FILE - In this July 9, 2020, file photo Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden adjusts his mask during a tour of McGregor Industries, a metal fabricating facility in Dunmore, Pa. Biden is pledging to define his presidency by a sweeping economic agenda beyond anything Americans have seen since the Great Depression and the industrial mobilization for World War II.
Trump and his Republican allies argue that Biden’s positioning, especially his ongoing work with progressives, proves he’s captive to a “radical” left wing. Conversely, activists who backed Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in the Democratic primary were encouraged, yet cautious, about Biden’s ability to follow through while conceding that his plans on issues including climate action and criminal justice still fall short of their ideals.
Kaufman, who succeeded Biden in the Senate when he ascended to the vice presidency, said Biden’s core identity hasn’t changed: “progressive Democrat,” friendly to labor and business, consistent supporter of civil rights, believer in government and the private sector. What’s different in 2020, he said, are the country’s circumstances — a public health crisis, near-Depression level unemployment, a national reckoning on racism — and the office Biden now seeks.
The former vice president countered their proposed universal government-funded health insurance with a government insurance plan that would compete alongside private insurance. Progressives wanted tuition-free public higher education; Biden offered tuition subsidies for two-year schools. Biden called the climate crisis an “existential threat” and offered a clean energy plan with a trillion-dollar price tag, but resisted the full version of progressives’ Green New Deal.
Still, Biden isn’t immune from the kind of internal party tensions that cost Clinton progressive support in 2016, and he’s spent the last three months shoring up his left flank. Likewise, Varshini Prakash of the Sunrise Movement, a leading environmental advocacy group, said her group won’t abandon the Green New Deal. But she credited Biden for embracing a level of public investment that would remake the energy economy during the pandemic recession.“I don’t consider Biden’s proposals a political hat tip to progressives as much as rising to the moment we’re living in,” said Adam Green, co-founder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee and a Warren ally.
So how much money are you giving black people in reparations Joe and when is enough enough. Education, and a traditional family unit is the only way back
I’m confused is this an article or a campaign ad?
MikeOkuda Okay, good.
Translation: taxation,globalization and soup kitchen and bread lines..
Really Presidentials are coming
What a shame that his team lets him try and speak in public!!! What a joke for the Democrats!!!! Trump2020
peggydumptrump Can’t wait till Joe wins 2020. We need his humanity and stability after our Nation was abused and robbed of our Democracy by Trump. Biden is a true and proven leader. Exactly what the US desperately needs.
USA Healthcare insuarance 1th included along site ?
Please joebiden, the Pandemic must be resolved FIRST
We need to hear trump plan other than racist attacks against Mexicans, separation of children, denying asylum , lying about a border wall, defending his sex offenses and more , trump is not an honest integral man he is small.
Now we are talking no make fun no attacks, no bullying just a plan this is integrity in a presidential candidate this makes sense
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Lol! So what was he doing for the last fifty years of public service?
So, both the candidates for next US president wear a mask in public?
And he wants to put 53 million independent contractors out of work with HR2474 ProAct. I’d prefer a president who’s not in the pockets of big Unions.
40 years of nothing, NOW he's going to fix things. 🤣
He will forget this statement by next week.
GLAD HE HAS THE MEDIA TO SPEAK FOR HIM
Only if the progressives give him the ok. Not likely.
A lifetime in politics with nothing to show, but....
How can he be president if he's too scared to debate?
Yes, Joe has a plan for those things, you know those things. Lol
What has Joe Biden done to address racism and inequality over the past 50 years. I have zero confidence in his ability to move our country on either issue. Voting 3rd party protest, again, until one side or the other gives me an option I like.
_Politics Joe Biden thinks he's 'the tooth fairy'. Trump has already done what Biden still wants to do and couldn't do in 8 years.
Well come out of the basement Joe!
Yeah me too. Specifics Joe. Everyone can vague things that sounds good.
Does anyone really believe after selling out Americans for 40 years he’s *finally* getting around to being pro-America?
Makes sense since Job believes he's back in 1950.
Anyone told Joe what his pledges are yet?
Yes for 48 yrs he did nothing, but now he is going to act!
_Politics And RAISE TAXES ON MIDDLE CLASS AMERICANS
to promise does not mean to marry!
