Democratic Party candidate
accuses President Trump of ignoring the coronavirus pandemic and the climate
crisis.
Democrat Joe
Biden turned his campaign against President Donald Trump toward the economy
Thursday, introducing a New Deal-like economic agenda while drawing a sharp
contrast with a billionaire incumbent he said has abandoned working-class
Americans amid cascading crises.
The former vice president
presented details of a comprehensive agenda that he touted as the most
aggressive government investment in the U.S. economy since World War II.
He also accused Trump of
ignoring the coronavirus
pandemic and the climate crisis while encouraging division amid a national
reckoning with systemic racism.
His failures come with a
terrible human cost and a deep economic toll, Biden said during a 30-minute
address at a metal works firm near his boyhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
Time and again, working
families are paying the price for this administration's incompetence.
Biden's shift to the
economy meets Trump on turf the Republican president had seen as his strength
before the pandemic severely curtailed consumer activity and drove unemployment
to near-Great Depression levels.
Now, Biden and his aides
believe the issue is an all-encompassing opening that gives Democrats avenues
to attack Trump on multiple fronts while explaining their own governing vision
for the country.
The former vice president
began Thursday with proposals intended to reinvigorate the U.S. manufacturing
and technology sectors.
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