President Joe Biden will arrive in Las Vegas on Feb. 4, a Biden campaign source confirmed to The Nevada Independent on Wednesday, in what will be his first visit to the Silver State tied explicitly to his 2024 re-election bid. 

Biden’s visit will be two days before the Feb. 6 primary, which he is expected to win handily, and come on the heels of Vice President Kamala Harris’ Jan. 27 visit to gin up excitement for the ticket at the onset of early voting.

Nevada is the second presidential contest in which Biden’s name will appear on the ballot — he won New Hampshire on Jan. 23 as a write-in candidate after a dispute between the state and the Democratic Party over the nominating calendar order.

His visit will come just a day after the South Carolina primary — the first Democratic presidential nominating contest to award delegates — on Feb. 3. Although Nevada is the second contest, it is the first in a battleground state — one of several Biden won in 2020 that he hopes to keep in his win column as he gears up for a likely rematch against former President Donald Trump. Biden won Nevada in 2020 by just over 2 percentage points.

Biden last came to Nevada in December, when he visited Las Vegas in his official capacity to tout a federal grant for a high-speed rail project connecting Southern Nevada with Southern California. He also visited Las Vegas in March 2023 to discuss prescription drug reform and host a fundraiser.