Joseph Robinette Biden

46^th President

Of

United States of America

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·                 Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who has been the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021.

·                 A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the U.S. Senate from 1973 to 2009.

·                 He graduated from the University of Delaware in 1965 and from Syracuse University in 1968.

·                 He was elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and the U.S. Senate in 1972.

·                 As a senator, Biden drafted and led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act.

·                 He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.

·                 Biden ran unsuccessfully for the 1988 and 2008 Democratic presidential nominations.

·                 In 2008, Obama chose Biden as his running mate, and he was a close counselor to Obama during his two terms as vice president.

·                 In the 2020 presidential election, the Democratic Party nominated Biden for president.

·                 He selected Kamala Harris as his running mate, and they defeated Republican incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence.

·                 He is the oldest president in U.S. history and the first to serve with a female vice president.

·                 As President, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession.

·                 He signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing.

·                 He proposed the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed into law in 2022.

·                 Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

·                 He worked with congressional Republicans to resolve the 2023 debt-ceiling crisis by negotiating a deal to raise the debt ceiling.

·                 In foreign policy, Biden restored America’s membership in the Paris Agreement.

·                 He oversaw the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan that ended the war in Afghanistan, leading to the collapse of the Afghan government and the Taliban seizing control.

·                 He responded to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine.

·                 During the Israel–Hamas war, Biden condemned the actions of Hamas as terrorism, announced military support for Israel and sent limited humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.

·                 In April 2023, Biden announced his re – election campaign and, after the Democratic primaries, became the party’s presumptive nominee in the 2024 presidential election.

·                 But after his performance during the first presidential debate on June 27, he withdrew his candidacy in July 2024 amid concerns about his age and health, becoming the first U.S. president to decline to seek re – election after securing enough delegates to win re – nomination.

·                  He endorsed Vice President Harris to be the Democratic nominee.

Early Life

·                 Though a poor student, he was class president in his junior and senior years.

·                  He graduated in 196. At the University of Delaware in Newark.

·                  Biden briefly played freshman football.

·                 And, as an unexceptional student, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and political science.

Marriages, Law School, and early Career (1966 – 1973)

·                 Biden married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University, on August 27, 1966.

·                 They had three children: Joseph R. “Beau” Biden III, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina “Amy” Biden.

·                 Biden earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968.

·                 In his first year of law school, he failed a course because he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote, but the failing grade was later stricken.

·                 His grades were relatively poor, and he graduated 76th in a class of 85 students. He was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969.

·                 In 1969, Biden practiced law, first as a public defender and then at a law firm headed by a locally active Democrat.

·                 Biden ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council in 1970 on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the suburbs.

·                 He served until January 1, 1973, and was succeeded by Democrat Francis R. Swift.

1972 US Senate Election Campaign in Delaware 

·                 Biden defeated Republican incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to become the junior U.S. senator from Delaware in 1972.

Death of Wife and Dauighter

·                 A few weeks after Biden was elected senator, his wife Neilia and one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware, on December 18, 1972.

Second Marriage

·                 Biden met teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1975 on a blind date. They married at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977.

·                 In 1981, the couple had a daughter, Ashley Biden.

·                 Jill helped raise her stepsons, Hunter and Beau, who were seven and eight respectively at the time of her marriage.

Teaching

·                 From 1991 to 2008, as an adjunct professor, Biden co-taught a seminar on constitutional law at Widener University School of Law. He sometimes flew back from overseas to teach the class.

US SENATE (1973 – 2009)

Senate Activities

·                 Secretary of the Senate Francis R. Valeo swore Biden in at the Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center in January 1973 Minton Medical Center in January 1973.

·                 At age 30, he was the seventh-youngest senator in U.S. history. To see his sons, Biden traveled by train between his Delaware home and D.C.—74 minutes each way—and maintained this habit throughout his 36 years in the Senate.

^·                           Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, Biden was reelected in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008, regularly receiving about 60% of the vote.

