President Joe Biden, Barack Obama and Donald Trump are all converging on Pennsylvania in a last-ditch effort to close the deal on the midterm elections in a state that’s a critical step on the path to the White House in 2024.
Obama campaigned in Pittsburgh on Saturday morning with John Fetterman, the Democratic Senate candidate, before a separate afternoon event in Philadelphia that Biden will attend. In the evening, Trump, who succeeded Obama and preceded Biden, has a rally planned to promote Mehmet Oz, the Republican Senate candidate, in Latrobe, some 45 miles southwest of Pittsburgh.
The hotly contested election to replace retiring Sen. Pat Toomey, a Republican, is one of a handful of toss-up races across the country, crucial to securing a Senate majority. Fetterman and Oz are neck-and-neck in the closing days of the campaign, with polls showing the television doctor-turned-Senate-hopeful clawing back from a double-digit deficit as recently as August.
