President Joe Biden on Wednesday attempted to draw a direct line between his signature legislative achievements and shovels in the ground – and a direct contrast with Donald Trump – as he seeks to win over voters unhappy with the overall economy.
Biden announced a $3.3 billion investment from Microsoft to build a new artificial intelligence facility located on the same site where, in 2018, then-President Trump broke ground using a golden shovel on what was supposed to be a signature project under his administration: an electronics factory for Taiwan’s Foxconn, which had secured billions in tax credits and promised thousands of jobs.
Those investments largely failed to materialize. And in his remarks Wednesday, Biden directly blamed Trump for that failure.
Trump, Biden said, “came here with your senator, Ron Johnson, literally holding a golden shovel, promising to build the eighth wonder of the world.”
“Are you kidding me? Look what happened. They …