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WILKES-BARRE — Vice President Mike Pence is scheduled to be in the region Oct. 21, and he is expected to stop at Schott North America, Inc., in Duryea.
The Pence campaign has not confirmed the appearance, but sources have told the Times Leader that the vice president will arrive at the Wilkes-Barre/Scranton International Airport on Oct. 21, and proceed to the Schott facility on York Avenue in Duryea.
Pence’s appearance is scheduled one day ahead of former Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Lackawanna County. The Democratic presidential candidate is presumably expected to visit Scranton on Oct. 22.
The visits by Pence and Biden likely mark the beginning of many visits to the area by candidates and surrogates as the 2020 presidential campaign heats up. Pennsylvania’s primary is scheduled for April 28, 2020.
Sources within the Democrat and Republican parties, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said last week that they “have heard” that both Biden and Pence are coming to the region this month.
In November 2018, Biden attended a campaign rally at Pittston Area Senior High School for Sen. Bob Casey and Rep. Matt Cartwright. He has also made several stops in his hometown of Scranton over the past few years.
One of Biden’s Democratic rivals, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont, spoke at a conference of nurses in April at the Mohegan Sun Pocono casino in Plains Township. Sanders met privately with members of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals.
Pence was in town in October 2018 to rally voters for John Chrin, who was running against three-term Democratic incumbent U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright in the 8th Congressional District. Cartwright won easily. Pence held a rally at the Wyoming Valley Airport in Forty Fort.
