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Pence is heading to Pennsylvania again to tout Trump’s trade pact

The vice president is making his second visit in as many months to the presidential battleground state.

Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the podium, during a America First Policies political action committee event at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia.
Vice President Mike Pence speaks at the podium, during a America First Policies political action committee event at the Sheraton Hotel in Philadelphia.Read moreJOSE F. MORENO / Staff Photographer
    by Associated Press, The Associated Press
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HARRISBURG, Pa. — Vice President Mike Pence is making his second visit in two months to the presidential battleground state of Pennsylvania to urge Congress to pass President Donald Trump’s rewrite of a trade pact with Canada and Mexico.

Pence's planned Thursday visit is to a crane manufacturing facility in southern Pennsylvania, a few miles from the Maryland border.

The visit comes as House Democrats and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer report progress toward a deal that would clear the way for Congress to approve Trump's U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

Pence visited a York-based robotics maker in June and predicted the trade pact would boost America's manufacturing sector.

Trump’s campaign is ramping up its re-election effort in a state where he scored a surprise 2016 win and delivered a crushing loss to Democrat Hillary Clinton.