CHICAGO (WLS) — President Joe Biden announced a $3.3 billion investment in Wisconsin before traveling to Chicago on Wednesday.

Biden said the money will help create jobs as Microsoft builds a new artificial intelligence facility.

In 2018, then-President Donald Trump broke ground at the same site in Racine on what was supposed to be an electronics factory for Taiwan’s Foxconn.

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Trump had promised 13,000 jobs, calling the project the “Eighth Wonder of the World,” as he used a golden shovel to break ground.

Construction equipment is now leveling land to build the data center.

“They dug a hole with those golden shovels, and then they fell into it,” Biden said Wednesday.

FoxConn never panned out, which was something President Biden drove home, as he trolled Trump during his stop in Wisconsin.

“FoxConn turned about to be just that, a con — go figure,” Biden said.

Biden joined Microsoft President Brad Smith to announce the data center that will be one of Microsoft’s largest in the world. Unlike FoxConn, Smith said his company under-promises and over-delivers.

“We are going to be building one of the world’s most advanced AI centers that you will see anywhere,” Smith said.

Microsoft said just building the center will create over 2,000 union jobs. There will also be thousands of jobs once the project is complete. Some local union residents said Wednesday’s announcement should be enough to get undecided voters to vote for Biden.

“Absolutely, there are going to be a lot of workers at Microsoft. Everybody is successful over there,” Racine resident Meekma said.

Besides union voters, President Biden is making a big push to get more Black voters.

After the Microsoft event, he stopped at a small Racine community center, where he received a standing ovation.

Wisconsin is such an important state for the Biden/Harris ticket. Wednesday’s visit by the president is one of many there.

Vice President Kamala Harris will be making yet another stop in Milwaukee on May 16 to tout the administration’s economic agenda.

“Whatever your politics may be, you got to look at the people who are the helping hand,” Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin resident Lyle Tryba said.

Biden arrived at O’Hare airport about 3:30 p.m., and at Solder Field just after 4 p.m.

He’s in town for a campaign fundraiser at the Palmer House. It’s his second in Chicago in the past month.

At 4:25 p.m., the CTA said Green, Orange, Purple, Pink and Brown Line trains were bypassing Adams/Wabash due to police activity.

Just after 5 p.m., a group of pro-Palestinian protesters was marching through the Loop, blocking streets.