President Biden on Wednesday began a tour of rural communities at a Minnesota hog farm where he lamented the loss of family farms, attacked the corporate consolidation of agriculture and pledged to oversee a renaissance of the American heartland.
The president’s efforts to focus attention on the domestic economy ahead of next year’s campaign have come after three weeks in which his administration has been seized by events overseas following the terrorist attacks in Israel and the country’s subsequent military action in Gaza.
Speaking in front of a tractor to a crowd in a machine shed, Mr. Biden credited “intense and urgent American diplomacy” for the evacuation on Wednesday of Americans, wounded Palestinians and other foreign nationals from Gaza. Then he pivoted to the economy at home.
He told a well-worn story of the “hollowing out of Main Street” and noted the more than…
