US presidential candidate Joe Biden
US presidential candidate Joe Biden
After
the November 3 vote, Joe Biden, 77, is on his way to being elected the oldest
president of the United States, but it was not easy to get here, so Biden had
to make a difficult journey.
Most
political leaders inherit politics, or their success is entirely the result of
their own hard work, or the circumstances around them make them accidental
leaders. Opposition presidential candidate Joe Biden could be considered the third-largest accidental leader in the United States.
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| US presidential candidate Joe Biden |
"There is no one in American politics
today whose personality has been shaped by more tragic events than Biden,"
an American magazine wrote of him. Biden's long political journey has been
marked by constant tragedy.
Joe
Biden's Early Life:
Joe
Biden was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to working
parents. His father, Joseph Biden, cleaned the furnaces, and his mother,
Catherine Eugenia was a traditional Catholic woman.
Biden moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware with
his parents at the age of 13. Biden stuttering as a child. Biden was a good
student and joined the school football team despite not being tall. Joe Biden
graduated from the school in 1961.
Biden enrolled at a university near his home
called the University of Delaware, where he earned a BA in History and Political
Science. But he continued to play football. It was a time when John F. Kennedy,
then a "young" president in the United States, greatly influenced the
new generation. During his studies, he traveled to the Bahamas, where he met
Nelia Hunter, a student at the University of Surrey Queens. This meeting turned
into love at first sight. He worked hard to meet the girl and enrolled in law
at Syracuse.
He
started studying law in 1965 and married Neelia a year later. It is said that
when he visited Neelia's parents before the wedding, they asked her how she
would earn money and what she would do in the future. It is said that Joe
replied that he would become president of the United States. At the time,
however, Biden was an average law student.
When he was elected to the Senate in 1972, his
wife and youngest daughter were killed in a car accident. Later in 2015, one of
his sons, who survived the same accident, died of brain cancer. According to
analysts, these tragic aspects of his life have made him "more like
himself, more real and more sympathetic" in the eyes of the average
American.
Biden's
politics began in the US state of Delaware in 1972 with a successful Senate
election. He unexpectedly defeated the Republican candidate by a narrow margin.
He ran in the presidential race in 1988 but was forced to withdraw from the
race after revealing that he had stolen a quote from a British politician's
speech.
Beginning
of political career: -
Joe
Biden served as a lawyer in Delaware for a short time before entering politics
early in his career. He is the fifth-youngest senator in U.S. history and the
longest-serving senator in Delaware.
He ran for president again in 2007 but soon
withdrew due to a lack of support. But the same race-winning candidate, Barack
Obama nominated him as his vice president. And so he was elected vice
president along with President Obama.
Biden
was twice elected vice president alongside Obama. When his term ended in 2017,
then-US President Barack Obama awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
This is one of the highest honors in the United States. And two years later,
Biden announced his candidacy for the presidency.
After
completing his law studies in 1968, Biden moved to Wilmington, Delaware, where
he began practicing law for a company. Here he became a dynamic member of the
Democratic Party. In 1970 he was elected a member of the local Newcastle County
Council.
Despite
being a counselor, he continued to practice law. During this time they had
three children, two sons and a daughter, Joseph Biden III, Hunter Biden, and
Naomi Biden. In 1972, the Democratic Party persuaded him to run for the U.S.
Senate against a strong Republican candidate, Jay Caleb Boggs.
Although he was less likely to win against his
strongest opponent, he faced Ditt in which his sister and wife supported him
well. His parents also went from house to house campaigning for him.
The contest was tough in November this year and voters turned out in large numbers
at polling stations. When the result came out, many people were surprised at
Biden's success. He was thus elected the fifth-youngest senator in the
country's history.
Accidents in Biden's life:
Just
as he was about to take the oath of office in the Senate, his wife and three
children were involved in a car accident. His wife and children were out
shopping at Christmas when a tractor hit their car on the way. His wife Neelima
and daughter Naomi died on the spot while their two sons were rushed to
hospital in critical condition.
Joe Biden went to the hospital without taking
the oath and stayed in the hospital with his children and later took the oath
of office by standing by the children's bed. He then went on to win all the
Senate elections he won. The people of his constituency unofficially declared
him their representative after this tragedy.
However,
Biden married Jill for the second time in 1977, five years after the deaths of
his first wife and two children. Their daughter, Ashley, was born in 1981.
Biden, the son of Biden's first wife, died in 2015 of brain cancer.
Once again, Biden's grief was a major factor
in his political career. After Biden's vice presidency, when Donald Trump was
elected president, he sharply criticized him and said that Trump has no
knowledge of governance. He also slammed President Trump for defending white
extremists.
Biden
as Presidential Candidate: ---
After
a period of uncertainty, Biden announced his intention to run in 2019
presidential election. He said in his announcement that he knew that President
Trump's racist policies posed a threat to the country that might never recur in
his lifetime.
However,
Biden has faced opposition from the Democrats' left and pro-women groups from
the beginning. She backed a bill to cut funding for abortion but changed her
stance after strong criticism. Biden voted in favor of the Iraq war resolution
but later described it as a mistake.
KamalaHarris, who is now his running mate for the presidency, was sharply critical of
Biden. However, in the next round of presidential debates, he improved his
position as a "moderate" politician, citing President Obama's foreign
policies as his achievements.
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| US presidential candidate Joe Biden |
In
2019, the White House revealed some information that President Donald Trump was
pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate corruption against Joe
Biden. As vice president, Joe Biden appointed his son, Hunter Biden, a director
at Borisma, a Ukrainian oil company.
That the same year, after the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Ukrainian government launched an inquiry into Borisma. It turned out that a 5 million
bribe had been paid, but the Ukrainian government said Biden was not among the
bribe-takers.
There
is no evidence that Biden played a role in the Ukraine scandal. There is also
no apparent evidence that he was involved in any corruption. However, according
to a poll conducted by the American magazine Politico, the majority of Americans
consider Biden's role inappropriate because of the appointment of their son as
a director.
Biden
is currently being portrayed as a moderate ideologue rather than a powerful
figure who can bring together various circles of Democrats to defeat Donald Trump.
Biden also appears to be gaining more votes than his rival Trump in various
opinion polls. Most opinion polls are based on President Trump's move on the
coronavirus, which he says is causing people to turn against him. Now that the
death toll from the coronavirus is rising again, and Trump is seen playing
golf, "non-committed" voters are more likely to turn against him.
But
because of the unique approach of the electoral colleges in the United States,
the high turnout does not guarantee victory in the presidential election. In
the last 20 years, the two Democratic presidential candidates, Elgore and
Hillary Clinton has won more than half a million and three million votes, respectively,
than their rivals۔
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