{"id":649,"date":"2018-06-14T05:08:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elementor.frenify.net\/?p=649"},"modified":"2018-06-14T05:08:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T05:08:45","slug":"trump-takes-credit-for-sanford-loss-in-south-carolina-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/trump-takes-credit-for-sanford-loss-in-south-carolina-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump takes credit for Sanford loss in South Carolina primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"el__leafmedia el__leafmedia--sourced-paragraph\">\n<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">President Donald Trump took credit Wednesday for state Rep. Katie Arrington&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2018\/06\/12\/politics\/tuesday-primaries-south-carolina-virginia-nevada-north-dakota-maine\/index.html\">projected win<\/a>\u00a0over incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford in the South Carolina Republican primary.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">&#8220;My political representatives didn&#8217;t want me to get involved in the Mark Sanford primary thinking that Sanford would easily win &#8211; but with a few hours left I felt that Katie was such a good candidate, and Sanford was so bad, I had to give it a shot,&#8221; Trump wrote on Twitter, while also congratulating Arrington.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">Trump had endorsed Arrington in a tweet hours before the polls in South Carolina closed Tuesday and also attacked Sanford for being &#8220;very unhelpful to me in my campaign to MAGA.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph\">Sanford has publicly criticized Trump, at one point saying Trump had &#8220;fanned the flames of intolerance.&#8221; On Tuesday, he noted that it&#8217;s &#8220;fairly unusual&#8221; for a president to weigh in as Trump did and saying he&#8217;s &#8220;neither for nor against Trump,&#8221; but instead bases his decisions and comments on his political values.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump took credit Wednesday for state Rep. Katie Arrington&#8217;s\u00a0projected win\u00a0over incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford in the South Carolina Republican primary. &#8220;My political representatives didn&#8217;t want me to get involved in the Mark Sanford primary thinking that Sanford would easily win &#8211; but with a few hours left I felt that Katie was such [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,22,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-snp","category-ukip","category-us-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frenify.com\/work\/envato\/frenify\/plugin\/elementor\/1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}