Joe Biden

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (Joe Biden)(Born on November 20th, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current President of the United States. As a participant in the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice-president between 2009 and 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 until 2009.

• Biden was born in and was raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, moving with his family to New Castle County, Delaware, at the age of 53 at the age of ten. He attended his school at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree at Syracuse University in 1968. Biden got elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970. He became the youngest senator in U.S. history after being elected to the United States Senate from Delaware in 1972 when he was 29.

• Biden was leader or chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 12 years and was an influential figure in foreign affairs during the Obama administration. Biden also served as the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 until 1995, which dealt with the issue of drug policy, crime prevention and civil liberties concerns. He helped introduce legislation such as the Violent Crime Control Act, the Law Enforcement Act, and the Violence Against Women Act.

• He was in charge of 6 U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the controversial hearings on Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Biden was unsuccessful in his bid for nomination to the Democratic presidency in 2008 and 1988. Biden was elected to the Senate at least six times. He was the fourth-highest senior senator in the Senate at the time Obama became the vice president following the victory in the presidential election of 2008, beating John McCain and his running co-host Sarah Palin.

• Obama, along with Biden, was elected in 2012, beating Mitt Romney and his running ally Paul Ryan.In his eight years as vice president Biden relied on his Senate experience and often was a spokesperson for the administration during discussions with the congressional Republicans, for example, on the Budget Control Act of 2011, which addressed a debt ceiling crisis and also the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 that addressed the looming “fiscal the cliff”. Biden also supervised infrastructure spending in 2009 to help combat the Great Recession.

• Biden was a close adviser to the President in terms of the foreign front. He played a crucial part in the design of the decision to withdraw U.S. soldiers from Iraq in the year 2011. In 2017, Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction. Biden and his running co-host Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent President Donald Trump and vice president Mike Pence in the 2020 presidential election. Biden is the President with the longest tenure and the first president to have a woman as vice-president. Biden was the one who proposed, lobbied for, and ratified into law his American Rescue Plan Act to assist people in the United States recover from the COVID-19 epidemic and its resulting recession.

• Biden also suggested an American Jobs Plan, aspects of which were included in the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which was also enacted into law. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the Supreme Court. Biden offered the expansion of the social security net, but his initiatives and legislation on voting rights did not pass in Congress. Biden restored the U.S. in its Paris Agreement on climate change on foreign policies. Biden completed the removal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan in the course of which the Afghan government fell apart, and the Taliban took over. In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine with sanctions against Russia and authorizing billions of dollars of international aid and weapons shipment to Ukraine.

The Early Life Of Joe Biden

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• According to Searchlix, For a few years, the family resided with Biden’s maternal grandmothers. Scranton was in decline economically in the 1950s, and Biden’s father could not find a steady job. In 1953, when Biden was just ten years old, the family resided in an apartment located at Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a home in the nearby town of Mayfield. Biden Sr. was later a successfully used car dealer and a family man who led the middle class. In Archmere Academy in Claymont, Biden played baseball and was a star halfback and wide receiver on the football team of the high school team.

• Although he was a low student, He was class president during his senior and junior years. He graduated in the year 1961. At the University of Delaware in Newark, Biden briefly played freshman football. He also was a non-exceptional student who was not exceptional; he was awarded an Associate of Arts degree in 1965 with two majors in politics and history and minoring in English. Biden does not speak with a natural stutter that has improved since his 20s. He claims that he has decreased the amount of poetry he recited before using a mirror. However, some people suggested this affected the way he spoke at his 2020 Democratic Party presidential debates.

Marriages, law school, and early career

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On August 27th, 1966, Biden married Neilia Hunter (1942-1972) as an undergraduate at the University of Syracuse University after overcoming her parents’ resistance to being married to a Roman Catholic. Their wedding took place in the Catholic Church located in Skaneateles, New York. They had three kids: Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III (1969-2015), Robert Hunter Biden (born 1970) in addition to Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden (1971-1972).

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In 1968 Biden received a Juris Doctor at Syracuse University College of Law. He was ranked 76th out of the class of 85, having failed a class because of a remarked “mistake” in which he copied an article in the law review in a piece he had written during his first year of law school. Biden received his admission to law school and the Delaware bar in 1969.

• Biden did not publicly support or oppose the Vietnam War until he ran for Senate and was against Nixon’s policies during the war. While attending Syracuse University and the University of Delaware, and Syracuse University, Biden obtained five student draft deferments during a time when most draftees were sent to the Vietnam War. In 1968, as a result of a physical exam, Biden was granted a medical deferment. In 2008, Biden’s spokesperson Biden stated that he had “asthma when he was a teenager” was the cause of the postponement.

• In 1968, Biden was a lawyer at a Wilmington law firm led by famous Local Republican William Prickett and, as he later admitted, “thought of myself as a Republican”. Biden was dissatisfied with the incumbent Democratic Delaware Governor Charles L. Terry’s conservative political views and backed a less liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who beat Terry in 1968. Local Republicans sought out Biden, but he registered as an Independent due to his dislike of Republican Presidential campaigner Richard Nixon.

• In 1969 Biden was a lawyer, first in the capacity of a public defender and later at a law firm run by a locally active Democrat who appointed Biden as a member of the Democratic Forum, a group seeking to revamp and revive the state party. Biden later reregistered as a Democrat. Biden, along with another attorney, established a law firm. Corporate law, however, was not appealing to him, and criminal law was not a lucrative field. He supplemented his earnings through the management of properties.

• The year was 1970. Biden candidly ran for a seat in the 4th District of the New Castle County Council on a platform of liberality that included the support of public housing within the suburban areas. The heart was previously owned by Republican Henry R. Folsom, running in the 5th District after an election to reapportion council districts. Biden was elected the primary winner, beating Republican Lawrence T. Messick, and was elected on January 5th, 1971. He was selected on January 1st, 1973, and was replaced by Democrat Francis R. Swift. As a county council member, Biden was against large-scale highway projects that would, he believed, disrupt Wilmington communities.

1972 U.S. Senate campaign in Delaware

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Biden was elected in 1972. Biden defeated Republican incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to become the junior U.S. senator from Delaware. Biden was the sole Democrat willing to take on Boggs. With a small amount of campaign money and no chances of winning. Family members ran and staffed this campaign. It was based on interacting with voters and handing out position papers made possible by Delaware’s tiny size. The campaign was supported by the AFL-CIO and Democratic surveyor Patrick Caddell.

• The platform he chose to run on was focused on the environment, withdrawing from Vietnam mass transit, civil rights and equal taxation, health insurance, and the public’s discontent with “politics like usual”. A few months before his election, Biden had a lead over Boggs by 30 percent; however, his enthusiasm and attractive young family, and his ability to tap into the voters’ feelings worked to his advantage. Biden won the election with 50.5 percent votes. At the moment of his victory, Biden was 29 years old. He was older, but he had reached the legally required age of 30 years old before being officially sworn into office as Senator.

Death of daughter and wife

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On December 18th, 1972, just a few days after the election, Biden’s spouse Neilia and their one-year-old daughter Naomi died in a car accident while shopping for Christmas in Hockessin, Delaware. Neilia’s station wagon was struck by a semi-trailer when she was pulling out of an intersection. The couple’s children, Beau (aged three) as well as Hunter (old two), we’re able to escape the crash and were transported to the hospital in good health, Beau with a broken leg and several other wounds, and Hunter suffering a mild skull fracture, as well as additional head wounds. Biden was contemplating resigning to help the injured; however, Senate Minority leader Mike Mansfield persuaded him not to.

• Later, Biden said he had been told that the truck driver was drinking alcohol before the crash. The driver’s family refuted this claim, and police have never proved the claim. Biden apologized later to family members. The incident left him with anger as well as religious doubt. The incident made him feel that he “felt God had played a terrible play” on him. He also noted that his focus was a struggle—his work.

