Vice President Joe Biden showed up to vote at a high school in Wilmington, Del., Tuesday morning, making a splash by hugging poll workers and complimenting young girls on their snazzy boots.
“The bad news is I’m not going away,” Biden joked, adding that he would continue to fight against income inequality after he leaves office.
Biden, accompanied by his wife Jill, posed for selfies around 7:30 a.m. with bleary-eyed voters, whom he thanked for performing their civic duty.
“What’s your name? How are you? I haven’t seen you in Mass lately,” the vice president said.
“That happened to me two elections ago,” he sympathized with a man wearing a trench coat who was filling out a voter verification form. “They said, ‘You sure you live here?'”
He spent less than a minute actually casting his ballot, which he punctuated afterward by declaring, “It’s a beautiful day to vote.”
“It could be a very long night of it [or] it could be very short,” he said, advising a reporter to watch Florida very closely.
