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Joe Biden
Joe Biden
	Official portrait, 2021
46th President of the United States
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 20, 2021
Vice President	Kamala Harris
Preceded by	Donald Trump
47th Vice President of the United States
	In office; January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Dick Cheney
Succeeded by	Mike Pence
United States Senator; from Delaware
	In office; January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Preceded by	J. Caleb Boggs
Succeeded by	Ted Kaufman
Personal details
Born	Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.; November 20, 1942 (age 83); Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Political party	Democratic (1969–present)
Other political; affiliations	Independent (before 1969)
Spouse(s)	; Neilia Hunter (m. 1966; died 1972) ; Jill Jacobs (m. 1977)
Children	Beau; Hunter; Naomi; Ashley;
Parent(s)	Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.; Catherine Eugenia Finnegan;
Relatives	Biden family
Residence	White House (official); Wilmington, Delaware (private)
Education	University of Delaware (BA); Syracuse University (JD);
Occupation	Politician; lawyer; author;
Awards	See Awards and honors
Signature
Website	joebiden.com

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Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˌrɒbɪˈnɛt ˈbaɪdən/;^[1] born (1942-11-20)November 20, 1942) is an American politician and the 46th and current president of the United States since 2021. Biden was also the 47th vice president of the United States from 2009 through 2017 during the Barack Obama presidency. He is a member of the Democratic Party and is from Wilmington, Delaware. Before becoming vice president, Biden was a U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009. He had served in the Senate longer than any other President or Vice President.^[2]^[3]

He tried to become the Democratic candidate for president in 1988 and 2008 but did not win. During the 2008 election, then-Senator Barack Obama picked him to be his running mate. He is a Roman Catholic.^[4] Biden has received several awards. He has five honorary doctorates, including one from his alma mater and one from where he has taught law.^[5] He has also earned the "Best of Congress Award", an award from the Pakistani government,^[6] and the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.^[7]

After finishing his second term as vice president, Biden began working at the University of Pennsylvania.^[8] On April 25, 2019, Biden launched his presidential campaign for the 2020 election.^[9] On April 8, 2020, Biden became the presumptive nominee for the Democratic nomination after Bernie Sanders ended his campaign.^[10] On November 7, he defeated former President Donald Trump and became the president-elect of the United States.^[11] He became president on January 20, 2021, after he became inaugurated. He is the oldest person to become president and the first from the state of Delaware. He is also the second Catholic president to hold the office after John F. Kennedy.

Early life

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942 at St. Mary's Keller Memorial Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania to a family of Irish Catholics.^[12]^[13] His father, Joe Sr., was a businessman.^[14] When he was young, his family moved to Wilmington, Delaware. He also began to stutter at an early age.^[15] In high school, Biden played football and baseball, but he was not a very good student.^[14] Biden attended college at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University. He did not have to fight in the Vietnam War because he was going to college and had asthma as a child.^[16]

In the Senate

For many years, Biden was a U.S. Senator from Delaware. Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 when he was 29 years old. His election was somewhat of a surprise. The other candidate, J. Caleb Boggs, had more experience and more money to spend on his campaign.^[17] He is one of the youngest people to become a U.S. Senator, because he was only two months older than the minimum age, 30, required to be one.^[18] (While he was 29 during the election, he turned 30 before he became a senator.)

Biden was re-elected to the Senate six times.^[19] He became a prominent defender of Israel as a senator, and said that if there was no country like Israel the U.S. would have to make one.^[20] Later in his time in the Senate, Biden served as chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Foreign Relations committee deals with American issues in other countries. When Biden was chair, the committee dealt with the 1991 Gulf War, the 2003 War in Iraq, and several treaties. The Judiciary Committee dealt with the choice of Clarence Thomas, Robert Bork, and others for the Supreme Court (SCOTUS). Biden thought that Thomas and Bork should not be on the Court.^[21] Though U.S. senators work in Washington, DC, Biden took the train home to Delaware every night.^[22]

Before becoming vice president, Biden was ranked one of the least wealthy members of the Senate,^[23]^[24]^[25] which he said was because he was young when elected to the Senate.^[26] In November 2009, Biden's net worth was $27,012.^[27]

Running for President and Vice President

Biden ran for president three times, in 1988, 2008 and 2020. The first time he was viewed as a good choice early on, but quit after it was discovered he gave a speech that was copied from Neil Kinnock, a British politician.^[28]

Biden campaigns with then Senator Barack Obama in 2008

Biden tried again to get the Democratic Party's nomination in the 2008 presidential election.^[29] He ran mostly on foreign issues, especially getting U.S. troops out of Iraq. Many thought of him as a good choice for Secretary of State.^[30] He stopped his campaign on January 3, 2008 after he did not get many votes in the Iowa caucus.^[31] However, he later became Barack Obama's pick for vice president due to what he knew about Iraq and because the working class liked him.^[32]^[33]

When Biden was running for president, he criticized Obama, talking about his lack of experience, but later he supported Obama to become president. His opponent as vice president was Sarah Palin, who had less experience but was seen as more interesting by the media.^[34] Before the election, there were debates between the different candidates running for president or vice president. In the debate between Biden and Palin, many people believed that he knew more about running America than Palin did.^[35] When Obama was elected president on November 4, 2008, Biden was elected vice president.

As Vice President

Joe Biden becomes Vice President on January 20, 2009

Biden became vice president on January 20, 2009, and is the first person from Delaware and first Roman Catholic to be vice president.^[36] When Biden became vice president, he said he would do things differently from Dick Cheney, who had been vice president before him.^[37] Biden has said that his vice-presidency will not be like any other.^[38]

Biden's main role was as an advisor to Obama, mostly on issues of foreign policy and the economy. Obama has asked for Biden's input on most of his major decisions, such as who to put in his Cabinet and how to fight the War in Afghanistan.^[38] Obama has put him in charge of groups to deal with the problems of the working class, as well as to watch the money in his stimulus bill.^[39]^[40] Biden had also traveled to the Middle East several times on behalf of Obama and the U.S. while Vice President.^[41] In 2011, Biden led talks on the budget and the debt. On November 6, 2012, Biden was re-elected for a second term as vice president along with President Barack Obama.

In August 2015, Biden said that he was looking for a possible chance of running for president again in the 2016 U.S. election.^[42]^[43] Biden formed a PAC for his possible run.^[44] On October 21, speaking from a podium in the Rose Garden with his wife and President Obama by his side, Biden announced his decision not to enter the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency for the 2016 election.^[45]^[46]^[47]

Biden never had to break a tie vote in the United States Senate, making him the longest-serving vice president not to do this.^[48]

After winning the election, Biden served the Vice Presidency until January 20, 2017.

2020 presidential election

Biden at his first presidential campaign rally in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 2019

During a tour of the U.S. Senate with reporters before leaving office on December 5, 2016, Biden said that a presidential bid was possible in the 2020 presidential election, after leaving office as vice president. While on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on December 7, he stated "never say never" about running for president in 2020, while also admitting he did not see a scenario in which he would run for office again.^[49]^[50] On January 13, 2017, exactly one week before Donald Trump took office. he said he would not run.^[51] However, four days later, on January 17, he took the statement back, saying "I'll run if I can walk."^[52]

Biden was mentioned by many news outlets as a potential candidate for the 2020 Democratic nomination.^[53] In March 2019, he said he may run.^[54]

File:Portrait of United States President Joe Biden.jpg

Biden in August 2020

He formally launched his campaign on April 25, 2019.^[55]

In April 2020, Biden became the only candidate in the primary making him the presumptive nominee for the nomination.^[10] At first, he lost the first three primary contests to Senator Bernie Sanders. After winning the South Carolina primary, he gained traction and won most of the Super Tuesday races.

Biden promised when elected he would protect Roe v. Wade decision, create a public option for health insurance, decriminalization of recreational cannabis, pass the Equality Act, create free community college, and a $1.7 trillion climate plan supporting the Green New Deal. He supports regulation instead of a complete ban on fracking.

In early 2020, Biden promised he would pick a woman as his running mate. He also promised that his first Supreme Court appointment would be a black woman.^[56] In August 2020, he picked California U.S. Senator Kamala Harris as his running mate.^[57]

On November 3, 2020, FiveThirtyEight's statistical model projected that Biden had a 89% chance to defeat Donald Trump.^[58] He defeated Trump in the general election after officially being projected as the winner on November 7, 2020.^[59] With more than 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.^[60] However Trump did not call Biden the winner, refused to say he lost and tried to overturn the election results.

President of the United States

Transition

Biden when he was the U.S. President-elect in December 2020

Biden was elected the 46th President of the United States in November 2020, defeating the incumbent Donald Trump, the first sitting president to lose re-election since George H. W. Bush in 1992.

He became the second non-incumbent vice president to be elected president, and the first Democrat to do so.^[61] He is also expected to become the oldest president at the time of inauguration, as well as the first president from Delaware.

At first, General Services Administrator Emily W. Murphy did not want to acknowledge Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.^[62] On November 23, however, she formally recognized Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 election and authorized the start of a transition process to the Biden administration.^[62]

In late December 2020, Biden received his first dose of the Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine in Delaware.^[63] He returned for his second dose in early January 2021.^[64]^[65]

First 100 days

Biden taking the oath of office at his inauguration on January 20, 2021

Biden was inaugurated shortly before noon on January 20, 2021 as the 46th president of the United States.^[66]^[67] At 78, he is the oldest person to become president.^[66] He is the second Catholic president (after John F. Kennedy)^[68] and the first president whose home state is Delaware.^[69]

In his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 executive orders, more than most recent presidents did in their first 100 days. Biden signed more executive orders than any other president since Franklin D. Roosevelt had in their first month in office.^[70] His first actions were rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement, ending the state of national emergency at the border with Mexico, rejoining the World Health Organization, a 100-day mandatory face mask requirements on federal property and acts to stop hunger in the United States.^[71]^[72]^[73]^[74] His presidency has been focused around his Build Back Better Plan agenda.^[75]

On February 4, 2021, he announced that the United States will stop giving weapons to Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates for use in the Yemeni Civil War.^[76]

On March 11, 2021, the first anniversary of COVID-19 being 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 relief package.^[77] The package included direct payments to most Americans, an extension of increased unemployment benefits, funds for vaccine distribution and school reopenings, support for small businesses and state and local governments, and expansions of health insurance subsidies and the child tax credit.^[78] Biden tried to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour, but removed it from the stimulus package after criticism from both parties.^[79]^[80]

In March 2021, when there was an increase in migrants coming to the United States from Mexico, Biden told migrants: "Don't come over." He said that the U.S. was arranging a plan for migrants to "apply for asylum in place", without leaving their original locations. 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.^[81] Biden earlier announced that his administration would not deport unaccompanied migrant children and told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help take care of children separated at the border.^[82]

On March 23, 2021, all of his cabinet members were confirmed by the United States Senate. Biden is the first president since Ronald Reagan in 1981 to have all of his original Cabinet secretary nominees confirmed to their posts.^[83] Two days later, Biden announced that he would run for re-election in the 2024 election.^[84]^[85]

Rest of 2021

Biden talks to National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan about the Fall of Kabul and evacuation efforts, August 2021

Biden at the COP26 Summit in Glasgow, Scotland, November 2021

On April 22–23, Biden held an international climate summit at which he announced that the US would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 50%–52% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.^[86]^[87]

On April 28, 2021, Biden addressed the United States Congress in his State of the Union Address.^[88] Presiding over this joint session was the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris as President of the Senate ― the first time two women preside over an address to Congress.^[88]

On June 17, Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday.^[89] Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since Martin Luther King Jr. Day was declared a holiday in 1986.^[90]

In July 2021, when not many people were getting their COVID-19 vaccine and the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, Biden said that the country has "a pandemic for those who haven’t gotten the vaccination".^[91] He also criticized the increase of COVID-19 misinformation on social media, saying it was "killing people".^[92]

By early July 2021, most of the American troops in Afghanistan were leaving or had left. On August 15, during an offensive by the Taliban, the Afghan government collapsed.^[93] Biden reacted by ordering 6,000 American troops to help the evacuation of American personnel and Afghan allies.^[94] He has been criticized for the way he handled the withdrawal.^[95] He defended his decision to withdraw, saying that Americans should not be "dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves", since the "Afghan military collapsed [against the Taliban], sometimes without trying to fight".^[96]

In August 2021, the Biden administration pushed for an infrastructure bill that can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions of the United States by 45% by 2030. He would also support lowering taxes for people who invest in renewable energy and electric vehicles and would add a fee on methane emissions.^[97] The Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill,^[98]^[99] while the House, also in a bipartisan manner, approved that bill in early November 2021, covering infrastructure related to transport, utilities, and broadband.^[100] Biden signed the bill into law in mid-November 2021.^[101]

2022

In the start of 2022, Biden's approval ratings were low. He started speaking more in public.^[102] Early in the year, Biden supported ending the U.S. Senate filibuster rule to pass a voting rights act.^[103]

In January, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer said he would retire from the Supreme Court.^[104] Breyer's retirement gave Biden his first chance to nominate a justice to the Supreme Court. Biden had promised to nominate the court's first black female justice.^[105] On February 25, Biden nominated D.C. Appeals Court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to replace Breyer. She was confirmed on April 7th.^[106]^[107]

On 24 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the Russian invasion of Ukraine.^[108] In response, Biden announced economic sanctions on Russia and Putin.^[109]

During 2022, President Biden had overseen a rise in gasoline prices and product goods because of rising inflation, with some blaming Biden's American Rescue Plan as a reason.^[110] In May 2022, there was a nationwide shortage of infant formula.^[111] During this time, there was an increase of use of "I Did That!" stickers, which showed Biden pointing to that phrase, as a form to criticize Biden for high gas prices.^[112]

In May 2022, two deadly mass shootings happened: one in a supermarket in Buffalo, New York which was racially motivated and another in an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. ^[113] While these mass shootings weren't the only ones that happened that month in the United States, the short time-frame it happened in garnered (got) attention and more people calling out gun violence.

