Posted on 07/06/2023 6:19:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden is heading to South Carolina on Thursday to make the case that economic measures he pushed through Congress despite stiff Republican opposition are helping to keep the deep red state — and others that voted for Donald Trump in 2020 — humming.
Ahead of Biden’s visit to a state that he lost by nearly 12 percentage points in 2020, White House officials argued that if Republicans had their way, South Carolina, like many other Republican-controlled states, would have lost out on billions of dollars in investments and thousands of jobs.
Biden will use his visit to showcase a new clean energy manufacturing partnership between solar firm Enphase Energy and manufacturer Flex Ltd. that is projected to create 600 jobs in the state and 1,200 more throughout the country.
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Please! No! Spare me.
“If i had to guess..I’d say Columbia,SC.”
Confirmed in another article. Sorry, no link.
Unfortunately you are right. He's about 7 miles from my house. Will keep windows closed to avoid stench.
Pushed it past the gas price dip. Someone should ask Brandon about all that.
Sheetz slashes gas price by 50% to $1.776 per gallon. But only for one day
https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/04/business/sheetz-july-fourth-gas/index.html
I worked at Flex for about seven years. They were always building stuff for innovative companies, until the bills came due and the companies moved production to Mexico and China. The average stay at Flex was about six months.
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