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Joe Biden Attends Annual Family Polar Bear Swim in Nantucket

In the Biden family, I ask for the little girl Naomi. This is not a game of 7 families, but a real Biden family led by patriarch Joe Biden. Naomi, the granddaughter of an American president and very close to her grandfather, has no problem sharing her little everyday joys on social networks.

So Naomi posted a photo of the president and the rest of the clan wearing striped towels on the beach on the chic island of Nantucket off the coast of Massachusetts. “Biden Family Annual Polar Bear Bathhouse – Happy Thanksgiving! » Naomi Biden soberly commented to X, former Twitter.

His grandfather, the American president, like all his offspring, was not afraid to take the plunge on the occasion of Thanksgiving. Also in the photo is his father, Hunter Biden, holding his youngest son, Beau. The White House confirmed that President Biden, who celebrated his 81st birthday on Monday, took part in the family swim. Biden, a Democrat, has traveled to Nantucket for Thanksgiving with his family nearly every year since the 1970s.

A series of recent polls show Joe Biden trailing his far-right Republican rival Donald Trump in a potential November 2024 rematch. At the same time, the electorate is especially concerned about the age of the commander-in-chief.”

An NBC News poll released Sunday showed Trump leading Biden 46% to 44% among registered voters.

Nantucket, Biden’s hideout

Joe Biden is trying to play the role of unifier, as he did after defeating populist Donald Trump in 2020, but without much effectiveness. In his Thanksgiving message this year, he called for national unity. “Stop the outrage,” Joe Biden said alongside his wife Jill Biden during live television coverage of the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City. “We have to unite the nation, we have to treat each other a little decently,” he insisted.

Meanwhile, Joe Biden is grappling with wars engulfing two key allies – Israel and Ukraine – and spent part of his stay in Nantucket talking to Middle East leaders about the Gaza truce and hostage release set to begin this Friday. “I’m not ready to give an update until everything is ready,” he told reporters as he and the first lady delivered pumpkin pies to Nantucket firefighters.

Nantucket, a former whaling town turned playground for the wealthy, has long been a sanctuary of sorts for Joe Biden where he can gather strength for upcoming battles while enjoying the family rituals he holds dear. The family began visiting in 1975, when Sen. Biden was a widower with sons Hunter and Beau after his wife and infant daughter were killed in a car accident two years earlier.

He and Jill, who had recently started dating, chose Nantucket so they wouldn’t have to choose between their families for Thanksgiving, he wrote in his autobiography, “Promise Me, Daddy,” published in 2017. The memoir opens with a description. the last Thanksgiving Biden spent in Nantucket with his eldest son, Beau, in 2014, seven months before he died of brain cancer at age 46.


Source: Le Parisien

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