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 like Joe Biden.
Opposition presidential candidate Joe Biden could be considered among the third type of leaders in the United States.
An American magazine wrote of him: “There is no one in American politics today whose life has been shaped by more tragic events than Biden. 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 with him.
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 rival.
Biden’s politics began in the US state of Delaware in 1972 with a successful Senate election. He unexpectedly defeated the then-Republican candidate by a narrow margin.
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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.
British politician Neil Kinnock’s parents were miners. Biden, while reading a part of his speech as his own, called his parents miners when his parents were not miners.
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 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 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 of a company called DuPo had opened there, creating new economic opportunities.
Here he went to St. Helena’s School and then to the Arch Meyer Academy, a good school in the area.
Stuttering Baby
Biden stammered as a child. As he spoke to tell his name, 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 Impedimenta’.
But he did not give up, and in the end, to overcome 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.
