joe biden has framed his presidential campaign and scranton versus park avenue. you can bet he will bring up this issue in the debate on tuesday night. >> what's interesting, john, and i've said this before, as you said, biden is arguing this is scranton versus park avenue but even for park avenue, according to "the new york times," this kind of -- paying $750 is incredibly rare. i think "the times" reported along the average of people in that .001% of the tax bracket of income generally pay about 24% in federal income tax. so paying nothing or $750, that's even rare for the rarest of the rare. >> reporter: well, anderson, there are two different issues here. one of them are the shenanigans rich people can get away with to avoid paying taxes. the other is whether the image of success and affluence donald trump has sold himself as possessing as an argument why he could turn the country around, whether that whole thing is a fake and he's vulnerable on both those counts. >> according to "the times" he's received hundreds of millions from his father starting at age 3.

. >> scranton versus park avenue. >> right. i think this does feed into that.and my guess is that, you know, he will hold trump up as an example of someone who has had great privilege and has scammed the system while people in scranton work hard, pay their taxes and do what's expected of them. he'll identify himself with that. and that could be very powerful. >> abbie, according to "the new york times," donald trump started technically getting money from his dad when he was three years old and there were hundreds of millions of dollars that he ultimately inherited from his father in various, you know, schemes that they did in terms of avoiding taxes and shifting it over to baby donald trump. do you think the biden campaign trying to focus on this is a lock? it's not clear if it may have an immediate impact in whether this is all baked into people's perception of donald trump. >> yeah. i think that's the biggest question that i have about all of this. as much of a bombshell as this report is, it confirms a lot of things people already felt about donald trump or

the "scranton versus park avenue" point is an interesting one. joe biden is trying to, of course, pushing him into this election as the everyday guy who still believes in blue-collar workers, who knows what the issues are on the ground. the fact is that joe biden has been in washington, d.c., for a very long time. david brings up these issues with corruption and hunter biden, and people will say, "well, that's just a personal issue that the president is going after." actually it's a broader, bigger political issue when it comes to a d.c. insider, meaning joe biden, and his son, using his d.c. insider name to get special deals with foreign countries. on top of president trump making that argument that joe biden sold out american jobs to foreign companies but president trump is still able to push himself into this general election by saying, "i'm still an outsider. you should be voting for me." on the covid issue, the talk of the vaccine is a very interesting one. what is being lost here is the miracle that this vaccine has been pushed out in less

. >> michael, joe biden said yesterday that his campaign is scranton versus park avenue. why is he going with this divide and conquer approach that's trump's thing what about a message for all americans? i don't live on park avenue, but i live pretty close to it. you know how i got there working my butt off. he doesn't want my vote? >> well, stephanie, joe biden has always bristled at being labeled a populist but that kind of rhetoric sounds populist. you did see the former vice president in the town hall with cnn last night trying to say that he would also be a president for all americans, that he would not be a democratic president he would govern this country for all americans. but there's no doubt, stephanie, and you talked to jake sullivan with the biden campaign yesterday about this they're ready to open up a new front in this campaign against president trump squarely on the economy and really who is on the side of the kind of working class voters that are going to be pivotal, especially in this part of the state and where garrett was in bemidgi they want to focus o

sorry. >> well, it also points to joe biden was sort of testing this idea of scranton versus park avenuehe guy from park avenue or fifth avenue is where he now lives. this certainly plays into -- this tax news certainly plays into that. >> it does. >> especially because "the times" points out and if the reporting is accurate even people in that upper echelon tax bracket of .0001%, usually pay, i think "the times" said on average 24% in federal taxes even with all their schemes to dodge taxes. even if the president is saying it's what all people would do in my position, it's actually not. it seems like it's really rare and extreme what he's doing. >> i talked to a friend of mine very involved in real estate. there are a lot of things you have to look at when it comes to when you pay, how you pay depreciation schedules, many things. to pay $750, anderson, $750 -- >> and nothing for a couple years. that's important. >> i think it's almost better to pay nothing than to pay $750. and then to say you had deductions that included your ability to take care of your hair. i mean, i'm telling you t

