And a year ago Sanford had been vocal in indicating concerns about what he said were constant impolite and incendiary comments from Trump Sanford said then that the president seemed to make public discourse worse, not better.
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Mark Sanford, who earned national ridicule in 2012 after claiming he was “hiking the Appalachian Trail” when he was really spending time with his Argentine mistress, only to resurrect his political career with a second stint in Congress, crashed to defeat against a far-right challenger endorsed by Trump.
AP also projects Charleston attorney Joe Cunningham will be the Democratic nominee in the 1st District.
Then in the tenth, state Sen.
Trump’s tweet just before 6 a.m. Wednesday also says Stewart has “a major chance of winning!”. When he did not receive an invitation to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, he is said to have made his displeasure widely known … thus infuriating the president. But because just a few hundred ballots denied Sanford the opportunity to compete in a run-off, one senior White House official said Trump’s tweet likely played a decisive role in the race’s outcome, despite the fact that the President did not send it until late in the afternoon on Tuesday. Unlike Sanford, McMaster – who was an early endorser of the president’s – got Trump’s blessing.
Another theory is that Trump has an ongoing beef with Michael Biundo, one of the operatives hired by Arrington to help run her insurgent campaign. Sanford also said in a 2017 interview that Trump “has fanned the flames of intolerance”.
Even before the race had been officially called, Sanford had conceded the race, and Arrington had declared victory.
The Argentina reference concerned Sanford’s extramarital affair with an Argentine woman while he was governor, which he publicly acknowledged in 2009. Katie Arrington, a state legislator, got 50.5 percent of the vote to Sanford’s 46.6 percent, beating him by a little more than 2,500 votes.
Polls close in South Carolina at 7 p.m. eastern time, and anti-Trump Rep. and former Governor Mark Sanford (R-SC) is facing a fierce primary challenge from pro-Trump candidate Katie Arrington.
Sanford is the second Republican member of Congress to lose in a nominating contest this year, following Robert Pittenger’s loss in North Carolina last month.
The South Carolina primary is another gauge of whether the Republican electorate is willing to tolerate any criticism of Trump.
Hours before polls closed Tuesday night, Trump tweeted in support of Sanford’s opponent Arrington.
“On Tuesday, three women won Democratic primaries”, Hostin began as McCain tried to interject.
During the 2016 presidential election, after Trump ventured to Capitol Hill to meet with Republicans, Sanford came out of the meeting telling reporters, “I wasn’t particularly impressed”. She is tough on crime and will continue our fight to lower taxes.
In South Carolina, Archie Parnell won the Democratic primary in the 5th District despite admitting to domestic abuse in the 1970s.
The construction lawyer and yoga studio owner defeated Toby Smith on Tuesday and will go on to face a Republican in November’s general election.
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In South Carolina, Republican Gov. Henry McMaster – an early and vocal supporter of Trump who replaced former Gov. Nikki Haley – faces challenges from Haley administration veteran Catherine Templeton, businessman John Warren and others.
