美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)周三抨击了竞争对手唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)，抨击这位前总统对北美建筑工会(Building Trades Union)的支持表示欢迎。
“你是世界上最棒的，”拜登在华盛顿特区的NABTU立法会议上发表讲话时说，“你知道，2020年你支持我，因为你，我现在站在这里成为美利坚合众国的总统。…因为你，2024年我们将让唐纳德·特朗普再次成为失败者!你准备好了吗?”
“所以，要么是斯克兰顿价值观，要么是马拉拉戈价值观，”拜登接着说，在重复一个经济论点时，他将自己的背景和特朗普的背景进行了对比在宾夕法尼亚州竞选期间上周。"这些是此次选举核心的相互竞争的经济愿景。"
尽管调查发现，民调显示，经济问题是许多选民最关心的问题，预计这将是一场势均力敌的竞选特朗普比拜登获得更多好评在经济上。
总统加倍了他与特朗普的分歧他在周三的演讲中表示，工人阶级选民可能熟悉拜登认为特朗普代表的那种精英。
更多:特朗普和拜登之间的潜在竞争可能取决于经济。以下是他们的计划不同之处。
拜登说:“伙计们，选择很清楚:唐纳德·特朗普对美国的愿景是复仇和报复，一位被击败的前总统从Mar-a-Lago看世界，向亿万富翁低头，瞧不起美国工会工人。”
拜登说:“想想那些和你一起长大的家伙，你想把他们逼到角落里，给他们一个左直拳。”“我不是建议我们打总统。”
拜登在高通胀和生活成本问题上受到特朗普和共和党人的抨击，他表示，特朗普在担任总统时多次承诺将重点放在所谓的基础设施周上，但与拜登白宫成功推动新的基础设施投资相比，四年来“他从未建造过任何该死的东西”。
拜登还抨击了他的前任特朗普作为商人对待承包商的所谓待遇:“他没有遵守诺言。”
“这家伙从未穿着工人的靴子工作过一天，”他在谈到特朗普时说。
拜登还讽刺性地抨击了特朗普发表古怪言论的历史-扭转了特朗普对拜登自己众所周知的失言和错误言论习惯的频繁攻击。
“唐纳德·特朗普仍然认为风车会导致癌症拜登笑着画了个十字说道。他是这么说的。顺便说一句，还记得他试图对付冠状病毒肺炎时，他建议道在你的血管里注射一点漂白剂?他错过了-都跑到他的头发里去了。听着，我不该那么说。"
然而，在另一个时刻，拜登显然大声念出了演讲期间“暂停”的舞台指示，想必是为了获得掌声。这对总统来说是一个熟悉的错误，他在阅读时看起来有点困惑，然后在他似乎意识到自己的错误时露出了笑容。
在观众席上，许多成员穿着写有“乔一往无前”的t恤，上面画着总统戴着他标志性的飞行员太阳镜。
NABTU总统肖恩·麦加维在周三宣布工会支持拜登的声明中赞扬了拜登增加了支持拜登的劳工团体名单.
NABTU还在2020年大选中支持拜登而不是川普。特朗普得到了其他一些高调工会的支持，包括代表边境巡逻人员和警察的工会。
麦加维在声明中说:“乔·拜登已被证明是在这个国家的完美时间和建设这个国家的劳动人民的完美领导人。”
他说，号称拥有300万会员的工会联盟NABTU计划动员其成员在秋季投票给拜登。
Biden needles Trump over his hair and 'Mar-a-Lago values' as he addresses unionPresident Joe
Biden on Wednesday needled rival Donald Trump, laying into the former president as he welcomed the North America's Building Trades Union's endorsement.
"You're the best in the world," Biden said while addressing the NABTU's legislative conference in Washington, D.C. "You know, you had my back in 2020 and because of you, I'm standing here as president of the United States of America. … Because of you, in 2024 we're going to make Donald Trump a loser again! Are you ready?"
"So, it's either Scranton values or Mar-a-Lago values," Biden went on to say, drawing a contrast between his background and Trump's as he repeated an economic argument rolled outduring campaign stops in Pennsylvanialast week. "These are competing visions of the economy at the heart of this election."
Polling shows that economic issues are top of mind for many voters in what is expected to be a close race, though surveys have foundTrump getting more favorable marks than Bidenon the economy.
The presidentdoubled down on his differences with Trumplater in his speech on Wednesday and said working-class voters are probably familiar with the kind of elites that Biden argued Trump represents.
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"Folks, the choice is clear: Donald Trump's vision of America is one of revenge and retribution, a defeated former president who sees the world from Mar-a-Lago and bows down to billionaires, who looks down on American union workers," Biden said.
"Think about the guys you grew up with [that] you'd like to get into the corner and just give them a straight left," Biden said. "I'm not suggesting we hit the president."
Biden -- who has been hammered by Trump and Republicans over high inflation and cost of living issues -- said Trump repeatedly promised to focus on so-called infrastructure week when he was president but in four years "he never built a damn thing," compared with the Biden White House's successful push for new infrastructure investment.
Biden also slammed his predecessor for Trump's alleged treatment, as a businessman, of contractors: "He didn't keep his word."
"The guy has never worked a day in working man's boots," he said of Trump.
Biden also sarcastically took shots at Trump's history of outlandish comments -- reversing a frequent attack from Trump on Biden's own well-known habit of verbal gaffes and misstatements.
"Donald Trump stillthinks windmills cause cancer," Biden said to laughter as he made the sign of the cross. "That's what he said. And by the way, remember when he was trying to deal with COVID, he suggestedjust inject a little bleach in your veins? He missed it -- it all went to his hair. Look, I shouldn't have said that."
During one other moment, however, Biden apparently read aloud a stage direction to "pause" during his speech, presumably for applause. It was a familiar slip for the president, who looked momentarily confused while reading it before giving a large smile when he seemingly realized his mistake.
In the audience, many members wore T-shirts that read "Joe walks the line," with a depiction of the president wearing his signature aviator sunglasses.
NABTU President Sean McGarvey praised Biden in a statement on Wednesday announcing the union's endorsement, whichadds to the list of labor groups backing Biden.
NABTU also endorsed Biden over Trump in the 2020 election. Trump has been supported by some other high-profile unions, including those representing Border Patrol agents and police.
"Joe Biden has proven to be the perfect leader at the perfect time for this country and the working men and women who have built it," McGarvey said in his statement.
He said NABTU, a coalition of unions that boasts 3 million members, plans to mobilize its members to vote for Biden in the fall.