scranton versus park avenue. he's right. but park avenue supports biden by a factor of 8 to 1 margin. right? and trump gets more money from scranton than park avenue. so that's a good fact check. i have to credit john carney. you know, the thing that he says, if we started a week earlier, we would have saved 30,000 weeks. why doesn't he say a week, two weeks, three weeks? do those lives not matter? or are we starting to get into deeper into the impeachment territory where we knew that we had completely missed this thing because the democrats are obsessed with impeachment? it's funny. he says that trump is responsible for all the deaths. he says that data backs him up. that's not true. joe has to be super careful because he's going to run out of room for future demonization. if he keeps making it bigger and bigger and bigger, maybe donald trump next week will be responsible for not all past deaths but future deaths. maybe he can take the responsibility for killing jesus or mlk. the dems have hit a limit on how evil they can po

joe biden on the campaign trail over the last couple of weeks really framing this race as scranton versus park avenue and this is something that this story that really lends itself to that narrative and i'm going to let one of the deputy campaign managers explain it. listen to kate benningfield on our air yesterday. >> meeting the obligation that every other working person in this country meets every year. with joe biden, you have somebody that has a completely different perspective on what it means to be a working family in this country. >> and jim, you mention that video that is online that the biden campaign turned around very quickly after the new reporting came out yesterday and in that video, it lays out the average tax bill for people like a teacher, a nurse, a firefighter, comparing that to, you know, thousands and thousands of dollars to trump's $750 alleged tax bill that he paid over the years. you can expect to hear more of this from the debate stage tomorrow. it is certainly a narrative, the biden campaign is eager to take hold of. they really want to keep driving home that point. and in

then launched into what we heard him talking about in the last several weeks which is this scranton versus park avenue of this race and what he means by that is that joe biden positions himself as being from scranton, understanding everyday americans, understanding what it's like to be worried about a job, worried about sending your kids to school during covid and worried about health care and that donald trump is only concerned about himself and those on wall street. so expect to hear a lot more from that, poppy, as they go to eastern ohio and western pennsylvania today. these are rural communities going after those white, working-class voters. >> notable, i thought that he made a point of saying there is hope, right? he said there's a lot of things to be hopeful about in this country to unite, a deliberate message from the vice president to turn to a more positive message post-debate? yeah. i mean, i think he certainly again, as poppy said i've been covering joe biden from 2019 and we heard that from him over and over again. he wants to return back -- he talks a lot about hope and he talks a lot abo

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we saw former vice president biden the last couple of weeks really lean in to this scranton versus park avenueessaging. he went after white working class voters in the upper midwest and that is something they've continued to come back to and this new reporting about president trump's taxes really feeds right into that message. we heard from his deputy campaign manager on our air last night, indicate bkate beddingfi this is about president trump looking out for himself, that vice president joe biden is looking out for all americans and you saw that messaging in the video online from the biden campaign where they really lean in to what the average american is paying in taxes, and what donald trump is paying in taxes, really creating that stark contrast again that scranton joe is looking out for the everyday american, while donald trump, the message they're trying to get across is looking out for himself, and his friends and billionaires and millionaires with his tax cuts. now, in a more general sense, we're expected to hear about that, but also the economy and the covid response. that is the iss

so tonight joe biden is going to make that case that this is really about scranton versus park avenue. perhaps trump doesn't understand folks in scranton, folks here in cleveland, ohio, folks in omaha, nebraska, folks down in raleigh, north carolina, where senator harris was just yesterday. he is going to squarely put the focus on those folks and how if joe biden is elected as president, he is going to hold those wealthy folks individual so they finally pay their fair share. >> the race has been fairly steady nationwide with joe biden up seven or eight percentage points. it's a little closer in ohio, pennsylvania, wisconsin, et cetera. how important is it that joe biden emerge from this debate having been perceived as having acquitted himself well? >> well, jake, actually, i really believe that this debate, nothing tonight is going to fundamentally change the course of this race. but what tonight is, is an opportunity to finally see joe biden and donald trump face to face. and hear them each articulate their vision for the american people. we've seen town halls. on our end socially di

