Senator graham, you often say you are a conservative leader who gets things done, but it does not matter if youre getting something done if it is the wrong thing. In 2007, you championed Immigration Reform that became known as amnesty. The citizens of South Carolina rejected that and you brought it back because you felt it was what you thought was best for South Carolina. Your not listening to South Carolina. Show whatlieve you your Core Principles are. I believe American Heritage is built upon the principles of christianity, capitalism, and the constitution. Those are my guiding principles. I have made that clear. Say you areough to someone who gets things done. I present myself as a principled leader who will get things right. There are many of us on this senatoro would say that graham has done a good job. We like to criticize john mccain in this state, but john mccain took the floor fighting against Supreme Court nominee is that senator graham voted for. We would like someone to go to washington to fight for South Carolina principles. They are too busy trying to get democrats to vote in our primary, in a primary that ought to be closed. If you stood for Core Principles, if you did not support amnesty, if you did not agenda,most of obamas we would not be here tonight. But we got the message and we hope to see you in the runoff and two weeks after the 10th. A shot775 there was heard round the world. It began in lexington and and thenbunker hill wax all. Kings mountain. Camden, charleston. To beime for another shot heard round the world. I have five granddaughters. And they feel life is being taken away from them. The reason i am in this race is because i have an awareness of the duty placed on us for the next generation. The generation whose interest is in the next election or the special interest of the specialinterest groups. That is not my interest. I do have a special interest, and that is the founding fathers. And those who come after us. The next generation is critical. We cannot afford to take away what has been given down through the ages and i am going to fight for that hope. Graham,rms of senator if you truly are conservative, it is not necessary to spend 7 million in advertisements to prove it. I would like to go to washington to decrease spending across the board, to the best power to divest power from the federal government, where it belongs. I would appreciate your support. Next question will come from beth padgett and she will start with senator graham. I will tweak it a little for the rest of the panelists. Senator graham, one of the main criticisms we have heard about you in this election is that you are too eager to compromise with democrats. Running across the aisle to forge a compromise and you weaken the republicans position. How do you address that criticism . The reason i am going to win the primary, overwhelmingly, i hope, is because i am a Ronald Reagan republican. I like rand paul, but i am not a rand paul republican. Reagan republican who believes it is not good to get to the left of obama on Foreign Policy. Immigration is a problem that is not going to get fixed by yelling about it. President bush tried to fix immigration and i wish he had been successful. 11 Million Immigrants are here to find a job. You need to increase Border Patrol agent. We have put technology on the borders but they keep coming here to work. We are not being overrun by illegal canadians. Down with the other party on occasion. I am a good conservative, check my record, but i am also a problem solver, and this country needs to solve problems. And to tweak the question, why is it so wrong for likeminded democrats and republicans to try to find Common Ground on big issues such as the federal debt, immigration, Social Security reform . How does anything get done on these big issues if each side digs in their heels . Certainly, we need to see change, but we dont need to fundamentally transform america. We need to transform washington, d. C. I believe in limiting the size and scope of our government. I believe in smaller government, less taxes. I believe in the core foundations that we all do as republicans. Toator graham has a 20 years go up there and get the job done. Its time to allow somebody else another turn right now. Time, the length of people of South Carolina need a principled leader. We need someone who will reach across the aisle to negotiate and bring others to our side and not just walk across the aisle to the democrats and stay there. We need someone who is going to be strong. We do need to stand up and fight for what we believe in, to limit the scope and size of government, to lower government to lower taxes and create jobs to move the country forward. Senator graham, you describe yourself as a Ronald Reagan republican but i think a lot of us believe that you are a john mccain republican. You seem to be doing john mccains bidding. He is your mentor, not Ronald Reagan. And i find it interesting that john mccain has not even been in the state to campaign for you when you went all around the country to campaign for him in 2008. Of can we question have compromise with the democrats, certainly we can have compromise within certain talkingrs, but if were about a National Deficit of 17. 