Biden hits Trump on economy and response to pandemic

dressing a plumbers' union in his native Pennsylvania, U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden on Saturday slammed President Donald Trump's pandemic response and promised more jobs, funded by higher taxes on wealthy.

"We lose anywhere from 700 to a 1,000 people a day, de," said Biden, dressing United Association labor union. "More than 7.5 million Americans have been infected and counting ... 175,000 cases right here in Pennsylvania."

Biden said his Build Back Better plan would create "18.6 million jobs" in four years, funded by raised taxes.

"I'm t going to raise taxes on anybody making less than 400 grand. But you won't pay a penny more," he said.

"Ninety-one of Fortune 500 companies today pay zero tax. ... (Billionaires are) paying a lower tax rate than you pay if you have a job as a plumber."

Trump won narrowly won Pennyslvania in 2016.

Erie, where Biden was speaking, is in one of most populous counties nationally that flipped to Republican Donald Trump in 2016.

Trump won county by about 1.5 percent points.

Democratic President Barack Obama won Erie County by 20 points and 16 points in his two national victories.

Erie will be especially critical for Biden as he focuses on winning more white voters beyond state’s Democratic core in Philelphia and its suburbs.

It’s Biden’s seventh trip to state since start of September.