PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – President Joe Biden will travel to Philadelphia on Thursday, his third campaign stop this week in Pennsylvania.
Biden will speak at a recreation center in North Philadelphia around 12:45 p.m., though no details about his remarks have yet been released.
However, CBS News reports this Several siblings of independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will join Biden in Philadelphia and support him.
Traffic impact during President Biden’s visit
Biden will arrive at Philadelphia International Airport around 11:30 a.m. The city has not announced whether road closures will occur, but motorists should expect traffic disruptions and delays from the presidential motorcade, possibly on I-95 Vine Street. Freeway and Broad Street.
Later in the afternoon, the President will travel back to PHL, leaving around 3:50 p.m.
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Biden speaks in Scranton, Pittsburgh
On Tuesday, April 16, Biden traveled to his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, where he discussed the economy and proposed higher taxes on the wealthy at the Carpenters Training Center.
The president then visited the headquarters of the United Steelworkers union in Pittsburgh on Wednesday, where he promised to block the takeover of US Steel from the Japanese company Nippon Steel.
Biden pledged that US Steel will remain an American company as he targets his likely Republican challenger for the White House. former President Donald Trump.
“Taken together, these are strategic and targeted actions that will protect American workers and ensure fair competition,” Biden said. “Meanwhile, my predecessor and the MAGA Republicans want blanket tariffs on all imports, from all countries, that could seriously harm American consumers.”
Biden also said he would insist that the U.S. Trade Representative do so triple tariffs on Chinese imports of steel and aluminum.
Fourth Biden visit to Philadelphia, Delaware Valley this year
President Biden has already spent a lot of time visiting the Keystone State this year, particularly the Philadelphia area and the surrounding Delaware Valley. Thursday’s visit marks his fourth trip to the region in 2024.
With Pennsylvania shaping up to be a battleground for Biden and Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee, the president and First Lady Jill Biden traveled to Montgomery County Community College in Blue Bell in January to third anniversary of the Capitol insurrection.
A week later Biden visited stores in the Lehigh Valley to highlight the value of small businesses and discuss its economic record.
And on March 9, Biden ramped up his 2024 election campaign with a speech at Strath Haven Middle School in Delaware County, his first rally in the wake of the 2024 election. State of the Union.
During that speech, Biden laid out his plans for a second term, pledging to protect reproductive rights, touting his record on the economy and calling for a ban on assault rifles.
So are Biden and Trump, who are already the presumptive Democratic and Republican nominees They are widely expected to win their respective primaries in Pennsylvania on April 23.