5 trillion, we have to have some parameters about which the compromise takes place. I would say the compromise has to take lays within the parameter that we actually have Structural Reforms in place where we before we raise the debt ceiling again. You cannot just keep raising the ceiling and raising the ceiling and not getting anything in return. It seems when we compromise we are always giving democrats with they want and it seems like to the graham gives in democrats and then gets to go in front of the press and congratulate himself for giving in. We have to take the fight to the democrats. This man has been trying to dismantle this republic. If we are going to save this country, the next two years are going to be crucial. What you decide is important as get it right, if you dont elect the right person to the u. S. Senate seat, there could be catastrophe around the nation. The west of the country is looking at us. A dutch rest of the country is looking at us. Is South Carolina the rest of the country is looking at us. Is South Carolina going to take a stand . Of the distinctions between those who hold their principles dear and those who do is what the moderate does if he carries his principal to the point of personal sacrifice. At the point of personal sacrifice, he drops the principal. All of us are reasonable people. We have primary, secondary, tertiary principles in our lives. Some of those apply. For example, to me, fidelity in marriage is a principle i will never compromise. But there are other issues that we would address differently. We would negotiate. Years, iorney for 40 would negotiate for my clients. But i always did what the client wanted. In this instance, the client is the constitution of the United States and the state of South Carolina. That is who we represent, and in less we represent them well, we should not be there very long. Compromise is an innately conservative principle but in the past few decades, far too often, compromise has meant democrats trying to build passed as fast as they can and republicans trying to build government as fast as they can get away with. That is because the current Government Supports the status quo and supports the politician. What we need to do on primary tuesday is change our course. Get somebody who will fight for principles. And that is why i am in this race. Years ago after graduating from the citadel i swore to constitution of the United States, the same document you swore to defend. I believe in a Foreign Policy that defends us. Believe i am a Ronald Reagan conservative. Heres the thing. This is why i am in the race. People have fought and died for this document and we have compromise this document, and that has led us to where we are. All the blood that was spilled to take us to where we are in this document is what has gotten us here. I want to get back to that. I want to abolish the National Department of education because there is no constitutional basis for it. That may seem to some people to be a bit far, but its not. We need somebody to get it back. Democrats will come along when they see what it means to our country. You all would agree that current immigration policy isnt working, but it has led to more than 11 million undocumented immigrants living in the United States. However, you disagree on whether giving them a pathway to citizenship should be part of the solution. What is your specific plan for dealing with the 11 Million People are ready here in legally and does that plan include asking them to leave the country voluntarily . We tried amnesty. Almost as if the career politicians in washington are stuck on repeat. We tried it before and it didnt work. Ourlieve we should secure border. Secondly, congress and only congress should have the authority to approve when that border is secure, and not another federal bureaucracy. You are here illegally, you should not have access to Welfare Benefits or entitlements. If you come here legally and you speak english, you work hard, you pay taxes and you work hard like every other hard working american, then citizenship can be earned. Ultimately, i feel personally on haveissue that folks who been in d. C. For so long dont get or understand our values. I want to be a voice for the people of South Carolina. Illegal immigration is a hot topic. It is something senator graham took on. It is not going away. We are a country that is based upon the rule of law. When the chief executive down to the lowest person in our nation we believe in the rule of law and providing a pathway to citizenship to those who have broken the law to enter this country is undermining our own foundation. What it did in 1986 and ever senses create a further incentive for the next wave of Illegal Immigrants. Grahams if senator bill passed, and i hope it wont be, in five or 10 years we will be having a conversation about what we should do with the next 10 million Illegal Immigrants who have been incentivized to come here because of that. I say to those who are here illegally, you need to go herm that you need to go home. You need to apply legally. You need to go home. Its that simply. We have a president right now who has ignored the laws passed by congress and created his own laws. He has ignored a signature piece of legislation. Act herdable care has ignored that signature piece and modified that law without consulting congress. He has done it with immigration. And