Biden touts accomplishments, takes on GOP throughout swing state stops with common election dash underway

President Biden visited two key swing states on Labor Day to tout Democratic accomplishments and go on offense in opposition to Republicans with the midterm elections simply two months away.

Biden first made a cease in Wisconsin to talk at Milwaukee Laborfest, adopted by a cease in Pittsburgh the place he delivered remarks to the United Steelworkers of America Native Union 2227.

Whereas Biden used each occasions to show his help for labor unions, he additionally used the journeys as marketing campaign stops to point out what his administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress has achieved whereas he’s been in workplace.

The “…American Rescue Plan additionally created and saved thousands and thousands of jobs. Why? As a result of right here within the state of Pennsylvania, and virtually each state, didn’t find the money for to maintain academics on the payroll, to maintain firefighters on the job, to maintain police on the job, to maintain individuals, nurses and docs on the job,” Biden mentioned whereas in Pennsylvania.  

“And so what’d we do? We, actually, gave them the cash to ensure they did it. And this governor, your governor, spent it effectively.”

He additionally touted the bipartisan infrastructure legislation; points of the Inflation Discount Act, together with a facet of the legislation that permits some drug costs to be negotiated by Medicare; and laws boosting the home semiconductor business amid a vital pc chip scarcity.

Biden used the chance to go on offensive in opposition to Sen. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.), one of the weak GOP senators up for reelection in November, blasting him for feedback that he thought Medicare and Social Safety needs to be yearly permitted.

Whereas in Pennsylvania, the president didn’t invoke Republican Senate nominee Mehmet Oz’s title however as an alternative went after former President Trump extra prominently in his remarks.

“All of us love the nation. However you possibly can’t love the nation and say how a lot you adore it once you solely settle for certainly one of two outcomes from the election. Both you received otherwise you have been cheated. It doesn’t work that means,” Biden mentioned, referring to Trump’s baseless allegations that the final election was stolen from him. 

And borrowing language he used throughout his prime-time speech final Thursday, he additionally went after “MAGA Republicans.”

“Not each Republican is a MAGA Republican. Not each Republican embraces that excessive ideology. I do know as a result of I’ve been in a position to work with mainstream Republicans my entire profession. However the excessive MAGA Republicans in Congress have chosen to go backwards, stuffed with anger, violence, hate and division,” Biden mentioned in Wisconsin.

Whereas Democratic Senate challenger Mandela Barnes, who’s taking up Johnson in November, was not president throughout Biden’s speech, Biden gave him a shout out throughout his remarks in Wisconsin. 

Pennsylvania Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman did attend the president’s occasion within the state. Biden quipped throughout his speech, “if I’ve to be in a foxhole. I need John Fetterman in there with me.”

Each Fetterman and Barnes are gearing up for tight races in vital battleground states that may assist decide whether or not Democrats can retain management of the Senate previous November. 

The nonpartisan election handicapper Prepare dinner Political Report charges Johnson’s seat as a “toss up” whereas it just lately moved Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat from a “toss up” to “lean Democrat.”