“No matter where you were raised, how could there be pleasure in division and you’re fired?”
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“This guy doesn’t care about the middle class. It’s such a bunch of malarkey”. Later, as members of Obama’s “team of rivals” Cabinet, they occasionally offered the president opposing advice, for instance, about whether to launch the raid on Osama bin Laden’s compound in Pakistan (Biden urged caution, and Clinton wanted the president to move ahead). For her, it’s the place where her grandfather worked in a lace mill, where she and her brothers were christened, where the family spent summers on nearby Lake Winola where she learned to swim and to shoot a gun.
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. “These are the reasons the radicals are supporting Trump”.
Clinton and Biden held their first joint campaign event in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden’s hometown as well as that of the former first lady’s late father, Hugh Rodham.
Biden said he and U.S. President Barack Obama appreciated the leadership demonstrated by Vucic on many occasions, in particular in the relations with Croatia. A Biden presidential candidacy was in play at the time, and the rally nearly had the appearance of an early endorsement.
“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, who will meet Serbian Premier Aleksandar Vucic and President Tomislav Nikolic, will also discuss upholding stability in southeastern Europe, a region that witnessed the continent’s worst violence since World War II with the bloody disintegration of the former Yugoslavia.
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.
Clinton, speaking before Biden, also continued to make her case against Trump’s economic proposals, which he laid out in a speech in Detroit a week ago. Then, drawing connections with Biden: “The story of the Rodhams and the Bidens isn’t unique”, Clinton said.
Biden’s folksy demeanor and ability to connect with working-class voters is considered an asset for Clinton-particularly among blue collar white male voters who lean towards Trump, her Republican rival. 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.
Biden suggested Serbia has to become a “democratic part of the EU”, which is in the interests of both Serbia and the European Union, and because it is of key importance that the region remains united and peaceful. Senior aides to the vice president are in regular contact with their counterparts at Clinton’s Brooklyn, N.Y., campaign headquarters, and the vice president himself has personally committed to Clinton to do anything she asks of him. This was spoken on behalf of the American Republican Party.
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Pennsylvania has not gone for a Republican presidential candidate since the 1988 election.
