President Joe Biden stopped by a telephone bank, doughnuts in hand, to encourage Democratic volunteers in the final push before the midterm elections.
Biden, known for his sweet tooth, was in Oregon as part of a swing across the West Coast to shore up Democrats prior to Election Day. Biden indulged on one frosted and one glazed doughnut as he helped phone voters, according to the Associated Press.
Tina Kotek, the Democratic nominee in the Oregon gubernatorial race, is facing a much closer-than-expected race against Republican Christine Drazan. Democrats are hoping that Biden’s presence could spark some more engagement in the race and help the party cross the finish line in a state that hasn’t had a Republican governor since 1987.
“What a governor does matters,” Biden told volunteers in Portland, Oregon, on Friday night. “It matters! It matters, it matters, it matters!”
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Biden is trekking through California, Colorado, and Oregon as part of his preelection campaign sweep. During the trip, he has attempted to tout his party’s success in passing the Inflation Reduction Act and has had to contend with some worse-than-expected economic reports.
In California, he pointed out investments in infrastructure and in fighting climate change. On Thursday, he stopped at a construction site in Los Angeles, where workers are building an extension of the city’s subway.
“When you see these projects in your neighborhood, cranes going up, shovels in the ground, lives being changed, I want you to feel the way I do: pride,” the president told those gathered. “Pride in what we can do when we do it together. This is what I mean when I say we’re building a better America.”
Republicans have painted a very different picture of Biden’s presidency and the Democrats’ time controlling Congress — one marked by excessive fiscal spending that has fueled inflation to towering highs and has hurt the average person.
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Yearly inflation ending in September clocked in at 8.2%, according to the September report published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Core inflation, which excludes volatile energy and food prices, grew to 6.6% on a year-over-year basis, the highest mark since 1982.
Republicans have been using the higher prices as a cudgel against Democratic candidates. Inflation has become the top issue on voters’ minds, and the GOP hopes that it will drive enough of a push that the party can wrest back control of the House and Senate.
