President Trump to visit SC later this month
President Donald Trump is coming to South Carolina to stump for Gov. Henry McMaster.
Trump will campaign in Greenville on Oct. 16, according to two sources familiar with the president’s visit.
Trump has been expected to return to the Palmetto State to help McMaster campaign for governor since the Richland Republican took office in January.
The visit is one way for Trump to pay back McMaster for his support during South Carolina’s pivotal first-in-the-South presidential primary in February 2016.
Before that primary, McMaster became the first statewide-elected official in the nation to endorse Trump, earning himself a spot on the Republican National Convention stage in Cleveland last summer.
Jamie Self: 803-771-8658, @jamiemself
This story was originally published October 5, 2017 at 3:29 PM with the headline "President Trump to visit SC later this month."