US VP Harris sells 'Bidenomics' in swing through Wisconsin

Source: Reuters

March 6, 2024 4:13 PM EST


MADISON, Wisconsin, March 6 (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris touted White House economic policies during a visit to Wisconsin on Wednesday as she and President Joe Biden struggle to convince voters to give them more credit for U.S. economic strength.

Her stop in Madison, a college town filled with young voters critical to Biden and Harris's re-election efforts, aimed to highlight apprenticeship programs and union jobs touted by the Biden administration and urge supporters to defend democracy.

Wisconsin is a political battleground state that the Biden team wants to win in November to get to the 270 state electoral votes required to be reelected. Biden won the state of nearly six million people in 2020 by less than 1% of votes; in 2016 Wisconsin supported Republican nominee Donald Trump.

"There’s so much at stake," Harris told Biden-Harris campaign volunteers in Madison. Democracy will "only be as strong as our willingness to fight for it," she added.

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