As the campaign enters its decisive phase, both presidential candidates will be in Pennsylvania on Monday.
Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s nominee, will appear in Erie County for the first time since rising to the top of the ticket. She will be joined by U.S. Senator John Fetterman (D-Pennsylvania). rally.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party candidate, will hold his first public campaign event this cycle in a Philadelphia suburb. It’s set host a town hall in Montgomery County.
This appears to be the first time both candidates are on the battlefield on the same day since they met on September 10 in Philadelphia for a debate.
Events on opposite ends of the community represent different but key constituencies.
Erie County in northwestern Pennsylvania is a belligerent county that twice supported Democrat Barack Obama. Trump put Erie County in the Republican win column in 2016, and then Democratic nominee Joe Biden flipped it back to blue in 2020, defeating Trump by 1,417 votes in the district.
Montgomery County has become one of the most reliably Democratic counties in the Keystone State in recent years. Democratic presidential candidates have won twice in Philadelphia’s densely populated suburbs over the last few cycles.
In addition to Trump and Harris, Gwen Walz, wife of Democratic vice presidential candidate Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, will begin a multi-day tour of Pennsylvania, starting with the Philadelphia suburbs and the Lehigh Valley.
Monday marks the beginning of another eventful week of campaigning for both tickets in Pennsylvania.
On Tuesday, both vice presidential candidates will be able to; Walz will be in western Pennsylvaniawhile U.S. Senator J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), Trump’s running mate, will go to City Hall in Montgomery County run by the conservative organization Moms for America. President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are also scheduled to campaign in the Philadelphia area on Tuesday.
on Wednesday, Harris will campaign in Philadelphiaone sec Vance will hold a rally in Williamsport.
Surveys they continue to show Harris and Trump deadlocked by Pennsylvania’s 19 electoral votes. Plenty national rating agencies see the state as “upside down.”
