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. 'No billionaire should be paying a lower tax rate than a firefighter,' Biden said in a s
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.
But 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. 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.
"Do you know what their average tax rate is? t-h-r-e-e per cent. Poor people," Biden said, joking about billionaires. Biden will unveil the annual federal budget blueprint on Thursday and has again pledged to raise taxes on the rich. In 2016 and again in 2020, around two-thirds of white voters without a college degree opted for Donald Trump, who has already launched a campaign for the 2024 election.
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