Second marriage

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Biden is credited by his second wife, an educator Jill Tracy Jacobs, with the rekindling of his fascination with politics and the world. They met in 1975 in a blind meeting and were married in the United Nations Chapel in New York on June 17th, 1977. The couple spent their honeymoon in Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People’s Republic in the shadow of the Iron Curtain.

• The Bidens are Roman Catholics and attend Mass at St. Joseph’s on the Brandywine in Greenville, Delaware. The daughter of the couple, Ashley Biden (born in 1981), is a social worker. She is the wife of physician Howard Krein. Beau Biden became an Army Judge Advocate in Iraq and then Delaware Attorney General. He passed away from cancer of the brain in 2015. Hunter Biden is a Washington lobbyist and an investment advisor.

Teaching

From 1991 to 2008, in the role of adjunct professor, Biden taught a class in constitutional law at Widener University School of Law. The course frequently had a waitlist. Biden often flew back from the overseas area to teach the lesson.

U.S. Senate (1973-2009)

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In January 1973, Secretary of the Senate Francis R. Valeo swore Biden into the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center. Biden’s children Beau (whose legs were in traction after the auto collision) and Hunter and his other relatives. At 30 years old, he was the sixth-youngest Senator in U.S. history. To see his sons Biden took a train ride to and from Delaware residence and D.C.—74 minutes each way. He continued this routine all of his time as a member of the Senate.

• When he first joined his first term in the Senate, Biden focused on environmental and consumer protection issues and argued for more government accountability. In an interview in 1974, Biden described himself as liberal in his views on civil rights and freedoms, seniors’ concerns, and healthcare. However, he was moderate on other issues, such as the issue of abortion and conscription to the military.

• In his first term as a senator in the Senate, Biden focused on the issue of arms control. Congress did not ratify the SALT II Treaty signed in 1979 by Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter; Biden met with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to communicate American concerns. He also secured changes in line with the Foreign Relations Committee of the Senate’s concerns. If the Reagan administration decided in 1972 to read the SALT I treaty loosely to allow the development of the Strategic Defense Initiative, Biden advocated for a strict adherent to the convention. He was the subject of a lot of attention when he criticized Secretary of State George Shultz at a Senate hearing on an alleged Reagan administration’s support for South Africa despite its continued policy of apartheid.

Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984

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Biden became the top minority member in the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981. In 1984, he served as an official Democratic floor manager in the passing of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act. The public was applauded for changing some of the law’s harshest provisions, and it was also the most significant legislative achievement up to the time. In 1994, Biden was instrumental in passing his legislation, the Violent Crime Control, and Law Enforcement Act, which is also referred to as Biden Crime Law. Biden Crime Law.

• It included an assault weapon ban and the Violence Against Women Act, which he described as the most important legislation of his time. The criminal law of 1994 was not popular with progressives and was criticized for leading to massive incarceration. In 2019 Biden acknowledged that his part in introducing the law was a “big mistake” due to the crack cocaine policy of the bill and claimed that the law “trapped an entire generation”.

• In 1993 Biden supported a measure that declared homosexuality incompatible with military life, thus prohibiting gays from joining the military. In 1996, Biden endorsed the Defense of Marriage Act, which barred authorities from acknowledging gay marriages that are not of the same gender, thus disqualifying couples in these marriages from protection equal to federal law and permitting states to make the same decision. The act was repealed in 2015 when the law was declared unconstitutional in Obergefell in v. Hodges.

• In the Senate at the age of 72, Biden won reelections in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008. He was consistently elected with around 60 percent of the votes. Biden was the junior Senator in the Senate to William Roth, who was first elected in 1970 before Roth was defeated in 2000. In 2020 the Senator was the 18th longest-serving Senator in U.S. history.

Opposition to busing

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In the late 1970s, Biden was one of the Senate’s most vocal opponents of busing for racial integration. Biden’s Delaware supporters strongly opposed the idea, and the widespread opposition eventually led his party to stop implementing schools integration laws. In his initial Senate election campaign, Biden supported the use of busing to address the problem of de jure segregation as in the South; however, he was against the idea of using it to correct actual segregation due to neighborhoods’ racial composition, such as those in Delaware Biden opposed a constitutional amendment to ban the use of buses completely.

• Then, in May of 1974, Biden was adamant about putting an anti-busing proposal that contained anti-desegregation clauses. Still, he later voted to adopt a modified version that included a caveat the proposal was never meant to limit the power of the JudiciaryJudiciary to implement this provision. 5th Amendment and 14th Amendment. In 1975, Biden backed an idea that would have stopped the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from denying federal funding to districts that were not integrating; he declared that busing was a “bankrupt concept that violated the fundamental rule that common sense is the best rule” in addition to stating that his stance will allow others liberals to join in.

• In the same way, he advocated for housing reform, job opportunities, and voting rights. Biden had backed a measure when? That was passed in 2004 that prohibited federal funds for transportation of students from schools not located close to the students. He also co-sponsored an amendment to close the loopholes of that law that President Carter signed into law in 1978.

Brain surgeries

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The month of February was 1988. Following many episodes of growing neck discomfort, Biden was taken by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for surgery to fix an intracranial berry aneurysm that was leaking. He experienced an embolism of the lungs, a severe problem as he recovered. Following a second aneurysm being treated surgically in May, Biden’s recovery kept him out of his position in the Senate for over seven years.

Senate Judiciary Committee

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Biden was a long-time member of his Senate Committee on the JudiciaryJudiciary. He was its chairman from 1987 until 1995. He was a ranking minority senator between 1981 and 1987 and from 1995 to 1997. Biden presided over two extremely controversial U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings as the chair. In 1988, when Robert Bork was nominated 1988, Biden reversed his approval—given in an interview earlier that year of a possible Bork nomination.

Conservatives were furious; however, at the end of the hearings, Biden was acknowledged for his fairness and humor, and courage. In rejecting the arguments of some Bork opposition, Biden framed his objections to Bork due to the tension between Bork’s firmly rooted originalism and his belief that his U.S. Constitution provides rights to privacy and liberty that go over and above those specifically enumerated in the text. Bork’s nomination was denied in the committee in 9-5 votes and later at the general Senate with a 58-42 voice.

In Clarence Thomas’s nomination hearings in 1991, Biden’s constitutional questions were often muddled to the point where Thomas frequently did not know what they were. Thomas later admitted that Biden’s questions were similar to “beanballs”. When the hearing ended, the public was informed that Anita Hill, a University of Oklahoma law school professor, was accused by Thomas of making inappropriate sexual comments while working together.

Biden knew about specific allegations; however, he initially only shared them with the committee as Hill could not be a witness. The committee hearing was then reopened, and Hill was present. However, Biden refused to allow the testimony of other witnesses like the woman who had filed similar allegations and experts on harassment, insisting that he wanted to protect Thomas’s privacy and the proceedings’ decency.

The entire Senate approved Thomas in a 52-48 vote, and Biden opposed it. Liberal advocates for women’s rights and legal organizations felt that Biden had erred in handling the hearings and had not done enough to help Hill. Biden later looked for women on the Judiciary Committee and emphasized women’s issues in its legislative program. In 2019, he told Hill that he was sorry for his conduct towards her. However, Hill stated that she was unhappy.

Biden was unfavorable to The Independent Counsel Ken Starr during the 1990s Whitewater controversy and the Lewinsky scandal probes and Lewinsky scandal investigations, stating that “it’s going to be one cold, hard day in hell” before a new independent counsel gets similar powers. Biden was acquitted in the impeachment proceedings by President Clinton.

