Joe Biden Attacks Republicans For Hurting America’s Middle Class

Vice President Joe Biden didn’t hold back Thursday in a speech attacking Republican lawmakers for holding back middle-class growth. “This is not your father’s Republican Party,” he said multiple times, hitting both Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) for abandoning the party’s principles and championing policies that hurt America’s middle class.

Biden, who often refers to himself as “middle-class Joe,” spoke at an event near the White House hosted by the Center for American Progress (ThinkProgress is an editorially independent project of the Center for American Progress). CAP also released a report Thursday titled “Raising Wages and Rebuilding Wealth: A Roadmap for Middle-Class Economic Security,” which finds that while middle-class incomes have rebounded to pre-recession levels, middle-class wealth has floundered....
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