President Joe Biden is fine-tuning his argument for reelection in an intensive stretch of travel and fundraising, homing in on the newly powerful House GOP as a threat to the rebounding economy as the pieces of his expected campaign come together.
With several weeks to go before Biden is expected to announce his intention to run again, White House officials have crafted a travel schedule and series of speeches that will see the president opening infrastructure projects, promoting union jobs and laying out the progress he believes the American economy has made under his watch.
“It’s about making things here in America again. It’s about good jobs,” Biden said Monday, standing in front of a 150-year-old train tunnel in Baltimore that will be improved with the help of the $1 trillion infrastructure law he signed in 2021. “It’s about the dignity of work. It’s about respect and self worth. And it’s about damn time we’re doing it.”
In a string of events along the eastern seaboard, from northern Virginia to Baltimore to Philadelphia to New York City, Biden is setting a multiple-days-per-week travel schedule that aides expect will continue as the presidential contest begins in earnest.
Last week, he told a steamfitters union hall in Virginia that his agenda was about “seeing communities all over America, not just on the coasts, but all over America, reborn.” He’ll stand at another tunnel on Tuesday, this time underneath the Hudson River in New York, to trumpet federal dollars going toward rehabilitating the century-old passage.
He’ll also headline a high-dollar Democratic fundraiser in Manhattan, kicking off what is expected to be a campaign cash blitz. Donors have been made aware of potential events over the coming months in multiple states, including traditional fundraising enclaves in California and Florida.
And on Friday,…
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