{"id":241230,"date":"2020-10-27T00:05:56","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T00:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-continues-to-hammer-biden-on-fracking-stance-during-pa-rallies.html"},"modified":"2020-10-27T00:05:56","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T00:05:56","slug":"trump-continues-to-hammer-biden-on-fracking-stance-during-pa-rallies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/trump-continues-to-hammer-biden-on-fracking-stance-during-pa-rallies.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump continues to hammer Biden on fracking stance during PA rallies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wordpressdynamos.com\/timesofnewscdn\/USA\/52e71_image.jpg\" alt=\"Trump barnstorms in Pennsylvania; holds 3 rallies in Keystone State\" \/><span class=\"overlay\">Video<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Trump barnstorms in Pennsylvania; holds 3 rallies in Keystone State<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports from Martinsburg, Pa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\"><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">President Trump<\/a> reiterated his claim that Democratic nominee <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">Joe Biden\u2019s<\/a> stance on fracking and the oil industry would cripple Pennsylvania\u2019s economy during the last of his three campaign rallies in the key battleground state on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Trump centered his attack on Biden\u2019s remarks at last week\u2019s presidential debate. He told a crowd of supporters in Martinsburg that the former vice president \u201creally blew it\u201d when he announced his intention to \u201ctransition\u201d from the oil industry toward cleaner energy options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat means no fracking, no natural gas, no coal, no jobs, no energy, no Pennsylvania families being well taken care of,\u201d Trump said at Altoona-Blair County Airport. \u201cFracking is saving Pennsylvania families $2,500 a year, at least. It\u2019s saving families all over the country. We are energy independent and you\u2019re a big part of it \u2013 and they want to end that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">BIDEN PUSHES BACK ON TRUMP&#8217;S ATTACKS IN PENNSYLVANIA: &#8216;I&#8217;M NOT ELIMINATING FRACKING&#8217;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The president delivered <a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">nearly identical remarks<\/a> at an earlier event in Allentown, telling the crowd that Biden had &#8220;confirmed his plan to abolish the entire U.S. oil industry.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Pennsylvania is a key swing state in the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p>Biden has faced bipartisan scrutiny over his energy policy since the debate, when he said the oil industry \u201cpollutes significantly\u201d and \u201chas to be replaced by renewable energy over time.\u201d Trump seized on his remarks and asked voters in Pennsylvania and other states that would be impacted to \u201cremember\u201d what Biden said when they cast their ballots.<\/p>\n<p>Later, Biden clarified that his plan did not call for \u201cgetting rid of fossil fuels for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"javascript:void(0);\">THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION COMES DOWN TO THESE 9 STATES<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump has claimed for months that Biden would seek to ban fracking, which is practiced in Pennsylvania and other swing states, if he is elected to office. Biden has repeatedly rejected the claim and said he would only push for an end to new oil and gas permits on federal land, but would not call for a revocation of existing permits.<\/p>\n<p>Article source: http:\/\/feeds.foxnews.com\/~r\/foxnews\/politics\/~3\/PSS5girTwOw\/trump-biden-fracking-oil-pennsylvania-economy<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Trump barnstorms in Pennsylvania; holds 3 rallies in Keystone State Fox News chief White House correspondent John Roberts reports from Martinsburg, Pa. President Trump reiterated his claim that Democratic nominee Joe Biden\u2019s stance on fracking and the oil industry would cripple Pennsylvania\u2019s economy during the last of his three campaign rallies in the key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":241231,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-241230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}