Pence at Reynoldsburg electronics company today
WASHINGTON — At a time when President Donald Trump’s popularity with voters is declining, Vice President Mike Pence will deliver a speech Saturday before a group of business people at an electronic manufacturing services company in Reynoldsburg.
Pence, who will be joined by Rep. Pat Tiberi, R-Genoa Township, and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, will tour the Dynalab manufacturing facility before delivering a formal speech in the early afternoon.
Dynalab, which employs more than 300 people at its Reynoldsburg facility, has displayed a large Trump sign outside its facility for months. The public cannot attend the event.
Trump carried Ohio by a much more comfortable margin last November against Democratic Hillary Clinton than his closer victories in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
Tiberi and Pence, the former Indiana governor, are longtime friends, having both been elected to the House in 2000. Portman is expected to introduce Pence to the crowd.
Pence’s trip also takes place as Trump is feuding with Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Urbana, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus.
Trump has tweeted criticism of Jordan for his opposition to a bill backed by Trump that would have replaced the 2010 health-care law known as Obamacare. Trump tweeted if the congressman “would get on board we would have both great healthcare and massive tax cuts & reform.”