(Washington) Joe Biden, campaigning for a second term, goes to a family farm in Minnesota on Wednesday, to try to reconnect with rural America, which mainly voted for his rival Donald Trump in 2016 as in 2020.
This state in the Great Lakes region also happens to be that of Dean Phillips, a parliamentarian little known on the national scene, who has just entered the Democratic primary.
The American president is however assured, barring any major surprises, of being his party’s candidate for the presidential election in November 2024.
Joe Biden is launching a two-week offensive during which several members of his government will travel the American countryside, in order to show how the economic and social policy of the 80-year-old Democrat “guarantees rural Americans that they do not have to go far from home to find opportunities. »
The American executive wants to praise the massive investments in infrastructure launched by Joe Biden, synonymous, according to the White House, with better access to the internet, renovated roads, more reliable electrical systems and better access to health.
The president should also discuss the promised support for innovative and more resilient agricultural systems in the face of climate change, as well as his efforts to develop competition in certain agricultural markets for the benefit of small farmers.
The rural vote could prove crucial in some contested states next year, but it will be very difficult for Joe Biden to reverse the trend of American countryside voting more and more Republican.
According to the Pew Research institute, former Republican President Donald Trump won this rural electorate by a large margin in the last two presidential elections: 59% of rural voters voted for him in 2016, and 65% in 2020.