Joe Biden wanted a show of strength and found it in a union hall in Wisconsin — a state Democrats learned the hard way that they can’t ignore, and one where the president sent his strongest signal yet of a reelection bid.
The trip this week, on the heels of the State of the Union address, plucked Biden from the bruising fray of Washington and dropped him in front of a friendly crowd near Madison, a heavily Democratic part of a swing state that will help crown the winner of the 2024 election.
Biden has given every signal that he plans to run again; and if, at age 80, he’s harboring any misgivings, he received only encouragement in Wisconsin. Hundreds of people packed the union training center in DeForest, just outside Madison, to cheer him on, and labor leaders there praised him as the most pro-union president they’ve known.
