In Liberty, North Carolina, a small town that voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Donald Trump may not seem like an ideal place for President Joe Biden to hold up as a jewel of his economic legacy. But as the president prepares to leave office, the White House is looking to communities like this former textile town outside Greensboro to validate the "Bidenomics" agenda that voters soundly rejected in November.
In a Dec. 10 speech on the economy, Biden praised a $13.9 billion electric vehicle plant that Toyota is building here — all but daring Trump to follow through on his threats to undo a Biden agenda that has sparked similar projects across the country, especially in Republican-leaning areas. "Do we continue to grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up?," Biden demanded. "... Or do we move backward?"
As construction cranes rise above Liberty and dozens of other Trump-friendly towns, the White House is grappling with the reality that the trillions injected into the economy by Biden’s policies did little to boost his party. With Trump set to return to the White House after campaigning against Biden’s economy — and the inflation that many Americans have come to associate with it — the president’s economic legacy, and that of his party, is in the hands of those who will only see benefits years or decades after he leaves office.
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