President Joe Biden is traveling to Philadelphia on Friday, according to a statement from the White House Press Office. Biden was scheduled to arrive in Philadelphia shortly after 4 p.m. and fly to Hagerstown, Maryland, at 7:05 p.m.
The White House press office confirmed at 4:19 p.m. that Biden boarded Marine One at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, and a subsequent update confirmed that he landed and headed to Philadelphia shortly after 5 p.m.
The White House did not immediately provide additional details about why Biden was in the city.
Biden has visited Philadelphia multiple times during his tenure in the Oval Office, but Friday would be the president’s first visit to the City of Brotherly Love since announcing he would not seek re-election. His last visit to the Keystone State On July 7, he attended a service at a conventional black church in Northwest Philadelphia, appeared at a campaign office in Philadelphia and spoke to supporters in Harrisburg.
Although Biden does not intend to seek a second term, he plans to campaign for Vice President Kamala Harris, whom he endorsed and who is now the Democratic presidential candidate. Biden says he will campaign for Harris in Pennsylvania during an interview on CBS on August 11.
Former President Donald Trump, the Republican Party’s presidential candidate, will visit northeastern Pennsylvania on Saturday at a rally in Wilkes-Barrea tiny drive from Biden’s childhood home in Scranton. Trump’s vice presidential nominee, U.S. Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), On Thursday I was in Western Pennsylvania for a campaign event. Both Trump and Vance plan to be in Pennsylvania for separate campaign events on Monday, in York and Philadelphia.
Harris and her vice presidential candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, on Sunday he will be in western Pennsylvania to begin a bus tour with their spouses.
This article was updated at 5:10 p.m. on August 16, 2024, to include additional information about Biden’s arrival.
