Biden Was Away From Office Much of '24

President Joe Biden spent 24% of his final year in office in Delaware, at Camp David or in vacation spots, according to a Daily Caller review of White House pool reports.

During the year, Biden took a total of 27 trips to Delaware.

The president has had 89 full and partial days out of the White House this year, which does not include days he was on foreign trips for official business.

Biden's time out of the office increased after he dropped out of the presidential race, with a total of 46 such full or partial days from August to the end of the year, including his current trip to St. Croix.

The count does not include one trip Biden took to Camp David to get ready for the first presidential debate, during which he stayed out of the public eye for almost a week. It also did not include his trip to Delaware to recover from COVID-19, when he also was not seen for a week and withdrew from the presidential race.

In August, Biden was away from the White House for 21 days, visiting Delaware for 14 full or partial days and taking six days in Santa Ynez, California. He was at Camp David an additional day.

White House spokesperson Andrew Bates told the Daily Caller that "it’s a little ironic to be fleshing this out for an internet-based outlet, but commanders in chief have been able to perform the full range of their duties from anywhere in the world for decades. For example, President Biden was in Delaware when he secured the international deal that brought wrongfully detained Americans like Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan home."

Bates added that Biden works "around the clock" and has taken "few" vacation days.

Biden's time out of office has actually gone down from the past two years. According to a 2022 Daily Caller analysis, he spent nearly 40% of the year in Delaware, Camp David and other vacation spots, while in 2023 he was 37% of the year at a vacation spot.

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