RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden cast a vote in Delaware and then raced to Virginia to encourage supporters in the Southern swing state.
Barack Obama’s running mate visited a polling place at a school in a modest Richmond suburb Tuesday morning, shaking hands and hugging voters. He was accompanied by his wife, Jill, and Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine.
Biden signed autographs and posed for photos with enthusiastic voters and their children.
In the school parking lot, Biden had a private conversation with 19-year-old Wayne Phillips, a first-time voter. Phillips suffers from sickle-cell anemia, and poll workers helped him cast his ballot from the back seat of his car.
Biden told Phillips, “Thank you, man.”
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