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Coming to the region: Clintons, Sanders, Kasich - and Trump

Donald Trump is coming to West Chester on Monday. His planned rally at West Chester University is the latest to be scheduled in a wave of presidential campaign events in the state in the run-up to Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary.

They were packing it in at a Bill Clinton rally in mostly Democratic Swarthmore on Saturday.
They were packing it in at a Bill Clinton rally in mostly Democratic Swarthmore on Saturday.Read more(Claudia Vargas / Staff)
    by By Andrew Seidman and Patricia Madej, STAFF WRITERS
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Donald Trump is coming to West Chester on Monday.

His planned rally at West Chester University is the latest to be scheduled in a wave of presidential campaign events in the state in the run-up to Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary.

It's a busy weekend, too.

On Saturday:

  1. Former President Bill Clinton is to stump for his wife, Hillary, appearing on the Democratic front-runner's behalf in Swarthmore and Ambler. 

    He will speak Saturday morning at Swarthmore Rutledge School, 100 College Ave., in
    Swarthmore. The event begins at 11:30 a.m. (Doors open at 10:30 a.m.)

    Then, at 3:15 p.m., he will discuss gun violence at Wissahickon Middle School, 500 Houston Road in Ambler, where he will be joined by former U.S. Rep. Gabby Giffords (D., Ariz.), who was wounded in a 2011 mass shooting, and her husband, former astronaut Mark Kelly.

On Sunday:

  1. Former President Bill Clinton will be back for a fund-raiser in Wynnewood.

On Monday:

  1. Trump's rally is set for 4 p.m. at West Chester University's Hollinger Field House, 150 University Ave. The arena seats 3,700.

  1. Republican presidential candidate Ohio Gov. John Kasich is to visit the Penrose Diner, 2016 Penrose Ave., in South Philadelphia at 10 a.m.

  2. Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders are due in Philadelphia on Monday night when MSNBC hosts back-to-back town-hall meetings, an hour each, at the National Constitution Center, 525 Arch St.

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Staff writer Michaelle Bond contributed to this article.