Biden's 10-year-old granddaughter, Finnegan, came toward the back of the plane and started taking questions from the press and spoke of her ambition, saying she'd like to get into politics and be president some day.
(Finnegan is daughter of Hunter Biden, the VP candidate’s second-oldest son, and Biden talks about her in every speech.)
Eventually the candidate came back and joined her and talked a lot about what the future might hold.
Biden was asked how winning might affect family life, and said, “Oh I don’t know that; I don’t know if we were to win, I don’t know that it would change a lot. In the sense that, just being different locations I guess.
"The whole family’s kind of figured out, you know, everybody hangs out in Wilmington. These kids are up
a lot. Their mom and dad are up a lot. I don’t know. I bet you guys are up 15 weekends ... a year. And Christmas and all the holidays and all the birthdays are at our house. And I guess it’d just be flipped.
"You know, Beau and Hallie and my grandchildren and my mother would be coming the other way. So I don’t think -- I don’t really, in terms of the family, I don’t think it would -- in a sense it may be a little easier if we were to win.
Asked if his mother would move to DC? Biden said, “Well she might. I don’t know. I mean we really -- I really am superstitious. And we really have not talked about it. I mean everybody’s thinking about it, but no one’s, no one’s talking about it.
He also spoke of his son Beau, who’s training for deployment to Iraq. Apparently they would have let him come up for the event tonight, but he told his dad he didn’t want to be treated specially.
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