In the early years of 2000, Biden was a proponent of bankruptcy law requested from credit card companies. Clinton blocked the legislation in 2000. However, it became law In 2005, referred to as it was known as the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act which included Biden is one of the only 18 Democrats who voted for it, whereas the majority of Democrats and consumer rights groups opposed the bill. As Senator, Biden strongly supported increased Amtrak funding and rail security.

President Clinton accompanied Senator Biden and another top official to Bosnia and Herzegovina in December 1997. Biden was a long-time participant in his Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Biden was elected its most senior minority member on the committee in 1997. He presided from June 2001 until 2003 and from 2007 until 2009. His views generally favored liberal internationalism. He was able to work effectively with Republicans and occasionally fought some aspects within his party.

During his presidency, he had meetings with up to 150 top leaders from 60 nations and international organizations and became an acknowledged Democratic spokesperson regarding foreign affairs. Biden was one of the senators who voted against Authorization for the Gulf War in 1991, backing 45 of 55 Democratic senators. He claimed that his country, the U.S., was born almost all the weight in the coalition against Iraq.

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Biden was fascinated by his interest in the Yugoslav Wars after hearing about Serbian brutality in the Croatian War of Independence in 1991. After it became clear that the Bosnian War broke out, Biden was among the first politicians to call to implement to implement the “lift and strike” policy, which included lifting the embargo on arms and educating Bosnian Muslims and supporting them through NATO airstrikes, as well as conducting an investigation into war crimes.

Biden was adamant that the George H. W. Bush administration and Clinton administrations were reluctant to adopt the policy due to fears of Balkan conflict. On April 23, 1993, Biden was in Serbia for a whole week Balkans and had a strenuous three-hour discussion with Serbian president Slobodan Milosevic. Biden stated that he had said to Milosevic, “I believe you’re a war criminal, and you ought to be tried for war crimes.”

Biden made an amendment back in 1992 to force administrations like the Bush administration to arm Bosnian Muslims but deferred in 1994 to a less tolerant stance, which the Clinton administration preferred and then signed on in the year following to a more wide measure, backed by Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman. This was a success and led to the positive NATO peacekeeping mission. Biden has described his part in influencing Balkans policy during the mid-1990s as his “proudest moment in the public eye” concerning foreign policies.

As Chair, Biden contributed to successfully encouraging the Clinton administration to invest the resources and political capital needed to facilitate the 1998 Good Friday Agreement between the governments of Ireland and the United Kingdom through the Northern Ireland peace process. On September 3, 1998, 1998, the resigning former UN inspector of weapons Scott Ritter had, according to Barton Gellman, accused the Clinton administration of hindering inspections of weapons in Iraq.

Biden joined with other Senate Democrats in the attack and “amplified in the Clinton administration’s response to the former UN inspector of weapons Scott Ritter.” He was skeptical that Ritter tried to “appropriate the power to determine whether to trigger the use for military action against Iraq” and added his Secretary would need to consider the views of allies and the UNSC and the public’s opinion before any action in Iraq.

In a Washington Post op-ed later that month, Biden criticized a unilateral “confrontation-based policy” however, he praised the notion of asking whether an intervention may be needed at some point, even though Biden said that it was “above the salary” of one inspector. In 1999 during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the 1999 NATO bombing of FR Yugoslavia.

Biden and senator John McCain co-sponsored the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which demanded Clinton deploy all forces, including ground troops, to take on Milosevic in the face of Yugoslav actions towards the ethnic Albanians who reside in Kosovo.

Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq

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Biden interviews the press following his meeting with the Prime Vice-Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004. Biden was a staunch supporter of his country’s War in Afghanistan, saying, “Whatever it takes, we must do this.” As chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Biden declared the year 2002, in 2002 that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was a threat to the security of our nation and that there was no other choice but to “eliminate” this threat.

Then, in October of 2002, Biden voted for the Authorization for the Use of Military Force Against Iraq and endorsed his approval of the U.S. military intervention into Iraq. As the chairman of this committee, he brought together witnesses to testify in support of that Authorization.

They testified in a way that deceived the purpose, background, and position that was the case with Saddam and his government of secularism that was an open adversary of al-Qaida and proclaimed Iraq’s fictional possessing weapons of mass destruction.

Biden was later a vocal advocate of the War and was adamant about his decision and actions as a “mistake” and did not advocate for the withdrawal. Biden was in favor of the appropriations for the War but insisted that the War must be internationally oriented, that more troops were needed, and the Bush administration must “level and agree with American citizens” on the cost and duration.

At the end of 2006, Biden’s attitude was shifting. Biden opposed the troop surge in 2007, saying that general David Petraeus was “dead, completely wrong” in believing that the wave would work. Biden instead advocated the division of Iraq into an uninvolved federation of three states of ethnicity. On November 6, 2006, Biden and Leslie H. Gelb, president of the Council on Foreign Relations, unveiled a comprehensive plan to end the violence of sectarian groups in Iraq.

Instead of continuing the existing policy or withdrawing the nation, the strategy proposed “a third option” to federalize Iraq and provide Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis “breathing space” in their zones. In September 2007, the Senate passed the non-binding resolution approving the plan; however, the concept was a bit nebulous, didn’t have any popular support, and did not get acceptance.

The Iraqi political leaders criticized the resolution as a de actual partition of the country. Likewise, it was reported that the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad released a statement dissociating itself from the solution. The issue was raised in May of 2008 when Biden was adamantly critical of President George Bush.

Bush’s speech in Israel’s Knesset, where Bush made a comparison of certain Democrats as Western leaders who sided with Hitler before World War II; Biden declared the address “bullshit”, “malarkey” in addition to “outrageous”. Biden apologized afterward for his words.

Presidential campaigns of 1988 and 2008

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Biden declared the possibility of running for the Democratic presidential nomination on June 9, 1987. Biden was viewed as a strong contender because of his moderate appearance, ability to communicate, and position as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the soon-to-be Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination hearings and his appeal to the Baby Boomers. Biden will be the second-youngest person chosen president with John F. Kennedy. He got more votes during the first quarter of 1988 than any other candidate.

The campaign’s message was confused because of rivalries between employees. The month of September was when Biden had been accused of replicating a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock. Biden’s speech reiterated Kinnock’s regarding being the only member of his family to attend the university.

Biden has acknowledged Kinnock as the source of the equation in the past but not twice until the latter part of August. 223-232 Kinnock himself appeared more open, and Kinnock and Biden began to get together in 1988, forming an unbreakable bond.

In the previous year, Biden also used excerpts from a 1967 speech given by Robert F. Kennedy (for whom his aides claimed to be responsible) and an excerpt is taken from John F. Kennedy’s inaugural address; two years earlier, Biden used a line from the year 1976 by Hubert Humphrey.

Biden said that politicians typically take loans from one another without crediting them back as well as that one of his rivals for the nomination, Jesse Jackson, had been in contact with Biden to remind him of the fact about the fact Jackson (Jackson) had used similar material taken from Humphrey during the address Biden used.

Then, just a couple of days later, an incident at the law school in which Biden copied the entire text in an article from the Fordham Law Review article with inadequate citations was reported to the public. Biden was ordered to retake the course and was able to pass with a high score. Biden’s behalf was considered when the Delaware Supreme Court’s Board of Professional Responsibility reviewed the incident and concluded that Biden did not infringe any rules.

Biden was known for a variety of false or exaggerated assertions regarding his childhood, including that he had three college degrees, that he attended law school on the full benefit of a scholarship, that he was at the very top of the quartile in his class, and that he was a participant his time in the Civil Rights Movement. The lack of details regarding the presidential race exacerbated the allegations. On September 23, 1987, Biden declared his resignation from the race and stated that he was defeated by “the excessive ghost” of his past mistakes.

