Biden: 'This Is A Recession Created By Donald Trump's Negligence'
Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden made his pitch to voters in the battleground state of Michigan on Wednesday, promising a union crowd in the Detroit suburbs that he would reverse the offshoring of jobs and spur growth in manufacturing.
Speaking to members of the United Auto Workers against a backdrop of American-made cars, Biden rolled out a batch of policies meant to lure U.S. businesses into investing at home through a mix of tax penalties and credits. He slammed President Donald Trump for his handling of both the pandemic and the economy, saying his botched response to the coronavirus has left far more Americans out of work than needed to be.
“While this deadly disease ripped through our nation, he failed to do his job on purpose,” Biden said, alluding to quotes reported by The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward on Wednesday, in which Trump said he deliberately downplayed the pandemic’s deadliness in public.
“His failure has not only cost lives, it sent our economy into a tailspin,” Biden went on. “This is a recession created by Donald Trump’s negligence.”
Michigan is a key state in Biden’s path to the White House. Trump carried the state against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in 2016 by fewer than 11,000 votes, one of several cracks in the “blue wall” that cost Clinton the election. Trump made inroads in Michigan and other Midwest states in part by framing his campaign around trade deals and the loss of U.S. jobs to countries like Mexico.
The Biden campaign is determined not to let Trump own the issue this time around.
His failure has not only cost lives, it sent our economy into a tailspin. Joe Biden on President Donald Trump
Ahead of Biden’s speech Wednesday in the city of Warren, the campaign released what was billed as a “buy America” and “make it in America” plan. In addition to hiking the corporate tax rate, the campaign said a Biden administration would institute a 10% “offshoring penalty”...
