{"id":31139,"date":"2023-10-16T13:19:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-joe-biden-postpones-colorado-trip-amid-israel-hamas-conflict\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:35:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:35:14","slug":"update-joe-biden-postpones-colorado-trip-amid-israel-hamas-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/update-joe-biden-postpones-colorado-trip-amid-israel-hamas-conflict\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Joe Biden postpones Colorado trip amid Israel-Hamas conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=44aa2bae-0cd7-506e-8eed-23069af3fb64&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"President Joe Biden waves to the crowd after speaking at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">President Joe Biden waves to the crowd after speaking at the 2023 Human Rights Campaign National Dinner, Saturday, Oct. 14, 2023, in Washington. (AP Photo\/Manuel Balce Ceneta)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Manuel Balce Ceneta<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>President Joe Biden postponed his trip to Colorado on Monday amid the war between Israel and Hamas.<\/p>\n<p>The White House said the visit, during which Biden planned to tout his administration\u2019s climate policies, would be rescheduled. More details weren\u2019t released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe president will remain at the White House to participate in national security meetings,\u201d the White House said in a brief written statement Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The president was scheduled to tour Pueblo\u2019s CS Wind factory, the largest wind turbine tower manufacturing plant in the world, as part of his \u201cInvesting in America\u201d tour.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s visit would have been his second to Colorado this year. In June, Biden traveled to Colorado Springs to give the commencement address U.S. Air Force Academy graduates.<\/p>\n<p>The White House announced Biden\u2019s visit this past Wednesday, a few days after the conflict in the Middle East began.<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s decision to postpone his trip also comes after a train hauling coal derailed Sunday in southern Colorado as it crossed a bridge over Interstate 25, indefinitely closing the busy route between Pueblo and Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House said the visit would be rescheduled<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31140,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[120,28,716],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-31139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-colorado","tag-headlines","tag-president-joseph-biden"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81331,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31139\/revisions\/81331"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31139"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}