Necessary, i will allow a 62nd rebuttal. Mr. Harrison, we begin with your opening statement. Mr. Harrison thank you for having me. Its good to see you and thank you, south korea. Our motto for this rate state is while i breathe, i hope. That might as well be the theme of my life. I grew up in a mobile home. My parents a fourth grade and eighth grade education. Hard able to because of work go on to yale and georgetown. I went to capitol hill and worked for congressman jim clyburn. I worked in the private sector, and now i am running for the United States senate. That only happens in america. That is why this country is so great. In that time, we had senator Lindsey Graham, who i respected and admired because he could rise above the political fray. The problem is, my friends, senator graham has changed. That is not the senator graham of today. We need a senator who can bring us all together, who can unite this state, regardless if you ,re a democrat, republican progressive or conservative, we need to fight for what is in the best interest of this state. Sen. Graham thank you for giving me the opportunity to represent the guide state senate. 2020 has been a tough year but we are going to get through this. I believe South Carolina is the best place in the world to raise kids and start a business and as your senator, i intend to keep it that way. That is why i am asking for your vote tonight. Lots of state, control of the senate is on the ballot. I am a proud conservative republican. Mr. Harrison is a good man, but nancy pelosi and Hillary Clinton are his political mentors and inspiration. He call senator sanders a champion. Barack obama are his political mentors. Borders,orders, secure private health care versus socialized medicine, conservative judges versus liberal judges. I am proud of the fact that i got amy bear on the court. Amy barrett on the court. Mr. Harrison would not have voted for barrett. Than 3600ow, more people have died from covid19, our positive rate is consistently in the double digits. We will talk about the economy in a moment, but i want to hear explicitly about your Public Health perspective on how to address this crisis and what needs to be done. Sen. Graham we are not going to lock the state down again. Many peoplence, but are going to work tomorrow. You have to feed your family. At the end of the day, common sense will take us a long way until be get a vaccine. Europe is going through a problem but a vaccine is around the corner. We are going to defeat this virus. Just use common sense, it vaccine is on the way. What will america look like after . That is what is on the ballot. We are going to get through the crisis but if i am in the senate, im not going to change the Supreme Court and pack it with liberals. Im not going to destroy the legislative filibuster. Im not going to change the Electoral College that would take South Carolinas voice away. To democraticgo hands and they have the house, senates, and white house, we will see the multimedical change in our country. They are going to do away with the Border Security we have achieved and go to open borders and health care for Illegal Immigrants. They are going to change the structure of the Supreme Court to make it liberal. I cannot stress what high taxes would do to destroy this recovery. Increase in gdp, we are on the way back. The worst thing to do is tax and regulates. I will not do that. I will be a conservative that will move us forward safely. Mr. Harrison, your perspective and making sure it does not get worse in the state. Mr. Harrison the coronavirus has dramatically impacted South Carolina. We have had 755,000 people lose their jobs, 400,000 lost Health Insurance because they lost their jobs. 160,000 have been infected. 3600 have lost their lives, including my aunt. What we needed was real leadership to address this issue at hand. What you heard from senator graham is what we get, the discussion of washington, d. C. I dont care what is going on in washington, d. C. Because right now, rome is on fire in South Carolina. The families that are at the hospitals dont care about courts, they dont care about that, they care about their loved ones that they cant hold their hands as they are losing their lives. They care that they cant make ends meet, they cant put food on the table. In the greatest time of need, they needed a senator to say, it would be better and i will work to do better, but we did not get that from senator graham. We need that type of leadership. Not the food fight in washington, d. C. , democrats did this, republicans did that. We care about the lives of the people in South Carolina in the lives that have been lost. Your response . Sen. Graham people care about whether the senate isnt conservative or liberal hands. People care about whether you are going to change the Supreme Court and pack it with liberals. People care about whether they are going to lose their private health care and live under socialism when it comes to medicine. People care about when it comes to getting Illegal ImmigrantsFree Health Care and going back to an open border policy. People care about that. As to the covid crisis, i know it has been tough, but businesses are struggling. ,hey have lost customers occupancy rates are down. We need another round of assistance. I want to get the 1200 check to have a south carolinian but not illegal americans. Im for a package that will help you get back to school safely. Im not for ballot harvesting which is in nancy pelosi package. The package has a lot to do with things other than covid. We are going to get through this virus but not shut the economy down and not turned South Carolina into california politically. It is right on this topic. I appreciate the segway. It was Just Announced that the Third Quarter gdp increased by a record 7. 