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Biden campaign announces appearance time for Danville

Wytheville and Blacksburg information will come later

Web Staff

4:42 PM EDT, August 10, 2012

ROANOKE, Va.

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Vice-President Joe Biden will visit the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville next Tuesday. 

His campaign announced that Biden will make his remarks in Danville at 10:15 Tuesday morning.   The campaign swing through Virginia will include Blacksburg and Wytheville too but information about those events hasn't been released yet.

Tickets for the Danville event can be picked up at one of the following locations beginning at noon on Saturday, August 11.

Danville OFA-VA Office

1107 Piney Forest

Danville, VA 24541

Halifax OFA-VA Office

3166 Halifax Road

South Boston, VA 24592

Martinsville OFA-VA Office

33 East Main St.

Martinsville, VA 24112

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Vice-President Joe Biden will campaign in southern and southwest Virginia next week.  Biden will be in the region next Tuesday and Wednesday, according to a press release from the Obama campaign.

Specific times and locations have not yet been released.

Biden will spend Monday in North Carolina.

The Democratic campaign returns to Virginia after a Quinnipiac University poll released Wednesday showed Obama with a slight lead over Romney. Forty-nine percent backed Obama to 45 percent for Romney.

Quinnipiac surveyed 1,412 registered Virginia voters for seven days ending Aug. 6. The results are within the poll's margin of sampling error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will campaign in Norfolk, Ashland and Manassas this Saturday.