President Biden attempted to burnish his blue-collar image Tuesday by standing on the picket line with the striking United Auto Workers in Michigan for 12 minutes before hopping back on Air Force One for a swanky fundraiser in Silicon Valley later that night. .
“Wall Street didn’t build the country; the middle class built the country,” Biden, 80, shouted through a megaphone to applause from UAW members gathered outside Detroit.
“Unions built the middle class. It is a fact. So let’s move on. “You deserve what you have earned and you have earned much more than what you are paid now.”
Biden became the first sitting president to visit a picket line, but the UAW has so far withheld its endorsement of the president’s re-election campaign due to his administration’s push to transition car buyers to manufacturing electric vehicles. foreigner.
President Biden polished his blue-collar image by standing on the picket line with the United Auto Workers in Michigan on Tuesday before planning a swanky fundraiser in Silicon Valley. AFP via Getty Images “Wall Street did not build the country” “The middle class built the country,” shouted Biden, 80, through a megaphone to the applause of UAW workers.REUTERS
Former President Donald Trump, Biden’s expected rival in the 2024 election, will deliver a speech Wednesday night to union workers instead of attending the second Republican primary debate in Simi Valley, California.
The White House has refused to say whether the president supports striking workers’ demands for a 40% pay increase and a 32-hour work week, although Biden responded “yes” when asked by a reporter on Tuesday if he thought that The salary increase was deserved. .
Aboard Air Force One en route to Detroit, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre also declined to say whether the work stoppage could hurt Biden’s re-election chances if knock-on effects hit the U.S. economy.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre declined to say whether the strike could hurt Biden’s chances in a key state in 2024 if it affected the U.S. economy. REUTERS “Unions built the middle class. That is a fact. So let’s move on. “You deserve what you have earned and you have earned much more than what you are paid now,” Biden told UAW members.AP
“I’m not going to talk about any political results or how this influences next year’s elections,” Jean-Pierre said.
UAW President Shawn Fain, who spoke for seven minutes while Biden spoke for only 87 seconds, thanked the president for coming and told the crowd: “Today belongs to working-class auto workers.”
“We do the heavy lifting. We do the real work,” Fain said. “We have the power. The world is our work. The economy is our work. This industry is our creation… when we retain our work, we can undo it.”
Mark Heising and Liz Simons maxed out donations to Biden’s campaign, contributing $350,000 to the president’s super PAC earlier this year, federal election filings show. HS Foundation
The president soon returned to the Detroit airport to fly approximately 2,400 miles to the Bay Area, where he will hold campaign fundraisers over the next two days.
Those include a sold-out event Tuesday night for his super PAC, the Biden Victory Fund, in Atherton, California, with donation amounts ranging from $5,000 to $100,000, Puck News. first reported.
The fundraiser will be hosted by Mark Heising, founder of private equity firm Medley Partners, and his wife Liz Simons, daughter of retired billionaire hedge fund manager and Democratic mega-donor James Simons.
Gretchen Sisson and her husband, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum (above), will host a reception for the Biden Victory Fund on Wednesday night in San Francisco. Drew Altizer/Sipa USA
The couple maximized donations to Biden’s campaign and contributed $350,000 to the president’s super PAC earlier this year, federal election filings show.
In 2020, his foundation spent more than $5.5 million on Democratic causes and candidates, according to political donation tracker OpenSecrets.org.
Former President Barack Obama also relied on the generosity of Heising and Simons for Democratic contributions and attended a brunch at their home worth $32,400 per donor, Politico reported in 2013.
Philanthropist and sociologist Gretchen Sisson and her husband, Facebook co-founder Andrew McCollum, will organize a second reception for the Biden Victory Fund on Wednesday night in San Francisco.
Biden last attended a donor event in the Bay Area in June, during a three-day trip to visit tech industry leaders to discuss artificial intelligence.
During the visit, he announced a $600 million investment in coastal and Great Lakes communities to build projects “to protect against the impacts of climate change.”
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