Joe Biden snuggled up with old neighbors and made a few other stops around town (File)
Scranton, United States:
Joe Biden enjoys talking about his childhood in the industrial city of Scranton, and as Americans voted on Tuesday, the Democratic presidential candidate returned to his childhood home, signing his name on the wall to bring him good luck.
“From that House to the White House with the Grace of God,” Biden wrote in black pen on a living room wall behind a photo, signing his name and adding the date, “3-11-2020”.
“His quill in God’s ears,” wrote a Twitter user under a photo of the signed wall photographed by a reporter traveling with Biden as he courted the votes in Pennsylvania on polling day.
The intimate moment in the house was actually a repeat of a campaign moment in 2008 when he signed a chamber wall here during his second presidential run, one that ended early but led Barack Obama to choose him as vice-president.
It has become something of a tradition for the 77-year-old, who served for more than three decades as a United States Senator from neighboring Delaware, where the family moved when Biden was 10, to return to his roots.
“We’re coming home,” Biden, accompanied by two of his granddaughters, told reporters as he disembarked in Scranton for one of his final gestures of an 18-month presidential campaign odyssey.
The current owner of the house, Anne Kearns, didn’t seem to care.
“I watch you all the time,” she told Biden in a brief exchange before welcoming him into the house. “I’m so proud of you.”
Even though the coronavirus forced the campaign to end as Americans learned – face-to-face encounters, relentless handshakes and selfies on ropes of rope – Biden smelled of that excitement on the streets.
More than 100 neighbors, supporters and onlookers, almost all masked, had gathered near the house with a gray awning and black shutters.
“He’s right there! Oh my God!” shouted 19-year-old Mardan Daurilas, a first-time voter. “He’s my future president.”
Biden snuggled up with old neighbors and made a few other stops around town, including at the home of US Senator Bob Casey’s mother and at a local union office, before heading to Philadelphia for a final push to vote .
The Democrat and President Donald Trump are bitterly fighting over the swing state of Pennsylvania, which may have become the central battleground for the entire election.
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