heard him preview his pitch last night during our town hall when he talked about this being scranton versus park avenue's a theme that he brought here to minnesota today. take a listen. >> i view this campaign as between scranton and park avenue. all trump sees from park avenue is wall street. that's why the only metric of the american prosperity for him is the value of the dow jones. like a lot of you, i spent a lot of my life with guys like donald trump looking down on me. looking down on the people who make a living with their hands, people who take care of our kids, clean our streets. >> and he really drew that framing also used that framing, rather, as it relates to the coronavirus response. that joe biden said he really believes that the response to the covid pandemic should be for everyone in the country. if he was elected president, he would be focusing on how to make sure everyone can recover from it. he argues that donald trump, again, that park avenue mentality that joe biden is talking about, that he's describing, that donald trump is only focused on millionaires and billionaires and what t

speak to those, and with a bit more populist appeal you heard him yesterday compare this to scranton versus park avenuehat's the message that they think is going to work suedable voters which they believe there is, chuck. >> mike, speaking of travel, i was hearing some questions this morni morning. i was doing my own rounds of radio shows and things like that in arizona there was a lot of head scratching about where's joe biden. basically both arizona and nevada, you'll find democrats wishing the ticket was there more often what do you hear about the western travel of this ticket? >> reporter: well, chuck, a lot of the travel is being voted by the early voting calendar. in minnesota it gets to the early voting but we're starting to see the campaign get into a rhythm, two to three battleground states a week you're not going to see what the president is doing, but they're going to have a presence in all of these places. it may not be more than once the entire fall campaign to the chagrin of activists and local candidates on the ground. >> that's what i'm wondering he might hit everything once it might be

then also biden campaign aide saying last night on cnn that this further highlights the scranton versus park avenueast that joe biden himself has sought to make throughout this campaign. but once he gets on the debate stage, there has been so much talk about to fact check or not to fact check. for joe biden, he's going to have to find that middle ground, where he does fact check the president where appropriate, but also manages to put out his own kind of messaging on this. and so much about the last few days, hallie, has felt like a same, same, but different to 2016. i'm sure you feel this way too. we're going through the taxes news cycle once again, it will be litigated on a debate stage. but you also have donald trump trying to do to joe biden what he did to hillary clinton before they got on a debate stage, saying biden should take a drug test. that was unfounded when trump was saying it about clinton in 2016, it remains unfounded now. and so as we have seen this pattern re-emerging, it is a new cycle, but the same tactics. if that pattern holds true, we'll see contentious moments once we get to

the whole scranton versus park avenue lineup of discussion for joe biden parlays quite nicely with thatexpect them to take advantage of that. >> bill: something you and i and all of our colleagues have been asked on the street or in the office or whatever that may be in the neighborhood, they'll say, who do you think is going to win? and what i've been saying for a week is to keep it until wednesday and see how it turns out tuesday night. if joe biden comes out with an energy people don't expect that change things a little bit. if you have a significant gaffe on behalf of joe biden is going to be played repeatedly for days if not weeks. >> i think if you are in the trump campaign, you are better off if you say "we expect joe biden to win tonight." we've been hearing this from the president all week, you know, i do this job every day, and then they get in the room and it's them versus the other guy who has been preparing and preparing and preparing so it can be a bit of a challenge for an incumbent president, so for his camp they should hope that he's ready. >> bill: as far as with the m