2008 campaign

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In the wake of considering possibilities of running for office in the past, in the early part of 2007, Biden declared his candidacy for the 2008 presidential election. In his campaign, Biden focused on issues related to his participation during his involvement in the Iraq War, his record as the chairman of important Senate committees, and his international experiences.

In the middle of 2007, Biden stressed his foreign policy expertise compared to Obama’s. Biden was well-known for his humor throughout the election. In one debate, Biden commented on Republican Rudy Giuliani’s presidential campaign “There are only three things that he’s mentioned in a sentence: a noun and a verb, and 9/11.”

Biden was not able to raise money and was not able to attract fans to his events. He also failed to gain momentum in the face of the widely-publicized presidential campaigns of Obama and then-Senator Hillary Clinton. Biden did not rise too high positions in the polls nationwide to favor his fellow Democratic candidates. Biden was fifth in the Iowa caucuses in the first contest on January 3, 2008. Biden was awarded just less than one percent of the state delegate. Biden quit the race in the evening.

Although it wasn’t an overwhelming success, Biden’s 2008 campaign raised his profile in his political circle. Remarkably, it changed how people perceive Biden and Obama. Although they were both serving members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they didn’t have a strong relationship.

Biden disliked Obama’s swift climb to the highest rung on the political scale. Obama perceived Biden as an uncaring and snobby politician. 28. 337-338. After meeting in 2007, Obama was impressed by Biden’s style his campaigning and the appeal he made to the voters of the working class. Biden said he believed Obama would be “the authentic one.”

2008 vice-presidential campaign

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Biden appears during the announcement of August 23, 2008, the vice president’s ceremony, held at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Following the time that Biden left his presidential campaign, Obama privately told him that he would like to find the best location to place Biden in his administration. In the early part of August, Obama and Biden met in a private session to discuss the possibilities, and they developed a personal connection.

On August 22, 2008, Obama announced his intention to announce that Biden would be his running mate. The New York Times reported that the motive behind the choice is rooted in the wish to fill in the role of running the team with someone who had international security and national security experience. Many praise Biden’s image among blue-collar and middle-class people. Biden was officially announced as vice president on August 27, 2008, following the people’s votes voted at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver.

Biden’s vice-presidential campaigning did not receive the media’s attention since the media paid greater focus to Republican candidates, including Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. According to the instructions of Palin’s campaign, Biden was careful to make his remarks concise and stayed clear of outrageous remarks, such as the comment he made about Obama’s being scrutinized by a foreign government immediately following his inauguration was a source of criticism.

Biden’s remarks were privately offended, Obama. “How often do you think Biden is likely to say something sloppy?” He asked. 411-414, 419 Obama campaign staffers labeled Biden’s errors “Joe bombs” and kept Biden ignorant of discussions about strategy, which in turn angered Biden.

Biden and Obama’s relationship Biden and Obama became tense for one month before Biden apologized in a phone call to Obama. They formed the basis for an alliance that was stronger. The statement was released to the public, reading 411-414. Obama strategist David Axelrod said Biden’s high popularity ratings had trumped any unanticipated remarks.

The financial crisis began in 2007-2010 and reached its height in the liquidity crisis, triggered in September 2008. The plan to intervene in the United States financial system became one of the critical issues during the campaign. Biden supported the proposed $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, ratified by the Senate 75-25.

A few days later, on October 2, Biden took part in the vice-presidential debate with Palin at Washington University in St. Louis. Following the debate, surveys indicated that even though Palin exceeded the expectations of a lot of viewers, Biden had won the debate overall. Biden had a 60 percent approval rate in a Pew Research Center poll against the 44 percent of Palin’s approval in a national context.

November 4, 2008, Obama Biden and Obama Biden were awarded 53 percent of the popular vote. Biden also won the electoral votes 365, compared to McCain-Palin’s 173 votes. When Biden was running to become vice-president, Biden also sought an election to the Senate as per Delaware law.

On November 4, the day that Biden got elected into the Senate after beating Republican Christine O’Donnell. After winning both elections, Biden was insistent on holding off his resignation from the Senate until the moment his swearing-in ceremony was completed for the seventh time on January 6, 2009. Biden was the last Senate vote on January 15 to support an announcement regarding an additional $350 billion for the Troubled Asset Relief Program and then resigned from the Senate at the exact moment.

Vice President (2009-2017)

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Biden stated that he would eliminate some of the roles performed by George W. Bush’s vice president, Dick Cheney, and did not intend to copy any vice president before Biden. Biden was the chair of the transition team for President Bush and the head of a campaign that sought to improve the economic well-being of families with middle-class incomes.

The first week of January, as he was stepping down from his capacity as the Foreign Relations Committee chair, he visited leaders from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. On January 20, 20th, he took office as the 47th Vice-President of the U.S. States. The first vice-president to come from Delaware in the country’s history and was also the most influential Roman Catholic vice president.

Obama did not hesitate to refer Biden to as an athletic figure “who does all kinds of things that do not appear on the statistics sheet.” In May, Biden traveled to Kosovo and repeated Kosovo’s U.S. position that its “independence is unchangeable.” Biden was defeated during an internal discussion with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about sending 21,000 new troops to Afghanistan. Still, his skeptical attitude was appreciated, and in 2009, Biden’s views increased in popularity during the time that Obama examined his Afghanistan strategy.

Biden visited Iraq at least once every two months and was the president’s central point of communication to inform Iraqi management of the expected developments within the country. General management of Iraq policy was the responsibility of Biden: Obama was said to have told Biden, “Joe, you do Iraq.” Biden declared that Iraq “could be among the most significant achievements of the current administration.”

Biden’s trip to Iraq amid the debate over bans on candidates for the coming Iraqi election for the seat of parliament led to around 59 of the 900 candidates being reinstated into the Iraqi government within two days. In 2012, Biden made eight trips to Iraq; however, his oversight over U.S. policy in Iraq was diminished following the withdrawal from Iraq of U.S. troops in 2011.

President Obama is happy with Biden for his part in the debt ceiling deal that led to the Budget Control Act of 2011. Biden was responsible for infrastructure spending as the chief of infrastructure spending under the Obama stimulus package that was designed to fight the recession currently in the market.

At the time, Biden was satisfied that there was no evidence that significant waste or corruption was committed during his tenure. When Biden resigned in February of 2011, Biden claimed that the number of fraud instances involving stimulus money was lower than one.

In late April 2009, Biden’s non-text message response to a question in the early stage of the Swine influenza epidemic where the family members were advised not to travel on subways and planes led to a swift retract from the Biden’s White House. The incident brought back Biden’s reputation for his mistakes.

In the face of increasing unemployment, between March and July 2009, Biden acknowledged that the government was “misread the extent of how dire economic conditions were” however he maintained his belief that the stimulus plan could generate many jobs while the rate was of spending grew.

On March 23, the microphone was heard Biden telling the president Obama that he signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was “a huge fucking deal” during live news broadcasts across the nation. Even with their differences, Obama and Biden made a friendship that lasted an entire lifetime. It mainly was based on Obama’s daughter Sasha and Biden’s grandson Maisy who attended Sidwell Friends School together.

The officials in the Obama administration have stated Biden’s job in the White House was to be a skeptical person and force other people to stand up for their positions. Rahm Emanuel, White House chief of staff, declared that Biden helped overcome groupthink. White House press secretary Jay Carney Biden’s former director of communications said Biden was Biden is “the villain within the Situation Room.” Another senior Obama adviser said Biden “is always ready to be the skunk in the family gathering to ensure that we’re as honest as we can be.”

