Castle GlennBiden, who was a senator from Delaware for more than 35 years and served as vice president in the administration of the 44th head of the American state Barack Obama, is considered one of the most authoritative and experienced representatives of the Democratic Party. At the time of inauguration on January 20, 2021, he will be 78 years old: thus, he will become the oldest president in the history of the United States.
Since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Joe Biden has publicly addressed the country’s population many times and has often found time to express his condolences to the relatives of the dead. To date, more than 225,000 people have died in the United States from the effects of COVID-19.
Biden’s statements on the subject are in stark contrast to the views of current US President Donald Trump. Trump himself contracted the coronavirus and after returning to the White House from the clinic said that the disease is not something to be afraid of.
Joe Biden, for his part, urges Americans to wear masks at all times, keep a social distance and take the risk of infection seriously. Biden promised that, having occupied the White House, he would present a plan to further counteract the coronavirus pandemic, including the introduction of a federal mask regime “from day one”.
The deaths of his wife and daughter
Joe Biden knows firsthand what it means to lose a spouse and bury a child. Because of tragedies in his own family, he nearly ended his political career – not once, but twice.
The first time this happened was in 1972. Biden – a Syracuse University law school graduate – was just 29 years old when he decided to challenge seasoned Republican James Caleb Boggs and run for senator from Delaware.
Despite an extremely small campaign budget, he won the election. Just a few weeks later, however, tragedy struck, changing the young politician’s life forever: his wife Nelia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident, and his sons Bo and Hunter were seriously injured.
The 30-year-old senator from Delaware
Biden initially wanted to resign as senator, but was eventually persuaded not to. He took the oath of office at the hospital where his sons were lying. The young senator began to travel every day by train from Delaware to Washington and back. His sister Valerie moved in with him on purpose to take care of the children. She lived in her brother’s home until 1977, when Biden married his current spouse, Jill Jacobs. Their joint daughter Ashley was born soon afterward.
However, the evil doom continued to haunt Biden. In 2015, he served as vice president in the Obama administration and worked with him on a bill to guarantee access to health care for millions of low-income families. And during that time, Biden’s oldest son Beau died of brain cancer. Joe Biden, who was going to run for President of the United States in the 2016 election, chose to drop out of the race.
The time of “slow Joe” had finally arrived
Despite this, just four years later, Biden did become the new president of the United States. The fact that the Democrats eventually preferred an experienced politician to younger candidates is not surprising, notes University of Missouri professor Mitchell McKinney. He considers Biden to be a sensible, consistent, empathetic and sensitive politician – the complete opposite of Trump, who liked to call his opponent “slow Joe”.
Biden’s goal is to unite America
Joe Biden intends to unite a divisive America. “If you entrust me with the presidency, I will help bring out the good in us, not the bad, I will be an ally of light, not darkness,” he said on August 20, accepting the nomination as the Democratic Party’s nominee for U.S. president. “It’s time for us all to unite,” the politician added, promising to “work hard” in the interests of those who did not vote for him, among others.
Biden promised the creation of millions of new jobs and specified that the necessary investments could come from abandoning the tax cuts for the rich introduced by his election rival Donald Trump.
