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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.Former South Carolina Congressman Mark Sanford to challenge Trump in primary
By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, SC©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
34 Comments
PTownsend
RINOs, Republican in Name Only like Trump and Moscow Mitch look out only for themselves and their family bank accounts. Not the country, not even the Republican Party. They're for sale to the highest bidder, US or foreign. Slimy, corrupt politicians.
CrazyJoe
No one expects Sanford to win, but I'm glad he is entering the GOP race even if he is just a thorn in Trump's huge backside.
Strangerland
Any Republican challenger to Trump will eat away at his support, so good on them even if they have zero expectation of winning.
Let's get a 3rd party candidate in there to siphon off as many Republican votes as possible, away from Trump.
Blacklabel
Can’t win on your own with 20 of your wonderful candidates? Thought like 6 of the Dem front runners are beating Trump already?
Chip Star
This article is about primary challengers to Donny, not the democratic candidates.
Remember when Republivams disparaged the DNC for rigging the primaries on Hillary's favor? I do. Funny that the Republivana are simply cancelling their primaries to "save money."
The hypocrisy from the right never ceases. They have zero integrity.
Strangerland
Hey, we're taking pages from your book. Stacking the deck in our favor, like you guys do with gerrymandering and voter suppression.
Once again, and as always:
But, you guys!
bass4funk
As if Democrats don’t. Lol, so funny!
That’s the world of politics, I prefer to not choose the side of Democrat socialism-fascism of being told what to do, what to eat and how to live or how much money I’m allowed to make or keep.
Besides, the man who infamously got lost along the Appalachian Trail....lol..will never make the Presidency, he’s another deBozo that will muster up about a 1% support in the polls.
lincolnman
Yes, this is the "new GOP" - what once was the party of religious values and moral character now embraces perverts and serial adulterers....
Sanford travels to Argentina, Trump has a shorter walk over to his neighbor Epstein's house...
Throw in Rep Steve "What's wrong with white supremacy" King and that tells you all you need to know about the new Republican Party...
Well, just one more - Putin-worship....
Jimizo
Good to have a Republican running who is still a fiscal conservative. Trump’s out of control socialist spending needs to be challenged.
Our fiscal conservatives must be delighted he’s running.
arrestpaul
According to the article -
And now Sanford has become the Democrats, and the Hillary worshippers, best hope to prevent Trump's re-election.
I also remember when the DNC actually did rigged the primary elections in ol' Hillary's favor. So do all of those Bernie voters who then refused to support the DNC's chosen one. Which only added one more reason to the long list of reasons for Hillary's second failed attempt to become president.
Strangerland
Yeah, it was a travesty.
And now the RNC is taking a page out of the DNC playbook:
GOP poised to cancel caucuses and primaries in four states in spite of Trump challengers: report
Link: https://www.salon.com/2019/09/06/gop-poised-to-cancel-caucuses-and-primaries-in-four-states-in-spite-of-trump-challengers-report/
So what do you think, is this as much a travesty as when the RNC screwed Bernie, or if not, which hypocritical excuse will you use to justify your double standard on the matter?
Strangerland
Nah, not the best hope. But any 'Pub challengers will siphon votes away from Trump, and we need to learn to play the game like you guys and stack the deck in our favor, like you guys do with gerrymandering and voter suppression.
plasticmonkey
It'll be fun to watch Trump try to slam Sanford for his extramarital activity.
Well, you once thought Trump was a lunatic with no chance of winning. Until he became the frontrunner and you joined the cult.
FizzBit
Wow. “Rigging” you say. Normal people call it a conspiracy, but that word gives lefties hives. So you use “rig”. It was not a “rig” silly. It was a “conspiracy” to destroy a fellow candidate in their own party.
If you can’t be honest in your observations in your selected party then you really don’t have critical honesty, much like Strangerland who only enjoys trolling with no intelligent observations.
Invalid CSRF
bass4funk
It would seem liberals have complete amnesia when it comes to their perverts ans serial adulterers. How many Republican aides had their spouses send nude pictures of themselves to underage girls, how many Republican Presidents had an affair with their interns in the Oval Office? So it would seem the Democrat party is the party that has Ben devoid (for a very, very long time of ethics and values) and now has lurched radically to the very far left and see nothing wrong with that conduct, not your granddads Democrat party.
Bill enjoyed for years hanging with Jeff.
Is Northam still wearing Blackface and in office?? Seriously?
2011
Sanford has zero chances of winning anything, now if he wants the attention and stroke his already chewed up and spat out ego, he should go for it. We do need more laughs, the Democrat candidates were funny, but now we need something new.