this president is out of control. And now he is trading one deserter for five terrorists so folks are realizing maybe we need to talk about impeachment. This president is dangerous and he needs to be stopped. Senator graham said he was going to tell the bigots to shut up. By bigots he meant us who want to stop folks from staying here who are staying here illegally. To bes our opportunity heard. On june 5 on june 10, you can tell mr. Graham that we need to tell Illegal Immigrants to go home. We dont hear about people trying to break into north korea or china. They come here because we are the most Exceptional People god placed on the face of this planet. Our culture is special. All cultures are not equal. They are not. Thinks so, just ask someone who risks to come here illegally. They know they are not equal. We need to remove the magnets for those who come. We are not in favor of amnesty. We have three sons, and when they were little, the one rule my wife and i had was never reward lawless conduct. It works with childrearing. It works with nationbuilding. It works with immigration. I cannot support amnesty for Illegal Immigrants. You dont earn some sort of for breaking the law for certain amount of time. That undermines the rule of law. What i do support is expanding the everify program nationally. Like senator graham, i dont believe the federal government has any business keeping tabs on individual citizens and i dont support any kind of program under which the federal government would issue some sort of national id card. But when it comes to foreign nationals in our country, we do have a right to know who they are, what they are doing, and what their plans are. System means the enforcement is on the employers and. Once you drive that labor pool, that largely takes care of the problem. Its a solution to the problem and we already have it in place. In the military, you go to Different Countries and you see that if immigration is not controlled, countries do fall apart. It is not just the illegal part right now. A uniform mandate on rules of naturalization. I am going to go somewhere that you may think is politically incorrect. Our legal side is out of control. We are using the diversity lottery. , so we very few controls ow the chechnya ends chechens who cause the boston bombing to come in with the system who makes no sense whatsoever. We are the greatest nation on earth. We are. The people of god to become american. Gotakes but people have to become american. Take some time to learn the same values and same ideals. I really worry for the future if our nation will stay the same nation we are given. Have that iiple i try not to abandon is not to worry so much about me but my country and my party. I dont take the path of least resistance. Why . What is it for a republican in South Carolina to be talking about this issue . Not much. Your urge bush brought up this issue and tried to fix it. God bless you president bush. Is doing nothing. There are no democrats here, but where i work, there are 55 of them. Here is my goal, to fix it once and for all. Not to do what my great friend and hero Ronald Reagan did. It is a job problem. We are not being overrun by illegal canadians. We are being overrun by people from poor countries. Border. He use even verify. And be practical. If you are a felon, off you go. Nobody stays without learning english. Get back of the line, wait 10 years to get it green card. Solution toactical the problem. I would like to ask if this is in some way a referendum on the tea party. In this primary season and area states we have seen where some of the mainstream republicans, if you choose to call them that, been bumped by supporters of the tea party. Tell us where you are so we can gauge each of you. Are you a member of the tea party. It is not a formal party. Are you will are you aligned with the tea party . Give mespecifics some specifics of why you are where you say you are. I first got involved in politics running for pond running for congress in 20092010. I made my decision to run before the tea party began, which you will remember in 2009 as a result of the stimulus money people rose up in arms and said we cannot keep spending 800 billion here, 800 billion there, its not going to work. So my first motive was fiscal responsibility to demand that we could not keep spending . 40 for dollar that we are borrowing. Thats not going to work. Second thing i adhere to is the idea that the constitution means something. It is not a piece of paper we can conveniently ignore when it suits our ends. I think, senator graham, that is the thing you are willing to do. You are willing to ignore the rules and bend the rules like the liberals do. I call myself a god and country canada but i love the tea party and i am glad to have their support candidate, but i love the tea party and i am glad to have their support. The Tea Party Group is for limited government. The media has done a terrific folks. Demonizing these they constantly try to demoralize them. At when these elections are taking place. If you read the comments from one of senator grahams old , they say he coopted it. People love to take credit for things and then they push them away for certain interest. I believe 100 we are taxed enough already. We have got to hold these folks in washington accountable. It