http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a MSN - AP World Copyright © 2010-2018 The Canadian Press. All rights reserved. http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Tue, 23 Sep 2025 06:01:48 +0000 http://syn2.thecanadianpress.com:8080/mrss/feed/fcf7391a2f354311807f0501c16bde6a/621daca416594d39a6729fe15eb22d8d Mark Sanford dropped his challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, saying the focus on impeachment has made it difficult for his campaign to gain traction. (Nov. 12) 621daca416594d39a6729fe15eb22d8d Tue, 12 Nov 2019 22:34:27 +0000 RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLYSHOTLIST:++AUDIO AS INCOMING++ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLYConcord, New Hampshire - 12 November 20191. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sanford, former Governor of South Carolina:"I think the idea that I believe in, which is we're spending too much money in Washington, D.C., we're accumulating debt and deficits are going to have a profound consequence in people's lives. And where do we go from here? So I'm going to suspend my campaign and I'm going to look for other ways in which to advance this incredibly timely, important, but now out of season issue."++WHITE FLASH++2. SOUNDBITE (English) Mark Sanford, former Governor of South Carolina:""What I said from the beginning was, you know, it was a long shot, but we wanted to try and interject this issue, how much we're spending into the national debate, which comes along every four years. It is my profound view that we do not have another five years to wait on this topic. If we wait to have a debate on the debt and deficit and government spending for five years, I think it'll be too late, I think the financial markets will do as they've always done and they will correct the problem for us. But there will be a world of hurt for every one of us. Again, we are walking our way toward the most predictable financial crisis in the history of man. And again, I think it's telling that Admiral Mike Mullen, who is the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, when asked what's the biggest threat to American security? Answers that it's not the Chinese, not the Russians, not the Taliban. His answer was the American debt. So, again, we're at an unusual political time. Impeachments come along quite so rarely. But one came along and I think it's it's -- to some degree a casualty of the impeachment process, but of a different color, different flavor."++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++STORYLINE: Mark Sanford dropped his challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, saying the focus on impeachment has made it difficult for his campaign to gain traction.The former South Carolina governor and congressman announced his decision to suspend his campaign on the eve of televised impeachment hearings in the U.S. House. He centered his campaign on warnings about the national debt but emphasized that the impeachment effort hurt his 2020 bid."It was a long shot, but we wanted to try and interject this issue, how much we're spending, into the national debate which comes along once every four years," Sanford said. Sanford's departure from the race is the latest blow to the struggling "Never Trump" movement that has failed to attract a marquee GOP challenge for Trump this cycle. The only major options available for Never Trump Republican primary voters are now former Massachusetts Gov. William Weld and former Illinois Rep. Joe Walsh.Sanford did not commit to supporting either of the challengers' campaigns Tuesday.===========================================================Clients are reminded: (i) to check the terms of their licence agreements for use of content outside news programming and that further advice and assistance can be obtained from the AP Archive on: Tel +44 (0) 20 7482 7482 Email: info@aparchive.com(ii) they should check with the applicable collecting society in their Territory regarding the clearance of any sound recording or performance included within the AP Television News service (iii) they have editorial responsibility for the use of all and any content included within the AP Television News service and for libel, privacy, compliance and third party rights applicable to their Territory. Mark Sanford dropped his challenge to President Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination on Tuesday, saying the focus on impeachment has made it difficult for his campaign to gain traction. (Nov. 12) Mark Sanford ending 2020 GOP presidential bid