Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis plans to file his 2024 candidacy for South Carolina's Republican presidential primary when he's in the first-in-the-South voting state next week, becoming the first GOP hopeful to do so.
Republican presidential candidate and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey, walk in the July 4th parade, Tuesday, July 4, 2023, in Merrimack, N.H. plans to file his 2024 candidacy for South Carolina's Republican presidential primary when he's in the first-in-the-South voting state next week, becoming the first GOP hopeful to do so.
DeSantis will file his paperwork at the state GOP headquarters in Columbia on Tuesday, his campaign told The Associated Press on Friday. DeSantis will make his candidacy official during his third campaign swing through South Carolina, where Republican hopefuls have been stumping for more than a year already. On Monday, he makes a stop in Tega Cay, an affluent community on Lake Wylie along the state line with North Carolina.
After he signs his candidacy paperwork, DeSantis plans to make a policy rollout in Columbia, the details of which the campaign did not immediately release. It will be DeSantis' second policy announcement, following— which call for ending birthright citizenship and finishing construction of the southern border wall — outlined during a June visit to a Texas border city.
The South Carolina trip comes on the heels of a Friday GOP gathering in Iowa, where DeSantis and other hopefuls — but not former President
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