Joe is 100% “not joking”about his schedule!
Please take a look for yourselves at RollCall - Joe Biden's Schedule
And remember, this is just the schedule of his “public” events. It does not include meetings with staff, phone calls or White House visitors, etc.
Just to be clear, I am “'ridin' with Biden”, I want him to stay in the race. Yes, he had a bad debate, but once I saw his rally in Raleigh, NC the next day, I knew he was already back on track.
But what really bothered me was that despite his great speech in North Carolina, the cries for him to drop out not only continued, but grew. Yet, it seemed to me that Joe was out there, just about every day, as a fully functioning President/Candidate. So I started to wonder, exactly what had Joe been doing every day?
So, this past Wednesday night, I searched online for “Joe Biden's schedule” and began to put together a diary which was basically just an edited schedule (leaving out entries like “President's Daily Briefing) from the rollcall.com website, starting on June 27th. But my edited version was still 7 pages long and I realized that no one would read it. So I gave up.
But then, during his “make or break” press conference, Joe said “If you looked at my schedule, my schedule's been full-bore.” I started screaming, “Yes! Yes, it is!” Because I had seen it. And Joe is one busy man. And then I knew I had to write a diary to at least point you all to the RollCall website, so you could take a look for yourselves. Again, that’s at: RollCall - Joe Biden's Schedule
I'll give you an edited example, starting with Debate Day (The First Lady was with the President
at all events unless noted as only “Biden”):
June 27th
12:00 PM — Leave Camp David for Joint Base Andrews
12:50 PM — Leave Joint Base Andrews for Atlanta, GA
2:15 PM — Arrive at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Marietta, GA*
9:00 PM — Biden participated in the Debate (it doesn't say when he and the First Lady arrived
at CNN Studios )
11:10 PM — Dropped by the Hyatt Regency Atlanta for a campaign event.
June 28th
12:15 AM — Stopped by a Waffle House in Atlanta to pick up a take-out order
12:45 AM — Leave Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Marietta, GA for Raleigh, NC
1:50 AM — Arrive in Raleigh, NC (Raleigh-Durham Int'l Airport)
10:00 AM — Biden receives the Daily Presidental Briefing (so despite the late arrival time in
Raleigh, Joe was already up and working by at least 10 AM, if not before)
12:30 PM — Campaign rally at the Jim Graham Building, Raleigh, NC
1:40 PM — Leave Raleigh-Durham Int'l Airport for JFK Airport, Queens, NY
2:55 PM — Arrive at JFK, Queens, NY
3:20 PM — Arrive at Downtown Manhattan Heliport, NY, NY
4:30 PM — Attend and give remarks at the Stonewall National Monument Visitor
Center Grand Opening Ceremony, NY, NY
8:30 PM — Attend a campaign reception at The Manhattan Center, NY, NY
June 29th
12:00 PM — Leave LaGuardia Airport, NY for Westhampton Beach, NY (no time given
for the Bidens having left Manhattan, NY)
12:40 PM — Leave WesthamptonBeach, NY for East Hampton, NY
12:55 PM — Arrive in East Hampton, NY
1:20 PM — Arrive at a campaign reception at the private residence of Avram &
Jill Glazer, East Hampton, NY
2:45 PM — Arrive at a campaign reception at the private residence of Barry &
Lizanne Rosenstein, East Hampton, NY
3:50 PM — Leave East Hampton, NY for Westhampton Beach, NY
4:15 PM — Leave Westhampton Beach, NY for Burlington County, NJ
5:00 PM — Arrive at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, McGuire AFB, NJ
5:30 PM — Arrive at Fort Monmouth Base, NJ
6:20 PM — Arrive at a campaign reception at the private residence of Phil Murphy,
Red Bank, NJ
8:30 PM — Leave Fort Monmouth Base, NJ for Burlington, County
9:00 PM — Leave Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, McGuire AFB, NJ
(Burlington County) for Hagerstown, MD
10:00 PM — Leave Hagerstown Regional Airport for Camp David
10:10 PM — Arrive at Camp David
(*According to“Deadline.com” the following two events were not noted in the Roll Call Schedule for June 27th. Deadline - Biden & Trump Arrive for Debate
On Debate day, “Biden arrived at about 3:15 p.m. ET, and greeted an entourage that included former UN ambassador Andrew Young and Stacy Abrams. ...
