Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/obama-mccain-exchange-jabs-on-economic-plans Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript As Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama stump through battleground states, their remaining efforts to shore up votes include exchanging jabs on economic policy and readiness for the presidency. Kwame Holman reports on the latest campaign developments. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. RAY SUAREZ: The candidates campaign in the battleground states of Pennsylvania and Florida. NewsHour correspondent Kwame Holman reports. KWAME HOLMAN: Republican nominee John McCain kicked off a three-stop tour of Pennsylvania today with a rally in Bensalem, near Philadelphia.SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), Arizona: My friends, it's great to be here in Pennsylvania. We need to win in Pennsylvania on November the 4th. And with your help — with your help, we're going to win. KWAME HOLMAN: McCain sought to bring the focus of the campaign back to national security by raising comments made by Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden over the weekend.At a Seattle fundraiser on Sunday, Biden said, "Mark my words: It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama, like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember, I said it standing here. If you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis to test the mettle of this guy."McCain seized on those remarks to support his case that Obama isn't ready to be president.