Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke visited Greenville on Sunday to host a town hall event at Upstate Circle of Friends. The stop wrapped up his weekend of campaigning in South Carolina.

Here are some key takeaways from his time in Greenville and the Palmetto State.

Sunday marked the Beto O'Rourke campaign's first visit to Greenville

The 2020 presidential candidate and former congressman from Texas got as close as Clemson back in April. He held a rally at Clemson University and took on a key issue at the school, saying the truth should be known about the white supremacist actions and views of Ben Tillman, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. senator who is the namesake of Tillman Hall at the university.

O'Rourke said then that he learned Tillman "worked with white nationalist terrorist organizations that murdered African Americans in this state." He praised Clemson students for calling for Tillman Hall to be renamed.

This weekend O'Rourke's campaign stops included Beaufort, where he had a discussion Friday with members of the Gullah Geechee nation. In Charleston, he delivered coffee Saturday to McDonald's workers who were striking for the right to a union as the best way to raise pay and ensure safe workplaces.

The other weekend stops included Sumter and Columbia. O'Rourke started Sunday in the Upstate with a visit to Krispy Kreme in Spartanburg. O'Rourke met supporters and spoke with shop owner and state Sen. Glenn Reese, a Spartanburg Democrat. O'Rourke attended a Father's Day church service at Macedonia Missionary Baptist Church in Spartanburg before making an afternoon stop in Greenville.

Beto O'Rourke calls for better pay for teachers

O'Rourke called for "a living wage" for teachers, saying that better pay for them is crucial to the success of children and the success of the United States.

"I think about schoolteachers and public school educators, some who are in this room right now, far too many who are working two or three jobs just to make ends meet," he said in Greenville. "They not paid enough to focus on just one job — unlocking the lifelong love of learning within every child, inherent to who they are and they're success. If we do that, there is no stopping that kid. There is no beating this country."

Beto O'Rourke calls for universal health care

O'Rourke said better access to health care is a must for everyone in the United States.

"Tens of millions of our fellow Americans are unable to get any kind of health care at all," he said. "They can't go to a doctor, they can't afford their prescriptions they cannot take their child to a therapist so that she is well enough to learn the next day at school. This is happening in the wealthiest, the most powerful country on the planet."

He called for "guaranteed high-quality universal health care." That care, he said, "means primary health care, it means mental health care, and it also means — importantly at this moment — that every woman makes her own decisions about her own body."

Beto O'Rourke is expected back in South Carolina this weekend

O' Rourke is among nearly two dozen Democratic presidential candidates expected to attend U.S Rep. Jim Clyburn's "World Famous Fish Fry" on Friday.The annual event is always timed to occur during the same weekend as South Carolina Democratic Party’s convention, which is next weekend in Columbia.