was a cry out from the people. They finally had enough. I hope they stay rejuvenated and come out june 10. When our forefathers were being trampled by a taranto regime an ocean away, now we have taranto regime an ocean away, now we have a president who thinks he is the king. And most of us recognize what the tea party stands for and we appreciate what they stand for. As we get into individual conversation with those in the tea party, i think we will find differences. Thats true in every area of life. We are reasonable people and we are going to address issues from every perspective for generations to come. Our responsibility is to bring people together, and what we find in so many areas of life is everyone is trying to divide rather than to unite. I think if god was here today and you asked god what hardy are i amart of, he would say the party of imi brothers keeper. We cannot continue to bring myple stick i am brothers keeper. We cannot continue to bring people together if people are going to divide. We need to bring people together to move forward. Tea party came into being because conservatives could no longer tolerate what they saw coming out of washington, and that is why i got into the race. Why are you conservative . Why am i conservative . In my case, it is two reasons. First, as a christian, i have certain key fundamental and mauro believes i am not going to alter from. That should moral beliefs i am not going to alter from. , i am a conservative because its practical. The stuff from liberals and progressives makes for fantastic rhetoric, but when it is in practice, as we have seen with the Affordable Care act, it is a train wreck. Mr. Connor. I am the first person to get involved in politics. Here is the thing. In i gotcame back from overseas and saw the tarp act. I realized in addition to everything else, our country was going away from the constitution. I spoke at the First Tea Party in the history of the state. It is not a party. It is a bunch of people that saw the stimulus package it was something that barack obama pointed back at john mccain for a lot of us, it was, the party needs to be reformed. Is all about. T there are some groups that are trying to coopt it. Inis about small government the constitution. One thing i would say is we have given away for seats over the past four years because we nominated people that could not withstand scrutiny. If you nominate me, that will not happen. They will not spend . 15 here. But whatarty is good is in a party if they cannot take care of our country . If they cannot solve the immigration problem . When it comes to the nsa, i understand constitutional checks and balances. If these al qaeda sympathizers are calling back to our country, i want to know who they are talking to. I will get it want and make sure the judge oversees the phone call. But radical islam is in our backyard. We will not put our head in the sand and go to the left of barack obama. The constitution is not a republican or emma craddick document. How do we get all of our judges theever get theres only room voted twice. You have the last response on this question. This is not a referendum on corner of the republican party. This is a referendum on washington. This seat has been held for 60 years. Buy to people. Senator graham has been in washington for 20 years. Many people i have talked to have lost trust, not only in president obama, but also in our government at every level. If the build why if the beltway insiders were serious about turning our economy around, they would have done it. But they are not. Is about Big Government versus small. If you trust this government and administration and career politicians, i am not your gal. Next question is from jamie. On the campaign trail, we hear a lot about outofcontrol spending in washington. The 17 trillion deficit. How we need conservative principles. We cannot change washington until we change who we send there. Tell the viewers or voters, if you are elected, what specific federal program or service should south carolinians be willing to cut or live without to reduce deficits in a meaningful way question mark how deep will those cuts be . Ask we will have to make some tough decisions. We have bowling. Boeing. They are a 95 billion market company. That is a tough decision. My home state when i ran for the first time in 2004, i made this comment on the campaign trail. Election. To win an i said, i am not going to columbia to get a piece of the pie, i am trying to shut down the bakery. Is out oful spending control. Corporate and personal welfare. We have to get back to the constitution. I agree with bill connor. I have been talking about getting rid of the department of education. I make the argument that when the governor of texas had the three federal agencies who want to keep and name them. But thank you. The way you balance the budget, when you come back to a commonsensical address you repeal the Affordable Care act. Obamacare is unacceptable. You illuminate the department of education. Limnate theate e department of energy. You reduce the budget of the health and Human Services department and epa. You take away regulations that are strangling Small Businesses. I was with a gentleman, at a republican gathering. I asked him how regulations are affecting you. He said, i have 100 employees. Next