Trump announces visit to Latrobe

It’s not the first time and it won’t be the last, but Pennsylvania finds itself again this week as the center of the political universe.

In their first full week of campaigning since receiving their parties’ formal nominations for president, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are mobilizing their campaigns — and themselves — to the Keystone State to pitch voters on why they should get its 20 key electoral votes in November.

Mr. Biden visited Monday, giving his first major speech as a general- election candidate in Pittsburgh, the city where he held his first campaign rally in April of last year. On the other side of the state, Lara Trump, a campaign adviser and the president’s daughter- in- law, traveled to Doylestown, Bucks County, to talk up Mr. Trump’s re- election platform.

Mr. Trump will come to the state himself Thursday, speaking at Latrobe’s Arnold Palmer Regional Airport.

No further details have been announced.

This is his first visit to Western Pennsylvania since late last year, when he was the keynote speaker at an oil and natural gas conference in Pittsburgh. He has done public events in Scranton and Old Forge, Lackawanna County, this year.

In between the two nominees’ visits, Vice President Mike Pence is slated to speak at a “Workers for Trump” event in Exeter, Luzerne County, on Tuesday, where he’ll advocate for his running mate at a construction company headquarters. He delivered remarks to a different campaign coalition — “Cops for Trump” — in Greensburg last month.

Mr. Pence was also here in June, visiting with faith leaders and manufacturing workers during a daylong bus tour touting the “great

American comeback” under Mr. Trump.

Mr. Biden’s running mate, California Sen. Kamala Harris, has not yet visited Pennsylvania but was only recently named to the ticket. She did not come during her run for the Democratic nomination.