President Biden Visits Syracuse to Talk Micron Announcement, Midterm Elections
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (NCC News) – President Biden visited Syracuse on Thursday to tout Micron Technology’s announcement of a $100 billion investment in Central New York.
Micron announced on Oct. 4 that it selected the White Pine Commerce Park in Clay for a new semiconductor manufacturing plant. In total, the project can bring up to 50 thousand jobs.
Biden spoke at Onondaga Community College, being the first president to visit the college in its 61-year history.
Several politicians from New York and across the country were also in attendance, with Onondaga County Executive Ryan McMahon meeting President Biden for the first time.
“Certainly you saw a tremendous bipartisan effort to get these jobs back to the U.S. and to get these jobs back to New York and White Pine. We’re celebrating that bipartisan effort today and what those jobs mean,” McMahon said.
The Democrats also used the event as an opportunity to make one last push before November’s midterm elections.
In the New York gubernatorial race specifically, polls are tightening between Kathy Hochul (D) and Lee Zeldin (R) outside of New York City.
“I want to thank the President and majority leader Chuck Schumer. If he had not been majority leader, we would not be sitting here today. We needed the Democrats to push this bill through,” Hochul said, in reference to Schumer’s Chips and Science Act.