WASHINGTON: Joe Biden is trying to take advantage of Donald Trump’s court stay as he joins the US presidential campaign, and he can’t help but laugh at his opponent’s plight.
As Trump faces a historic money challenge this week, Biden begins three days from his birthday in the battleground state of Pennsylvania.
He visited his childhood home and campaigned with the Kennedys, while Trump complained that he couldn’t campaign in a New York courtroom.
“Pennsylvania lost 275,000 jobs in the past – now they’re engaged,” Biden, 81, said, referring to his opponent’s position, to laughter from the audience at the Steelworkers Union.
It was Biden’s public acknowledgment of Trump’s criminal record since his inauguration in New York on Monday, a departure from his previous silence on the issue.
“Let’s call it the Trump, Pennsylvania Biden strategy in the courtroom,” said former White House communications director Keith Bedingfield.
Democrats previously appeared to want to avoid tipping the scales of justice, knowing they could give Trump ammunition to claim he was the victim of a Biden-led witch hunt.
White said he is not involved in the lawsuit and is “focused on the American people.”
But Biden’s comments came at a time of clear planning because Trump spends four days a week in court.
Trump’s impeachment has also shown a gradual rise in support for the Democratic Party since his State of the Union speech in March, the pair are now in the public eye.
Biden has focused on attacking Trump on weak issues like abortion, believing his economic message has begun.
However, Trump has led Biden in several battleground states in recent polls, meaning the presidential campaign should seize the opportunity.
Trump also tried to take advantage of the situation.
The Republican Party itself fumed outside a Manhattan courtroom on Tuesday, saying that “Pennsylvania and Florida … should be campaigning now.”
But some of his supporters argue that the media circus surrounding the first criminal trial for the former US president has given him a ready platform to spread the word.
They say that the split-screen effect of watching two rivals on a news channel can also help.
“Maybe the fact that Joe is on the campaign trail and Donald Trump has to sit in that courtroom … , conservative Fox News anchor and allies.
Litigation can turn the basis of resentment.
Trump attended a campaign rally in Pennsylvania the weekend before the trial and is headed to Wilmington, North Carolina, another key state for the Biden campaign this weekend.
The Biden campaign is waging war in Trump’s backyard. On Tuesday, the president will visit Tampa, Florida.
The Biden campaign said it is now looking at Florida, even though the state has been leaning Republican since Trump won in 2016.
Biden’s campaign was also less successful than Trump’s legal challenge.
This week, a lawsuit alleging that Trump falsified employment records to cover up his extramarital affair with actress Stormy Daniels in order to protect his 2016 election was found to have “extensive information about abortion restrictions”. campaign from controversy.
It talks about Trump’s “trials and tribulations” and shows that the former president lost in the “court of society.”
Biden continues to taunt Trump with allegations that his campaign has spent millions on legal fees and three other criminal charges.
On Tuesday, in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden joked that losers who were “in debt” came to him and asked for help.
“I’m sorry, Donald, but I can’t help you,” Biden said.
