President Joe Biden traveled to Wisconsin on Wednesday to announce a $3. 3 billion investment by Microsoft to build an artificial intelligence data center. The data center will be built on the resources of a planned $10 billion Foxconn facility that Donald Trump touted during his presidency as an early renaissance. of technological production in the United States.
In his remarks at Gateway Technical College in Sturtevant, Racine County, the incumbent Democrat mentioned his predecessor by name, but Biden took the opportunity to point out Trump’s “broken promises. “”And then they fell into it,” Biden said at the conference. same position as Trump’s failure. ” Foxconn turned out to be just that: a scam,” he added.
Certainly, the Democrat is pleased to announce the good news, but he is satisfied to succeed where the presumptive Republican nominee failed.
What’s more, it’s still happening.
Trump tried unsuccessfully to propose an infrastructure package, while Biden succeeded on this issue.
Trump has tried, unsuccessfully, to push for a law to fight gun violence, while Biden has succeeded on this issue.
Trump has said he will use Medicare to negotiate lowering prescription drug costs, while Biden has been successful on this issue.
Trump said he knows how to negotiate a number of bipartisan deals, while Biden has done just that.
Trump has tried, unsuccessfully, to generate record task growth, while Biden has succeeded.
And Trump has also tried, unsuccessfully, to make a technological breakthrough in Wisconsin, while Biden has succeeded on this issue.
For the former president, the challenge is only that Biden succeeded while Trump failed, and also that Biden succeeds where Trump failed.
This article updates our previous similar coverage.
Steve Benen is a producer on “The Rachel Maddow Show,” editor-in-chief of MaddowBlog, and a political contributor to MSNBC. He is also the best-selling author of “The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics. “
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