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The president addressed the matter later during a stop at Brookland Baptist Banquet Center in West Columbia, S.C.

Jackson’s husband is pastor of Brookland Baptist Church in West Columbia, where the women met when Joe Biden visited in 2019 as he campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Ward played in a run-dominated offense at Columbia High School in West Columbia, a town of less than 4,000 people about an hour southwest of Houston.

Later Tuesday in West Columbia, DeSantis — a former Navy officer who served in the Navy Judge Advocate General’s Corps in Iraq — planned to to roll out his plans to reform a U.S. military he has argued is too focused on efforts at diversity and inclusion.

Mr. Biden’s visit came just days after former President Donald J. Trump visited Pickens, a small town about 100 miles to the west of West Columbia.