Posted on 09/08/2019 12:09:51 PM PDT by robowombat
Ex-South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford Announces Republican Primary Challenge to Trump
16:40 08.09.2019(updated 17:16 08.09.2019)
In July, US President Donald Trump officially launched his re-election campaign for the 2020 presidential election during a rally in Orlando, Florida.
Former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford stated Sunday that he would challenge current President Donald Trump during the Republican primaries for the 2020 presidential election.
"I’m here to tell you now that I am going to get in," he told Fox News.
The announcement comes a week after Sanford hinted that he could enter the presidential race. The lawmaker, however, will face a tough battle as Republicans from Kansas and South Carolina have already decided to cancel primaries in their respected states.
Additionally, according to recent polls conducted by Morning Consult company, Trump enjoys 85 percent of Republicans' support.
Besides Sanford, former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld and former member of House of Representatives Joe Walsh are also challenging Trump for the Republican nomination.
Someone is paying him, or he is hoping to be paid, perhaps through campaign contributions.
There are oceans of money anti-Trump.
Yes, that was a gross dereliction of duty, to have disappeared as he did.
And then we learned the reason for his dropping out of sight.
What was he thinking? Was he thinking with...........?
God forbid, what if some state emergency had come up while he was in Argentina and nobody officially knew where he was, and nobody could officially spill the beans on where he was?
Oh, this guy is qualified to run as a RAT.
I would say Sanford is dense. He might have had a path if he hadn’t gone to Brazil and left his wife and kids in the lurch.
Sanford would go on a hike and end up in China with under age girls! Gotta be a reason outside of utter stupidity for a never-Trumper to run. Something to hide? Soros money?
hope he likes getting “schlonged”...heh..Trump cracks me up...
Is this a joke or for real....Sanford is only doing this for the money...keep one eye open when reading anything about this guy.
Ane not in 2024, either.
No matter how old I get I am still amazed at the magnitude of the human ego
I don’t see Sanford as anything more than a distraction.
If Mitt does this then I would be worried.
Well I’m doing oven bbq chicken legs for supper.
Major security risk.
None of these Republican challengers have a ghost of a chance to beat Trump for the nomination.
So why are they running? Probably for two reasons. 1) In the very off chance that Trump is driven from the race due to health issues or something else very unexpected, they will be in a position to capitalize on it and 2) The dying MSM is so virulently anti-Trump that they will give any challenger fawning media coverage way out of proportion to their actual chances.
Yes, how wil he run a campaign from South America?
“Rotsa Ruck”
“Rotsa Ruck”
There should be a special tax put on stupidity.
No. 2 is very very likely in this case. What a jackass this sanford is
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