Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) will start his two-day tour of rural South Carolina on Tuesday, making stops in some of the state’s reddest counties that have been economically and environmentally devastated over the years.

When asked by reporters in Los Angeles Monday if the real reason behind his trip had anything to do with South Carolina being an early primary state, the governor said, "you don't know that, and I don't know that and so that's why I would suggest it's what it is.