{"id":1987521,"date":"2023-08-01T06:57:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/home-to-delaware-biden-on-track-to-set-vacationing-record\/"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:59:03","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T10:59:03","slug":"home-to-delaware-biden-on-track-to-set-vacationing-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/home-to-delaware-biden-on-track-to-set-vacationing-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden poised to break vacationing record in Delaware."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fhome-to-delaware-biden-on-track-to-set-vacationing-record%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1987521&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>President Joe Biden&#8217;s Vacation\u2062 Raises Questions<\/h2>\n<p>President Joe Biden is once again on\u200b vacation, sparking\u200c familiar debates\u200c about \u200dthe amount of time he spends away from the White House.\u200b Currently, the first\u200d family is enjoying a 10-day retreat at Biden&#8217;s two Delaware homes, indulging in activities\u200d like biking \u200cand reading at the\u2063 beach while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/home-to-delaware-biden-on-track-to-set-vacationing-record\/\" title=\"Biden poised to break vacationing record in Delaware.\">intentionally avoiding\u200c public appearances<\/a>. This has \u200dled Republicans to label him as the &#8220;vacationer in\u2064 chief.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Joe Biden\u2063 and \u2063Jill, Ed.D., are having a relaxing day at the beach, where Biden will \u2062remain for another week,&#8221; RNC Research posted on X, formerly known \u2063as\u200d Twitter. &#8220;Since taking office,\u2064 Biden has spent 360 days \u2014 39% of his presidency \u2014 on vacation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The Republican National Committee&#8217;s tracker predicts that Biden will \u2062reach a total of 367 full or partial vacation days by the time he returns to the White House next \u2063week,\u2063 surpassing a full year. This aligns with negative statistics that have a more direct impact on voters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cSince Biden \u200dtook office, prices are \u200dhigher, real wages are lower, gas prices are surging, wealth is down, debt is up,&#8221; RNC spokesman \u2064Jake Schneider said. &#8220;Biden can spend \u2063all the time in the\u200c world \u200bat the beach, but there&#8217;s a reason \u2063why he has among the worst approval ratings in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/desantis-banking-on-his-youthfulness-and-wife-casey-as-assets-in-2024-race\/\" title=\"DeSantis relies on youth and wife in 2024 bid.\">modern presidential history<\/a>. In addition to \u200dbeing corrupt and out-of-touch, he simply does not care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Democrats argue that \u200bmany of the days included in the count\u200c are partial days, where\u2064 Biden left on a Friday afternoon and returned on a Monday morning. Furthermore, the majority of his\u200d vacation \u200btime,\u200d approximately 250 days,\u200b has been spent in Delaware. Biden has been spending weekends in his home state for decades, even during his time in the Senate.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cEvery time I get a chance, I go home to Delaware,&#8221; Biden said last\u200c year. &#8220;You think I\u2019m\u200c joking. I\u2019m not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The White House did not provide a statement for this story, but spokesman Andrew \u2063Bates previously\u200c stated, &#8220;Presidents of the United States are constantly on\u200b the job, regardless\u200d of their location \u2014 whether they&#8217;re on \u200da <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-leads-past-presidents-in-vacation-time\/\" title=\"Biden Leads Past Presidents in Vacation Time\">state visit overseas<\/a> or just 100 \u2062miles from the\u200c White House for a short trip to\u200c Wilmington.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, Biden is on track to set a modern record for \u2063the\u2062 number of days spent away from the White House, which he has described as a\u200c &#8220;gilded cage.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Former President\u2062 Donald Trump \u200cspent 381 days away from the White House during his tenure, while former President Barack Obama spent 328 days over his \u200dtwo terms. Trump referred to his trips as &#8220;working vacations&#8221; and criticized Obama for being a &#8220;habitual vacationer&#8221; who spent excessive time on the golf course. However, Trump faced similar criticism for his own trips to New Jersey and Florida after taking \u200boffice.<\/p>\n<p>Former President George W. Bush,\u200d often\u200d criticized for extended stays at his\u2062 ranch \u2064in Crawford, Texas, during the Iraq \u200cand Afghanistan wars, spent a total of 1,020 days away from the White\u200c House during \u200dhis two terms. Former President Bill Clinton stayed away for 345 days.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential historians argue that a president&#8217;s vacationing habits only become problematic when they contribute to the perception that the president is underperforming or out of touch. This could be a concern for Biden, as his\u200b approval ratings have consistently hovered in\u200b the low 40s for nearly two years.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is that the Biden administration has emphasized the release of visitor \u200blogs for in-person meetings held on the White House\u2062 grounds. However, this rule does not extend to Delaware, potentially\u200c allowing for undisclosed \u2063meetings that the administration may not want the public to know about.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cI can confirm\u200b we are not going to be providing information about the comings and goings of the\u2062 president\u2019s grandchildren or people visiting him in Delaware,\u201d then-White House press secretary Jen\u2062 Psaki said in 2022.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Her successor, Karine Jean-Pierre, evaded a question about visitor \u2064logs in January following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/four-emerging-questions-about-bidens-classified-docs-scandal\/\" title=\"Four Emerging Questions About Biden's Classified Docs Scandal\">classified documents scandal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president spent Monday indulging in\u2062 beach reading and \u2062leisurely walks before taking a \u2062bike ride at a nearby state park. He will remain in Rehoboth \u2063Beach until Friday, \u200dafter which he will spend the \u200bweekend at\u2062 his home in Wilmington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Joe Biden is once again on vacation, prompting concerns about his frequent absences from the White House. Currently, the first family is enjoying a 10-day getaway at Biden&#8217;s Delaware residences, engaging in activities like biking and beach reading while avoiding public events. Republicans are criticizing his lack of public appearances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1987522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1987521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1987521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1987521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1987522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1987521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1987521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1987521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}