When U.S. President Joe Biden entered a voting booth in Delaware on Monday to cast his early ballot for Vice President Kamala Harris, it wasn’t necessarily the moment for which he’d been planning a few months ago.
Biden, of course, once hoped to vote for himself, one last opportunity to check the box next to his own name after a half-century in the political arena.
Instead, he was voting for his chosen successor — a moment of pride, to be sure, that is still coming earlier than he wanted it to.
Instead of a big campaign event — as it would likely have been if he were still the candidate — his trip to a polling station in Delaware was a lower-key affair compared to the roiling presidential campaign that is unfolding without him.
Biden stood in line for 37 minutes with members of the greater Wilmington, Delaware, community, to …