Trump Seizes On Biden Oil Comment to Warn Swing State Voters
- Candidate calls for phaseout of fossil fuels over time
- Trump seizes on remark and warns Pennsylvania about job losses
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President Donald Trump seized on Joe Biden’s pledge Thursday to eventually replace fossil fuels with renewable energy, turning the Democratic nominee’s remarks into a warning for swing state voters that oil and gas jobs could be at risk.
Biden’s comment came in response to a question from Trump during Thursday’s debate in Nashville about whether he would shut down the oil industry. The former vice president, in one of his starkest comments of the campaign on the issue, said “I would transition from the oil industry, yes.”