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[upbeat music] [dog barks] Welcome back to SCETV News.

But to the main story, Sunday night was the one and only U.S. Senate debate this cycle.

And SCETV was the proud host of that hour-long event that featured Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews, Republican Senator Darlene Graham, and Libertarian Dr. Casey Whitener.

I moderated the debate along with Mayan Schechter.

It was her first debate.

And we'll have more about behind the scenes of the debate in the YNOW.

We can talk about that, too.

But you can watch it again and so much more at YouTube.com slash SCETVnews.

Keeping with the Senate race, I was in Charleston last Friday, yes.

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All right, the next topic that, uh, the candidates, uh, ran through [smacks lips] at this debate, uh, held yesterday, I believe it was W- yeah, it was, uh, South Carolina ETV and Public Radio, SCETV out of Columbia, South Carolina.

How to address healthcare costs and, uh, all healthcare issues.

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Keeping up with the trail.

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Um, or it all goes back to that.

I am, I, uh, was lucky enough to do a SCETV, that's South Carolina Educational Television.

Uh, they asked me to do a special, uh, performance for them right before the Ken Burns, uh, Country Music documentary that came out a number of years ago, and I didn't even know what that wa- what they meant.

Uh, I, I just, I mean, I love Ken Burns, obviously, but I didn't know what they wanted exactly.

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It's likely Republican.

In fact, Jessica Taylor with the nonpartisan outlet told the Hill newspaper that Graham's uneven debate performance during that Newsmax SCETV debate in August is still fresh and that Graham could, quote, face backlash for being elevated to the job purely because of her family name, quote.

Also, Congressman Ralph Norman did not immediately issue a quick and full-throated endorsement of Graham after the contest, so that kind of hurts her as well.

In fact, there's even a conservative grassroots campaign to have voters write in Norman's name on the ballot, though Taylor says sources close to Graham dismiss its impact as minuscule.

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