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by WILL FOLKS
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Former South Carolina governor Mark Sanford – whose failed presidential bid in 2020 made him a pariah with the MAGA wing of the Republican Party – is mulling a U.S. Senate bid against long-serving incumbent Lindsey Graham.
According to our sources, Sanford’s contemplated U.S. Senate bid is being pushed by many of the same forces that backed former lieutenant governor André Bauer‘s aborted campaign against Graham last summer. Bauer entered the race last July – and promptly exited it a little more than a month later.
Graham – who has already been endorsed by Donald Trump – is currently being challenged by Upstate businessman Mark Lynch and Project 2025 architect Paul Dans in his bid for a fifth, six-year term in Washington D.C.
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Earlier this week, Sanford’s supporters conducted a poll which tested his backing among Republican primary voters in the Palmetto State.
That survey threw several jabs at the incumbent senator, accusing him of using his office “to make himself rich” and to amass a “multi-million dollar fortune.”
The poll also referred to Graham as an “out-of-touch globalist” who criticized Trump on numerous issues – and who personally attacked Trump during his 2016 candidacy as “a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.”
The poll also highlighted Graham’s longstanding support for open borders.
Were he to run, Sanford – a former two-term governor and two-time congressman – would bring statewide name identification and a war chest with more than $1 million to a campaign against Graham. He would also bring a metric ton of baggage, however… and would likely draw a sharp rebuke from the notoriously vindictive Trump.
Should he decide to run, the race would likely become very personal as Graham is the godfather to Sanford’s youngest son, Blake Sanford.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR…
Will Folks is the founding editor of the news outlet you are currently reading. Prior to founding FITSNews, he served as press secretary to the governor of South Carolina. He lives in the Midlands region of the state with his wife and eight children.
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17 comments
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There is at least one good man running against Lindseypoo, Mr Lynch. We do not need Sanford’s buffoonery added to the mix.
Lynch is not good. He’s a religious extremist.
ANYbody, is better than warmongering chickenhawk, Lindsey. Even Sanford, but Sanford has done enough damage to himself and others for one lifetime.
I dunno, Graham is pretty crappy but his trips to Mar-a-Lago are cheaper than whatever junkets Sanfraud will take for Argentina strange.
What is sad, is that his “strange” wasn’t all that hot for South America. I think Marky Mark is into that dried up desiccated, look in his women.
Sanfraud would have a larger room for a bigger cot. It’d be worth it to get rid of LOG. Think of it, the Lov Guv vs LOG Cabin.
He’s still alive?
He Should Run and Rid us of Lindsey SCAM!!
Bahahaha. Seriously Sanford? Stay out of politics. You’ve shown who you are
These comments are hilarious. In the current Grand Old Pedophiles party would his affair even make the news? Probably not. I love watching the weird lines between things you clowns will forgive.
And you’re just a clown….
Good one buddy! You got me. Haha.
He’s only thinking about it to split votes to make sure his buddy gets back in
AC, I think you hit the nail on its head!
At least S.C. would have one heterosexual senator.
He is a statesman and knows and follows the US CONSTITUTION. That is what we need. Graham is not and does not and he has to go. He’s the only one who could beat Graham. Graham is not innocent, pure or even or American for God’s sake. I’m voting Mark Sanford. Look how many people support Trump with his flaws and he’s not near the statesman Mark is. Don’t be foolish hung up on personality. These are the days before the fall and we mustn’t fall.