Great. Climate change on steroids.
The only thing Joe Biden has done that was sweeping with economics in his career was deposit cash from the Ukraine and Chinese Banks into he and Hunter Biden‘s bank accounts.
Even assuming he wins he's going to be declared unfit for office within a week.
Biden doesn't even know what day it is.
He hasn't done shit for his 40 years in office.
Why? The economy was cranking until the government shut it down.
Oh bullshit. He’s been in government for how long? He’s done nothing. MAGA2020
Complete left shift and needs to be defeated. US is in a debt hole as it is. His agenda would not be executed and is wishful left thinking or bankrupt and destroy this country. Economy almost certainly would crash. He is a terrible option.
A Biden presidency would plunge America into an irreversible death spiral Changing the country forever. Say hello to Socialism in the worse was imaginable.
The word populism is gaining snowball mutation & has new meaning - its perhaps hoped the changes will be respectful & accept that it represents freedoms of expression.
Tap Obama for Secretary of State. Repair the damage. ==== BleuZ00m jlpratt4
Go back to sleep Joe
_Politics WOW, could you be more biased!!! I've got one thing to say to you...'you're gonna lose, you're gonna lose'
Misogynistic, Narcissistic, Philander, Crybaby, Blamer, Racist, and Sickly this is Donald J. Trump. Not to mention traitor who sells out his country. A thief who steals from his country. Lets not be fooled. DumpTrump2020
Indeed with increased tax of 28% from 21%
by increasing taxes?
2 chickens in every pot, cotton candy and I want a pony.
So I'm confused biden has been in DC for decades and never accomplished anything but now he thinks he's the savior? LMFAO
He helped tear down the industry of this nation and ship those jobs to china
Remind me again how long JoeBiden was in public office, and what he accomplished.....other than becoming a millionaire several times over.
SageRobinson Ahh more lies to get your vote. He’s a corrupt racist just as the sitting president.
Leadership is listening to your experts and making a decision based on real knowledge. Not conspiracy theories, not gut feelings, not thinking you’re smarter than everyone else. Joe may not be perfect but he’s going with a plan. What is Trump’s plan?
Yes, he’d sweep all the new corporation expansion right back to China and Mexico with a higher corporate rate and ridiculous regulation.
Would be nice is you equally talked about trump in such pleasantries Fake news media
Obama promised things like this, while Citigroup was picking his cabinet.
NVnotpayingPUA
No thanks.
GO JOE!!!
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LOL says the guy who called inegrated schools a jungle......
We should believe he will do this now after not doing it for 50 yrs?
Biden2020 ReturntoSanity
TOTAL BS.
He was Vice President during the worst economy since the Great Depression. The only way he’d know how to make the economy great is if Trump gave him cheat sheets!!!
Biden=Bush, Cheney, Clinton, Obama, Summers, Bloomberg, Bolton, Emanuel, Rothschild, deep state, Wall Street, banks, corporations, health insurance companies, credit card, pharma, fossil fuel, oil, corporate media, oligarchs, military industrial complex
Obama/Biden addressed none of those things. They just apologized to the world for being Americans. Biden has been in govt for decades and did nothing. They only thing he’s going to do is make Hunter richer.
So... Back to the Obama economy.
The real FACT: JoeBiden has been in politics for 48 years and hasn’t done anything for Americans. He already said he doesn’t work for us.
The guy has been in politics for 40 years. If you think he has answers I think you are in for a major disappointment.
By giving the police more money? By being against M4A during a pandemic? By thinking your healthcare should be linked to your job, when millions have just been made redundant? By thinking the war on drugs should continue? By being pro fracking?
Get him to action some of it before election. As a taster pre elect to show Americans what they can expect with him as their leader. 🤷♂️
The United States will surely crumble if Trump is left in the White House to continue his 'golfing and tweeting' in the guise of leadership!
Address racism by giving reparations, hell no, he’s been in the Government 45+ years and has never done anything other than make his family millionaires
If I were a Biden advisor, I would make a point of sharing the credit for these bold plans, among my staff. Nothing frames a populist agenda, or teamwork, more than sharing credit for good work .. .. And there's like seven people in the U.S. that believe it's really his work.
