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VP Joe Biden, Whoopi Goldberg share a seat on Amtrak train

This image released by ABC shows co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, left, and Jenny McCarthy during a broadcast of "The View," Monday, Sept. 9, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco).
This image released by ABC shows co-hosts Whoopi Goldberg, left, and Jenny McCarthy during a broadcast of "The View," Monday, Sept. 9, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/ABC, Lou Rocco).

WASHINGTON – Here’s a couple you didn’t expect to see riding the train together on a Friday afternoon: Vice-President Joe Biden and Whoopi Goldberg.

The vice-president’s office tweeted a photo of Biden and the Oscar-winning comedienne sitting side by side and smiling on an Amtrak train.

 

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Biden on Friday was scheduled to travel to his home state of Delaware Friday to accept an award from the Delaware Barristers Association. A lifelong Amtrak passenger, Biden frequently takes the train to and from weekend stays at his Delaware home.

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The vice-president’s office says the locomotive rendezvous was a complete coincidence.

Goldberg helped raise money for President Barack Obama’s re-election. And Biden once chatted up Goldberg and her gal pals when he was a guest on ABC’s “The View.”

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