Biden ends his Amtrak tour with a message for blue-collar Pa. voters: Trump 'doesn't have a plan to
JOHNSTOWN, Pa. — Joe Biden capped a daylong train tour through Ohio and Pennsylvania on Wednesday by emphasizing his connection with middle-class America, forged over decades spent taking Amtrak from Washington home to Delaware every night to be with his children.
“I want to thank the good people of Amtrak who kept me moving today, and throughout my whole career,” Biden said at an evening drive-in rally here. The Democratic presidential nominee said Amtrak “brought me back to my home base every single night. ... I always remembered what and who really mattered.”
He recalled long rides looking out “at all those homes I’d pass, middle-class neighborhoods like I was raised in,” and talking to passengers about their hopes and needs, before contrasting that with President Donald Trump, whom he called a “self-serving, self-entitled president.”
“He doesn’t have a plan to help you or deliver relief to the people who need the most help,” Biden said of Trump.
Biden’s 10-hour “whistle-stop tour” started in Cleveland, the site of Tuesday’s presidential debate. Earlier in the day, Biden called the debate a “national embarrassment.” The acrimonious and chaotic nationally televised forum was marked by Trump’s repeatedly interrupting Biden, personal insults, and continuous cross-talk between the candidates and moderator Chris Wallace. That prompted the presidential debate commission to say Wednesday that it would make changes to the format to avoid a repeat.
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