Hillary Clinton Returns to the Scene of Her Most Divisive Primary Battle
Democratic presidential hopeful and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton hosts a small business forum with members of the business and lending communities at Bike Tech bicycle shop on May 19, 2015 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty ImagesThe last time Hillary Clinton made a political trip to South Carolina—more than seven years ago—she was embroiled in the bitterest of her primary fights against Barack Obama.
Her comments about the civil rights movement and her husband’s assertion that Obama was selling “the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen” on the Iraq War helped extinguish any lingering chance that she would capture the Democratic presidential nomination and tarnished her husband’s sterling reputation among African-Americans in the Palmetto State and nationwide.