Biden visits North Carolina, a state he hopes to win in November, to promote internet access
President Joe Biden has unveiled $82 million for North Carolina to help connect an additional 16,000 households and businesses to high-speed internet
RALEIGH, N.C. — President Joe Biden on Thursday unveiled $82 million for North Carolina to help connect 16,000 new households and businesses to high-speed internet, delivering an election-year pitch about policies he says are «just getting started” at improving the United States.
Biden, the Democratic incumbent who is campaigning to win a second term, coupled his economic message with a few jabs at his predecessor, Donald Trump, currently the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination and his most likely future challenger.
Biden brought up Trump's recent comment that he hoped the economy would crash soon because he doesn't want to preside over job losses if he were to be reelected in November. Biden told his audience that Trump already was like Herbert Hoover, who held office during the 1929 stock market crash.
“He’s the only president to be president for four years and lose jobs,” Biden said of Trump.
Biden said the work his administration is doing in North Carolina, on high-speed internet, infrastructure and more, is happening in communities across the country, regardless of the politics.
“What we’re doing here in North Carolina is one piece of a much bigger story,» he said. Biden said he was keeping his promise «to be a president for all America, whether you voted for me or not.»
Biden talked about all the people who need high-speed internet because they work from home, businesses who need it to reach customers and students who need to do their school work.
“High-speed internet isn't a luxury anymore. It's an absolute necessity,” he said in Raleigh, the
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