as biden likes to say, this is scranton versus park avenue. that's a good, simple, populist case. he can make that argument that the system is stacked against working people in places like scranton and in favor of billionaires on park avenue or fifth avenue or wherever his stupid condo is. >> it's fifth avenue, and i don't know the intelligence level of the condo at all. but as a matter of fact, it is on fifth avenue. >> i'll take berman's bait and go with this line of. so, scott, what does president trump need to do tonight? >> well, i think a couple of things. like paul, i think a discussion on the economy is where -- that's the most fertile ground from which trump can fight. in order to do that, you have to be laser focused on pivoting to that every time. you can't get baited into going down every rabbit hole, where you wind up relitigating all of the things that wouldn't speak to the future of the country, right? litigating your taxes, litigating coronavirus in the past, which i suspect biden will try to do. so if you're trump, all of those topics, you have to turn it to a conv

this issue he presented last night for the first time as being about scranton versus park avenue, katymike memoli >> listen to me. i will win scranton. if we were losing scranton and lackawanna, so i got put on the ticket this is home i know these people. >> and that was biden last night after that town hall, speaking to the effect that he thinks as a democrat he has unique appeal that maybe others in the party wouldn't have had if they were in his position as the democratic nominee right now >> all right, shaq, so there is early voting going on in minnesota. tell me what you're seeing how many people have you seen show up today? is it unlike past election cycles >> katy, it's been a consistent trickle of voters. when we arrived this morning, polls arrived at 8:00 a.m., and there was a line of about ten people outside, all saying they were excited to go one person saying he wanted to come and vote against donald trump as quickly as he can another lady saying she was just stressed out about the whole election, so she was ready to pass it off. and have other people, in her words, deal wi

he's really been talking about the scranton versus park avenue dynamic in the debate which is a strong contrast. so you have remember your home base. i think where he can add to his strengths right now is some toughness. both in terms of being an advocate for the american people and showing some outrage at what donald trump has done whether it's the pandemic or demoberacy. when i say tough, i don't mean screaming, but if you can face down the bully when the bully is saying you're weak, senile, you probably have an ear piece in your ear, you've taken drugs and performs in -- he'll be competent tonight, but if he's also strong, in the ways that matter, i think he can really, again, firm up some of that support from swing voters that's really the reason he's leading this race. but also help the turnout. >> i am glad you brought up the how he should emotionally respond. it's funny you brought up something about, he shouldn't get angry. there's some nervousness that he can get angry if a hunter biden question. let me take the opposite approach. isn't there an upside to getting angry? >> i t

are stumping in minnesota today with biden, who is framing his campaign against trump as scranton versus park avenuehe case that he and not trump is your regular joe. >> in the middle of the pandemic, you're left to wonder as a consequence, ordinary folks, who's looking out for me? you know, that's been the entire story of donald trump's presidency and now in the midst of this unprecedented national crisis, trump has given up on even pretending to do his job if the president had just started one week earlier in march than he did, we'd have 36,000 more people sitting at the dinner table tonight >> joining me now is kurt bardella and maria hinojoso, author of "once i was you, a memoir of love and hate in a torn america." a really fabulous book but i'm going to kurt first on this you know, i thought joe biden was strong today i want to get your take on it because he's making a case between the town hall he did and what he did today of, look, i'm like you if you're just an average american i don't need to have an ivy league degree. i come from a working class family he's relatable this is what trump is.

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i also love the framing there, just looking at it politically, that it was scranton versus park avenue i haven't heard anything like that yet in this campaign, other than a lot of insults going back and forth. but sort of that definition, giving voters a real look at the fact that yes, you had one guy that was raised working class in scranton, pennsylvania, whose father was unemployed and they had to leave the town and were desperately looking for work and you had another guy that was, you know, born in network and basically inherited $400 million and it's quite a contrast that biden used last night. >> it was. and it was a new message from vice president biden something he rolled out at the town hall. he also went to the ivy league school thing, something president trump loves to brag about. saying who said you need to go to an ivy league school to be president of the united states he's flipped this and used this, which is donald trump the alleged man of the people, lives in a gold and mirrored penthouse on fifth avenue and flied around with his private jet with gold belt buckles that

