Mr Biden is looking to gain ground in a key battleground state while Mr Trump spends much of the week in a New York City courtroom.
President Joe Biden begun three days of campaigning in Pennsylvania while returning to his childhood home in Scranton on Tuesday where he called for higher taxes on the rich and casting Donald Trump as an elitist.
The president said he wanted to make the tax code fairer, keeping more money in Americans’ pockets, while criticising Mr Trump, a billionaire himself, as a tool of wealthy interests.“When I look at the economy, I don’t look at it through the eyes of Mar-a-Lago. I look at it through the eyes of Scranton,” Mr Biden said, contrasting his hometown with the Florida estate where Mr Trump lives.
The president said decades of Republicans policies that cut taxes for the wealthy with the idea of stimulating the economy “failed America, and Donald Trump embodies that failure.” “It’s no wonder why Pennsylvanians will vote to make America affordable again and elect president Trump in November,” he said.
Later in the day, Mr Biden spoke at a training session for grassroots organisers at a union hall, telling attendees: “We have to win. It gets down to old-fashioned politics. It gets down to knocking on doors.”
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