Republican Presidential nominee, former president Donald J. Trump remarks during a campaign event at Precision Custom Components on August 19, 2024 in York, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Tierney L. Cross/Getty Images)
After a Saturday rally in Butler at the site of a July assassination attempt, former President Donald Trump will be back in Pennsylvania later this week, the his campaign announced. Trump, the GOP nominee for president, will “deliver remarks” in President Joe Biden’s birthplace of Scranton on Wednesday afternoon, at Riverfront Sports. Then Trump will travel to Reading for an evening rally at Santander Arena.
Biden narrowly beat Trump in Lackawanna County, where Scranton is located, in the 2020 presidential election, and Hillary Clinton carried the county in 2016, but not by a wide margin, taking 50.2% to Trump’s 46.7%. Trump won Berks County, where Reading is located, in both elections.
Trump’s Saturday return to Butler included appearances from Vance, Tesla and SpaceX CEO and X (formerly Twitter) owner Elon Musk, and members of the family of Corey Comperatore, the rally-goer killed at the July rally.
Trump returns to Butler for campaign rally at site of assassination attempt
Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrats’ nominee for president, have campaigned at events across Pennsylvania with the aim of winning the commonwealth’s 19 electoral votes. That intense focus is likely to increase as the race enters its final weeks.
On Thursday, former President Barack Obama will rally for the Harris campaign in Pittsburgh, the first stop on a battleground state campaign swing for the Democratic ticket.
Harris will appear on 60 Minutes on Sunday night. Trump was also slated to be interviewed on the CBS News program, but the network said he canceled the appearance; the campaign has said the agreement to appear was not formalized. A Trump spokesperson said on social media that 60 Minutes had “insisted on doing live fact checking, which is unprecedented.”
There are 29 days until Election Day, and both campaigns are polling neck-and-neck in Pennsylvania.