- Republican VP Harris takes on Trump.
- Biden has been largely kept off Harris’ campaign trail.
- Election Day is Tuesday, November 5.
Delaware: President Joe Biden on Monday cast his ballot in the US presidential election, voting early in his home state of Delaware for Democratic Vice President Kamala Harris in her race against Republican Donald Trump.
The president, who abandoned his re-election bid in July, joined many Americans who can vote before polling day next Tuesday. He cast his ballot at an early voting site in New Castle, Delaware.
With only eight days left until Election Day, the former US president’s agenda looks bleak after he indicated in September that he would continue campaigning for the Democratic presidential nominee in the final months before the election. For elections, depending CNN.
At a Biden union event in Pittsburgh, he verbally attacked Donald Trump but the Harris campaign did not promote him as much as Obama’s rallies were highlighted.
However, Biden still has some campaign calls scheduled this week, including a union event in Philadelphia on Friday, but they are more formal federal events than they are for the Harris campaign.
Otherwise, the rest of the president’s week, which runs through November 5, is scheduled Tuesday for official duties including briefings on the hurricane that devastated parts of the country, a Diwali reception in the East Room of the White House and trick-or-treating in the South Portico.
This is how Biden is set to bid farewell to the White House and his office, just as Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were largely kept away from the campaigns of their party and their presidential candidate.
At a “get out the vote” event in Pittsburgh on Saturday, the president somewhat acknowledged the end of his term and supported Harris.
“We have a lot of work to do, Kamala and I,” he said and then quickly rephrased himself: “Kamala does.”