Biden tested positive for COVID-19 on July 21, 2022, after having mild symptoms such as fatigue, dry coughs, and a runny nose.^[114]^[115] Five days later, he left isolation after testing negative.^[116] However, on July 30, he tested positive again and went back to isolation.^[117]

On August 1, 2022, Biden announced the death of Al-Qaeda Emir Ayman al-Zawahiri in a U.S.-conducted airstrike that he approved.^[118]

On September 2, 2022, in a nationally televised Philadelphia speech, Biden said that Americans are in a "battle for the soul of the nation." He called active Trump supporters "semi-fascists," which Republican commentators criticized.^[119]^[120]^[121]

Allegations of physical misconduct

There have been many photographs of Biden hugging, kissing, and touching women and/or children in what commentators said to be inappropriate.^[122]^[123]^[124] Biden has said that the behavior had got him in trouble in the past.^[125]

In March 2019, former Nevada assemblywoman Lucy Flores said that Biden kissed her without consent at a 2014 campaign rally in Las Vegas. Flores wrote that Biden walked up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and kissed the back of her head.^[126] In an interview with HuffPost, Flores stated she believed Biden's behavior should force him not to run in 2020.^[127] By early April 2019, a total of seven women had made such allegations regarding Biden.^[128]

In April 2019, former Biden staffer Tara Reade said that she had felt uncomfortable many times when Biden touched her on her shoulder and neck while working in his Senate office in 1993.^[129] In March 2020, Reade said Biden had pushed her against a wall and penetrated her while on Capitol Hill in 1993. Biden denied the allegations.

Personal life

While in college, he married his first wife, Nelia Hunter. They had three children: two sons (Beau and Robert) and a daughter (Naomi). After college, he became a lawyer and served on a County Council, a group of people who run a county. In 1972, Biden's family got into a car accident. Nelia and Naomi were killed, and Beau and Robert were hurt very badly.^[130] Both survived the accident. Beau was the Attorney General in Delaware until January 2015 and served as a soldier in Iraq. Beau died from brain cancer on May 30, 2015 in Bethesda, Maryland at the age of 46.^[131] Biden thought of resigning as vice president because of his son's death.^[132]

Biden married his second wife, Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden, in 1977.^[133] She is a teacher and the former Second Lady of the United States. In 1981, they had a daughter, Ashley, who is now a social worker.^[134]^[135] In 1988, Biden suffered from bleeding in his brain and needed brain surgery twice.^[136] Because of what he saw in his family and neighborhood, Biden does not drink alcohol.^[14]^[137]

Biden lives just outside of Wilmington, Delaware and often goes there on the weekends since becoming president.^[138] By November 2020^[update], the Bidens were worth $9 million, mainly because of Biden's book sales and speaking fees after his vice presidency.^[139]^[140]^[141]

Health

In February 1988, Biden had surgery to help heal a brain aneurysm.^[142]^[143] While recuperating, he had a pulmonary embolism and recovered a few months later.^[143] In November 2020, while playing with his two dogs Champ and Major, he suffered a stress fracture in his foot and was hospitalized.^[144] In July 2022, it was revealed that Biden had some "non-melanoma skin cancers" removed before he became president.^[145] That same month, he was diagnosed with COVID-19.^[115]

Awards and honors

Vice President Biden visiting Kosovo, May 2009

Biden has received honorary degrees from the University of Scranton (1976),^[146] Saint Joseph's University (1981),^[147] Widener University School of Law (2000),^[148] Emerson College (2003),^[149] his alma mater the University of Delaware (2004),^[150] Suffolk University Law School (2005),^[151] and his other alma mater Syracuse University (2009).^[5]

Biden got the Chancellor Medal from his alma mater, Syracuse University, in 1980.^[152] In 2005, he got the George Arents Pioneer Medal—Syracuse's highest alumni award^[152]—"for excellence in public affairs."^[153]

In 2008, Biden got the Best of Congress Award, for "improving the American quality of life through family-friendly work policies," from Working Mother magazine.^[154] Also in 2008, Biden shared with fellow Senator Richard Lugar the Hilal-i-Pakistan award from the Government of Pakistan, "in recognition of their consistent support for Pakistan."^[6] In 2009, Biden got The Golden Medal of Freedom award from Kosovo, that region's highest award, for his vocal support for their independence in the late 1990s.^[155]

Biden is an member of the Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association Hall of Fame.^[156]

In 2017, during his final days as president, Barack Obama awarded Biden the Presidential Medal of Freedom with distinction.^[7]

In 2020, Biden and his Vice President Kamala Harris were named Time Person of the Year.^[157]