^·                           During his early years in the Senate, Biden focused on consumer protection and environmental issues and called for greater government accountability.

^·                           Biden also worked on arms control.

^·                           Biden met with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko to communicate American concerns and secured changes that addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s objections.

^·                           He received considerable attention when he excoriated Secretary of State George Shultz at a Senate hearing for the Reagan administration’s support of South Africa despite its continued policy of apartheid.

^·                           Biden became ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in 1981.

^·                           He was a Democratic floor manager for the successful passage of the Comprehensive Crime Control Act in 1984.

^·                           In 1994, Biden helped pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which included a ban on assault weapons, and the Violence Against Women Act, which he has called his most significant legislation.

Senate Judiciary Committee

^·                           Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

^·                           He chaired it from 1987 to 1995 and was a ranking minority member from 1981 to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997.

^·                           During Clarence Thomas’s nomination hearings in 1991, Biden’s questions on constitutional issues were often convoluted to the point that Thomas sometimes lost track of them,

^·                           And Thomas later wrote that Biden’s questions were akin to “beanballs“

^·                            After the committee hearing closed, the public learned that Anita Hill, a University of Oklahoma law school professor, had accused Thomas of making unwelcome sexual comments when they had worked together.

Senate Foreign Relation Committee

^·                           Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

^·                           He became its ranking minority member in 1997 and chaired it from June 2001 to 2003 and 2007 to 2009.

Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

^·                           Biden was a strong supporter of the War in Afghanistan, saying, “Whatever it takes, we should do it.

1988 and 2008 Presidential Campaigns

·                 Biden formally declared his candidacy for the 1988 Democratic presidential nomination on June 9, 1987.

2008 Campaign

·                 After exploring the possibility of a run in several previous cycles, in January 2007, Biden declared his candidacy in the 2008 elections.

·                 Despite its lack of success, Biden’s 2008 campaign raised his stature in the political world.

·                 In particular, it changed the relationship between Biden and Obama.

·                 Having gotten to know each other during 2007, Obama appreciated Biden’s campaign style and appeal to working-class voters, and Biden said he became convinced Obama was “the real deal”.

2008 and 2012 Vice Presidential Campaigns

·                 On August 22, 2008, Obama announced that Biden would be his running mate.

·                 On November 4, 2008, Obama and Biden were elected with 53% of the popular vote and 365 electoral votes to McCain and Palin’s 173.

·                 At the same time Biden was running for vice president, he was also running for reelection to the Senate as permitted by Delaware law.

·                 On November 4, he was reelected to the Senate, defeating Republican Christine O’Donnell.

2012 Campaign

·                 In October 2010, Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the 2012 presidential election.

·                 On November 6, Obama and Biden won reelection over Romney and Ryan with 332 of 538 Electoral College votes and 51% of the popular vote.

·                 Biden oversaw infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package intended to help counteract the ongoing recession.

·                 Obama delegated Biden to lead negotiations with Congress in March 2011 to resolve federal spending levels for the rest of the year and avoid a government shutdown.

·                 Obama named Biden to head the Gun Violence Task Force, created to address the causes of school shootings and consider possible gun control to implement in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, in December 2012.

Second Term (2013 – 2017)

·                 Biden was inaugurated to a second term on January 20, 2013, at a small ceremony at Number One Observatory Circle, his official residence, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor presiding (a public ceremony took place on January 21.

·                 Biden never cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, making him the longest-serving vice president with this distinction.

Subsequent Activities (2017 – 2019)

·                 After leaving the vice presidency, Biden became an honorary professor at the University of Pennsylvania, developing the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement.

·                 Biden remained in that position into 2019, before running for president.

·                 In 2017, Biden wrote a memoir, Promise Me, Dad, and went on a book tour.

·                 By 2019, he and his wife reported that they had earned over $15 million since the end of his vice presidency from speaking engagements and book sales.

·                 Biden remained in the public eye, endorsing candidates while continuing to comment on politics, climate change, and the presidency of Donald Trump.

