Trump's reference to a “flaming dancer” might be a misspelling of “flamingo dancer,” which might be what Trump thinks “flamenco dancers” are called
Mark Sanford hopes to topple Trump. Photo: William B. Plowman/NBC via Getty Images Mark Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman, announced Sunday that he’ll become the third Republican to challenge Donald Trump for the party’s 2020 presidential nomination. Like the other two, Sanford is an extreme long shot, but that didn’t stop Trump from lobbing an attack over his affair with a woman he incorrectly described as a “flaming dancer.
Despite serving several terms in Congress in the ’90s, two terms as South Carolina’s governor, and then returning to Congress in 2011, Sanford is still best known for disappearing from Columbia for a week in the summer of 2009. At the time, his staff explained he was on a hiking trip. That wasn’t true. Sanford, who was married at the time, was in Argentina with his “soul mate,” Maria Belén Chapur.
Sanford joins former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld and former tea party congressman Joe Walsh in the Republican primary against Trump. And while none of them has much of a chance to dent Trump’s support, Sanford said Monday that, as a bloc, the “Three Stooges,” as Trump labeled them this morning, send a powerful message.
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