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-* {{marriage|[[Neilia Hunter]]|August 27, 1966|December 18, 1972|reason=died}}
+* {{marriage|[[Neilia Hunter Biden|Neilia Hunter]]|August 27, 1966|December 18, 1972|reason=died}}
-* {{marriage|[[Jill Jacobs]]|June 17, 1977}}
+* {{marriage|[[Jill Biden|Jill Jacobs]]|June 17, 1977}}
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-* [[Naomi Biden|Naomi]]
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+'''Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.''' ({{IPAc-en|ˌ|r|ɒ|b|ᵻ|ˈ|n|ɛ|t|_|ˈ|b|aɪ|d|ən}};<ref>{{YouTube|olQT5g6UJJA|"Joe Biden takes the oath of Office of Vice President"}}</ref> born {{birth date|1942|11|20}}) is an American politician and the 46th and current [[president of the United States|president]] of the [[United States]] since 2021. Biden was also the [[List of vice presidents of the United States|47th]] [[vice president of the United States]] from 2009 through 2017 during the [[Barack Obama]] presidency. He is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and is from [[Wilmington, Delaware]]. Before becoming vice president, Biden was a [[U.S. Senator]] from [[Delaware]] from 1973 to 2009. He had served in the Senate longer than any other President or Vice President.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.senate.gov/senators/Biographical/longest_serving.htm|title=Longest Serving Senators|publisher=US Government|access-date=September 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://thenextright.com/patrick-ruffini/biden-the-longest-serving-legislator-ever-on-a-national-ticket|title=Biden Longest Serving Senator|access-date=September 5, 2009|archive-date=September 8, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090908171639/http://thenextright.com/patrick-ruffini/biden-the-longest-serving-legislator-ever-on-a-national-ticket|url-status=dead}}</ref>
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-| 2007–2009: Chair of the [[United States Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control|International Narcotics Control Caucus]]
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-| 1987–1995: Chair of the [[United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary|Senate Judiciary Committee]]
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-'''Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|b|aɪ|d|ən}} {{respell|BY|dən}}; born November 20, 1942) is an American politician who is the 46th and current [[president of the United States]]. A member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]], he served as the 47th [[Vice President of the United States|vice president]] from 2009 to 2017 under [[Barack Obama]] and represented [[Delaware]] in the [[United States Senate]] from 1973 to 2009.<!--Please do NOT change without prior consensus on the talk page. Thank you.-->
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-Born and raised in [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]], and later in [[New Castle County, Delaware]], Biden studied at the [[University of Delaware]] before earning his law degree from [[Syracuse University]] in 1968. He was elected to the [[New Castle County Council]] in 1970 and became the [[List of youngest members of the United States Congress#List of youngest U.S. senators|sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history]] after he was [[1972 United States Senate election in Delaware|elected to the United States Senate from Delaware in 1972]], at age 29. Biden was the chair or [[ranking member]] of the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]] for 12 years and was influential in foreign affairs during Obama's presidency. He also chaired the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the [[Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act]] and the [[Violence Against Women Act]]; and oversaw six [[U.S. Supreme Court]] confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings [[Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination|for Robert Bork]] and [[Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination|Clarence Thomas]]. He [[Joe Biden 1988 presidential campaign|ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988]] and [[Joe Biden 2008 presidential campaign|2008]]. Biden was reelected to the Senate six times, and was the [[Seniority in the United States Senate|fourth-most senior sitting senator at the time]] when he became Obama's vice president after they won the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 presidential election]], defeating [[John McCain]] and his running mate [[Sarah Palin]].
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-During [[presidency of Barack Obama|eight years as vice president]], Biden leaned on his Senate experience and frequently represented the administration in negotiations with congressional [[Republican Party (United States)|Republicans]], including on the [[Budget Control Act of 2011]], which resolved [[United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011|a debt ceiling crisis]], and the [[American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012]], which addressed the impending "[[United States fiscal cliff|fiscal cliff]]". He also oversaw [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009#Infrastructure Investment|infrastructure spending in 2009]] to counteract the [[Great Recession]]. On foreign policy, Biden was a close counselor to the president and took a leading role in designing the [[withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011]]. In 2012, Obama and Biden [[2012 United States presidential election|were reelected]], defeating [[Mitt Romney]] and [[Paul Ryan]]. In 2017, Obama awarded Biden the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] with Distinction.
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-Biden and his running mate [[Kamala Harris]] defeated incumbent president [[Donald Trump]] and vice president [[Mike Pence]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]]. Biden is the [[List of presidents of the United States by age|oldest president]], the first to have a female vice president, the first from Delaware, and the [[Religious affiliations of presidents of the United States|second Catholic]] after [[John F. Kennedy]]. His early [[presidency of Joe Biden|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 in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]] and the [[COVID-19 recession#United States|ongoing recession]], as well as a [[List of executive actions by Joe Biden|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 accepting new applications for [[Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals]] (DACA) recipients, although a federal judge blocked the latter. Biden ordered the [[Withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan (2021)|withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Afghanistan]] to be completed by September 2021, delaying the May 2021 deadline ordered by Trump.
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-==Early life (1942–1965)==
-{{Main|Early life and career of Joe Biden|label 1=Early life of Joe Biden}}
-{{See also|Family of Joe Biden}}
-[[File:Joe Biden at Archmere Academy (cropped).jpg|thumb|left|Biden at [[Archmere Academy]] in the 1950s]]
-Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born November 20, 1942,<ref name="cong-bio">{{CongBio |id=b000444 |name=Joseph R. Biden|inline=YES|access-date=January 20, 2021}}</ref> at St. Mary's Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania,<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], p. 5.</ref> to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden (née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.<ref name="ap010810">{{Cite news |last=Chase |first=Randall |date=January 9, 2010 |title=Vice President Biden's mother, Jean, dies at 92 |publisher=[[WITN-TV]] |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.witn.com/home/headlines/81062772.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=May 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200520012620/https://www.witn.com/home/headlines/81062772.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=September 3, 2002 |title=Joseph Biden Sr., 86, father of the senator |work=[[The Baltimore Sun]] |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-09-03-0209030023-story.html |access-date=April 15, 2020 |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230113231/https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xpm-2002-09-03-0209030023-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The oldest child in a Catholic family, he has a sister, [[Valerie Biden Owens|Valerie]], and two brothers, Francis and James.<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], p. 9.</ref> Jean was of Irish descent,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smolenyak |first=Megan |author-link=Megan Smolenyak |date=July 2, 2012 |title=Joe Biden's Irish Roots |work=Huffington Post |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bidens-irish-roots_b_1641678 |access-date=December 6, 2012 |archive-date=April 28, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190428024327/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-bidens-irish-roots_b_1641678 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=November 9, 2008 |title=Number two Biden has a history over Irish debate |work=[[The Belfast Telegraph]] |url=https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/number-two-biden-has-a-history-over-irish-debate-28454443.html |access-date=January 22, 2008 |archive-date=December 16, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131216214525/http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/number-two-biden-has-a-history-over-irish-debate-28454443.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="witcover8">[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], p. 8.</ref> while Joseph Sr. had English, French, and Irish ancestry.<ref name="witcover8"/><ref>{{Cite news |last=Smolenyak |first=Megan |author-link=Megan Smolenyak |date=April–May 2013 |title=Joey From Scranton—Vice President Biden's Irish Roots |work=[[Irish America (magazine)|Irish America]] |url=https://irishamerica.com/2013/03/joey-from-scranton-vice-president-bidens-irish-roots/ |access-date=April 15, 2020 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103080608/https://irishamerica.com/2013/03/joey-from-scranton-vice-president-bidens-irish-roots/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-Biden's father had been wealthy, but suffered financial setbacks around the time Biden was born,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Russell|first=Katie|date=November 11, 2020|title=Joe Biden's family tree: how tragedy shaped the US president-elect|language=en-GB|work=The Telegraph|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/joe-biden-family-tree-children-ashley-hunter/|access-date=December 1, 2020|issn=0307-1235|archive-date=January 8, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210108150352/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/joe-biden-family-tree-children-ashley-hunter/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Biden |first1=Joe |title=Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics |date=2008 |publisher=Random House |isbn=978-0812976212 |pages=16–17}}</ref><ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], pp. 7-8.</ref> and for several years the family lived with Biden's maternal grandparents.<ref name="nyt-father">{{Cite news |last=Broder |first=John M. |date=October 23, 2008 |title=Father's Tough Life an Inspiration for Biden |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24biden.html |access-date=October 24, 2008 |archive-date=November 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108082045/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24biden.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Scranton fell into economic decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady work.<ref name="ap-scranton">{{Cite news |last=Rubinkam |first=Michael |date=August 27, 2008 |title=Biden's Scranton childhood left lasting impression |publisher=[[Fox News Channel|Fox News]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug27/0,4670,CVNBidenapossScrantonRoots,00.html |access-date=September 7, 2008 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185424/https://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug27/0,4670,CVNBidenapossScrantonRoots,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Beginning in 1953, the family lived in an apartment in [[Claymont, Delaware]], before moving to a house in [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]].<ref name="nyt-father" /> Biden Sr. later became a successful [[used-car salesman]], maintaining the family in a middle-class lifestyle.<ref name="nyt-father" /><ref name="ap-scranton" /><ref name="aap08-bio">''Almanac of American Politics'' 2008, p. 364.</ref>
-At [[Archmere Academy]] in Claymont,<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], pp. 27, 32.</ref> Biden played baseball and was a standout [[Halfback (American football)|halfback]] and [[wide receiver]] on the [[high school football]] team.<ref name=nyt-father /><ref name="tnj092808">{{Cite news |last=Frank |first=Martin |date=September 28, 2008 |title=Biden was the stuttering kid who wanted the ball |page=D.1 |work=[[The News Journal]] |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delawareonline/access/1742718581.html?FMT=ABS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601081204/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delawareonline/access/1742718581.html?FMT=ABS |archive-date=June 1, 2013}}</ref> Though a poor student, he was [[class president]] in his junior and senior years.<ref name="auto">[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], pp. 40-41.</ref><ref name="taylor99">[[#Taylor|Taylor (1990)]], p. 99.</ref> He graduated in 1961.<ref name="auto"/> At the [[University of Delaware]] in [[Newark, Delaware|Newark]], Biden briefly played freshman football<ref>Biden, ''Promises to Keep'', pp. 27, 32–33.</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Fact Check: Biden's Too Tall Football Tale |url=http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/16/14489712-fact-check-bidens-too-tall-football-tale |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121221225751/http://firstread.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/16/14489712-fact-check-bidens-too-tall-football-tale |archive-date=December 21, 2012 |website=firstread.nbsnews.com}}</ref> and, as an unexceptional student,<ref name="The New York Times">{{cite news |last1=Dionne Jr. |first1=E.J. |title=Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent' |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html |access-date=January 21, 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |agency=The New York Times Company |date=September 18, 1987 |archive-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210121022208/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/18/us/biden-admits-plagiarism-in-school-but-says-it-was-not-malevolent.html |url-status=live }}</ref> earned a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in 1965 with a [[double major]] in history and [[political science]], and a [[Academic minor|minor]] in English.<ref name="ap-timeline" /><ref>[[#Taylor|Taylor (1990)]], p. 98.</ref>
-Biden has a [[stutter]], which has improved since his early twenties.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=July 9, 2009 |title=Letter to National Stuttering Association chairman |url=http://www.westutter.org/pdfs/Joe_Biden-PublicGreeting_NationalStutteringAssoc_7.1.09.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728173845/http://www.westutter.org/pdfs/Joe_Biden-PublicGreeting_NationalStutteringAssoc_7.1.09.pdf |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |access-date=December 9, 2010 |publisher=National Stuttering Association}}</ref> He says he reduced it by reciting poetry before a mirror,<ref name="taylor99"/><ref>{{Cite web |date=September 16, 2019 |title=Joe Biden's childhood struggle with a stutter: How he overcame it and how it shaped him |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-15/joe-bidens-childhood-struggle-with-a-stutter |access-date=July 24, 2020 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=September 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190916173912/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-09-15/joe-bidens-childhood-struggle-with-a-stutter |url-status=live }}</ref> but some observers suggested it affected his performance in the [[2020 Democratic Party presidential debates]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hendrickson |first=John |date=January–February 2020 |title=What Joe Biden Can't Bring Himself to Say |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/ |access-date=November 24, 2019 |website=[[The Atlantic]] |archive-date=November 21, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191121191228/https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/01/joe-biden-stutter-profile/602401/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bailey |first=Isaac J. |date=March 11, 2020 |title=Is Biden's Stutter Being Mistaken for "Cognitive Decline"? |url=https://niemanreports.org/articles/biden-stutter/ |work=Nieman Reports |publisher=Nieman Foundation for Journalism |location=Cambridge, MA |access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Carlisle |first=Madeleine |date=December 20, 2019 |title=Sarah Huckabee Sanders Apologizes To Joe Biden After Mocking Debate Response on Stuttering |url=https://time.com/5753754/sarah-huckabee-sanders-biden-stuttering-tweet/ |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |location=New York, NY}}</ref>
-==Marriages, law school, and early career (1966–1972)==
-{{Main|Early life and career of Joe Biden|l1 = Early career of Joe Biden}}
-On August 27, 1966, Biden married [[Neilia Hunter Biden|Neilia Hunter]] (1942{{ndash}}1972), a student at [[Syracuse University]],<ref name="ap-timeline">{{Cite news |date=August 23, 2008 |title=A timeline of U.S. Sen. Joe Biden's life and career |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/22/politics/p222636D16.DTL |url-status=dead |access-date=September 6, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925021142/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2008%2F08%2F22%2Fpolitics%2Fp222636D16.DTL |archive-date=September 25, 2008}}</ref> after overcoming her parents' reluctance for her to wed a Roman Catholic; the ceremony was held in a Catholic church in [[Skaneateles, New York (village)|Skaneateles, New York]].<ref>Biden, ''Promises to Keep'', pp. 32, 36–37.</ref> They had three children: [[Beau Biden|Joseph R. "Beau" Biden III]] (1969{{ndash}}2015), [[Hunter Biden|Robert Hunter Biden]] (born 1970), and Naomi Christina "Amy" Biden (1971{{ndash}}1972).<ref name="ap-timeline" />
-[[File:Joe Biden in 1968 Edition of Onondagan Yearbook.jpg|thumb|upright|Biden in the Syracuse 1968 yearbook]]
-In 1968, Biden earned a [[Juris Doctor]] from [[Syracuse University College of Law]], ranked 76th in his class of 85, after failing a course due to an acknowledged "mistake" when he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first year at law school.<ref name="The New York Times"/> He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted]] to the [[Delaware bar]] in 1969.<ref name="cong-bio"/>
-Biden had not openly supported or opposed the Vietnam War until he ran for Senate and opposed Nixon's conduct of the war.<ref>Witcover (2010), pp. 50, 75.</ref> While studying at the University of Delaware and Syracuse University, Biden obtained five student draft deferments, at a time when most draftees were sent to the [[Vietnam War]]. In 1968, based on a physical examination, he was given a conditional medical deferment; in 2008, a spokesperson for Biden said his having had "asthma as a teenager" was the reason for the deferment.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Caldera |first1=Camille |title=Fact check: Biden, like Trump, received multiple draft deferments from Vietnam |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/16/fact-check-biden-received-multiple-draft-deferments-vietnam/5809482002/ |access-date=April 3, 2021 |work=[[USA Today]] |date=September 17, 2020}}</ref>
