Vice President Mike Pence will visit Ohio on Thursday to participate in the reveal of the Lordstown Motors Endurance All-Electric pickup truck and to deliver a speech, the White House announced Monday. Afterwards, Pence will participate in an event with law enforcement and community leaders before returning to Washington, D. C..
The factory Pence will visit occupies a site where General Motors manufactured the Chevrolet Cruze before shuttering the plant in March, 2019. The plant’s closure in a section of the state that was critical to President Donald Trump’s 2016 Ohio win was a political embarrassment, as Trump told workers during his campaign not to sell their houses because his administration would restore manufacturing jobs to the region.