President Biden coming to Pueblo, community reacts

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) - President Joe Biden will be in Colorado on Tuesday and Wednesday. He starts his two day trip in Denver and will be in Pueblo Wednesday. You may remember the president was planning to travel to Pueblo in October but had to postpone his trip due to national security meetings.

On Wednesday, Biden will be visiting CS Wind, the largest wind tower manufacturer in the world.

“I’m glad to hear he is coming to town,” said Mark Duran, a Southern Colorado resident.

“I don’t know if it’s beneficial,” said Anna Breece, another Southern Colorado.

There was mixed reaction coming from Southern Colorado residents about President Joe Biden’s planned trip to Pueblo.

According to the White House, Biden plans on the city to talk about clean energy and the jobs his office said are being created, because of his economic investments.

The White House also says Biden will, “Highlight how self described MAGA Republicans like Representative Lauren Boebert are threatening those investments.”

“Families in Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District are being crushed by so-called ‘Bidenomics.’ On his watch, credit card debt, inflation, groceries, and gas prices have all reached record highs. These high prices are squeezing working class Coloradans and rural America. Rather than cutting wasteful federal spending and unleashing American energy production, Joe Biden continues to pander to radical extremists, lock up more land, and spend his time focused on campaign stunts and vacations rather than doing the job he was elected to do. Instead of touting the poorly named Inflation Reduction Act that mandated Green New Deal policies that cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars, Joe Biden should work with me to get my Pueblo Jobs Act signed into law that will create 1,000 new jobs in Pueblo and help revitalize Southern Colorado’s economy.”

Boebert narrowly held onto her Congress seat in Third District last November, defeating Democrat Adam Frisch by just a few hundred votes. She will be up for re-election next year and Frisch said he plans to run again.