President Biden is heading to North Carolina on Thursday to announce $82 million in new investments to connect homes and businesses in the state to high-speed internet.

He will go to the Raleigh-Durham area in the critical battleground state to make the announcement, alongside Gov. Roy Cooper (D). The funding comes from the American Rescue Plan, which was the COVID-19 relief package Biden signed into law in 2021, and aims to connect an additional 16,000 homes and businesses in North Carolina.

The investment, according to a fact sheet from the White House, will also create jobs in manufacturing and construction to produce “Made-in-America fiber-optic cable that will build out internet infrastructure across the country.”

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    10 months ago

    Well I’m going to need a source for why non-voters matter to a president when pandering to a state

    What?

    You want a source for why a candidate pandering for votes would care about people that aren’t going to vote?

    Literally the only point of pandering for votes, is to get votes…

    If not, what the fuck is the point of pandering at all?

    And why are you saying it doesn’t work?

    That’s how Obama and Bill Clinton got elected…

    And let me guess, you’re just going to ignore everything you were wrong about and ask for a source on that too…

    That’s called “sealioning”

    Edit:

    Yep. That’s definitely what’s happening and worth a block

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        That’s a troll, fyi, I’ve run into him a couple times now. If you drive him into a corner he’ll just start name-calling and block you, so you can’t debate him in the future. He does not seem to realize this does not prevent us from leaving our own replies to his posts for everyone else to discuss, without him.

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            10 months ago

            Echoing this. He’s weirdly obsessed with anything that can even sorta kinda be used to shit on Democrats, and bothsidesism is his default response to literally everything. He will never cede ground on anything, no matter how compelling your counterargument.