the infrastructure bill, the bipartisan infrastructure bill and all the ribbon cuttings he s planning to go to in eight key states. kelly? well, certainly the president is trying to buy himself time to not be a formally declared candidate but using the time to hone the message about this he believes he s been able to accomplish with democrats, who have been in congress, but also by working with republicans, something that s not always popular, even with his own party, but he believes is popular with voters who want to see results. carefully choosing the places where that can resonate and we all know the electoral map gets very narrow about where do our presidential elections ultimately get decided, and one of the big changes we saw is that for democrats, they want south carolina to go first in the voting in terms of the primary calendar. we also know that there are key places in areas where the kind
i think that they would rather see the dollars invested in traditional infrastructure, rail, roads and bridges. i have to behind me worth about a billion dollars each. i am only one congressional district. above our baseline with regards to the $2 trillion bill. we need to invest smartly in all of our critical infrastructure, critically when it affects our supply chain. i spoke to a prominent democratic senator last night. talking about infrastructure. we will give it time for the money to get where it needs to go. well voters reward president biden for ribbon cuttings and for passing this even if they have not seen the full effects of new infrastructure? two years is a long time. we will know then. fair enough. do you buy the argument that it will take time for the money to get there or do you think we should be seeing some benefits
lots of ribbon cuttings at bridges and tunnels and reminding people that seniors that their insulin costs are capped. then, of course, you know, they re make nothing secret that he intends to run. you saw at the state of the union. they think they have the successful strategy for the 2022 midterms where they outperformed expectations where they said they made it a referendum on republicans and democracy and threats to democracy and i think they re going to try to do that again. you saw this message actually on display at the state of the union where they really tried to egg on the yellers and the screamers from the balcony and created a moment for him. they described it in the times piece as competent versus crazy. yeah. there is a through-line if you look at the 2020 campaign and look at the 2022 midterms and all the way down to 2024, it is all about trying to make all of these elections contrast and choice elections. the choice being whether it was 2020 between joe biden and dona
we had infrastructure week scheduled every week for four years. in a normal time, things that the democrats and republicans would be cheering for, they are going to the ribbon cuttings, as he said in perhaps his most memorable line of the evening, but i also think this was an eye towards what the next two years should be about if they run an effective, strong, bold presidential campaign, which is constantly bringing it back to those bread and butter issues that people care about around the kitchen table and ignoring the whackiness of the cultural issues and efforts to drag the conversation there. towards this narrative of disdain and alienation and a complete ignorance towards anything that has to do with