Biden is traveling to Maine Friday night.

President Joe Biden will be in Maine on Friday, though details about the visit are very limited as of Saturday night.

According to the White House Press Office, Biden will be in the state next week but it did not specify where he will be and why.

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AUBURN, Maine — President Joe Biden is expected to visit Auburn on Friday, according to the city's mayor. 

Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque told NEWS CENTER Maine the White House contacted him about Biden's Friday visit. 

The mayor said Biden is visiting a manufacturer but didn't name a specific location. 

"Auburn and I have been working really hard for the last six years," Levesque said. "It is nice to have people from away recognize that."

Levesque plans to attend the event, and Gov. Janet Mills also said she plans to be there. 

To open his 2024 campaign. 

The context: Auburn could be considered Maine’s largest swing city. It was the biggest one to vote for former President Donald Trump in 2016 and switch to the Democratic president over Trump four years later. Despite his many legal troubles, Trump remains the favorite to win the Republican nod to take on Biden next year.

Since 2020, nothing much has changed in the city. Gov. Janet Mills won it over former Gov. Paul LePage in 2022. However, Auburn is better known for its conservative politicians.

It has a Republican mayor in former congressional candidate Jason Levesque, who said last year that he plans to run for statewide office someday. Sen. Eric Brakey and Rep. Laurel Libby, two conservative Republicans from Auburn, are the most visible state lawmakers there, but two Democrats also sit in the city delegation.

Aside from politics, Auburn is both a historic and contemporary manufacturing center. Procter and Gamble operates a large Tampax factory there. When people come to the area to talk about making things, they often stop at Auburn Manufacturing Co., which makes heat-resistant textiles and has made headlines in recent years for fighting Chinese trade policies. (CEO Kathie Leonard did not respond to my emails on whether Biden is going there.)

What they’re saying: “Auburn and I have been working really hard for the last six years,” Levesque told News Center Maine. “It is nice to have people from away recognize that.

CBS13 learned Tuesday that President Biden will be visiting Auburn Friday from Auburn Mayor Jason Levesque.

Levesque told CBS13 that the White House reached out to him on Monday to inform him of the president’s upcoming visit.

The mayor said that he believes Biden chose to deliver his remarks in Auburn because of the city’s rapid economic growth.

President Biden also plans to stop at Auburn Manufacturing, Inc. (AMI), a Maine-based manufacturer of heat resistant fabrics that recently won a major victory in a trade dispute with Chinese competitors.

The visit comes as Biden finds himself engulfed in scandals emanating from Republican investigations into his his son’s business dealings with foreign entities, including at least one Chinese business connected to the Chinese Communist Party

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We have 1.5 million citizens in an area larger than the rest of New England.  In perspective more people live in the south side of Boston than in our entire state.  

administration had steered to the state.

Economic issues will likely be at the center of President Biden's remarks at the Auburn Manufacturing.

Afterward, the president is scheduled to attend a private fundraising reception, in Freeport, for the Biden Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committe of the Biden campaign, the Democratic National Committee, and state Democratic parties.

Tickets for the event range from $3,300 (Friend) to $5,000 (Supporter) to $10,000 (Advocate) to $25,000 (Champion), according to the invitation seen by WMTW Maine's Total Coverage.

The host committee includes 2020 U.S. Senate Candidate Sara Gideon and former Maine State Senate President Justin Alfond, a grandson of Dexter Shoe Company founder Harold Alfond.

Following his visit, Biden is scheduled to fly Air Force One to his Delaware home for the weekend.

Donald Trump visited the state twice as president -- a June 2020 visit to Puritan Medical Products, a maker of coronavirus test swabs, in Guilford, and an October 2020 campaign stop in Bangor.

Biden beat Trump by 9% statewide in 2020 but won only three of the Maine's four Electoral College votes, because Trump carried the 2nd Congressional District and secured one electoral vote, as he did in 2016, when Hillary Clinton won the state.

Maine and Nebraska are the only states that are not winner-take-all, instead awarding two electoral votes to the statewide winner and the rest to the winner of each congressional district.

One thing we know for sure is this event will NOT be covered live by that cable channel which has to pony up $787 MILLION to settle a lawsuit for repeatedly and with malice pushing election lies they knew were lies.

At a min of 3300 a plate minimums dinner

I hope they went with the larger lobster.... 

And Gifford vanilla chocolate chip.