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Biden, family hit Nantucket stores for some holiday shopping

Nov 25, 2022, 11:04 PM | Updated: Nov 26, 2022, 1:10 pm

President Joe Biden shakes hands with a person as he visits shops with family members in Nantucket,...

President Joe Biden shakes hands with a person as he visits shops with family members in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

(AP Photo/Susan Walsh)


              First lady Jill Biden looks at a shop with her daughter Ashley Biden in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley Biden, left, walks with Melissa Cohen and her son Beau Biden, the president's grandson, in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden leave a shop in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden walks with his daughter Ashley Biden as they visit shops in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              First lady Jill Biden smiles as she visits shops with family members in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden holds hands with his daughter Ashley Biden as they walk by shops in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden shops with first lady Jill Biden and their daughter Ashley Biden in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden visits a shop in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
            
              President Joe Biden shakes hands with a person as he visits shops with family members in Nantucket, Mass., Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

NANTUCKET, Mass. (AP) — President Joe Biden went holiday shopping on the Massachusetts resort island where he spends Thanksgiving, patronizing smaller independently owned stores on what the retail industry has called “Small Business Saturday.”

Biden, his wife, Jill, and daughter Ashley went from store to store on Main Street in downtown Nantucket, lingering at Polo Ralph Lauren, Murray’s Toggery Shop and The Black Dog, among other establishments.

The president’s son Hunter and his wife, Melissa, were also shopping with their 2-year-old son, Beau.

Biden emerged from The Black Dog holding a small brown paper shopping bag. The White House had no immediate comment on the president’s purchases.

The retail industry came up with the moniker to help independent and locally owned business gain a share of the holiday shopping rush and to counter the markdowns and deeper discounts larger corporate retailers offer to drum up business on the day after Thanksgiving, known as Black Friday.

As Biden went from store to store, a reporter asked what he thought about a dinner meeting former President Donald Trump recently had at his Florida home with Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, and Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist.

Both of Trump’s dinner guests have expressed anti-semitic views. Trump has said he did not know anything about Fuentes’ background.

“You don’t want to hear what I think,” Biden replied. Biden has said such views have no place in America.

Biden also shopped in downtown Nantucket on Friday before the annual Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

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