President Joe Biden is heading to the battleground state this week.
President Joe Biden is heading to Nevada on Monday—a battleground state where he’s trailing former President Donald Trump amid this year’s presidential election, according to the latest polls.
Biden, who is expected to arrive in Las Vegas on Monday night, will speak at the 115th NAACP’s National Convention and discuss his administrations commitment „to advancing racial justice and equity for all Americans, including Black Americans“, the White House announced last week. On Wednesday, Biden will deliver remarks at the UnidosUS Annual Conference in Las Vegas.
Biden’s trip to Nevada comes after Trump, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was the target of an assassination attempt on Saturday evening during his campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Trump was speaking at the rally when he was shot on stage, with a bullet hitting the upper part of his right ear. The suspected gunman, identified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, was shot and killed by the Secret Service. A rally attendee, 50-year-old former firefighter Corey Comperatore was also killed during the incident. Those injured, identified as 57-year-old David Dutch of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and 74-year-old James Copenhaver of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, are in stable condition.
