Joe Biden: All about the 46th President of the United States

After a long political career, Joe Biden has reached the highest office in the United States.

He was elected the new president in the 2020 US election.

• Joe Biden

  has been in US politics since 1973.

• From 2009 to 2017 he was

  Vice President

  under

  Barack Obama

  .

• Biden declared his

  presidential

  candidacy in 1988 and 2008,

  but withdrew it on both occasions.

• In the 2020 presidential election, he triumphed over Donald Trump.

Washington, DC -

for the third time in 2020 as a

- and for the first time with success.

In 1988 he left just six weeks after his candidacy, in 2008 he announced his withdrawal after poor results in the first primaries.

In 2020 he finally became the Democratic Party candidate: Joe Biden prevailed against

and

, among others

.

On November 3, 2020, he won

the election

against

to become the 46th President of the USA.

Joe Biden: Origin and Family

Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

was born on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.

He is of Irish-American

.

His

moved from Pennsylvania to New Castle County, Delaware in 1952.

In 1965, Biden finished his studies in history and political science at the

at Newark and completed three years later the "Juris Doctor" from the College of Law at Syracuse University.

From 1969 he worked as a lawyer in Wilmington, Delaware.

In 1991 he began teaching constitutional law at the

.

Joe Biden: Marriages and Children

Joe Biden married his high school partner

in 1966

.

The marriage had three children:

was Attorney General in Delaware from 2007 to 2015.

He died in 2015 of complications from a brain tumor.

is now a lawyer and business lobbyist.

Daughter

and Biden's wife were killed in a car accident in December 1972.

The sons survived injured.

In 1977 Biden married

, with whom he has a daughter.

Joe Biden as Senator for Delaware

Joe Biden's

political career began in 1970 with a mandate on the New Castle County Council.

Two years later, he ran for the Senate election and won as the youngest candidate in history.

From 1973 to 2009 he represented

his home state in the US Senate

as a

;

He took the oath for the Senate in January 1973 at the bedside of his injured sons.

He was re-elected to this office five times.

In the council, he strongly advocated the interests of the US railroad company Amtrak, the Dover US Airforce Base and the poultry production that is important for the state of Delaware.

Biden sat on the U.S. Justice Committee three times:

• from 1981 to 1987 as a ranking minority member

• from 1987 to 1995 as chairman

• from 1995 to 1997 again as a ranking minority member

In his work as a Senator, he played a key role in the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act.

Among other things, this restricted the possession of semi-automatic weapons and extended certain crimes to the federal level, such as hate crimes - including racist or anti-Semitic crimes - as well as sexual and gang crimes.

As chairman of the International Narcotics Control Caucus, Biden campaigned for tightened measures against the possession of various drugs.

Joe Biden: Foreign Policy Positions as Delaware Senator

In terms of foreign policy,

as

from Delaware

, pleaded

for an active role for the USA.

After the wars in Yugoslavia, he called for the United States to exert force on the Balkan Peninsula if necessary.

After the attacks of September 11, 2001, he sided with

.

He was responsible for the Iraq war and for the expansion of the ground forces in Afghanistan.

Today he regrets

his approval of the Iraq war and the overthrow of

.

Joe Biden: 2009 Vice Presidency

Biden's vice presidency from 2009 to 2017 was preceded by two candidacies for the first man in the state, one of them in 2008 in which

prevailed as the top candidate and finally as president.

Biden previously stated that while he would not actively apply for the office of vice, he would accept it if offered.

That happened on August 23, 2008.

, who is experienced in foreign policy, was supposed to

support the future president

in particular

.

Because of his good reputation among the white workforce in the United States, Obama also expected a gain in votes among Democratic supporters.

On November 4, 2008, Barack Obama became the 44th President of the United States, with Joe Biden

at his side

as

.

The swearing-in took place on January 20, 2009.

The former

Joe Biden replaced the vice-

under

,

.

This had cultivated an offensive political style.

Biden should go a different way.

He acted in particular as a consultant in the background and thus influenced the domestic and foreign policy of the USA considerably.

Joe Biden: Political priorities as Vice President 2009 to 2012

Joe Biden

supported

the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare

, as

.

In the difficult passage of the Budget Control Act in 2011 aimed at raising the debt ceiling, he was instrumental in breaking through the negotiations.

These proved difficult between Democrats and Republicans with their majority in the House of Representatives, which resulted in the threat of national bankruptcy.

Towards the end of his first term, Joe Biden made headlines when he advocated statewide gay marriages.

Obama supported the call.

Joe Biden: Second term as Vice President 2012-2017

Contrary to speculation that Obama would

replace

as a vice-presidential candidate in the 2012 election campaign, the two ran again together.

On September 6, 2012, they were nominated for a second term by the Democratic Party.

Elected by 332 electors - 270 are required -

and Joe Biden began their second term on January 20, 2013.

Biden again advocated tightening gun law, but failed to find a majority in Congress.

As Obama's term came to an end in 2016, Biden was again listed as a candidate for the presidency, but turned down a candidacy.

Instead, he supported the top candidate

, where he denied the later US President Donald Trump the suitability for the office.

With Trump's victory, Joe Biden resigned from his position as

to

, previously governor of the state of Indiana.

Joe Biden: The Path to the 2020 Presidential Candidate

Biden entered the 2020 campaign later than other candidates such as

and

.

He announced his candidacy for the Democratic primary on April 25, 2019.

For a long time Sanders was the favorite, it wasn't until February 2020 that Joe Biden achieved a clear victory with 49 percent of the vote.

Sanders dropped out of the election campaign in April 2020.

Joe Biden was officially

nominated

as a

candidate

at the Democratic Party Conference on June 5, 2020

.

Joe Biden in the 2020 US election campaign

According to polls,

had a big lead over incumbent President

weeks and months before the 2020 US election

.

Especially after the first TV duel on September 29, 2020, Biden was able to gain.

On October 2, he was 7.2 percentage points ahead of Trump.

Even so, it was not considered certain that he would soon be able to join the list of US presidents.

In the election campaign, Biden accused Trump, among other things, of having failed in the fight to spread the corona virus.

With his election manifesto he took a moderate, worker-friendly course.

These were the main points:

• $ 300 billion invested in new technology

• Increase the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour

• Fight against discrimination against black people, among others

• Tax increases for large corporations

On August 12, 2020, Joe Biden announced the vice presidency: If he won the election,

,

from California, would take over the second highest office in the USA.

Unlike Trump, Biden is considered pragmatic and balanced.

He is known not least for his long, emotional speeches.