Vance to speak Wednesday in Erie
U.S. Sen. JD Vance, the Republican vice presidential nominee, plans to hold a rally Wednesday afternoon in Erie.
The visit by the Ohio politician, announced Monday, will take place two days before former President Donald Trump, the GOP’s nominee for president, will appear in Johnstown.
At the Erie event, Vance is expected to hammer Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee for president, on the economy and energy policy, according to a statement from the Trump-Vance campaign.
The campaign claimed that Harris “has turned her back on everyday Pennsylvanians and broken one promise after another.”
A press release from the campaign criticized the vice president for changing her stance on fracking and claimed that she and President Joe Biden have “cracked down on fracking and American energy, wrecking Pennsylvania’s energy workers and driving up the price of a gallon of gas to record high.”
Last year marked a record for U.S. natural gas production at 125 billion cubic feet per day, which was 4% ahead of the previous record set in 2022, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The campaign also slammed Harris for inflation, claiming that “Pennsylvania seniors surviving on fixed Social Security benefits are down to eating ramen.”
The Harris campaign pushed back, claiming that Project 2025, a blueprint for a conservative presidency that has been linked to Trump but disavowed by the former president, will boost taxes and energy bills, and will cut paychecks.
Onotse Omoyeni, the Harris campaign’s rapid response director in Pennsylvania, said the vice president is fighting to bring costs down for families.
“She’ll keep fighting to crack down on Big Pharma and corporate landlords raising prices on working people, unlike Trump and Vance, who will just keep giving them handouts even as they rip off Pennsylvania families,” Omoyeni claimed.
Vance is scheduled to appear Wednesday at 3 p.m. at Team Hardinger, a transportation company. All tickets are on a first-come, first-served basis and can be found by clicking here.
Jonathan D. Silver is a TribLive news editor. A New York City native and graduate of Cornell University, he spent 26 years at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette as a reporter and editor before joining the Trib in 2022 as an enterprise reporter. Jon has also worked as a journalist in Venezuela, England, Wisconsin and California. He can be reached at jsilver@triblive.com.
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