Fresh from his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden rallied supporters in Wisconsin on Wednesday, trying to shore up the backing of working-class voters who have edged away from Democrats in recent years, according to a report from the Associated Press.
“Fighting for the sake of fighting gets us nowhere,” Biden said at a training facility run by the Laborers’ International Union of North America. “We’re getting things done.”
Workers lined up in orange shirts and hard hats behind the president as he spoke. A banner that said “union strong” hung to the side.
“My economic plan is about investing in people and places that feel forgotten,” said Biden, who pointed to new federal funding for a bridge and electric buses in Wisconsin.
At the training center, Biden met workers and apprentices who are learning how to do the jobs that are being created because of several pieces of major legislation, some of them passed with Republican support, that Biden has signed into law.
The measures include trillions of dollars for pandemic relief, rebuilding roads, bridges, and other infrastructure, jump-starting the semiconductor chip industry in the United States, and boosting climate change and health care initiatives.
