i spoke with members of the business round table, of the big business guys, asked why i m so pro labor, you save them money. what you do lasts and through the american rescue plan, we re funding work force development programs, including 128 million here in wisconsin, so american workers prepared to compete in the economy we re building. this is a blue collar, blueprint to rebuild america. and we re also doing something that for years, people just talked about. we re going to buy american for everything we build. last night, i announced we re proposing new standards to require all construction materials be made in america. american lumber, american glass, american dry wall, american fiberoptics. american roads, bridges, highways, made with american products. my first two years in office, we ve created 800,000 manufacturing jobs. where? i mean, it sincerely. jobs you can live on. where is it written american can t lead the world of manufacturing? i didn t see it written anywhe
jobs you can raise a family on, and most don t require a college degree. jobs where people don t have to leave home in search of an opportunity. but they do require at least four years of trained apprenticeships, which is one of the reasons the united states has the best trained workers in the world like you. and by the way, the vast majority of americans don t know that. we ought to keep telling them. every time they say, why are you so pro labor, you re the best workers in the world, and they say, how is that? nobody decides i want to be a laborer, i want to be a plumber, i want to be an electrician, it takes you four years, busting your neck, basically going back to school to be able to become certified. that s why you re the best. you re the best educated in what you do. i really mean it.
so the president owned the moment. he s outright now reinforcing the moment. i think to your point coming into this conversation about mccarthy never seeming more anxious to negotiate with a democrat, there are a number of reasons for that. one, internal polling is showing they re hemorrhaging right now. despite this pole everyone seems to be excited about showing biden having issues and 62% of americans feeling this, that and the other, the internal polling is starting to tell a different story, creating a narrative as we move into late winter, early spring. and what happened is manging the internal polling because more actualized, and that s concerning. so politically republicans want to get ahead of the narratives before they settle in with voters, and say we re part of the win if we don t get a win
really like my grandfather, do i want him to run for president, i don t think so. the age factor a sticking point for voters, democratic voters that i have been talking to. the moments that resonated for maureen and allen, republican and democrat, for allen it was what you just talked with mike memoli about, conversations around americans that were left behind, about manufacturing. about bringing jobs here and speaking to the middle class. for maureen, it was victim impact stories, the father whose daughter overdosed on fentanyl, tyre nichols family there. the empty and story telling stood out to a lot of folks. dasha burns, thank you very much, and mike memoli and i were talking about, there was that moment with social security and medicare and the back and forth with republicans. well, today, again, he name
president is speaking today to make that point, and then you now know president biden is an avid watcher of morning joe. he referred to a clip about mike lee uprooting social security. clearly delighting in that exchange and building on that. i want to talk about the key economic framing for president biden, that s going to be a core part of the reelection campaign moving forward. you can see behind me on stage, the union workers who are behind president biden on stage. you heard president biden last night talk about the forgotten american, the invisible americans those who feel like washington isn t working for them. the middle class voter that president biden has prided himself on. biden saying the kinds of jobs that are going to be created from his infrastructure law, they re bringing back manufacturing from the c.h.i.p.s and science act. that is not just bringing back