Biden zeroes in on Pennsylvania ahead of midterm elections

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US President Joe Biden will travel three times over the next week to Pennsylvania, including for a speech in
Philadelphia Thursday on “the continued battle for the Soul of the Nation,” the White House has said.

Biden is zeroing in on the northeastern state, where he was born, ahead of midterm elections in November in which his Democratic party will fight to keep control of Congress.

The 79-year-old is throwing himself into the political battle for all the seats in the House of Representatives, and a third of the Senate. Both are currently controlled by Democrats, reports AFP.

The outcome of the upcoming Senate election in Pennsylvania could single-handedly decide whether the Democrats retain control of the upper chamber of Congress for the next two years, or whether the Senate flips to the Republican side.

Biden will go first to the city of Wilkes-Barre on Tuesday, where the White House says he will speak on his plan to reduce gun crime in the United States.

Thursday is the big night: he will go to Philadelphia, the city considered the birthplace of the modern United States, for a visit heavy on symbolism.

There, near where the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution were written, he will deliver the primetime speech on the “battle for the Soul of the Nation.”