Hillary Clinton coming to South Carolina next month

Hillary Clinton will make her first trip to South Carolina as a 2016 Democratic presidential candidate next month.

The former Secretary of the State and U.S. senator will likely travel to Columbia and Charleston for small events, according to a source who could not be identified because the trip has not been formally announced by the campaign.

No date has been set for her visit to the state with the first presidential primary in the South.

Several news reports have suggested that Clinton, who finished a distant second to then-U.S. Sen. Barack Obama in the 2008 S.C. Democratic primary, does not plan many trips to the Palmetto State.

Clinton has already visited other early-primary states, Iowa and New Hampshire, since announcing her bid last week. She held roundtables with students, educators and small-business owners in those states.

Clinton’s campaign has assured state Democratic party chairman Jaime Harrison that she will not, as he put it, “take South Carolina for granted.”

“South Carolina will not get the short end of the stick,” Harrison said.

This story was originally published April 22, 2015 at 11:50 AM with the headline "Hillary Clinton coming to South Carolina next month."