President Trump greets more than 100 SC supporters after early RNC remarks
President Donald Trump made a quick plane change in South Carolina Monday after he spoke at the mostly virtual Republican National Convention in Charlotte, where he and Vice President Mike Pence were formally nominated to seek second terms in office.
Waving to a crowd of more than 100 people behind a barricade — most wearing red T-shirts and “Make America Great Again” hats — Trump took Marine One to a hangar at Greenville-Spartanburg International Airport before heading back to Washington.
Some in the crowd wore masks, but many were seen without the protective measure against COVID-19.
Trump did not speak to the crowd, but waved and pumped his fist before boarding Air Force One back to Washington with his daughter and senior advisor, Ivanka Trump, and White House chief-of-staff Mark Meadows, a former North Carolina congressman.
The president spoke briefly Monday from the Republican National Convention stage in Charlotte.
He spoke for nearly an hour, trailing from COVID-19 to Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and mail-in voting.
“Be very, very careful,” Trump said Monday. “This is the most important election in the history of the country. Don’t let them take it away from you.”
South Carolina’s Republican Gov. Henry McMaster led the state’s nominating roll call vote and the state’s six-person delegation that included Republican National Committee members Cindy Costa and Glenn McCall and S.C. GOP chairman Drew McKissick.
Nikki Haley, former S.C. governor and U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, and U.S. Sen. Tim Scott will speak Monday night.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
This story was originally published August 24, 2020 at 6:32 PM.
