Presidents Crisscrossing New York Create a Stark Split-Screen
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Donald Trump and Joe Biden
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President Joe Biden and Donald Trump will be mere miles apart from each other this week in Manhattan, but the backdrops couldn’t be more stark: the presumptive Republican nominee sitting in a dingy courtroom and the current commander-in-chief attending fundraisers with New York City’s elite.
The disparate split-screen highlights the benefits of incumbency. Biden will make a stop in Syracuse, New York, on Thursday to unveil $13.6 billion in semiconductor investments, a key part of his White House’s jobs message, before boarding Air Force One for campaign events in New York City and the surrounding suburbs that evening and Friday.