Former South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford Launches Bid for Lindsey Graham's Seat

I'm Mark Sanford. Lindsey's death is a reminder to all of us of how short and precious life is. My own dad got Lou Gehrig's disease when I was in high school, and this notion of all of us having just a little time has always hit me hard. We're stewards of our lives, and the things that we love are just a short time. I'm now a dad and a granddad, and I'm worried for our children because for the first time, America's borrowing from the future faster than we're building it. We'll add about a trillion dollars to the national debt over the next 100 days, and if left unaddressed, that debt'll crush our economy, it'll wipe out our savings, and it could even destroy our republic. Our ability to afford things, inflation, and the way people struggle to build a life are but symptoms of spending beyond our means as a country. We're the tipping point, and that's why I've decided to run for the U.S. Senate. I'd ask that you look at my record in Congress and as governor and watching out for your family's future. I was ranked first in all of Congress in efforts to protect your wallet or pocketbook. As governor, we held the line on spending as no governor before or since has ever done. We acted as a steward, whether in reforms of government, in things like your time at a DMV office, or in protecting the lands of South Carolina that so many of us have walked, hunted, or fished on over the years. I won't belabor the point, but the bottom line is that our founding fathers and those who fought to protect our country's ideals have given us a mighty birthright. We borrow it for a time from those who will follow us. And I'm here to ask that you join us in this effort to get Washington's finances back in order so that, indeed, our children might be able to live the American dream.