Here's what Sanford said about voting for Trump against a Democrat for 2020

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Former congressman Mark Sanford is mulling a long-shot bid for the GOP primary and says the President doesn't deserve to be re-elected. But if it comes to voting for Trump or a Democrat, Sanford says he'd back the President.

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The former South Carolina representative is mulling a long-shot bid against Trump for the Republican primary and he told NBC on"Meet the Press" Sunday that the President doesn't deserve to be reelected because Trump is taking the country in the"wrong direction." Sanford said there needs to be a"course correction." But if it comes to voting for Trump or a Democrat, Sanford said he would have to back the President.

Republican warns Trump: A big storm is coming 02:06In July, Sanford told CNN's Brianna Keilar he would explore a possible candidacy. He said there has been"no discussion of debt, deficit and government spending in Washington these days," and that would be a focal point of his candidacy. At the time, the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party, Drew McKissick, said in a statement,"The last time Mark Sanford had an idea this dumb, it killed his Governorship.

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Trump 'supporters' are mindless cultists. They are lost to sane society. They need to be shunned, ignored and left to rot. They are incapable of learning. They are incapable of improving things. They are stupid puppets that exist to be manipulated and thrown away every election.

donlemon So Don is licking up to a white supremacist and Nazi on his Sideshow, Give the people a break from all this bullshit, No-One can Challenge President Trump they are all either Swamp Creatures or Democratic Socialists.

donlemon WHO

donlemon why don’t you take a week off and go to South America to think it over

donlemon Why is this guy talking to a sexual predator like D. Lemon? He grabbed his scrotum and anus then put them under a young mans nose. Lemon is a sick sexual predator!

donlemon 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

donlemon LOL, the racist evangelicals that make the GOP base have their orange Fuhrer and they will stay with him to the bitter end.

donlemon Take a hike Mark! To late you’ve used that one already. Keep banging the mistress.

donlemon Im sure Trump is shaking in his boots..lol

donlemon He was a Good south Carolina governor go for IT .you will be a Good president

donlemon Do it, Mark. Do it. 🙂

donlemon Whoo!

donlemon

He is just a republicon with no courage or caring for America, just caring for his wallet. Sir your ten minutes are up.

I’d vote for a lizard before I’d vote for Trump.

This is the guy from Netflix TheFamily right..........shocker that he’s still back him. All scum.

Don’t cry for me Argentina.

Weak

Get 9n ballot ! We’ll discuss it!

This is just outrageous double talk scare of Trump piece of s**t

Ok, well if it boils down to you saying you’d vote for Trump even if he doesn’t deserve to be re-elected, then why the hell would you run against the man?! Makes no god damn sense! Sit down Sanford and STFU.

CountryOverParty does not apply to this people.

Oh for god sake just shut up - shallow and meaningless

SANFORD should definitely run!!!!! ⏳🏃🏽‍♂️🇺🇸

The reason Republicans in congress are totally disgusting and an embarrassment to our country

Shut up&sit down!he says TRUMP don't deserve re-election but he does🙄Yet his next breath,he would VOTE for TRUMP again,WTF does that mean?UGH😲Take a hike AnotherLoser

But he offered this caveat— the first primary debate has to be in Buenos Aires.

Cause that makes sense ... not

These republicans are so stupid

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Trump is a better choice over any Democrat. Period!

So why run, Mark? You’ll get slaughtered in the primary. Must be cash and Argentinian women with low self-esteem in it for you.

Okay.... Bring it on. This is what the GOP needs to do. Give the moderates options.

I call BS. He’s a decoy to get gop voters that don’t want Trump but might vote for a Dem.

I always vote for most qualified! Just goes to show he’s just not thinking. Trump is definitely NOT qualified. Country before party!

He’s a goof! Not even a good liar!

Where is the logic in that statement?

Then go away.

More like confused

Thank you MarkSanford for letting everyone know ahead of time that you are spineless.

Republicans continue to vote against their own interests to spite those they oppose. America deserves the trump presidency, it has unveiled the hatred white America has for foreign people who call themselves American.

Then why are we talking about it?

So just shut up because you can’t beat him.

Most idiotic logic if you can call it logic.

This is the attention that Sanford deserves.

That's the problem with idiot GOPer's.

That's B.S.!!!!!!

