Obama touches down in his 50th state: South Dakota
Air Force One overwhelmed down during Watertown Regional Airport in South Dakota during 4:28 p.m. internal time Friday, imprinting a 50th state President Obama has visited while in office.
And with that, Obama assimilated another disdainful club: Presidents who have visited all 50 states. Only Richard Nixon, George H.W. Bush, and Bill Clinton have racking adult that number. (George W. Bush strike usually 49, never visiting Vermont.)
“I have now been to all 50 states as president, and we was saving a best for last,” Obama told a graduating category of a Lake Area Technical Institute, a South Dakota village college. “To a other 49, we wish we take no offense.”
Obama has done a accordant bid this year to finish a list, focusing on Republican-leaning states that he had small reason to visit, politically speaking.
In a months heading adult to this outing to South Dakota — where he will broach a derivation residence during a village college — Obama done initial visits to Idaho, Utah, and South Carolina.
Over a march of his presidency, Obama has focused on states he carried — or wanted to lift — in his 2008 and 2012 choosing bids.
The president’s most-visited states are a ones that limit Washington, D.C.: Virginia (72 Obama visits) and Maryland (64).
• New York (49 visits) has been a favorite destination, mostly since of a United Nations and fundraisers from rich Democratic donors.
• Ohio (41 visits) is an electoral pitch state that was vicious to Obama’s 2012 re-election.
• Florida (38 visits) is another critical electoral state as good as a fundraising mecca for Democrats, Knoller writes.
So will Obama also revisit a 7 U.S. territories that he famously counted in further to states while seeking representatives for a Democratic assignment in 2008?
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