For most of 2023 and 2024, President Joe Biden planned the course until November 5, 2024. As the incumbent, the veteran politician was the presumptive Democratic nominee, winning enough delegates in March and running a tough race with the former president Donald Trump.

But instead of spending Election Day preparing for an evening speech, the president's schedule is empty except for daily briefings from aides: No public events.

The president and first lady Jill Biden will spend election night watching the election results at the White House residence with “longtime aides and senior White House staff,” according to a White House official.

“The president is regularly updated on the status of races across the country,” the official added.

On Monday evening, the 81-year-old Biden also held talks with Democratic state party leaders across the country. Ben Wikler, chairman of the Wisconsin state Democratic Party, told ABC News' MaryAlice Parks the call was “electric.”

Biden dropped out of the race on July 21, endorsing his running mate, Kamala Harris, after a disastrous performance in the first presidential debate and under pressure from prominent Democrats.

“It has been the greatest honor of my life to be your president,” he wrote, among other things, in a letter published on social media. “And while it was my intention to seek re-election, I believe it is in the best interest of my party and the country for me to step down and focus solely on fulfilling my duties as president for the remainder of my term.”

Biden stirred last-minute controversy on Oct. 29 when he appeared to call Trump supporters “trash” during a campaign call by the nonprofit Voto Latino.

“The only trash I see floating out there is his supporters – his – his demonization of Latinos is unconscionable and un-American. It is completely contradictory to everything we have done, everything we have been,” Biden said.

Trump quickly seized on the comments, saying Biden “meant it,” although the president released a clarification, saying his comment was about the comedian who made the joke and “referred to the hateful rhetoric about Puerto.” Rico, who expelled Trump's supporters in his Madison Square. “Garden rally as trash – that's the only word I can think of to describe it.”

“His demonization of Latinos is unconscionable. That's all I wanted to say. The comments at this rally do not reflect who we are as a nation,” Biden said in the post on X.