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brooklynite

(93,835 posts)
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 02:54 PM Nov 2019

Mark Sanford suspends 2020 presidential campaign

Source: CNN

(CNN)Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman who two months ago launched a longshot primary challenge to President Donald Trump, suspended his candidacy Tuesday.

"I am suspending my race for the Presidency because impeachment has made my goal of making the debt, deficit and spending issue a part of this presidential debate impossible right now," Sanford said in a statement. "From day one, I was fully aware of how hard it would be to elevate these issues with a sitting president of my own party ignoring them. Impeachment noise has moved what was hard to herculean as nearly everything in Republican Party politics is currently viewed through the prism of impeachment."

Sanford -- who emerged as a vocal Republican critic of the President before losing his congressional seat in a GOP primary contest last year -- made the announcement during a press conference at the New Hampshire statehouse.

While he blamed the impeachment process, Sanford failed to gain traction during his short-lived primary challenge. Sanford was one of three Republicans running to unseat Trump; former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh and former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld remain in the race.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/politics/mark-sanford-2020-bid/index.html

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Mark Sanford suspends 2020 presidential campaign (Original Post) brooklynite Nov 2019 OP
The Appalachian Trail is callliinng! 🎵 Dennis Donovan Nov 2019 #1
I was just going to ask, if this was him. I guess so. dewsgirl Nov 2019 #2
Can we still let South Carolina leave the country? Traildogbob Nov 2019 #3
Well, thanks for the ice floe customerserviceguy Nov 2019 #4
The people are victums Traildogbob Nov 2019 #9
There are people here advocating they get the first primary!!! RhodeIslandOne Nov 2019 #10
Where can the blue in SC get political asylum? Nt raccoon Nov 2019 #12
Stay faithful to your wife, then... VarryOn Nov 2019 #5
What campaign? BlueIdaho Nov 2019 #6
Oh, was he running? More like a stroll eom Maeve Nov 2019 #7
Maybe next time, Mark... czarjak Nov 2019 #8
collectors items, lolololol Celerity Nov 2019 #11
Too bad - he might have gotten my vote. I live in a crossover state and may vote in Vinca Nov 2019 #13

Traildogbob

(8,566 posts)
3. Can we still let South Carolina leave the country?
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 03:31 PM
Nov 2019

For fucks sake.....Lindsay Ghraham, Nikki Halley, Mark Sanford, why do you continue to hate America. Is this payback for the ass kicking you got over slaving humans to do your work. Build a damn wall around South Carolina, that will make America great. Sorry to the reasonable people there, but damn, come on man? But, the criminal GOP vote destroying North Carolinians here contributed to the shit show, with Mark "nose up the ass" Meadows. These are the best we have for public service?

customerserviceguy

(25,183 posts)
4. Well, thanks for the ice floe
Tue Nov 12, 2019, 11:08 PM
Nov 2019

I think the place is salvageable, given the number of northeasterners moving here. That's what happened to turn NC purple.

Traildogbob

(8,566 posts)
9. The people are victums
Wed Nov 13, 2019, 12:14 PM
Nov 2019

Both of our states are Victums of extreme GOP corruption and R/W propaganda. I want to believe most are good people and have been scammed. But, I live in the rural Mountains of N.C. Some are multiple generational hateful, ignorant and illiterate soles that thrive on Trumpism and can not be changed. It makes me sick when our "Representatives", keep mouthing what the "American People" believe and want. They have no clue and only represent what the billionaires that bought their seats. North Carolina was deemed by courts to not even be a democracy with the extreme Gerry meandering. We have been seized by corrupt Corperate slime to milk votes and get more power. That is why we both have The Meadows, Graham's, Halley's and long list of jerks that so called represent us. Any "Rep" that seeks out camera's with a flag on their lapels and keeps shouting what they say the "American People" want, I do not trust for a second. We have one chance to stop this in 2020, and it is dependent of the other 65 percent of potential voters. 35 percent are hopelessly brain dead with hate. God will not help us, he sent tRump. Ask an Evilgelical HypoChristian. I was stationed in Charleston during my Navy Service. Hate the heat but a beautiful state rich with amazing wildlife. Peace!

 

RhodeIslandOne

(5,042 posts)
10. There are people here advocating they get the first primary!!!
Wed Nov 13, 2019, 02:42 PM
Nov 2019

They haven't voted for a Democrat since '76.

Fuck them.

Vinca

(50,168 posts)
13. Too bad - he might have gotten my vote. I live in a crossover state and may vote in
Thu Nov 14, 2019, 09:02 AM
Nov 2019

the Republican primary in an attempt to get Trump to lose the state. I was leaning Weld, anyway. (Disclaimer: If I suddenly have a strong backing for any of our candidates, I'll vote for them. At the moment I don't care which one it is.)

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