2020 PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN

Speculation and Announcements

·                 Between 2016 and 2019, media outlets often mentioned Biden as a likely candidate for president in 2020.

·                 He finally launched his campaign on April 25, 2019,  saying he was prompted to run because he was worried by the Trump administration and felt a “sense of duty“.

Campaign

·                 As the 2020 campaign season heated up, voluminous public polling showed Biden as one of the best-performing Democratic candidates in a head-to-head matchup against President Trump.

·                 In September 2019, it was reported that Trump had pressured Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

·                 Despite the allegations, no evidence was produced of any wrongdoing by the Bidens.

·                 Trump’s pressure to investigate the Bidens was perceived by many as an attempt to hurt Biden’s chances of winning the presidency.

·                 Trump’s alleged actions against Biden resulted in a political scandal and Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and obstruction of congress.

·                 When Sanders suspended his campaign on April 8, 2020, Biden became the Democratic Party’s presumptive nominee for president.

·                 On August 11, Biden announced U.S. senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate, making her the first African American and first South Asian American vice-presidential nominee on a major-party ticket.

Presidential Transition

·                 Biden was elected the 46th president of the United States in November 2020.

·                 He defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump, becoming the first candidate to defeat a sitting president since Bill Clinton defeated George H. W. Bush in 1992.

·                 Trump refused to concede, insisting the election had been “stolen” from him through “voter fraud”, challenging the results in court and promoting numerous conspiracy theories about the voting and vote-counting processes, in an attempt to overturn the election results.

·                 Biden’s transition was delayed by several weeks as the White House ordered federal agencies not to cooperate.

·                 On November 23, General Services Administrator Emily W. Murphy formally recognized Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 election and authorized the start of a transition process to the Biden administration.

·                 January 6, 2021, during Congress’ electoral vote count, Trump told supporters gathered in front of the White House to march to the Capitol, saying, “We will never give up. We will never concede.

·                 It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved.”^[317] Soon after, they attacked the Capitol.

·                 During the insurrection at the Capitol, Biden addressed the nation, calling the events “an unprecedented assault unlike anything we’ve seen in modern times”.

·                  After the Capitol was cleared, Congress resumed its joint session and officially certified the election results with Vice President Mike Pence, in his capacity as President of the Senate, declaring Biden and Harris the winners.

PRESIDENCY (2021 till Present)

Inauguration

·                 Biden was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021.

·                 At 78, he was the oldest person to have assumed the office.

·                 Biden’s inauguration was “a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration” due to COVID-19 precautions as well as massively increased security measures because of the January 6 United States Capitol attack.

·                 Trump did not attend, becoming the first outgoing president since 1869 to not attend his successor’s inauguration.

First 100 Days

·                 In his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 executive orders.

·                 By his third day, orders had included rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement,

·                 ending the state of national emergency at the border with Mexico, directing the government to rejoin the World Health Organization,

·                 face mask requirements on federal property, measures to combat hunger in the United States, and revoking permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.

·                 On March 11, the first anniversary of COVID-19 having been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization,

·                 Biden signed into law the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus and relief package that he had proposed to support the United States’ recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

·                 The package included direct payments to most Americans, an extension of increased unemployment benefits, funds for vaccine distribution and school re – openings, and expansions of health insurance subsidies and the child tax credit.

·                 Biden’s initial proposal included an increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, but after the Senate parliamentarian determined that including the increase in a budget reconciliation bill would violate Senate rules,

·                 Democrats declined to pursue overruling her and removed the increase from the package.

·                 Also in March, amid a rise in migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico, Biden told migrants, “Don’t come over.”

·                 In the meantime, migrant adults “are being sent back”, Biden said, in reference to the continuation of the Trump administration’s Title 42 policy for quick deportations.

·                  Biden earlier announced that his administration would not deport unaccompanied migrant children; the rise in arrivals of such children exceeded the capacity of facilities meant to shelter them (before they were sent to sponsors), leading the Biden administration in March to direct the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help.

