Trump attacks Biden for appealing to families after answer on China
Trump and Biden took questions on how to deal with China more broadly amid transparency concerns with the Chinese government. After Biden said he would make China “play by the international rules,” Trump touted $28 billion in subsidies given to farmers during his administration affected by the U.S.-China trade war.
“First of all, China is paying. They're paying billions and billions of dollars. I just gave $28 billion to our farmers,” Trump said, before Biden interrupted, “That’s taxpayers' money.”
Given a chance to respond, Biden turned to families at home.
“There's a reason why he's bringing up all this malarkey. There's a reason for it. He doesn't want to talk about the substantive issues. It's not about his family and my family. It's about your family and your family is hurting badly,” Biden said.
“Are we going to be able to pay the mortgage? Who's going to tell her she can't go back to community college? They're the decisions you're making in the middle-class families like I grew up in Scranton and Claymont. They're in trouble. We should be talking about your families, but that's the last thing he wants to talk about,” Biden added.
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Trump scoffed at Biden's answers and took the chance to define himself as not another “typical politician.”
“That is a typical statement,” Trump responded. “That's a typical political statement. Let's get off this China thing. He looks at the family around the table, just a typical politician. I'm not a typical politician. That's why I got elected. Let's get off the subject of China. Let's talk around sitting around the table. Come on, Joe. You can do better.”