Biden celebrates biggest boost since NOVEMBER with trip to childhood home while Trump is stuck in court: Joe, 81, heads to Scranton and continues to campaign as his rival watches jurors sent home

President Joe Biden this week saw his highest approval rating since November as he prepares to campaign in his hometown while rival Donald Trump is stuck in a New York courtroom.

A new poll from Financial Times and the University of Michigan found Biden’s approval rating at 43 percent, up 4 points from the same poll in March. The last time Biden’s approval rating was this high was November.

In another positive sign for the president, the poll also found that 41 percent of registered voters approved of his handling of the economy, up 5 points from March.

On Tuesday, Biden, 81, will be in his hometown of Scranton, where he will present his plan to raise taxes on the wealthy.

The president is spending three days in the state that are crucial to his re-election bid.

While emphasizing his blue-collar roots, Biden will reiterate his argument that Trump, a billionaire, only wants to help the wealthy.

“You have Joe Biden, a candidate who sees the world from the kitchen table where he grew up in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Donald Trump, who sees the world from his country club down at Mar-a-Lago,” Michael Tyler said. Biden campaign communications director.

Biden consistently paints himself as ‘Scranton Joe’ and talks about his family’s financial struggles that led them to move to Wilmington, Del., when Biden was a child.

In Scranton, he will talk about his plan to expand the child tax credit, introduce a tax credit for first-time homebuyers and make permanent tax credits for those who buy health insurance under the Affordable Care Act.

His message on Tuesday will focus on troubled times, as the Financial Times poll showed news for Biden on that front. Poll found higher prices for food and gas weigh on voters. Nearly four in five voters cited inflation among their biggest sources of financial stress.

Biden will tell voters billionaires have to pay more in taxes.

His ‘address will drive home a simple question: Do you think the tax code should work for rich people or for the middle class?’ Biden’s campaign said in a statement.

‘The president has made it clear what he thinks the answer is, and so has Donald Trump.’

The president will spend Tuesday night in Scranton and then head to Pittsburgh on Wednesday morning, where he will make an official speech at United Steelworkers headquarters.

He then returns to the White House, only to turn around and return to Pennsylvania on Thursday, this time visiting Philadelphia.

These later stops include fundraisers for his re-election campaign.

Biden’s campaign swing comes as Trump spends much of the next month or two in a Manhattan courtroom facing criminal charges linked to a hush money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels.

Biden’s team is working to contrast the image of Biden campaigning and continuing as president while Trump battles legal charges.

The incumbent president’s team said they were not concerned about the lawsuit.

“No matter where Donald Trump is, whether it’s in Mar-a-Lago or a courtroom or anywhere else, he’s going to be focused on himself, his toxic agenda, his campaign of revenge and retribution,” Tyler said. “It will be a continuation of the contrast that the American people have been able to see since this campaign began.”

Joe Biden in front of his childhood home in Scranton during the 2020 presidential campaign

Donald Trump is stuck for a week in a New York courtroom

Biden and Trump are essentially tied in Pennsylvania, according to RealClearPolitics voting average.

Trump, 77, won the state from Democrats in the 2016 election, which helped put him in the White House. But Biden took it back in the 2020 contest, though he won by just a single point.

Every candidate needs the state if he wants to return to the White House next year.

The former president attends jury selection in his Manhattan trial. Prosecutors are scrambling to find a jury pool they say can be impartial.

Trump was last in the state on Saturday when he held a rally in Schnecksville. The former president’s campaign has been limited to weekends as he fights criminal charges in New York.