Joe Biden marks 1,000 days in office this week – but spent 300 of them either in Delaware or on holiday, Dailymail.com can reveal.
He also spent 89 days at Camp David, the rustic presidential retreat in Maryland, and 74 days traveling abroad.
Biden’s lack of time in Washington will fuel accusations from Republicans and concerns from Democrats that the 80-year-old president is demanding too much time because of his age.
Additionally, as Biden approaches the 1,000-day mark, he has held fewer one-on-one press conferences than any of his modern predecessors except Ronald Reagan, and he has given only a handful of interviews.
Joe Biden relaxes near his beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware on July 30, 2023
Joe Biden on the same beach in Delaware three days later
Biden was inaugurated on January 20, 2021, meaning he will serve his 1,000th day on Tuesday.
A breakdown of his schedule, released daily by the White House, shows he spent all or part of the 300 days at one of his two homes in Delaware or on vacation.
She owns a six-bedroom, 4,786-square-foot beach house in Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, which she bought for $2.74 million in 2017.
His other home in Delaware is a 6,850-square-foot mansion in Wilmington worth over $2 million.
In addition to numerous trips to both Delaware homes, Biden’s other recent vacations included a weeklong trip to Lake Tahoe, Nevada.
He flew to Lake Tahoe on Air Force One and then rented — for an undisclosed fee — a house from Tom Steyer, the billionaire climate activist who unsuccessfully ran for president as a Democrat in 2020.
On the first day of his presidency, Biden had an approval rating of 57%, according to Gallup.
However, much of the public will began to dissipate in August 2021, around the time of the failed withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan.
His approval rating plummeted, reaching a nadir of 38 percent in July 2022.
On the 1,000th day of his term, it stands at 41%.
Joe Biden’s $2.7 Million Delaware Beach House
Joe Biden enters an ice cream parlor in Michigan
Joe Biden on his bike in Delaware, where he was on the 300th day of his presidency
His team will take solace in the fact that, remarkably, that’s exactly the same number as Donald Trump and Barack Obama when they reached 1,000 days in office.
While Trump continued to lose, Obama recovered enough to win re-election.
But Obama has embarked on a frantic re-election campaign, and Democratic insiders have expressed growing concern about Biden’s ability to do so at his age.
So far, he has shown a marked lack of willingness to engage with the media and by extension the public.
In his first 1,000 days he has held only 13 one-on-one press conferences, according to data compiled by the American Presidency Project.
With more than a year left in his first term, Biden is highly unlikely to match Trump’s 44 one-on-one press conferences as president or Obama’s 30 in his first term.
So far he has held 17 joint press conferences with other world leaders, while Trump did 44 and Obama 43 in his first term.
By the end of June this year, Biden had conducted 41 interviews as president, according to unofficial White House statistician Mark Noler, a former CBS White House correspondent.
That compared to Trump’s 190 interviews and Obama’s 329 interviews at the same point.
Biden did a lot more interviews as vice president than he does now. At the time he sometimes appeared live on three television networks in the same day.
As president he has also mostly avoided print interviews, giving his first one to People magazine rather than a newspaper.
In August, an Associated Press/NORC poll found that 77 percent of Americans think Biden is too old for re-election. That included 69 percent of Democrats.
David Ignatius, a Biden supporter, recently wrote a Washington Post column arguing that he should not seek re-election.
Meanwhile, Dean Phillips, a Democratic congressman from Minnesota, has begun making moves toward mounting a potential primary challenge against Biden for the party’s 2024 nomination.
Mr Phillips, who is 54, called on Mr Biden to “pass the torch” to a new generation.
Rep. Dean Phillips says Democrats need to field a challenger to Biden
Last week, Biden tripped and had to grab a railing while climbing a short flight of stairs at an event in Philadelphia.
This was followed by a series of other high-profile incidents where he lost his legs, including while boarding and disembarking Air Force One.
He also fell off his bike in Delaware last year and collapsed to the ground after tripping over a sandbag while on stage in June.
The White House has defended Biden’s decision to spend so much of his presidency in Delaware rather than Washington.
Officials said he is “deeply proud of his roots” in the state and “is constantly at work regardless of location.”
They have also pointed out that his Delaware beach home is only 100 miles from the White House and also that it is “important for leaders to avoid being drawn to Washington, DC.”
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