Friday, 04 Sep 2020 06:48 PM MYT
WASHINGTON, Sept 4 — Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is set to criticise President Donald Trump’s stewardship of the coronavirus-ravaged economy today as both campaigns kick into high gear with less than two months to go to the November 3 US election. Trump has seized upon the monthly reports as evidence that the recovery has been a dramatic one. But last month’s report showed some slowdown in employment growth, as the United States added 1.8 million jobs in July after a record-smashing June when the nation posted 4.8 million. The unemployment rate fell to 10.2 per cent.Biden will deliver remarks from his home base of Wilmington, Delaware, after his busiest campaign week in months. Trump has no public events planned.
Biden travelled to Pittsburgh and Kenosha, Wisconsin, both in battleground states that help decide the election, to address the ongoing and sometimes violent protests over racial injustice and police brutality.