White House transcript, so — flubs edited out.
Remarks by President Biden at a Campaign Event
Wisconsin Coordinated Campaign Headquarters | Milwaukee, Wisconsin | March 13, 2024
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you, folks. (Applause.) Well, it’s good to be here with the power in the state. Gwen Moore runs my whole life, runs everything. (Laughter.)
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And it gets down to just making contact with people.
Secondly, you opened up — you got 44 headquarters in this state — 44. And this is going to be the next President one of these days. (Laughter and applause.)
(The President addresses a child in the audience.) When you become president and they say, “Joe Biden is out in the waiting room,” promise me you won’t say, “Joe who?” (Laughter and applause.) Okay?
Cho who?
One of the things that is — that I like about this campaign, particularly here in this state, is — by the way, this is the first time headquarters has been here in Milwaukee. Well, there’s a reason for that. (Applause.) There’s a reason for that. Because if it wasn’t, I’d be afraid of going back with Gwen. You know — (laughter).
But all kidding aside, look, this is about ordinary people. I grew up in a neighborhood that was not poor but middle class — technically, lower-middle class — you know, a three-bedroom house with four kids and a grandpop living with us.
And, you know, wh- — it was decent, but, you know, there wasn’t anything left over at the end of the month. And so, what I started to do was — my dad used to say — that trickle-down economic program had been going on for years, not a whole hell of a lot trickled down on my dad’s kitchen table. (Laughter.)
And today, I just came from announcing a $36 million project to reconnect this city in a way that it should never have been separated in the first place.
The reason I know that, my city — the city of Wilmington, Delaware, where I grew up — is a situation where we have I-95, not I- — what’s that — I-50 —
AUDIENCE MEMBER: Ninety-four.
THE PRESIDENT: –50 — -94 here.
And I’m President of the United States; I’m in charge of this program. They haven’t funded Delaware yet. I’m like what the hell’s going on here? (Laughter.)
You have no leverage over Booty Juice?
But we have, you know, over $3 billion to do this across the country.
That’s it? Just $3 billion? California is asking for $100 billion to continue its high-speed rail.
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And then, fixating on the child in the audience, yet again:
This young man is going to be reading about what we do and don’t do.
And remember, this is the White House cleaned-up version of his thought process:
We’re investing in all the things that matter, all the things that your senator from this state, Johnson, says if back to — if we win, he’s going to try to eliminate — eliminate.
So, we ju- — this is really important — really important, not because of me but because of all of you and all we can do.
So, “No one should be jailed…” By the way, I’m taking care of that. No one is going to be jailed. (Laughter.)
Hey, Joe: you’re not going to do gun violence against us, are you?
Anyway, we got to do everything from gun violence to deal with choice. You know, our freedoms are at stake. They really are at stake — not a joke — the right to choose, the right to be able to determine whether you’re going to get to vote, how we vote.
There’s so much more we can do. But I’m talking too much. I just want to talk to you each individually.
