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Feb. 7, 2025 - The StoneZONE - Roger Stone
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Patriot Mark Lynch Announces Challenge to RINO Lindsey Graham in SC GOP Primary | The StoneZONE
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I wish I had.
Joining us now, Mark Lynch, a proud South Carolinian who has just announced that he will challenge Senator Lindsey Graham in the Republican U.S. Senate primary.
Mark Lynch, welcome to The Stone Zone.
Thank you, Roger.
Thank you so much for having me on today.
And I hope if he had gotten pushed in there wasn't a towel.
You're doing the Lord's work here.
A courageous decision on your part.
I know you weighed running for governor.
You made a very strong first-time race for the state senate.
You're not a career politician.
You're a successful businessman.
You're also a devout Christian.
We exchanged texts last night.
I love the way when I pointed out to you how uphill and difficult this will be.
You pointed out that I was thinking in a...
Earthly realm, and I need to start thinking in a godly realm.
And it is true that in the Bible, every great battle in which the forces of the Lord are incredibly overwhelmed, they're always victorious.
Lindsey Graham's record speaks for itself.
He is a backstabbing weasel.
I don't know why the president keeps him around, other than perhaps that old dictum from The Godfather, that you should keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
He is a fish-faced enemy of the people, and he relishes his role in undercutting the party and occasionally the president, yet he is the first guy to want to show up at Mar-a-Lago and get his picture taken.
It is a problem, and we discussed this.
that by long, long-standing tradition, the South Carolina primary is an open primary.
That means that anybody of either party or people who are in no party are allowed to vote.
And traditionally, candidates like Lindsey Graham have survived because hundreds of thousands of left-wing Democrats, realizing that in South Carolina the Democrat nominee has little chance of winning a general election, cross over to vote in the Republican primary to give us candidates like Lindsey Graham.
I've talked to many of my friends in South Carolina about changing this rule.
Prior to your expressing an interest in this race, they always told me the same thing, that it's not possible.
Well, with God and Jesus Christ, all things are possible.
Even victory under these rules are possible.
They told us that Donald Trump could not win in 2016. It was literally an impossibility, except for it happened.
They told us in 2024 that he was doomed, that Kamala Harris was zoaring to a lead, particularly in the swing states.
Of course, we now know all of that polling was false.
The fundraising boom that she reported was manufactured and I think quite illegal.
But, Mark, how do you intend to address the open primary question other than through the very appropriate tool of prayer?
But beyond prayer, what can be done?
Well, what can be done is last night, it is being done.
We've seen our own chairman of the GOP in our state, Drew McKissick, has sent out an email to everybody.
And I didn't see it when we talked last night late, but it's already begun.
They're actually working on a bill to close the primary, and a lot of those guys may not be our favorite guys, but God is bringing unification to the party.
He sees how divided it's been with all these different groups, and I believe God is moving us towards one true Republican party again.
God gave me that thought early on before I decided to register with the FEC for this race, that he will unify it.
He's bringing people together.
And it's him that's going to do it.
I can't do it.
The battle is his.
We've cast that burden to him.
We trust in the Lord.
And he's using us.
We're here fighting hard.
Momentum is building in this country like never before from the momentum of we the people who got Donald Trump elected again.
And he won in 2020. We all know that.
So he's won all three of his elections.
But he just didn't get his name.
Honored in the 2020 election that November 3rd.
It was stolen.
But God used that to get people educated.
And we want to make Republicans Republicans again.
We've all sworn to an oath to serve God and fear Him and serve in that respect and honor Him and our service in this great country that He created for us to work out of.
And so He's bringing us all back to Him.
And we had four years of prayer.
On our knees with that 2 Chronicles 7, 14 verse that we had to all get our individual houses in order so that he can hear our prayers and heal our land.
So he's unifying everybody together again, and Donald Trump's been a great leader who hasn't wavered in that and believed and held on, and we're here, and things are rapidly moving in the right direction with the Lord.
The people came and helped that happen, not a party.
But God's going to let us call it the Republican Party again, unified under him.
Earlier in the show, I had James O'Keefe on.
James O'Keefe and I have something in common.
He had his home raided by the FBI, particularly outrageous because he's a journalist and journalism is a perfectly legal activity.
