Raphael Warnock: Fight for Your Democracy

**Tim Miller** (0:00)
Hey, everybody, we've got a good one with Raphael Warnock up next. We're getting to some heavy matters. You're speaking to a pastor, and I kind of, you know, I feel like I've got the presence of God with me. I don't want to be a sinner, you know, and I don't want to completely give in to my worst impulses of mocking my neighbor.
And so I decided to keep this little section where I mocked Nancy Mace right at the top without Raphael Warnock involved, I can do it free of any lingering Catholic guilt. Nancy Mace, don't know if you saw it, lost last night in her South Carolina race for governor. I'm going to go through for you the final election results here in the South Carolina governor's race. There were some other elections last night, which we've talked about, Plattner wins in Maine. Unfortunately, Lindsey Graham avoids a runoff in the Senate. The only one that really, really catches my eye is this governor's results. So if you hadn't seen it, stick with me here because it might take a second to get to Nancy. First place, advancing to the runoff, Lieutenant Governor Pamela Yvette. She received 28.9 percent of the vote, which is kind of an embarrassment for Trump as well. While we're adding embarrassments to this, Trump endorsed her and couldn't even get her to a third of the vote. She almost loses that first round. Alan Wilson, who Nancy Mace accused of being a pedophile protector, he ends up at 26 percent. Unclear if that's because the voters of South Carolina did not believe Nancy Mace's attacks on Alan Wilson or whether South Carolina Republican primary voters are into pedophile protectors now, since that's what the president's doing. I'm not sure why it was that he did so well, but there it is, 26 percent for Alan Wilson. Ralph Norman, insurrectionist Ralph Norman turned Nikki Haley endorser in the 2024 primary. Strange character, he finishes at 17 percent.
So I think that's important to know. Somebody that endorsed against Trump in the 2024 primary, third place, 17 percent. A man named Rom Reddy, R-O-M, it's a strange name. R-O-M, Reddy, he's a weird looking fella.
I can't lie, I don't know anything about Rom Reddy. I can't give you one fun fact about him. He got 14.2 percent, fourth place.
Coming in in fifth place, Congresswoman Nancy Mace, 12.1 percent of the votes.
Fifth place, many people on social media noted that was the same place that anti-trans activist Riley Gaines finished in her swim meet that started her career as somebody whose number one issue is making sure that trans girls can't participate in women's sports because it's unfair to her as somebody who tied for fifth place in a meet, that she did not get fifth place as a standalone. That's what Riley Gaines wanted. Her and Nancy now have this in common. They are both singularly focused on checking the genitals of middle school sports athletes and they've both finished fifth place in their most significant campaigns. It's nice that they have that bond together. I do have to note the deliciousness of this. As happy as I am about it, I'm not sure there's anybody happier than Delaware Congresswoman Sarah McBride, who has been the victim slash target of Nancy Mace's smears and slurs, and Nancy's repeated comments about how Sarah should not be able to go into women's restroom and how she feels at risk because of it, etc. We had Sarah McBride, she was at our free injury event. I also interviewed her subsequently on the pod, the best, she's great. I tried to bait her into going after Nancy, but she was being a respectful leader and demurred. Little sly remarks about how Nancy would never say anything like that to her face, which I think was funny. All of these tough MAGA guys and gals are really aggressive keyboard warriors, but when it comes to actually confronting someone and being a grown up, like Raphael Warnock did to Mike Johnson, we'll get into that. They don't have the gumption for that. They don't have the ovaries for that. I think that if you're Sarah McBride, you get one pass. One night. On the night that Nancy Mace finishes in fifth place in her race, we get one chance to revel in it.
I think that we can all just give her a hall pass on that. More than a hall pass, we can all maybe just enjoy it together, just have a little sweet treat together. So I'm going to play for you, Sarah McBride, last night. She had me on stage at an Equality event while the results were coming in. And let's take a listen to what she had to say.