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US Presidential Election 2020: Who is Joe Biden?
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 most wanted leader in the United States.
"There is no one in American politics today whose life 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.
When he was elected to the Senate in 1972, his wife and youngest daughter died in a car accident, and in 2015, one of his sons, who survived the same accident, died of brain cancer. His son was also a friend of Kamala Harris, who is now running for vice president.
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.
Joe Biden is now the Democratic Party's presidential candidate and is running against incumbent President Donald Trump. Even now, the tragedies of his personal life are being presented as the basis of his political power. His supporters are portraying him as a 'noble and compassionate' man compared to his opponent.
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.
Accused of plagiarism
He is the fifth youngest senator in U.S. history and the longest-serving senator in Delaware.
He ran in the presidential race in 1988, but was forced to withdraw from the race after revealing that he had stolen an excerpt from a British politician's speech.
British politician Neil Kinnock's parents were miners. Biden, while reading a part of his speech, called his parents miners when his parents were not miners.
He ran for president again in 2007 but soon withdrew due to lack of support. But in the same race, the successful 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.
Joe Biden's childhood
Joe Biden cuts his 30th birthday cake with his wife Nelia and children
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.
But Joe Biden says that whenever he came home after being beaten by other boys in the neighborhood, his mother would tell him, 'Blow blood from his nose so that you can cross your street the next day with your head held high.' ' According to him, his parents worked hard for him to cope with life.
Joe Biden moved with his parents from Delaware to Pennsylvania at the age of 13 because a new chemical plant called Du Poon had opened there, creating new economic opportunities. Here he went to St. Helena's School and then to a good school in the area, Arch Meyer Academy.
Stuttering baby
Biden stammered as a child. As he spoke, he stammered in Biden's words, repeating "Bye" and "Bye", which led the other boys to name him Bye Bye.
To make fun of him, some called him 'Dash' and some called him 'Joe Empedimenta'. But he did not give up and eventually overcame his stuttering habit, he would put glass pills in his mouth and talk, memorizing long poems while standing in front of a mirror.
Biden was a good student at Arch Meyer Academy, and despite not being tall, he joined the school's football team. Joe Biden graduated from the school in 1961.
Advocacy education and marriage
Joe Biden attended 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. Who were part of the same race.
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 and what she would do in the future. It is said that Joe replied that he would become the President of the United States.
At the time, however, Biden was an average law student. Once during his studies at Syracuse, he did not attend his class because he did not provide a suitable reference for just one of his dissertations. However, he later claimed that it was an accidental mistake. But this incident haunted him for many years.
The beginning of political life
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 Newcastle County Council (local government). Despite being a councilor, 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 a strong opponent, he competed in a dot in which his sister and wife supported him. His parents also went door-to-door campaigning for him.
The contest was tough in November this year and voters turned out in large numbers at the 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.
Death of wife and daughter
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 Neelia 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.
After that, he won all the Senate elections he fought. The people of his constituency unofficially declared him their permanent representative after this tragedy.
Joe Biden was a member of key Senate committees and then chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee for a long time. Most analysts also consider him an expert on foreign affairs. He also played a key role in brokering an arms race with Russia.
According to some observers, Joe Biden has often followed Establishment policy. He played a role in enacting strict anti-crime laws. Strict anti-crime legislation is a popular issue among the average American, but on the left, it is called anti-minority action.
However, Biden, along with Senator Ted Kennedy, was part of a Senate team that barred President Ronald Reagan's nominee, Judge Robert Brooke, from becoming a judge. Brooke was a right-wing ideological extremist lawmaker who implemented some of President Nixon's alleged illegal actions and was seen as anti-women and anti-black minorities.
As vice president in the Obama administration, Joe Biden has on several occasions been instrumental in successful negotiations with Republicans in Congress on tax cuts. According to some critics, he took advantage of the Democrats' position against the Republicans.
Second marriage
Joe Biden married Jill for the second time in 1977. Their daughter, Ashley, was born in 1981.
In 2015, Joe Biden's first wife's son, Beau Biden, died of brain cancer. Once again, Biden's grief was a major factor in his political career.
When Donald Trump was elected president after Biden's vice presidency, he sharply criticized him and said that Trump has no knowledge of governance. He also slammed President Trump for defending white extremists.
After a period of uncertainty, Biden announced his intention to run in the 2019 presidential election. At the time of his announcement, he had said 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.
Joe Biden voted in favor of the Iraq war resolution but later described it as a mistake.
Kamala Harris, who is now his running mate, criticized Biden. However, in the next round of presidential debates, he improved his position as a "moderate" politician by describing President Obama's foreign policies as his achievements.
Ukraine scandal
In 2019, the White House revealed information that President Donald Trump was pressuring the Ukrainian government to investigate corruption against Joe Biden. As vice president, Biden appointed his son, Hunter Biden, as a director at Borisma, a Ukrainian oil company.
That same year, after the impeachment of President Donald Trump, the Ukrainian government launched an inquiry into Borisma. It turned out that a پچ 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 Politco, the majority of Americans consider Biden's role inappropriate because of the appointment of their son as a director.
Allegations of sexual abuse
As Biden's Democratic presidential nominee appears to be closing, Democrat left-wing presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is announcing the end of his campaign and new allegations of sexual harassment are emerging. Yes, this time from Tara Reid, an old Biden assistant.
Tara Reid has worked with Joe Biden for 30 years. He alleged that Biden sexually assaulted her in a congressional hall. Many women have accused Biden of openly touching her body in an inappropriate manner.
However, Tara Reid's first allegation came to light. Joe Biden vehemently denied the allegations, saying: "I'm blunt that this never happened, never happened." However, close acquaintances of Ms Reid say she had told her close friends about the alleged rape before.
Decisive hour
Joe 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 corona virus, which he says is causing people to turn against him. Now that the death toll from the corona virus is rising again, and Trump is seen playing golf, "non-committed" voters are more likely to go 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, have won more than half a million and three million votes, respectively, than their rivals.
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