Here's when and where Trump will be in Columbia

President Donald Trump will appear with Gov. Henry McMaster at a campaign event Monday at Airport High School at 6 p.m.

Free tickets are available at TrumpinSC.com

The Lexington 2 high school is less than two miles from Columbia Metropolitan Airport, where the president is expected to land Monday for the campaign appearance.

McMaster, a longtime Trump ally, faces Greenville businessman John Warren in a runoff Tuesday for the Republican nomination for governor. By making the stop in South Carolina only hours before polls open Tuesday, Trump is repaying McMaster for the Columbia Republican's endorsement before 2016's S.C. presidential primary.

Vice President Mike Pence will also campaign with McMaster at a Conway get-out-the-vote rally at Coastal Carolina University's Kimbel Arena at 3 p.m. Saturday.

Earlier Monday, Trump, who carried the state in the 2016 presidential election and is popular with S.C. GOP voters, tweeted about his upcoming trip before the details were announced.

"I will be going the Columbia, South Carolina, on Monday night to do a campaign speech for one of my very early supporters, a man who truly loves the people of South Carolina, Governor Henry McMaster," Trump tweeted Thursday morning. "Henry worked so hard & was so loyal to me that I look forward to reciprocating!"

The tweet was the first official confirmation from the president that he would hold an evening rally in the capital city.

"Henry McMaster has done a great job as Governor of South Carolina," Trump tweeted about the governor. "The State is BOOMING, with jobs and new industry setting records. ... Henry has my full and complete Endorsement! #MAGA"

This story was originally published June 21, 2018 at 2:35 PM with the headline "Here's when and where Trump will be in Columbia."