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Fact-checking Trump’s frequent claim that Joe Biden ‘abandoned Scranton’

Our research shows that Biden maintained close personal relationships and professional ties to Scranton in the more than six decades since he left his childhood home.

Joe Biden's childhood friend Jimmy Kennedy chartered a bus to Wilmington with other Biden supporters from Scranton in 1988 when Biden launched his first bid for the presidency. A Times-Tribune photographer captured him holding a banner at the campaign kickoff in Wilmington that read, “Scranton, Pa. Claims Biden.”
Joe Biden's childhood friend Jimmy Kennedy chartered a bus to Wilmington with other Biden supporters from Scranton in 1988 when Biden launched his first bid for the presidency. A Times-Tribune photographer captured him holding a banner at the campaign kickoff in Wilmington that read, “Scranton, Pa. Claims Biden.”Read moreCourtesy of The Scranton Times-Tribune
    by Jessica Calefati
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