
With barely two days to go until Joe Biden and Donald Trump stand face to face for the first time since 2020, the president’s closest aides and confidants say they are leaving nothing to chance.
Since last week, Biden has been hunkered down with a close coterie of his most trusted advisers — first at his beach house in Rehoboth, Delaware, and for the last five days at Camp David, the US Navy-run, rustic and remote presidential retreat in Thurmont, Maryland.