Obama declared, “The most impressive aspect of Joe is that whenever we get everyone together, he requires people to think, defend their opinions, and think about things from all angles, which is extremely important to me.” Bidens maintained a calm and relaxed relationship. Bidens maintained a calm and comfortable atmosphere within their house in Washington and frequently entertained their children. They also often returned to the home they shared with their children in Delaware.

Biden was a well-known campaigner on behalf of Democrats during the midterm elections in 2010 with a constant feeling of optimism, despite his own party’s forecasts of massive losses. After the huge Republican victory in the elections of 2010 and the ousting from the office of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel from the White House, Biden’s earlier relations with Republicans in Congress have grown more critical. Biden was the president’s spokesperson to win Senate backing for the New START treaty.

In December 2010, Biden’s efforts in arguing for a compromise and his meetings with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell were instrumental in creating the administration’s tax compromise package, which included temporary extensions to the Bush tax cuts. Biden was the one to take over the initiative in trying to promote the plan to the doubtful Democratic Caucus of Congress. The legislation was approved with the title of Tax Relief and Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, together with the Job Creation Act of 2010.

In March 2011, Obama gave the power to Biden to lead discussions with Congress to determine the amount of federal spending for the year and avoid the possibility of a shutdown. In May 2011, the “Biden panel” comprised of six members of Congress was trying to reach an agreement that had broad support from both sides to raise the U.S. debt ceiling as part of a more critical strategy to reduce the deficit. When the U.S. debt ceiling crisis began to surface in the following months.

Still, Biden’s relations with McConnell were crucial to resolving an impasse and coming to an agreement to address the issue in the form of the Budget Control Act of 2011, which was approved on August 2 the morning, the moment when a historical U.S. default had loomed.

Biden was the only person who had been the one who had spent more duration than any other member of the administration working with Congress about the debt issue and, in addition, a Republican staffer said, “Biden’s the only guy who has real negotiation skills, and McConnell is aware of what Biden is saying is true. Biden was a key part of the deal.”

According to some reports, Biden did not endorse the initial U.S. mission to kill Osama bin Laden because the mission’s failure would negatively affect Obama’s chances to win reelection. Biden was at the forefront of sending out a message to Congressional staff of favorable results.

Reelection

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In October 2010, Biden announced that Obama asked for him to remain his running mate for the 2012 presidential election. But, as Obama’s popularity declined, White House Chief of Staff William M. Daley conducted unannounced polls and focus-group research during the last quarter of the year to consider the possibility of being replaced by Biden on the presidential ballot along with Hillary Clinton. The idea was dismissed following the results that showed there was no change in the polls in the opinion of Obama or Clinton. White House officials later said Obama himself had not thought about the idea.

Biden and Obama, July 2012

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Biden’s declaration in May 2012 that Biden is “absolutely at ease” with marriage between a man and woman. The statement attracted a lot of attention because of Obama’s position, described as “evolving.” Biden made the remarks without the approval of the administration.

Still, Obama and his aides were furious because Obama had plans to alter his position to a different one later in the year before the party’s convention. LGBT rights advocates were aware of Biden’s comments shortly after the statement, and Obama said that he supported marriage equality, partly because of Biden’s comments. Biden apologized for his remarks to Obama on his own for his comments. Obama acknowledged that the comment was not from the heart.

It was clear that the Obama campaign was insistent on Biden as a high-level politician and also his numerous performance in swing states when Biden’s campaign to win reelection started with the most incredible intensity in the spring of 2012. Biden commented in August 2012 to a crowd of mixed races that Republican plans to relax Wall Street regulations would “put you back in chains,” which attracted the interest of Biden. The Los Angeles Times wrote, “During any Biden speech, there could be a dozen or so moments that cause press handlers to shiver and make reporters glance at one another in confusion and amusement.”

Biden was nominated for a second Vice-Presidential term during the Democratic National Convention in September. Debating his Republican opponent, Rep. Paul Ryan, during the vice-presidential debate, on October 11, Biden defended his administration’s performance. The Obama Administration’s track record. On November 6, Obama and Biden were elected ahead of Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan with 332 of 538 Electoral College votes and 51 percent of popular votes.

In December 2012, Obama was named to the post by Obama Biden to be the chief of the Gun Violence Task Force, created to study the reasons for shootings across the United States in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. The following month in the days before that, the United States fell off the “fiscal cliff” Biden’s relationship with McConnell was crucial when they reached a compromise that resulted in the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 being enacted in the middle of 2013. It made many Bush tax cuts to be permanent. However, it also raised the tax rate for those earnings that were above the thresholds.

Second term 2013, 2013-2017

Biden was inaugurated for his second term on January 20, 2013, in a small ceremony held in Number One Observatory Circle, his official residence, presided over by Justice Sonia Sotomayor presiding (a public ceremony was held on January 21). Biden did not take part in the discussions leading to the October 2013 adoption of the Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014, which ended the federal government’s shutdown in 2013 and the debt ceiling crisis of 2013. This was because Senate majority leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders omitted him from discussions directly with Congress. After all, they believed Biden had lost too much during introductory talks.

Biden’s Violence Against Women Act was renewed in 2013. The legislation led to other changes, like the White House Council on Women and Girls, which was established in the first term, and the White House Task Force to safeguard Students against Sexual Assault, which began in January 2014, with Biden as well as Valerie Jarrett as co-chairs.

Biden addressed federal guidelines regarding sexual assaults on campuses during a speech at the University of New Hampshire. He stated, “No is a no whether you’re drinking or sober. No is not a valid answer if you’re lying in bed in a dorm room or a public place. No is not a no-no, even If you were initially adamant about it, but you later changed your decision. No means no.”

Biden supported arming Syria’s rebels. When Iraq was shattered in 2014 and 2015, renewed attention was given to the Biden-Gelb Iraqi Federalization plan in 2006, with certain observers saying Biden had been correct throughout. Biden himself stated that” the U.S. would follow ISIL “to the gates of hell.” Biden was close to many Latin American leaders and was given a particular focus on the region during his administration. He was in the region sixteen times during a vice-presidential term and presidency, which was the most of any vice president or president.

Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016

In 2015, House Speaker House John Boehner and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell invited Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address a joint session of Congress without informing the Obama administration. The defiance of protocol caused Biden and more than 50 other congressional Democrats not to attend Netanyahu’s address.

In August, Biden visited Serbia, where Biden had a meeting together with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and expressed his condolences to civilians killed in the attack on the city that took place during the Kosovo War. In Kosovo, Biden attended the naming ceremony of the road after Beau, his son. Beau to honor Beau’s contributions in Kosovo in its judges and prosecutor training. Biden did not make a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, making Biden the longest-serving vice president who has this honor.

Role in the 2016 presidential campaign

In the second term of his presidency, Biden was often said to be planning an eventual run in 2016 for the Democratic nominating process. In the wake of his family, numerous acquaintances, and donors urging Biden to run in the mid-2015 period to be in the race, as well as Hillary Clinton’s favorable ratings declining at the time, Biden is reported to be once more thinking about the possibility as well as a “Draft Biden 2016” PAC was created.

In September the year 2015 began, Biden had not decided whether he would run. He thought that his son’s loss had severely consumed his emotional energy, and he said that “nobody is entitled to pursue this office unless they’re prepared to commit 100 percent of who they’re.”

On October 21, in a speech from an elevated platform at the Rose Garden with his wife and Obama at his side, Biden announced his decision not to be a presidential candidate in 2016. In January of 2016, Biden affirmed that it was the right choice. However, he admitted regret not running for the presidency “every day.”

After Obama announced his endorsement of Hillary Clinton on June 9 on June 9, 2016, Biden supported her later in the day. In the 2016 presidential elections, Biden strongly criticized Clinton’s opponent, Donald Trump, for infrequently witty phrases.