Party over country. Thanks. You just buried yourself.

Idiot! MarkSanford

A long shot? Understatement of the year.

2 men that love to cheater going at it

Then don’t bother trying to make a bad situation worse!!!

Next.

Opportunist but not real patriot

Go back to Argentina Mark.

So he doesn’t deserve 2 B Pres but U hate ppl who care about oths so much U would vote for a man who has ruin Country. U R a fool marksa so it’s Party over USA Y isn’t this treasonous?

I think MarkSanford needs to just keep hiking the Appalachian Trail

MarkSanford makes no sense! Saying that you will still vote for Trump who has proven to be a Con Man & totally Unfit for Office is disqualifying to be a challenger. Stop insulting our Intelligence! 2016 was an experiment w/ Trump winning. 2020 we will not be fooled again!

Don’t bite off your nose to spite your face

Which disqualifies him. Do people listen to what they are saying?

So what was ur point congressman

MarkSanford - don't waste your time running for pres. If your plan is to vote for that racist pig in the White House, then you are complicit in his racism and hatred. I might reconsider that vote of yours.

A LOT of the country feels that way.

What is this guy's claim to fame? Oh, yeah...

He has to say that. But to run against him is huge. Go Sanford!

lololo. well there it is. its not cowardice. its not fear. its racism and greed. he only wants him out so that they could go back to racism and greed under the table.

WGAF!!

Mark Sanford needs to go back to being retired.

Well Sanford, voting again for Trump is a fail.

Proof that boomers have lost their minds

Secret Fox News polls done for a worried Murdoch show Trump couldn’t even beat Lassie if Election was held today so old guard GOP polishing up a Romney/Huntsman primary challenge on the QT.

This isn't news. This has been the GOP playbook since 2016.

Isn't this the FakeChristian 'evangelical' Appalachian Trail walking S. Carolina Governor who was in Argentina, cheating on his wife and 4 little kids? Then refused to resign? Then got elected to the House? NOW he invokes principle? So what's your opinion of that? Republicons.

Total ignorance to vote for an abomination just to keep a Republican in office no matter how vile.🤮

'The Family!'🤦‍♂️Duh!

That’s a non starter

LOL

Who?

It should be a no-brainer for everyone; hold your nose and vote Trump or get an avowed socialist who openly promotes destroying not only the economy, but our very way of life.

Sanford should just go away.

Quick Sanford

Okay that's stupid saying he doesn't deserve to be reelected but then will vote for him still...

What a Pendejo

Yeah he's not all that and a bag of chips either.

This is ridiculous. Sanford“went missing”& then it was determined that he was in Argentina cheating on his wife. These people actually think they can do whatever they want because they are “chosen” by God. We deserve better. VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare VoteBlueToSaveAmerica

RUN! Give it a shot. You have nothing to lose.

Reply to mr.sanford

M Sandford is Donald Trump 2.0. Presidential application closed to known cheaters at this time.

The rest of us are voting for Donald Trump

And we can all wash down that bold statement with a half glass of tepid water!

Well put, 'if it comes to voting for Trump or a Democrat, Sanford said he'd vote for Trump.' That's how pathetic the Democratic Party politics have become! Are any Democrats actually listening to the crap the candidates are saying?

Another party over people candidate. No thanks.

That puts him in the same boat as his spineless colleagues.

I’ll take slow news day for $500, Alex.

What happened to his “soul mate”?

Sanford was almost to a backable point. Then he said he’d vote for Trump. Weak.

He is who he is, a man with no moral compass.

Sanford is a moran!

In what world is trump a better choice than ANY of the democratic candidates? Insanity.

This is why our political system needs to be fixed. He will vote for his party even though he says Trump doesn't deserve to be president. Really? If you believe this then vote for someone else! Vote for country not party!

Another Candyassed (former) member of Congress! 🙄 Hold that party line Fool! 😂 May be that statement just cost him his “bid”! Like 45, Some adulterous men just don’t know when to quit! 😏 just sayin ‘

Oh the President deserves to be elected all right!

Then he doesn’t deserve a presidential bid.

So, he’s not worthy either.

Huh?

Then don't bother to waste our time.

Help me understand how any Democrat could be worse than Trump? Which ideology (or is it several) is untenable...worse than Trump?

