Newsom to head to South Carolina next week to speak to Southern voters as his flirtation with 2028 grows [View all]

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California Governor Gavin Newsom will visit Trump strongholds in South Carolina next week, in a two-day trip seen by many as a prelude to a long-rumored 2028 presidential campaign. The Democrat’s trip to the state, which went for Trump in 2024, will see him visit rural counties, including Pickens County, where the president won 76 percent of the vote last year.

South Carolina has been the first Democratic presidential primary on the calendar, and has a large share of Black voters, a core part of the Democratic base.

“Governor Newsom leads the largest economy in America and the fourth largest in the world, and he’s coming to meet folks in towns that have been hollowed out by decades of Republican control,” state Democratic party chair Christale Spain, said in a statement to The Hill on Thursday. “This is about building partnerships, uplifting communities, and showing rural voters they aren’t forgotten.”

The trip will see the governor, perhaps the country’s most prominent Democrat outside of Washington, visit settings including cafes, coffee shops, churches and the Kershaw County Council on Aging, according to an itinerary obtained by the state’s Post and Courier newspaper.

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