Mark Sanford prepared to be a human piñata in 2020 primary GOP fight against President Trump
by Naomi Lim
| August 19, 2019 05:03 PM
Mark Sanford is prepared to become President Trump's political punching bag should he decide to challenge the White House incumbent for the 2020 Republican nomination.
"Nobody relishes being nicknamed by the president, but you know what? What I relish even less is us going into a financial spiral and the opportunities that my boys would otherwise have not being there. I think that that’s a much greater peril," Sanford, the former South Carolina governor and congressman told the Washington Examiner.
Sanford, 59, infamously disappeared from public view for almost a week in 2009 during his second term as his state's chief executive. Sanford had escaped to South America to see his Argentine mistress. He failed to check in which his then-wife and mother of his four children, Jenny Sanford, expediting their separation. The episode provided plenty of fodder for late night TV hosts, as the original excuse cited by Sanford's gubernatorial staff for his absence, "hiking the Appalachian Trail," was exposed as a lie to the public
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