President Donald Trump called former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford on Tuesday and asked him to endorse Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) in the state’s August 25 Senate runoff, according to a report.
Trump wanted to keep Republicans from consolidating behind Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC), Graham Nordone’s runoff opponent, and he made the ask on election night. Sanford broke with Trump years ago. That split cost him his House primary in 2018, and he went on to challenge Trump for the 2020 Republican nomination.
Sanford finished fourth on Tuesday. He gave Trump no commitment. That night, he told reporters he did not plan to endorse in the runoff.
T…
Read the full article at BREITBART.COM
