President Joe Biden is promoting his pro-labor record at his first major political rally of his reelection campaign. Saturday afternoon in Philadelphia he’ll appear alongside union members to…
By SEUNG MIN KIM and WILL WEISSERT
Hundreds of union workers standing inside the convention hall began chanting “Let’s go, Joe!” and blowing whistles and hoisting campaign signs hours before Biden arrived. In the meantime, members of unions representing professions from carpenters to airport service workers to entertainers to heavy service equipment engineers praised Biden from the stage — some speaking in Spanish with translators.
“I’m excited about this is the beginning of something big,” Biden said, “and we’ll begin changing the economic balance.” The Philadelphia event also comes amid some encouraging economic news for Biden, with inflation cooling last month, continuing a steady decline in consumer prices primarily driven by lower gas prices, a smaller rise in grocery costs than in previous months and less expensive furniture, air fares and appliances.
Before addressing the union gathering, Biden took a helicopter tour over the collapsed section of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia that has complicated traffic along one of the nation’s most crowded highways. Another union member on hand, 53-year-old Jennifer McKinnon, a grade school librarian and member of the National Education Association, said she felt that Biden had a personal commitment to education because his wife, Jill, was a teacher who continued to teach English at a Northern Virginia community college as first lady.
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