He does know we remember who Mark Sanford is and what he has done in the past. No, thank you!

Sanford is a walking contradiction. How in the hell call Trump doesn't deserve to be re-elected in one breath, but in the next breath, back Trump over any Democrat? Typical non-sense from these GOP types.

Wasting his time and will be finished in politics

He was selfish when he chose cheating over family & he’s still putting self interest ahead of country. Fuck anyone who thinks more trump is better than a democrat.

Proving that Mark Sanford was, and still is, above all else, an idiot.

All one has to do is look at those heavy sagging TRUMP'S Eye Bags hanging there ! Mark Sanford is so very Typical Repubican Party Flunky ! They're all ScaredShitless of Their Lord & Savior Donzie Scheming Trump ! No different than being Slaves to This POTUS White Nationalist

Then don’t bother Sanford! What a joke. MakeAmericaTrumpFree

Trump has a higher backing of Republican voters than even Reagan had. Shows the delusion of ppl that don’t live out in the real world. Sure this clown or Bernie would do good against the Chinese... that’s laughable

And I will back an Oreo cookie over Trump.

The GOP in a nutshell.

Then don’t bother MarkSanford

They don’t care enough to actually do the right thing, and get him out of there.

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Anyway Trump has been a very good president.

Another typical wishy-washy Republican. He tries to be honorable and disagree with realDonaldTrump, but when the going gets going, he’ll vote him right back into office. PHONY.

Shows how the GOP works and thinks. Party over the well being of the people they have sworn to protect. Trump could commit the most vile crime and the GOP would dismiss it and vote for him. Amazing, simply amazing.

Should kept that to himself. Ugh!

Take a hike congressman.

Well, there's a reason he wasn't hiking the Appalachian trail.

Trump trump trump trump 2020 2020 2020 2020

Only Trump.

Sanford is talking from both sides of his mouth! Where I come from, we call that “double talk”! Mr. Sanford is not ready to revamp or revive the dying GOP! Like all of them, he is equally scared of trump’s tongue lashing & he has reasons to be!

Stop splitting hairs, Sanford. You’re making no sense.

Take a hike, bro.

Dummy

Do not vote for Sanford. Terrible person.

Another loon GOP from South Carolina. No discussion necessary.

Not good enough. Identity crisis perhaps?

That’s what’s wrong with the Country now. Strict party lines no matter if it’s wrong or not. I don’t see how some of you people sleep at night.

Just another creep who will take your Social Security and Medicare to make up for Trump tax scam deficit.

What!?!? Next?: JohnKasich GovChristie

Take a walk Mark !

Boy.... Not from USA but gotta say . you are really getting weird

This jellyfish is just as confused as a fly in a window! His turn from the Republican Party to say something stupid!

he needs to get lost in the mountains again

Selling his soul to the devil

Go ahead and run Sanford and all you dirty deeds will come out. Another Mitt Romney, a has been trying to be relevant again. A weakling like you could never beat our great president.

Did he get that advise from The Family?

So he rather vote for somebody who “doesn't deserve to be re-elected.” Just another Republican whose loyalty is to the party and not the country. A cult member

Maybe cover some Republicans who are supporting our President Fake News!

Stay home !

WHO!

Does Republicans think that having a pair of balls has become a despicable thing?🤭

Disgusting!

This guys sounds like an arse

So what

And the 2019 winner of the Jeff Flake Profiles in Courage Award goes to......

REALLY

This epitomizes Republican thinking.

Mark needs to make money. Running and losing is his plan. Look at Bernie Sanders he does it every 4 years. Working out very well for his bank account.

Well then, never mind.

THAT MAKES ZERO F*CKING SENSE. But then again, that's A Republican for you; no brain, no pain.

Who’s Mark Stanford?

Then you are as rotten as he!!!!

Sounds good. Through your hat in the ring. Who are you?

Another scumbag getting in line to rape, pillage, and plunder the country and it’s people. EndGOP Pedophiles Rapists Drunks Thieves Extortionists MoneyLaundering HumanTraffickers Traitors Racists Nazis PutinWhores MoneyWhores Liars Incest Kidnapping Scumbags

Here in lies the madness. He believes the guy doesn’t deserve a second term. But-will choose ‘party’ over ‘country’. Sad. Sooo sad.