4 thanks in part to federal stimulus. The economy remains 3. 5 percent smaller than it was at the end of 2019 and money become its say that recovery is slowing down. Almost 200,000 south carolinians are seeking weekly unemployment benefits, businesses and investors face unknowns, yet there has been gridlock from washington on another round of relief. What do you believe must be included in a new package to keep the economy growing safely . Graham,ison senator this is what people care about. They care about their senator saying, over our dead bodies will be allow an extension of the unemployment benefits. Why do they care about that . If you are unemployed in South Carolina, the maximum you can get is 320 a week. Imagine if you are a family of four and the husband or wife is the only breadwinner. All they can bring in is 320 a week. They need that unemployment benefit from the federal government because it was making them make ends meet. They are on the verge of being evicted. I know what it is like to be evicted. They needed their senator to hold their hand and help them up when they fall down. They did not get that. We got, over our dead bodies will be allow went on up limit extension. Our senator did not fight for Small Businesses. South carolina is not first in terms of ppp dollars, we are 50th. I know you like to tout your relationship with President Trump but if i were in the senate and i was friends with the president , i would have said, mr. President , i need more money for Small Businesses, and you did not do that. We need a senator who is going to work for us and not fight against us. That is what we have. Sen. Graham we need a senator who understands business. We need a campaign where you dont manipulate and deceive people. You are asking people to vote undermineessio to conservatism. What i said is if you have a sick hundred dollar federal benefits on top of the state benefit, that us when he three dollars an hour, you will be paying people more not to work then work. I want to help people but if you own a business, you cant compete with that. I want a federal benefit that does not encourage people to stay unemployed. When it comes to the ppp program, we need another round. The house bill, your mentor nancy pelosi, does not have a dime for ppp. There are businesses along the coast and upstate that need another forgivable loan, count me in for that. We need money for school so we can go back to school safely. Im not going to vote for a package that bails out california and new york. Im not going to vote for a package that gets 1200 to Illegal Immigrants. Im not going to vote for a package that requires ballot harvesting as a National Ball that has nothing to do with covid. I grew up in a Small Business family. My family owned a restaurant and liquor store and if you get sick, you go to work because you cant afford to be out of work. I grew up in the back of the liquor store until we got a mobile home. I know what it is like to run a business and i know how hard it is to be successful. The government should help you. Not only as chair of the party did i have appeal, but as coo of a small nonprofit. You are very young about washington, d. C. You are worrying about washington, d. C. And not the people who need help now. Nettie pelosi this nobody cares about you and nancy pelosi. All they want is some relief from the anxiety that they are dealing with. Nobody cares about what you and Chuck Schumer are debating about, the question is are you delivering for the people of South Carolina . The answer is no. Time months since the last we have had a relief bail. You and the senate took a vacation in august and i wish he would have put the urgency of the Supreme Court nomination into getting the bill done for the people of South Carolina. They dont want to hear excuses about who is to blame, they want action. Question, we start with mr. Graham. Judicial confirmations have become partisan over the past few years. Senators basing their votes on how they predict nominees will rule on certain issues in addition to the qualifications. Do you think you should be taking more than just qualifications into consideration when deciding on any judicial nominee and if so, what would you look for . Sen. Graham i will answer that i would like to tell mr. Harrison, why dont you call nancy pelosi and say, take out of your relief package a benefit for Illegal Immigrants, call her up and say, dont give 900 billion to blue states who are in debt, lets focus on the coronavirus . Im not the problem when it comes to finding a deal. As to judges, im not the problem. Likeerybody behaved senator graham, we would not have the mess we have today. I voted for sotomayor and kagan. Democratic nominees by president obama because i thought they were qualified. It used to be not this way. When they tried to destroy mr. Opponent,s life, my mr. Harrison, cheered them on. Mr. Gorsuch, but he was appointed, mr. Harrison supported the filibuster. I supported democratic nominees because they were qualified. Mr. Harrison has opposed kavanaugh and gorsuch and wont say how he would have voted on barrett. If they followed my lead, the world would be better off. Im not going to support democratic nominees and watch people like judge kavanaugh have their life destroyed. Mr. Harrison said the reason he ran against me was how i behaved in kavanaugh. I still up for a friend. For sohe courage to vote meyer and kagan and the determination to stand up for a conservative judge barrett how would you vote on judge barrett . Please tell us. Mr. Harrison wasnt Merrick Garland qualify . You voted for him before, why not again . You talked about the president having the power to nominate and it is up