© 2024 Milwaukee Public Media is a service of UW-Milwaukee's College of Letters & Science
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations

President Biden to visit Wisconsin Thursday, likely with bridge building on his mind

President Joe Biden speaks at the Earth Rider Brewery, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Biden is returning to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $5 billion in federal funding for upgrading the Blatnik Bridge and for dozens of similar infrastructure projects nationwide.
Alex Brandon
/
AP
President Joe Biden speaks at the Earth Rider Brewery, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, in Superior, Wis. Biden is returning to the swing state of Wisconsin to announce $5 billion in federal funding for upgrading the Blatnik Bridge and for dozens of similar infrastructure projects nationwide.

President Joe Biden will be in Wisconsin Thursday — way, way, up in Superior. He's expected to highlight the one billion dollars his administration has recently OK'd to help replace the sixty-year-old Blatnik bridge between Superior and Duluth.

In a battleground state like Wisconsin this fall, Biden's reelection effort may need votes from all over.

For some analysis of the President's trip, WUWM's Chuck Quirmbach spoke with Cindy Rugeley, an associate professor of political science at the University of Minnesota-Duluth and leader of the school's political science program.

Rugeley says a new bridge is a big deal up her way.

Related Content