Pence to be in Lancaster on Tuesday

President Donald Trump is coming to Ohio once next week, and Vice President Mike Pence is due twice.

A White House official confirmed that Pence is visiting Lancaster for Tuesday’s groundbreaking for a company that just on Wednesday inked a “framework agreement” for a joint venture to make electric vehicles in China. Magna officials said the plant in China will have the capacity to make up to 180,000 vehicles a year, starting in 2020.

Magna got a $2 million tax incentive package from the Ohio Tax Credit Authority in March to create 300 jobs at a new plant in Rock Mill Industrial Park near the Fairfield County seat. The company is to invest $14.6 million, and the 300 jobs are to have an annual payroll of $14 million.

Earlier this year, the company closed a plant with 120 workers that supplied seats for the now-closed GM factory in Lordstown in Trumbull County.

Details of the Pence event, such as whether the public can attend, have not been made available.

On Thursday, Trump and Pence are holding a Keep America Great rally at 7 p.m. in U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, which Trump also visited during his 2016 campaign that gave him a victory in Ohio by more than 8 percentage points.

In March, Pence visited Columbus for the Ohio

Oil And Gas Association’s annual meeting.

Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, who is not up for re-election until 2024, quickly issued a fundraising plea based on the visit:

“Make no mistake, they’re (sic) arrival will open the special-interest fundraising floodgates to funnel money into Ohio to defeat Democrats in 2020 ... He’s determined to build momentum here because he knows how close the presidential race in Ohio will be.”