Obama to visit Louisville on Thursday

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — President Barack Obama will visit Louisville on Thursday for an event on the economy, the White House announced Monday.

No other details were available about the trip, which would be Obama’s first visit to Kentukcy since 2011 when he went to Fort Campbell near the Tennessee border to greet soldiers returning from Afghanistan.

While Obama has not been in Kentucky for a few years, he has loomed large over the state’s politics. Republican U.S. Sen. Mitch McConnell won a landslide victory in November based largely on tying his opponent to Obama. Polls routinely show about 60 percent of Kentucky voters disapprove of Obama as president.

Kentucky will be in the political spotlight again in November with one of the country’s few governors’ races in what is traditionally an off year for elections.

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