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                                                                                            August 16, 2016
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On the Trail

Vice President Joe Biden, right, delivers remarks during an appearance with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, left, at a campaign event in Scranton,

Pa., Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. 										                                                      (Christopher Dolan/The Times & Tribune via AP)

Biden: Trump is ‘thoroughly unqualified’ for presidency 

KEN THOMAS                   be president, calling him      most-contested battle-          danger into an already un-     stand,” he said.
Associated Press             a dangerous voice on na-       ground states between           stable world. Offering him-    And he cited Clinton’s
SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) —         tional security and foreign    Clinton and Trump, who          self as a character witness    gender as a powerful as-
Vice President Joe Biden     policy. On the economy,        are both vying for white        for Clinton, Biden portrayed   set, saying electing the first
assailed Donald Trump’s      he said, Trump’s reveling in   working-class voters here.      the former secretary of        female president would
ability to lead America      his TV reality show tag-line,  Even as polls show her          state as the most qualified    change the lives of Ameri-
at home and abroad on        “You’re fired,” showed his     leading Trump, Clinton has      person to lead the coun-       can women and girls.
Monday, branding him as      true colors. “He’s trying to   faced lingering questions       try, singling out her foreign  “Hillary Clinton is going to
indifferent to the needs of  tell  us  he cares about the   about her trustworthiness       policy experience and pas-     write the next chapter in
Americans in his first cam-  middle class? Give me a        in the fallout of her use of a  sion for improving people’s    American history,” he said.
paign appearance with        break. It’s such a bunch       private email server as sec-    lives. He cited his long his-  Introducing Biden, Clin-
Democratic nominee Hill-     of malarkey,” Biden told       retary of state and over her    tory with Clinton, saying      ton sought to sow doubts
ary Clinton.                 a crowd of about 3,000 at      family’s sprawling founda-      he’s known her for three       about Trump’s ability to
Biden, who decided not       Riverfront Sports, adding:     tion. She has tried to make     decades, since before she      bring jobs back to blue-col-
to make a third presiden-    “He doesn’t have a clue.”      the case that working-class     was first lady in the 1990s.   lar communities like Scran-
tial bid last year, said in  Pennsylvania has not sup-      voters would fare better        “Hillary has forgotten more    ton, where Biden lived for
his native city of Scranton  ported a Republican in a       under her economic poli-        about American foreign         the first decade of his life
that Trump was “totally,     presidential election since    cies than Trump’s and that      policy then Trump and his      before moving to Dela-
thoroughly unqualified” to   1988, but is among the         her opponent would inject       entire team will ever under-   ware. q