As for the rest of the nation’s aging bridges, he pledged, “We’re gonna fix them all.”
The bridge collapse — which caused no fatalities but prompted rescuers to form a human chain to retrieve people from a precariously perched bus — offered Biden a striking example of what he has declared is an urgent need for investments in the country’s infrastructure.
“We’ve got to move,” he said. “We don’t need headlines that say someone was killed when the next bridge collapses.” The trip marked a return to the president’s roots in more ways than one: Biden grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and launched his last presidential campaign in Pittsburgh in 2019. He won that race in part with a direct appeal to working class voters, and his allies hope a return to that message — and playing up the strength of the economy on his watch — will help him overcome a polling deficit that Democrats worry could drag down their other candidates in the upcoming midterm elections.
But at least one of the three leading Democrats on Pennsylvania’s statewide ballot this spring who were invited to appear with Biden didn’t attend. Still, Democrats in other states have begun taking modest steps to distance themselves from the first-term president, whose approval ratings have fallen sharply in recent months. And while Shapiro’s team indicated that politics had no bearing on his schedule, any decision to avoid Biden, particularly in his home state, could fuel further questions among anxious Democratic candidates elsewhere as they decide whether to embrace the struggling president.
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