This was Joe Biden using the FBI's Gestapo, his personal Gestapo, because of the embarrassment that was contained in Ashley Biden's diary.
Which had been given to James O'Keefe.
He didn't steal it.
He didn't buy it.
It was given to him.
He actually never published it.
Now, when the FBI raided my home at 6 o'clock in the morning, Lindsey Graham fired off a hot letter to the head of the FBI demanding to know who would approve the raid in my home.
The FBI never answered.
The FBI director never answered that letter, but Lindsey didn't really care.
He got the headline he was looking for.
Trying to act like he was doing the right thing without really doing the right thing.
There was no follow-up letter, by the way, or subpoena to come up to the Senate and explain who had ordered this unnecessary raid on my home, which, by the way, cost the American taxpayers $1.1 million because the government was on shutdown.
And therefore, all the agents were being paid time and a half.
I got that number, by the way, from someone, a whistleblower, in the Miami FBI office who was opposed to the raid but didn't speak up in opposition to it at the time.
You know, the Lord calls on us to speak up.
Not to hide our candle under the social, as they say.
I commend you for having the enormous courage to take this race on.
Your governor, Henry McMaster, is one of the best governors in the United States.
I've known him back to the time that he was a U.S. attorney under Ronald Reagan.
He is a man of faith.
He is a man of strong leadership.
Had the courage to support.
President Trump over a former South Carolina governor, a colleague of his, because he knew that President Trump was a much better person for the job.
He was for Donald Trump in 2016, early.
When others said that Trump couldn't possibly win, the nominee would clearly be Jeb Bush.
It's amazing how here in Florida People don't even remember Jeb Bush.
He didn't go down as a great governor.
His name never comes up.
He left kind of no mark.
It's a remarkable thing.
Mark, obviously, you're a man of great success, and under federal election law, you're allowed to donate as much to your own campaign as you wish.
But I have a feeling that across this country, outside of South Carolina, across this country, There are going to be hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of small and medium-sized donors who are going to want to join this cause.
I think you're going to be able to raise millions of dollars to do what needs to be done here to remove Lindsey Graham to the U.S. Senate.
I know you just made this decision.
Have you yet set up a website in a way where folks can give?
We have a splash page set up.
Ready to go with an antidote account.
Yes, sir.
It's going to take we the people to do it like we've done with Donald Trump.
It's going to take a unified effort in prayer and giving and working to help this campaign.
The people want this.
They want Lindsey gone.
And the traction from that has been huge so far just after 24 hours with how much everything is going viral across X and whatever.
The natural search engine optimization and all the holistic campaign energy is heated up everywhere.
People are calling in.
God's blessed us with the money to do this.
We still need all the rest of the money to compete in a campaign like this.
So help us.
Join us.
But it's ready, and we're solid, and we're moving super fast and working hard, working until 2 in the morning.
Every night I'm worn out, but God gives us that energy to keep going.
It's all about Him.
So, yes, thank you, everybody that believes in this cause.
And go to our splash page on our website.
It's lynch4senate, and you can see us at lynchSC on Facebook.
And you can just search Mark Lynch and get to know who I am and join this campaign.
This is our fight.
It's not mine.
It's all of us.
We need the right people that Donald Trump doesn't have to worry about under him working in the U.S. Senate for our state.
And I'm a little concerned, just a little bit, that I guess it's an incumbent protection thing that our governor and Tim Scott have supported Lindsey Graham.
So whatever that means, I know there's all kind of reasons they stay together, but we've got to help new people get in.
When the wrong people are in, we've got to get them out.
And so I'm not sure what kind of message that sends to the state citizens when McMasters and Tim Scott announced they were supporting Lindsey.
That's not a good thing to be affiliated with, and it won't be real popular.
And I don't believe it's the right thing, because they're not in touch with the sentiment and the concerns of the voters out here.
So, God's brought me into this, and the right people are supporting me.
Anyway, God's people are speaking, and they've expressed their desire for me to run.
They've asked me, and every time anybody that knows me has ever asked me, are you ever going to run again?
And I said, what would you have me run for?
And they said, please take Lindsey Graham out.
So I'm answering that call.
Send me.
Folks can go to lynchforsenate.com, lynchforsenate.com.
We just had it up on the screen.
It's right there again.
