Casey holds campaign event on Public Square in Wilkes-Barre

WILKES-BARRE — U.S. Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, on Saturday kicked off a spring “Weekend of Action” canvassing event in Wilkes-Barre with the Pennsylvania Democratic coordinated campaign.

Capitalizing on the momentum built in March — where the coordinated campaign in Pennsylvania opened 14 offices across the commonwealth — Casey rallied volunteers and outlined “the stark choice” Pennsylvanians will face this fall.

Casey said that while he and President Joe Biden are fighting to lower costs for working families, have capped the cost of insulin at $35 a month for seniors, and helped to create thousands of good-paying jobs in the state, his Republican challenger David McCormick, Donald Trump and extreme Republicans “are waging an all-out assault on women’s access to reproductive health care, on critical programs like Social Security and Medicare, and on our democracy.”

“When you think about what’s on the line here for workers, for women, for the right to vote, the other party is in the wrong place,” Casey said. “My opponent, the president’s opponent, and (U.S. Rep.) Matt Cartwright’s opponent are all on the same side. They want to repeal the cap on insulin at $35 a month for Medicare Part D beneficiaries.”

Casey added, “One of the things we have to do in this election is make sure that people know what we’ve all been working on together. It takes a team effort for the Democratic Party to deliver. As time goes on, we’re going to be able to point to infrastructure projects, roads and bridges and investments in communities and people. And when we deliver that message, people are going to have a better picture of what’s happened in the last couple of years.”

Pennsylvania Campaign Manager Nikki Lu said, “We engaged nearly 2,000 volunteers in March, and we’re not slowing down. This weekend, we recruited over 400 volunteers to knock on doors and make calls to talk to voters across the commonwealth about what’s at stake in this election. Donald Trump wants to repeal the Affordable Care Act and cut critical programs like Social Security and Medicare that Pennsylvania families rely on. We’re going to make sure voters know how important it is to reelect Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, Bob Casey, and Democrats up and down the ballot who are fighting to create jobs, lower costs, and protect our freedoms and democracy.”

Casey said the Wilkes-Barre event was one of more than a dozen canvassing events the Pennsylvania Democratic coordinated campaign hosted over the weekend across Pennsylvania to recruit hundreds of volunteers who will knock on thousands of doors to talk to voters about what is at stake in this election.

Lu said, “Meanwhile, Donald Trump still has no public campaign infrastructure in Pennsylvania.”