Subsequent activities (2017-2019)

Together with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, Biden, during the latter’s inauguration on January 20, 2017. After leaving the vice president, Biden became an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania. He was dubbed the “Benjamin Franklin President Practitioner Professor”; Biden led panel discussions on the history of politics and history and established his own Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.

Biden also led efforts to discover treatments for cancer. In 2017, he published his memoir, Promise Me, Dad, and went on an author tour. Biden made $15.6 million between 2017 and 2018. In 2018, he delivered a eulogy to Senator John McCain, praising McCain’s support of American values and friendships with bipartisan friends.

Biden was still visible in the media and endorsed candidates while speaking out on issues like climate change, politics, and President Donald Trump. Biden also continued to speak about LGBT rights and advocate regarding an issue he’d been more closely associated with during his vice-presidential tenure.

In the year 2019, Biden criticized Brunei for the plan to put into place Islamic laws that allow the death penalty of stoning for homosexuality and adultery, calling the practice “appalling and morally wrong” and stating, “There is no excuse—not religion, culture, or even tradition for such a kind of hatred as well as inhumanity.” By the end of 2019, Biden and his wife stated that their wealth was up to $2.2 million, between $8 million and $2.2 million, due to speaking engagements and signing a contract to write a series of books.

2020 presidential campaign

Between 2016 to 2019, news outlets often mentioned Biden as a potential presidential candidate in 2020. I asked if he’d contest, and Biden gave a range of uncertain answers, stating, “never declare never.” He once suggested that he could not imagine any scenario where he could be running again, but after a couple of days, Biden said, “I’ll run if I can walk.”

A political action group known as Time for Biden was formed in January of 2018, aiming for Biden’s participation in the race. Biden officially launched his campaign on April 25, 2019, and claimed that he was inspired to enter the race, in addition to other motives, due to his “sense of obligation.”

Campaign

In September, there was a report that Trump had reportedly pressed Ukrainian head of state Volodymyr Zelensky into investigating the allegations of wrongdoing made by Biden and Biden’s nephew Hunter Biden. Despite these allegations, no evidence was found to support any wrongdoing committed by Biden and his son Hunter Bidens.

The media widely reported this demand to look into the Bidens as an attempt to damage Biden’s chances of winning the presidency, which led to an unpopular political scandal and Trump’s impeachment in the House of Representatives.

In 2019, Trump and his aides had falsely accused Biden of causing the Ukrainian prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to be fired. He was believed to be conducting investigations into Burisma Holdings, which employed Hunter Biden. Biden has been accused of stealing $1 billion of aid from Ukraine during this process.

The year 2015 was the time Biden forced the Ukrainian Parliament to dismiss Shokin because Shokin was deemed corrupt by the United States, the European Union, as well as other international organizations, who thought that Shokin was untrustworthy and ineffective, mainly because Shokin did not take a firm stand in investigating Burisma.

The denial of the $1 billion aid package was a part of the official policy. The Senate Homeland Security Committee and Senate Finance Committee, led by Republicans, were investigating allegations of wrongdoing of Bidens in Ukraine. Bidens in Ukraine released the report in September 2020, which provided the absence of evidence of wrongdoing from Joe Biden, and concluded that it was “not evident” what role Hunter Biden played as a member of Burisma “affected U.S. policy towards Ukraine.”

In March and April 2019, Biden had been accused by eight women of prior incidents of unintentional physical contact, including touching, hugging, or kissing. Biden previously claimed to be a “tactile political figure” and acknowledged that this behavior had been a source of trouble for Biden. In April, Biden pledged to be more “respectful of the privacy of others.”

In 2019, Biden maintained his lead over other Democrats in polls at the national level. Despite this, he placed 4th in the Iowa caucuses, and, the next day, he placed fourth in the New Hampshire primary. Biden did better in Nevada caucuses, achieving the required 15% for delegate numbers, but he trailed Bernie Sanders by 21.6 percentage points. In a solid pitch for Black voters during the campaign and during debates in the South Carolina debate, Biden took his South Carolina primary by more than 28 percentage points.

After the withdrawal and subsequent endorsements from the candidates Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar, He made huge gains during his March 3 Super Tuesday primaries. Biden took 18 of the following 26 contests, including Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, and put Biden in the lead overall.

Elizabeth Warren and Mike Bloomberg quickly resigned, after which Biden extended his lead with wins against Sanders within four states (Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri) on March 10.

In the latter part of March, the year 2020 began, Tara Reade, one of eight women who in 2019 claimed Biden of having inappropriate physical contact, claimed Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993. There was a lack of consistency between Reade’s allegations in 2019 and 2020. Biden and his presidential campaign have denied the sexual assault allegations.

After Sanders stopped his campaign on April 8 in the 2020 election, Biden became the Democratic Presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party. On April 13, Sanders declared his support for Biden during a live-streamed conversation from their respective homes. Former President Barack Obama endorsed Biden the following day. Then, in March of 2020, Biden declared his intention to choose a female as his running partner.

Then, in June, Biden reached the threshold of 1,991 delegates to be eligible for the nomination of his party’s president. On August 11, Biden announced U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate. This makes Kamala Harris the first African American and first South Asian American vice-presidential candidate on an official ticket of a major party.

On August 18, 2020, Biden was officially announced as the nominee for president at 2020’s Democratic National Convention as the Democratic Party nominee for president for the 2020 presidential election.

Presidential transition

Biden was elected as the 46th president of the United States in November 2020. He beat incumbent Donald Trump, becoming the first presidential candidate to beat the President in office after Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush in 1992. Trump was not willing to admit defeat, claiming that the election was “stolen” away from him by “voter fraud,” and he fought outcomes in the courtroom and invented conspiracy theories about counting votes and voting and attempting to invalidate the results of the election.

Biden’s transition was delayed for some weeks while President Trump’s White House ordered federal agencies not to cooperate. On November 23, General Services Administrator Emily W. Murphy officially acknowledged Biden as the likely winning candidate in the 2020 presidential election and authorized the beginning of a transitional process for Biden’s administration. Biden administration.

On January 6, 2021, in the course of Congress’s election counting, Trump told supporters gathered in the vicinity of the White House to march to the Capitol, and he said, “We will never give up. We will not give up. This doesn’t occur. It’s not acceptable to concede when you’re involved in a theft.”

Then the attack swarmed the Capitol. During the uprising at the Capitol, Biden addressed the nation, calling the event “an unprecedented attack unlike anything else we’ve seen in the past.” Biden specifically asked Trump to “go to the national stage now to honor his oath, stand up for the Constitution and call for an end to this saga” and said, “it must end now.” After the Capitol was cleared, Congress resumed its joint session and officially proclaimed the results of the elections and with Pence declaring Biden and Harris the winners.

Presidency (2021-present)

Biden swears in the office, administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol on January 20, 2021.

Inauguration

Biden was inaugurated as the 45th president of the United States on January 20, 2021. He is 78 years old, making him the oldest President to have been elected President. The second Catholic President (after John F. Kennedy) and the first president’s state of residence were in Delaware. Also, he is the first person ever since George H. W. Bush to be vice-president and President and the second vice-president (after Richard Nixon in 1968) to be elected President. He was also the first president to hail from that generation known as the Silent Generation.

Biden’s inaugural ceremony was “a moderate affair, unlike any other inaugural” due to COVID-19 security measures and significantly increased security measures in the wake of the threat of civil unrest spread across the country. Biden took the oath to take his office on the west steps and delivered an inaugural address. However, there were no crowds in the Mall and no parades or balls for the inaugural. Trump didn’t attend and became the first president who was out of office since 1869 to not be present at the inauguration of his successor.

