On July 9, Joe Biden visited his old home, which is located in Scranton, Pennsylvania. While the former vice president was seen exchanging pleasantries with a few locals, he categorically refused to take questions from the media during this quick visit.
Biden, who fancies addressing friendly audiences in virtual events, or televised interviews rather than hosting news conferences, came to the town to announce new economic initiatives, Fox News reported. After Biden asked one of the residents, "who's that beautiful baby? How old?," Fox News' Peter Doocy tried posing a question of his own, but Biden refused to take it.
The presumptive Democratic nominee said he just came to see Ann Kearns, adding that he hopes to be seen without a mask next time. Kearns bought the Biden family home on North Washington Avenue in 1961 and deems herself as a Biden fan.
Giving thumbs down to Biden's recent visit to his old home, the Trump campaign said the former vice president knows his economic record is not defensible, and accused him of overseeing the slowest economic recovery since the Great Depression, with lowered wages and job growth. Furthermore, the campaign said he supported trade deals that cost the people of America millions of jobs.
Trump 2020 campaign Communications Director Tim Murtaugh pointed out that Biden plans to raise taxes and impose Green New Deal, which he described as job-killing regulations. Murtaugh said he isn't surprised that Biden refused to take questions, adding that he is one disaster after another.
Despite refusing to take questions from Fox News, Biden did interviews for two local Lackawanna County stations, after his economic policy speech in Dunmore, Penn. During those interviews, Biden confirmed that fracking will not be abolished and he would not defund the police.
Biden said he would bring in major changes in police conduct, instead. At his economic policy address, Biden pushed for shelling out 700 billion on American products and research in a bid to revise millions of jobs that have been lost in the American economy flattened by the pandemic.
He divulged key details about his democratic plan at a speech at a metalworks factory in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, which is a few minutes away from his childhood home. Without naming names, he took a jab at the president saying that he grew up differently than Trump, who grew up rich, and looking down on people.
Dubbed as Build Back Better, Biden's plan focuses on creating 5 million new jobs and is also the first of four economic proposals the former vice president is likely to roll out in the coming weeks. Biden said it is time to cash in on the opportunity to make bold investments in innovation and the American industry so the future is made entirely in the country.