His campaign was packaged as the battle for the soul of the nation and was rallying his supporters together to make Donald Trump a one term President and defeat Republicans across the country.
Indeed the Joe Biden has quietly kicked out Trump. Under the Democratic Party flag, Joe Biden won the election with 290 Electoral votes above the required 270 (50.6%). Incumbent Donald Trump of the Republican Party fetched only 214 (47.7%).
In a ceremony at the White House, President Barack Obama awarded Joe the Presidential Medal of Freedom with Distinctionâ€"the nation's highest civilian honor.
A win for Biden could mark the beginning of a dramatic shift in America's attitude toward the world. He will take office in January 2021. He vows to be friendlier to America's allies than Trump, tougher on autocrats, and better for the planet.
Joe's Story. From Scranton to Wilmington to the White Houseâ€"with thousands of train rides in between.
The Bidens
It all started in a little house on North Washington Avenue. Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. is born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, the son of Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden and Joseph Robinette Biden, Sr., and the first of four children.
The Bidens moved to Delaware. When Joe is 10, the Biden family moves to Claymont, Delaware, to look for better work. It becomes the state Joe calls home.
'During my adolescent and college years, men and women were changing the countryâ€"Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedyâ€"and I was swept up in their eloquence, their conviction, the sheer size of their improbable dreams.'
Joe enrolled at the University of Delaware, where he double majors in history and political science. He goes on to Syracuse University, where he earns his law degree.
Joe starts a family. Joe married Neilia Hunter at St. Mary's of the Lake in Skaneateles, New York. In the years to come, they have three children togetherâ€"Joseph R. 'Beau' Biden, III, Robert Hunter, and Naomi Christina.
The first campaign. Joe practiced law at a firm in Wilmington while also working part-time as a public defender. Later that year, he launches his first-ever campaign for the New Castle County Council, which he won by 2,000 votes.
Joe sticks up for the little guyâ€"and never stops. As a member of the New Castle County Council, Joe fought against a massive 10-lane highway project that threatened to pave over Wilmington's neighborhoods and push back on the oil companies building refineries on the Delaware coast.
'We have too often allowed our differences to prevail among us. We have too often allowed ambitious men to play off those differences for political gain. We have too often retreated behind our differences when no one really tried to lead us beyond them.' â€" Joe Biden, said while announcing his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, 1972.
Victory turned to tragedy. At age 29, Joe becomes one of the youngest people ever elected to the United States Senate. Weeks later, tragedy strikes the Biden family when Neilia and Naomi are killed and Hunter and Beau are critically injured in an auto accident.
The 120-mile commute. Joe was sworn into the U.S. Senate at his sons' hospital bedsides, and begins commuting from Wilmington to Washington every day, first by car and then by train, in order to tuck his sons in bed at night and see them get up in the morning. He will continue to do so throughout his time in the Senate. For five years, Joe raises Beau and Hunter as a single father, with the help of his sister Valerie and his family.
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