Six weeks after he ended his re-election campaign amid rising calls from his own party to drop out of the race, President Biden returns to the campaign trail for the first time on Monday.
It will be the first of a “robust” schedule of campaign appearances by the president on behalf of Vice President Kamala Harris over the next two months, a White House official tells Fox News.
“President Biden will be leaning in heavily over the next several months to finish the job,” White House communications director Ben LaBolt said.
Biden will team up with Harris, whom he endorsed and who replaced him atop the Democrats’ 2024 ticket, at a Labor Day event in Pittsburgh, a union stronghold and the biggest city in the western half of the key battleground state of Pennsylvania.
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President Biden stands with Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Kamala Harris, left, and first lady Jill Biden during the first day of the Democratic National Convention on Monday, Aug. 19, 2024 in Chicago. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
The Harris campaign says that the vice president is expected to say that U.S. Steel [the Pittsburgh-based corporation which is the nation’s second-biggest steel producer] should remain domestically owned and operated and “stress her commitment to always have the backs of American steel workers.”
The stop is part of a full court press by the Harris campaign on Labor Day in some of the seven key swing states that will likely determine the winner of the vice president’s election showdown with former President Donald Trump, the Republican nominee.
LaBolt said that going forward, Biden will be “campaigning to elect Vice President Harris and Governor Walz and spending time with core constituencies with whom he has a long relationship, continuing to deploy investments in manufacturing, infrastructure, and emerging industries like clean energy, and strengthening our alliances on the world stage.”
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