Mount Pleasant Magazine Sept-Oct 2018

59 www.VoteBestOfMP.com | www.MountPleasantMagazine.com | www.ClemsonCarolinaTickets.com feature M arshall Clement Sanford Jr. never lost an election until June 2018, when he was unseated in the 1st District Republican primary by State Rep. Katie Arrington, a staunch supporter of President Donald Trump. In his own words, Mark Sanford, as he is known to the people he represented as governor of South Carolina and during two separate stints in the U.S. House, “I wasn’t Trump enough in the age of Trump.” Politically speaking, in the end, Sanford said his greatest strength turned out to be his most glaring weakness. Though he agreed with the president on most issues, Sanford spoke out against drilling for oil off the BY BRIAN SHERMAN Not T rump Enough Sanford’s StrengthWas Also HisWeakness Photo by Brian Sherman.