Biden is scheduled to hold his first public event of the week before heading to his Delaware beach house on Thursday.
Biden has not been seen in public since returning from his home in Wilmington, Delaware, with first lady Jill Biden on Monday, where they walked back from Marine One to the White House.
So far this week, none of the events on the president’s official schedule have been open to reporters.
President Biden will call Hawaii Governor Josh Green and Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen on Thursday during an event closed to reporters and to receive the presidential daily briefing “to mark the one-year anniversary of Maui’s tragic wildfire and losses.”
President Biden will welcome the Texas Rangers to the White House later Thursday afternoon in an event open only to media to celebrate their 2023 World Series winning season.
Biden has holed up in the White House and again has no public events scheduled.
President Biden walks on the South Lawn of the White House after arriving in Washington, DC aboard Marine One, Monday, August 5, 2024. (Michael Reynolds/EPA/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The president will then leave the White House for Joint Base Andrews, from where he will travel to Wilmington, Delaware. Biden’s arrival in Wilmington is open to the press, but the president and Jill Biden will meet with campaign staff at an event that the public schedule lists as closed to the press. The couple is then scheduled to return to their home in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, on Thursday evening.
Biden spoke to CBS News at the White House on Wednesday afternoon for his first interview since withdrawing from the reelection race, but the full interview is not expected to air until Sunday.
Other than promotional footage for the interview, the public has not seen Biden since his return to the White House on Monday. The president told CBS News he had “no confidence at all” that there would be a peaceful transition of power in January 2025 if former President Donald Trump loses the election, though Biden initially mistakenly said “if Trump wins.”
President Biden returned to the White House on Monday after a weekend in Delaware and received classified briefings on Iranian and Israeli military activities. (Andrew Layden/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“He means what he says. We’re not taking him seriously. He says, ‘If I lose, there’s going to be a bloodbath, the election is going to be stolen,’ and he means it,” Biden said. “Look at what they’re doing right now in the local precincts where people are counting votes,” the president added. “Or putting people in states to count votes?”
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White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre defended the president, telling Fox News congressional correspondent Aisha Hasni: ““You’ll see him tomorrow. There will be many more opportunities. We have five more months left here. There will be many more opportunities to see the president, and of course, we will do so when we have events to share, official engagements, travel to share, as we normally do.”
Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris and vice presidential nominee Minnesota Governor Tim Walz during a campaign event at the Liacoras Center at Temple University, Tuesday, August 6, 2024, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post via Getty Images)
Asked at a White House press conference whether the president had spoken yet to U.S. soldiers injured in an attack by Iranian proxy forces on an Iraqi base last weekend, Jean-Pierre said “there isn’t much to talk about,” but added, “Of course, we wish them a speedy recovery. They were injured and we have to give them some time and opportunity to recover and get the treatment they need. The president, as you know, is also the commander in chief and he takes that very seriously.”
Jean-Pierre said of the seven injured US soldiers, two have returned to duty, two are recovering locally and three have been evacuated for further treatment and are in stable condition.
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With Pennsylvania being heralded as a key battleground in 2024, there has been speculation about whether “Scranton Joe” will campaign in the state for Vice President Kamala Harris after Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro was not selected as Harris’ running mate. Harris announced earlier this week that Minnesota Governor Tim Walz would join her as a Democratic candidate.
