{"id":86737,"date":"2020-10-11T04:14:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T01:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/joe-biden-backs-fracking-to-woo-pennsylvanias-blue-collar-voters\/"},"modified":"2020-10-11T04:14:50","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T01:14:50","slug":"joe-biden-backs-fracking-to-woo-pennsylvanias-blue-collar-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/joe-biden-backs-fracking-to-woo-pennsylvanias-blue-collar-voters\/","title":{"rendered":"#Joe Biden backs fracking to woo Pennsylvania&#8217;s blue-collar voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Joe Biden backs fracking to woo Pennsylvania&#8217;s blue-collar voters<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/biden-erie-fracking.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Joe Biden deepened the rift within the Democratic Party Saturday with an emphatic embrace of Pennsylvania\u2019s energy industry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not, not, not banning fracking, period,\u201d he <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VcXhlvXtxNs\">assured union members<\/a> at a plumbers\u2019 training facility in Erie, Pa., a crucial swing county in the battleground state.<\/p>\n<p>Hydraulic fracking of oil and natural gas has fueled a job boom in the Keystone State \u2014 but is despised by proponents of the Green New Deal.<\/p>\n<p>Both Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, said repeatedly during their primary campaigns that they hoped to do away with the extraction method. But they have said otherwise in recent weeks \u2014 earning disdain from other Dems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFracking is bad, actually,\u201d Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) tweeted Thursday, after Harris said Biden does not support a fracking ban.<\/p>\n<p>In Erie, Biden delivered an 18-minute speech to about 30 locals \u2014 all seated in <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social<\/a>ly distanced circles \u2014 in a parking lot that featured a rack of copper and PVC pipes as a backdrop.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden campaigns in Erie, Pennsylvania\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VcXhlvXtxNs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>His speech sought to win back the blue-collar votes whose votes helped deliver Pennsylvania to President Trump in 2016 by a 44,000-vote margin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only power we have is union power,\u201d he told them. \u201cYou\u2019re the guys who keep the barbarians on the other side of the gate from taking everything, and that\u2019s a fact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Biden also raised the alarming specter of election-day violence with an eyebrow-raising comment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe only way we lose this is by the chicanery going on with regard to polling places,\u201d Biden said \u2014 claiming Trump is \u201ctrying to put people in polling places, the same guys you saw standing blocking polling places in Virginia, with banners and rifles slung across their shoulders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Later, he<a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeneps\/status\/1315061176594817024\"> tried to walk the thought back<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to accept the outcome of this election period,\u201d Biden told reporters. \u201cWhat I was referencing is the attempts that are made to try to influence and scare people from voting.\u201d\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/10\/joe-biden-backs-fracking-to-woo-pennsylvanias-blue-collar-voters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Joe Biden backs fracking to woo Pennsylvania&#8217;s blue-collar voters&#8221; Joe Biden deepened the rift within the Democratic Party Saturday with an emphatic embrace of Pennsylvania\u2019s energy industry. \u201cI am not, not, not banning fracking, period,\u201d he assured union members at a plumbers\u2019 training facility in Erie, Pa., a crucial swing county in the battleground state&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/10\/biden-erie-fracking.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1024","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[75227,70327,71429,991,71104],"class_list":["post-86737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-10-10-20","tag-2020-presidential-election","tag-fracking","tag-joe-biden","tag-pennsylvania"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}