Biden, a Scranton native who joined fellow Democrat Clinton on the campaign trail for the first time, hammered Republican Trump on worldwide policy positions he has taken during his campaign, saying his statements have already made it more unsafe for troops serving overseas.
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Hillary Clinton and Vice President Joe Biden launched a joint attack here Monday against Donald Trump, calling him “temperamentally unfit and totally unqualified” to be president. Biden showed Monday that he still has plenty of fight and can be expected to put the type of passion he would have displayed in his own presidential run towards electing Clinton.
Gail Shoffner, 63, also made the 45 minute trip to Scranton from Monroe County to see Clinton and Biden.
“No matter what Donald Trump says, America is great and the American dream is big enough for everyone to share in its promise”, Clinton said during a rally of more than 3,000 people at the Riverfront Sports Complex across from Scranton High School.
Trump’s speech was aimed at resetting his struggling campaign against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton.
Then, Obama joined Biden for a campaign-style event here promoting the administration’s education policies that was timed to the fifth anniversary of the two joining forces as the Democratic presidential ticket.
Biden’s campaign travels in 2008 and in Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign were concentrated in the Rust Belt and other areas with large populations of working-class white voters.
“I think I would have been the best president, but it was the right thing, not just for my family but for me”, Biden said in May while describing his decision to forgo the race.
BIDEN: During her years as secretary of state, once a week we’d have breakfast at my home.
In Kosovo, Biden also will attend a ceremony naming a street near an American military base after his late son, Beau Biden, who died a year ago of brain cancer at age 46. “Even if he’s joking, which he’s not, even if he’s joking what an outrageous thing to say”. “They understood that their workers were responsible for much of the business’s success”, she said.
HILLARY CLINTON: Friends should not let friends vote for Trump.
Clinton was supposed to come to Scranton last month but postponed due to the police shootings in Dallas. Though Clinton’s standing is stronger than it had been among the type of voters Biden has often appealed to, the vice president’s role will be to help lock down their support and free up Clinton and others to expand the electoral map.
Trump’s campaign announced Tuesday that it will finally begin airing its first ads of the general election next week in Florida, Ohio, North Carolina and Pennsylvania.
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Vice President Joe Biden spoke to a Scranton, Pennsylvania, crowd Monday-but his approach was more like an elder imparting life lessons to his family than a politician ginning up votes.
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In her remarks Clinton reiterated that Trump is not fit to lead the country.