Later, Biden greeted supporters in downtown Atlanta, hugging Rep.Robert Garcia (D-CA), who is serving as one of the campaign surrogates.“)
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Biden's days after that have had just as much activity and travel, including giving an address about the 75th anniversary of NATO the night before the Summit began and then stopping off at an AFL-CIO union leaders meeting on the morning of the 10th before spending the entire afternoon at the NATO summit, and then giving a dinner for the NATO members and their allies that night at the White House. And he was back at it the next day, on the 11th, for the rest of the NATO meetings, before giving his “litmus test” live press appearance.
The amount of traveling alone, that Biden has been doing, especially since June, would lay me out flat – and I am 9 years younger than he is. I know, I'm no spring chicken, either, LOL! But I think that much travel would negatively effect just about anyone, regardless of their age, especially when he's crossed multiple time zones, sometimes just in one or two days’ time. See June 12 through June 16, on Joe’s schedule and then say “eff off, George Clooney” with me!
Then add to that travel time, all the appearances, speeches and meet and greets he has to do, while still having to do all the work he has as President, including dealing with some pretty major issues such as the G7 and NATO conferences and trying to broker peace in the Israel-Hamas conflict and I think anyone, regardless of their age, might experience exhaustion and even get sick and have a bad night like Biden did. Walk a mile in his shoes before you disagree.
So, no malarkey! Joe's still working very hard — and very competently - for us! So please support him in his fight to both save and better our democracy! Go to the White House Official Website and send him a text or email of support, send money to his campaign — Joe Biden's Campaign Website or through Act Blue — Act Blue Website , or volunteer at your local Democratic Headquarters, if you can!
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Post Script
Just for contrast, what has the Orange Fascist been doing since June 27th? Hard to be sure because (1) he doesn't give out much information about what he's up to and (2) he's been mostly laying low. Either he’s lazier than we give him credit for or he thinks he has the Presidency all rapped up already, so he doesn’t need to exert himself. Regardless, he hasn’t done much of anything. This is all I can find:
June 27
5:30 PM — “Trump’s plane landed [in Atlanta, GA]...and he waved and gave a fist sign to cheering supporters.” (According to that same article above from Deadline.com.) Nothing about any party members there to greet him, like Joe had.
9:00 PM — Participated in (i.e., lied throughout) the Debate
June 28th
12:39 AM — Trump arrives at Dulles Airport, VA from Atlanta, GA,
1:58 PM — Trump leaves Dulles Airport for Norfolk International Airport, VA
3:00 PM — Rally at Greenbrier Farms, Chesapeake, VA
6:38 PM — Trump leaves Norfolk International Airport to return to Dulles Airport
7:13 PM — Trump arrives at Dulles Airport, VA
June 30th
6:19 PM — Trump leaves Dulles Airport for Palm Beach International Airport, FL
N.B.: I can't find any information about where Trump was, what he did, who he met with, or where he went during his 2-1/2 day stay in the D.C. area from 6/28 through 6/30, other than that his plane was parked in a remote area of Dulles Airport next to a Russian Embassy plane (which had arrived the day before Trump's plane did, on 7/27/24 at 9:55 AM). The Russian plane finally departed on June 29 at 3:17 PM. And that on June 28 at 7:43 PM, an United Arab Emirate plane arrived and was parked by both Trump's jet and the Russian jet. The UAE plane left last, on June 30th at 6 PM. (Source: 4WWL, CBS Affiliate, New Orleans, LA )
July 9th
7:00 PM — Rally at Trump National Doral Miami, Miami, FL (Rally started at 3:00 PM, T-rump was not schedule to speak until 7:00 PM. Just like him to leave his supporters out in the summer Florida sun for 4 hours.)
July 13th
5:00 PM — Rally at Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, PA (outside of Pittsburgh, PA
He’s a pathetic disgrace!