Biden parches Trump's jab in Pennsylvania

Former Vice President Joe Biden reacted on Tuesday to President Donald Trump's attempts to undermine his ties with Pennsylvania by strengthening ties with another key bloc in the vote: the working class.

"Yesterday, Trump tried to attack me at his rally saying that I had abandoned Pennsylvania. I never forgot where I came from, "said Biden, leader of the Democratic Party. wrote on Twitter. "When I was 10, my family had to leave Pennsylvania. We moved to Delaware, where my father found a job that could support our family.

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"Trump does not understand the hardships of working people, he does not understand what it's like to worry about losing his roof, he does not understand what it's like to ask if you can put food on Table. "

The Trump campaign is stepping up efforts to convince voters in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan – states that have been instrumental in winning Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Trump said on Monday to an audience of thousands of spectators in front of an airport hangar in Montoursville, Pennsylvania that Biden had abandoned the state and had never looked back.

"It's not from Pennsylvania," said Biden's president. "I guess he was born here, but he left you. He left you for another state. Remember that, please.

"He left you for another state and he did not care about you because he was not busy with your work," Trump said. "He let other countries come in and scam down America. It does not happen anymore. "

Biden was born in Scranton in 1942, but his family moved to Delaware in 1953, where he served six terms as a senator.

"He does not understand," commented Biden on Twitter, of Trump, "that the longest walk that a parent can do is to climb a small staircase leading to his child's room to tell him, darling, I I'm sorry, you have to move, you can not go back to school, you will not see your friends because mom or dad lost their job. "

Trump's critics seem to reflect deep concerns about Biden's candidacy, which the president considers his biggest threat in 2020. Trump has repeatedly launched a wide range of insults to the former vice-president , often presenting himself as younger and energetic than Biden, who at 76 is four years older than the president.

White men in their seventies use overlapping ridings and could prove essential to win in 2020 if the duel were to run in the general election. As a former vice president of former President Barack Obama, Biden helped convince blue collar and Rust Belt voters – the same groups that helped propel Trump to the White House in 2016.

Biden's tweets highlighted the contrast between his past and that of the billionaire businessman in New York.

The Trump campaign recently completed a survey project that shows the president is lagging behind Biden in Pennsylvania, telling two people about the results. Trump's relatives, however, have said they believe the former vice-president's popularity will diminish once his campaign honeymoon phase – launched last month in a union hall in Pittsburgh – is over.

Both candidates seem to have turned to Pennsylvania as the key to the White House in 2020, devoting their attention and resources to the state. On Saturday, Biden went high against the president at an event in Philadelphia, where his campaign seat is located.

In contrast, Trump has already taken steps to strengthen the GOP forces in that state, which he had won by less than a percentage point in 2016. When he appeared Monday, the president said to the crowd of Montoursville that his state was the one he "must win. "