year this time, i dont think i will have 2220 eight of them because we cannot comply and keep my business going. Profits are what make businesses work. Dd . Mr. Do repealust appeal obama care. The healthoying delivery system. Departments such as the department of education, energy, commerce, and labor much of their spending can be eliminated or merged into other departments. The real cost that is going to cost us is the entitlement programs. Social security, medicare and medicaid. The only thing we can do with them is cut spending in the out years. Securityy with social and medicare, you have Senior Citizens who have paid into those programs their entire career. Dependent on those benefits, can get by. But for folks my age, we are going to have to look at serious reductions in some of those benefits over time. I will take a few minutes to mention something the senator talked about. Radical islam. He went to egypt and supported the muslim brotherhood. I want to make that point. I appreciate what you have done in other areas. But that was not a good decision. When it comes to cuts, i have talked about the department of education and white. The department of education and why. It is not been here forever. We can put things like the Higher Education Reform Program and put it in the treasury. We have two entitlements. Not just medicare or Social Security. Have doubled the number of people on food stamps. We cant keep doing that. Our nation will not sustain it to read we will become greece. Lets be honest with the public. Revenue goesentire to paying for medicare and Social Security. 80 million baby boomers are going to retire. We are living longer, like strom thurmond. Life expectancy in 1935 was 60. Now we are living into our 70s and 80s. Check out my solution with rand paul and mike lee. We mean tested benefits for medicare and Social Security. My parents die. If it werent for Social Security survivors benefits, we wouldnt have made it. That check matter to me and my aunt and uncle. I make enough now i can give up some of my benefits. We are not going to save the country unless you deal with medicare and Social Security. 67 of the budget. You eliminate the department of not havend would still a drop to balance the budget. Thank you. With regards to spending and the debt, john adams said there are two ways to capture and enslave a nation. One by the sword and one by the debt. To pass cap need and balance. We have to pass a balanced budget amendment. Washington,hment in they are not serious about making the difficult decisions we need to. Are serious about kicking the can down the road. Their policies are literally choking the life out of Small Businesses. I have talked to many Small Business owners are over the course of the campaign. Industryt matter what it is. I hear about tax policies, health care. Way ofent getting in the their growth. To grow the economy, government has to retract. We have to cut regulatory burdens, texas. We have to cut spending. We have to get serious. Its you or last to respond. I agree withu most of what has been said. We have to repeal obama care. There are agencies we could live without, the department of education being a prime example. We will have to have Structural Reforms to the major programs. We will have to raise the retirement age sort reflects the advances in modern technology. Im concerned about the idea of means testing benefits. That sounds like democratic rhetoric about paying your fair share where we will penalize people who have done well. People should keep the money that is entitled to them. If they want to give it away, they can do a better job than the government. There are things that can be done. We have to look at programs that have unintentional consequences. We have got used we have gone food Million People on stamps. We have to get back to everybody works in america. Republicans have rallied around the idea of repealing the Affordable Care act. If you have the votes to repeal the Affordable Care act, what would you replace it with . Other parts of obamacare that are good, that you would like to keep, such as denying Insurance Companies the ability to kick people off the rolls with preexisting conditions . Or even requiring companies to keep children on their parents insurance until they are 26 . There are a number of plans that have been proposed. One that i would single out is by senators coburn and hatch. They address some of the same issues. The existing conditions. Preexisting conditions. Falls possibility has to on the person that is affected. The patient. We need transparency in everything we do. There needs to be negotiation in the prices we accept. Taxfree hsas. Clan r. Carsons plan. We need the premium is to be taxdeductible for corporations and individuals. We need to incite people to buy the insurance. We dont need individual mandate. We pride ourselves on our freedoms and liberties. That takes away. That is unacceptable to americans and south carolinians. There are a host of conservative principles and policies we can implement. That would help contain the inflation of health care costs. We could expand the use of Health Savings accounts. The thing i love about those is they give individuals responsibility and choice in managing their own health care. In addition, we could either repeal or at least