![]() When he talks like this Biden, who has said he "intends" to seek a second term in office but has not officially launched a campaign, is fine-tuning his words to appeal to a very specific demographic: working class white people without a college degree. Biden will unveil the annual federal budget blueprint on Thursday and has again pledged to raise taxes on the rich. Poor people," Biden said, joking about billionaires. "Do you know what their average tax rate is? t-h-r-e-e per cent. You want to go and make a lot of money? Go and do it but at least pay something," Biden told the firefighters on Monday. Then there is Biden's frequent allusion to his no-frills childhood home - three rooms for his parents, four children and a grandfather - which he bills as certifying his middle class credentials.īiden also likes to talk about the need for everybody to pay their fair share of taxes, but does so with a nod to the glory of free enterprise in the country where it is sacrosanct. He has repeated these words often since then. "It's about being able to look your kid in the eye and say, 'Honey, it's going to be OK,' and mean it," Biden said in his Feb 7 address. In his speeches these days - like Monday before the first union to endorse him in 2020, the International Association of Fire Fighters - the flow of his message has been practically predictable.įirst comes an obligatory reference to his father, who Biden depicts as an example of proud, hardworking folk and would often say to him, "Joey, a job is about a lot more than a paycheck. Since the start of his term in the White House, Biden, now 80, has told the same stories about growing up in a blue collar, middle class family in the factory town of Scranton, Pennsylvania.īut since his State of the Union address to Congress on Feb 7 - seen as the informal start of his quest for another term - Biden has really hammered away at this image of himself as a man of the people, a regular guy who can sympathise with families struggling to make ends meet. "No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a firefighter," Biden said in a speech to firefighters on Monday (Mar 6). ![]() WASHINGTON: President Joe Biden sought again to woo working white Americans, fine-tuning his words as he wages an all but official campaign for re-election and hoping to win over a demographic that snubbed him in 2020. ![]()
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