David Beasley

We must reject politics based on division and hate.

This is abhorrent. Elections don’t have to be about cruelty and lies. South Carolina deserves better.

I cannot tell you how many times mothers would say to me, my son or husband did not want to join ISIS or al-Qaeda but we had not fed our little girl in 2 weeks. What were we supposed to do?

We urgently need a political solution to reopen these ports

In truth, instead of exporting food to help feed entire countries, the conflict means that Ukraine is now being forced to export hunger.

Unfortunately, because of the lack of funds that we were faced with in the last few months, we have been having to take food from the hungry children to give to starving children, which is a situation that none of us like to be in.

What the United States has done in stepping up is absolutely extraordinary.

If we are able to feed 200 million people, that means that we can actually cut hunger in Africa by 80 percent.

I have made requests straight to President Putin that the world's famines are in your hands right now and you need to open up these ports.

I am doing this because it is the right thing to do.

This is as urgent and morally necessary as sending tanks to Ukraine.