‘You changed America’: Biden marks first 100 days in Georgia – a state key to his victory David Smith in Washington © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Reuters
On his 100th day as US president, Joe Biden spontaneously lowered his black face mask, leaned towards the microphone and shouted: “Go Georgia, we need you!”
It was a fitting moment in a state that has more claim than most to be the ground zero of a potentially transformative presidency.
Biden had just marked the 100-day milestone with a drive-in rally in Duluth, about 30 miles north of Atlanta, to promote his $4tn plans to rebuild America’s crumbling infrastructure and vastly expand the government’s social safety net.
You changed America : Biden marks first 100 days in Georgia – a state key to his victory
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