Domestic Policy

·                 The Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 was introduced in 2021 and signed into law by Biden on August 10, 2022.

·                 The act intends to significantly improve healthcare access and funding for veterans who were exposed to toxic substances, including burn pits, during military service.

·                 In June 2024, Biden issued an executive action offering amnesty to unauthorized immigrants married to American citizens.

·                 The program includes a pathway to U.S. residency and citizenship and is expected to initially affect about 500,000 people.

Economy

·                 Biden entered office nine months into a recovery from the COVID-19 recession and his first year in office was characterized by robust growth in real GDP, employment, wages, and stock market returns, amid significantly elevated inflation.

·                 Real GDP grew 5.9%, the fastest rate in 37 years.

·                 Amid record job creation, the unemployment rate fell at the fastest pace on record during the year.

·                 By the end of 2021, inflation reached a nearly 40-year high of 7.1%, which was partially offset by the highest nominal wage and salary growth in at least 20 years.

·                  In his third month in office, Biden signed an executive order to increase the minimum wage for federal contractors to $15 per hour, an increase of nearly 37%. The order went into effect for 390,000 workers in January 2022.

·                 Amid a surge in inflation and high gas prices, Biden’s approval ratings declined, reaching net negative in early 2022.

·                 After 5.9% growth in 2021, real GDP growth cooled in 2022 to 2.1%, after slightly negative growth in the first half spurred recession concerns.

·                 Job creation and consumer spending remained strong through the year, as the unemployment rate fell to match a 53-year low of 3.5% in December.

·                 Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June before easing to 3.2% by October 2023.

·                 Stocks had had their worst year since 2008 before recovering.

·                 Widespread predictions of an imminent recession did not materialize in 2022 or 2023, and by late 2023 indicators showed sharply lower inflation with economic acceleration.

·                 GDP growth hit 4.9% in the third quarter of 2023 and the year ended with stocks near record highs, with robust holiday spending.

·                 Biden signed numerous major pieces of economic legislation in the 117th Congress,

·                 including the American Rescue Plan,

·                 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,

·                 CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act.

·                 He signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law on August 9, 2022.

·                  It provides billions of dollars in new funding to boost domestic research on and manufacture of semiconductors, to compete economically with China.

·                 Over the course of five days in March 2023, three small- to mid-size U.S. banks failed,

·                 triggering a sharp decline in global bank stock prices and swift response by regulators to prevent potential global contagion.

·                 After Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, the first to do so, Biden expressed opposition to a bailout by taxpayers.^]

·                 He claimed that the partial rollback of Dodd-Frank regulations contributed to the bank’s failure.

·                 At the beginning of the 118th Congress, Biden and congressional Republicans engaged in a standoff after the U.S. hit its debt limit, which raised the risk that the U.S. would default on its debt.

·                 Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a deal to raise the debt limit, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which suspended the debt limit until January 2025.

·                 Biden signed it on June 3, averting a default.

·                 The deal was generally seen as favorable to Biden.

·                 During the September 2023 United Auto Workers strike, Biden expressed support for the workers in negotiations.

·                 He assigned White House senior adviser Gene Sperling and acting Labor Secretary Julie Su to aid in negotiation efforts^.

·                 On September 26, Biden joined striking UAW workers’ picket line in Michigan, becoming the first president to join a picket line.

Judiciary

·                 By the end of 2021, 40 of Biden’s nominees to the federal judiciary had been confirmed, more than any president in his first year in office since Ronald Reagan.

·                 Biden has prioritized diversity in his judicial appointments more than any president in U.S. history, with most of his appointees being women and people of color.

·                 In January 2022, Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, a moderate liberal nominated by Bill Clinton, announced his intention to retire from the Supreme Court.

·                 During his 2020 campaign, Biden vowed to nominate the first Black woman to the Supreme Court if a vacancy occurred a promise he reiterated after Breyer announced his retirement.

·                 On February 25, Biden nominated federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court.

·                 She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7 and sworn in on June 30.

·                 By May 2024, Biden had confirmed more than 200 federal judges, about two-thirds of them women.

