the maximum allowed by south carolina law in 2012, he got engaged to his soulmate, maria baelyn's chap and then the following year, he ran again and won his old congressional seat back once left for dead and the political wilderness, mark sanford blazed a comeback trail that will take him all the way to washington. >> i just want to acknowledge a oh god, not just a second cancers, but third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth chances. because that is the reality of our shared humanity. >> i think that we've learned that voters can be really forgiving and we love to watch the fall. but man, we really love a good comeback right? >> marks re-entry into politics wasn't stumble free in 2014, he broke up with maria via a 2,300 word post on facebook but? after all that it was in 2018 that sanford finally fate of faux, he could not bounce back from when he denounced trumpism as bad for the republican party. and trump clapped back in a tweet donald trump endorsed sanford's opponent in the gop primary race and for the first time in his entire political life, sanford lost sanford lost his prim