Jill Biden and Doug Emhoff Stop at Local Black-Owned Saginaw Restaurant

After landing at MBS Freeland International Airport Friday afternoon, first lady Jill Biden and second gentleman Doug Emhoff made a stop in Saginaw before heading to Midland for a campaign event.

The two stopped at Baldwin’s Smokehouse BBQ, a small local black-owned business, where they met local owner and pastor Roy Baldwin and his wife Evelyn.

Biden and Emhoff were joined by Michigan Board of Education President Pamela Pugh, a congressional candidate in the 8th District, and Saginaw Mayor Brenda Moore as they greeted each customer at the restaurant.

According to a Biden-Harris campaign official, under President Joe Biden’s leadership, Black business ownership is growing the fastest in 30 years.

After that stop, Emhoff and Biden visited Creative 360 ​​in Midland to speak to a crowd of more than 100 supporters — a majority of them women — as part of the “Women for Biden-Harris” tour.

Isabelle Pasciolla is a political reporter at the Midland Daily News. Email her at [email protected].