he's going to be talking scranton versus park avenue.ing to be uses the taxes as a kick off. that'll be a kick off point for him. in terms of your question, i still have mitt romney's tire tracks on my back from the first presidential debate in 2012. presidents aren't used to having people six feet away from them in their grill being treated as an equal and firing at him. it is traditional to see presidents not perform well in the first debate. >> we are getting extraordinary behind the scenes look at how both candidates have been preparing after a quick break. [horns honking] ms. robinson: we're ready! ms. zamora: ¡estamos listos! ms. duncan: we're ready! ms. williams: we have missed you so much. ms. zamora: we're with you every step of the way. narrator: making our school buildings safer. ms. williams: no one wants to be back in the classroom more than teachers. mr. hardesty: but we all have to be safe. ms. robinson: we take great pride in making sure all of our students achieve. ms. duncan: remember to wear your mask. ms. robinson: wa

is not the case with joe biden and kamala harris and the mere fact is we talk about scranton versus fifth avenue or park avenue, this is about weak versus strong. joe biden being the weak candidate who is basically aligned himself with the far left socialist branch of his party and the president being a strong candidate, fighting for americans every day. connell: what about the supreme court though, this looming battle we'll have over the next however many months about the next supreme court justice? some of those areas you have to go back again to women voters in the suburbs, people by the numbers might be more likely to be moderate and or slightly to the left on social issues like abortion. so does the president have some risk there? i know he talked already today about five women he wants to consider for the supreme court. we assume they would all be quite conservative. is there some political risk in this back and forth over the next few months? >> sure. well first, we're mourning the loss of ruth bader ginsburg. she was a trailblazer, an amazing woman, someone an inspiration, i have five daughters

we heard from joe biden his campaign is about scranton versus park avenue. do you think that is going to play out? guest: i am not sure how well joe biden runs in the northeastern part of the state, which is where he was raised before the family relocated. on paper, he seems like the ideal candidate to bring back high schoold those educated, white, working-class voters. he is emblematic of them. that is an area where donald .rump did extremely well i do not sense that the people who voted for trump four years ago are ready to abandon him. if you handed me a map of , insylvania's 67 counties could caller shade it right now in terms of who wins where your it will be joe biden for sure in philadelphia, in the inner suburbs. it will be joe biden for sure out west and allegheny county. the rest of that map, including erie, my hunch is it is going to red.sea of the country at large, you could pretty much color-coded it as well. it will be read except urban areas and other outlying areas that are blue. what is unknown -- we know where the boats are coming from. wha

we saw joe biden last night during our cnn town hall really frame this race as scranton, his hometown, versus park avenuedent trump is not for the people, not for white working class voters, that he is more elite and that it's joe biden with his working class roots in scranton that can really understand what these working class voters need and how he can get the economy going again. take a look at where joe biden has been lately, michigan with car manufacturers and union workers there. scranton and now he's here in duluth just near the iron range here in the state of minnesota, john. we'll see if we hear more of that messaging from him today. we expect to. >> jessica dean live in minnesota. it is a beautiful little city. i'm jealous today. count me as jealous you are on the trail. thank you so much. >>> the death toll rising as wildfires continue to burn in the western united states. ♪ here? nah. ♪ here? nope. ♪ here. ♪ when the middle of nowhere... is somewhere. the all-new chevy trailblazer. ♪ >>> a sad and deadly reminder of how dangerous it is battling wildfires. california fire officials say a firef

we heard him at our town hall last night really defining this race as his scranton roots versus president trump's park avenuedo view this campaign as a campaign between scranton and park avenue and i really mean it because, you know, the way we were raised up here in this area, awful lot of hard working people busting their neck. all they asked for is a shot, just a shot. all that trump can see from park avenue is wall street. all he thinks is about the stock market. >> reporter: and pay attention, too, to where joe biden has been travel last week. he's been to scranton, pennsylvania laugh night and here in duluth, minnesota and went to michigan. he is taking that message of his working class roots to the small rural communities that he wants to talk to and really get the support of white working class voters, voters that may have gone to president trump last time. the biden campaign believes that joe biden is uniquely positions as middle class joe to really draw their support. he will be at a carpenter union hall today. he's brun talking to different unions, car manufacturers in michigan. we can expect more

