President Joe Biden on Thursday traveled to South Carolina to highlight a new clean energy manufacturing partnership, continuing his newly focused ‘Bidenomics’ tour and making the case his economic policies are benefiting those even in deep red states.

“Some analysis has said that the laws I’ve signed are going to do more to help red America than blue America,” Biden said during remarks in a state he lost by nearly 12 percentage points in 2020. “Well, that’s okay with me because we are all Americans.”

The president on Thursday continued to pitch his agenda of building the economy from the “middle out and the bottom up,” this time showcasing a new $60 million investment by solar firm Enphase to open up six manufacturing lines, including two in South Carolina.

Enphase’s partnership with manufacturer Flex Ltd. is expected to create 600 jobs in the state and 1,200 more throughout the country. The solar company is benefitting from tax incentives included in Biden’s $370 billion Inflation Reduction Act, which passed Congress along party lines in August of last year.

“Every Republican member of Congress voted against the Inflation Reduction Act, everyone,” Biden said on Thursday. “Every Republican member of the House in this state voted to repeal the clean energy provisions of the Inflation Reduction Act that attracted all these jobs.”

Without directly naming the senator, Biden on Thursday continued to poke fun at Sen. Tommy Tuberville, R-Ala., for celebrating the federal funds Alabama is set to receive for high-speed internet, despite voting against the bill supplying the money.

The White House also took note of another South Carolina Republican, Rep. Nancy Mace, congratulating the Charleston Area Regional Transportation Authority for winning nearly $26 million to build and repair clean energy transportation projects under the $1 trillion infrastructure legislation, which Mace voted against.

South Carolina senator and 2024 GOP presidential candidate Tim Scott blasted the president for his trip to the state, pointing to the high inflation that has plagued Biden’s presidency.  

“I hope he is gonna start his apology tour here in South Carolina because what the president wants the American people to do is to believe what he says and not what we see with our own eyes,” Scott said on Fox News on Thursday.

Biden has seen his public approval rating — and public sentiment about his handling of the economy — dragged down by stubborn inflation that hit a 40-year high last summer.

The White House is making a big push to show progress under “Bidenomics” as soaring inflation eases, unemployment remains near historic lows and Biden’s battle for reelection heats up.

Private companies have committed more than $500 billion in investment in manufacturing throughout the country since Biden took office. South Carolina, which has a 3.1% unemployment rate, has seen $11 billion in new investment in manufacturing and clean energy since the start of the Biden administration, according to a White House tally.

South Carolina hasn’t supported a Democrat in a general presidential election since Jimmy Carter’s 1976 win, but the state recently received a major promotion in the Democratic primary schedule, taking the leadoff spot after the DNC approved shuffling its presidential primary order.

For Biden in particular, he declared his campaign “very much alive” after a victory in South Carolina’s Democratic primary in 2020 following underwhelming performances in Iowa, New Hampshire and Nevada. An endorsement from the only Democrat in the state’s congressional delegation, Rep. Jim Clyburn, then the highest-ranking Black member of the House, helped boost Biden to the decisive primary win.

“I wouldn’t be standing here if it were not for Jim Clyburn,” Biden said on Thursday.