WASHINGTON – On Tuesday night, President Biden cast his ballot. The process included a hasty press release, motorcades and a jet flight.
In a last-minute move that demonstrates how complicated the presidency can be even the most mundane tasks, Mr. Biden and first lady Jill Biden flew home from the White House to Wilmington, Del., to polling place less than an hour. before they close at 8 p.m. for the state elementary competition. About an hour after arriving, they climbed back into Air Force One to fly back to Washington.
The trip was not on the president’s publicly announced schedule. But the pilgrimage back to his home state to vote is a familiar pilgrimage for incumbent presidents, and often offers an opportunity to connect with voters.
Former President Barack Obama travel to Illinois to vote in the 2014 midterm races while helping with the campaign for Governor Pat Quinn. Mr. Biden also voted early from Wilmington in the 2020 presidential election, while his opponent, former President Donald J. Trump, early voting from West Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Biden also returned to his birthplace, Scranton, Pa.on election day 2020. He addressed supporters and signed “from this house to the White House with the grace of God” on the living room wall of his childhood home.
But Mr Biden’s whirlwind trip on Tuesday – he is expected to be back in the White House by 9pm – leaves little room to do anything but travel to and from the polling place. , in the performing arts center at a school, answer a few questions. questions from reporters and made a quick stop at his Wilmington mansion.
One of the preliminary controversies for a statewide office in Delaware on Tuesday is for the state auditor — a race in which Kathleen K. McGuiness, incumbent, is facing a challenge by Lydia York, an attorney .
In July, a jury found Ms McGuiness guilty of a misdemeanor stemming from her hiring of her daughter and awarded the contract to a consulting firm that had also worked on one of her previous campaigns. . But she was allowed to continue to vote after the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that misdemeanors did not disqualify candidates for office in the state.
