The first 2028 Democratic sweepstakes nom nomination votes will be South Carolina….
Gavin Newsom will stop in South Carolina and other Southern/Red states in his early 2028 Presidential primary campaign…
Gavin Newsom will return to South Carolina next week, part of a four-day swing through the South that will also include visits to Alabama and North Carolina.
The trip to the first presidential primary state on the Democratic nominating calendar comes days after California lawmakers wrap up their final legislative session under Newsom. The California governor’s team said he will appear in six South Carolina counties carried by Donald Trump in 2024, meeting with voters and local leaders and campaigning for Democrats in state House races.
Newsom’s office framed the trip as an effort to counter Trump in a region where policies like the president’s plan to limit mail-in ballots will have an outsize impact. But it also serves as a way for Newsom, a likely presidential contender, to continue making inroads in a critical state..
His agenda in South Carolina, in addition to campaigning in down-ballot races, includes meeting with students at Allen University alongside state Rep. Jermaine Johnson, the longshot Democratic candidate for governor in the deep-red state. In Alabama, he is expected to appear with Montgomery Mayor Steven Reed and hold a town hall with community leaders.
Newsom has spent years traveling to the South and using his fundraising apparatus to boost Democrats in other parts of the country, including an appeal on Thursday for Democratic South Carolina governor candidate Jermaine Johnson….
image…CNN
One last hurrah for Jim Clyburn.
The vote in the Democratic primary will be overwhelmingly Black ( about 60-70%).
Whomever Clyburn endorses will probably win .
Why the Democrats decided to make SC the first primary is beyond me.SC is one of the most unrepresentative states politically to begin with and to give that kind of power to one man is absurd.
I’ve said this here before
Whoever that wins the SC presidential primary for Dem’s strongly tends to be the nominee
Iowa and NH have nothing to do with the overall Dem party
I see Clyburn having to choose between Newsom and Ossoff and favoring Gavin
Uh James, only ONE Democratic presidential candidate has won SC over the past 60 years( Carter in 1976,a scant fifty years ago) ,no Democrat has won a statewide race here in over 20 years and the state Democratic Party barely functions.
Tell us why SC is different from NH and Iowa.
Democratic results (Wiki)
1988 (caucus) (March 12): Jesse Jackson (55%), Al Gore (17%), Michael Dukakis (6%), Dick Gephardt (2%), and others (0%)[8]
1992 (March 7): Bill Clinton (63%), Paul Tsongas (18%), Tom Harkin (7%), Jerry Brown (6%), uncommitted (3%), and others (2%)[9]
1996: Primary cancelled
2000 (March 9): Al Gore (92%) and Bill Bradley (2%)[10]
2004 (February 3): John Edwards (45%), John Kerry (30%), Al Sharpton (10%), Wesley Clark (7%), Howard Dean (5%), and Joe Lieberman (2%)[11]
2008 (January 26): Barack Obama (55%), Hillary Clinton (27%), and John Edwards (18%)[12]
2012 (January 28): Barack Obama (unopposed)
2016 (February 27): Hillary Clinton (73%) and Bernie Sanders (26%)
2020 (February 29): Joe Biden (48%), Bernie Sanders (20%), Tom Steyer (11%), Pete Buttigieg (8%), Elizabeth Warren (7%), Amy Klobuchar (3%), and Tulsi Gabbard (1%)
2024 (February 3): Joe Biden (96%)
So?
What’s that got to do with the overriding fact that SC is a state where ,whomever the Democratic candidate is, has NO chance of winning the race in November.
Whereas SC has voted but once for the Democratic nominee in the past sixty years, Iowa has six times and New Hampshire nine times.
Yet you blithely dismiss them as”have nothing to do with the overall Dem party.”( whatever the hell that means).
But hey “ Presidents” Jesse Jackson ,Al Gore John Edwards and Hillary Clinton won here!
Weeeee!!
As usual. Dumb…Plain ole Dumb!
Using MY point?
Seems the Democrats ARE going back to something that earned them the PresidencyFOR Clinton, Obama AND Biden ….
Weird shit
Gubbard in the running back then eh?