Biden Touts US ‘Factory Boom’ in Bid to Sell Voters on Economy
- Biden visits Maine plant that won trade dispute with China
- President frustrated voters don’t credit him for economy
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President Joe Biden said the US was experiencing a surge in manufacturing that was delivering higher wages to American workers as he sought to improve his standing on the economy with skeptical voters.
“We’ve attracted over a half a trillion dollars in private investment in manufacturing in America, industries of the future,” said Biden during a visit Friday to an Auburn Manufacturing Inc. factory in Maine. “We’re seeing a factory boom.”