First 100 Days

In the first two days of his term as president Biden issued 17 executive directives, which is more than most current presidents have done within their initial 100-day period. On his third day, his orders included a return to the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the national emergency state near Mexico’s border Mexico as well as directing the government to join with the World Health Organization, face the requirement to wear masks on federal property, steps to fight starvation in the United States, and revoking permissions for the construction of Keystone XL pipeline. Keystone XL pipeline. In the first two weeks of his office, Biden signed more executive orders than any president before Franklin D. Roosevelt had within the first month of his office.

On February 4, 2021, Biden announced that the Biden administration made public that the United States was ending its support for the Saudi-led bombing operation in Yemen. On his first trip to the State Department as President, Biden stated that “this war must end” and said that the war has created a “humanitarian and strategic disaster.”

On February 25 of this year, Biden announced that the Biden administration “struck the site in Syria used by two militia groups backed by Iran to respond to the missile attacks against the American military.” This was the first time that the military took action under the administration of Biden.

Biden in his Cabinet in July 2021

On March 11, the 11th anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a pandemic in the world through the World Health Organization, Biden made law his American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, which is a $1.9 trillion economic package that which he drafted and advocated for that was designed to speed and accelerate the United States’ recovery from the health and economic impacts caused by the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing recession.

The package also included direct payments to most Americans and an extension of the increased unemployment benefits, funding for vaccination distribution, and school reopenings. It also provided support for small-scale businesses and local and state governments and an expansion of health insurance subsidies and the tax credit for children.

Biden’s original proposal contained an increase in the minimum wage in the United States to $15/hour. However, when Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough determined that including the additional amount in the budget reconciliation bill would violate Senate regulations, Democrats declined to pursue a ruling against her and pulled the increase out of the budget reconciliation bill.

Also, in March, in light of the increase in immigrants entering the U.S. from Mexico, Biden advised migrants to “Don’t visit us.” Biden said the U.S. was arranging a strategy for migrants to “apply for asylum in the place” and not leave their homes. Meanwhile, migrants adults “are being deported,” Biden said, about the continued implementation of the Trump administration’s Title 42 policy for quick deportations.

Biden had previously stated that his administration would not deport unaccompanied children. The increase in the numbers of children from these countries exceeded the capacity of the facilities intended to provide shelter for the children (before they were transferred to sponsors), which led the Biden administration to instruct the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist in managing these children.

On April 14, Biden declared his intention that it was expected that the United States would delay the withdrawal of all troops from the conflict within Afghanistan till September 11, thereby signaling the end of the nation’s active militarily-based involvement in Afghanistan after more than 20 years. In February of 2020, the Trump administration signed an agreement with the Taliban to withdraw U.S. forces completely by May 1, 2021. Biden’s announcement was met with a range of responses, from praise and relief to anxiety over the possibility of a disintegration of the Afghan government without American assistance.

Between April 22 and 23, Biden held an international climate summit, where Biden declared his intention that his country, the U.S., would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50-52 percent by 2030 compared to levels of 2005. Other nations also have increased their pledges. If the commitments made in the Summit are fulfilled, they can reduce global carbon dioxide emissions to 2.6-3.7 GtCO2e by 2030.

In April of, on the eve of his 100th birthday in his post, Biden delivered his first speech to an assembly of Congress. In his address, Biden highlighted the efficacy of COVID-19 vaccines. He also addressed the withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the assassination by George Floyd, and the U.S. Capitol attack while calling on Congress to approve comprehensive immigration guns health reforms.

Rest of 2021

Biden met with the Secretary-General NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office on June 7, 2021. On May 20, 2021, amid an eruption in the Israeli-Palestinian war, Biden expressed his support for Israel by stating that “my party continues to support Israel” despite opposition from confident Democrats.

On June 20, 2021, Biden went on his first overseas trip as President. He went to Belgium, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom in just eight days. He was a part of a G7 summit, the NATO summit, and an E.U. summit. He also had individual talks in person with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On June 17, Biden announced the signing of the Juneteenth National Independence Act that officially declared Juneteenth to be a federal holiday. Juneteenth was the first federal holiday ever since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986. In July 2021, amidst the slowing of COVID-19 vaccination rates in the nation and the spreading of the variant of SARS-CoV-2 Delta, Biden stated that the country is facing “a disease that is affecting people who haven’t had the vaccination” and that it was “gigantically vital” to get Americans to be vaccinated declaring the vaccine’s effectiveness against deaths and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19.

Biden also expressed his concern about the prevalence of false information about COVID-19 on social media, saying that it could be “killing many people.” The month of September 2021 was when Biden made public the AUKUS agreement, the security agreement between Australia and the United Kingdom and the United States that would ensure “peace and stability throughout the Indo-Pacific for the long-term” and included nuclear-powered submarines specifically designed to be used by Australia.

At the end of 2021, forty of Biden’s judges appointed for the federal judiciary were confirmed, higher than any president during the first year of their presidency before Ronald Reagan. Biden has emphasized diversity in his judicial appointments far more than other presidents during U.S. history, with most of his appointments made by women and persons from different races. The majority of his appointments were from blue states, which have had little impact as the courts in these states tend to be liberal.

In the initial eight months of Biden’s presidency, as per Morning Consult polling, Biden’s approval ratings remained over 50 percent. In August, the rating began to fall into the low 40s by December. His Afghanistan withdrawal could cause a drop in his approval, an increase in hospitalizations due to those suffering from the Delta variant, the high rate of inflation and prices for gas and disarray in and within the Democratic Party, and a general decrease in the popularity that is common in politics.

Withdrawal from Afghanistan

In a video call together with Vice-President Harris and the U.S. National Security team members, Biden talked about what will happen after the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021. On August 15, the Afghan government was shattered by the Taliban offensive, and Afghan President Ashraf Ghani fled the country.

Biden responded by directing the deployment of 6,000 American troops to help in the removal of American personnel as well as Afghan allies. Both parties criticized Biden regarding how he conducted the departure and the process of removing Americans and Afghan allies, being described as messy and unorganized, and his slackness and absence in the time before the Afghan government fell.

On August 16, Biden discussed his “messy” situation, took responsibility for it, and acknowledged that it “unfolded quicker than anticipated.” Biden also defended his decision to leave Afghanistan, stating that Americans shouldn’t remain “dying in a war in which Afghan forces aren’t willing to fight for themselves,” as well as blaming his former boss Donald Trump, the Afghan President, and Afghan security forces, for the rapid decline.

On August 22, Biden said that his administration knew that ISIS-K was a “likely threat.” On August 26, a suicide attack on the Kabul airport caused the deaths of thirteen U.S. service members and 169 Afghans. Biden told the terrorist the attackers that his United States “will hunt you down and demand you to pay.”

On August 27, the 27th, An American drone attack killed ISIS-K terrorists, which had been “planners or ppfacilitators,” according to a U.S. Army general. On August 29, a second American drone attack killed ten people, including seven children. Defense Department initially claimed the strike was a response to an Islamic State suicide bomber threatening Kabul Airport but admitted the error on September 17 and later apologized.

The U.S. military left Afghanistan on August 30, with Biden declaring that the departure operation proved to be an “extraordinary success” with the removal of more than 120,000 Americans, Afghans, and other allies. Biden acknowledged that as many as “100 up to 200” Americans who wanted to go home were still in Afghanistan despite his August 18 promise to remain there Afghanistan up to the point that all Americans who were planning to leave had gone.

The Biden administration, which is a part of governments from more than 100 nations, claimed that the Taliban had given “assurances” that any person “with the travel authorization of these countries” would be able the right to exit Afghanistan.

Economy

Biden took office nine months after a period of rebound from the COVID-19 economic recession. His first year as President was marked by rapid growth in employment, real GDP wage, returns on stock markets, and a significant rise in inflation. Real GDP increased 5.7 percent, the highest rate in the past 37 years.