from last night's cnn town hall when biden really started to frame this race as scranton his hometown versus park avenued he kind of talked a little bit about how he views donald trump as someone who's protecting wall street, that he as someone who's from scranton really, you know, leaning into this middle-class joe persona that he's had all these years is a person that understands white working class voters. those are places, scranton, michigan, here we are in minnesota, that's where those voters are. those are voters that the biden campaign wants to bring back that perhaps voted for donald trump in 2016. they think that this message will resonate and that that will matter when it comes to election day. brooke? >> speaking of messages resonating, we know that the biden campaign has spent a record amount of money on tv ads in battleground states as they are avoiding the door-to-door campaigning because of covid. what's the messaging there? 30 seconds. >> yeah. so you're hearing a lot of the same thing. we're hearing about his working-class roots. they just released a new one aimed at veterans and milita

scranton during his cnn town hall. they campaign slammed president trump for his tax cuts, claiming they benefited corporations and the superrich. >> joe biden sees this election as park avenue versuscranton. i want to be very, very clear about something. if you make under $400,000, if you are an individual who makes under $400,000, you will not pay a penny more in taxes when joe biden's president. >> the real clear politics average has biden in a pretty narrow lead over president trump in pennsylvania, around four points. president trump won the state by only 1% in 2016. >> bill: thank you, jackie, nice to see you. brand-new video shows the devastation from hurricane sally, the aftermath of that storm as we speak today. ag barr slamming the black lives matter movement and a lot more after that. geraldo and lee are on it and they react to it coming up next. ♪ ted. not by me, mate. something's not right. they're calling all the shots. what do you want? we've got to get him out. not a chance. the days of entebbe are long over. it's not his fault. this is terrorism. the world will see how guilty you are. i should go. we're not afraid to die. that's why we're going to win. what have yo

north carolina on the wings of big fundraising although he says this election is about park avenue versus scranton. 's fundraising isn't entirely grassroots. as of june, more than half of wall street donors, he got a serious lift last month from past republican donors in california. shannon: thank you. plenty of democrats are talking about court packing. kamala harris, directions from peter doocy as you saw, let's pick up right there. republican member john kennedy of louisiana, good to see you. i want to read something from the washington post, they are talking about the strategy the vice president has for previously during the primaries we heard him talk about the fact the court packing would not be a great idea. now used inuring saying i don't want to answer the question because it changes the subject and that's what the president wants me to do. some on biden epstein have been aggravated by calls on the left to extend the court. biden advises are reluctant to get in missed in a fight that could alienate centrist voters rather than weighing in on such ideas, less polarizing issues, a tough ques

claiming they benefited corporations and the superrich, saying joe biden sees this race as park avenue versus scrantonemphasizing americans earning less than $400,000 a year will not pay a penny more in taxes under a biden administration. senator kamala harris is targeting women and latinos in two events in philly today. this election, for the first time ever, hispanic and latino voters are the largest minority voting bloc, making up nearly 6% of pennsylvania's population and cell phone data is helping shape outreach. in 2017, democrats bought data for more than 100 million users and found a lot of puerto ricans in pennsylvania who fled after hurricane maria. >> we wanted to identify maria refugees. people who had been forced from the mainland. as you know, many people left with the shirt on their back and they're proud 787 area code. we hired bilingual cultural organizers in key parts of pennsylvania because we found almost 80,000 such cell phone numbers. >> puerto ricans cannot vote in presidential elections because it's a territory, but as residents of other states, they can. that would be the case

