White House Launches Rural Infrastructure Tour

“The White House launched a rural infrastructure tour on Monday, which will send Biden administration officials into communities across the nation to tout the new infrastructure law ahead of the midterms,” The Hill reports.

Playbook: “The political context here is Democrats’ utter free fall in rural America, which helped keep election margins razor-close over the past few years even as Dems ran up the score in the suburbs. Nowhere does Dems’ rural wipeout threaten the party more than in the Senate, a body that skews significantly toward rural voters — and thus disproportionately advantages the current GOP. Even though the House may be more likely to flip Republican in the midterms, the Senate is where Democrats’ long-term political fortunes look bleakest.”