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• Joe Biden is returning to Pennsylvania on Friday, but two of the Democratic Party’s midterm hopefuls won’t be there to greet him, the Associated Press reported.

• Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, one of the leading candidates in a closely watched US Senate race, and state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the party’s likely nominee for governor, are both missing Biden’s visit to Pittsburgh, the AP reported.

• Fetterman praised Biden’s visit but said he would be in Harrisburg on Friday night, so he can attend an event for Pennsylvania Democrats.

• A Fetterman aide told NBC News’ Sahil Kapur that the lieutenant governor could run into Biden if the president visits the site of a Pittsburgh bridge collapse that injured 10 people just hours before Biden’s infrastructure-focused event.

• It was not immediately clear why Shapiro will be absent from Friday’s event.

“I’m looking forward to traveling with POTUS in his home state over the coming months as we fight to move PA forward,” he wrote on Twitter following the AP’s report.

• “President Biden first announced his infrastructure plan in Pittsburgh, and Conor looks forward to welcoming him back and talking about all the good jobs that bill will create in the Pittsburgh area and all over Pennsylvania,” Lamb campaign manager Abby Nassif Murphy told the AP.

SOURCE: APNEWS