在这一点上，这两个人似乎有可能面对面在明年11月的总统选举中在全国各地的星期天做着同样的事情:和服役人员一起庆祝感恩节。
美国总统乔·拜登(Joe Biden)周日下午前往弗吉尼亚州，观看即将上映的音乐电影《旺卡》(Wonka)，并主持一场朋友聚会——这两项活动都是为军人及其家人举办的。
据与拜登夫妇同行的记者称，总统和第一夫人吉尔·拜登在诺福克的一个海军设施的电影放映前发表了讲话，吉尔·拜登感谢了这些家庭，并提到了她已故的继子博·拜登自己在国民警卫队的服役。
周日晚些时候，总统和第一夫人在诺福克海军基地参加了一个有军人及其亲属参加的晚宴。
吉尔·拜登在那里发表讲话，哀悼刚刚宣布的死亡前第一夫人罗丝琳·卡特的照片.
吉尔·拜登说:“我很抱歉以一个悲伤的消息开始，前第一夫人罗丝琳·卡特刚刚去世。”。“她因在精神健康、护理和妇女权利方面的努力而闻名。所以我希望在节日期间，你会考虑说(你会)在你的祈祷中包括卡特一家。”
朋友感恩节晚餐是第一夫人支持军人的长期倡议的一部分，称为“联合力量”。
2023年11月19日，乔·拜登总统和第一夫人吉尔·拜登在弗吉尼亚州诺福克的诺福克海军基地从空军一号下船后问候服务人员和其他人。
朱莉娅·尼克欣森/路透社
在庆祝即将到来的感恩节假期时，乔·拜登也没有远离其他头条新闻。当他到达海军基地时，一名记者大声询问为达成协议正在进行的工作在哈马斯10月7日发动恐怖袭击后的以色列-哈马斯战争中，释放据信被哈马斯扣押在加沙的200多名人质。
“总统先生，什么时候会有更多的人质被释放?”记者问。
根据总统的记者采访，他回应道，“我没有资格告诉你这些。...我想确定他们出去了，然后我会告诉你。”
乔·拜登(Joe Biden)周日旅行时，忽略了——或者说没有听到——另一个关于年轻人投票的大声提问，此前新的民调显示，年轻选民在距离大选还有一年的时候对他产生了反感。
在全国范围内，前总统唐纳德·特朗普(Donald Trump)得到了德克萨斯州州长格雷格·阿博特(Greg Abbott)的正式支持，然后在周日德克萨斯州边境附近的一次罕见的简短台上讲话中加倍重视边境安全。
特朗普在州长支持他后由阿博特介绍，他只讲了10分钟——比他典型的竞选言论短得多，通常至少一个小时，有时甚至持续近两个小时。
当天早些时候，他花了更长时间为服务人员提供餐饮，并与近200名德克萨斯州国民警卫队士兵、德克萨斯州公共安全部士兵和其他将在感恩节期间驻扎在边境的官员握手并拍照。
特朗普和阿博特在爱丁堡南德克萨斯州国际机场的德克萨斯州公共安全部机库内提供了30多分钟的食物。
随后，特朗普和阿博特都在机库内发表了简短的讲话，感谢服务人员，然后他们来到停机坪发表评论。
民调显示，特朗普在一度拥挤的共和党总统初选中仍是明显的领先者，尽管他一直存在争议和法律问题。
他在四个独立的刑事案件中受到指控，但他否认所有不法行为，并辩称无罪。
周日，他抨击拜登，声称总统在德克萨斯州花的时间不够多，特朗普认为这是拜登政府在边境失败的一部分。
就拜登而言，他越来越多地关注特朗普的名字，因为他的竞选活动似乎正在加强对2020年大选可能重演的关注。
上周，他谴责特朗普因为他称政治敌人是特朗普要“铲除”的“害虫”。
一些历史学家说，这种言论与阿道夫·希特勒和本尼托·墨索里尼等臭名昭著的独裁者有明显的相似之处。
特朗普的竞选团队坚决否认这一点。
Biden and Trump separately spend time with service members ahead of Thanksgiving
The two men who seem likely, at this point, to face each otherin a presidential election rematch next Novemberspent their Sundays in different parts of the country doing the same thing: marking Thanksgiving with service members.
President Joe Biden headed to Virginia on Sunday afternoon for a screening of the upcoming musical film "Wonka" and to host a Friendsgiving -- both events for service members and families.
The president and first lady Jill Biden spoke before the film screening at a Naval facility in Norfolk, with Jill Biden thanking the families and mentioning her late stepson Beau Biden's own service in the National Guard, according to reporters traveling with the Bidens.
Later Sunday, the president and first lady attended a Friendsgiving dinner with troops and their relatives at the Norfolk Naval Station.
Speaking there, Jill Biden mourned the just-announced deathof former first lady Rosalynn Carter.
"I'm sorry to lead this off with a sad announcement that former first lady Rosalynn Carter has just passed," Jill Biden said. "She was well known for her efforts on mental health and caregiving and women's rights. So I hope that during the holidays, you'll consider saying [you'll] include the Carter family in your prayers."
The Friendsgiving dinner is part of the first lady's longtime initiative to support service members, called Joining Forces.
While celebrating the upcoming Thanksgiving holiday, Joe Biden was not too far from other headlines. As he arrived to the Navy base, a reporter shouted out to ask aboutongoing work to reach a dealto free many of the 200-plus hostages believed to be held by Hamas in Gaza, amid the Israel-Hamas war in the wake of Hamas' Oct. 7 terror attack.
“Mr. President when will more hostages get out?” the reporter asked.
According to the press pool with the president, he responded, “I’m not in a position to tell you that. ... I want to make sure they’re out, and then I’ll tell you."
While traveling on Sunday, Joe Biden ignored -- or did not hear -- another shouted question about the youth vote in the wake of new polling indicating younger voters have soured on him a year out from the election.
Across the country, former President Donald Trump was officially endorsed by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott and then doubled down on border security in uncharacteristically short on-stage remarks near the Texas border on Sunday.
Introduced by Abbott just after the governor endorsed him, Trump spoke for just 10 minutes -- much shorter than his typical campaign remarks, which are usually at least an hour long, at times even going for nearly two hours.
He spent longer time serving meals to service members earlier in the day, shaking hands and taking pictures with nearly 200 Texas National Guard soldiers, Texas Department of Public Safety troopers and other officials that will be stationed on the border during Thanksgiving.
Trump and Abbott served food for more than 30 minutes inside the Texas Department of Public Safety hangar at the South Texas International Airport in Edinburg.
Afterward, both Trump and Abbott spoke briefly inside the hangar, thanking service members, and then they came out to the tarmac for their remarks.
Trump, polls show, remains the clear front-runner in the once-crowded Republican presidential primary, despite his ongoing controversies and legal troubles.
He is charged in four separate criminal cases but denies all wrongdoing and has pleaded not guilty.
On Sunday, he swiped at Biden, claiming the president doesn't spend enough time in Texas, which Trump suggested was part of the Biden administration's failures at the border.
Biden, for his part, has increasingly focused on Trump by name as his campaign appears to be sharpening its focus for a likely repeat of the 2020 race.
Last week,he condemned Trumpfor calling political enemies "vermin" whom Trump would "root out."
Some historians said that rhetoric had clear parallels with infamous dictators of the past like Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.
Trump's campaign adamantly denied this.
