“The Amtrak that Joe Biden loves can be largely gone by Inauguration Day,” said John Robert Smith, a former board chairman of Amtrak. But Matt Hill, a spokesman for the campaign, said that Mr. Biden had been “a loyal Amtrak rider and advocate for its workers throughout his entire career.”“A President Biden will step up for Amtrak’s workers,” Mr. Hill said. In 1972, one month before Mr. Biden was sworn in as a senator from Delaware, his first wife and infant daughter died in a car crash. In 1987, Mr. Biden kicked off his first presidential bid from the back of an Amtrak train. Last month, the day after his first debate with President Trump, Mr. Biden chartered an Amtrak train to talk with voters in Ohio and Pennsylvania on his “Build Back Better Express” tour.

Source: New York Times October 24, 2020 15:43 UTC