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Democrat Joe Biden is talking to voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania as he takes a train tour of those states a day after his debate clash with President Donald Trump
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Democrat Joe Biden is talking to voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania as he takes a train tour of those states a day after his debate clash with President Donald Trump
At a stop in Alliance, Ohio, Biden pledged that if he wins the Nov. 3 election, "I’m not going to be the Democrat president. I’m going to be the American president.”
Biden said the debate and the election itself are about the American people.
And he's posing this question: “Does your president have any idea, understand what you’re going through and if he does, does he care about it?”
Biden says his train tour will take him to places “that are hurting."
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HERE’S WHAT ELSE IS HAPPENING:
12:45 p.m.
After their first debate-stage clash, President Donald Trump and Democrat Joe Biden are pressing their contrasting messages in the Midwest as millions of voters cast early ballots.
Biden is heading into his most aggressive day on the campaign trail all year, with eight stops planned for a train tour that began midmorning in Cleveland and is scheduled to end Wednesday night in western Pennsylvania.
Trump plans to address voters and donors in Minnesota later in the day.
Both men candidates have been active on social media early, seizing on the turbulent debate to try to score political points.