-In 1968, Biden clerked at a [[Wilmington, Delaware|Wilmington]] law firm headed by prominent local [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] William Prickett and, he later said, "thought of myself as a Republican".<ref name="dmn-87">{{Cite news |last=Leubsdorf |first=Carl P. |date=September 6, 1987 |title=Biden Keeps Sights Set On White House |work=[[The Dallas Morning News]] |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_text_direct-0=0ED3CF5858543A33&p_field_direct-0=document_id |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103080715/http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_text_direct-0=0ED3CF5858543A33&p_field_direct-0=document_id |url-status=live }} Reprinted in {{cite news|url=http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/cleubsdorf/stories/082308dnpolbiden87profile.4d6e19b.html|title=Lifelong ambition led Joe Biden to Senate, White House aspirations|date=August 23, 2008|newspaper=[[The Dallas Morning News]]|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919060037/http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/washington/cleubsdorf/stories/082308dnpolbiden87profile.4d6e19b.html|archive-date=September 19, 2008}}</ref><ref name="time-barrett">{{Cite news |last=Barrett |first=Laurence I. |date=June 22, 1987 |title=Campaign Portrait, Joe Biden: Orator for the Next Generation |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964716,00.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113235512/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,964716,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He disliked incumbent Democratic Delaware governor [[Charles L. Terry]]'s conservative racial politics and supported a more liberal Republican, [[Russell W. Peterson]], who defeated Terry in 1968.<ref name="dmn-87" /> Biden was recruited by local Republicans but registered as an [[Independent (politician)|Independent]] because of his distaste for Republican presidential candidate [[Richard Nixon]].<ref name="dmn-87" />
-In 1969, Biden practiced law first as a [[public defender]] and then at a firm headed by a locally active Democrat<ref name="dmn-87" /><ref name="cby-43">''Current Biography Yearbook 1987'', p. 43.</ref> who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying to reform and revitalize the state party;<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], p. 86.</ref> Biden subsequently reregistered as a Democrat.<ref name="dmn-87" /> He and another attorney also formed a law firm.<ref name="cby-43" /> [[Corporate law]], however, did not appeal to him, and [[criminal law]] did not pay well.<ref name="nyt-father" /> He supplemented his income by managing properties.<ref name="watn020109">{{Cite news |last=Palmer |first=Nancy Doyle |date=February 1, 2009 |title=Joe Biden: 'Everyone Calls Me Joe' |work=[[Washingtonian (magazine)|Washingtonian]] |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/2009/02/01/joe-biden-everyone-calls-me-joe/ |access-date=February 4, 2009 |archive-date=July 31, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160731071850/https://www.washingtonian.com/2009/02/01/joe-biden-everyone-calls-me-joe/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-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.<ref name="cby-43" /><ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], p. 59.</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Harriman |first=Jane |date=December 31, 1969 |title=Joe Biden: Hope for Democratic Party in '72? |page=3 |work=Newspapers.com |publisher=The News Journal |url=http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=8326887 |access-date=May 1, 2019 |archive-date=August 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200802170920/http://www.newspapers.com/image/?clipping_id=8326887 |url-status=live }}</ref> The seat had been held by Republican Henry R. Folsom, who was running in the 5th District following a reapportionment of council districts.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/24355/MSS0733_F5.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |title=Republican Information Center: 1970 List of Candidates |last=Delaware Republican State Headquarters |date=1970 |website=University of Delaware Library Institutional Repository |publisher=University of Delaware |location=Newark, DE |access-date=January 13, 2021 |page=11 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185424/https://udspace.udel.edu/bitstream/handle/19716/24355/MSS0733_F5.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=October 1, 1969 |title=County Ponders Housing Code |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67562209/housing-code/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185425/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67562209/housing-code/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Lockman |first=Norm |date=December 20, 1969 |title=New Housing Code Favored for County |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67562907/housing-code/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=2 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185426/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67562907/housing-code/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden won the general election by defeating Republican Lawrence T. Messick, and took office on January 5, 1971.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 2, 1971 |title=County Council to Take Oath |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67554678/council-oath/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=4 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185436/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67554678/council-oath/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=January 6, 1971 |title=Conner Calls Shake of 7 Lucky Omen for Council |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67567899/lucky-omen/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185426/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67567899/lucky-omen/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He served until January 1, 1973, and was succeeded by Democrat Francis R. Swift.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 2, 1973 |title=Maloney Seeks New Businesses |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67556072/maloney-seeks/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=4 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185512/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67556072/maloney-seeks/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=March 30, 1972 |title=Swift Seeks 4th District County Seat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67555654/swift-seeks/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=41 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185450/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67555654/swift-seeks/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 8, 1972 |title=GOP Decade Ends with Slawik Win |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67555456/gop-decade/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185431/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67555456/gop-decade/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Zintl |first=Terry |date=March 14, 1973 |title=Shop Center Hackles Rise In Hockessin |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67561659/shop-center/ |work=[[The News Journal]] |location=Wilmington, DE |page=64 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185432/https://www.newspapers.com/clip/67561659/shop-center/ |url-status=live }}</ref> During his time on the county council, Biden opposed large highway projects, which he argued might disrupt Wilmington neighborhoods.<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], p. 62.</ref>
-===1972 U.S. Senate campaign in Delaware===
-{{Main|1972 United States Senate election in Delaware}}
-[[File:US Senate 1972 Delaware by State House District.svg|thumb|upright|Results of the 1972 U.S. Senate election in [[Delaware]]]]
-In 1972, Biden defeated Republican incumbent [[J. Caleb Boggs]] to become the junior U.S. senator from Delaware. He was the only Democrat willing to challenge Boggs.<ref name="cby-43" /> With minimal campaign funds, he was given no chance of winning.<ref name="nyt-father" /> Family members managed and staffed the campaign, which relied on meeting voters face-to-face and hand-distributing position papers,<ref name="npr-72">{{Cite news |last=Naylor |first=Brian |date=October 8, 2007 |title=Biden's Road to Senate Took Tragic Turn |publisher=[[National Public Radio]] |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14999603 |access-date=September 12, 2008 |archive-date=September 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911183158/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14999603 |url-status=live }}</ref> an approach made feasible by Delaware's small size.<ref name="watn020109" /> He received help from the [[AFL–CIO]] and Democratic pollster [[Patrick Caddell]].<ref name="cby-43" /> His platform focused on the environment, withdrawal from Vietnam, civil rights, mass transit, equitable taxation, health care, and public dissatisfaction with "politics as usual".<ref name="cby-43" /><ref name="npr-72" /> A few months before the election, Biden trailed Boggs by almost thirty percentage points,<ref name="cby-43" /> but his energy, attractive young family, and ability to connect with voters' emotions worked to his advantage,<ref name="aap08-bio" /> and he won with 50.5 percent of the vote.<ref name="npr-72" /> 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.<ref name=25things>{{cite web|url=https://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/vice-president-joe-biden-25-things-you-dont-know-about-me-w206893/|title=President Joe Biden: 25 Things You Don't Know About Me!|work=Us Weekly|date=January 20, 2021|publisher=A360 Media LLC}}</ref>
-===Death of wife and daughter===
-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]].<ref name="ap-timeline" /><ref>{{Cite news |date=December 19, 1972 |title=Biden's Wife, Child Killed in Car Crash |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/19/archives/bidens-wife-child-killed-in-car-crash.html |page=9 |access-date=January 8, 2021 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202063824/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/12/19/archives/bidens-wife-child-killed-in-car-crash.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Neilia's station wagon was hit by a [[semi-trailer truck]] as she pulled out from an intersection. Their sons Beau (aged{{nbsp}}3) and Hunter (aged{{nbsp}}2) survived the accident and were taken to the hospital in fair condition, Beau with a broken leg and other wounds and Hunter with a minor skull fracture and other head injuries.<ref name="witcover9398">[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], pp. 93, 98.</ref> Biden considered resigning to care for them,<ref name="aap08-bio" /> but [[Senate Majority Leader]] [[Mike Mansfield]] persuaded him not to.<ref name="lat-joe">{{Cite news|last=Levey|first=Noam M.|date=August 24, 2008|title=In his home state, Biden is a regular Joe|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-biden24-story.html|access-date=September 7, 2008|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230125100/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-biden24-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Years later, Biden said he had heard that the truck driver allegedly drank alcohol before the collision. The driver's family denied that claim, and the police never substantiated it. Biden later apologized to the family.<ref name="dj-no-dui2">{{Cite news|last=Kipp|first=Rachel|date=September 4, 2008|title=No DUI in crash that killed Biden's 1st wife, but he's implied otherwise|page=A.1|work=The News Journal|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delawareonline/access/1743377101.html?FMT=ABS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601102455/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delawareonline/access/1743377101.html?FMT=ABS|archive-date=June 1, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=August 27, 2008 |title=A Senator's Past: The Biden Car Crash|publisher=Inside Edition|url=http://insideedition.com/storyprint.aspx?SpecialReportID=2048 |url-status=dead|access-date=May 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090601072408/http://insideedition.com/storyprint.aspx?SpecialReportID=2048|archive-date=June 1, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Orr|first=Bob|date=March 24, 2009 |title=Driver In Biden Crash Wanted Name Cleared |agency=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/driver-in-biden-crash-wanted-name-cleared/ |access-date=March 13, 2017|archive-date=March 14, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170314063826/http://www.cbsnews.com/news/driver-in-biden-crash-wanted-name-cleared/|url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Hamilton|first=Carl|date=October 30, 2008 |title=Daughter of man in '72 Biden crash seeks apology from widowed Senator |agency=Newark Post |url=https://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/local/article_6c9a477e-63be-561b-b771-1330b4cda02d.html |access-date=March 13, 2017 |archive-date=January 16, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116124422/http://www.newarkpostonline.com/news/local/article_6c9a477e-63be-561b-b771-1330b4cda02d.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Kruse|first=Michael|date=March 24, 2009|title=How Grief Became Joe Biden's 'Superpower'|agency=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/joe-biden-2019-profile-grief-beau-car-accident-224178|access-date=June 13, 2020|archive-date=June 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200613012910/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/01/25/joe-biden-2019-profile-grief-beau-car-accident-224178|url-status=live}}</ref>
-The accident had filled him with anger and religious doubt. He wrote that he "felt God had played a horrible trick" on him,<ref>Biden, ''Promises to Keep'', p. 81</ref> and he had trouble focusing on work.<ref name="nyt-ease">{{Cite news |last=Bumiller |first=Elisabeth |author-link=Elisabeth Bumiller |date=December 14, 2007 |title=Biden Campaigning With Ease After Hardships |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/us/politics/14biden.html |access-date=September 13, 2008 |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210154755/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/14/us/politics/14biden.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="npr-int">{{Cite news |date=August 1, 2007 |title=On Becoming Joe Biden |work=Morning Edition |publisher=NPR |url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12389154 |access-date=September 12, 2008 |archive-date=September 9, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080909093445/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12389154 |url-status=live }}</ref>
-===Second marriage===
-[[File:Joe and Jilly Biden early photo.jpg|thumb|left|Biden and his second wife, [[Jill Biden|Jill]], met in 1975 and married in 1977]]
-Biden credits his second wife, teacher [[Jill Biden|Jill Tracy Jacobs]], with the renewal of his interest in politics and life;<ref>Biden, ''Promises to Keep'', p. 113.</ref> they met in 1975 on a blind date<ref name="nyt082508">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25wife.html |title=Jill Biden Heads Toward Life in the Spotlight |last=Seelye |first=Katharine Q. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 24, 2008 |access-date=August 25, 2008 |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210193454/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25wife.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and were married at the [[Church Center for the United Nations|United Nations chapel]] in New York on June 17, 1977.<ref name="coxns-jill">{{cite news |url=https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2008-10-24-a3bidenwife24-story.html |title=Bidens met, forged life together after tragedy |last=Dart |first=Bob |agency=[[Cox News Service]] |newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]] |date=October 24, 2008 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=October 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201020153208/https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-2008-10-24-a3bidenwife24-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Biden, ''Promises to Keep'', p. 117.</ref> They spent their honeymoon at [[Lake Balaton]] in the [[Hungarian People's Republic]], behind the [[Iron Curtain]].<ref name="balaton">{{cite news | url=https://444.hu/2020/11/08/biden-es-felesege-1977-ben-a-balatonnal-voltak-naszuton | title=Biden és felesége 1977-ben a Balatonnál voltak nászúton | author=Sarkadi, Zsolt | work=444.hu | date=November 8, 2020 | access-date=November 8, 2020 | language=hu | archive-date=November 8, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108225640/https://444.hu/2020/11/08/biden-es-felesege-1977-ben-a-balatonnal-voltak-naszuton | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54868002 | title=US election: What does Joe Biden's win mean for Brexit Britain and Europe? | author-first=Katya | author-last=Adler | publisher=[[BBC News]] | date=November 8, 2020 | access-date=November 9, 2020 | archive-date=November 10, 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110014205/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-54868002 | url-status=live }}</ref> They are Roman Catholics and attend Mass at [[St. Joseph's on the Brandywine]] in [[Greenville, Delaware]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Parishioners not surprised to see Biden at usual Mass |last=Gibson|first=Ginger |newspaper=[[The News Journal]] |date=August 25, 2008 |page=A.12 |url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delawareonline/access/1742751081.html?FMT=ABS |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130601093036/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/delawareonline/access/1742751081.html?FMT=ABS |archive-date=June 1, 2013 }}</ref> Their daughter [[Ashley Biden]] (born 1981)<ref name="ap-timeline" /> is a social worker. She is married to physician [[Howard Krein]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/fashion/weddings/ashley-biden-howard-krein-wedding.html |title=Ashley Biden and Howard Krein |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 3, 2012 |page=ST15 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101001405/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/03/fashion/weddings/ashley-biden-howard-krein-wedding.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Beau Biden became an Army [[Judge Advocate]] in Iraq and later [[Delaware Attorney General]];<ref>{{cite news|access-date=August 23, 2008|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121919956426355701|title=Biden's Foreign Policy Background Carries Growing Cachet|last=Cooper|first=Christopher|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|date=August 20, 2008|page=A4|archive-date=August 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813071718/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121919956426355701.html?mod=googlenews_wsj|url-status=live}}</ref> he died of brain cancer in 2015.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vice-president-joe-bidens-son-beau-dies-n367171 |first=Phil |last=Helsel |title=Beau Biden, Son of Vice President Joe Biden, Dies After Battle With Brain Cancer |work=NBC News |date=May 31, 2015 |access-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-date=January 22, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200122170447/https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/vice-president-joe-bidens-son-beau-dies-n367171 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Paul |last=Kane |date=May 31, 2015 |work=[[The Washington Post]] |title=Family losses frame Vice President Biden's career |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/beau-biden-vice-presidents-son-dies-of-brain-cancer-at-46/2015/05/31/4198da78-07c6-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html |access-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230125058/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/beau-biden-vice-presidents-son-dies-of-brain-cancer-at-46/2015/05/31/4198da78-07c6-11e5-9e39-0db921c47b93_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Hunter Biden is a Washington lobbyist and investment adviser.<ref name="nydn122808">{{cite news |url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/12/27/2008-12-27_from_a_blind_date_to_second_lady_jill_bi.html |title=From a blind date to second lady, Jill Biden's coming into her own |last=Evans |first=Heidi |newspaper=Daily News |location=New York |date=December 28, 2008 |access-date=January 3, 2009 |archive-date=January 4, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090104002628/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/12/27/2008-12-27_from_a_blind_date_to_second_lady_jill_bi.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
