Former President Donald Trump to deliver remarks in Summerville

SUMMERVILLE, S.C. (WCBD) – Former President Donald Trump is set to deliver remarks Monday during a now sold-out campaign event in Summerville.

Trump, who is the Republican frontrunner in the 2024 race for the White House, will speak to supporters while at Sportsman Boats. Doors will open for ticketholders at noon with the former president set to appear at 3:00 p.m.

He is expected to be joined by state and local leaders.

Monday afternoon’s visit will mark Donald Trump’s second visit to South Carolina in only two months. He served as the keynote speaker for the South Carolina Republican Party’s annual Silver Elephant fundraiser in August.

The event came just days after he pleaded guilty to charges alleging that he conspired to defraud the government and sought to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Trump also held a rally that attracted a massive crowd in a small South Carolina city over the Fourth of July weekend.

“There’s nowhere else I’d rather be to kick off the Fourth of July weekend than right here on Main Street, with thousands of hardworking South Carolina patriots who believe in God, family, and country,” Trump said during the rally in downtown Pickens. The city’s police chief estimated there were somewhere between 50-55,000 people in attendance.

Republicans in South Carolina have long supported the former president. He won the state during the February 2016 primary in the race for the party’s nomination and again surged in support during the election against Hillary Clinton. He kept the state red during the presidential contest against Joe Biden in 2020.

But he will face two candidates with strong South Carolina ties in the upcoming February 2024 primary.

U.S. Senator Tim Scott is a Lowcountry native who began his career in politics serving on Charleton County Council and worked his way to serving in the United States Senate. Nikki Haley represented South Carolina House District 87 from January 2005 until January 2011 when she was elected the state’s 116^th governor and served until January 2017.

Haley left the governor’s office to serve as the 29^th U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under the Trump Administration.

The South Carolina Republican presidential primary will be held on February 24, 2024.