Joe Biden

President Joe Biden stepped up his effort to paint Republicans as a threat to Americans' pocketbooks in a speech from upstate New York on Thursday, ...

Democratic officials hope Biden’s message will resonate in the final stretch of the campaign as Republican appear to be gaining momentum. The other is from Scranton or Claymont or thousands of cities across the country like the place I grew up,” he said at the White House on Wednesday, referencing towns in which he lived as a child in Pennsylvania and Delaware. Syracuse, in particular, stands to benefit from a key Biden priority – semiconductor manufacturing – but it is also the center of a competitive House race, where a conservative Trump-aligned Republican is running against a moderate Democrat in a contest that’s currently a toss-up. One is, as I’ve said before, the view from Park Avenue, which says help the wealthy and maybe that’ll trickle down to everyone in the country. [this year’s midterm contests](https://www.cnn.com/election/2022) highlighting the steps he’s taken to reduce costs for Americans and boost American manufacturing, polls show Americans giving him poor marks on his handling of the economy. The event served as a real-time demonstration of a cold political reality.