NASHUA, N.H. — New Hampshire voters can check out both President Barack Obama and his Republican rival Mitt Romney on the same day later this week.

Romney is holding a rally at Nashua’s Holman Stadium on Friday evening, hours after Obama appears in Portsmouth with Vice President Joe Biden. First lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden also will at the Portsmouth event Friday morning at Strawbery Banke.

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Secret Service agents stand guard as Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney walks to his car after services at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on Sunday, Sept. 2, 2012 in Wofeboro, N.H. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) ASSOCIATED PRESS

Both campaigns have lavished attention on New Hampshire given its status as a swing state.