President Donald Trump on Monday trashed former South Carolina governor and congressman Mark Sanford’s newly announced bid for the Republican presidential nomination, dredging up Sanford’s years-old extra-marital affair and mocking his defeat in the 2018 midterm elections.
“When the former Governor of the Great State of South Carolina, @MarkSanford, was reported missing, only to then say he was away hiking on the Appalachian Trail, then was found in Argentina with his Flaming Dancer friend, it sounded like his political career was over,” Trump tweeted.
“It was, but then he ran for Congress and won, only to lose his re-elect after I Tweeted my endorsement, on Election Day, for his opponent,” he continued, alluding to his support for Sanford’s GOP primary challenger, who wound up losing the Congressional seat to Democrat Joe Cunningham. “But now take heart, he is back, and running for President of the United States. The Three Stooges, all badly failed candidates, will give it a go!”
Sanford over the weekend became the third Republican to say he would challenge Trump in 2020, tweeting Sunday that he would focus his platform on fiscal austerity, federal spending and the need to address the nation’s mounting debt.
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The president dredged up Mark Sanford’s years-old extra-marital affair and mocked his defeat in the 2018 midterm elections in a series of tweets this morning https://t.co/Ug8lEjzsLh
— POLITICO (@politico) September 9, 2019
Oh of course. The 12 year old bully has nothing better to do but to taunt the opposition.
And Trump has never had an affair either. Nope, not with a porn star either. Nope. He was faithful to all of his wives. Yessirree.
The odd part about this victory lap is that the Trump-endorsed candidate lost to a Democrat in Sanford’s deep-red district, which was never thought to be in play. pic.twitter.com/sQOH1951Qe
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) September 9, 2019
Here she comes now https://t.co/DSR50aqIYL pic.twitter.com/phgnOLNaWv
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) September 9, 2019
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