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Former Vice President Joe Biden plans to campaign Monday in northeast Wisconsin for his second visit to the battleground state in two weeks.

Biden’s campaign announced Sunday that the Democratic presidential nominee would be campaigning in Manitowoc, a city of about 32,000 that’s on the shores of Lake Michigan about 80 miles north of Milwaukee. Biden did not immediately release any additional details about the visit.

The stop comes two weeks after Biden made his first visit to Wisconsin as the nominee. Biden on Sept. 7 went to Kenosha in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake. His stop there came two days after President Donald Trump also came to Kenosha, where he thanked police for their response to sometimes violent protests.

Trump returned to the state last week for a rally in Mosinee in the central part of Wisconsin.

Biden is campaigning in a county that Trump won in 2016 with 57% of the vote. Trump needs to win big in more rural parts of the state like Manitowoc County in order to counter the heavy Democratic vote in urban areas.

Polls show Biden with a slight lead over Trump in Wisconsin, a state the president carried by fewer than 23,000 votes in 2016.