to the senate to pass them through and you failed to do it. That is the problem. You have a job that the people of South Carolina pay you for and you only do it when you feel it is in your power, the right to do it instead of doing it when you are supposed to. A week ago, we talked about qualifications. For nowhe nomination justice barrett, and congratulations to her. Senator graham was the chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, also passed through a young woman, i think she is 32 years old, she was at some law , american bar association, which has always deemed whether someone was qualified to sit on the bench, and under democratic and geordies, we followed what the aba recommended, and you would not pass them on for a lifetime up women when they are. They deemed that woman on qualify. That is not the first nominee that has gone through his committee that they deemed unqualified. We need to have standards and not just because it is politically expedient, but because it is the right thing to do. Would you have voted for judge barrett or not . We will be asking the questions, gentlemen. Sen. Graham at the judge garland, scalia dies in an election year, president obama is a democrat, the senate is in republican hands, we have not field a they under that scenario in 140 years. What happened here is you have the republican president and republican senate. You may not think people care about the Supreme Courts, i do. What i hate is the way conservatives have been treated over the years. Why is it always our people, clarence thomas, alito, kavanaugh, the left has declared war on all things conservative when it comes to the courts. As chairman of the committee, i have shepherded 220 nominations 135 nominations, judge barrett is on the court, im chairman and i was proud to do it. I have worked with democrats but they seem intent on destroying our nominees and would you vote for judge barretts, yes or no . This next question is for mr. Harrison. Can you tell us whether there should be more than nine judges on the Supreme Court, would you support adding more justices . In terms of this im going to respond to him and then go to your question. What i hate is that you are talking about liberal judges and conservative judges. Why should they be fair and impartial . Waytics is getting in the i thought justices were supposed to be blind, not conservative you can see conservative but you can see liberal . That is why people hate politics. As it relates to packing the court i have been clear on this and i will be clear again. This is the stuff i pushed back on on my own party, we cant do the political expediency thing to do. I have said this on the issue of the filibuster. You you open pandoras box, have to be willing to live with the consequences of opening that box. I believe folks are hungry for r aside andhe d and focus on the right thing. Thats what im going to do as senator. Im always going to fight for what i believe is in the best interest of the state. Im not going to talk about if you are conservative you can do this and you are liberal you can do that, we are not dealing with that. What we are dealing with is, can we build a country where everybody can live the American Dream . Would you support adding what justices . Mr. Harrison i thought i was clear, no, i dont believe i see any reason why we should do that. Sen. Graham let me say this. About judges and mr. Harrison. He uploaded me along with every liberal when i voted for sotomayor and kagan, the only member of the publican Senate Judiciary committee to do so. It you not to be this way. Senator thurman voted for justice ginsburg. She was qualified. Senator holland voted for justice scalia, one of the conservative justices in history, a great man. Senator holland said he was qualified. I felt the same characteristics in sotomayor and kagan. Mr. Harrison, when it was his turn to speak up, he said, bring out the kites, encouraging the filibuster of gorsuch, the first partisan filibuster in the history of the senate led by senator schumer, who has been the worst advocate when it comes for judges. When it came to kavanaugh, who i have known for 20 years, mr. Harrison cheered on the destruction of this good man. He has said publicly, one of the main reasons he got into the race was because of the way i behaved. One of the main reasons im going to get reelected is because i stood up for justice kavanaugh. People in this state are fairminded. We are a bite of centerstage, we dont want a little Supreme Court, no matter what he says tonight. The people in charge of the Democratic Party he is the associate chairman of the national Democratic Party have in mind changing the court to make it liberal. Dont be fooled. Mr. Harrison senator graham, for im a democrat i am a democrat before im a democrat, im a selfcare lien. Before that, im an american. I believe in the constitution, in this entity of the building you work in. When i see that dome lit up at night, i get goosebumps because i know the power that that place has to improve the lives of folks. It can give the American Dream to so many and it has. This is the thing. Justice is supposed to be blind. This is part of the reason we are in the gridlock now and you say you are not part of it but you are. You are a cause of it. You said, this person is qualified, i applaud you, thank you for voting for so tamayo and taken, i would have voted for john roberts because i thought he is a good guy. I dont agree with him on everything, but i would have voted for him. You did not vote for Merrick Garland. He is a good guy, and you voted for him in the past. Why . We are turning to the environments. Experiencinga is some of the effects of Climate Change such as flooding, increase heat and humidity, and