Biden pushes plan to lower rents, blasts Trump in Nevada
By Jeff Mason
LAS VEGAS (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden highlighted his plans to lower housing costs during stops in Nevada on Tuesday, taking aim at high rental costs and blasting former President Donald Trump for threatening to «undo everything we've done.»
«We need housing that's affordable,» Biden said in Las Vegas. «For too many people, the dream of having a home — it feels out of reach.»
Speaking in Reno earlier, Biden said he was confident he would beat Trump, his Republican rival, in November's presidential election rematch. The Democrat later on Tuesday continues on to Arizona, another battleground state that could prove crucial to his bid to stay in the White House.
«Support around the country is real,» Biden said in a stop at a campaign headquarters in Reno, noting that over 1.3 million people had contributed to his campaign. «We're going to beat him again,» said the president.
Biden has been making stops in a host of battleground states since sharply criticizing Trump in his State of the Union address this month, while laying out ideas he hopes to implement if given a second, four-year term.
With worries about high rents and mortgage interest rates contributing to voters' sour views about the economy, Biden said his administration was expanding clean energy jobs, lowering healthcare costs and growing the economy.
White House officials, meanwhile, blamed Trump's administration for not taking enough action on housing costs.
For his part, Trump has lambasted Biden for his economic policies and for presiding over inflation in multiple sectors of the economy, which has stung voters nationwide. Trump has proposed carving new «freedom cities» out of federal land, partly to provide new housing options.
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