Please send the most generous contribution you can because this is a grassroots movement.
I guess what I was driving at is that Governor McMaster can do something far more important than endorsing you.
He can sign legislation closing the primary, and he should do that.
And he's a good man.
I'm going to pray that he uses his discernment to do that.
Tim Scott, that doesn't surprise me.
He's a neocon.
He'd send another $10 billion to Ukraine tomorrow if they ask for it.
I don't think he's a bad man.
I just think he's a misguided man.
I honestly think that the more important thing, of course, would be closing the primary so that radical leftists cannot swamp the primary to try to prop Lindsay up, which is, of course, what has happened in the past.
Democrats are smart enough to know that whoever the Republican nominee for the Senate is going to be is going to be elected.
Therefore, there'll be no action or excitement in the fight for the Democrat nomination.
So leftists who love Lindsey Graham for all the obvious reasons are going to try to flood into the Republican primary to defeat Mark Lynch.
We need to stop that from happening.
And more importantly, the members of your legislature be enlightened and they do the right thing.
And I'm hoping that Henry McMaster, who I'm telling you is a good man, will sign that legislation.
That would be the most important thing that he could do for your candidacy.
This is hard work.
Roger.
Go ahead, please.
You know, yeah, excuse me.
I just wanted to add one more thing about that.
You know, like President Trump brought up, what had Kamala And Joe Biden done the four years they had the ability to serve.
Why would it be different?
You know, our governor, our attorney general, our U.S. senators have known.
How long have they known these primaries are open?
And it's affecting our state to allow enemies to get in that way.
We saw it in my state Senate campaign.
From 5 to 7 o'clock, all these angry voters started pouring in.
They were voting for Lindsey, and they were voting against me because that's what they do.
And so we can't—you know, I don't have any people in my organization here at our business that work for our competitors.
I don't think Donald Trump has that in his business that he had before he—and still has while being president.
And so we can't have people like that that are— RINOs, that's a nice word for it.
I think it's more of a treasonous type of situation.
If good people that grew up in the United States that run with a sworn oath to God to protect this country against foreign or domestic enemies have been pulled left into a party that when Obama was president, they voted in Charlotte, 100 miles from here, to take God out of that party.
So if you don't have God, what do you have?
So I hate to see that that's crept up into the Republican Party and we've got people that are not doing the right thing all through the years of their service until it's time to campaign again and they start talking good talking points to try to win an election again and they go back and they're stabbing us in the back with everything they do.
So who are they?
It's time to get those people out.
I'm so thankful that Trump, with Godspeed, warp speed with God, is changing America, and he's getting everything that's evil gone.
Let me help do that.
I'll serve the president without wavering.
It is important to know, actually, from a historical point of view, the open primaries actually served South Carolina well in the past.
In 1964, Strom Thurmond, a former Democrat governor, a Democrat U.S. senator, decided as a matter of conscience that he had to support Barry Goldwater over Lyndon Johnson, and he made the decision to become a Republican.
Now, he could have just stayed in office, but he insisted that the people needed to be in on this decision.
So he resigned from the U.S. Senate to stand in a special election as a Republican, and he was fighting against the Barnwell gang.
And there was a major effort to try to defeat him in the primary, but millions of conservative, probably hundreds of thousands of conservative Democrats crossed into the Republican primary to save Strom Thurmond and send him to the U.S. Senate, where he was a champion for liberty and the Constitution and a strong national defense for longer serving than any senator in history.
So this has served the state well in the past, but it no longer serves the state well.
It's been corrupted and perverted, particularly by those liberals in Charleston.
So this does need to be- We're in different times now.
Yeah, we're navigating through different times now, right?
There's a lot of things we used to do in my business we don't do anymore.
It doesn't work.
We had to change and adapt to the right way today to win.
So we want to bring integrity back to our elections.
Mark, I could not agree more.
I just had to prove to our listeners that I'm older than dirt.
And I remember it.
No, you're not.
You got many good years to go, sir.
Thank you for what you're doing.
Well, again, folks, I want to appeal to you.
Please go immediately to lynchforsenate.com, lynchforsenate.com, $25, $50, $10, $100, $1,000.
I think the limits now are $3,500, as my advisor here tells me.
But send whatever you can.
Every penny will be appreciated.
This is a grassroots movement.
