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Obama Takes State of the Union Message on the Road

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GETTY P 081511 PresidentObama?  SQUARESPACE CACHEVERSION=1327510201423JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images(WASHINGTON) — President Obama takes his message on the road Wednesday following his State of the Union address, launching a three-day tour across five battleground states.

The president will focus on U.S. manufacturing, one of the four pillars of his “Blueprint for an America Built to Last,” which he outlined in Tuesday night’s address.

The president will tour Conveyor Engineering & Manufacturing in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on Wednesday before delivering remarks. Later on, Obama will visit an Intel campus in Phoenix.

The president plans to touch on each of his pillars in the coming days. He will focus on energy Thursday with stops in Las Vegas and Denver. Obama will highlight skills for American workers in Detroit on Friday.

At every stop along the way, the president will push U.S. values, the fourth pillar, which will include a focus on economic fairness. In his State of the Union address, the president called for an America where everyone pays their “fair share,” including the wealthy.

In addition to outlining his economic agenda, the president’s address Tuesday night clearly set the tone for his upcoming re-election campaign. While the president will spend the next day speaking to voters in critical swing states, the White House says the trip is purely official presidential business.

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