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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr popularly known as Joe Biden was born on 20th November 1942 at Scranton, Pennsylvania, as a child Joe Biden had a debilitating stutter and his classmates mockingly calls him “Dash”.
Biden tried to avoid stammering by playing out conversations in his head, practicing whiles holding pebbles in his mouth and memorizing paragraphs instead of reading them aloud from textbooks in his class.
Biden attended school at Archmere Academy (A Catholic prep school), he was elected as the class president but the school administrators blocked him from running because they think he has too many demerits.
He also attended university of Delaware and famously got probation for a prank in which he sprayed the dorm director with a fire extinguisher.
Biden met Neilia Hunter on a string break in Bahamas during his junior year of college, Joe didn’t have enough money to pay the restaurant bill when he took Neilia on their second date but interestingly Neilia slipped $20 under the table.
When the met Neilia’s mother Biden was asked about his ambitions and he revealed he intended on becoming the president of United States one day.
He married Neilia in 1966 and had their son Beau in 1969 and their second born Hunter was born a year later, Biden revealed in any interview in 1970 saying “the only good things in the world is kids” then the proceeding year they had their daughter Naomi.
Whiles Biden was in law school he bought a puppy for Neilia and named it “senator” after finishing law school he was drafted but failed his physicals because he had asthma.
As a public defender in Delaware he defended a 25 years old fisherman who stole a prize winning Holstein cow, During 1970 campaign for new castle county Biden claimed he had racist phone calls “when I picked the call someone said you naughty lover, you want them living next to you?” he was shocked and answered the unknown caller saying “if you are the alternative then yes. In 1972 he defeated incumbent Republican senator Cale Boggs to become the fifth youngest U.S senate.
Few weeks after Biden won the senate seat, Neilia and their daughter Naomi had an accident and they died on their way to the hospital and his two sons Beau and Hunter were hospitalized with severe injuries. He was sworn as a senator in his son Beau’s hospital bed.
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Biden remarried in 1977 to Jill Tracy Jacobs. Biden been a top Democrat on the senate judiciary committee led the effort to block then Alabama U.S attorney Jeff Sessions from federal judgeship on racism but Jeff denied the accusations.
In 1987 he ran for presidentship for the first time but he quit after it was revealed that he incorporated into a speech by the British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock falsely referring to ancestors of his who worked in the coal mines.
As the chair for the judiciary committee he opposed to the supreme court nomination of Robert Bork, a legal scholar and a federal judge. Robert Bork nomination failed in the senate. This is cited by some historians as a new era for political wars over the judiciary branch.
Has the chairman of the judiciary committee Biden presided over Clarence Thomas supreme court confirmation and he become a senate.
In 1991 Biden alongside the majority of the senate democrats voted against the use of to drive Iraq out of Kuwait. Whiles touring Balkans in 1993 Biden met Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic and said he called Milosevic a “damned war criminal “ to his face though others present at the meeting recall it was phrased more diplomatically.
He also co-sponsored the violence against women act in 1994 with republican senate Orrin Hatch of Utah, he provided $1.6 billion to investigate and prosecute violent crimes against women. In 2002 he for the Iraq war and was present when then president George W. Bush signed the resolution ordering the use of arms against Iraq, Biden till now calls that vote a “mistake”.
Biden ran for presidency a second time in 2008 but dropped out after coming fifth in the lowa caucus, few months later Barack Obama selected him as his running mate. He angered then-president Obama by publicly declaring his support for gay marriage as Obama’s reelection campaign was ramping up in 2012.In 2016 he considered running for presidency but Barack Obama persuaded him not to believing Hillary Clinton has a better chance of winning against the Republicans.
Biden and his wife Jill made over $15 million combined in 2017 and 2018. Until Saturday 2nd of may 2020 Biden had won zero presidential nomination he contested across three campaigns and over 30 years. Four days later his total was 11.Finally in 2020 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr is on the course of fulfilling his dreams of becoming the president of the United States.
