Biden to attack Trump on healthcare in election battleground
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[June 25, 2020]
By Trevor Hunnicutt
(Reuters) - Democratic presidential
candidate Joe Biden on Thursday will visit the heart of must-win
Pennsylvania to highlight healthcare policies that his campaign hopes
will sway voters to choose him over President Donald Trump.
As part of a slow creep out of his Delaware home amid coronavirus
concerns to destinations further afield, Biden, who grew up in the
Pennsylvania rust-belt city of Scranton, is headed to the city of
Lancaster as part of a trip intended to weaken the Republican
president's standing with swing-state voters.
Trump, meanwhile, planned to visit Green Bay, Wisconsin, another
critical election battleground in his Nov. 3 contest with Biden, where
he was expected to address police reform.
Biden's campaign said he will meet with families to talk about the
Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare, the signature legislative
achievement of his time as Barack Obama's vice president, which
Republicans want to overturn.
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Later, in a speech, Biden will argue that African-Americans and Latinos
disproportionately hurt by the coronavirus will benefit from
strengthening that law, according to a person familiar with the remarks.
The Trump administration is expected to file papers with the Supreme
Court on Thursday asking them to declare the act illegal.
The president has touted quick moves to curtail international travel as
helping control the spread of the coronavirus, and he has promised to
dispose of Obamacare while preserving insurance benefits for people with
expensive medical conditions.
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Democratic U.S. presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe
Biden speaks with local residents and business people on the patio
of the Carlette’s Hideaway sports bar during a campaign stop in
Yeadon, Pennsylvania U.S., June 17, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
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Trump campaign spokesman Ken Farnaso said Biden's hostility to
energy industry jobs would cost "hundreds of thousands of
Pennsylvanians" their jobs and healthcare.
"In contrast, President Trump's pro-growth policies, tax cuts, and
deregulation built a booming economy once and he is the leader we
need to do it again," he said.
Democrats believe pitching pragmatic tweaks to Obamacare in 2018 won
them moderate voters and helped them wrest control of the House of
Representatives, and they want to make it a key issue again this
year.
House Democrats unveiled a bill on Wednesday that would provide more
insurance premium assistance to low-income people and offer more
healthcare funding to states. The effort is unlikely to win support
from Republicans.
(Reporting by Trevor Hunnicutt in New York; Additional reporting by
Steve Holland; Editing by James Oliphant and Leslie Adler)
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