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* Tribune…
President Joe Biden will make his first trip to the Chicago area as president Wednesday with a visit to northwest suburban Crystal Lake, where he will push a portion of his domestic agenda aimed at easing the financial burden on working- and middle-class families.
Biden is scheduled to stop at McHenry County College to make the case for creating free community college, extending the child tax credit and achieving universal pre-K education, all facets of his American Families Plan that so far has garnered little support from Republicans.
While Biden carried Crystal Lake in the 2020 election, then-President Donald Trump won McHenry County as a whole, with 50% of the votes to Biden’s 47%.
The stop is the latest by Biden to swing regions of the country to highlight his efforts to drive a strong recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, which he has dubbed his Build Back Better agenda.
McHenry County is the only collar county Biden lost last year.
* Daily Herald…
The president will discuss his American Families Plan, which includes checks of up to $300 for eligible families starting this month, and will be selling a bipartisan $973 billion deal on infrastructure.
“I’m excited about his coming, I know he wanted to go to one of the collar counties to visit suburban communities so I’m glad that he’ll do that,” Gov. J.B. Pritzker said Tuesday at an event in Downers Grove.
Assuming the infrastructure plan squeaks through Congress, it will dovetail with Illinois’ six-year capital plan passed in 2019, Pritzker said. […]
Republican state Sen. Craig Wilcox of McHenry is attending the event. “It certainly is momentous when a president comes to visit a part of the country that hasn’t seen that type of a visit before,” said Wilcox, a retired colonel in the Air Force. “For McHenry County, for Crystal Lake, for MCC, it’s a great honor to have any president come.”
* Lynn Sweet…
I asked Psaki at the briefing, “Could you just explain a little bit more of how this trip to one of the redder parts of the bluest states in totality can advance the Biden policy and political agenda since there’s no swayable members of Congress? They’re all for you?”
Psaki said, “I would see this as less of a political trip” and that Biden “ran as someone who would represent not just Democrats, not just Republicans, not just independents, but all people.” […]
Mayor Lori Lightfoot and Gov. J.B. Pritzker will greet Biden when he lands Air Force One at O’Hare Airport before Biden takes a helicopter to McHenry College. Lightfoot will have a meeting with the president at the airport. Pritzker’s meeting may be in McHenry.
Biden and Lightfoot will huddle after Chicago suffered its most violent weekend of 2021, with 104 shot and 19 killed.
posted by Rich Miller
Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 3:04 am
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My buddy got a call from the White House and will meet Biden today.
I am so jealous.
Comment by Proud Papa Bear Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 7:35 am
==Republican state Sen. Craig Wilcox of McHenry is attending the event. “It certainly is momentous when a president comes to visit a part of the country that hasn’t seen that type of a visit before,” said Wilcox, a retired colonel in the Air Force. “For McHenry County, for Crystal Lake, for MCC, it’s a great honor to have any president come.”==
Good on Senator Wilcox.
Comment by SAP Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 9:26 am
Smart move by Biden.
His American Family Plan polls well, incl with Republicans, so show the bipartisan support for it, have the vote and declare it a bipartisan program.
Comment by Scott Cross for President Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 9:49 am
It’s good anytime any president visits our state.
As tired as I’ve been with the last 8+ (and plus should be capitalized, italicized, and underlined to boot) with visits by presidents and wants to be presidents to “battleground” states, it’s good. The 6th largest state, the 3rd largest metro, an agricultural giant, *the* transportation hub for air and rail, Illinois getting a visit is a time for remembering Illinois is an important state and worth the time, battleground or not.
Comment by Oswego Willy Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 9:52 am
I appreciate media hyperbole for the sake of faux framing a question as much as anyone, but if Lynn Sweet thinks McHenry County is one of the reddest parts of Illinois, she needs to get out more.
Comment by Asteroid of Caution Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 11:11 am
Asteroid of Caution–
She didn’t say “reddest,” she said one of the “redder.” Which is true. There is a big difference between the suffixes -est and -er.
If you look at local elections, a lot of positions are held by Republicans. On the last ballot, a lot of positions were Republicans running unopposed. Ergo–it is a redder county.
Comment by M Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 12:52 pm
Wilcox is a class act. Since now doing the right thing is a class act.
Comment by DMC Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 3:21 pm
Senator Wilcox probably could have avoided the “don’t tread in me” pin for the photo line though.
Comment by SaulGoodman Wednesday, Jul 7, 21 @ 4:56 pm