WILMINGTON, Del. — “Joseph R. Biden, America’s pride,” proclaims a billboard towering over the highway running through the city. Erected just after the election, it features a fluttering cartoon flag next to the president-elect’s name and a subtitle declaring Uncle Joe “Delaware Proud.”
It’s true. Biden is proud of his adopted home state, almost painfully so.
“There is a Delaware Way,” he said, speaking through tears, early last year at a campaign event in Wilmington. “It fades every once in a while, but it’s still here in Delaware.”
Biden often gushes about the state, just as its leaders have often praised him since he burst on the national scene nearly 50 years ago. Delaware politicians slap his name on seemingly everything: an Amtrak station, a college public policy center, a highway rest stop, and a community pool. Wilmington restaurants often claim to be his favorite lunch spot. Overly enthusiastic supporters still fly his campaign flags although the election is long over.
Even as Biden prepares to move into the White House this week, he dominates Wilmington. He rarely left the city after the pandemic shut down most of the country, and, over time, it became his unofficial court, drawing in the press, would-be cabinet officials, and anyone else who wanted a piece of the Biden pie. He was already a huge presence in the city, and once he won the presidential election, he resumed his position as unofficial lord.
Every time the president-elect creates leaves his suburban mansion, he creates a spectacle. If Biden needs to deliver one of his infrequent messages to the nation, his 20-car fleet picks him up and screams through the otherwise silent downtown to The Queen, a theater Biden has claimed as his transition headquarters. The scene is similar on Sunday mornings, when Biden’s escort drives him to Mass at St. Joseph on the Brandywine. The president-elect is almost always pursued by the press and curious gawkers, eager to catch a glimpse of the old man’s piety.
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