Eliza Collins

USA TODAY

The vice president tore into Donald Trump on Monday during a rally for Hillary Clinton in Scranton, Pa. calling his ideas “dangerous” and “un-American.”

Joe Biden was speaking in his hometown — on his first campaign stop with Hillary Clinton — where he made a passionate pitch to working class voters and tore into the Republican nominee on foreign policy.

“No major party nominee in the history of the United States of America…has known less or been less prepared to deal with our national security than Donald Trump,” Biden said after citing his years of experience working with presidents, members of Congress, secretaries of State and Defense of both parties.

Biden brought up Trump’s praise of Russian President Vladimir Putin — who he said Trump "admired" — and the former president of Iraq Saddam Hussein.

“He’s even showered praise on Saddam Hussein, one of the violentest dictators of the 21st century,” Biden said. “He woulda loved Stalin.”

Biden said that Trump could not be trusted with the nuclear codes (after saying that the man holding the nuclear codes was actually in the room in case something happened to the president in Biden needed them.)

“He is not qualified to know the code, he can’t be trusted,” Biden said. Biden then brought up his late son former Delaware attorney general Beau Biden who served in Iraq.

“I was proud my son Beau served for a year in Iraq,” Biden said. “I must tell you had Donald Trump been president I would have thrown my body in front of him…to keep him from going if the judgement was based on Trump’s decision.”

Last week Trump repeatedly said that President Obama was the founder of ISIS (he later said he was just being sarcastic) a comment which Biden called not only “outrageous” but “dangerous.”

“If my son were still in Iraq, and I say to all those who are still there, the threat to their life has gone up a couple clicks,” he said.

Biden’s speech also included lengthy accounts of growing up in Scranton with a working class family. He said if you are a voter worried about making ends meet at all: “There’s only one person in this election who will possibly help you and that is Hillary Clinton.”

Clinton has been campaigning heavily in working-class battleground states such as Pennsylvania where she is currently leading Trump by a significant margin. Her RealClearPolitics average in the state has her at 49% compared to Trump at 40%.

The campaign event was originally scheduled for early July but was postponed following the killing of five police officers in Dallas.

The Republican National Committee issued a statement shortly after the campaign event, calling Clinton a continuation of the Obama administration's "failed policies."

“Hillary Clinton keeps showing she is all in for expanding the Obama Administration’s failed policies if she becomes president,” said RNC Chairman Reince Priebus. “Americans don’t want another president whose ‘leading from behind’ mentality set the table for ISIS to grow and made our homeland more vulnerable to radical Islamic terrorism. Hillary Clinton’s ruinous foreign policy choices as Secretary of State and reckless mishandling of classified information show she cannot be trusted to lead our nation as commander-in-chief, and only Donald Trump will bring the toughness and strong leadership America needs to defeat the global scourge of terrorism.”