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Vice President Kamala Harris’ campaign is back on the trail this week, and former President Donald Trump’s campaign is keeping its focus on the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

Harris and her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, are focusing on Georgia starting Wednesday, with a two-day bus tour of the southern part of the state. That tour, the Associated Press reports, will end in a rally in Savannah Thursday, but further details had not yet been publicly announced early Wednesday afternoon.

The Georgia trip serves as the rescheduled visit for an earlier planned visit that was canceled due to the impacts of Tropical Storm Debby earlier this month. It will serve as Harris’ seventh trip to Georgia this year.

As Harris and Walz are in Georgia, second gentleman Doug Emhoff will campaign on Harris’ behalf in other areas of the country. Earlier this week, Emhoff focused his efforts in New York, but will head out West beginning Thursday with appearances in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Ketchum, Idaho. Friday, Emhoff will deliver remarks at campaign events in Aspen, Colo., and San Francisco.

Next week, Harris’ campaign will turn its attention back to Pennsylvania, when she and President Joe Biden will hold a campaign event in Pittsburgh on Monday. Harris is also slated to appear in Detroit that day.

Trump’s campaign, meanwhile, maintains its focus on Pennsylvania this week with a pair of events. Up first is an appearance from running mate Sen. JD Vance (R., Ohio), who was slated to appear at an event Wednesday in Erie before making his way to De Pere, Wis., later in the day.

Trump, meanwhile, will hold a rally in La Crosse, Wis., Thursday. That event, slated to take place at the La Crosse Center, will also feature former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard — who recently endorsed Trump’s bid for the presidency — as a guest moderator at a scheduled town hall.

Trump will then head to Pennsylvania Friday for a rally in Johnstown at the 1st Summit Arena. The event is scheduled to open to the public at 12:30 p.m.

Trump’s rallies follow the filing of a new indictment against him over his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Filed Tuesday, that indictment narrows the allegations in the wake of a Supreme Court opinion last month that granted former presidents broad immunity. In a statement posted to social media, Trump called the new indictment an “effort to resurrect a ‘dead’ Witch Hunt.”

Next month, both Harris and Trump are slated to be in Philadelphia for a presidential debate at the National Constitution Center Sept. 10.

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A Pennsylvania ammunition plant that makes a key artillery shell in Ukraine’s fight against Russia has managed to boost production by 50% to meet surging demand, with more capacity set to come on line.

Government officials revealed the increase in production this week as they showcased the historic factory’s ongoing, $400 million modernization.

The Scranton Army Ammunition Plant cuts and forges 2,000-pound (907-kilogram) bars of steel into 155 mm howitzer rounds that are then shipped to Iowa to be packed with explosives and fitted with fuses. From there, many of them make their way to the fight in Ukraine, where they are highly sought.

The Scranton plant, along with two other ammunition plants in nearby Wilkes-Barre, recently increased production from 24,000 rounds per month to 36,000 rounds per month. Three new production lines are under development that will allow the Scranton facility to churn out even more of the critical munitions, the factory’s top official said.

“Right now we’re concentrating on 155. That’s pretty much all we’re concentrating on,” Richard Hansen, the Army commander’s representative at the plant, said Tuesday while giving news outlets a tour of the sprawling factory grounds near downtown Scranton. “We’re working really hard to ensure that we achieve the goal that the Pentagon has established.”

The U.S. has sent more than 3 million 155 mm artillery rounds to Ukraine since Russia invaded the country in 2022, according to government figures. Earlier this month, the White House announced another $125 million in weapons to assist Ukraine in its military operations against Russia, including 155 mm shells.

The Scranton factory began life as a locomotive repair shop at the beginning of the 20th century before the Army bought it and converted it into a production facility for large-caliber artillery for the Korean War. It’s been operated by General Dynamics since 2006 under contract with the U.S. government, which owns the plant.

Officials are about halfway through one of the biggest modernization projects in plant history, with about 20 projects underway. Tuesday’s tour included a new production line with a sleek new machine that will do the job of three, helping maximize use of space at the 500,000-square-foot (46,452-square-meter) factory.

The plant employs about 300 people, according to a General Dynamics spokesperson. Some of them have been there for decades running the equipment that cuts the steel, heats it to 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit (1,093 degrees Celsius), and forges, machines, washes and paints the finished shells. Each round is manually inspected at each step to ensure it meets specifications.

“We want it go where we point it,” Hansen said. “We want it to go as far as we need it to go to do its job. Lives depend on it — the lives of the gun crew, the lives of innocent civilians depend on this round doing exactly what we want it to do out in the field.”