/ Modified oct 25, 2016 3:15 p.m.

Donald Trump Jr Scheduled to Speak Thursday at ASU

Republican Party says afternoon speech will focus on millennials, election's importance.

Trump veterans rally phoenix spot Donald Trump speaking with supporters at a campaign rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum at the Arizona State Fairgrounds in Phoenix, Arizona.
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A son of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump is scheduled to campaign at Arizona State University in Tempe Thursday.

The Arizona Republican Party announced in a press release Tuesday that Donald Trump Jr. will speak at ASU’s student recreation center on the importance of the election, which is in two weeks.

Trump Jr.’s campaign appearance comes a week after three surrogates spoke in the state on behalf of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. They included Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, who spoke at ASU.

Trump and Clinton are running a tight race for Arizona’s 11 electoral votes, with the latest polls showing them within a couple of percentage points.

A Democratic presidential candidate has won Arizona once in the last 16 elections. That was when Bill Clinton took the state's electoral votes in 1996, over Republican Bob Dole.

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