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by WILL FOLKS
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South Carolina is sure putting the “special” in its upcoming special GOP election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated last month by the death of Lindsey Graham.
From the initial deluge of candidates to ongoing court dramas over ballot eligibility to recycled campaign theatrics from politicians who have long eclipsed their expiration dates… this race has been a definitional rodeo of unruly goats from the very beginning.
In our first segment, founding editor Will Folks recapped the latest developments in this contest – including some regurgitative porcine pablum from former S.C. governor Mark Sanford.
By the way, if you want to learn more about this race, three of its top five contenders – Ralph Norman, Russell Fry and Mark Lynch – have paid visits to our studio over the last week. You can check out those interviews here, here and here (respectively).
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In our second segment, research director Jenn Wood and I discussed several new filings submitted in advance of a key August 14, 2026 status conference in the retrial of accused killer Alex Murdaugh. Those pleadings dealt with the suggested venue for the upcoming retrial, evidence that will (or won’t) be admitted this time around and questions regarding the integrity of the original investigation into Murdaugh.
Of note, several filings were submitted by prosecutors in the office of attorney general Alan Wilson after this show was filmed. Expect a full recap of those submissions in the coming days…
Jenn and I also discussed developments tied to a pair of Murdaugh civil cases – including a potentially critical change of venue order in a civil case tied to the 2019 boat crash many believe precipitated Murdaugh’s downfall. Will that venue order increase the odds of a settlement in that long-running civil case?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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3 comments
I posted this on your YouTube and it is worth pasting here:
At minutes 32:23 to 33:35, you, Will and Jenn are, thank God, ALMOST coming around to what I have been saying and writing for years: Richard Alexandre Murdaugh (“RAM”) could NOT POSSIBLY have been THE or A shooter of Paul or Maggie Murdaugh.
But think of what you said next: RAM’s “actions precipitated what happened.”
Whatever RAM did, whether it was not paying his druggies or keeping the insurance fraud loot all to himself and not sharing it with his willing collaborators in the scheme, does it justify whoever shot Paul and Maggie to have taken their lives?
Justice for Paul and Maggie means finding the real shooter(s) and “cleaner(s).”
But PLEASE be careful with that “third gun” story. It raised my hopes up but worried me that your leaking it would give the anti-RAM forces time to spin it away before it gets validated.
PLEASE release all you know about that third gun. And do not worry about validating me because I have been writing for years that Maggie was shot with ONE OF Paul’s two previously stolen guns.
The truth should not be hidden for fear of validating the long-suffering and now-almost dying Dr. Marie Faltas.
I also wrote this on Nancy Grace’s show where another over-painted guest of hers claimed the only relevance of the DNA under Maggie’s fingernails would have been if her life had been taken by strangulation:
At minute 29:42, you two over-painted women are the ones NOT capable of critical thinking. Maggie could have been fighting off her attacker’s taking her phone off her left hand to prevent her from calling for help.
Also, if, according to your parroting of the Prosecution’s nonsense, Alex took Maggie’s phone and threw it out of his car window: (1) Why did he help law enforcement find it the next morning? and (2) Why did Alex not take Paul’s phone, too, specially that he would have seen Paul make the video with it?
Have you no conscience at all?
I also wrote this on Nancy Grace’s show where another over-painted guest of hers claimed the only relevance of the DNA under Maggie’s fingernails would have been if her life had been taken by strangulation:
At minute 29:42, you two over-painted women are the ones NOT capable of critical thinking. Maggie could have been fighting off her attacker’s taking her phone off her left hand to prevent her from calling for help.
Also, if, according to your parroting of the Prosecution’s nonsense, Alex took Maggie’s phone and threw it out of his car window: (1) Why did he help law enforcement find it the next morning? and (2) Why did Alex not take Paul’s phone, too, specially that he would have seen Paul make the video with it?
Have you no conscience at all?