Biden returns to his hometown after a limited campaign role
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In front of a few dozen union carpenters here this weekend, President Biden was getting worked up.
In front of a few dozen union carpenters here this weekend, President Joe Biden was getting worked up. “Now, I know some of you guys are tempted to think it’s macho guys,” Biden said, alluding to his onetime rival, former President Donald Trump, who is courting male voters in a razor-thin election against his vice president. Not to be out-machoed, Biden recalled some long-ago rumble that went down here when he was a child. “I tell you what, man, when I was in Scranton, we used to have a little trouble going down the plot once in a while,” he said, sounding anything but threatening. “These are the kind of guys you’d like to smack in the ass.” Here in his hometown, the president was making what is likely to be his final trip to a battleground before Election Day. After 50 years in public life, it was a subdued final campaign appearance as a sitting office holder. In Biden’s political winter, perhaps it was inevitable it would all come back to Scranton.
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