Mark Sanford kicked off his presidential campaign against Donald Trump in Philly. One person showed

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA — The bell in the Independence Hall tower rang at 9 a.m., and Mark Sanford took a deep breath. He grabbed a giant check for “one trillion dollars,” stood next to a tiny wooden lectern, and asked me if I was ready for him to kick off a news conference announcing his bid to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary.

It didn’t really feel like a news conference. I was the only reporter there.

And when it began, the only others around besides his two aides were a family 30 yards away with a selfie stick and a group of students from Paris who wanted to know why he had such a big check. (Answer: It represented the burden of the national debt.)

The former South Carolina congressman and governor — perhaps best known for disappearing from office for six days in 2009 to visit a paramour in Argentina — launched his long-long-long-shot presidential campaign Wednesday in a gloomy Philadelphia. The launch also served to kick off his “Kids, We’re Bankrupt and We Didn’t Even Know It” tour — a 3,500-mile, weeklong road trip he hopes will “spark a needed conversation” within the Republican Party about spending and debt. He was set to make stops later Wednesday in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh.



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[madaboutharry]

1. He would have found a larger audience on the Appalachian Trail.

He could have talked to the hikers.

[rickford66]

9. Wasn't it the Tallahassee Trail ?

[NBachers]

15. I thought it was the Poontang Trail

[yellowcanine]

20. Heh. I had the same thought. Sanford will never live that down.

[irisblue]

2. He voted for the 2017 Tax Law Changes

He is a freaking jagoff

[JDC]

3. "Kids, we're bankrupt tour"

Pure clown

[cstanleytech]

4. I suspect the real goal is to lure Republican voters that might have voted for a Democrat due to

disgust over Trump to voting for Sanford instead thus reducing the number the Democratic candidate gets.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Only if he runs as an independent.

[cstanleytech]

6. I would not be surprised if he did.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Two words: advancemen and incompetence

If he can't get this right, his campaignis dead in the water. It's over before it starts. I don't think Philly would have a lot of sympathy for a candidate who created such drama chasing the Appalachian Tail. Philly guys would just get her a condo or a luxury suite and keep it quiet. So there is a disconnect in this town.

[mpcamb]

8. "One person showed" Was he/she related? Or from Buenos Aires?

[Bradical79]

12. It was the reporter who wrote the article lol

[dchill]

10. What, no date?

[lutherj]

11. So absconding from office for 5 days when you're governor of South Carolina to cavort

with your mistress has become a liability with the jesus crowd? Who knew?

[patphil]

13. Looks like it's going to be a very short campaign for Mr. Sanford.

[pbmus]

14. Mark WHO...his ship sailed in 09

[TeamPooka]

16. hahahahahahaha

[marlakay]

17. I am watching The Family on Netflix

It all makes weird sense about the bad boy republicans, they believe if God chose them they can do no wrong like when God chose David.

Watching this all I could think was you believe in a really strange God.

And supposedly The Family is still secretly doing stuff pulling strings with tons of ties to Russia.

[LawnKorn]

18. Do the Republicans even have a base?

It is looking like all they have is drooling ideologues who mindlessly support Trump and nothing else. Holding the House and taking the Senate should be a doable proposition for 2020. We have them beat already.

[Kid Berwyn]

19. Compared to Trump, winnah.

Trump had to hire his announcement crowd.