President Joe Biden plans to travel to southwest Wisconsin on Sept. 5, using a visit focused on small towns and rural areas to highlight his policies to lower prescription drug costs and encourage renewable energy and advanced manufacturing.
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- President Joe Biden plans to visit southwest Wisconsin on September 5 to promote his policies on lowering prescription drug costs and advancing renewable energy and manufacturing.
- The visit is part of a strategy to engage with small towns and rural areas in a key battleground state for the upcoming presidential election.
- Wisconsin is crucial for Democrats, with Biden having won the state in 2020 by a narrow margin after it went to Trump in 2016.
- Biden’s trip will emphasize the benefits of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act, including savings on insulin for Medicare recipients and government negotiation on drug prices.
- The visit comes as Biden steps up public events following his decision to endorse Vice President Kamala Harris for the presidency.
The Associated Press has the story:
Biden plans to travel to Wisconsin next week to highlight energy, prescription drug policies
Newslooks- WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Joe Biden plans to travel to southwest Wisconsin on Sept. 5, using a visit focused on small towns and rural areas to highlight his policies to lower prescription drug costs and encourage renewable energy and advanced manufacturing.
That’s according to a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s schedule. Democrats consider Wisconsin to be one of the must-win states in November’s presidential election between Republican Donald Trump and Democrat Kamala Harris. Biden won the state in 2020 by about 20,000 votes, flipping Wisconsin to the Democratic column after Trump narrowly won it in 2016.
Biden is stepping up his public events after bowing out of the race and endorsing his vice president. Harris and Biden plan to be in Pittsburgh as part of the Labor Day holiday.
In 2020, AP VoteCast, a survey of the electorate, found that nearly half of Wisconsin voters hailed from small towns and rural areas. Of that subset, nearly 6 in 10 backed Trump. But Democrats could improve their odds of winning the state this year if they can reduce the gap.
Biden plans to stress the policies that were part of the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.
The law had little immediate impact on the inflation that hurt Biden’s popularity, but it was designed to save Medicare recipients money on insulin and allow the government to negotiate on prescription drug prices. It also included incentives for a shift to renewable energy and funding for the IRS to ensure it can collect more of what affluent and wealthier taxpayers owe.
