The White House on Wednesday will announce more than $5 billion in funding for agriculture, broadband and clean energy needs in sparsely populated parts of the country as President Biden travels to Minnesota to kick off an administration-wide tour of rural communities.
But the president and his aides are well aware that his hopes for a second term are likely to be determined closer to home.
Rural voters like the ones he will address at a corn, soybean and hog farm south of Minneapolis are increasingly voting Republican.
A recent poll showed that most voters had heard little or nothing about a health care and clean energy law that is the cornerstone of Mr. Biden’s economic agenda.
And the president even faces a challenge within his own party, from Representative Dean Phillips of Minnesota, who announced his long-shot presidential bid last week.
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