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Joe Biden was the hero of 2020 's presidential election, which he won just because of one essential question at exactly the right moment: "Will you just shut the fuck up?" Donald Trump might have been the best President for whole America, but after four years half the voters said "He talks too much!"
Apr 25, 2023 · Joe Biden is the 46th president of the United States. The long-time U.S. senator also served as Barack Obama’s vice president from 2009 until 2017.
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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ ˈ b aɪ d ən / ⓘ BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.
- Joe Biden’s Early Years
- Senator Biden and First Presidential Run
- Joe Biden as Vice President
- Joe Biden's 2020 Presidential Run
- Covid-19 and The 2020 Election
Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942, in the blue-collar city of Scranton, Pennsylvania. At age 10 he moved with his family to the Wilmington, Delaware, area, where his father found work as a car salesman. The first of four siblings, Biden attended a series of Catholic schools, including the elite preparatory high school Archmer...
Biden won reelection in 1978 and five times after that. Overall, he spent 36 years in the U.S. Senate, including eight years as chair of the Judiciary Committee and four years as chair of the Foreign Relations Committee. Despite generally supporting civil rights, Biden opposed the forced busing of students to end de facto segregation. Later on, he ...
Biden kicked off his second attempt at the White House 20 years later, during the 2008 primary, but dropped out after securing only 1 percent of the delegates in the Iowa Democratic caucuses. Barack Obama tapped him to be his running mate after winning the Democratic nomination. In the November 2008 presidential elections, Obama and Biden bested th...
On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries. As a popular former vice president, he immediately entered the race with high name recognition. Biden ran alongside 28 other Democratic candidates in a crowded primary that pitted Biden's more moderate policies against those of progressive candidates suc...
A looming issue throughout the election was the coronavirus pandemic which had claimed more than 230,000 American lives and infected more than 9 million in the country. President Trump, himself, became infected with COVID-19in October and was hospitalized at Walter Reed Medical Center, where he received several treatments, including an experimental...
May 10, 2024 · Joe Biden, in full Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr., (born Nov. 20, 1942, Scranton, Pa., U.S.), 46th president of the U.S. (2021– ). After earning a law degree (1968) from Syracuse University in New York, he briefly worked as an attorney in Delaware before turning to politics.
On January 20, 2021, Biden was sworn in by U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts as the 46th president of the United States, completing the oath of office at 11:49 am EST, eleven minutes before the legal start of his term.
Jan 18, 2021 · NPR's Audie Cornish talks with Evan Osnos of The New Yorker, who wrote President-elect Joe Biden's biography, about the arc of Biden's political career — from youngest senator to oldest...
