CRYSTAL LAKE, Ill. (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- President Biden will speak Wednesday afternoon at McHenry County College in Crystal Lake and greet people at a workforce development center there. There's already people gathered outside to cheer or jeer him.
In the outer perimeter of McHenry County College, there were protesters out Wednesday morning holding Trump signs and big American flags. Some even yelled vial insults at others who seem to not agree with them.
"I am not a QAnon guy, I haven't lost my mind, but I have seen a lot of fake news so now I know I need to go see things with my own eyes. And I've never remember in the course of my lifetime a president that didn't seem to be cognitive and any president that was trying to hurt the United States," said one man in attendance.
Joe Biden lost in McHenry County last year. But Republican Illinois State Senator Craig Wilcox, a member of the Republican State Central Committee, welcomes the President to a degree.
"It's always exciting to have a president visit. When I was in the military, President George W. Bush visited us on deployment when we were supporting the G8. I supported Air Force One, when President Obama was there and met him a number of times. So yes, it is always exciting and to have a president come to this area in McHenry County, it's exciting," Wilcox said.
"The challenge is what will he speak about, how will that be received, and what others details that Congress will be asked to consider."
And he said there could be bipartisan support for Biden's American Families Plan, if it's help, but not handouts.
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