All aboard the "Biden Express."
Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, embarked on a train tour of Ohio and Pennslvania Wednesday after the chaotic first presidential debate.
Dubbed the "Build Back Better Express," the tour began in in Cleveland, Ohio, and will make multiple stops. Along the way, the former Vice President will "highlight how he will build our economy back better for working families," according to a release from the Biden campaign.
"He doesn't pay his fair share in taxes. He says that makes him smart," Biden said of Trump, slamming the president based on a report from the New York Times saying that Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House and paid no federal income taxes in 10 of the past 15 years.
"What does that make ... millions of other hardworking Americans, decent people who pay our taxes," Biden asked at the tour's kick-off event in Cleveland. "Are we the suckers? Are we stupid because we go by the rules?"
“Does your President understand at all what you’re going through?", Biden continued. "I think he basically looks down on us."
The train tour will make the following stops:
- Alliance, Ohio
- Pittsburgh, Penn.
- Greensburg, Penn.
- Latrobe, Penn.
Additionally, Biden will attend an event in New Alexandria, Pennsylvania, before the tour concludes at a drive-in event in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, where the Bidens will deliver remarks.
Biden is a known train enthusiast, estimating that he has made 8,000 round trips on Amtrak between Washington, D.C. and Wilmington, Del. over the years. Biden began making the Amtrak commute every day shortly after becoming a Senator in 1972, after his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident, so he could be home to take care of his two sons Hunter and Beau.
Over the decades, Biden famously became friends with Amtrak employees and passengers, and became a fierce advocate for the country's railway system, including facilitating a $2.45 billion federal loan to help Amtrak fix its aging infrastructure and buy new trains.
Biden and then-President-elect Obama rode Amtrak to Obama's inauguration in 2009, and Biden rode the train back to Delaware from Washington after the inauguration of President Trump.
This is not Biden's first train-related campaign event.
The "Biden Express" carried the then-Senator and his family from Delaware to Washington, D.C. after Biden announced his candidacy for president in 1987.
In 2011, the Wilmington Amtrak station was renamed "Joseph R. Biden, Jr., Railroad Station."