ANALYSIS — President Joe Biden spent a two-day visit in Wisconsin and Michigan trying to convince voters he is their best bet for a better life and raking in more campaign cash — but he was met with more protests in both swing states, and another bleak poll.
During an official White House event in Milwaukee on Wednesday, the president came delivering grants for a major infrastructure project. His message was that his administration was attempting to do right by minority communities adversely affected in the 1960s when interstate highways were built through their neighborhoods.
That message could be politically beneficial. Biden’s campaign team is betting big that the kinds of Black and Latino voters who the grants are designed to help will turn out for him in November. Those votes could be key in Michigan, for example, a state that Inside Elections this week shifted from tilting toward Biden to a rating of Toss-up.
