Vance to tout Trump administration's economic agenda in home state amid midterm push

The White House announced Tuesday that Vice President JD Vance will return to his hometown in Ohio on Friday to push the Trump administration's economic agenda as he kicks off a national tour ahead of this year's midterms. 

The vice president will give his speech at the Cleveland-Cliffs Middletown Works facility in Middletown, Ohio, where he will be joined by Energy Secretary Chris Wright and elected officials in the state, according to NBC News.

Vance has a personal connection to the facility, because it is where his late grandfather, whom he wrote about in his 2016 memoir “Hillbilly Elegy,” worked at years ago, when it was known as Armco Steel.

The speech comes as the vice president is expected to hit the campaign trail to stump for Republican candidates ahead of the November elections. 

Vance is also expected to attend public events and headline Republican National Convention fundraisers.

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