So you don't think the guys fit to be the president but you'd vote for him if you didn't win against him that's absurd

I hear the Appalachian trail is beautiful this time of year. That’s near Argentina, right?

Who are you

Well then he can go to hell

Wow. So brave. 🤦‍♂️

And there's the problem, MarkSanford - you refuse to acknowledge the Republican party is now lead by a fascist, so if you can't depose him yourself, you'll still place party before country and damn the Republic. Go back to the Appalachian trail, Governor. You're not serious.

Oh FFS

I'll vote for him. Any one who will run for the republican nomination besides Trump has my vote and 1/5 of the current republican party.

The MindSet of Stupidity

And here ladies and gentlemen, lies the problem....

Wha?

Dumb and Dumber!

Coward

Again? and after wall street tanks?

What is everyone trashing him? He has to say he will vote for his party’s nominee. The more votes he gets and the longer the primary fight goes on the more damage to Trump and his re-election fund. Sanford is a patriot and falling on his sword for the good of the country.

You say Trump doesn't deserve yo be re-elected, but you'd rather vote for him than a Democrat. If you put that kind of partisan politics ahead of the good of country, the damage that Trump is doing will only get worse.

This kind of partisan fucknuggetry is what's wrong with the GOP. You don't vote for someone that you admit is unfit to be President. At best, you just don't vote.

AppalachianTrail

Just when I thought he was out...they pull him back in

What a fun guy. Hope he does it. Don't know if he'd consistently turn up 4 debates, etc. seeing as how he has a tendency to wander.

Idiot

What a jerk !

Well. He can’t be expected to be anything more than what he is.

One of the only ways 45 could get the nomination and possibly even win again is to put someone like Sandford against him in the primary, i.e. someone even worse than him.

Sanford is not telling us anything new. We all know a lot of republicans in congress disapprove of trump but money over country seems to be the sentiment across the board

MarkSanford. Please dont be an idiot. I am a Republican of over 40 years! I will not vote for ANY republican or supports Trump his lies his delusions! How can you say he shouldnt be president but I cant vote Democrat. Stop being party loyal and start being loyal to your country!

“He doesn’t deserve to be re-elected but I’ll vote for him?” Conundrum?

In 2016, Trump was the lesser evil. As to Hillary/the Clintons/the liberal left, he still is. I have yet to see a better alternative in the Democratic field for 2020.

For most Republicans supporting the Party is like a religious dogma.

Remember that Mark Sanford is a traitor.

Cuckhold

🤷🏻‍♂️

Mr Sanford: Substitute the word Hitler for Trump, and see if your thinking still makes sense. Yeah, I think the current situation is that dire.

And here I thought this piece of crap emigrated to Brazil to be with his girlfriend. Go away Sanford. No one wants you, anywhere.

Save your time and effort MarkSanford🤡you will be eating DJT’s dust GetMyDrift

Well, if it comes to backing you, or a house fly. I’ll back the fly.

You just destroy your chance because you chose Trump instead of doing something good to our people.

You don't have to love the president. We don't care . If we wanted a crook Hillary Clinton would be President. We have the right person on the job. Trump 2020

Sounds like a lose lose situation. Wonder why he felt the need to announce. He looks lonely. Maybe that’s the reason

You want to attract the anti-trumpets” to vote for you in the primary by telling them you’ll vote for Trump in the general election ?

Who?

MarkSanford this is a moronic line of thought.

This sums up the GOP perfectly. Chef’s kiss!

Mark Sanford is not a serious person.

What possible reason could he have for voting for the demented man in the White House?

Huh... dude just contradicted himself.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your party.

Make America Trumpless Again!!! MarkSanford

Kinda of a contradiction

Saw this guy Sanford in the Netflix doc 'The Family.' He 'disappeared' for about a week while in office & later admitted to having an affair. Why is this guy getting any air time at all?

He seems to be quite an idiot, doesn’t he

With that comment he lost all respect. What a putz!

Penance, not to be confused with Pence.

I needed a good laugh today 😂. Thank you clownNewsNetwork 🤡

That is just the lamest stance to take.

We know he’s awfully confused about morals. SouthCarolina racist

That’s enough to disqualify him right there.

Mark Sanford!! Is This a JOKE!!!

Stupid is as stupid does!

