Twitter users react to bald eagles circling over Biden campaign event in Iowa

A rare and fair feathered sight concluded a Joe Biden campaign event in Iowa on Friday when a pair of bald eagles circled over the Democratic presidential candidate’s head, according to a pool report.

Biden’s campaign appeared to take the appearance of the national bird of the U.S. as a good omen.

“Nature knows,” tweeted Biden’s policy director Stef Feldman.

Nature knows. https://t.co/TugcIemxT9

— Stef Feldman (@StefFeldman) October 30, 2020

“We’re gonna win Iowa,” tweeted Christina Freundlich, Biden’s Iowa deputy state director for communications.

We’re gonna win Iowa https://t.co/6ThjBkCvPD

— Christina Freundlich (@christinafreund) October 30, 2020

Reporters were a little more cynical about the meaning of the cameo.

Wall Street Journal reporter Julie Bykowicz joked, “This is what a nearly $1 billion presidential campaign can get you.”

This is what a nearly $1 billion presidential campaign can get you. (kidding) https://t.co/sdUJPTKPfe

— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) October 30, 2020

“great advance work,” added CNN political analyst and former Clinton White House press secretary Joe Lockhart.

great advance work.

— Joe Lockhart (@joelockhart) October 30, 2020

Washington Post reporter Matt Viser noted that at least one vulture has been spotted at a previous Biden event.

“The Biden campaign no doubt likes this omen a bit better,” he tweeted.

Before the New Hampshire primary, there was a vulture at one of his events. And the power went out at the hotel many were staying at. The Biden campaign no doubt likes this omen a bit better. https://t.co/tS8Zi9KBh6

— Matt Viser (@mviser) October 30, 2020

It’s not the first time Biden’s been followed by a bald eagle. As vice president in 2015, one of the birds soared overhead during a Washington, D.C., appearance. He called it “a really good omen,” according to The Washingtonian.

Last September, also in Iowa, an alleged bald eagle flew over a Biden event that prompted the candidate to talk about his late son, Beau. He said he hadn’t seen a bald eagle since Beau died in 2015, according to New York Magazine. He reportedly said of the bird, “Maybe that’s my Beau.”

Biden will face  President Trump in the presidential election with polls closing on Tuesday. The two are nearly tied in Iowa, where Biden was leading within the margin of error in a New York Times-Siena College poll last week.