Karine Jean-Pierre won't say whether Biden will go to Delaware during hurricane landfall

White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre refused on Wednesday to tell reporters whether President Joe Biden will stay at the White House while Hurricane Milton made landfall in Florida. 

Biden was supposed to go to Angola and Germany beginning on Thursday but postponed the trip because of the hurricane.

"Given the projected trajectory and strength of Hurricane Milton, President Biden is postponing his upcoming trip to Germany and Angola in order to oversee preparations for and the response to Hurricane Milton, in addition to the ongoing response to the impacts of Hurricane Helene across the Southeast," Jean-Pierre said on Tuesday.

On Wednesday during the briefing, reporters tried to determine exactly where Biden would be while the storm was slamming into Siesta Key and other points on the west coast of Florida just mere hours later.

Evasive answers

“Will [Biden] be here the whole time, probably, is it possible he will go to Delaware over the weekend, are you guys talking about a possible trip to Florida at some point already?” CNN senior White House correspondent MJ Lee asked.

But Jean-Pierre was squirrely about the president's plans.

“The president’s gonna continue to get hurricane briefings, not just on Milton, and how we’re preparing and what’s happening. He is going to be laser-focused on that as well as the vice president,” she said in a typical non-answer.

"I don’t have any travel to read out to you at this time, whether it is to the impacted areas or outside of that," she said. "What I can say is the president is going to continue to be laser-focused on the storms and what’s happening, the preparations, how we are still certainly responding to the immediate needs of folks who have been impacted by Hurricane Helene as well. That is also very much in front of us and what we’re trying to do and get done there, but that’s gonna be his focus.”

What will he do?

Now if Biden was going to stay at the White House during the maximum storm impact time, Jean-Pierre probably would have said as much.

If Biden planned to go to Florida once the storm danger had passed, I'm sure she would have said that as well.

We should probably expect to see Biden heading to Delaware by the weekend, based on her evasive answers. It may be the only place Biden can function anymore in his diminished state.

Certainly, it would not be a great idea for him to be walking around hurricane-wrecked areas of Florida when he can barely walk across a stage or onto Air Force One.

He should leave that to his vice president, who could use it to score political points and look presidential with the 2024 election less than a month away.

Assuming she can get Governor Ron DeSantis (R) to take her phone calls, that is.