Feel the Chern: Bernie Sanders supporter Dimitri Cherny challenges Mark Sanford in GOP primary

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2. Whoopie. Cook has Sanford's 1st district solidly red, or

"likely Republican." Sanford is sitting on $1.5 million.

Our Democratic candidate is a newcomer, Joe Cunningham, a construction law attorney.

In the Charleston-area race for the 1st Congressional District seat held by Sanford, the incumbent maintained a comfortable advantage over both of his two Republican and Democrat challengers, though the new contenders continued to show signs of growth.

GOP primary challenger Katie Arrington, a state representative from Summerville, raised $154,000 total, but $110,000 of that came from personal money.

With five months before the June 12 primary, she had more than $236,000 in the bank.

Democrat Joe Cunningham raised $115,000 and had almost $100,000 in his campaign account by the end of the year.

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/one-s-c-democrat-tops-gop-congressional-incumbent-in-fundraising/article_91f1a4a6-0704-11e8-8b88-933d48bb9f82.html

As for this guy, Cherny was the Democratic candidate in 2016 and got 36%. That's probably the baseline of people who wouldn't vote Republican. Wonder how a more mainstream candidate, someone who wasn't searching for a "planet B" to move to once we trash this one, would have done.