President Biden hits the road to Wisconsin, Michigan
Stops include Milwaukee and Saginaw as the president focuses on the Midwest
WASHINGTON (Gray DC) - President Joe Biden is hitting the road again, traveling first to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, then onto Saginaw, Michigan for campaign events. Following Tuesday primary elections, Biden and also Donald Trump are pivoting quickly to the general election.
Wisconsin and Michigan largely decided the 2020 presidential election. Tuesday, March 12, Joe Biden secured enough delegates to become the presumptive nominee for the Democratic party. Wednesday, he started campaigning in these critical battleground states.
The first stop for the President is Milwaukee, Wisconsin – a state he won by a little over 20,000 votes four years ago- after Donald Trump put the state in his win column in 2016.
White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre previewed the president’s public speech.
“So, he’s very much looking forward to going -- being out in Milwaukee, speaking directly to the American people, talking about his investment in America and how he’s delivering on the needs that the Americans have, especially as we talk about an economy -- building economy from the bottom up, middle out.”
After the speech, the president stopped at a local Boys and Girls Club.
Thursday it’s on to Saginaw, Michigan. Biden won the Great Lakes State by more than 154,000 votes in 2020. But polls show him trailing Trump, in part because of the state’s large Arab-American population that is disappointed over the Administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war. On Wednesday, Somali-American Representative Ilhan Omar told CNN, of course she would vote for Joe Biden.
The focus for the President on this trip, is the U.S. economy, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
“He’s going to share how his administration investments are rebuilding our communities and creating good-paying jobs. And, as you know, in the State of the Union, his policies have attracted $650 billion in private sector investment in clean energy, advanced manufacturing, which creates tens of thousands of jobs here in America.”
Todd Belt the Director of Political Management Program at the George Washington University says there’s some problems to the president’s plans>
“Joe Biden’s going out to the Midwest to remind everybody that he’s working class Joe and he’s working for them, that he’s the one who has put together these four major pieces of legislation that are going to help people. The problem is, with a lot of this legislation is that the benefits are spread out over years to come.”
Next week, he’s expected to hit the road once again, traveling to Nevada, Arizona and Texas.
Donald Trump has a rally planned for Saturday, March 16 in Dayton, Ohio.
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