Hope you keep to your words and promise Joe.
Let's hear the details spoken / articulated by him
Yes but most Americans are too stupid to understand that.
Facts !!
It is just beginning. They will start to show who is more patriotic&nationalist. Every national and fascist movement flourishes in this political climate. Anything antidote to recent situation will be ignored. Nationalism will benefit from between two main fraction of status quo.
Bide, you had 40+ years to address, racism, yet you did NOTHING!🤣 AND... And, now, you want the American people to believe you?😕.. GIVEITARESTJOE
If he can do better than trump, cause he’s been doing really well. The economy is strong even during a fake pandemic, jobs will come back once the governors gets there head out there asses, then it will be better
Joe Biden cut & paste from numerous sources.
“And that’s when after 60 years in Washington, but President Joe Biden finally fixed racism in America”
Go Biden go Biden go Biden go Biden.
How bout you just win and let's go from there
Same corruption. Different name.
What did he ever do when he had his chance? Absolutely nothing!!!! Talk is cheap!! ap you biased fools!!! Hanging around crazy Pelosi too much it looks like!!
ChinaJoe has never been in a racist moment in time that he did not defend
He cold only be lying more if he said he would address inequities.
Joe Biden: 'People will die that have never died before.' Ahm a a Thank you!
And he worked with Bernie! Here for it. TrumpIsLosing
Unlike anything he never accomplished in a half a century in Washington, DC?
Does Biden form it? Is it more than 5 words? Then he doesn’t form it
He’s been in office for 40 years..
LoL thats exactly what Trump did with America 1st! Trump2020Landslide
Stupid idea again? Steak eating beer drinking Yanks working at such high wages with breaks every few minutes? Competing against starving Asians working at slave wages living in dormitories & eating noodles? Dream on Scranton boy! Who knows you can do what Trump couldn't?
I’m sorry, but the dude can’t remember what day it is.
Wow is THAT post misleading! Article goes on at length about what the far left wants and finally has a paragraph about Biden’s committee offering their own plans. Closest he came was Bernie’s college tuition plan and Warren’s overhaul of bankruptcy laws. Something even GOP wants
That happens to dementia patients. They can’t remember anything from today but he obviously remember WW II
Hope he starts with banning systemic racism like affirmative action.
Yeah right. We already HAD the BEST economy in the world before this Covid 19. TRUMP 2020 is the only one that can make it happen again. realDonaldTrump
If Biden, and that's a BIG if.🤣...if Biden can text, and put 'his' thoughts down, surely he can DEBATE!.. I mean, that is him on Twitter, right?!🤣
Im old enough to remember when the installed Rutherford B. Hayes as the 19th President of the United States (1877-1881), which delayed Reconstruction efforts in the South for a half-century or more after the civil war. Now AP is trying to do the same thing with JoeBiden!
He'd better put Mother Nature first and foremost by 10000000 miles, or EVERYTHING else is moot. JoeBiden
Ah, the great promises made during an election year, like the sweet nothings whispered in a one night stand.
Har. Har. Har.
The man is soft in the head and an empty vessel for leftists to fill. America will be a disaster if he is elected.
realDonaldTrump is a rude jackass, but yes to this...👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼
The economic agenda is Bernie's not Biden's.
Democrats keeping their states shut down is destroying economies. Makes sense for Biden to have a plan to clean the mess up for them.
'Transform'
LOL Bluster
This has been the plan all along. Will you be surprised if Biden manages to get two terms?
Get ready for the Pandering of votes
B.S.🙄
I dont know why I read AP News anymore. The truth is Biden is copying Trumps America First business model... please turn in your journalist credentials.
Lord help us 🙄 KAG2020
After 44 years of political service and millions in the bank he’s finally had a vision for his “American transformation”
Economic populism without a hard line on China is a non-starter both economically & politically.
So this guy wins the nomination claiming to be a moderate. But once he has won, works with people like Bernie to create his economic plans. Ya know, the guy who lost because most Americans think his radical economic plans are complete shit! Makes sense...
Democrat are evil fucks never vote , if you love your freedom!
He’s looking for the diaper aisle!