-===Teaching===
+He tried to become the Democratic [[:wikt:candidate|candidate]] for president in 1988 and 2008 but did not win. During the [[2008 United States presidential election|2008 election]], then-[[United States Senate|Senator]] Barack Obama picked him to be his [[running mate]]. He is a [[Roman Catholic]].<ref>{{cite news | title=Parishioners not surprised to see Biden at usual Mass | author=Gibson, Ginger | work=The News Journal | date=August 25, 2008}}</ref> Biden has received several awards. He has five honorary [[doctorate]]s, including one from his [[alma mater]] and one from where he has taught law.<ref name="AP1">{{cite news |url= http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jlYnobzaV2NlzsdJ03OWJqJtDDjAD983FM980 |title= Biden to grads: You have chance to shape history |agency= [[Associated Press]] |date= May 10, 2009 |access-date= May 11, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He has also earned the "Best of Congress Award", an award from the [[Pakistan]]i government,<ref name="Reuters1">{{cite news |url= https://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSTRE49R5I120081028 |title=Pakistan gives awards to Biden, Lugar for support |work= Reuters |date=Oct 28, 2008 |access-date= Nov 26, 2008}}</ref> and the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] with distinction.<ref name=mof/>
-From 1991 to 2008, as an [[adjunct professor]], Biden co-taught a [[seminar]] on [[constitutional law]] at [[Widener University School of Law]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Evon |first1=Dan |title=Did Biden Teach Constitutional Law for 21 Years? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/biden-constitutional-law-teach/ |access-date=July 8, 2021 |work=[[Snopes]] |date=October 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Fact check: If he loses election, Biden said he wants to teach, but where is uncertain|url=https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/28/fact-check-joe-biden-wants-return-teaching-if-he-loses-election/6037909002/|access-date=October 11, 2020|publisher=USA Today|archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101033652/https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/28/fact-check-joe-biden-wants-return-teaching-if-he-loses-election/6037909002/|url-status=live}}</ref> The seminar often had a waiting list. Biden sometimes flew back from overseas to teach the class.<ref>{{cite web|title=Faculty: Joseph R. Biden, Jr.|url=http://law.widener.edu/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDeAdj/BidenJosephR.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006123224/http://law.widener.edu/Academics/Faculty/ProfilesDeAdj/BidenJosephR.aspx|archive-date=October 6, 2008|access-date=September 24, 2008|publisher=[[Widener University School of Law]]}}</ref><ref name="wid-veep-elect">{{cite web|date=November 6, 2008|title=Senator Biden becomes Vice President-elect|url=http://law.widener.edu/NewsandEvents/Articles/2008/de110508bidenvpelect.aspx|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090105150946/http://law.widener.edu/NewsandEvents/Articles/2008/de110508bidenvpelect.aspx|archive-date=January 5, 2009|access-date=November 26, 2008|publisher=[[Widener University School of Law]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Purchla|first=Matt|date=August 26, 2008|title=For Widener Law students, a teacher aims high|publisher=[[Metro International|Metro Philadelphia]]|url=http://philly.metro.us/metro/local/article/For_Widener_Law_students_a_teacher_aims_high/13457.html|url-status=dead|access-date=September 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081004214751/http://philly.metro.us/metro/local/article/For_Widener_Law_students_a_teacher_aims_high/13457.html|archive-date=October 4, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Carey|first=Kathleen E.|date=August 27, 2008|title=Widener students proud of Biden|publisher=[[Delaware County Daily and Sunday Times]]|url=http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20094884&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18171&rfi=6|url-status=dead|access-date=September 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080919152356/http://www.delcotimes.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20094884&BRD=1675&PAG=461&dept_id=18171&rfi=6|archive-date=September 19, 2008}}</ref>
-==U.S. Senate (1973–2009)==
+After finishing his second term as vice president, Biden began working at the [[University of Pennsylvania]].<ref name="BidenUPenn">{{cite web |url=http://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-has-a-new-job-2017-2 |title=Here's what Joe Biden will do after 8 years as vice president |last=Berke |first=Jeremy |date=February 7, 2017 |work=Business Insider |access-date=February 8, 2017 }}</ref> On April 25, 2019, Biden launched his [[Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign|presidential campaign]] for the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/07/us/politics/biden-2020.html|title=Joe Biden's 2020 Plan Is Almost Complete. Democrats Are Impatient.|first1=Jonathan|last1=Martin|first2=Alexander|last2=Burns|date=March 7, 2019|work=The New York Times}}</ref> On April 8, 2020, Biden became the [[presumptive nominee]] for the Democratic nomination after [[Bernie Sanders]] ended his campaign.<ref name=hill2020>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/486942-sanders-drops-out-of-2020-race-handing-nomination-to-biden|title=Sanders drops out, paving way for Biden|work=The Hill|date=April 8, 2020}}</ref> On November 7, he defeated former President [[Donald Trump]] and became the president-elect of the United States.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-wins-white-house-ap-fd58df73aa677acb74fce2a69adb71f9|title=Biden defeats Trump for White House, says 'time to heal'|publisher=[[Associated Press]]|date=November 7, 2020}}</ref> He became president on January 20, 2021, after he became [[Inauguration|inaugurated]]. He is the oldest person to become president and the first from the state of [[Delaware]]. He is also the second [[Catholicism|Catholic]] president to hold the office after [[John F. Kennedy]].
-{{Main|United States Senate career of Joe Biden}}
-===Senate activities===
+== Early life ==
-[[File:Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter.jpg|thumb|Biden with President [[Jimmy Carter]], 1979]]
-In January 1973, [[Secretary of the United States Senate|secretary of the Senate]] [[Francis R. Valeo]] swore Biden in at the [[Delaware Division of the Wilmington Medical Center]].<ref name="witcover9398"/><ref name="ap-sworn">{{Cite news |date=January 6, 1973 |title=Oath Solemn |page=11 |work=Spokane Daily Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yadYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5556,1874966 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103080828/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yadYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5556%2C1874966 |url-status=live }}</ref> Present were his sons Beau (whose leg was still in traction from the automobile accident) and Hunter and other family members.<ref name="witcover9398"/><ref name="ap-sworn" /> At 30, he was the [[List of youngest members of the United States Congress#List of youngest U.S. senators|sixth-youngest senator in U.S. history]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Youngest Senator |url=https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Youngest_Senator.htm |access-date=August 25, 2008 |publisher=United States Senate |archive-date=December 26, 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021226155950/https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Youngest_Senator.htm |url-status=live }} {{PD-notice}}</ref><ref>Byrd, Robert and Wolff, Wendy ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=PeHByMYxVm8C&pg=PA285 Senate, 1789–1989: Historical Statistics, 1789–1992, Volume 4] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103080837/https://books.google.com/books?id=PeHByMYxVm8C&pg=PA285 |date=January 3, 2021 }}'', p. 285 (Government Printing Office 1993) {{PD-notice}}</ref>
+Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942 at St. Mary's Keller Memorial Hospital in [[Scranton, Pennsylvania]] to a family of [[Irish people|Irish]] [[Roman Catholic|Catholics]].<ref>{{cite news | url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7574085.stm | title=Profile: Joe Biden | work=BBC News | date=August 23, 2008 | access-date=October 24, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/number-two-biden-has-a-history-over-irish-debate-14048948.html | title=Number two Biden has a history over Irish debate | newspaper=The Belfast Telegraph | date=November 9, 2008 | access-date=January 22, 2008}}</ref> His father, Joe Sr., was a businessman.<ref name="nyt-father">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/24/us/politics/24biden.html | title=Father's Tough Life an Inspiration for Biden | author=Broder, John M. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=October 23, 2008 | access-date=October 24, 2008}}</ref> When he was young, his family moved to Wilmington, Delaware. He also began to [[stuttering|stutter]] at an early age.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=July 9, 2009 |title=Letter to National Stuttering Association chairman |url=http://www.westutter.org/pdfs/Joe_Biden-PublicGreeting_NationalStutteringAssoc_7.1.09.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728173845/http://www.westutter.org/pdfs/Joe_Biden-PublicGreeting_NationalStutteringAssoc_7.1.09.pdf |archive-date=July 28, 2011 |access-date=December 9, 2010 |publisher=National Stuttering Association}}</ref> In [[high school]], Biden played [[American football|football]] and [[baseball]], but he was not a very good student.<ref name="nyt-father"/> Biden attended college at the [[University of Delaware]] and [[Syracuse University]]. He did not have to fight in the [[Vietnam War]] because he was going to college and had [[asthma]] as a child.<ref name="wapo-romano87">{{cite news | url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/washingtonpost/access/73826122.html?dids=73826122:73826122 | format=fee required | title=Joe Biden & the Politics of Belief | author=Romano, Lois | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=June 9, 1987 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
-To see his sons, Biden traveled by [[Amtrak|train]] between his Delaware home and D.C.<ref name="family values">{{Cite news |last=Pride |first=Mike |date=December 1, 2007 |title=Biden a smart guy who has lived his family values |work=Concord Monitor |url=http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/OPINION/712010307 |url-status=dead |access-date=October 4, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071203001952/http://concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071201%2FOPINION%2F712010307 |archive-date=December 3, 2007}}</ref>—74 minutes each way—and maintained this habit throughout his 36 years in the Senate.<ref name="aap08-bio" />
+== In the Senate ==
+{{Expand section|date=May 2020}}
+[[File:Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Biden and [[Jimmy Carter]]]]
+For many years, Biden was a [[U.S. Senate|U.S. Senator]] from Delaware. Biden was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972 when he was 29 years old. His election was somewhat of a surprise. The other candidate, [[J. Caleb Boggs]], had more [[:wikt:experience|experience]] and more money to spend on his campaign.<ref name="npr-72">{{cite news | url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14999603 | title=Biden's Road to Senate Took Tragic Turn | author=Naylor, Brian | publisher=NPR | date=October 8, 2007 | access-date=September 12, 2008}}</ref> He is one of the youngest people to become a U.S. Senator, because he was only two months older than the minimum age, 30, required to be one.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Youngest_Senator.htm | title=Youngest Senator | publisher=[[United States Senate]] | access-date=August 25, 2008}}</ref> (While he was 29 during the election, he turned 30 before he became a senator.)
-During his early years in the Senate, Biden focused on consumer protection and environmental issues and called for greater government accountability.<ref name="time-200-fut">{{Cite news |date=July 15, 1974 |title=200 Faces for the Future |work=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879402-6,00.html |access-date=August 23, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130813045404/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,879402-6,00.html |archive-date=August 13, 2013}}</ref> In a 1974 interview, he described himself as liberal on civil rights and liberties, senior citizens' concerns and healthcare but conservative on other issues, including abortion and [[military conscription]].<ref name="The Washingtonian-June-1974">{{Cite news |last=Kelley |first=Kitty |date=June 1, 1974 |title=Death and the All-American Boy |work=The Washingtonian |url=https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/ |access-date=March 8, 2020 |archive-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110162757/https://www.washingtonian.com/1974/06/01/joe-biden-kitty-kelley-1974-profile-death-and-the-all-american-boy/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Biden was re-elected to the Senate six times.<ref name="aap08-bio">''Almanac of American Politics'' 2008, p. 366.</ref> He became a prominent defender of [[Israel]] as a senator, and said that if there was no country like Israel the U.S. would have to make one.<ref>{{cite speech |title=Joe Biden says if Israel didn't exist, the US would have to invent one to protect US interests |author=Joe Biden |date=1986-06-05 |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM}}</ref> Later in his time in the Senate, Biden served as [[:wikt:chairman|chair]] of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Foreign Relations committee deals with American issues in other countries. When Biden was chair, the committee dealt with the 1991 [[Gulf War]], the 2003 [[War in Iraq]], and several [[treaty|treaties]]. The Judiciary Committee dealt with the choice of [[Clarence Thomas]], [[Robert Bork]], and others for the [[United States Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] (SCOTUS). Biden thought that Thomas and Bork should not be on the Court.<ref name="mayer-abramson">{{cite book |last= Mayer |first=Jane |author2=Jill Abramson |title= Strange Justice: The Selling of Clarence Thomas |url= https://archive.org/details/strangejusticese00maye |publisher=Houghton Mifflin | year=1994 |isbn=978-0-395-63318-2}} p. 213, 218, 336.</ref> Though U.S. senators work in [[Washington, DC]], Biden took the train home to Delaware every night.<ref name="family values">{{cite news |url= http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071201/OPINION/712010307&template=single |title= Biden a smart guy who has lived his family values |author= Pride, Mike |publisher= Concord Monitor |date= December 1, 2007 |access-date= October 4, 2008 |archive-date= May 17, 2013 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130517105929/http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071201%2FOPINION%2F712010307&template=single |url-status= dead }}</ref>
-In his first decade in the Senate, Biden focused on [[arms control]].<ref name="nyt-foreign" /><ref name="cby-45">''Current Biography Yearbook 1987'', p. 45.</ref> After Congress failed to ratify the [[SALT&nbsp;II]] Treaty signed in 1979 by [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union|Soviet general secretary]] [[Leonid Brezhnev]] and President [[Jimmy Carter]], Biden met with Soviet Foreign Minister [[Andrei Gromyko]] to communicate American concerns and secured changes that addressed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's objections.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Salacuse|first=Jeswald W.|url=https://archive.org/details/leadingleaders00jesw|title=Leading Leaders: How to Manage Smart, Talented, Rich and Powerful People|publisher=American Management Association|year=2005|isbn=0-8144-0855-9}} p. 144.</ref> When the [[Reagan administration]] wanted to interpret the 1972 [[SALT&nbsp;I]] treaty loosely to allow development of the [[Strategic Defense Initiative]], Biden argued for strict adherence to the treaty.<ref name="nyt-foreign" /> 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]].<ref name="dmn-87" />
+Before becoming vice president, Biden was ranked one of the least wealthy [[United States Senate|members of the Senate]],<ref name="lat082408nw">{{#invoke:cite news||last=Wallsten|first=Peter|date=August 24, 2008|title=Demographics part of calculation: Biden adds experience, yes, but he could also help with Catholics, blue-collar whites and women|newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]]|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-assess24-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515025410/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-assess24-story.html|archive-date=May 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite news||date=August 24, 2008|title=A look at Biden's net worth|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/08/24/a_look_at_bidens_net_worth/|url-status=dead|access-date=February 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725145844/http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/08/24/a_look_at_bidens_net_worth/|archive-date=July 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite news||last=Broder|first=John M.|date=September 13, 2008|title=Biden Releases Tax Returns, in Part to Pressure Rivals|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/us/politics/13biden.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425024153/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/us/politics/13biden.html|archive-date=April 25, 2011}}</ref> which he said was because he was young when elected to the Senate.<ref>{{#invoke:cite news||last=Mooney|first=Alexander|date=September 12, 2008|title=Biden tax returns revealed|publisher=[[CNN]]|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/12/biden-tax-returns-revealed/|url-status=live|access-date=September 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913001912/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/12/biden-tax-returns-revealed/|archive-date=September 13, 2008}}</ref> In November 2009, Biden's [[net worth]] was $27,012.<ref>{{cite web|first=Brian|last=Montopoli|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/237-millionaires-in-congress/|title=237 Millionaires in Congress|publisher=[[cbsnews.com|CBS News]]|date=November 6, 2009|access-date=August 25, 2021|archive-date=August 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818145713/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/237-millionaires-in-congress/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-[[File:Reagan Contact Sheet C20355 (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|Biden shaking hands with President [[Ronald Reagan]], 1984]]
