Thread by @WillBredderman

When Andrew Cuomo decided to make infrastructure his brand, he’d do 5-10 news hits announcing the same project. Any funding allocation, any physical or bureaucratic progress, was an occasion for a press conference, w/construction workers and contractors and local pols

https://twitter.com/blake_allen13/status/1854185808586027240

It was maddening to cover as a reporter, b/c much of the time there was no actual news. It was just another opportunity for the governor to get on a dais at a worksite w/a bunch of guys in hardhats and Day-Glo vests and talk about how great the project was
crainsnewyork.com/article/201708…

But inevitably, the TV stations would send a crew in the event there was some news, and the papers would deploy a reporter in case he did a Q&A, and having committed those resources, there’d be coverage. And Cuomo had glowing approval numbers almost right up till the end

So maybe that’s what it takes to break through in the popular consciousness with something like infrastructure: just grinding, mind-numbing repetition, with absolutely constant adulatory events, so you’re on everybody’s TV and news feed seeming to accomplish something

Maybe Biden wasn’t up for that physically or mentally. But if he and Harris wanted credit for CHIPS and all the battery plants, just putting out a press release and/or going to a groundbreaking probably wasn’t enough.