President Barack Obama will hit the campaign trail Tuesday to rally support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in New York and Pennsylvania.

The president will arrive in New York City around 5 p.m. and will attend a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee fundraiser at a private residence.

Expect closures on the FDR Drive from Battery to 63rd Street around 4:00PM, and again around 9.

He also will be in Pennsylvania, a state that has served as a firewall for her party in the past six general elections but is now viewed as competitive.

Obama is scheduled to appear without the candidate herself. Clinton was going to make a fundraising swing to California, but will take a couple of days off from the campaign trail after being diagnosed with pneumonia.

The candidate Obama hopes will succeed him left a 9/11 ceremony after about 90 minutes Sunday and struggled to stay on her feet while she was helped into a van. Her campaign said she had “overheated,” but later revealed that she had been diagnosed Friday with pneumonia. The episode played into Trump’s efforts in recent weeks to raise doubts about Clinton’s stamina.

Obama will seek to generate momentum for Clinton in a race that has become uncomfortably close for many Democratic supporters. Clinton’s campaign was already on the defensive after she used the term “basket of deplorables” to describe half of Trump’s supporters.

White House spokesman Josh Earnest said Obama doesn’t feel like he needs to help Clinton with damage control. “I think the president’s belief that she’d be an excellent president of the United States is something that you’ve heard him say many times. And I can tell you there’s nothing that happened yesterday that has changed that assessment at all,” Earnest said.

(AP)