Biden Returns to His Scranton Roots to Pitch Tax Plan

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56% : (Jason Farmer/The Times-Tribune via AP, File)WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Joe Biden returns to his childhood hometown of Scranton on Tuesday to open three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania, capitalizing on the opportunity to work the battleground state while Donald Trump spends the week in a New York City courtroom for his first criminal trial.
53% : President Joe Biden will return to his childhood hometown of Scranton on Tuesday, April 16, 2024, to kick off three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania, capitalizing on the opportunity to crisscross the battleground state while Donald Trump spends the week in a New York City courtroom for his first criminal trial.
49% : When Trump was president, he signed into law a series of tax breaks in 2017 that disproportionately benefit the rich.
45% : "You've got Joe Biden, who sees the world from the kitchen table where he grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club down in Mar-a-Lago," said Michael Tyler, the campaign's communications director.
36% : At the same, he will portray Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee and a billionaire himself, as a tool of wealthy interests.
29% : However, the juxtaposition becomes less helpful if Trump soaks up the country's attention during the first-ever criminal trial of a former president.
27% : "Trump also went on an extended riff about the Civil War battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, calling it "so vicious and horrible, and so beautiful in so many different ways," and suggesting that the Confederate General Robert E. Lee is "no longer in favor.
26% : "No matter where Donald Trump is, whether it's in Mar-a-Lago or a courtroom or anywhere else, he'll be focused on himself, his toxic agenda, his campaign of revenge and retribution," Tyler said.
25% : Trump is defending himself against criminal charges for a scheme to suppress allegations of affairs with a porn actress and a Playboy model.
16% : "All of America knows that the real blame for this nightmare lies with one person, Crooked Joe Biden," Trump said.
7% : "Trump was last in Pennsylvania on Saturday night in Schnecksville, where he described Biden as a "demented tyrant" and blamed him for all of the country's problems, in addition to his own legal woes.

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