A man who's known Joe Biden since the 1960s says President Donald Trump "lies" about the Democratic Presidential nominee.
Biden spent Sunday (local time) campaigning in his hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Jimmy Connors, who is also the city's former mayor, said the presidential nominee always came back to visit. Biden moved away with his family when he was 10 years old.
"He would come home to visit his friends and to go back to the places where he grew up: the candy store, the hoagie shop, the Little League where he played. His father helped build the Little League," he said.
Biden's connection to his hometown is contentious because President Donald Trump accuses him of deserting Scranton.
"He likes to throw around the Pennsylvania thing. Look at it differently - he abandoned Pennsylvania," Trump said.
Connors believes Trump is telling lies.
"He lies about Scranton, he lies about Joe, he lies about everything."
He said the truth is that Biden is a fighter by beating adversity and tragedy, like the car crash that killed his first wife and baby daughter in 1972.
"What did he do? He picked himself up like his father taught him. He said 'Joe, if you get knocked down, you pick yourself up and you, you be a man'. And that's what we were taught here in Scranton," Connors said.
Now at 77 years old, Biden could've given up but Connors said he "had a calling".
"He was called, 'Joe, you are not finished, you are not finished yet. Your people need you'. And so he picked himself up, and he got back in the game, and he's here, and he's going to be the President of the United States," he said.
"It's our time, it's our time, it's not the time for Donald Trump. He is a taker, Joe Biden is a giver."
The latest polls show it's a tight race in Pennsylvania between Biden and Trump, with one showing Biden ahead by just 5.1 points.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/president-general/pennsylvania/
Trump won the state in the 2016 election.
Biden campaigned in Pennsylvania on Sunday in a bid to bring the presidency home.
"President Trump is terrified of what will happen in Pennsylvania," Biden told the crowd.
"He knows the people of Pennsylvania get to have their say. If you have your say, he doesn't stand a chance."
If he takes the presidency, then Biden will really put his hometown on the map.
