Following a high-stakes election-year State of the Union address, President Joe Biden is set to hit the road on a battleground state swing that will include a dueling visit to Georgia the same day as his predecessor and likely 2024 opponent, former President Donald Trump. 

What You Need To Know

  • President Joe Biden is set to visit two battleground states following his State of the Union address
  • The incumbent president will travel to one of his most frequently visited states, Pennsylvania, as well as Georgia, a key state that helped seal his victory in 2020
  • Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to hold dueling events in Georgia on Saturday
  • Biden and Trump look almost certain following Super Tuesday to face one another in a rematch in November

On Friday, fresh off his prime-time address, Biden will participate in a campaign event in battleground Pennsylvania – a key “blue wall” state that Trump flipped alongside Michigan and Wisconsin to win in 2016. But Biden flipped them back to in 2020 and help send Biden to the White House. It’s also one of the Scranton-born president’s most frequently visited stops. 

Just days into 2024, Biden traveled to the Valley Forge area to deliver his first campaign speech of the election year, marking the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol and warning American democracy was at stake in November. One week later he touched down in Pennsylvania again to tout his economic agenda in Allentown. Biden also spent Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the state, volunteering with a hunger relief organization in Philadelphia. 

On Saturday, Biden will hold another campaign event, this time in a battleground state he has frequented far less: Georgia. 

The president visited the state in November to honor former first lady Rosalynn Carter following her death but the trip was void of any campaigning or agenda touting. 

Biden’s campaign stop in the state on Saturday will coincide with Trump’s own Georgia rally on the same day. For his part, Trump is set to visit the district of firebrand conservative Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene. 

The likely 2024 general election opponents’ Peach State face-off comes less than two weeks after the pair held closely-watched competing trips to the border in Texas – and as both of the candidate’s campaigns lean in to the likely November rematch between the two, despite primaries still to come. 

Biden won Georgia over Trump in 2020 by less than one percentage point – becoming the first Democratic candidate for president to win the Peach State in nearly three decades.  

In the wake of his loss, Trump pressed Georgia’s Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to find enough votes to reverse the outcome. Trump, along with other people involved with his efforts, is now facing charges in the state for attempting to overturn the results.