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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Lynn Sweet

Bidenomics Chicago takeaways: Biden ‘loves’ the slogan, says Sen. Tammy Duckworth, a campaign co-chair

President Joe Biden delivers a speech at The Old Post Office on Wednesday, June 28, 2023 in Chicago. | (Owen Ziliak/Sun-Times, Owen Ziliak/Sun-Times)

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden, in Chicago on Wednesday, is doing more than merely embracing the phrase Bidenomics — “he relishes, he loves the term,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., one of the seven national co-chairs of his re-election campaign, told the Sun-Times.

That word — hurled by Republicans as an insult — has been rebranded by the Biden team as a slogan to tout his economic achievements, and though Biden seems at times — as recently as Wednesday morning before he left for Chicago — ambivalent about it, Duckworth set the record straight.

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