He’s hoping for better turnout as he begins a national campaign tour….
Running against Donald Trump in his Republican Party is a YUGE hope…..
The bell in the Independence Hall tower rang at 9 a.m., and Mark Sanford took a deep breath. He grabbed a giant check for “one trillion dollars,” stood next to a tiny wooden lectern, and asked me if I was ready for him to kick off a news conference announcing his bid to challenge President Donald Trump in the 2020 Republican primary.
It didn’t really feel like a news conference. I was the only reporter there.
And when it began, the only others around besides his two aides were a family 30 yards away with a selfie stick and a group of students from Paris who wanted to know why he had such a big check. (Answer: It represented the burden of the national debt.)
The former South Carolina congressman and governor — perhaps best known for disappearing from office for six days in 2009 to visit a paramour in Argentina — launched his long-long-long-shot presidential campaign Wednesday in a gloomy Philadelphia. The launch also served to kick off his “Kids, We’re Bankrupt and We Didn’t Even Know It” tour — a 3,500-mile, weeklong road trip he hopes will “spark a needed conversation” within the Republican Party about spending and debt. He was set to make stops later Wednesday in Harrisburg and Pittsburgh….
image…Jessica Griffin @ inquire.com
Sanford doesn’t get it.
Republicans don’t care about the deficit.Actually, they never did.It was just something to bash the “libruls” with.
As long as the money was spent on the bloated military budget or the deficits were exacerbated by tax cuts for the wealthy?”Conservatives “ were fine with it.
Trump figured this out early .Sanford?Aparently, he really believed that Republicans believed all that stuff.
Jack, what was Sanford’s fiscal record when he was your Governor?
(I know that governors and mayors have to balance their finances because, unlike Uncle Sam their states or cities can’t print money but can be taken into receivership under the bankruptcy laws. — Sections 8 & 10 of the Constitution’s First Article)
Sanford has always been a true believing fiscal conservative and was often at odds with the Republican dominated S.C. Legislature which he regarded as profligate spenders.
Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who is waging a long-shot bid for the GOP presidential nomination, says President Trump is “unhinged” and deeply “insecure.”
“Of course he’s unhinged,” Sanford said in an interview at The Hill’s offices on Friday when asked what he thought about the president’s mental state in light of recent remarks and actions that have made Republicans across the spectrum uncomfortable.
“He’s highly unusual in his approach to life and politics. I’ve never seen anybody as insecure in my life and somebody found it so necessary to tear down” his critics, said Sanford, who is running against Trump on a platform of returning the GOP to the party of fiscal discipline.
He pointed to Trump’s acrimonious clashes with one-time allies like former Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis, who Trump called “the world’s most overrated general” and former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, characterized by Trump as “dumb as a rock.”
Both officials left the administration after clashing with Trump over policy decisions….
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