Our special edition of Perfect, recorded before a live audience at South Carolina Public Radio studios in Columbia, South Carolina, is officially in the books.
While you wait for the audio of the show, we would like to give you a preview of how things went. The recording of the live program is scheduled to air on Monday, October 7, in national broadcast.
South Carolina represents a crucial test for 2020 presidential candidates. No, it is not the first or second major states, New Hampshire and Iowa. But South Carolina is the first time that Southerners will have a say in their choice for the Democratic candidate. And unlike the states that precede it, most Democratic voters in South Carolina are African-Americans.
Across the corridor, the GOP here has completely eliminated its principal – even with a former Republican governor of South Carolina in the mix. Amid fervent media attention over the impeachment investigation against President Trump, we were in South Carolina to take the pulse of Palmetto state voters as the days approached the primaries.
Who joined us on stage for the recording?
- Gavin Jackson, South Carolina Public Radio reporter and host of two major programs – SCETV’s “The Week in South Carolina” and the “South Carolina Lede” podcast.
- Representative of the Democratic State Gilda Cobb-Hunter, representing District 66 in Orangeburg County, a position she has held for the past 27 years. She is also president of the Black National Congress of State Legislators and participated in the 2016 Democratic National Convention as a superdelegate.
- Reverend Tiffany Knowlin-Boykin, pastor of the Wesley United Methodist Church in Columbia.
- Matt Moore, Republican strategist and partner of the political and popular strategy firm First Tuesday Strategies. Previously, he served as president of the Republican Party of South Carolina from 2013 to 2017
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