Mark Sanford announces Republican primary challenge against Trump

Bill said:
Former congressman Mark Sanford announced Sunday that he will challenge President Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, becoming the third GOP contender in the race to unseat the incumbent.

Sanford made the announcement in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I am here to tell you now that I am going to get in,” he said.

Sanford, a former South Carolina governor who represented the state’s 1st Congressional District in the House until earlier this year, had been mulling a bid against the president for weeks.


Trump’s presidential campaign dismissed Sanford’s entry into the race.

“Irrelevant,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said.

The president remains immensely popular among Republican voters: According to a Monmouth University poll released last month, 84 percent of Republicans approve of

Trump’s job performance. His highest recent approval mark among fellow Republicans was 88 percent in a Fox News poll of registered voters in early August.

Those numbers would suggest that, like other Trump challengers, Sanford has lower odds of actually defeating the president than of successfully criticizing him in a way that could affect the general election.

Limiting government spending was a key focus of Sanford’s time in public office. And he has previously said he was motivated to consider a bid against Trump out of concern over the federal debt and deficit.

On Sunday, he said the country needs to have a conversation about the “degree to which institutions and political culture are being damaged by this president.”

Asked by host Chris Wallace whether he seriously thinks he has a chance of beating Trump, Sanford responded, “I’m saying, you never know.”

“I’m listing my goals, my primary goals, to say, let’s go out and force — or try and create — a conversation on that which is not being talked about in this presidential cycle. ... The thing that has been lacking in this debate has been an earnest and real conversation on debt and deficits and government spending,” he said.
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Donald trumpf is the most popular and beloved republican politician with the conservative base in our lifetime . I see virtually no chance that the republican base wants anyone else to represent their values and principals
 
Cypress said:
Donald trumpf is the most popular and beloved republican politician with the conservative base in our lifetime . I see virtually no chance that the republican base wants anyone else to represent their values and principals
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That doesn't justify blocking others from running,by not having primaries.
 
Cypress said:
Donald trumpf is the most popular and beloved republican politician with the conservative base in our lifetime . I see virtually no chance that the republican base wants anyone else to represent their values and principals
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Jobs, freedom and Merica first!
 
I would pay for anyone, especially the person making the claim, to show evidence that Trump is most popular republican of our lifetime.
 
Bill said:
Former congressman Mark Sanford announced Sunday that he will challenge President Trump in the 2020 Republican primary, becoming the third GOP contender in the race to unseat the incumbent.

Sanford made the announcement in an appearance on “Fox News Sunday.”

“I am here to tell you now that I am going to get in,” he said.

Sanford, a former South Carolina governor who represented the state’s 1st Congressional District in the House until earlier this year, had been mulling a bid against the president for weeks.


Trump’s presidential campaign dismissed Sanford’s entry into the race.

“Irrelevant,” Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said.

The president remains immensely popular among Republican voters: According to a Monmouth University poll released last month, 84 percent of Republicans approve of

Trump’s job performance. His highest recent approval mark among fellow Republicans was 88 percent in a Fox News poll of registered voters in early August.

Those numbers would suggest that, like other Trump challengers, Sanford has lower odds of actually defeating the president than of successfully criticizing him in a way that could affect the general election.

Limiting government spending was a key focus of Sanford’s time in public office. And he has previously said he was motivated to consider a bid against Trump out of concern over the federal debt and deficit.

On Sunday, he said the country needs to have a conversation about the “degree to which institutions and political culture are being damaged by this president.”

Asked by host Chris Wallace whether he seriously thinks he has a chance of beating Trump, Sanford responded, “I’m saying, you never know.”

“I’m listing my goals, my primary goals, to say, let’s go out and force — or try and create — a conversation on that which is not being talked about in this presidential cycle. ... The thing that has been lacking in this debate has been an earnest and real conversation on debt and deficits and government spending,” he said.
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:dunno:Not enough "CLOUT" to take on the Donald.
 
cawacko said:
Yeah, because Republicans are just dying to get to the polls to vote for Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford but "the establishment" is preventing them.
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Why do you think they are cancelling primaries. Many republicans say to me, I dont like Trump, but there is no other option. Well, there are other options.
 
cawacko said:
I would pay for anyone, especially the person making the claim, to show evidence that Trump is most popular republican of our lifetime.
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90% approval amongst republicans isn’t easy to beat lol.

Maybe Reagan. One wonders how many independents he has, quietly, on board.
 
Jarod said:
Why do you think they are cancelling primaries. Many republicans say to me, I dont like Trump, but there is no other option. Well, there are other options.
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And you think Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford are real options?

There are no options because no one replaces a sitting President in a primary.
 
Darth Omar said:
90% approval amongst republicans isn’t easy to beat lol.

Maybe Reagan. One wonders how many independents he has, quietly, on board.
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Both Bushes had approval ratings in the mid 90's at various points in their term among Republicans. That Trump is at 90% doesn't make him the most popular in our lifetime. To have a 90% approval rating is clearly a sign of popularity. But the claim was most popular in our lifetime.
 
cawacko said:
And you think Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford are real options?

There are no options because no one replaces a sitting President in a primary.
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Either would be better statesmen than tRump.

So you think its your choice, not the primary voters?
 
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Jarod said:
Either would be better statesmen than tRump.
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Joe Walsh just screams statesmen. El Oh El.

Here’s some advice for you. Focus on your own party. Focus on finding a candidate that excites democratic voters so that they turn out like they did for Obama but not Hillary.
 
Darth Omar said:
Jobs, freedom and Merica first!
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I am fine with trumpf being the face of the republican base, and I consider them a natural fit , soulmates in fact.

Worth noting , last time Dems had a prez they were not real happy with ,they primaried him with a highly credible top tier challenger>> Ted Kennedy nearly beat Carter in 1980.
 
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