"[227], Some reports suggest that Biden opposed to going forward with the May 2011 U.S. mission to kill Osama bin Laden,[205][230] lest failure adversely affect Obama's reelection prospects. Biden's family history is well-known, given that they have been through multiple tragedies over the decades. [1] On August 11, he announced U.S. Now on the eve of Election Day, all eyes are on him—and his brood. [56]:230–232[75] Earlier that year he had also used passages from a 1967 speech by Robert F. Kennedy (for which his aides took blame) and a short phrase from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address; two years earlier he had used a 1976 passage by Hubert Humphrey. [115][155] In a June 22, 2008 interview, Biden said that while he was not actively seeking the vice-presidential nomination, he would accept it if offered. [26][27] He disliked incumbent Democratic Delaware governor Charles L. Terry's conservative racial politics and supported a more liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968. "[109] Biden wrote an amendment in 1992 to compel the Bush administration to arm the Bosnians, but deferred in 1994 to a somewhat softer stance the Clinton administration preferred, before signing on the following year to a stronger measure sponsored by Bob Dole and Joe Lieberman. "How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?" [205][206], Biden was also in charge of overseeing infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package intended to help counteract the ongoing recession, and stressed that only worthy projects should get funding. In April 2019, Biden announced his candidacy in the 2020 presidential election, and he reached the delegate threshold needed to secure the Democratic nomination in June 2020. He was a key to the deal. Joe Biden has married twice and fathered four children. After the death of Jean Finnegan Biden on January 8, 2010, President Barack Obama traveled to Wilmington, Delaware, to attend her January 12 funeral. Ad Choices, Meet Joe Biden’s Granddaughters—Naomi, Finnegan, Maisy, and Natalie. When McCain died in 2018, Biden's eulogy began: "My name's Joe Biden.

He supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, but opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. Is it because our fathers and mothers were not bright? Jean was of Irish descent, with roots variously attributed to County Louth[16] and County Londonderry.

[51] In a 1974 interview, he described himself as liberal on civil rights and liberties, senior citizens' concerns and healthcare but conservative on other issues, including abortion and the military conscription. No means no if you're in bed, in a dorm or on the street. Neither of these meetings was considered an endorsement, as Biden had said he would meet with any candidate who asked.

[149]:336, Biden had difficulty raising funds, struggled to draw people to his rallies, and failed to gain traction against the high-profile candidacies of Obama and Senator Hillary Clinton.

[189] He chaired Obama's transition team[190] and headed an initiative to improve middle-class economic well-being. [292], As of the end of January 2016, neither Biden nor Obama had endorsed anyone in the 2016 presidential election. [26] He and another attorney also formed a law firm. [217] Following big Republican gains in the elections and the departure of White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel, Biden's past relationships with Republicans in Congress became more important. "After our son, Beau, died of cancer, I wondered if I would ever smile or feel joy again. [28] His platform focused on withdrawal from Vietnam, the environment, civil rights, mass transit, more equitable taxation, health care, and public dissatisfaction with "politics as usual". This page was last edited on 3 November 2020, at 13:47. The former vice president shares his three eldest kids—Hunter, Beau, and Naomi Biden—with his late wife, Neilia Hunter. While you might know quite a bit about Joe Biden from a political standpoint, you might not know as much about his personal life. Biden responded that Trump should grow up and cease his tweeting so he could focus on the office. "[141] As the financial crisis of 2007–2010 reached a peak with the liquidity crisis of September 2008 and the proposed bailout of the United States financial system became a major factor in the campaign, Biden voted in favor of the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which went on to pass in the Senate 74–25. [405], As a senator, Biden forged deep relationships with police groups and was a chief proponent of a Police Officer's Bill of Rights measure that police unions supported but police chiefs opposed. As part of the last night of the DNC, Biden's granddaughters, Natalie, Naomi, Finnegan, and Maisy, appeared in a video montage talking about their relationship with their grandfather and their support for his campaign. He is the Democratic presidential nominee for the 2020 election, running against the incumbent, Donald Trump. 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[155] More generally, overseeing Iraq policy became Biden's responsibility: Obama was said to have said, "Joe, you do Iraq. Per ABC News, Frank Biden (above left), is a long-time real estate developer who purportedly rode his brother's coattails in an effort to further the endeavors of a charter school. Does he mean it? And we both realize that the only true antidote to any of this is winning. [3][4] The oldest child in a Catholic family, he had a sister and two brothers. It was summer, but there was no warmth left for me," Jill said during her 2020 Democratic National Convention speech. But during any Biden speech, there might be a dozen moments to make press handlers cringe, and prompt reporters to turn to each other with amusement and confusion. [240] Biden apologized to Obama in private for having spoken out,[238][241] while Obama acknowledged publicly it had been done from the heart. Siblings. Joseph Robinette "Joe" Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942, at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania, to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (née Finnegan; July 7, 1917 – January 8, 2010) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. (November 13, 1915 – September 2, 2002), who married in 1941. The seminar often had a waiting list and Biden sometimes flew back from overseas for the class. Despite their different career tracks, James appears to have enjoyed the access his successful brother allowed him; over the years, he joined Joe Biden on congressional trips to Ireland, Rome and Africa (via NY Post). Following the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting he led the Gun Violence Task Force. [203] His January 2010 visit to Iraq in the midst of turmoil over banned candidates from the upcoming Iraqi parliamentary election resulted in 59 of the several hundred candidates being reinstated by the Iraqi government two days later.

Like Naomi, she was named after a late relative: Joe Biden’s mother, Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Finnegan Biden. [2]:655–661 During the campaign's final days, he focused on less populated, older, less well-off areas of battleground states, especially Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where polling indicated he was popular and where Obama had not campaigned or performed well in the Democratic primaries. [105][109] He supported the appropriations to pay for the occupation, but argued repeatedly that the war should be internationalized, that more soldiers were needed, and that the Bush administration should "level with the American people" about the cost and length of the conflict. “We were sharing a very specific grief,” Hunter said of their relationship to the New Yorker. [376][377], Biden apologized for not understanding how people would react to his actions, but said his intentions were honorable. He was the only Democrat willing to challenge Boggs;[28] his campaign had almost no money, and he was given no chance of winning. [134] In 2019, Biden and his wife reported that their assets had increased to between $2.2 million and $8 million,[further explanation needed] thanks to speaking engagements and a contract to write a set of books. [18] He says he has reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror,[12]:99[19] but it has been suggested that it affected his performance in the 2020 Democratic Party presidential debates. In February 2020, campaign manager Andrew Bates vehemently denied that Joe had any knowledge of Jim's financial investments. [84], In February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden was taken by ambulance to Walter Reed Army Medical Center for surgery to correct a leaking intracranial berry aneurysm. It can't be easy to live in the shadow of a man on the cusp of becoming the President of the United States, but Frank Biden along with the rest of his family, are always supportive and active in Joe Biden's career (via New York Times). [316], On March 22, 2017, during his first appearance on Capitol Hill since Trump's inauguration, Biden called the Republican healthcare bill a "tax bill" meant to transfer nearly $1 trillion used for health benefits for those struggling to wealthy Americans.

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