Another “imperfect vessel” appointed by GOD? These people are nuts. No more adulterers in the WH.

MarkSanford Coward!!!!

Sanford just lost all credibility, of the little he had left.

Trump doesn't deserve another term but if he must choose between Trump or Dem Sanford will vote for Trump. ? Dumber than a bag of hammers.

Another spineless GOP that would prefer to see the country burn down than vote for another party. Who said 1984 was fiction.

Looser!!!

Racist

This is exactly what is wrong with politics today.

He doesn’t deserve the nomination if that’s the case. Anybody but Trump

Go away.

What is WRONG with them?!

Well that tells me all I need to know about Sanford

Well that is just stupid!

Isn’t this the unfaithful clown from the Bible Belt? Ridiculous he still bleeding the system as congressman

Yuk! Just yuk...

Him and Scaramucci can finger each other

Netflix, The Family. Sandford is a shill..

If he doesn’t deserve to be elected why vote for him? My god the GOP are idiots.

Let him go back on the Appalachian Trail.

Sorry Mark. Your shipped sailed a long time ago. I’d vote for you over Dotard, but I’d vote for anyone other than him. And, just saying you’d back Drumpf guarantees no vote for you.

🤪

what a joka (british accent)

So basically he has no morality and stands for nothing just like the rest of the GOP. Got it.

The Family.

So an undeserving Republican is preferable to a Democrat.

So what’s the point then?

🤪👎🏻 GOP SANFORD 🥴🐀

With that kind of conviction, you’d might as well stay home Mr Sanford.

Of come on - can’t Republicans do better than Mr Hiking the Appalachian Trail?

The kind of tribal thinking that got us where we are.

Well, then we know Sanford will back his corrupt party no matter what, and we don't give him the time of day.

This is the funniest and yet saddest thing you can hear from someone who supposedly opposes Trump!!!

Yes. Because a wealthy guy supports a guy that supports the wealthy - more tax cuts for corporations and its CEO.

This is what’s wrong with our country. He ‘doesn’t deserve to be RE-elected’ but would vote for him if he is the party’s candidate.. all about that $$$$$

It's not party over country. It's to elect the lesser damage and the Dems' candidates, especially the socialist wing, it's certainly worst than Trump.

Coward

MarkSanford is an incredible asshole he seems to think the American people won't notice the hypocrisy if his saying Trump is not good 4 America in one breathe but if trump's the nominee he will vote 4 him... i guess this is how he justified his extramarital affair

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Then he’s better off “hiking the Appalachian Trail”, in my opinion.

Why give him an audience just so he can contradict himself.

I guess he is not qualified for the job either. Judgement.

This is the GOP. sheep

Disqualifying.

The egos of these men are ridiculous and disturbing

Ya a real patriotic republican , shame on all of u

So, Mark Sanford admits that if faced with a choice, he'd vote for the white supremacist? Unreal.

These GOP pols taking 'brave' stands against DJT are so pathetic. 'I'm going to challenge, but ultimately vote for, a guy who's personally attacked me more often - and more viciously - than he has Bernie Sanders.'

Just when you thought he had standards...... 🤪

How This dude lied about his whereabouts so he could visit his mistress. Now he thinks he can beat Trump? HE IS TRUMP! GTFOH

Mark FCKING Sanford?

Republicans need an UN flawed moderate conservative

Party over country. The new motto of the GOP

What idiot would vote for a DEMOCRAT

Vote for Pres Trump so we can flourish If congress can get some new republicans wed b all set The crazy Dems are going to ruin everything good

Um...stupidity runs high in the GOP.

He is a waste of time & energy

Just as bad as what we have now. Birds of a feather.

No thank you C street punk.

If you can overlook the racism and still vote for Trump, guess what? You're a racist.

What?

Unbelievable. What happened to backbone in the .GOP? If a person is unfit, don’t you do a disservice to the country to allow him to keep destroying it? How do you reconcile the two? Seriously 😳?

I’m shocked that this man has no integrity. Just shocked

Cnn .... pathetic each and every day

What a shocker.

Black ppl need to exercise the southern strategy these white men are not for us it don’t matter if their democrat republicans or independents Look at cnns own polls They are born racist it’s genetic

cuck

Pathetic.

Ugh. Fool

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