Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will come to Mohegan Sun Pocono in Plains Twp. on Monday to speak to delegates from the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals union, a union spokesman said Thursday.

Sanders will talk to about 250 union leaders in the union’s House of Delegates who represent registered nurses and other health care professionals throughout the state, he said.

A press release from Sanders’ campaign said he is scheduled to be at the meeting at 12:30 p.m. and the event is closed to the public.

The event is part of Sanders’ visits to battleground states on Friday, Saturday, Sunday and Monday.

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In addition to Pennsylvania, he plans to make stops in Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.

He will hold a rally in Pittsburgh Sunday at 5 p.m. following rallies in Madison, Wisconsin, on Friday and Warren, Michigan, on Saturday.

He will meet with community members in Gary, Indiana, and union workers in Coopersville, Michigan, on Saturday

In Lordstown, Ohio, Sanders will sit down with AFT President Randi Weingarten, experts and workers in the community to discuss everything from plant closures to schools on Sunday.

Sanders will end the swing with a stop in Bethlehem on Monday at 6:30 p.m. to participate in a town hall hosted by FOX News. This event also is closed to the public.

A press release from Sanders’ campaign says at rallies in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan, three states that flipped and voted for Donald Trump in 2016, Sanders will deliver a message “focused on fighting against unfair trade deals that undermine workers wages and enrich CEOs, rebuilding and strengthening unions and guaranteeing health care as a right to all with Medicare for All.”

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