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Joe Biden Batman refers to photoshops of Joe Biden exiting a voting booth on the day of the 2018 United States Midterm Elections. As he left the booth, he was photographed pushing away the curtain covering it, which inspired many photoshops in which it appeared Biden was brushing away a cape.

Origin

On November 6th, 2018, Joe Biden was photographed voting in the 2018 United States Midterm Elections in Wilmington, Delaware. The pictures were tweeted by CNN reporter Arlette Saenz.^[1]

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Later that evening, Redditor emogla587 posted the image to /r/photoshopbattles,^[2] where it gained over 35,000 points. The top comment in the thread with over 5,000 points as of November 8th, 2018 features of a photoshop of Biden as Count Dracula (shown below). Another popular edit with over 1,600 points showed Biden as a matador (shown below, right).

The photoshops were covered by USA Today^[2] and The Philadelphia Inquirer.^[3] In USA Today's coverage, they mentioned Biden exiting the booth "like Batman," referring to one of the photoshops in the thread (shown below, left). Both publications also included a photoshop of Biden skydiving, which had gained over 167,000 views on Imgur (shown below, right).

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