Biden says 'red states really screwed up' in handling their economies during Covid years
The president also said in his interview with MSNBC that he "almost spent too much time on the policy and not enough time on the politics" of programs he signed into law.
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Thursday criticized Republican-led states for how they handled their economies in recent years and acknowledged that Democrats could have done a better job selling their accomplishments to voters.
"Red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy and the way they handled manufacturing and the way they handled access to supply chains," Biden told MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell in a taped interview during an explanation of why the administration had “invested more in red states than blue states” through various measures, shortly after being asked about his economic response to Covid.
In the wide-ranging interview, Biden also reflected on his handling of the economy, which became one of the biggest issues driving voters’ preferences in November.
He indicated that Democrats, including him, missed some opportunities to better communicate to voters their involvement in popular programs or infrastructure projects.
Biden said he made a “mistake” in “not getting our allies to acknowledge that the Democrats did this.”
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