Infrastructure and Climate

·                 As part of Biden’s Build Back Better agenda, in late March 2021, he proposed the American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion package addressing issues including:

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o   transport infrastructure,

o   utilities infrastructure,

o   broadband infrastructure,

o   housing, schools,

o   manufacturing, research and workforce development.

·                 After months of negotiations among Biden and lawmakers, in August 2021 the Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill called the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,

·                 while the House, also in a bipartisan manner, approved that bill in early November 2021, covering infrastructure related to transport, utilities, and broadband.

·                 Biden signed the bill into law in mid-November 2021.

·                 In April 2024, Biden unveiled a plan to protect and restore natural water sources (3.2 million hectares of wetlands and 161,000 km of rivers and streams).

Southern Border

·                 illegal border crossings at the Mexico–United States border began to surge in 2021 when Biden assumed office,

·                 Throughout 2024, crossings began to significantly decline from the December record,

·                 In January 2024, Biden expressed support for a proposed bipartisan immigration deal led by Senators Kyrsten Sinema and James Lankford.

·                 The proposed bill would allow DHS to close the border when encounters reach a seven-day average of 5,000 or exceed 8,500 in a single day.

·                 In addition, the bill mandates the detention of migrants seeking asylum and undergoing asylum interviews, with those failing the process repatriated to their home countries.

·                 While not addressing the status of “Dreamers“, it would change immigration law to allow the children of those with H-1B visas to get work authorizations and freeze their legal ages while waiting for green cards, rather than face deportation once they hit age 21, and would provide additional funding for immigration judges.

·                 Former president Donald Trump announced his opposition to the legislation, calling on Congressional Republicans to oppose it;

·                 subsequently, leaders such as Speaker of the House Mike Johnson announced their opposition, halting further legislative action.

·                 As a result of continued high immigration levels throughout his tenure, some lawmakers and pundits have criticized Biden’s handling of the southern border.

·                 Criticism of the bill and broader immigration policy continued to be expressed by both sides, with some liberals considering his policies too harsh while some conservatives considered them too lax.

2022 Election

·                 A predicted Republican wave election did not materialize and the race for U.S. Congress control was much closer than expected,

·                 with Republicans securing a slim majority of 222 seats in the House of Representatives,

·                 and the Democratic caucus keeping control of the U.S. Senate, with 51 seats, a gain of one seat from the last Congress.

Foreign Policy

·                 In June 2021, Biden took his first trip abroad as president.

·                 In eight days he visited Belgium, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.

·                 He attended a G7 summit, a NATO summit, and an EU summit,

·                 and held one-on-one talks with Russian president Vladimir Putin.

·                 In September 2021, Biden announced AUKUS, a security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States, to ensure “peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific over the long term”;

·                 the deal included nuclear-powered submarines built for Australia’s use.

Investigations

·                 On November 2, 2022, while packing files at the Penn Biden Center, Biden’s attorneys found classified documents dating from his vice presidency in a “locked closet”

·                  According to the White House, the documents were reported that day to the U.S. National Archives, which recovered them the next day.

·                  On November 14, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed U.S. attorney John R. Lausch Jr. to conduct an investigation.

·                 On December 20, a second batch of classified documents was discovered in the garage of Biden’s Wilmington, Delaware residence.

·                 The findings broke news on January 9, 2023, after CBS News published an article on the Lausch investigation.

·                 On January 12, Garland appointed Robert K. Hur as special counsel to investigate “possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records”.

·                 On January 20, after a 13-hour consensual search by FBI investigators, six more items with classified markings were recovered from Biden’s Wilmington residence.

·                  FBI agents searched Biden’s home in Rehoboth Beach on February 1 and collected papers and notes from his time as vice president, but did not find any classified information.

·                 On February 8, 2024, Hur concluded the special counsel investigation and announced that no charges would be brought against Biden.

2024 Presidential Campaign

·                 Ending months of speculation, on April 25, 2023, Biden confirmed he would run for re – election as president in the 2024 election,

·                 with Harris again as his running mate.

