Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke will make his first campaign visit to Greenville on Father's Day.

The former Texas congressman will hold a town hall in Greenville on the afternoon of June 16 as he wraps up a three-day swing through South Carolina. The location of his campaign event has not been announced.

O'Rourke was thrust into the national spotlight last year when he lost a hard-fought election to Republican U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in Texas. He raised an impressive $6.1 million in the first 24 hours after announcing his presidential candidacy in March, but since then his campaign has failed to gain momentum.

The latest national polling shows O'Rourke is in sixth place among the field of 23 Democratic presidential hopefuls, according to RealClearPoltitics.com. Last month a poll conducted in South Carolina showed him running seventh in the state, which will hold the South's first presidential primary next February.

"Beto has made South Carolina a top priority in his bid for the White House," according to a statement issued by his campaign Wednesday evening.

The campaign statement said that last month O'Rourke announced one of the largest South Carolina-based staffs of any 2020 presidential candidate — led by Lauren Harper, former advisor to Columbia Mayor Steven Benjamin, and Tyler Jones, chief strategist for U.S. Rep. Joe Cunningham's 2018 upset victory in the state's 1st Congressional District.

O'Rourke has already held 15 campaign events throughout South Carolina, including an April 14 rally at Clemson University that more than 500 people attended. O'Rourke spoke out at that rally about the white supremacist actions and views of Ben Tillman, the former South Carolina governor and U.S. senator who is the namesake of Clemson's Tillman Hall.

Before coming to Greenville, O'Rourke will hold a town hall on June 14 with members of the Gullah Geechee Nation. He will hold a criminal justice roundtable in North Charleston and take part in Black Economic Alliance Presidential Candidate Forum in Charleston on June 15. O'Rourke is scheduled to visit a church in Spartanburg on the morning of June 16.

O'Rourke is expected to be among at least 19 presidential candidates who will attend the state Democratic Party Convention in Columbia on June 22. Organizers say the event will mark the largest-ever gathering of White House hopefuls.

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