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Who is Joe Biden

Joe Biden is an American politician and also the 46th and current president of the United States. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from 1973 to 2009. He contested the 2020 Presidential polls against Donald Trump, along with Kamala Harris as his running mate.

Biden, 77, was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, in 1942. In 1972, at the age 29, he became one of the youngest people ever elected to the US Senate. He went on to serve as a six-term senator from Delaware.
 
His early presidential activity centered around proposing, lobbying for, and signing into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 to speed up the United States' recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing recession, as well as a series of executive orders. Biden's orders addressed the pandemic and reversed several Trump administration policies, which included rejoining the Paris Agreement on climate change and reaffirming protections for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. In April 2021, Biden announced the withdrawal of all US troops from Afghanistan by September 2021.

Joe Biden's early life
 
Biden was born November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He graduated in 1961. Biden has a stutter, which has improved since his early twenties. He says he reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror. On August 27, 1966, Biden married Neilia Hunter (1942–1972), a student at Syracuse University. In 1968, Biden earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law. In 1969, Biden practiced law first as a public defender and then at a firm headed by a locally active Democrat who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party.
 
In 1970, Biden ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburbs. He won the general election by defeating Republican Lawrence T Messick, and took office on January 5, 1971. In 1972, Biden defeated Republican incumbent J Caleb Boggs to become the junior US senator from Delaware. At the time of his election, he was still 29 years old, but reached the constitutionally required age of 30 before he was sworn in as Senator. On December 18, 1972, a few weeks after the election, Biden's wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware. The accident had filled him with anger and religious doubt. Biden’s oldest son, Beau, died of brain cancer in 2015.
 
Biden credits his second wife, teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs, with the renewal of his interest in politics and life.
 
Joe Biden's political life
 
Joe Biden’s life in politics has been marked from its inception by its seismographic lurching from success to setback. Victories were followed by unthinkable personal tragedy. Self-inflicted wounds crippled nascent campaigns. And yet he has survived—36 years in the Senate, eight years in the Obama administration—becoming along the way the ultimate political wingman and the nation’s unofficial consoler in chief. 
 
In 1987, he ran for president for the first time. He quit the race after it was revealed he incorporated into a speech of his parts of a speech by British Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock—falsely referring to ancestors of his who worked in the coal mines.
 
In 2008, Biden ran for president a second time but dropped out after coming in fifth in the Iowa caucus. Seven months later, Barack Obama selected him as his running mate.
 
He considered running for president in 2016, but Obama persuaded him not to, believing Hillary Clinton had a better chance to defeat the Republican nominee.
 
2020 US Presidential elections
 
On April 25, 2019, Biden announced his candidacy for President of the United States. Biden’s candidacy was built from the beginning around 3 pillars: the battle for the soul of our nation, the need to rebuild our middle class — the backbone of our country, and a call for unity, to act as One America. It was a message that would only gain more resonance in 2020 as we confront a pandemic, an economic crisis, urgent calls for racial justice, and the existential threat of climate change.
 

Latest Updates on Joe Biden

British PM is set to meet US President in Belfast, Northern Ireland next week when the US president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday peace accord

Updated On: 09 Apr 2023 | 8:00 AM IST

The administration said most of the after-action reviews, which were transmitted privately to Congress on Thursday, were highly classified and would not be released publicly

Updated On: 07 Apr 2023 | 8:31 AM IST

Limits on car pollution are key to helping the US meet its Paris Agreement commitment to slash greenhouse gas emissions by at least 50% from 2005 levels by the end of the decade

Updated On: 06 Apr 2023 | 10:48 PM IST

Trump said China, Russia, Iran and North Korea have formed together as a "menacing and destructive coalition" and could have never happened under his leadership

Updated On: 05 Apr 2023 | 12:14 PM IST

The actions are among steps the Biden administration is taking as the Democratic president moves to convert the US economy to renewable energy such as wind and solar power

Updated On: 05 Apr 2023 | 10:17 AM IST

"The only crime that I have committed is to fearlessly defend our nation from those who seek to destroy it," he added

Updated On: 05 Apr 2023 | 8:58 AM IST

"Could be," said Biden when asked if AI is dangerous, adding that it remains to be seen

Updated On: 05 Apr 2023 | 6:40 AM IST

President Joe Biden's administration is making USD 450 million available for solar farms and other clean energy projects across the country at the site of current or former coal mines

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 5:40 PM IST

Artificial intelligence burst to the forefront in the national conversation after the release of the popular ChatGPT AI chatbot

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 3:58 PM IST

The new representative of Venezuela's opposition in the US is urging the Biden administration to relax crippling oil sanctions on Nicolas Maduro's government

Updated On: 04 Apr 2023 | 9:19 AM IST

Biden, along with Japanese PM will visit the plant run by Micron Technology's Japanese unit, according to the report, as a sign of their deepening bilateral collaboration in the semiconductor industry

Updated On: 03 Apr 2023 | 6:56 AM IST

The building boom underscores how the US has rebuilt its credentials as a cleantech manufacturing hub after last year's Inflation Reduction Act.

Updated On: 02 Apr 2023 | 10:40 PM IST

President Joe Biden has all but announced he's running for reelection, but key questions about the 2024 campaign are unresolved: Who will manage it? Where will it be based?

Updated On: 01 Apr 2023 | 11:30 PM IST

"We have tried to make America a good place to invest for those types of companies that have a choice in terms of where to put their money"

Updated On: 01 Apr 2023 | 8:05 AM IST

"An abrupt end to the emergency declarations would create wide-ranging chaos and uncertainty throughout the health care system for states

Updated On: 30 Mar 2023 | 10:10 AM IST

"This is a turning point for our world toward greater freedom, greater dignity, and greater democracy," said Biden

Updated On: 30 Mar 2023 | 7:15 AM IST

The former Mastercard Inc. chief executive was tapped by President Joe Biden last month after current president David Malpass announced plans to step down almost a year early

Updated On: 30 Mar 2023 | 7:33 AM IST

President Joe Biden offered an optimistic outlook on the health of democracy worldwide, declaring that leaders are turning the tide in stemming a yearslong backslide of democratic institutions

Updated On: 29 Mar 2023 | 11:42 PM IST

Israeli PM Netanyahu rebuffed President Biden's suggestion that premier walks away from contentious plan to overhaul the legal system, saying country makes its own decisions

Updated On: 29 Mar 2023 | 11:24 PM IST

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said on Tuesday he's increasingly concerned about President Joe Biden's unwillingness to negotiate on lifting the nation's borrowing authority

Updated On: 29 Mar 2023 | 6:55 AM IST