Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) on Sunday said that President Donald Trump’s threats to support primary challengers against members of Congress who don’t vote for his legislative agenda are “counterproductive.”
“He sent as his emissary Mick Mulvaney, who I’ve known for a long time,” Sanford said on CNN’s “State of the Union,” referring to Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney.
“He said, ‘The President hopes you vote against this, because he wants to run somebody against you if you do,'” Sanford said.
He said Trump has “made those kinds of threats to any number of different members within the conference.”
“You know, it all I guess fits in love, war and politics,” Sanford said. “But I don’t think it’s particularly productive to his own legislative agenda, and we’ll see what comes.”
“I don’t work for him,” he added, referring to Trump. “I work for about 750,000 people in the first congressional district.”
Rep. @MarkSandford says President Trump has made threats to him and others and it's not "particularly productive" https://t.co/IWpPjOK0Zq
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