COLUMBIA, S.C. — Donald Trump’s still-new presidential campaign has yet to attract the kind of deep and broad support among Republican voters that the conservative icon could once take for granted, both in South Carolina and across the country.
Just how vulnerable that makes him in next year’s Republican presidential primary is a matter of debate.
The former president returns to South Carolina on Saturday for an event in the statehouse, his first visit to the Palmetto State since declaring late last year that he would once again seek the presidency. Trump is trying to become the first man since Grover Cleveland in 1893 to be president in two nonconsecutive terms, and so far is the only major Republican candidate to formally enter the 2024 field.
