Who is Joe Biden, the 46th president of America who fell from Republican throne Donald Trump

Senator at age 30

Engaged in Delaware's local policy, Joe Biden fell from his throne to surprise a Republican senator in the 1972 elections.

A few weeks later, his wife and daughter were killed in an automobile accident. He thought of resigning to take care of his sons Beau and Hunter, but the Senate leader gave him courage and he was sworn in on January 5, 1973, at the time of only 30. He was re-elected to the Supreme Chamber of Congress repeatedly until 2008.

Against “busing” )

In the 1970s, to satisfy Delaware voters, he rejected government policy known as “busing”, which organised bus transport of colored children to mostly white schools to promote co-edification.

His next vice president, Kamala Harris, had supported her on this subject during the democrat preliminary,

Presidential Fall

In 1987, he ran for the first time in the White House race. Launched among the favourites, the 40-year-old dynamic was forced to abandon the race following a series of speculations on his past and plagiarism in campaign speeches.

Women

The president of the Senate's powerful judiciary Commission, he supervised in 1991 the process of confirming Judge Clarence Thomas in the Supreme Court when charges of sexual harassment were issued against the judge.

Joe Biden then organizes a TV hearing of his accuser, Anita Hill, who turns into a fiasco: The law professor was brutally treated by an exclusive male panel, who questioned her credibility without any tact. Joe Biden apologized.

Three years later, he compensated for some of the credit lost with approval, with his initiative, of a law against violence against women.

It is the law for which he means in retrospect “the proudest”.

) Prison

This law on violence against women is only a part of its much wider reform of criminal justice that marks a consensus between the parties for a very oppressive approach.

The 1994 crime law” is considered responsible today for increasing the number of U.S. prisoners, but also for the excessive presence of Africans in prisons, because it particularly severely punished crack users, a more consumed drug in slums.

“was a mistake”, he admitted during a debate with Donald Trump.

War in Iraq

The head of the Senate's Foreign Affairs Committee in 2002, he voted to authorize the war in Iraq after having organised the hearings of numerous witnesses who led to believe, by mistake, that Saddam Hussein's regime possessed mass destruction.

He, again, with the mind far away accepted a <x0 misspelled”.

Number two of Obama

After suffering a failure during democratic preliminarys, he was elected by Barack Obama as deputy and joined him in the White House in January 2009, amid the financial crisis.

Joe Biden facilitates the approval of Congress of a huge $700 billion stimulus plan, which the president entrusted with implementation. This plan has been loaned for the flow of the American economy.

In 2016, weakened by the death of his eldest son from a brain tumor, he did not run for president despite his strong popularity, especially among voters and colored workers.

victory in advance

In 2019 he entered the competition for the White House to defeat Donald Trump. After a difficult start, he won the preliminary democratic elections in a moderate line, especially thanks to the support of close-American voters.