“I’m extra honored by your endorsement than you possibly can think about, coming this early. It’s going to make a huge distinction on this marketing campaign,” Biden stated on the rally.
The marketing campaign occasion comes only a day after the AFL-CIO endorsed Biden. The president’s handle was comparable in tone and content material as earlier speeches on the financial system: touting his fame as probably the most “pro-union president in American historical past,” knocking Republicans for tax cuts and laying out his personal financial accomplishments during the last two-and-a-half years.
“We’ve created 13 million new jobs since I turned president. The unemployment price is down to just about a 50-year low. I’ve seen report lows for Black employment and Hispanic employment as properly. We’ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs,” Biden stated. “Inflation has come down 11 months in a row and goes to proceed to return down. In the present day it’s lower than half of what it was a yr in the past. This didn’t simply occur. We made it occur.”
However each administration and marketing campaign officers know they nonetheless have a tightrope to stroll on the financial system and acknowledge it’s one thing they’ve struggled with previously: touting what they’ve performed with out seeming out of contact or being accused of portray too rosy of an image.
And for Democrats, who have been getting antsy that the marketing campaign wasn’t kicking into excessive gear, the occasion couldn’t come quick sufficient. It additionally showcased how the marketing campaign plans to function for the foreseeable future: conserving a heads-down method with tentpole occasions to distinction with what’s shaping as much as be a chaotic and rhetorically nasty Republican presidential major.
The rally can also be the primary of a slate of recent marketing campaign exercise over the subsequent weeks: Biden will head to California, Maryland and Chicago for giant cash occasions, Vice President Kamala Harris, who has been doing many of the heavy lifting for fundraising, might be in New York Metropolis, Dallas and Maryland whereas the primary girl is headed to Tennessee and Minnesota.
The occasions come because it will get nearer to the top of the fundraising quarter, the place campaigns should disclose how a lot cash they’ve raised. Some Democrats have grumbled that the Biden marketing campaign has but to launch fundraising numbers, giving the sense that the numbers aren’t spectacular sufficient and persevering with to gasoline the narrative that there’s little pleasure on the left for Biden’s reelection.
However these ready for the Biden reelection shouldn’t maintain their breath. Some accustomed to the hassle stated large marketing campaign rallies could not start in earnest till late this yr or early 2024. What’s extra seemingly are occasions like these tied to specific points: gun management, abortion and the financial system.
“I actually imagine this nation is about to take off. The investments we’ve made these previous three years have the facility to rework this nation for the subsequent 5 a long time. And guess who’s going to be on the heart of the transformation? You. Unions, working individuals on this nation,” Biden stated.
