Biden celebrates his biggest rise in the polls since NOVEMBER with a trip to his parents’ home while Trump is in court: Joe, 81, heads to Scranton and continues campaigning as his rival watches jurors being sent home
President Joe Biden this week received his highest approval rating since November as he prepares to campaign in his hometown while rival Donald Trump remains locked in a New York courtroom.
A new poll from the Financial times and the University of Michigan found Biden’s approval rating at 43 percent, which is a 4-point increase from the same poll in March. The last time Biden’s rating was this high was in November.
In another positive sign for the president, the poll also showed that 41 percent of registered voters approved of his handling of the economy, which was a five-point increase from March.
On Tuesday, 81-year-old Biden will be in his hometown of Scranton, where he will present his plan to raise taxes on the wealthy.
The president is spending three days in the state that is crucial for his re-election.
While emphasizing his working-class roots, Biden will repeat his argument that Trump, a billionaire, only wants to help the rich.
“You have Joe Biden, a candidate who sees the world from the kitchen table where he grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club at Mar-a-Lago,” Michael Tyler said. Biden’s campaign communications director.
Biden consistently portrays himself as “Scranton Joe” as he talks about his family’s economic struggles that led them to move to Wilmington, Del. moved when Biden was a child.
In Scranton, he will talk about his plan to expand the child tax credit, create a tax credit for first-time homebuyers and create permanent tax credits for those who buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.
His message on Tuesday will focus on difficult times, as shown in the Financial Times poll news for Biden on that front. The poll found higher food and gas prices are weighing on voters. NEarly four in five voters cited inflation as one of the biggest sources of financial stress.
Biden will tell voters Billionaires have to pay more taxes.
His “speech will raise a simple question: Do you think the tax code should work for rich people or for the middle class?” Biden’s campaign wrote this in a statement.
“The president has made it clear what he thinks the answer is, and so has Donald Trump.”
The president will spend Tuesday evening in Scranton and leave for Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning, where he will give an official speech at the headquarters of the United Steelworkers.
He then returns to the White House, but turns around and heads back to Pennsylvania on Thursday, this time visiting Philadelphia.
Those later stops included fundraisers for his re-election campaign.
Biden’s campaign swing comes as Trump spends much of the next two months in a Manhattan courtroom facing criminal charges related to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.
Biden’s team is trying to contrast the image of Biden campaigning and continuing as president while Trump fights legal charges.
The incumbent president’s team said they were not concerned about the process.
“Wherever Donald Trump is, whether it’s at Mar-a-Lago, in a courtroom or anywhere else, he will be focused on himself, his toxic agenda, his campaign of revenge and retaliation,” Tyler said. “That will be a continuation of the contrast that the American people have seen since the beginning of this campaign.”
Joe Biden before growing up in Scranton during the 2020 presidential campaign
Donald Trump is being held in a New York City courtroom for a week
Biden and Trump are essentially tied in Pennsylvania, according to the newspaper RealClearPolitics voting average.
The 77-year-old Trump won the state against the Democrats in the 2016 elections, which put him in the White House. But Biden took it back in the 2020 contest, though he won by just one point.
Every candidate needs the state if he wants to return to the White House next year.
The former president looks at jury selection in his trial in Manhattan. Prosecutors are struggling to find a jury that says it can be impartial.
Trump was last in the state on Saturday, when he held a rally in Schnecksville. The former president’s campaigning has been limited to weekends as he fights criminal charges in New York.