PTownsend
That sounds like a line nihilists would use in continuing their ongoing efforts to undermine 'western' democratic systems. And though Trump provides more than enough material for late night comedians, he himself is not funny in any way. Except to nihilists, and maybe Xi and Putin who've found how laughably easy it is to weaken the US as they expand their respective (collective?) global powers.
Jimizo
Why are you laughing at a fiscal conservative?
You clearly disagree with the kind of thing Obama was spending on, but you used to talk about bankrupting the country. You were against out of control spending in principle.
I just think someone who highlights Trumps socialist spending and reminds fiscal conservatives of their principles is a good thing. Some who joined the ‘lunatic fringe’ need reminding it seems.
bass4funk
Come again? Lol
Oh, vehemently disagree with that. The man is helluva funny especially when he trolls the media and they bite hook, line and sinker every time.
And the Democrats are doing what to deter this....oh, wait, they’re too busy running after Trump to notice....dumb, dumb, dumb....
Strangerland
Heh, and yet your descriptions of Obama's actions make it sound as if he was essentially trolling you guys on the right, and you hate him for it.
Blacklabel
nobody voting for this guy. He lost a Congressional primary to another Republican, how can he suddenly become President?
Strangerland
Anyone but Trump or a Democrat people will vote for him.
And we're ok with that.
Chip Star
Hahahaha. A conspiracy in the sense of a criminal conspiracy, not a conspiracy theory. Nice try though!
I'm not a democrat. Given the content of most of your posts and your love of Byilding 7, I'll take your criticisms of myself and Stranger with a pound or eight of salt.
Strangerland
Well, we all know that conspiracy theories are the realm of the right.
Yep, a total travesty.
Back to the current topic at hand, would you not agree it's a travesty that the Republican is doing much the same, if not worse, to Republican candidates?
Chip Star
As in a conspiracy to commit a crime, not a conspiracy theory.
lincolnman
Hey, compared to the failed businessman, serial pervert, and con-man they nominated last time, Sanford looks over-qualified....
But as we've seen before, the key for any Republican winning the nomination is how much Putin likes them...
Chip Star
Okay. And?
So it was bad for Sanford to cheat on his wife, but completely okay for Donny to have cheated on all three of his wives. Sweet consistency.
Moscow Mitch refusing to bring to a vote legislation to strengthen our elections. We can't change the past, but we can affect the future.
lincolnman
Donnie will likely quit - he always quits - a couple more Fox News polls like the recent ones and he'll bail....why get humiliated...
I don't think you're qualified to judge another person's political preferences...
Six bankruptcies- and did you see Pence lost the $1 million his father left him? Bad investments - must have put his money in Trump Airlines....
https://nypost.com/2019/09/07/karen-pence-was-worried-about-going-broke-after-trump-won/
The meeting with Russians was about adoptions....
bass4funk
Hehehe..nothing lol....
Trump didn’t leave his wife, not minimizing the cheating, but Sanford just threw his wife straight under the bus, that’s far, far worse.
We did from that idiot Harry Reid. Payback is......
Chip Star
You also predicted Donny wouldn't get the nomination as you were disparaging him as part of the lunatic fringe.
Chip Star
Then there was no point to mentioning it.
What are you talking about? Donny left his firstvwifecfor his second wife and his second wife for his third wife.
Ou are okay with allowing our elections to remain unstrengthened to get political payback but make a false claim that Obama did nothing after he found out Russia interfered with our election in order to disparage him.
Your'e all over the place. Further evidence that you have no interest in engaging in discourse in good faith.
bass4funk
He never has, that’s not his character
Yes, they also predicted Hillary would win as well.
Omg...I know you just didn’t say that! ROFL!
The worst investments are the Democrat nut jobs that think with their stupid green deal plan and making us eat bugs and plants, get rid of cars and use carrot juice to power it is going to get them elected, it won’t.
2011? Ahhh....nice try...
lincolnman
Really? Having a fling with a porn star while your 11 month old son is home with his mom, your wife?
Cheat on wife #1 with wife #2, cheat on wife #2 with wife #3 - and cheat on then all with porn stars, Playboy Bunnies, and underage teenagers (with his buddy Epstein).
24 (to date) women accusing him of sexual assault...
He's definitely the King of Creep....
Chip Star
Unless he's quitting a wife for a mistress, quitting paying his bills via bankruptcy, etc.
The truth is funny? Are you going to claim againnthat tou were a political journalist? How's one go from being a political journalist to a war correspondent?
Completely irrelevant to Donny being a horrible businessperson.
Is in the past and can't be changed. Why won't Moscow Mitch allow a vote in legislation to strengthen our elections?
bass4funk
125 million and then some disagree. 88% approval rating about Republicans, even Bush couldn’t get that much love.
What are yours?
And bouncing back.
2014....oh...