·                 During his campaign, Biden promoted higher economic growth and recovery following the COVID-19 pandemic.

·                 He frequently stated his intention to “finish the job” as a political rallying cry.

·                 The first presidential debate was held on June 27, 2024, between Biden and Trump.

·                 Biden’s performance was widely criticized, with commentators saying he frequently lost his train of thought and gave meandering answers

·                 After the debate raised questions about his health and age, Biden faced calls to withdraw from the race, including from fellow Democrats and the editorial boards of several major news outlets.

·                 Biden initially insisted that he would remain a candidate,^] but on July 21, he withdrew his candidacy, writing that this was “in the best interest of my party and the country”.

·                  He endorsed Harris as his successor.

Political Positions

·                 As a senator, Biden was regarded as a moderate Democrat.

·                 As a presidential nominee, Biden’s platform had been called the most progressive of any major party platform in history, although not within his party’s ideological vanguard.

·                 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.

·                 In 2020, Biden also ran on decriminalizing cannabis, after advocating harsher penalties for drug use as a U.S. senator.

·                 Biden has supported abortion rights throughout his presidency, though he personally opposes abortion because of his Catholic faith.

·                 In 2019, he said he supported Roe v. Wade and repealing the Hyde Amendment.

·                 After Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, he criticized near-total bans on abortion access passed in a majority of Republican-controlled states, and took measures to protect abortion rights in the United States.

·                 He has vowed to sign a bill codifying the protections of Roe into federal law; such a bill passed the House in 2022, but was unable to clear the Senate filibuster.

Public Image

·                 Biden was consistently ranked one of the least wealthy members of the Senate, which he attributed to having been elected young.

·                  Feeling that less-wealthy public officials may be tempted to accept contributions in exchange for political favors, he proposed campaign finance reform measures during his first term.

·                 As of November 2009, Biden’s net worth was $27,012. By November 2020, the Bidens were worth $9 million, largely due to sales of Biden’s books and speaking fees after his vice presidency.

·                 Political columnist David S. Broder wrote that Biden has grown over time:

He responds to real people—that’s been consistent throughout. And his ability to understand himself and deal with other politicians has gotten much, much better.

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Journalist James Traub has written that “Biden is the kind of fundamentally happy person who can be as generous toward others as he is to himself”. 

In recent years, especially after the 2015 death of his elder son Beau, Biden has been noted for his empathetic nature and ability to communicate about grief.

In 2020, CNN wrote that his presidential campaign aimed to make him “healer-in-chief”, while The New York Times described his extensive history of being called upon to give eulogies.

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Journalist and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;

journalist Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for “talking too much”, leaning in close “like an old pal with something urgent to tell you”.

He often deviates from prepared remarks and sometimes “puts his foot in his mouth”.

Biden has a reputation for being prone to gaffes and in 2018 called himself “a gaffe machine”.

The New York Times wrote that Biden’s “weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything”.

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According to The New York Times, Biden often embellishes elements of his life or exaggerates, a trait also noted by The New Yorker in 2014.

For instance, he has claimed to have been more active in the civil rights movement than he actually was, and has falsely recalled being an excellent student who earned three college degrees.

The Times wrote, “Mr. Biden’s folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don’t quite add up and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off to make them more powerful for audiences.”

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Health and Age

·                 Biden is the oldest sitting president in U.S. history. During his presidency, Republicans and media pundits have raised questions about his cognitive health in reaction to his public speaking.

·                 These narratives were amplified and widely covered by the media after his weak performance in a June 2024 presidential debate. Biden has repeatedly said he is fit for the presidency.

Covit – 19 Diagnoses

·                 On July 21, 2022, Biden tested positive for COVID-19 with reportedly mild symptoms. According to the White House, he was treated with Paxlovid.

·                 He worked in isolation in the White House for five days and

·                 returned to isolation when he tested positive again on July 30, 2022.

·                 On July 17, 2024, Biden again tested positive for COVID-19

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