Newsom appearance in rural South Carolina draws split-screen of support and protesters

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DORCHESTER COUNTY, South Carolina — California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s first stops in South Carolina on Thursday had gone largely according to plan.

In Hardeeville, the Democratic governor was welcomed warmly with a standing ovation. The reception remained friendly in Beaufort, where another enthusiastic crowd sweated it out at the former Penn School, one of the nation’s first schools for formerly enslaved people, to hear him speak.

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