+== Running for President and Vice President ==
+Biden ran for president three times, in 1988, 2008 and 2020. The first time he was viewed as a good choice early on, but quit after it was discovered he gave a speech that was copied from [[Neil Kinnock]], a British politician.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE1DD1531F931A2575AC0A961948260 | title= Biden's Debate Finale: An Echo From Abroad | author=Maureen Dowd | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=September 12, 1987}}</ref>
-Biden became [[ranking minority member]] of the [[Senate Judiciary Committee]] in 1981. In 1984, he was a Democratic floor manager for the successful passage of the [[Comprehensive Crime Control Act]]. His supporters praised him for modifying some of the law's worst provisions, and it was his most important legislative accomplishment to that time.<ref name="cby-44" /> In 1994, Biden helped pass the [[Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act]], also known as the Biden Crime Law, which included [[Federal Assault Weapons Ban|a ban on assault weapons]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Fifield|first=Anna|date=January 4, 2013|title=Biden faces key role in second term|newspaper=[[Financial Times]]|url=https://www.ft.com/content/412f47b0-5694-11e2-aad0-00144feab49a|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=July 20, 2021|archive-url=https://archive.today/20210720074130/https://www.ft.com/content/412f47b0-5694-11e2-aad0-00144feab49a|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="time-cov-0113">{{cite news|last=Scherer|first=Michael|date=January 28, 2013|title=The Next Gun Fight|magazine=Time|url=http://swampland.time.com/2013/01/16/americas-new-gunfight-inside-the-campaign-to-avert-mass-shootings/|url-status=live|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081050/https://swampland.time.com/2013/01/16/americas-new-gunfight-inside-the-campaign-to-avert-mass-shootings/|archive-date=January 3, 2021}} Cover story.</ref> and the [[Violence Against Women Act]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Finley|first=Bruce|date=September 19, 2014|title=Biden: Men who don't stop violence against women are "cowards"|newspaper=The Denver Post|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2014/09/19/biden-men-who-dont-stop-violence-against-women-are-cowards/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013133013/http://www.denverpost.com/environment/ci_26568257/vice-president-biden-denver-discuss-domestic-violence-issues|archive-date=October 13, 2015}}</ref> which he has called his most significant legislation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Domestic Violence|url=http://biden.senate.gov/issues/issue/?id=975b0cf4-ce25-42cc-b63d-072fb81e8618|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080822144642/http://biden.senate.gov/issues/issue/?id=975b0cf4-ce25-42cc-b63d-072fb81e8618|archive-date=August 22, 2008|access-date=September 9, 2008|publisher=[[United States Senate|Biden senate website]]}}</ref> The 1994 crime law was unpopular among progressives and criticized for resulting in mass incarceration;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Herndon |first=Astead W. |date=January 21, 2019 |title=Biden Expresses Regret for Support of Crime Legislation in the 1990s |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/politics/biden-crime-bill-regrets.html |access-date=January 21, 2019 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110162903/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/21/us/politics/biden-crime-bill-regrets.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/joe-biden-2020-president.html "Biden in 2020? Allies Say He Sees Himself as Democrats' Best Hope"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110163104/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/joe-biden-2020-president.html |date=November 10, 2020}}, By Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns. ''New York Times''. January 6, 2019</ref> in 2019, Biden called his role in passing the bill a "big mistake", citing its policy on [[crack cocaine]] and saying that the bill "trapped an entire generation".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schor |first1=Elana |last2=Kinnard |first2=Meg |title=Biden says he regrets 1990s crime bill, calls it a 'big mistake' at MLK Day event |url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2019/01/21/biden-says-he-regrets-1990-s-crime-bill-calls-big-mistake-mlk-day-event/2639190002/ |access-date=July 20, 2021 |work=[[Delaware Online]] |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=January 21, 2019}}</ref>
+[[File:Biden Obama 3b.jpg|left|180px|thumb|Biden campaigns with then Senator  [[Barack Obama]] in 2008]]
+Biden tried again to get the Democratic Party's [[wikt:nomination|nomination]] in the [[United States presidential election, 2008|2008 presidential election]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100404.html |title=Biden Stumbles at the Starting Gate |newspaper=The Washington Post |access-date=August 23, 2008|date=January 1, 2007 |author= Balz, Dan}}</ref> He ran mostly on foreign issues, especially getting U.S. troops out of Iraq. Many thought of him as a good choice for [[Secretary of State]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2007/11/29/politics/p144018S01.DTL&type=printable |newspaper=San Francisco Chronicle |agency=Associated Press |title=Biden Won't Serve As Secretary of State |date=29 November 2007 |access-date=February 6, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=September 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> He stopped his [[campaign]] on January 3, 2008 after he did not get many votes in the [[Iowa]] [[caucus]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010400260.html | title=Biden, Dodd Withdraw From Race | author=Murray, Shailagh | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=January 4, 2008| access-date=August 29, 2008}}</ref> However, he later became [[Barack Obama]]'s pick for vice president due to what he knew about Iraq and because the [[working class]] liked him.<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Obama's veep message to supporters |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082300455.html?hpid%3Dtopnews&sub=AR |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=August 23, 2008 |access-date=August 23, 2008 }}{{cite web|url=http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gG5sB7|title=Text message is out and it's official|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090227182501/http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/samgrahamfelsen/gG5sB7|archive-date=2009-02-27|access-date=2009-08-14|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="Obama-rm">{{cite web|publisher=BarackObama.com|url=http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/welcomejoe|title=Welcome the Next Vice President|access-date=24 August 2008|archive-date=26 August 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080826003247/http://my.barackobama.com/page/s/welcomejoe|url-status=dead}}</ref>
-In 1993, Biden voted for a provision that deemed homosexuality incompatible with military life, thereby banning gays from serving in the armed forces.<ref>{{Cite web |title=govinfo |url=https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2010-title10/USCODE-2010-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap37-sec654 |access-date=May 6, 2019 |website=govinfo.gov |archive-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506191328/https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCODE-2010-title10/USCODE-2010-title10-subtitleA-partII-chap37-sec654 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last1=Epstein |first1=Reid J. |last2=Lerer |first2=Lisa |date=September 20, 2019 |title=Joe Biden Has Tense Exchange Over L.G.B.T.Q. Record |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/lgbt-forum-2020.html |access-date=April 15, 2020 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=April 16, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200416100800/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/us/politics/lgbt-forum-2020.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=A. Del |first=Jose |title=Sanders attacks Biden's record on gay rights and women's issues |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-calls-biden-my-friend-then-he-goes-on-the-attack/2020/03/08/20a23f86-60d0-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html |access-date=April 15, 2020 |website=Washington Post |archive-date=March 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200308233903/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sanders-calls-biden-my-friend-then-he-goes-on-the-attack/2020/03/08/20a23f86-60d0-11ea-9055-5fa12981bbbf_story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1996, he voted for the [[Defense of Marriage Act]], which prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages, thereby barring individuals in such marriages from equal protection under federal law and allowing states to do the same.<ref>{{Cite web |title=U.S. Senate: U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 104th Congress—2nd Session |url=https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104&session=2&vote=00280 |access-date=June 12, 2019 |website=senate.gov |archive-date=May 7, 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050507161358/http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=104 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2015, the act was ruled unconstitutional in ''[[Obergefell&nbsp;v. Hodges]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=de Vogue |first1=Ariane |last2=Diamond |first2=Jeremy |title=Supreme Court rules states must allow same-sex marriage |url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/index.html |access-date=June 12, 2019 |website=CNN |archive-date=June 27, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627065146/https://www.cnn.com/2015/06/26/politics/supreme-court-same-sex-marriage-ruling/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+When Biden was running for president, he [[wikt:critic|criticized]] Obama, talking about his lack of experience, but later he supported Obama to become president. His opponent as vice president was [[Sarah Palin]], who had less experience but was seen as more interesting by the media.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.journalism.org/node/12800 | title=Northern Exposure Still Dominates the News | publisher=Pew Research Center | author=Jurkowitz, Mark | date=14 September 2009 | access-date=24 November 2009}}</ref> Before the election, there were [[debate]]s between the different candidates running for president or vice president. In the debate between Biden and Palin, many people believed that he knew more about running America than Palin did.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/03/debate.poll/?iref=hpmostpop |title= Debate poll says Biden won, Palin beat expectations |access-date= 4 October 2008 |publisher= Turner Broadcasting System, Inc.}}</ref> When Obama was elected president on November 4, 2008, Biden was elected vice president.
-Elected to the Senate in 1972, Biden was reelected in [[United States Senate election in Delaware, 1978|1978]], [[United States Senate election in Delaware, 1984|1984]], [[United States Senate election in Delaware, 1990|1990]], [[United States Senate election in Delaware, 1996|1996]], [[United States Senate election in Delaware, 2002|2002]], and [[United States Senate election in Delaware, 2008|2008]], regularly receiving about 60% of the vote.<ref name="aap08-366" /> He was junior senator to [[William Roth]], who was first elected in 1970, until Roth was defeated in 2000.<ref>{{cite news|date=August 23, 2008|title=Obama introduces Biden as running mate|work=CNN|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/23/biden.democrat.vp.candidate/|url-status=live|access-date=September 18, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150109172417/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/23/biden.democrat.vp.candidate/|archive-date=January 9, 2015}}</ref> {{as of|2020}}, he was the [[List of members of the United States Congress by longevity of service|18th-longest-serving senator]] in U.S. history.<ref name="26 Aug 2018">{{cite web|title=Longest Serving Senators|url=https://www.senate.gov/senators/longest_serving_senators.htm|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180919101452/https://www.senate.gov/senators/longest_serving_senators.htm|archive-date=September 19, 2018|access-date=August 26, 2018|website=United States Senate|publisher=United States Senate}}</ref>
+== As Vice President ==
+{{Expand section|date=May 2020}}
+[[File:Joe Biden official portrait 2013 cropped (cropped).jpg|thumb|right|150px|Biden's official portrait as vice president in 2013]]
+[[File:Joe Biden sworn in 1-20-09 hires 090120-N-0696M-204a.jpg|thumb|left|150px|Joe Biden becomes Vice President on January 20, 2009]]
+Biden became vice president on January 20, 2009, and is the first person from Delaware and first Roman Catholic to be vice president.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081106/NEWS02/811060379 | title=VP's home awaits if Biden chooses | author=Gaudiano, Nicole | work=The News Journal | date=November 6, 2008 | access-date=November 8, 2008}}</ref> When Biden became vice president, he said he would do things differently from [[Dick Cheney]], who had been vice president before him.<ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16558.html | title=Biden to shrink VP role — big time | author=Lee, Carol E. | publisher=The Politico | date=14 December 2008 | access-date=23 December 2008}}</ref> Biden has said that his vice-presidency will not be like any other.<ref name="lkl122208">{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/22/biden.lkl/index.html | title= Biden says he'll be different vice president | publisher=CNN | date=December 22, 2008 | access-date=December 22, 2008}}</ref>
-====Opposition to busing====
+Biden's main role was as an [[advisor]] to Obama, mostly on issues of foreign policy and the economy. Obama has asked for Biden's input on most of his major decisions, such as who to put in his [[United States Cabinet|Cabinet]] and how to fight the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]].<ref name="lkl122208"/> Obama has put him in charge of groups to deal with the problems of the [[working class]], as well as to watch the money in his [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009|stimulus bill]].<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/21/transition.wrap/index.html |title=What Obama promised Biden |author=Hornick, Ed and Levs, Josh |publisher=CNN |date=21 December 2008 |access-date=23 December 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908167-1,00.html |title=What Happened to the Stimulus? |author=Scherer, Michael |magazine=Time |date=January 7, 2009 |access-date=July 8, 2009 |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20171011212142/http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1908167-1,00.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> Biden had also traveled to the [[Middle East]] several times on behalf of Obama and the U.S. while Vice President.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/16/AR2009091602998.html |title=Biden Pushes Iraqi Leaders On Vote Law, Oil-Bid Perks |author=Wilson, Scott |newspaper= The Washington Post |date=17 September 2009 |access-date=17 September 2009}}</ref> In 2011, Biden led talks on the budget and the debt. On November 6, 2012, Biden was [[United States presidential election, 2012|re-elected]] for a second term as vice president along with President [[Barack Obama]].
-In the mid-1970s, Biden was one of the Senate's strongest opponents of [[race-integration busing]]. His Delaware constituents strongly opposed it, and such opposition nationwide later led his party to mostly abandon school integration policies.<ref name="Gadsen">{{Cite news |last=Gadsden |first=Brett |date=May 5, 2019 |title=Here's How Deep Biden's Busing Problem Runs |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/05/joe-biden-busing-problem-226791 |access-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-date=May 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190505123922/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/05/05/joe-biden-busing-problem-226791 |url-status=live }}</ref> In his first Senate campaign, Biden had expressed support for busing to remedy ''[[de jure]]'' [[Racial segregation|segregation]], as in the South, but opposed its use to remedy ''[[de facto]]'' segregation arising from racial patterns of neighborhood residency, as in Delaware; he opposed a proposed constitutional amendment banning busing entirely.{{sfn|Gadsen|2012|page=214}}
-In May 1974, Biden voted to table a proposal containing anti-busing and anti-desegregation clauses but later voted for a modified version containing a qualification that it was not intended to weaken the judiciary's power to enforce the [[Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution|5th Amendment]] and [[Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|14th Amendment]].<ref name="Sokol">{{Cite news |last=Sokol |first=Jason |date=April 25, 2019 |title=How a Young Joe Biden Turned Liberals Against Integration |work=Politico |url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/04/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968 |access-date=April 25, 2019 |archive-date=November 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110162959/https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/08/04/joe-biden-integration-school-busing-120968 |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1975, he supported a proposal that would have prevented the [[Department of Health, Education, and Welfare]] from cutting federal funds to districts that refused to integrate;{{sfn|Gadsen|2012|pages=220–221}} he said busing was a "bankrupt idea [violating] the cardinal rule of common sense" and that his opposition would make it easier for other liberals to follow suit.<ref name="cby-44">''Current Biography Yearbook 1987'', p. 44.</ref> At the same time he supported initiatives on housing, job opportunities and voting rights.<ref name="Sokol" /> Biden supported a measure{{when|date=October 2020}} forbidding the use of federal funds for transporting students beyond the school closest to them. In 1977, he co-sponsored an amendment closing loopholes in that measure, which President Carter signed into law in 1978.<ref name="Raffel1998">{{Cite book |last=Raffel |first=Jeffrey A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gA1JljCpxzEC&pg=PA90 |title=Historical Dictionary of School Segregation and Desegregation: The American Experience |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |year=1998 |isbn=978-0-313-29502-7 |page=90 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930184823/https://books.google.com/books?id=gA1JljCpxzEC&pg=PA90 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In August 2015, Biden said that he was looking for a possible chance of running for president again in the [[United States presidential election, 2016|2016 U.S. election]].<ref name=Dowd1>Maureen Dowd - "Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do?", ''The New York Times'', August 1, 2015.</ref><ref name=Itkowitz1>Colby Itkowitz - "There is a ‘Draft Joe Biden’ Super PAC Now; It’s Even Hiring a Fundraiser", ''The Washington Post'', March 23, 2015.[https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/03/23/job-opening-raise-money-to-draft-joe-biden-to-run-in-2016/] Retrieved August 2, 2015</ref> Biden formed a [[PAC]] for his possible run.<ref>Jeff Zeleny and Kevin Liptak - "Joe Biden Keeps Watchful Eye on 2016 Race", CNN, August 1, 2015.[http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/vice-president-joe-biden-presidential-elections/] Retrieved August 2, 2015</ref> On October 21, speaking from a podium in the [[White House Rose Garden|Rose Garden]] with his wife and President Obama by his side, Biden announced his decision not to enter the race for the Democratic nomination for the presidency for the 2016 election.<ref>Jeff Mason - [http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/21/biden-announces-hes-not-running-for-president/21252056/?icid=maing-grid7%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl1%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D36905727 "Biden says he will not seek 2016 Democratic nomination"], ''Thomson Reuters'', October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 21, 2015</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Comment Joe Biden Is Not Running For President In 2016|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/joe-biden-president-2016_55f1cefbe4b093be51be0d69|work=HuffPost|date=October 21, 2015 |access-date=October 21, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Joe Biden Decides Not to Enter Presidential Race|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-decides-not-to-enter-presidential-race-1445444657|work=The Wall Street Journal|date=October 21, 2015 |access-date=October 21, 2015}}</ref>
