President-elect Trump will reportedly kick off a “thank you tour” this week in Ohio, an industrial Midwestern state where millions of white working-class voters helped carry him to a victory over Hillary Clinton.
Transition officials told Bloomberg News that the incoming Republican president will hold his first public post-election event on Thursday at the U.S. Bank Arena in Cincinnati, where he previously drew one of his largest crowds of the election cycle in mid-October.
The event will be much like the signature rallies Trump used to drum up support for his candidacy during the campaign season. Similar events are likely to be held in “swing states [Trump] flipped over,” the president-elect’s advance team director told reporters at Trump Tower this month.
Trump carried 30 states in his general election contests against Clinton, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, Iowa, North Carolina and Wisconsin — all states that President Obama won in 2008 and 2012.
Transition officials are currently considering Des Moines, Iowa, for the second stop of Trump’s tour, according to Bloomberg.
A spokeswoman for the transition team did not return the Washington Examiner’s request for comment.
