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Republican VP nominee JD Vance to hit Williamsport on Wednesday

Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks at a campaign rally at VFW Post 92 on August 15, 2024 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.
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Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) speaks at a campaign rally at VFW Post 92 on August 15, 2024 in New Kensington, Pennsylvania.

Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance will make his first visit to north-central Pennsylvania on Wednesday.

Vance, a U.S. senator from Ohio, will speak about Republican President Donald Trump’s campaign for re-election at 3 p.m. inside Liberty Arena, 315 Hepburn St., Williamsport.

Doors open at noon and you can sign up for tickets here.

Vance spoke Saturday at Reading Regional Airport in Berks County.

So far, Trump hasn’t visited Lycoming County this year, but he has stopped stop there twice before – on May 20, 2019, and on Oct. 31, 2020. Both rallies were at Williamsport Regional Airport in Montoursville.

Trump hosted a rally Wednesday at Riverfront Sports in Scranton.

Lycoming County and north-central Pennsylvania are overwhelmingly Republican turf.

Neither Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee, nor her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, has appeared in north-central Pennsylvania.

Borys Krawczeniuk, one of the most experienced reporters covering Northeast and Northcentral Pennsylvania, joined WVIA News in February 2024 after almost 36 years at the Scranton Times-Tribune and 40 years overall as a reporter. Borys brings to WVIA’s young news operation decades of firsthand knowledge about how government and politics work, as well as the finer points of reporting and writing that embody journalism when it’s done right.

You can email Borys at boryskrawczeniuk@wvia.org