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“We are to cower before the people who elected us, and I get their verdict tonight,” Mr. Sanford said, reading from scribbled notes on a legal pad, as it became clear he would lose his House race against Katie Arrington in South Carolina’s Republican primary. “There’s a different feel to this race, based on something that I’ve never experienced before, which is at times being hit not on ideas that I’ve espoused or held, but based on allegiance,” Mr. Sanford said earlier in the day as he campaigned. He endorsed Ms. Arrington, but also included a pointed dig at Mr. Sanford’s personal life. “He is better off in Argentina,” the president wrote. It is not clear how many voters saw the president’s 11th-hour endorsement and how many of them it swayed. People called him Mark. “Meanwhile, you find yourself in a Republican primary where you’re not ‘Trump enough.’ It’s like you can’t win these days, in terms of trying to talk about ideas.” Mr. Sanford stuck with an old-school strategy, content with what he noted proudly had worked before and the time before that and the time before that, but Ms. Arrington summoned a political strength that by turns mesmerized and infuriated his voters and supporters. “Mark Sanford and the career politicians cheated on us,” she said in one commercial. “It’s another profile in Trump courage.” By the time Mr. Trump had set Mr. Sanford’s supporters seething anew, the congressman had sensed that he was in political jeopardy. On Tuesday night, it became clear that was not enough.