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Biden skips visit to South Carolina for presidential primary, stops in LA instead

US President Joe Biden addresses a plenary session of the 9th Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on June 9, 2022.

LOS ANGELES — South Carolina held the first official Democratic presidential primary Saturday. But as the polls closed, President Joe Biden was 2,400 miles away, in Los Angeles, stepping off Air Force One.

Biden’s victory in the Palmetto State was a foregone conclusion, and his campaign invested significant time there leading up to the primary.

So Biden headed west. He and first lady Jill Biden landed at Los Angeles International Airport shortly around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday and

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