'It's an awfully anti-Democratic process that's being suggested by the party,' former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford said.
"I think that's a mistake," he asserted."I think one, it's an awfully anti-Democratic process that's being suggested by the party."his candidacy to take on Trump during an interview with Fox News Sunday host Chris Wallace this weekend. He has joined two other Republican challengers: Bill Weld, who previously served as the governor of Massachusetts, and Joe Walsh, a conservative radio host and former congressman from Illinois.
"I think we need to have a conversation about what it means to be a Republican. I think that as a Republican party we have lost our way," Sanford told Wallace on Sunday. He also criticized the president and other Washington lawmakers for failing to curb the nation's growing debt and ballooning deficit.
"The president has called himself the 'King of Debt,' has a familiarity and comfort level with debt that I think is ultimately leading us in the wrong direction," he said. Mark Sanford attends the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum on August 28, 2012 in Tampa, FloridaSanford, like Walsh and Weld, has been highly critical of Trump and his policies and had previously launched an exploratory committee ahead of his official campaign announcement.
"It's true that the five presidents running for reelection who had a primary challenge all lost or dropped out. They didn't lose the primary but they all lost for reelection," Weld pointed out inFor his part, Trump has already started mocking his challengers, dubbing them the"three stooges."
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