![]() ![]() ![]() Trump continued to speak at rallies with high in-person attendance, while Biden chose to enforce stricter social-distancing rules and held many of his campaign events online. Both Biden and Trump faced a unique challenge: how to campaign for president while a highly contagious, deadly disease spread across the country. A PANDEMIC PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNīy this time, the coronavirus pandemic had started, affecting U.S. By the end of April, Biden was the final remaining Democratic nominee for president. But support surged for Biden after he won an important election in South Carolina in late February 2020, prompting other candidates to drop out of the race. He announced his candidacy in April 2019-but before he could face off against Trump, he had to beat his fellow Democratic candidates.Īt first, Biden didn’t perform well in the race several other Democratic contenders were considered stronger challengers to Trump’s presidency. A THIRD ATTEMPT AT THE PRESIDENCYĭissatisfied with Trump’s performance as president, Biden decided to run against him in the 2020 election. Instead, he campaigned for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who ultimately lost the 2016 election to businessman Donald Trump. In 2015 his eldest son, Beau, had died from brain cancer Biden noted that the family was still grieving, and he didn’t want to put them through a grueling election. president can only serve for two terms.) But Biden decided against it. (According to the 22nd amendment of the U.S. Some vice presidents run for president after the president they served under serves two terms and can’t run again. The pair won and went on to serve four more years together in the White House. Obama ran for reelection in 2012 against Utah Senator Mitt Romney, with Biden as his vice president once again. Biden traveled to the Middle East several times. ![]() Obama consulted with Biden on many decisions, including who to put in his Cabinet and how to handle the two wars the United States was fighting in the Middle Eastern countries of Afghanistan and Iraq. Biden's main role was as an advisor to Obama, mostly on issues of foreign policy and the economy. TWO-TERM VPĪs vice president, Biden played an active role in the Obama administration, with Obama tasking Biden with several notable assignments. On January 20, 2009, he was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, making Biden the country’s 46th vice president. On November 2, 2008, Obama defeated the Republican candidate for president, Arizona Senator John McCain. Obama hoped Biden’s working-class roots would help him appeal to voters in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania. Senator Biden made two unsuccessful attempts to become president-one in 1987 and one in 2007-before joining the ticket of Barack Obama as the vice-presidential nominee in 2008. During this time, he remarried and with his second wife, Jill Biden, added a daughter, Ashley, to their family. FROM SENATOR TO VICE PRESIDENTīiden gained both praise and criticism during his time in the Senate for his work in such areas as judicial appointments, criminal justice, and foreign affairs. He went on to serve in the Senate for 36 years, until 2009. At first, Biden wasn’t sure if he should take his Senate seat, but he eventually did he was sworn in from his son Beau’s hospital room in 1973. The couple’s two young sons, Beau and Hunter, were seriously injured. Just days before his swearing in, his wife, Neilia Hunter, and year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car accident. He soon turned to politics and at age 29 became one of the youngest U.S. He was more successful on the football field than in the classroom but went on to graduate from the University of Delaware and earn a law degree from Syracuse University in New York. When Biden was in third grade, the family moved from Pennsylvania to Delaware, where Biden would live for most of the rest of his life.īiden struggled to overcome a childhood stutter by reciting memorized speeches to his reflection and planning conversations in advance. His father cleaned furnaces and was a used car salesman his mother was a homemaker. He was the oldest of four children in a family that had fallen on hard times. president born between the Great Depression of the 1930s and the end of World War II in 1945. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., was born on November 20, 1942, in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the only U.S. ![]()
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