> MADLAND: Yeah, I talked to a lot of workers on the site, and this is this very large facility in rural Tennessee, a couple hours outside of Memphis. It's going to be a big electric vehicle battery and manufacturing construction in an area that had for 20, 30 years, really tried to spur investment, and nothing had happened. [...] So these big steps forward in their lives that you can see from these projects, which are good union jobs, constructing the big facility. Then when I also spoke to them and said, well, how or why do you think this project came to be? This project received many billions of dollars in loans from the federal government as part of these investments we're talking about. It also received significant state funding. And the workers to unanimously said, Well, I credit Ford, which is the big Ford Motor Company as a joint investment there. And then I would probe and push and they'd say, Well, I also credit my union for helping make this happen. I had to keep asking and asking before ever mention any elected officials that had anything to do with it. But their sentiment was, well, if any, elected official had anything to do with it. So I would like that and support them, but I have no idea about this.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2023-ford-ev-battery-plan...
https://apnews.com/article/ford-electric-vehicles-battery-te...
The issue was Biden was over-managed because of his reputation of "Bidenisms" for which he has been mocked about for decades [0][1]
This meant he kept campaigning to a minimum and was extremely managed.
It kept gaffes to a minimum but also severely decreased his media time.
[0] - https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-unspools-a...
[1] - https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/02/joe-biden-bi...