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President Biden will return to Pa. and visit Allentown on Friday

President Joe Biden will make his second trip to Pennsylvania of the year Friday. He'll be in the Lehigh Valley region, a critical battleground in the state.

President Joe Biden runs out from behind two Mack trucks before he speaks at the Mack Truck Lehigh Valley Operations in Macungie in 2021. He'll return to the region on Friday.
President Joe Biden runs out from behind two Mack trucks before he speaks at the Mack Truck Lehigh Valley Operations in Macungie in 2021. He'll return to the region on Friday.Read moreHEATHER KHALIFA / Staff Photographer

President Joe Biden will visit Allentown on Friday, the White House confirmed, making his second visit to the state in about a week as he looks ahead to the 2024 election.

Last Friday, he visited Valley Forge and then made a campaign speech in Blue Bell, where he argued that former President Donald Trump is a threat to democracy. It will be the second visit that Biden will be making in the state just this year and at least the 16th since becoming president.

Biden’s Allentown visit will be an official visit, aimed at touting his legislative record in a key part of swing-state Pennsylvania.

The Lehigh Valley region is a critical battleground in the state. Allentown is home to one of the state’s larger Hispanic populations, a constituency with whom some polls show Biden has struggled to maintain 2020-levels of support.

He last visited the Allentown area in 2021, when he made a stop at a Mack truck plant in Macungie.

At that stop, Biden proposed boosting American manufacturing by increasing the threshold for what products qualify as American “enough” for the federal government to buy.