The Biden administration has finally decided that it’s time for a visit to East Palestine train derailment site - one year later.
East Palestine is part of Columbiana county, where Biden only got 27% of the vote, which has been a suspected factor in why Biden never visited before.
According to Fox:
Earlier this month, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre was asked whether President Biden still had plans to visit East Palestine, Ohio. She told reporters, "The president will visit when it's most helpful to the community."
Fox News reached out to East Palestine Mayor Trent Conaway to find out when he thought the most helpful time would be, and he told Fox News, in "my personal opinion the best time for him to come would be February of 2025 when he is on his book tour."
Conaway additionally told Fox, "The President is always welcome to our town," adding, "that being said, I don’t know what he would do here now."
Why Biden is visiting now remains a mystery, and it certainly is out of the blue. One cynical but probably true reason would be that Ohio is a battleground state where Donald Trump (who did visit East Palestine) is polling ahead of Biden by ten points in the Real Clear Politics average, and Biden wants to try to get back support in the state lost due to his East Palestine non-response.
Matt Palumbo is the author of Fact-Checking the Fact-Checkers: How the Left Hijacked and Weaponized the Fact-Checking Industry and The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros
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