We can't rely on Mark.
Mark's got the ability to pay for this himself, but we shouldn't call on him to do that.
He'll do his part, but we need to do our part.
This is probably going to be the hottest, most important Senate race in the country.
I think, Mark, you're very wise to start early.
Many folks are going to try to discourage you, but I've already learned you're a man who cannot be discouraged because you put your faith in the Lord.
And I know you prayed over this decision.
I've learned to pray over the big decisions in my life as well as the small decisions.
And he's led you on this path and it's the path of righteousness.
It is the correct path.
I believe you're going to win, but even if you don't win...
It means you got into the arena to fight for the right thing, but you will win if you believe you will win.
You will win if you believe that God is on your side, and God is on your side, because we know Lindsey Graham's record.
He does not stand up for the things that we believe in.
He is probably extraordinarily vulnerable.
I haven't seen a legitimate poll yet, but his treachery cannot be underestimated.
I know of his backstage role in the questions over the confirmation of RFK Jr. and Tulsi Gabbard and Kash Patel.
Now, he's finally gotten in line, but he would tell you one thing while behind the scenes he was trying to rally the RINOs to vote against the president's nominees.
So he himself didn't want to leave his fingerprints on it.
It's kind of like when Lyndon Johnson wrote the Southern Manifesto.
To destroy the 1958 Civil Rights Bill.
He wrote it, but he didn't sign it because he wanted to run for president in 1960. He didn't want the stigma of being the segregationist and racist that he was.
Yet he was propping up those who put an amendment into the 1958 Civil Rights Bill that said that if you violated that law...
You would be tried in not a federal jury, but before a state jury.
Well, in 1958, in states like Mississippi or South Carolina, no black man would be acquitted by an all-white jury, and no white man would be held accountable by an all-white jury.
And he knew it.
And that poison pill amendment was written by Lyndon Johnson.
But he didn't put his name on it.
You see?
It's the same shady tactics that Lindsey Graham uses.
Just another reason why we need to get this duplicitous weasel out of the US Senate.
All right.
I am going to close the show here.
Mark, I'm going to ask you to lead us in a moment of prayer.
I want to pray for the safety of our president, first and foremost, because I believe, well, they tried to kill him twice and they're not above trying to kill him again when they see this extraordinary change he's bringing to our country and the fact that he is moving swiftly.
I just read, for example, that the president has...
Ordered Pam Bondi and signed an executive order to have Pam Bondi fight anti-Christian bias by the Justice Department.
This proves, once again, the hand of God.
So we have just one minute left.
Mark, why don't you lead us in a final prayer?
Love to.
Thank you so much.
Heavenly Father, we just come to you now, and I pray for the unification.
In your name, your son's mighty name, the name above all names, Jesus Christ, who came and gave his life for every one of us.
There's no greater love than he that would lay down his life for his friends, you tell us in John 15, 13. But in the next verse, John 15, 14, you tell us, I call you my friends if you're obedient to my commands.
We're all called to serve.
That are yours, that are your children.
It's a faith issue sometimes.
Lord, I pray that you forgive me for when I have disbelief or fear creeps in, because fear is a sin.
I trust you, God, and you only, the one true God.
And I thank you that because we're your children and this is your country, that you founded with men of faith who came here to be free to worship you, that they bled for you and they did whatever they could do.
Just like your son Jesus did to change everything and write it and correct it and erase the sins through your blood.
There's been many followers here in our nation that have fought and bled for this great nation.
I thank you for the perseverance and faith of Donald Trump that no matter what, he never gave up and he fought, fought, fought, and just fought harder when more persecution came.
Give us all that faith.
To let our burdens go to you and trust you when Davids have to face Goliaths because we know that we can do it with you.
Everything is possible with you, Father God.
So we dedicate this whole thing and to all the other people that are willing to throw their name in the hat and fight for this great country that trust in you, Father God.
Give them favor.
Protect them.
Protect their families.
Bring favor to their campaigns as we stand for what is true.
In the name of Jesus, we dedicate this whole thing to.
In Jesus' mighty strong name.
Amen.
Amen.
God bless you.
Thank you very much for our guest today, Mark Lynch, the next United States Senator from the state of South Carolina.
Thank you, Roger.
God bless you, too.
Thank you.
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