scranton with a message for the working class. his campaign slammed president trump for tax cuts claiming they benefit corporations and super-rich. that joe biden sees the race as park avenue versus scranton. americans paying less than $400,000 a year won't pay more taxes. this election for the first time ever hispanics and latinos are the largest minority voting block, making up nearly 8% of pennsylvania's population. sell phone data by the way is helping shape the campaign's outreach. in 2017 democrats bought data from 100 million users. they found a lot of puerto ricans here in pennsylvania who need after hurricane maria. listen. >> we wanted to identify maria refugees. people who were forced from the main land. as you know many people left with the shirt on their back and they're proud 787 area code. we hired bilingual, bicultural organizers in key parts of pennsylvania. we found almost 80,000 such cell phone numbers. reporter: harris' event is at non-profit. puerto ricans can't vote in presidential elections as a territory. in residents of other states they can. that will be a whole new variable in this 2020 election. connell: jacqui heinrich covering the biden campaign. mel

and when you hear park avenue versus scranton, to me that's scripted and indicative of something we're going to hear more. it was like a trial run for the debat debates, i think. >> no question. and i think you saw joe biden's twitter account tweet out. we should note for practical purposes, president trump actually lives on fifth avenue, but the words park avenue resonates more. but it's a contrast that the democrats regret not having drawn explicitly in 2016 was the idea that trump comes from privilege, he inherited his wealth, he has tried to remake his story, as if he was given what he calls a small loan of $1 million by his father. due to reporting in "the new york times," we know it was much bigger than that. and i think that joe biden is trying to seize that moment, because part of what people are going through right now is not just experience, they are experiencing a pandemic and the economic fallout from that pandemic. and that, i think, something that democrats, some of them would like to see joe biden doing more. >> i love the idea of a fact check. and i bet that the biden c

taxes, it does certainly play into what joe biden has been trying to get across, the whole park avenue versus scrantonhing. but there is some reporting on trump's taxes. i mean, it was out there in 2016. certainly, not to this degree but it was an issue. secretary clinton brought it up on the debate stage. and yet, it didn't seem to resonate. >> well, you know, i think he's now the president of the united states and when you're -- when you're the president of the united states, and you're paying $750 in federal income tax. and there are people out fighting wars for this country, when there are teachers who pay more than that in taxes, when there are frontline workers fighting the pandemic who are paying a lot more than that in taxes. then, it becomes less of a reality-tv show, you know, you can blow it off as saying, of course, i did. you know, that's -- i'm proud of the fact that i don't care about my country and i don't care about the people who are on the front lines fighting for their communities. i only care about myself. i think it has a different quality, in this moment and in this atmosphere.

last night when he threw out that line that he believes this is about scranton, his hometown, his working-class roots, versus park avenuewhich he kind of elaborated on today. you mentioned he talked about the tax proposals. he also talked about he wove it into covid as well. he found a way to talk about how he believes that covid response should be making sure that everyone is doing okay and that he thinks president trump is solely focused on wall street and the dow jones and what the stock market is doing and how those are two very different ways of looking at covid relief. he also talked about how he has a chip on his shoulder with guys that look down on him who were born into a lot of money, and he says squander them away making that reference there to president trump. but it's something, jake, that is a message very, very detailed and directed at white working-class voters here in minnesota and in some of the states we've seen him visit recently, michigan and pennsylvania as well. >> battleground states. back to our breaking news. without providing any scientific evidence, president trump moments ago declared that 1

scranton pennsylvania where he grew up and park avenue. he talked about guys who inherit their money and squander it versus the hard working people who grew up in the town that he came from and, you know, i think this was very deliberate. i think you're going to see more of that. it is an appeal to the white working class voters who are very much the core of trump support and biden is getting more of them than hillary clinton. he is trying to cement that support. and this is part of that effort. >> i want to play you a piece of sound from mike pence's former aide who was working with the coronavirus task force. i want sound bite number two in the control room. >> toward the middle of february, we knew it wasn't a matter of if covid would become a big pandemic here in the united states. it was a matter of when. but the president didn't want to hear that because his biggest concern was that we were in an election year and how is this going to affect what he considered to be his record of success? the truth is, he doesn't actually care about anyone else but himself. >> let's deal with just the premise of that. one, do you know troia and, two