Biden returns to his Scranton, Pennsylvania, roots to pitch his plan for higher taxes on the rich

By CHRIS MEGERIAN
Associated Press

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden has begun three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his childhood hometown of Scranton. The Democratic president is using the working class city of roughly 75,000 as the backdrop for his pitch for higher taxes on the wealthy. Biden was speaking Tuesday at a community center and visiting a union hall. Biden’s travels overlap with the beginning of Donald Trump’s first criminal trial in New York, where the Republican former president faces charges over a scheme to suppress allegations of a sexual encounter with porn actor Stormy Daniels. Pennsylvania is a crucial battleground state Biden has repeatedly visited in his bid for a second term.