Americans admire nothing more than triumph over adversity and joe is arguably at his best when talking about grief. In 1972 he lost his wife and daughter in a car crash and in 2015 his son beau to brain cancer. Biden s greatest strength is that unlike trump he is widely held to be a good man.
The time in 2007 when i interviewed an emotional joe biden who fought back tears as he discussed the death of his first wife neilia and his one year old daughter naomi. Senate in delaware when his first wife neilia hunter biden decided to take the couple s three children to get a christmas tree. It was 1972 and joe biden had just been elected to the u s.
Joe biden s ongoing recovery from the trauma of the deaths of his first wife and youngest child have dramatically shaped his career from the ways in which he speaks to crowds about grief and. But while the 77 year old presumptive democratic presidential nominee sometimes forgets where he is and even who he s trying to get elected while at his own presidential campaign events his history of spinning yarns about being arrested seems to be attributable to his penchant for lying rather than his cognitive decline. Joe biden admittedly has trouble remembering things these days.
He helped lead a perennially losing team to an undefeated season in his senior year. 27 32 where he was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the high school football team. Biden attended the archmere academy in claymont.
Later became a successful used car salesman maintaining the family s middle class lifestyle. Presumptive democratic nominee joe biden is in a stronger position with young voters than hillary clinton was at a similar point during the presidential race in 2016 according to a new survey that shows president donald trump remains massively unpopular with young people. Born in hammonton new jersey she grew up in willow grove pennsylvania.
She is married to joe biden the 47th vice president of the united states and the presumptive democratic party presidential nominee for the 2020 election. Born june 3 1951 is an american educator she served as second lady of the united states from 2009 to 2017. Jill tracy jacobs biden formerly stevenson née jacobs.
