i spoke with members of the business round table, of the big business guys, asked why i m so pro labor, you save them money. what you do lasts and through the american rescue plan, we re funding work force development programs, including 128 million here in wisconsin, so american workers prepared to compete in the economy we re building. this is a blue collar, blueprint to rebuild america. and we re also doing something that for years, people just talked about. we re going to buy american for everything we build. last night, i announced we re proposing new standards to require all construction materials be made in america. american lumber, american glass, american dry wall, american fiberoptics. american roads, bridges, highways, made with american products. my first two years in office, we ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. where? i mean, it sincerely. jobs you can live on. where is it written american can t lead the world of manufacturing? i didn t see it written anywhe
you can assume where i am on days like this. we took to the same set of voters before the state of the yard line, asking what they were expecting and afterwards as well. before the address, there was a lot of eye rolling, another political speech, here we go, but the reaction told has been a ton of pleasant surprise at how much they did enjoy watching this political speech. over all folks felt he had a strong performance. the split ticket voters are really important. the demographic in the middle frustrated with the status of both parties right now. we talked to maureen who is a democrat who split her ticket and allen novak a republican who splits his ticket as well. the former republican committee chair in virginia in the late 90s and early 2000s, now he s probably voting for more
really like my grandfather, do i want him to run for president, i don t think so. the age factor a sticking point for voters, democratic voters that i have been talking to. the moments that resonated for maureen and allen, republican and democrat, for allen it was what you just talked with mike memoli about, conversations around americans that were left behind, about manufacturing. about bringing jobs here and speaking to the middle class. for maureen, it was victim impact stories, the father whose daughter overdosed on fentanyl, tyre nichols family there. the empty and story telling stood out to a lot of folks. dasha burns, thank you very much, and mike memoli and i were talking about, there was that moment with social security and medicare and the back and forth with republicans. well, today, again, he name