Trump heads to Pittsburgh on Tuesday for airport rally
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Like he did at the Arnold Palmer Regional Airport near Latrobe earlier this month, President Donald Trump is holding another airport hangar rally.
This one is Tuesday, Sept. 22, at the Pittsburgh International Airport in Moon Township, the campaign announced Thursday.
The president’s rally at Atlantic Aviation, 300 Horizon Drive, is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m.
If the turnout is anything like the thousands who went to the Trump rally Sept. 3 in Westmoreland County, his supporters will be there long before the gates open at 4 p.m.
The campaign is permitting two tickets per cellphone number.
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Pennsylvania, with its 20 electoral votes and politically divided electorate, is of the utmost importance in the Nov. 3 presidential election. Trump and his team have been paying frequent visits to the state, as Trump tries to pull off a repeat of his 2016 victory.
Polls show Trump and his Democratic rival, Joe Biden, are closely matched.
Trump needs to retain or expand his slim 2016 lead of 44,000 votes. Biden must close the gap by reaching out to wavering Republicans and getting more people in general to vote.
Republican leaders argue Trump strongholds remain around the state and support is growing in some areas, buoyed by GOP platforms such as promoting more natural gas industry development and deregulating businesses. Biden’s boosters in Pennsylvania see him as well-suited to attract conservative Democrats who drifted to Trump in 2016.
While Democrats still hold a significant voter registration advantage in the state, the number of new Republican registrations has far outpaced the number of new Democrats registering this cycle.
Democrats in Pennsylvania have 4.1 million registered voters to 3.3 million Republicans, state records show.
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The Associated Press contributed.