modified modify the act that allows insurance to compete across state lines. That brings the cost down, particularly for those with preexisting conditions. It iser that obamacare also the result of or republican failing. The 108 and 109 congress, republicans did not implement conservative principles. We ended up with a lot of care instead. We ended up with obamacare. My wife is an ob gyn. We have seen the effects. We took the wrong direction with obamacare, but there were a bunch of problems going back to the 1960s any decision for the government to get involved. They get involved but only reimbursed a small portion of the prices. Ahad and hospitals raise the prices. Then you had the electronic records act. That was voted on by a number of republicans. With insed problems private practices, including not like my wifes. We need to repeal obama care and go back to free market principles. A number of things we can do. The problem is government. Senator graham. The Democratic Party owns obamacare. Obamacare is not about the uninsured. It is about driving the private sector out of health care. Getting the private sector to drop coverage and hurting us all in these exchanges. You will have the Government Run Health Care from cradle to grave. All the people that signed up on the exchanges and south get a subsidy. The idea is to put us in Government Run Health Care. Jim demint has a hell of an area. Heck of a an idea. Will allow individuals to have deductions for their duchesses. They can buy policies all over the country. Let purchases go everywhere. At the end of the day, if you dont have the white house, you will not get there. It is about winning elections and turning around this country before it is too late. We need to repeal obamacare. I believe in the free market. Competition. There is notre, even competition across county lines let alone state lines. We have to have competition. Havebility, whereby if you insurance with your employer and you changed jobs, you are able to take that plan with you. These tweaks will be able to drive down the costs of health care. And increase the quality of care. So more people have access to better care at less price. I know i sound like a broken record, but i spent a lot of time listening to the people of South Carolina and business owners. I believe Small Businesses are the background of the economy. I talked to one Small Business owner. This scenario is similar to others. They were able to pay the Health Care Premiums for their employees. Today, because they are seeing a 36 increase, they are no longer able to afford to do so. He dont know how is a how his employees well, either. We have to begin with the first principle. Help insurance is not the government Ability Health insurance is not the governments responsibility. Anymore that it is the governments responsibility to feed me or house me. Obamacare is not going to work. The v. A. Scandal is a foreshadowing of what is coming for all of us. We have to get rid of obamacare. We have to get have portability. The ability for your insurance to follow you from one job to the next. I dont think Insurance Companies need to be forced to cover people with preexisting conditions as that they did not have them. That is a distortion of freemarket principles. We need tort reform. Medical malpractice reform. Senator graham, you voted against that. The last response. Obamacare is a job destroyer. It a disaster. Fora, people are paying health care. Cash. They have adductor under the table cash. Paid the doctor cash under the table. Selling across state lines is a wonderful idea. The started with fdr when he had wage controls. Backdoor through the union. The employer started providing benefits. Lets remember the genesis of this. The government got involved and created a problem. The solution is a singlepayer system. I take issue with the fact that senatorgraham graham, you voted against ted cruz when he was we have about 10 mins left for this. Like each of my colleagues to ask one question. We will pick up the pace and i will ask for 32nd responses. Second responses. They voted against a 1 trillion spending plan. Supporters say the project is ask the dust vital to expanding the port of charleston. The move was criticized. If these no votes would have surveilled, we are stuck. The authoritys vicechairman said, we look to our elected thistles officials to watch out for the state. Youru agree that responsibility is to watch out for South Carolina . Does that involve owning in support of budgets that support projects at home. What you have to understand that well senators and members of congress cannot take account of the interest of their state, that comes at a cost. If you constantly try to bring money back home, the cost of that is we will have to pay for the money going to the other 49 states. Therefore we have to be very judicious. The port of charleston is a legitimate project. Care ofould take he the people of South Carolina. If we take ourselves to greece, that is not taking care of anybody. Increased. That is not right. I understand it is very important. I have seen the opening. The big ships will calm, and i will fight for that tooth and nail. Fight for reducing size of government. The bill which i help write, it was a fiscally responsible budget. It had money for charleston and other