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Why Biden world thinks the I-95 bridge repair holds the key to reelection
Politico
The president’s team sees political connective tissue between the I-95 bridge repair and voter attitudes toward Biden.
By ELI STOKOLS, HOLLY OTTERBEIN and LAUREN EGAN
07/05/2023 05:21 PM EDT
In the passenger seat of an electric vehicle cruising through western Tennessee last week, Mitch Landrieu was fired up — talking into his cell phone about as fast as the speed limit, his voice booming.
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure coordinator, in the midst of a summer-long road trip highlighting the administration’s industrial policy, had just visited an electric vehicle charging station and a plant converted to produce fiber optic cable. But he was calling to talk about how the reopening of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, just 12 days after a deadly bridge collapse, provided evidence of “Bidenomics” success, a tangible improvement people can see and feel that will be a centerpiece of the president’s 2024 campaign.
“We’re in the process of rebuilding America,” Landrieu told West Wing Playbook. “Laying cable, modernizing cars and making them, making the parts … it takes time to completely rebuild the country from the bottom up … but people are going to see the benefits.”
The speedy repair of the I-95 bridge, as Landrieu sees it, was largely the result of the Biden administration’s work: The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law that provided funding for repairs, strong coordination between the White House and local leaders, and the president’s own directive that aides make the repairs their top priority.
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The president’s team sees political connective tissue between the I-95 bridge repair and voter attitudes toward Biden.
By ELI STOKOLS, HOLLY OTTERBEIN and LAUREN EGAN
07/05/2023 05:21 PM EDT
In the passenger seat of an electric vehicle cruising through western Tennessee last week, Mitch Landrieu was fired up — talking into his cell phone about as fast as the speed limit, his voice booming.
President Joe Biden’s infrastructure coordinator, in the midst of a summer-long road trip highlighting the administration’s industrial policy, had just visited an electric vehicle charging station and a plant converted to produce fiber optic cable. But he was calling to talk about how the reopening of Interstate 95 in Philadelphia, just 12 days after a deadly bridge collapse, provided evidence of “Bidenomics” success, a tangible improvement people can see and feel that will be a centerpiece of the president’s 2024 campaign.
“We’re in the process of rebuilding America,” Landrieu told West Wing Playbook. “Laying cable, modernizing cars and making them, making the parts … it takes time to completely rebuild the country from the bottom up … but people are going to see the benefits.”
The speedy repair of the I-95 bridge, as Landrieu sees it, was largely the result of the Biden administration’s work: The 2021 bipartisan infrastructure law that provided funding for repairs, strong coordination between the White House and local leaders, and the president’s own directive that aides make the repairs their top priority.
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And achieve success... 
