Joe Biden after landing in Cleveland for the presidential debate.MIKE SEGAR / Reuters
In a coup for the high-tension debate that is expected this Tuesday night in Cleveland (Ohio), former Vice President Joe Biden published his last income statement hours before before going face-to-face with President Donald tonight. Trump, against the background of the scandalous revelations of
The New York Times
newspaper
that the president only paid the treasury in 2016 $ 750 each year.
The documents presented by the Democratic candidate show that he and his wife would have received a gross income of more than 944,000 dollars and paid almost 300,000 in income taxes in the fiscal year of 2019, according to information from various media outlets.
"The American people deserve transparency from their leaders and that is why today I posted my tax returns for the past 22 years," Biden said on Twitter.
The American people deserve transparency from their leaders, it's why as of today, I've released 22 years of my tax returns.
https://t.co/6fwL20fWeI
- Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 29, 2020
The Democratic candidate - to whom the polls smile - published 40 pages about his fiscal situation in the State of Delaware and Virginia.
In July 2019, Biden had already released his tax returns for 2016, 2017 and 2018.
The same maneuver has been performed by Biden's political partner, his
number two
on the
ticket
, Kamala Harris.
The one who could become the first woman -and African-American- vice president of the country published an income with her husband, Doug Emhoff, of just over three million dollars, which would have meant a tax outlay of more than 11.1 million .
After the bomb reported by the
Times
on Sunday night, a tycoon empire that does not seem to exist was exposed, many conflicts of interest when using the White House platform to obtain income in its dilapidated hotels and golf courses and a President who has profited tax from his bankruptcies and who owes more than $ 400 million in loans due in the next few years.
In a debate that can be dog-faced, Trump declared that he was “looking forward” to it, before heading to Cleveland, Ohio, one of the
swing states
or pendular
states
that change their preference from one election to another and that Trump managed to win in 2016.
In 2020, Biden leads the polls in this State, as well as the averages at the national level, according to the compiled by RealClearPolitics that give him an advantage of 49.7% compared to 42.9% of the president.
Trump hopes to have a good night, or benefit from a serious mistake by his Democratic opponent, to rebound in the polls.
A new
Washington Post-ABC News
poll
released Tuesday anticipates a sweeping defeat for the president in Pennsylvania, where he won in 2016.
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