Back In Hometown, Biden Frames Campaign as ‘Scranton Values or Mar-a-Lago Values’
President hits trail as rival remains in court on criminal charges
President Biden used a return to his native Scranton, Pa, as a narrative device to frame for voters the choice they have this year in their decision for the next president of the United States.
Biden took advantage of his visit to the town in which he lived until 10 years old to pitch his plan to raise taxes on wealthy Americans.
But with his likely rival for reelection in November locked in a New York courtroom in the first-ever criminal trial of a former US president, Biden also used his visit to his boyhood home of 75,000 to contrast himself with Republican Donald Trump.
The president’s Tuesday stop in Scranton was just the first of three times he’s scheduled to touch down in the Keystone State this week, which also highlights just how important winning Pennsylvania will be to his hopes for a second term.
Biden is trying to pitch his proposed a 25 percent minimum tax rate for billionaires, saying that taxes are “how we invest in the country.”
However, Biden’s doing more to cast the election as a stark choice between he and Trump.
“Donald Trump looks at the world differently than you and me,” Biden told a crowd of more than 100 supporters at a cultural center. “He wakes up in the morning at Mar-a-Lago thinking about himself. How he can help his billionaire friends gain power and control, and force their extreme agenda on the rest of us.”
“Scranton values or Mar-a-Lago values,” Biden added. “These are the competing visions for our economy that raise questions of fundamental fairness at the heart of this campaign.”
He spoke from a stage flanked by a banner reading “Tax Fairness for All Americans.”
Arriving aboard Air Force One, Biden was met at the airport by Pennsylvania’s Democratic governor and the Democratic mayor of Scranton.
Trump, meanwhile, was in his second day as a criminal defendant in the case that he paid adult film star Stormy Daniels to stay quiet about an alleged extramarital affair ahead of the 2016 election.
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