With record levels of job creation and a drop in unemployment, the unemployment rate fell at the highest rate in history in the course of. In the year 2021’s final, the inflation rate had reached a 40-year record of 7.1 percent. This was compensated by the highest increase in salary and wages over the last 20 years. The income growth was robust at the bottom of the scale.

In the context of Biden’s Build back better plan, he announced an American Jobs Plan in the late March of 2021. This $2 trillion plan tackles issues relating to transport infrastructure and broadband infrastructure, utilities infrastructure and schools, housing manufacturing, research, and development for the workforce.

After months of talks between Biden and legislators, In August 2021, the Senate approved a trillion-dollar bipartisan infrastructure bill, dubbed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, while the House was also passed with a bipartisan vote the bill in the early part of November 2021. The bill covers infrastructure related to transportation and utilities, and broadband. Biden took the measure into effect in the middle of November 2021.

The other central element in the Build Back Better plan was the Build Back Better Act, a $3.5 trillion bill for social expenditure that broadens security nets for the poor and includes essential climate change provisions. The bill could not garner Republican backing, so Democrats tried to get it passed on an agreement of the party line by negotiating budget reconciliation. However, they were unable to gain the approval of senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia even though the price was reduced by $2.2 trillion. They failed to meet his budget, and Manchin publicly rejected the bill, preventing its adoption.

In the lead-up to 2021’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP21), Biden promoted an agreement in which the U.S. and the European Union reduce methane emissions by one-third by 2030. He also attempted to bring in numerous other countries to the cause. Biden tried to persuade China as well as Australia to go further.

He held the online Major Economies Forum on Energy and Climate Change to pressure other nations to improve their climate policies. biden committed to doubling climate-related funding for developing countries in 2024. In addition, at COP26, China and the U.S. and China reached an agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Both countries account for forty percent of all global emissions.

2022

In the early 2022 period, Biden made efforts to improve his public image after beginning this year with a low-approval rating. However, they continued to drop to around 40% in total polls in February. Biden started the year by praising an amendment to the Senate filibuster to facilitate the passage of both the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act but had been unable to use the principle of closure.

But the change to the rules did not work after 2 Democratic senators joined Senate Republicans in opposing the change. The month of January was when Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is moderate liberal appointed by Bill Clinton, announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court.

In his 2020 presidential campaign, Biden vowed to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court if a vacancy came up, a promise that was repeated after Breyer announced retirement. February saw Biden appoint the federal court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson as a nominee to his Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court confirmed her in Senate U.S. Senate on April 7, 2022. In February, following warning for a few weeks of the imminent threat of an attack, Biden led the U.S. response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and imposed severe sanctions against Russia, and approved more than $1 billion worth of weapons shipment to Ukraine.

Positions in the political arena

Biden is regarded as to be a moderate Democrat and a centrist. He has been a liberal throughout his life. 72% score from Americans for Democratic Action through 2004. Meanwhile, the American Conservative Union gave him an overall conservative rating of 13% until 2008.

Biden has backed the fiscal stimulus included in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 as well as the Obama administration’s proposal to increase infrastructure investment; the provision of subsidies for mass transit services, such as Amtrak bus, Amtrak, and subways; as well as the cut in military spending as part of the Obama administration’s budget for the fiscal year 2014.

Biden has suggested partially reversing the tax cuts for corporations of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in 2017, claiming that doing so wouldn’t affect companies’ recruiting ability. Biden was a Democrat who voted to support the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Biden is a fervent proponent of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). He has advocated the idea of expanding and improving upon the ACA, which will be funded through the revenue generated from reversing certain Trump taxes cut by the administration. Biden plans to extend health insurance coverage to nearly 97 percent of Americans and includes creating an option for public health insurance.

Biden has been a proponent of marriage equality since 2012 and has also backed Roe v. Wade and repealed the Hyde Amendment. Biden is against exploration for petroleum in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and favors government funding to discover alternative energy sources.

As Senator, he built strong relationships with police organizations and was the leading advocate for a Police Officer’s Bill Of Rights supported by the police unions; however, police chiefs opposed it. As vice-president, the President worked as the White House liaison to police.

Biden believes that action needs to be taken to combat global warming. As Senator, he co-sponsored the Sense of the Senate Resolution that calls on the United States to take part in the United Nations climate negotiations and the Boxer-Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act, the most strict climate legislation in the United States Senate. He is determined to create an emission-free power sector within the U.S. by 2035 and end all emissions in 2050.

The program includes re-entering the Paris Agreement, nature conservation, and green construction. Biden is seeking to press China and other countries to reduce carbon emissions from greenhouse gases through carbon taxation if needed.

Biden has stated that Biden has said that the U.S. needs to “get tough” on China and form “a unifying front with U.S. allies and partners to take on China’s abrasive behavior and human rights violations.” Biden has described China “as the “most serious rival” that could threaten America’s United States’ “prosperity, security and democratic values.”

Biden has expressed his concern regarding China’s “coercive and unjust” business practices and human rights violations throughout the Xinjiang region to Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping. Biden also pledged to penalize and restrict commercially Chinese state officials, as well as organizations who are involved in the repression.

Biden has declared that he’s against any change in the regime, but he supports giving non-military support to the protest movements. Biden has criticized the direct U.S. intervention in Libya and voted against U.S. participation in the Gulf War, voted in favor of the Iraq War, and supported the two-state solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine.

Biden has committed to halt U.S. support for the Saudi Arabian-led war on Yemen and to review how the United States’ relationship with Saudi Arabia. Biden has described North Korea as a “paper tiger.” Vice President Biden has backed the Obama administration’s Cuban thaw.

Biden has stated that, if elected President, Biden will restore U.S. membership in key United Nations bodies, such as the U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health Organization, and perhaps even the Human Rights Council. Biden is in favor of expanding his support for the New START arms control treaty with Russia to restrict the number of nuclear weapons used by both parties. The treaty was signed in 2021. Biden acknowledged the Armenian genocide as one of the few U.S. presidents to do that.

Reputation

President Obama gave Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinction on January 12, 2017. Biden was consistently ranked as one of the members with the lowest wealth in the Senate. He attributed the situation to the fact that he was elected young. Concerned that public officials who are less wealthy might be enticed to accept contributions as a way to gain favors in politics, he proposed reforms to the campaign finance system in his initial term.

In November 2009, Biden’s net worth was $27,012. In November 2020, Biden’s net worth was $9 million. Bidens were valued at $9 million, primarily due to the sale of Biden’s books and speaking fees following his vice-presidential term.

The writer for the political scene, Howard Fineman, has written, “Biden isn’t an academic, and he’s not a conceptual thinker, but he’s an excellent street politician. Biden comes from an extended line of hardworking people from Scranton, auto sales associates, and car dealers, people who can sell. Biden has that wonderful Irish ability.”

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The columnist for the Washington Post, David S. Broder, wrote that Biden has grown as a person over time: “He responds to real people. This has been consistent throughout. In addition, his ability to know his personality and work with fellow politicians has become considerably improved.” Journalism expert James Traub has written that “Biden is a delightful person who can be as kind to people as himself.”

In recent times, particularly following the tragic loss of his older Son Beau, Biden has been recognized for his compassion and ability to express his grief. In the year 2020, CNN wrote that his presidential campaign aimed to make Biden the “healer-in-chief,” and The New York Times described his lengthy background of being called upon to offer a eulogy.

Journalist and anchor TV Wolf Blitzer has described Biden as a liar. He frequently deviates from pre-planned remarks and occasionally “puts his feet in the air.” The New York Times noted that Biden’s “weak filters enable him to be capable of uttering almost any topic.” In 2018, Biden described himself as “a gaffe-making machine.” Specific instances of Biden’s gaffes were described as racist.