You’re the guy who is running against Trump,” Sanford recalled the farmer saying. William Weld and former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh of Illinois — and a budding impeachment inquiry into his actions, President Trump appears unlikely to be seriously challenged from inside his own party. The South Carolina Republican Party canceled its primary election, costing Sanford a chance to campaign with a home-field advantage. Lumping him with the other Republican challengers, Trump taunted them as “the Three Stooges.”Cautions about deficit spending used to be the common currency among Republicans and Trump. We need to have a conversation about spending and debt, which Republicans just don’t talk about anymore.”

Source: Los Angeles Times October 07, 2019 12:56 UTC