Bidens on the Trail: President and First Lady Campaign in the Biggest of the Battlegrounds
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden are heading to battleground Pennsylvania to campaign for down-ballot Democrats and Vice President Kamala Harris. With a margin of error race between Harris and former President Trump and three weeks to go until Election Day, the two residents of the White House are focusing on key swing states.
President Biden will travel to his native state of Pennsylvania on Tuesday, serving as the main attraction at the Philadelphia Democratic City Committee’s autumn fundraising dinner. First lady Jill Biden will be in suburban Philadelphia, heading an afternoon event in Chester County and then speaking in the evening in Montgomery County, where she grew up.
The first lady is campaigning on behalf of Harris in the seven key swing states whose razor-thin margins decided her husband’s 2020 victory over Trump and will likely determine if Harris or Trump succeed Biden in the White House. These states include Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, North Carolina, Arizona, and Nevada.
The Bidens’ campaign appearances come amid reports of a lack of coordination between political advisers to the president and the vice president. The appearances also follow recent visits by both campaigns to Pennsylvania, with Harris holding two events in Erie and Trump in suburban Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania, with 19 electoral votes at stake, is the biggest of the key battlegrounds. The state, along with Michigan and Wisconsin, is part of the Democrats’ so-called “Blue Wall,” which they reliably won for a quarter-century before Trump narrowly captured them in the 2016 election.
