https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-traveled-more-than-donald-trump_n_64f92585e4b0d44852eddc75
Republicans Insist Biden Is Staying In His Basement. He’s Traveled More Than Trump.
President Joe Biden has traveled more frequently than former President Donald Trump this year, even as Republicans regularly imply the 80-year-old incumbent is homebound as they work to capitalize on voter concerns about his age.
Biden made 60 trips between January and September of this year for White House, personal or political business, according to a HuffPost review of his public schedule. Trump has made 44 trips over the same time period.
For comparison’s sake, former President Barack Obama made 61 trips during the equivalent time period in his presidency, from January 2011 to September 2011.
Despite Biden’s fairly typical presidential travel schedule, Republicans still regularly suggest he is hiding away from the public, often invoking the basement Biden briefly filmed video appearances from during the 2020 campaign, when Democrats decided to sharply limit in-person campaigning during the coronavirus pandemic.
“President Biden needs to get out of Delaware and Washington, D. C., and see the rest of the United States,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Fox News on Wednesday, adding: “For heaven’s sake, Biden’s got to get out of the basement.”
“I’m not letting Biden hang out in the basement this time,” Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) said onstage during the first GOP presidential debate. “We’re going to run him ragged around this country, and we’re going to hold him accountable.”
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