PENNSYLVANIA — Marking 100 days of the Biden presidency, CNN spoke to voters in Northampton County who feel “an unmistakable era of calm” thanks to the president’s leadership. Local residents, who swung for Trump in 2016 and Biden in 2020, say there is broad bipartisan support for Biden’s American Rescue Plan and the much-needed relief it will bring to small businesses in the region.
From CNN: How the Biden presidency looks from one pivotal Pennsylvania county, 100 days in
Carol Erker vividly remembers the emotion that washed over her after Joe Biden won the 2020 election. Even as she worried about the pandemic and the Oval Office that Biden was inheriting, she felt like she could finally breathe.
As Biden nears the 100-day mark of his presidency, Erker is pleasantly surprised.
“I was really concerned about the coronavirus,” Erker said this week, walking to her volunteer shift at the Bethlehem Public Library. “But he’s getting all those vaccines out in the time limit that he said he would. So yeah, I think he’s doing a good job.”
Here in Pennsylvania, a state that was critical to Biden’s victory over former President Donald Trump, sounds of optimism and signs of recovery are telling markers of the opening chapter of the Biden presidency. And in Northampton County, a swing county in a swing state in a divided nation, critics abound — but perhaps just as remarkably, people signaled their willingness to give the new President a shot.
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