Former S.C. congressman Mark Sanford announces Republican primary challenge against Trump
Source: Washington Post
Sanford, a former South Carolina governor who represented the states 1st Congressional District in the House until earlier this year, had been mulling a bid against the president for weeks. In an interview on Fox News Sunday, Sanford said he will formally announce his bid at an event in South Carolina this week.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2019/09/08/former-s-c-congressman-mark-sanford-announces-republican-primary-challenge-against-trump/
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riversedge
(69,727 posts)Trumpy must be having a Devin Cow!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/08/politics/mark-sanford-presidential-campaign/index.html
bucolic_frolic
(42,678 posts)Loyalty means EVERYTHING to Republicans!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)At night there has been the sound of shoveling in the FLOTUS suite of the WH. She's either trying to escape or digging for more gold.
I'd love to see a copy of their pre-nup.
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)an incumbent president are good for the opposition party, right?
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)Bayard
(21,806 posts)Would be if he draws off the leaning rethuglicans that regret voting for tRump last time, who may have been looking at voting Dem this time.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,485 posts)Because they believe in "REDEMPTION" and see Mark Sanford repented for his sin of adultery, atoned, thus seeking redemption.
I also could be wrong.
MattInMN
(39 posts)You are trying to be rational while talking about people who believe invisible cloud aliens control everything and actually care about them while handing over their money to grifters who tell them what they want to hear.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Voltaire2
(12,626 posts)Hes not going to force trump out, hes going to perhaps embarrass him in one state.
If one of these challengers did miraculously replace trump their party would be in complete disarray.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,483 posts)...........
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)groundloop
(11,488 posts)Fiendish Thingy
(15,369 posts)And Since Trump won't be on the GOP primary ballot in California, and perhaps other states, this may help Sanford and the other opposition candidates do more damage to Trump from the right.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)The King must have his coronation, and that means no opposition from anyone. No primaries mean no one in the party is pointing out the king has no clothes.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)mitch96
(13,821 posts)No incumbent president in modern time has been re elected with a primary challenge...
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Gumboot
(531 posts)Can't wait to see Trump flailing around, trying to debate them, while totally out of his depth... and mind.
Bring 'em on!
bluestarone
(16,722 posts)THAT would help (along with 2 other write-ins)
The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)(Pun intended)
Good for him
rocktivity
(44,555 posts)rocktivity
sandensea
(21,530 posts)That's what GOPee politics has become since the Ginggrinch era.
CottonBear
(21,596 posts)CTyankee
(63,771 posts)enough embarassment with Trump. We could offer Sanford as just another lame puke who can't keep it in his pants and lies like a rug to cover it up...
LiberalLovinLug
(14,154 posts)and Sanford is in on it.
Maybe he's out of politics anyways, so he's okay with being used for the good of the party. Maybe to make amends in some way.
He is obviously not a threat to Donald. You'd need someone on the scale of a John McCain to run against him and have a chance. So he's there as a distraction? Maybe as a 'third wheel just in case an actual threat runs against Donald? Some other nefarious reason yet to be revealed?
Don't trust any Republican. ie. that he's running for legitimate reasons to unseat Donald Trump.