Jill and Joe Biden
Jill and Joe Biden
"Our best days still lie ahead. This is America. We are America, second to none. Anything is possible."
Jill Biden's message to Donald Trump: 'Stop it. My husband's going to beat you.'
“The fact that he attacked my son, I have never seen that in other elections, that they go after children of the candidate,” she said. “He's just trying to distract the voters. You know what Donald Trump did was wrong, flat-out wrong. Calling a foreign leader and asking them — and holding back foreign aid unless he investigated my husband, my son — that is just flat-out wrong and I think that the American people see that, I think the people in Congress see that and they're going to stand up to him.”
(Full story at NBCNews.com)
Former Vice President Joe Biden
Entered race: April 25, 2019
Age:
76
Best known for: Being former President Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 to 2017 and U.S. senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009.
Strength: He’s well-known nationally and popular in some places Democrats have lost recently, such as working-class swing states Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, his birthplace.
Weakness: Biden would be the oldest person ever elected president, with a nearly five-decade record for opponents to comb through, at a time many in his party are clamoring for a new generation to take the reins. The notoriously chatty former senator also tends to commit verbal gaffes and faced recent accusations by some women of uninvited, though nonsexual, touching.
On the issues:
Climate change: Proposes a decade-long $1.7 trillion public investment, spurring an estimated $2.3 trillion in private investment, intended to yield a carbon-neutral U.S. economy by 2050.
College costs: Backs two years of tuition-free community college for every American.
Gun control: Wants to reinstitute the kind of ban on military-style weapons and ammunition that was included in the 1994 crime bill he wrote. Supports universal background checks.
Health care: Supports a “public option” insurance plan, which he describes as a “Medicare-like” government insurance policy to be available to all working-age Americans alongside private insurance policies.
Immigration: Says U.S. system is “broken” but can be fixed, with a secure border “without tossing aside our values ... and our humanity.” Backs pathway to citizenship for immigrants in the country illegally.
Taxes: Wants to repeal corporate rate cuts included in 2017 tax law, curb other provisions he calls “loopholes.” Says tax policy should value work more than wealth, without “punishing” the wealthy.
Trade: Describes himself as a “fair trader.” Defends decades of U.S. international trade policy. Criticizes Trump administration tariffs as counterproductive and harmful to U.S.
Read more at Chicago Tribune.
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