Fox News’ Chris Wallace delved into some personal details today with Mark Sanford, days after his victory over Elizabeth Colbert Busch in the race to fill the open seat in South Carolina’s first congressional district.
“You are now engaged to the woman with whom you had the affair,” Wallace noted, “and she made an appearance at your victory party, which raised some eyebrows. Question: what did your boys think of that, your four boys, and have they accepted her?” Sanford declined to answer the question, but Wallace pressed forged ahead, asking whether he and his mistress-turned-fiance, Maria Belen-Chapur, have set a wedding date and whether she will follow him to Washington.
“I feel like I’m the National Enquirer,” Wallace conceded. “Exactly, is this Fox News, or the National Enquirer?” Sanford shot back.
He again declined to answer, but managed to keep a smile on his face throughout the uncomfortable exchange.
Sanford on Tuesday emerged from the special election to fill Tim Scott’s House seat with a comfortable margin of victory, defeating Colbert Bush by nine points, 54-45 percent.
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