Biden flies to Delaware to vote in state's primary election
Kevin Liptak, Kaitlan Collins and Maegan Vazquez, CNN | Updated 9:02 PM ET, Tue September 13, 2022
US President Joe Biden boards Air Force One on April 14, 2022.President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden boarded Air Force One around 6:15 p.m. ET Tuesday evening for a roughly 30-minute flight to their hometown of Wilmington, Delaware, landing with a little over an hour to spare before polls closed in the Delaware primary.
Asked about the purpose of his trip, added to his public schedule at the last minute, the President said he was there "to vote." Moments later, he and the first lady entered the Laird Performing Arts Center at the Tatnall School, cast their ballots and promptly departed.
They were in the air, headed back to Washington, before 8 p.m.
The trip, which came at the taxpayers' expense, has raised questions about why Biden did not vote absentee, early or by mail. It involved two military flights, two presidential motorcades and protection by law enforcement agencies in two states and the District of Columbia.
Though the laws recently changed, Delaware now offers both absentee voting, which requires an excuse, and voting by mail, which does not. The President spent last weekend in Delaware after arriving there on a Friday afternoon.
While in Delaware on Tuesday, Biden declined to answer questions about why he chose to vote in person.
A sample ballot for where Biden lives shows that there is only one primary he can vote in on Tuesday, the race for state auditor, which involves an incumbent who was convicted over the summer of official misconduct and conflict of interest. . .
https://www.cnn.com/2022/09/13/politics/biden-delaware-vote/index.html
State auditor. He burned up all that taxpayer money so that he could cast a last-minute vote for state auditor.
