SCRANTON, Pa. — President Joe Biden made a nostalgic return to the house where he grew up in working-class Scranton on Tuesday, kicking off three days of campaigning across Pennsylvania by calling for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an out-of-touch elitist. “These are the competing visions for our economy that raise questions of fundamental fairness …
Joe Biden, then vice president, hugs a supporter in Des Moines during the 2020 campaign. A week earlier, when a reporter asked Biden what he would tell Americans stressed by high prices, the president replied: “I’d say we have the best economy in the world. Otherwise it comes across as a signal that you don’t understand their lives.” “I wouldn’t …
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