Pool Reports of July 9, 2022

WH travel pool report 1 — holding near residence

Pool, COVID-tested this morning, was assembled and is now waiting near the Biden beach home for the president to get into his motorcade.

It has been raining on and off much of the day, and there has been no bicycling or beach walking.

WH travel pool report 2 — arrival at church

The motorcade arrived at St. Edmund's Catholic Church at 1605, following a short drive south, along a route with a great number of homes decorated with pink hydrangeas, into Rehoboth Beach proper.

There were a number of clusters of onlookers applauding the motorcade it is passed, and pool did notice a pickup truck adorned with lots of anti-Biden stickers, including: "Lying Biden is roadkill."

Pool did not see the president enter, but we are now waiting outside the church.

Pool van joined the motorcade at 1559 from our hold area near the Cape Henlopen State Park parking lot.

WH travel pool report 3 — departure from church

The president emerged from the granite block church at 1653, chatted briefly with the priest and altar boy on the sidewalk, and stepped into his waiting SUV at the curb.

He did not respond to shouted questions and pool was hustled back to the press van.

At 1653 the motorcade is underway.

WH travel pool report 4 — return to residence

At 1701, the pool van peeled away from the motorcade a few blocks from his home.

The press van is heading back to the pool hotel.