President Joe Biden has spent more than a quarter of his first year in the White House in his home state of Delaware and half of his weekends.
Biden logged 99 days in Delaware, according to a count by the Associated Press, and spent half his weekends there - 26 out of 52, according to a count by Mark Knoller, the former CBS News White House correspondent who tracks presidential travel. That includes time at his home in Wilmington and the family beach house in Rehoboth.
The president has only spent 10 weekends at the White House. He also favors Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Maryland mountains, spending 13 weekends there.
'The president goes to Delaware because it's his home. It's also where his son and his former wife are buried, and it's a place that is obviously close to his heart. A lot of presidents go visit their home when they're president,' White House press secretary Jen Psaki said in her briefing on Tuesday.
Biden's eldest Beau, who died of brain cancer in 2015, is buried at in the graveyard at St. Joseph on the Brandywine, the Catholic Church that Biden attends when he is Wilmington.
The president's first wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident on December 18, 1972.
President Joe Biden steps off of Marine One as he returns to the White House after spending Martin Luther King Jr. weekend at his home in Wilmington, Del.
President Biden had his Wilmington home custom-built on four acres of secluded, lake-front land in a posh, private surburb
Joe and Jill Biden paid $2.74 million for their Rehoboth Beach house in 2017
President Joe Biden, first lady Jill Biden and other family members leave St. Joseph on the Brandywine Catholic Church on the anniversary of the deaths of the president's first wife, Neilia, and daughter Naomi on December 18, 2021
Biden is able to work from his Wilmington home and frequently is in meetings or phone calls while there.
On December 30th he spoke on the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin from his Wilmington home. In October, Biden hosted Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Joe Manchin at his Delaware home as he lobbied the West Virginia senator on his Build Back Better bill.
Biden had his Wilmington home custom-built.
In 1996, he purchased four acres of secluded, lakefront land in the upscale suburb of Greenville in Wilmington, Delaware, and built the 6,850-square-foot home.
He purchased the lot for $350,000 and the property is now estimated to be worth more than a $1 million.
In Rehoboth, the Bidens own a 4,786-square-foot home with six bedrooms and five baths. They paid $2.74 million for the house in 2017.
The White House earlier this year defended his travel back to his Delaware home, which was coming during a spike in COVID cases.
'The president lives in Wilmington; it's his home. That's where he's lived for many, many years. And as you know, as any President of the United States does, he takes a private airplane called 'Air Force One' to travel there. That is, of course, a unique — unique from most Americans, but I think most Americans would