-====Brain surgeries====
+Biden never had to break a tie vote in the [[United States Senate]], making him the longest-serving vice president not to do this.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bycoffe|first=Aaron|date=February 7, 2017|title=Pence Has Already Done Something Biden Never Did: Break A Senate Tie |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pence-has-already-done-something-biden-never-did-break-a-senate-tie/|website=[[FiveThirtyEight]]|quote=Twelve vice presidents, including Biden, never broke a tie; Biden was the longest-serving vice president to never do so.|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082937/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pence-has-already-done-something-biden-never-did-break-a-senate-tie/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-In February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain, Biden was taken by ambulance to [[Walter Reed Army Medical Center]] for surgery to correct a leaking [[intracranial berry aneurysm]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Altman |first=Lawrence K. |date=February 23, 1998 |title=The Doctor's World; Subtle Clues Are Often The Only Warnings Of Perilous Aneurysms |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/23/science/the-doctors-world-subtle-clues-are-often-the-only-warnings-of-perilous-aneurysms.html |access-date=August 23, 2008 |archive-date=April 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200428023004/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/23/science/the-doctors-world-subtle-clues-are-often-the-only-warnings-of-perilous-aneurysms.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-4cmed">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/us/politics/20health.html|title=Many Holes in Disclosure of Nominees' Health|last=Altman|first=Lawrence K.|newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 19, 2008|access-date=October 26, 2008|archive-date=February 25, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100225194337/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/us/politics/20health.html|url-status=live}}</ref> While recuperating, he suffered a [[pulmonary embolism]], a serious complication.<ref name="nyt-4cmed" /> After a second aneurysm was surgically repaired in May,<ref name="nyt-4cmed" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/04/us/biden-resting-after-surgery-for-second-brain-aneurysm.html |title=Biden Resting After Surgery For Second Brain Aneurysm |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=The New York Times |date=May 4, 1988 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 5, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210105212210/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/04/us/biden-resting-after-surgery-for-second-brain-aneurysm.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden's recuperation kept him away from the Senate for seven months.<ref name="ap-aug22">{{cite news |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/vp-candidate-profile-sen-joe-biden/ |title=V.P. candidate profile: Sen. Joe Biden |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[The Seattle Times]] |date=August 22, 2008 |access-date=September 7, 2008 |first=Calvin |last=Woodward |archive-date=December 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230131941/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/vp-candidate-profile-sen-joe-biden/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-===1988 presidential campaign===
+After winning the election, Biden served the Vice Presidency until January 20, 2017.
-{{Main|Joe Biden 1988 presidential campaign}}
-[[File:Joe Biden in 1987 at White House.png|thumb|left|upright|Biden at the White House in 1987]]
-Biden formally declared his candidacy for the [[1988 Democratic Party presidential primaries|1988 Democratic presidential nomination]] on June 9, 1987.<ref name="nyt-1987-ann">{{Cite news |last=Dionne Jr. |first=E. J. |author-link=E. J. Dionne |date=June 10, 1987 |title=Biden Joins Campaign for the Presidency |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/us/biden-joins-campaign-for-the-presidency.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 5, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171105150453/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/06/10/us/biden-joins-campaign-for-the-presidency.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He was considered a strong candidate because of his moderate image, his speaking ability, his high profile as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the upcoming [[Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination]] hearings, and his appeal to [[Baby Boomer]]s; he would have been the second-youngest person elected president, after [[John F. Kennedy]].<ref name="dmn-87" /><ref name="nyt083187">{{Cite news |last=Toner |first=Robin |date=August 31, 1987 |title=Biden, Once the Field's Hot Democrat, Is Being Overtaken by Cooler Rivals |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/31/us/biden-once-the-field-s-hot-democrat-is-being-overtaken-by-cooler-rivals.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103084657/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/31/us/biden-once-the-field-s-hot-democrat-is-being-overtaken-by-cooler-rivals.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="taylor83"/> He raised more in the first quarter of 1987 than any other candidate.<ref name="nyt083187" /><ref name="taylor83">[[#Taylor|Taylor (1990)]], p. 83.</ref>
-By August his campaign's messaging had become confused due to staff rivalries,<ref>[[#Taylor|Taylor (1990)]], pp. 108-109.</ref> and in September, he was accused of [[plagiarism|plagiarizing]] a speech by British [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] leader [[Neil Kinnock]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dowd |first=Maureen |author-link=Maureen Dowd |date=September 12, 1987 |title=Biden's Debate Finale: An Echo From Abroad |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/us/biden-s-debate-finale-an-echo-from-abroad.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=February 15, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215003637/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/12/us/biden-s-debate-finale-an-echo-from-abroad.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden's speech had similar lines about being the first person in his family to attend university. Biden had credited Kinnock with the formulation on previous occasions,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Randolph |first=Eleanor |date=September 13, 1987 |title=Plagiarism Suggestion Angers Biden's Aides |page=A6 |work=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/13/plagiarism-suggestion-angers-bidens-aides/912bfcf1-b3f3-4850-a14d-e8b0bee1ed63/ |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081200/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1987/09/13/plagiarism-suggestion-angers-bidens-aides/912bfcf1-b3f3-4850-a14d-e8b0bee1ed63/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="lat-speech" /> but did not on two occasions in late August.<ref name="lat-speech">{{Cite news |last1=Risen |first1=James |author-link=James Risen |last2=Shogan |first2=Robert |date=September 16, 1987 |title=Differing Versions Cited on Source of Passages: Biden Facing New Flap Over Speeches |work=Los Angeles Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-16-mn-5412-story.html |access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081219/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1987-09-16-mn-5412-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Whose Broad Stripes">{{Cite book|last1=Germond|first1=Jack|url=https://archive.org/details/whosebroadstripe00germ|title=Whose Broad Stripes and Bright Stars? The Trivial Pursuit of the Presidency 1988|last2=Witcover|first2=Jules|publisher=[[Warner Books]]|year=1989|isbn=0-446-51424-1|author-link=Jack Germond|author-link2=Jules Witcover}}</ref>{{rp|230–232}}
+== 2020 presidential election ==
+{{main|Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign}}
+[[File:Joe Biden kickoff rally May 2019.jpg|right|thumb|180px|Biden at his first presidential campaign rally in [[Philadelphia, Pennsylvania]], May 2019]]
+During a tour of the U.S. Senate with reporters before leaving office on December 5, 2016, Biden said that a presidential bid was possible in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], after leaving office as vice president. While on ''[[The Late Show with Stephen Colbert]]'' on December 7, he stated "never say never" about running for president in 2020, while also admitting he did not see a scenario in which he would run for office again.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://time.com/4593693/joe-biden-stephen-colbert-2020-run/ |title=Joe Biden Discussed Running in 2020 With Stephen Colbert: 'Never Say Never' |magazine=Time |access-date=December 8, 2016 |date=December 7, 2016 |author=Lang, Cady}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/joe-biden-colbert-interview-2020-buzz/ |title=Biden stokes 2020 buzz on Colbert: 'Never say never' |publisher=CNN |access-date=December 8, 2016 |date=December 7, 2016 |author=Wright, David}}</ref> On January 13, 2017, exactly one week before [[Donald Trump]] took office. he said he would not run.<ref name = "Revesz">{{cite news|last=Revesz|first=Rachael|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-biden-think-tank-research-centre-university-pennsylvania-delaware-white-house-staff-cancer-a7526881.html|title=Joe Biden: I will not run for president in 2020 but I am working to cure cancer|work=[[The Independent]]|date=January 13, 2017|access-date=January 20, 2017}}</ref> However, four days later, on January 17, he took the statement back, saying "I'll run if I can walk."<ref name="IfICanWalk">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/magazine/joe-biden-i-wish-to-hell-id-just-kept-saying-the-exact-same-thing.html|title=Joe Biden: 'I Wish to Hell I'd Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing'|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|last=Alter|first=Jonathan|date=January 17, 2017|access-date=January 22, 2017}}</ref>
-Earlier that year he had also used passages from a 1967 speech by [[Robert F. Kennedy]] (for which his aides took blame) and a short phrase from [[inaugural address of John F. Kennedy|John F. Kennedy's inaugural address]]; two years earlier he had used a 1976 passage by [[Hubert Humphrey]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dowd |first=Maureen |author-link=Maureen Dowd |date=September 16, 1987 |title=Biden Is Facing Growing Debate On His Speeches |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/16/us/biden-is-facing-growing-debate-on-his-speeches.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081135/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/16/us/biden-is-facing-growing-debate-on-his-speeches.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden responded that politicians often borrow from one another without giving credit, and that one of his rivals for the nomination, [[Jesse Jackson]], had called him to point out that he (Jackson) had used the same material by Humphrey that Biden had used.<ref name="aap08-bio" /><ref name="nyt091887">{{Cite news |last=Dionne |first=E. J., Jr. |author-link=E. J. Dionne |date=September 18, 1987 |title=Biden Admits Plagiarism in School But Says It Was Not 'Malevolent' |work=The New York Times|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DB143FF93BA2575AC0A961948260 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 20, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120023426/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B0DE3DB143FF93BA2575AC0A961948260 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Biden was mentioned by many news outlets as a potential candidate for the [[2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2020 Democratic nomination]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/07/17/joe-biden-president-january-decision/793771002/|title=Joe Biden says he will decide whether he's running for president by January|work=USA Today|access-date=July 18, 2018}}</ref> In March 2019, he said he may run.<ref name=17March2019>{{Cite news|author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.-->|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47601121|title=Joe Biden says he's running in 2020 — then corrects himself|work=BBC|date=March 17, 2019|quote=Joe Biden appeared to announce his candidacy for the 2020 US election, before immediately correcting himself.}}</ref>
+[[File:Portrait of United States President Joe Biden.jpg|thumb|180px|left|Biden in August 2020]]
+He formally launched his campaign on April 25, 2019.<ref name=cnn>{{cite news|last1=Saenz|first1=Arlette|last2=Zeleny|first2=Jeff|title=Joe Biden to announce his 2020 presidential bid on Thursday|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/politics/2020-biden-announcement-thursday/index.html|publisher=CNN|date=April 23, 2019|access-date=April 23, 2019}}</ref>
-A few days later, an incident in law school in which he drew text from a ''[[Fordham Law Review]]'' article with inadequate citations was publicized.<ref name="nyt091887" /> Biden was required to repeat the course and passed with high marks.<ref>{{Cite news |last=May |first=Lee |date=September 18, 1987 |title=Biden Admits Plagiarism in Writing Law School Brief |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |url=http://articles.latimes.com/print/1987-09-18/news/mn-5748_1_law-school |access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=September 11, 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130911001224/http://articles.latimes.com/print/1987-09-18/news/mn-5748_1_law-school |url-status=live }}</ref> At Biden's request the Delaware Supreme Court's Board of Professional Responsibility reviewed the incident and concluded that he had violated no rules.<ref name="nyt-cleared">{{Cite news |date=May 29, 1989 |title=Professional Board Clears Biden In Two Allegations of Plagiarism |work=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DD1230F93AA15756C0A96F948260 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081202123351/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=950DE1DD1230F93AA15756C0A96F948260 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+In April 2020, Biden became the only candidate in the primary making him the [[presumptive nominee]] for the nomination.<ref name=hill2020/> At first, he lost the first three primary contests to Senator [[Bernie Sanders]]. After winning the [[South Carolina]] primary, he gained traction and won most of the [[Super Tuesday]] races.
-He made several false or exaggerated claims about his early life: that he had earned three degrees in college, that he had attended law school on a full scholarship, that he had graduated in the top half of his class,<ref name="nyt092287">{{Cite news |last=Dionne |first=E. J., Jr. |author-link=E. J. Dionne |date=September 22, 1987 |title=Biden Admits Errors and Criticizes Latest Report |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/22/us/biden-admits-errors-and-criticizes-latest-report.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081243/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/22/us/biden-admits-errors-and-criticizes-latest-report.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=August 23, 2008 |title=1988 Road to the White House with Sen. Biden |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho |access-date=October 3, 2012 |publisher=C-SPAN via YouTube |archive-date=November 14, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081114231347/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1j0FS0Z6ho |url-status=live }}</ref> and that he had marched in the [[civil rights movement]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Flegenheimer |first=Matt |date=June 3, 2019 |title=Biden's First Run for President Was a Calamity. Some Missteps Still Resonate. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/politics/biden-1988-presidential-campaign.html |access-date=June 3, 2019 |archive-date=June 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603140340/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/03/us/politics/biden-1988-presidential-campaign.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The limited amount of other news about the race amplified these revelations<ref>{{Cite book |last=Pomper |first=Gerald M. |url=https://archive.org/details/electionof1988re00pomp/page/37 |title=The Election of 1988 |publisher=Chatham House Publishers |year=1989 |isbn=0-934540-77-2 |page=[https://archive.org/details/electionof1988re00pomp/page/37 37] |chapter=The Presidential Nominations |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/electionof1988re00pomp}}</ref> and on September 23, 1987, Biden withdrew from the race, saying his candidacy had been overrun by "the exaggerated shadow" of his past mistakes.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dionne Jr. |first=E. J. |author-link=E. J. Dionne |date=September 24, 1987 |title=Biden Withdraws Bid for President in Wake of Furor |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/us/biden-withdraws-bid-for-president-in-wake-of-furor.html |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 21, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171221235355/http://www.nytimes.com/1987/09/24/us/biden-withdraws-bid-for-president-in-wake-of-furor.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Biden promised when elected he would protect ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' decision, create a [[public option]] for health insurance, [[decriminalization]] of [[cannabis|recreational cannabis]], pass the [[Equality Act (United States)|Equality Act]], create free [[community college]], and a $1.7 trillion climate plan supporting the [[Green New Deal]]. He supports regulation instead of a complete ban on [[fracking]].
-Kinnock himself was more forgiving; the two men met in 1988, forming an enduring friendship.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Smith|first=David|author-link=David Smith (journalist)|date=September 7, 2020|title=Neil Kinnock on Biden's plagiarism 'scandal' and why he deserves to win: 'Joe's an honest guy'|url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/07/neil-kinnock-joe-biden-1987-scandal|access-date=February 24, 2021|website=The Guardian|language=en}}</ref>
