Outside, a small group of Sanders supporters chanted at Biden, and one held a hand-written sign declaring “Joe is senile” pressed up against the glass of the diner windows. ![]() “When he talks to you, you know he really cares.”īiden was accompanied by Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf, who said she’d decided not to endorse any presidential candidate before the primary, and Sully Sullenberger, the pilot and Danville resident who landed a passenger jet in the Hudson River. “He doesn’t take any vote for granted,” Camacho said. He said he told the candidate about how he had once been homeless. Robert Camacho, a 48-year-old tech worker from Concord, waited for Biden in the first diner booth, wearing a rainbow “Joe” t-shirt and a blue blazer covered in white stars. “He called me a kid, and I’m 61,” laughed Karen Wertman of Oakland after a grinning Biden snapped a selfie of the two of them. “I’m really hopeful he can bring all the candidates together behind him.” “The last 24 hours have been stunning,” said Miki Hsu Leavey, 67, who drove from Napa with her husband Lance to see the former veep, as her dog Beamer ran around with a blue Biden sticker stuck on the top of his furry head. Bernie Sanders, who’s led in California polls. He won the endorsement of his former rivals Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar, and Beto O’Rourke on Monday, and one new poll released Tuesday morning found Biden retaking the national lead in the race over Sen. ![]() Later, he headed to Los Angeles for an election-night party Tuesday evening.īiden fans, some of whom had driven hours to see him, described feeling a roller-coaster of emotions over the last couple weeks, as their candidate sunk in polls after his losses in Iowa and New Hampshire - before soaring in the days after his South Carolina primary win. The diner visit was Biden’s first appearance in California in months, and his first public event in the Bay Area in the more than a year he’s been in the presidential race. “I know an awful lot of folks have already voted, but I still feel good,” Biden told a crush of reporters and TV cameras packed into the narrow Buttercup Diner, as waitresses pushed by with plates of eggs and toast. OAKLAND - As Californians headed to the polls Tuesday morning to vote in the state’s high-stakes presidential primary, former Vice President Joe Biden spent almost an hour shaking hands, snapping selfies and talking with voters at a diner in Jack London Square.
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