“And he’s trying to tell us he cares about the middle class. Give me a break”, he said. Biden then brought up his late son, former DE attorney general Beau Biden, who served in Iraq.
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In the coming weeks, Biden will also campaign elsewhere in Pennsylvania, as well as in Ohio, Michigan and Florida, to support both Clinton and Democratic candidates in hotly contested campaigns for Senate seats.
The New York Times reported that handwritten ledgers found in the Ukraine show $12.7 million in undisclosed payments to Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager, from the pro-Russia party founded by the country’s former president, Viktor Yanukovych. “I think she’ll do a wonderful job for our country”, said Lisa McMichaels of Scranton.
Clinton joined in the Trump bashing, saying her opponent will provide billions in tax cuts to the super-rich. He put Biden in charge of it, following the death of the vice president’s son, Beau.
“I love Hillary. I love everything she stands for”. While another said she just wants to Clinton to admit she was wrong and move on.
Though he has cultivated a reputation as unscripted, Vice President Joe Biden can be practiced when needed, with an instinctive feel for his audience.
She added: “Friends should not let friends vote for Trump”.
Biden thanked his hosts today for the welcome, and noted that he traveled to Serbia the first time in 2009, only months after Barack Obama took office as the US president, and that his trip at the time came out of the desire to show “the importance of the region”.
“I’m heading from here, getting on a plane and flying to Kosovo, then to Serbia, then I’m going to the Baltic States”, he said in Scranton.
“I’d like to express my condolences to the families of those whose lives were lost in the wars of the 1990s, including those killed as a effect of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation air strikes”, Biden told reporters after talks with Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic.
The people of Scranton and towns like it “deserve someone who’s with them and they deserve someone who’s made of the same stuff”.
“How the hell would you know, Gertrude?” he said his grandfather said. “It’s a recipe for playing into the hands of terrorists and their propaganda”, Biden added.
Biden and Clinton had been planned to campaign together here before last month’s Democratic National Convention but their rally was postponed because of the deadly police shooting in Dallas.
“There is no doubt Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified to be President of the United States and Commander-In-Chief”, she said.
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Secretary Clinton’s desire to build upon the foundation created by the current administration is to be applauded, specifically her commitment to focus on funding cancer research and facilitating interactions across government, academia and industry. “We will strike their sanctuaries from the air and support local forces taking them out on the ground”.