ports. Our economy will die in South Carolina if we dont get the port deepened. It was a spending reduction of 2008 levels. It had money for charleston. I understand if we dont get this issue right, our economy is dead. I would rather lose my job then the port of charleston. Congress wast, given 40 hours to read a 1600 page budget. Todatory spending is going increase by 80 over the next 10 years. I support the port of charleston. I believe infrastructure is a function of government. I believe when it comes to earmarks and special project spending, we have to have a up or down vote. The project needs to win or fail on merit separately. Demint fiscal conservative republican. I believe we need the port deepened. I believe that is a function of the government. We have to go about of a certain way. Demand was able to demint was able to get away from me your mark get away from the earmark process. Be allocatedds to with the states having more say. I would not have supported that budget. Fight againste the spending. The 17 trillion deficit will break our country. I mentioned the bank. If you are going to vote like jim demint, i am your guy. Hostage. T be held we will take the cakes make our case in washington. Priorities and constitutional obligations. The port of constitution port of charleston is a federal government issue. As a responsibility senator is to uphold the constitution. That comes first. Second is to represent the people of South Carolina. There are no conflicts because our people are constitutionalists. The difficult i have with your earmarksyour marks is the Political Class lacks the will to do what is right. Appropriate conduct for trusted officials. We are not going to have time for that one. Time. Xt and probably last whyy next question is, should the next republican president of the u. S. Not be shown some degree of deference . A large degree of difference on his judicial nominations . Adopted thehurmond same principle . 30 seconds again, please. I love the constitution. I studied the constitution. It says advise and consent for the senate to read senate. Andice sotomayor Justice Kagan more radically liberal. Part of the qualification is you understand the constitution. Justices who dissented against prayer in public bodies were the ones you nominated. If you want conservative judges, lets elect a conservative president. The constitution was not set up to make sure they never get any of theirs. I broke the filibuster. They represented a prolife clinic. Companiessented big against environmental groups. They were qualified. Elections have consequences. Strom thurmond voted for 23. If you want conservative judges, lets win the white house. But dont tell the people we are lose to washington and elections that the Supreme Court will not change. Thank you so much. Your role is to advise and consent. And you are determining those individuals, they should have a believe and understanding of the constitution and the bill of rights. These are rights that are god given. These are rights that all of us are allowed. What those in washington dc do not understand is they are out of touch with our values. Youre right, senator graham. Elections have consequences. The primaries on june 10 and you have a decision to make. Ifa judge is not qualified they do not believe the constitution should be interpreted quitting to original intent. According to original intent. Their track records proved otherwise. Soto mayor was caught on tape Justice Sotomayor was caught if you want to make policy, you should be on the appeals court. She is going to vote against a traditional understanding of marriage. Consent does not mean automatically approve. I would like to take this opportunity to see if senator graham would repudiate his ofision to call secretary state Hillary Clinton one of the greatest secretary of states . I will move on. The senator can answer you later. For the past 20 years, i have been a pastor. I have been in the room with the leg when she made the decision. I have been in the hospital when he tiled was born. A litmus test for a Supreme Court justice is a right to life. If we dont uphold that, we have lost our republic. Dunn. Mr. There is a political aspect to this. Conservatives can only support justices who understand that having otherwise, we are giving away the republic. I am concerned that the v. A. Scandal has not come up at all. I am the only candidate that has afforded a plan to fix the veterans administration. I would officiate appreciate folks checking that out. Our time is up. Thank you to all of our candidates. And any of thete previous debates, visit sctv. Org. And donte wrap forget to vote on tuesday. Good night. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] next, Chelsea Clinton talking about the importance of women in leadership roles. After that, Supreme Court Justice Samuel alito and others discuss baseball. On the next washington journal, Jennifer Duffy will discuss midterm elections and the battle for control of the u. S. Senate. Jonathanur allen allen talks about Hillary Clintons memoir. And the discussion of the status of prisoners at guantanamo bay. We will take your calls and you can join the conversation at facebook and twitter. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan. R

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