REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. (AP) — There could also be no place like residence however President Joe Biden says he can’t go to his.
Unprompted, Biden approached reporters Sunday in Rehoboth Seaside, Delaware, after he went to Mass at St. Edmond Roman Catholic Church to say he was not on trip.
“I’ve no residence to go to,” mentioned Biden, who lives on the White Home on weekdays and spends most weekends in Delaware, the place he has two properties.
The U.S. Secret Service has been doing work on his longtime main residence in Wilmington, Delaware, to make it safer “in a great way,” he mentioned.
It has been a minimum of a couple of months since he final spent an evening there.
“So I’ve no place to go once I come to Delaware, besides right here, proper now,” he mentioned, talking of his different residence, in Rehoboth Seaside. “I am solely right here for someday.”
Biden arrived on the Delaware coast on Saturday night time after he spent the early a part of the day in Florida surveying harm from Hurricane Idalia. He had been scheduled to spend Labor Day weekend right here, however modified his plans after the storm.
He travels to Philadelphia on Monday to talk at an AFL-CIO rally.
Two weeks in the past, he and his household spent every week on trip in Nevada’s Lake Tahoe area. The Republican Nationwide Committee commonly criticizes Biden for vacating the White Home on weekends.
He first advised reporters in regards to the safety upgrades to his Wilmington residence in April, when he went to the seaside home after coming back from a visit to Eire.
Requested Sunday if he was saying that he is homeless, Biden mentioned that was not the case.
“No, I am not homeless,” he mentioned. “I simply have one residence. I’ve a gorgeous residence. I am down right here for the day as a result of I can not go residence residence.”