The President Is Pounding Pennsylvania Pavement

SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — President Joe Biden has begun three straight days of campaigning in Pennsylvania in his childhood hometown of Scranton. The president used the working class city of roughly 75,000 as the backdrop for his pitch for higher taxes on the wealthy on Tuesday. He also slammed his campaign rival, former President Donald Trump, as elitist. Biden’s travels overlap with the beginning of Trump’s first criminal trial in New York. 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.