Pete Buttigieg is expected to visit Indiana amid VP speculation

Indianapolis, Indiana – US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg is scheduled to visit Central Indiana next week, promoting President Joe Biden’s “Investing in America” platform and raising rumors that he would be chosen as a vice presidential contender.

A news release from the U.S. Department of Transportation describes the visit to Central Indiana as a “future EV battery manufacturing facility in Indiana,” but it doesn’t specify exactly where it is.

Buttigieg served as South Bend, Indiana’s mayor before.

‘Highlighting how investments made possible by President Biden’s Investing in America plan are strengthening rural communities, renewing local manufacturing, and sustaining our national economy,’ Buttigieg will tour the Midwest, a news statement states.

Buttigieg will start his journey with stops in Wisconsin and Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, where he will see three ports that, according to a press release, are essential to the local economy and maintain the flow of goods throughout the Great Lakes region.

After that, Buttigieg is scheduled to visit Indiana, where he will take a tour of a building site that will soon house a sustainable energy manufacturing facility that will generate “more than 1400 jobs,” according to a press release.

‘Highlighting how the surge in renewable energy thanks to investments from the Biden-Harris administration is reinvigorating manufacturing and creating jobs across the Upper Midwest,’ the secretary will visit this location.

On Tuesday, July 30, Buttigieg is scheduled to visit the Upper Peninsula and Green Bay, Wisconsin; on Wednesday, July 31, he will travel to Milwaukee; and on Friday, August 2, he will make a trip in Central Indiana.