President-elect Joe Biden was forced to charter his own plane to travel from Delaware to Washington DC after he was denied an Air Force jet.
He flew from his home state after an emotional speech, thanking his supporters and eulogizing his son Beau, who died from cancer in 2015.
“Excuse the emotion, but when I die, Delaware will be written on my heart,” he said, with tears running down his face.
“And the hearts of all. We love you all. You’ve been there for us in the good and the bad. You never walked away. And I am proud, proud, proud to be a son of Delaware,” Biden continued.
“And I am even more proud to be standing here doing this from the Major Beau Biden facility.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I only have one regret. He’s not here. Because, we should be introducing him as president,” he said as he cried.
Biden’s son, Beau, passed away in 2015 from brain cancer. He served in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard and the Major Joseph R. (Beau) Biden III Armed Forces Reserve Center was named in his honor.
“It’s kind of emotional for me,” he expressed. “Look, you were with me my whole career, through the good times and the bad.”
“In our family, the values we share, the character we strive for, the way we view the world — it all comes from home,” Biden added. “It all comes from Delaware.”
Biden and his family did not receive a government aircraft to take him to DC.
President Donald Trump’s refusal to send him a military jet was seen as a snub. He also refused to meet with the incoming president, a traditional part of the transition.
He was given this courtesy when he flew to DC on January 19, 2017.
The Trumps will leave Washington on Wednesday morning, hours before Biden’s inauguration.
The president will hold his farewell ‘ceremony’ at Andrews before flying on Air Force One to his Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida.
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