After going to church and visiting the cemetery the place his first spouse, son and daughter are buried, Joseph R. Biden Jr. returned on Election D
After going to church and visiting the cemetery the place his first spouse, son and daughter are buried, Joseph R. Biden Jr. returned on Election Day to his Pennsylvania hometown, Scranton, with plans to spend most of his closing day of campaigning in a state which will play a essential function within the end result of the election.
Mr. Biden was born in Scranton and lived there till he was 10 years outdated, and his Scranton roots are a core a part of his political identification. He has framed the presidential race as a selection between Scranton and Park Avenue, as he portrays President Trump as involved solely concerning the wealthy.
“Trump sees the world from Park Avenue, from Wall Road,” Mr. Biden mentioned at a drive-in rally in Pittsburgh on Monday evening. “That’s all he can see. Effectively, I see it from Scranton, the place I grew up. I see it from Pennsylvania and Delaware.”
The stops on Tuesday make the third straight day that Mr. Biden has campaigned in Pennsylvania. He additionally plans to cease in Philadelphia later within the day.
Mr. Trump, who held a rally close to Scranton on Monday, plans to cap his campaigning with a go to to a Republican Nationwide Committee annex in Arlington, Va.
Past Scranton’s private significance to Mr. Biden, northeastern Pennsylvania is a essential space in a state that Mr. Biden and Mr. Trump are battling over. Mr. Trump thrived in historically Democratic areas in northeastern Pennsylvania within the 2016 election, when he gained the state by lower than one proportion level.
In Lackawanna County, which incorporates Scranton, Mr. Trump misplaced to Hillary Clinton by solely three proportion factors; 4 years earlier, President Barack Obama gained the county by 27 factors.
Polls now present Mr. Biden with a bonus over Mr. Trump in Pennsylvania, although each campaigns are preventing vigorously to prove voters within the state. A current New York Occasions/Siena Faculty ballot of seemingly voters gave Mr. Biden a six-point lead.