And when he gets into office it'll largely be tax cuts for corporations and other public/private nonsense. He's a trillion times better than Trump in the way that a fatal traffic accident is better than a mass school shooting.
he was VP under a black president for 8 years, how come they didnt address racism then?
Who’s plan? Biden is a front man.
Why do I feel like the AP just defined 'Biden's strategy' for him?
Biden ➡️ 🤪 His dementia tells him many wild stories.
Unlike Trump, Biden can deliver!
Trump’s weakness is definitely NOT the economy, stupit...
So Biden is going to damage the US economy by making us go communistic?
Like the kind of deal he made with the Chinese so his son could get rich?!
40+ years in office... nothing new to see here
Ok when is Santa Claus and Easter bunny coming too?
Actual Plans? Nice to see, havent seen any good ones in 3 years
Where does it say opinion piece?
If only there was racism and inequality...nah, he still wouldn’t have a shot.
To get my vote JoeBiden all you need to do handle this pandemic better than Trump.
We need it! If we don't get Biden in this election, we may never get another free election again. Do we want to live in a Banana Republic as we are now? America or Trump VOTE TRUMP OUT!
We cannot trust this man...
So... where was this “great plan during his first 40 years in DC? Or even just the 8 he spent napping in the west wing?
Biden had 40 years to make changes and he did not. His time is up.
Huh. 40 years in D.C. and he’s just now coming up with these plans. He also promised to cure cancer. But only if he’s elected President.
But he forgot it. Oh well.
If he just reverses Trump's tax welfare plan for the wealthy and put the money in projects that will help the country and working class, he'd be ahead. Congress has already let it be known they don't care about the deficit. So he just need to stay w/in the GOP range
...and nickel beer.
_Politics Right. All the answers.
Joe_Kach Weren't many of those items considered unconstitutional? I'll listen but Trump's economics, whatever you think of him personally, were working, prerona
Joe Biden has been a politician his entire life and he hasn't done much for minorities but wants to now.
Dude has been in office 40 years!! who cares what he says.
_Politics The agenda is not really 'liberal' anymore....its MAINSTREAM. Universal Health care....economic justice for the working class and racial equality are standard concerns/desires of most Americans!
REPARATIONS Earned/Owed/Overdue to Indigenous African-Americans; Direct payments, Land/Housing/Health/Education/Business grants w/Protections Under the Law... REPARATIONS NOW! *HR40: *N'COBRA:
It only took him 50 years to come up with someone else's idea.
Go Joe!
McCainSuzanne Need to hurry while the U.S.$ is still a global reserve currency. National debt to GDP ratio is near WWII levels, which was before US$ was a global reserve. Once that ends, welcome to Venezuela.
He’s been in gov for 50 years but now I’ll address racism!
'Dear angry Americans: vote for me, I'll pay you' Sincerely, your best friend Joe
Why hasn’t he done any of this in the almost 50 years he’s been in DC?
Is sleepy Joe waking up? Not.
That's code for tax the crap out of everything and everyone
Yeah great plan how you gonna do that when America’s knee deep in a Broad Civil Uprising and worsening pandemic ?
Lol so funny fools will take this man serious. A man that can’t string a good sentence together wants to perform magic . I just pity Americans who will want to mortgage their future
Yes please
He also plans on beating Joe Biden, so....
No he won't. He is against medicare for all against the green new deal.
Load of BS. Biden would be a figurehead with radicals calling the shots. Not going to happen!
I had 47 years and did nothing, but now I’m 79 years old, this time will be different.
'Liberal populism' 'social justice' 'democratic socialist' Its all word games with them. Use critical thinking. They will say anything to accumulate more power over us.
ANYBODY is better than Dotard Trump.
Lol ok
Biden/Obama track record on economic recoveries is awful
Instead of covering his plans and solutions. Social media and fake news obsessed with irrelevant mask wearing or racist rants.
This old man already forgot that he said this.
He would be smart to implement all the items agreed upon in the Bernie/Biden commission
He is happy WWII is about to end.
lol there's no economy left
He didn't say any of that. C'mon. He doesn't even know his name.
With measurable specifics, unlike gross generalizations and failures to produce of realDonaldTrump!
LMAO!! Please shut up with this crap- Trump built the richest economy ever- get bent
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