For the second straight 12 months, President Biden and his household will spend Thanksgiving on the Nantucket house of private-equity billionaire David Rubenstein — and Biden’s 2024 plans might be among the many dinner desk dialogue subjects.
Joe Biden, his spouse Jill, and different members of the family had been set to fly to the upscale Massachusetts island on Air Power One later Tuesday and stay there till Sunday, the White Home confirmed over the weekend.
Whereas there, the Bidens plan to remain at Rubenstein’s sprawling, $20 million waterfront house, the Nantucket Inquirer and Mirror reported.
Biden indicated earlier this month that the upcoming vacation season could be a primary alternative for him to debate operating for re-election in 2024.
“My intention is that I run once more,” he advised reporters on Nov. 9 within the wake of the midterm elections. “However I’m an ideal respecter of destiny. And that is, in the end, a household determination. I feel everyone desires me to run, however … we’re going to have discussions about it.”
Requested about his particular timeline for making a choice, Biden continued: “Properly, I — my guess is — I hope Jill and I get just a little time to truly sneak away for per week … between Christmas and Thanksgiving. And my guess is it will be early subsequent 12 months we make that judgment.”
It wasn’t instantly clear what number of different members of the Biden clan could be becoming a member of the 80-year-old president and 71-year-old first girl in Nantucket for the vacation.
Thanksgiving on the island has been a Biden household custom, with common vacation gatherings held there for the reason that Nineteen Seventies.
The Bidens additionally holed up at Rubenstein’s compound over Thanksgiving final 12 months, in addition to in 2014, when Biden was vice chairman.
Rubenstein, who's value $3.2 billion, in line with a Forbes estimate, co-founded the non-public fairness behemoth The Carlyle Group.
In the meantime, safety operations have been constructing on the island over the previous week in preparation for the president’s arrival.
Personnel, autos and key tools — together with an air protection system — has been dropped off on the island in latest days.
The Federal Aviation Administration has additionally issued momentary flight restrictions over the island by means of Sunday resulting from “VIP motion.”
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