Former South Carolina congressman and Donald Trump adversary Mark Sanford announced Tuesday that he is considering a run for president, telling The Post and Courier that he would spend the next month deciding whether to formally launch a campaign.
Sanford was pushed out of office by a primary challenger in 2018 after Trump urged voters not to support him, calling him “nothing but trouble” and resurfacing an extramarital affair he had more than a decade before.
Still, the South Carolinian maintained that he is taking his run seriously, telling the Post and Courier that he felt “convicted” to do so because of his alarm over the nation's finances.
"I'm a Republican. I think the Republican Party has lost its way on debt, spending and financial matters," Sanford said.
Only one Republican — former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld — has so far announced a presidential challenge to Trump.
"Sometimes in life you've got to say what you've got to say, whether there's an audience or not for that message," he told the Post and Courier.
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