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(30,481 posts) Mon Apr 2, 2018, 08:52 AM Apr 2018

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

The Republican race for U.S. Rep. Mark Sanford's seat in Congress got a juggle Friday when a liberal Democrat jumped in against him.

Dimitri Cherny, a left-leaning backer of Bernie Sanders for president (and who has a Sanders tattoo on his forearm), changed his party allegiance and filed for the 1st Congressional District Republican primary.

"Cherny gets radical," his press announcement said.

https://www.postandcourier.com/politics/feel-the-chern-bernie-sanders-supporter-dimitri-cherny-challenges-mark/article_78c02fb6-3431-11e8-808c-53d1fee40893.html