+In early 2020, Biden promised he [[2020 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection|would pick a woman]] as his [[running mate]]. He also promised that his first [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] appointment would be a black woman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/opinion/biden-running-mate-cabinet.html|title=Opinion: Your Democratic 'Dream Team'|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=July 1, 2020|access-date=July 3, 2020}}</ref> In August 2020, he picked [[California]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Kamala Harris]] as his running mate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-picks-kamala-harris-vice-president-running-mate/|title=Biden picks Kamala Harris as running mate, adding former 2020 rival to ticket|publisher=[[CBS News]]|access-date=August 11, 2020}}</ref>
-===Senate Judiciary Committee===
+On November 3, 2020, [[FiveThirtyEight]]'s [[Statistics|statistical]] model projected that Biden had a 89% chance to defeat [[Donald Trump]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Silver|first=Nate|date=2020-11-03|title=2020 Election Forecast|url=https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/|access-date=2020-12-03|website=FiveThirtyEight|language=en}}</ref> He defeated Trump in the general election after officially being projected as the winner on November 7, 2020.<ref>{{cite web|last=Steinhauser|first=Paul|date=November 7, 2020|title=Biden wins presidency, Trump denied second term in White House, Fox News projects|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/biden-wins-presidency-trump-fox-news-projects|access-date=November 7, 2020|website=Fox News}}</ref> With more than 81 million votes, Biden received the most votes ever cast for a candidate in a U.S. presidential election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-popular-vote-record-barack-obama-us-presidential-election-donald-trump/ |title=Joe Biden breaks Obama's record for most votes ever cast for a U.S presidential candidate|first=Sophie |last=Lewis |work=CBS |date=November 7, 2020 }}</ref> However Trump did not call Biden the winner, refused to say he lost and tried to [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|overturn the election results]].
-[[File:Biden Crime Bill.jpg|thumb|right|Biden speaking at the signing of the [[1994 Crime Bill]] with President [[Bill Clinton]] in 1994]]
-Biden was a longtime member of the [[Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]. He chaired it from 1987 to 1995 and was [[ranking member|ranking minority member]] from 1981 to 1987 and from 1995 to 1997.
+==President of the United States==
+===Transition===
+[[File:First photo posted to POTUS Biden Administration IG.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Biden when he was the [[President-elect of the United States|U.S. President-elect]] in December 2020]]
+Biden was elected the 46th [[President of the United States]] in November 2020, defeating the incumbent [[Donald Trump]], the first sitting president to lose re-election since [[George H. W. Bush]] in [[1992 United States presidential election|1992]].
-As chairman, Biden presided over two highly contentious [[U.S. Supreme Court]] confirmation hearings.<ref name="aap08-bio" /> When [[Robert Bork Supreme Court nomination|Robert Bork was nominated]] in 1988, Biden reversed his approval{{mdashb}}given in an interview the previous year{{mdashb}}of a hypothetical Bork nomination. Conservatives were angered,<ref name="bronner">Bronner, ''Battle for Justice'', pp. 138–139, 214, 305.</ref> but at the hearings' close Biden was praised for his fairness, humor, and courage.<ref name="bronner" /><ref name="nyt-lg-87">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/08/us/washington-talk-the-bork-hearings-for-biden-epoch-of-belief-epoch-of-incredulity.html |title=Washington Talk: The Bork Hearings; For Biden: Epoch of Belief, Epoch of Incredulity |last=Greenhouse |first=Linda |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 8, 1987 |author-link=Linda Greenhouse |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111141909/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/08/us/washington-talk-the-bork-hearings-for-biden-epoch-of-belief-epoch-of-incredulity.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rejecting the arguments of some Bork opponents,<ref name="aap08-bio" /> Biden framed his objections to Bork in terms of the conflict between Bork's strong [[originalism]] and the view that the [[U.S. Constitution]] provides rights to liberty and privacy beyond those explicitly enumerated in its text.<ref name="nyt-lg-87" /> Bork's nomination was rejected in the committee by a 9–5 vote<ref name="nyt-lg-87" /> and then in the full Senate, 58–42.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/24/us/senate-s-roll-call-on-the-bork-vote.html|title=Senate's Roll-Call On the Bork Vote|date=October 24, 1987|newspaper=The New York Times|agency=Associated Press|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103084644/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/24/us/senate-s-roll-call-on-the-bork-vote.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
+He became the second non-incumbent vice president to be elected president, and the first Democrat to do so.<ref name="Azari">{{Cite news |last=Azari |first=Julia |date=August 20, 2020 |title=Biden Had To Fight For The Presidential Nomination. But Most VPs Have To. |work=FiveThirtyEight |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-had-to-fight-for-the-presidential-nomination-but-most-vps-have-to/}}</ref> He is also expected to become the oldest president at the time of inauguration, as well as the first president from [[Delaware]].
-During [[Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination|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,<ref name="mayer-abramson">Mayer; Abramson, ''Strange Justice'', p. 213, 218, 336.</ref> and Thomas later wrote that Biden's questions were akin to "[[beanball]]s".<ref name="thomas-vi">{{cite news |title=Clarence Thomas: A Silent Justice Speaks Out: Part VI: Becoming a Judge—and perhaps a Justice |last=Greenburg |first=Jan Crawford |work=[[ABC News]] |date=September 30, 2007 |url=http://www.abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3664944&page=4 |access-date=October 18, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110622121644/https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=3664944&page=4 |archive-date=June 22, 2011 |url-status=dead }}</ref> After the committee hearing closed, the public learned that [[Anita Hill]], a [[University of Oklahoma]] law school professor, had accused Thomas of [[Sexual harassment|making unwelcome sexual comments]] when they had worked together.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101289|title=Nina Totenberg, NPR Biography|access-date=May 31, 2008|publisher=NPR|archive-date=April 14, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080414042451/http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=2101289|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Excerpt from Nina Totenberg's breaking National Public Radio report on Anita Hill's accusation of sexual harassment by Clarence Thomas.|url=http://jwa.org/feminism/_html/_transcripts/transcript_JWA071a.htm|access-date=October 5, 2008|date=October 6, 1991|publisher=NPR|archive-date=February 21, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221202700/http://jwa.org/feminism/_html/_transcripts/transcript_JWA071a.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden had known of some of these charges, but initially shared them only with the committee because Hill was then unwilling to testify.<ref name="aap08-bio" /> The committee hearing was reopened and Hill testified, but Biden did not permit testimony from other witnesses, such as a woman who had made similar charges and experts on harassment,<ref name="nyt-hill">{{cite news |url=https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/biden-and-anita-hill-revisited/ |title=Biden and Anita Hill, Revisited |last=Phillips |first=Kate |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 23, 2008 |access-date=September 12, 2008 |archive-date=September 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080911204456/http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/biden-and-anita-hill-revisited/ |url-status=live }}</ref> saying he wanted to preserve Thomas's privacy and the hearings' decency.<ref name="mayer-abramson" /><ref name="nyt-hill" /> The full Senate confirmed Thomas by a 52–48 vote, with Biden opposed.<ref name="aap08-bio" /> Liberal legal advocates and women's groups felt strongly that Biden had mishandled the hearings and not done enough to support Hill.<ref name="nyt-hill" /> Biden later sought out women to serve on the Judiciary Committee and emphasized women's issues in the committee's legislative agenda.<ref name="aap08-bio" /> In 2019, he told Hill he regretted his treatment of her, but Hill said afterward she remained unsatisfied.<ref name="NYT-Stolberg-Hulse">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-anita-hill.html|title=Joe Biden Expresses Regret to Anita Hill, but She Says 'I'm Sorry' Is Not Enough|last1=Stolberg|first1=Sheryl Gay|date=April 25, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 25, 2019|last2=Martin|first2=Jonathan|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190425205328/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/25/us/politics/joe-biden-anita-hill.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
+At first, [[General Services Administration|General Services Administrator]] [[Emily W. Murphy]] did not want to acknowledge Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.<ref name=GSA/> On November 23, however, she formally recognized Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 election and authorized the start of a transition process to the Biden administration.<ref name=GSA>{{cite news|work=[[CNN]]|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html|title=First on CNN: GSA tells Biden that transition can formally begin|authors=Kristen Holmes and Jeremy Herb|date=2020-11-23|access-date=2020-11-23|archive-date=2020-11-23|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123232709/https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Biden was critical of [[United States Office of the Independent Counsel|Independent Counsel]] [[Ken Starr]] during the 1990s [[Whitewater controversy]] and [[Lewinsky scandal]] investigations, saying "it's going to be a cold day in hell" before another independent counsel would be granted similar powers.<ref>''Almanac of American Politics'' 2000, p. 372.</ref> He voted to acquit during the [[impeachment of President Clinton]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.vote/ |title=How the senators voted on impeachment |work=CNN |date=February 12, 1999 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081326/https://edition.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/1999/02/12/senate.vote/ |url-status=live }}</ref> During the 2000s, Biden sponsored bankruptcy legislation sought by credit card issuers.<ref name="aap08-bio" /> Clinton vetoed the bill in 2000, but it passed in 2005 as the [[Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act]],<ref name="aap08-bio" /> with Biden one of only 18 Democrats to vote for it, while leading Democrats and consumer rights organizations opposed it.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pilkington|first=Ed|date=December 2, 2019|title=How Biden Helped Create the Student Debt Problem He Now Promises to Fix|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-2005-act-2020|access-date=March 8, 2020|archive-date=March 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200306071514/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/dec/02/joe-biden-student-loan-debt-2005-act-2020|url-status=live}}</ref> As a senator, Biden strongly supported increased [[Amtrak]] funding and rail security.<ref name="aap08-366" /><ref>{{Cite news|last=Verma|first=Pranshu|date=October 24, 2020|title=Biden, an Amtrak Evangelist, Could Be a Lifeline for a Rail Agency in Crisis|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/biden-amtrak-covid.html|access-date=November 19, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=November 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201119015056/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/24/us/biden-amtrak-covid.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
+In late December 2020, Biden received his first dose of the [[Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]] in Delaware.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-01-12|title=Biden gets 2nd dose of vaccine as team readies COVID-19 plan|url=http://thehimalayantimes.com/world/biden-gets-2nd-dose-of-vaccine-as-team-readies-covid-19-plan/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210112062444/https://thehimalayantimes.com/world/biden-gets-2nd-dose-of-vaccine-as-team-readies-covid-19-plan/|archive-date=2021-01-12|access-date=2021-01-15|website=The Himalayan Times|language=en-US}}</ref> He returned for his second dose in early January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kalich|first=Sydney|date=2021-01-11|title=President-elect Biden receives final COVID-19 vaccine dose|url=https://www.wiproud.com/news/washington-dc/president-elect-biden-to-get-final-covid-19-vaccine-dose/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115080842/https://www.wiproud.com/news/washington-dc/president-elect-biden-to-get-final-covid-19-vaccine-dose/|archive-date=2021-01-15|access-date=2021-01-15|website=FOX2548 & WIProud|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Karni|first1=Annie|last2=Weiland|first2=Noah|date=2020-12-21|title=Biden receives the coronavirus vaccine.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/biden-coronavirus-vaccine.html|access-date=2021-01-15|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=2021-01-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114033749/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/biden-coronavirus-vaccine.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-[[File:Bill Clinton and officials on Air Force One.jpg|thumb|right|Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]] in December 1997]]
+===First 100 days===
+[[File:President Biden taking oath of office (cropped).png|thumb|right|180px|Biden taking the [[oath of office]] at his [[Inauguration of Joe Biden|inauguration]] on January 20, 2021]]
+[[File:Cabinet of President Joe Biden in 2021.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Biden's [[Cabinet of the United States|cabinet]] in April 2021]]
+Biden was [[Inauguration of Joe Biden|inaugurated]] shortly before noon on January 20, 2021 as the 46th [[president of the United States]].<ref name="hunnicutt">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/assuming-u-s-presidency-biden-tells-divided-nation-democracy-has-prevailed-idUSKBN29P0HG|title=Taking helm of divided nation, U.S. President Biden calls for end to 'uncivil war'|date=January 20, 2021|author=Hunnicutt, Trevor; Zengerle, Patricia; Renshaw, Jarrett|work=Reuters|access-date=January 20, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120171341/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/assuming-u-s-presidency-biden-tells-divided-nation-democracy-has-prevailed-idUSKBN29P0HG|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden inauguration: New president sworn in amid Trump snub|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55736856|access-date=January 20, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120145011/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55736856|url-status=live}}</ref> At 78, he is the oldest person to become president.<ref name="hunnicutt"/> He is the second [[Catholic]] president (after [[John F. Kennedy]])<ref>{{Cite web|title=Biden to become the second Catholic president in U.S. history, after JFK|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-become-the-second-catholic-president-in-u-s-history-after-jfk-99673157918|date=January 19, 2021|access-date=January 20, 2021|website=NBC News|language=en|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119212606/https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-become-the-second-catholic-president-in-u-s-history-after-jfk-99673157918|url-status=live}}</ref> and the first president whose home state is [[Delaware]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Cormier|first1=Ryan|last2=Talorico|first2=Patricia|date=November 7, 2020|title=Delaware history is made: The First State gets its first president in Joe Biden|url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/07/one-us-delaware-pride-soars-biden-makes-history/6121243002/|access-date=January 20, 2021|website=The News Journal|language=en-US|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108021346/https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/07/one-us-delaware-pride-soars-biden-makes-history/6121243002/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-===Senate Foreign Relations Committee===
+In his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 [[executive order (United States)|executive orders]], more than most recent presidents did in their first 100 days. Biden signed more executive orders than any other president since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] had in their first month in office.<ref name="With 28 Executive Orders Signed, President Biden Is Off To A Record Start">{{cite web |last1=Keith |first1=Tamara |date=February 3, 2021 |title=With 28 Executive Orders Signed, President Biden Is Off To A Record Start |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/963380189/with-28-executive-orders-signed-president-biden-is-off-to-a-record-start |website=NPR |access-date=4 February 2021}}</ref> His first actions were rejoining the [[Paris Agreement|Paris Climate Agreement]], ending the state of national emergency at the [[Mexico–United States border|border]] with [[Mexico]], rejoining the [[World Health Organization]], a 100-day mandatory [[surgical mask|face mask]] requirements on [[Federal lands|federal property]] and acts to stop [[hunger]] in the United States.<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden's first act: Orders on pandemic, climate, immigration|url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-executive-orders-b5b409da08e42414b9a12e2c67ee2df6|access-date=January 21, 2021|website=Associated Press|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120230130/https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-executive-orders-b5b409da08e42414b9a12e2c67ee2df6|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Erikson|first=Bo|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden signs executive actions on COVID, climate change, immigration and more|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-executive-orders-watch-live-stream-today-2021-01-20/|access-date=January 21, 2021|website=CBS News|language=en-US|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120233631/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-executive-orders-watch-live-stream-today-2021-01-20/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url= https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/22/joe-biden-is-taking-executive-action-at-a-record-pace|title= Joe Biden is taking executive action at a record pace|newspaper= [[The Economist]]|date= 22 January 2021|access-date= 23 January 2021|archive-date= 24 January 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210124002448/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/22/joe-biden-is-taking-executive-action-at-a-record-pace|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/22/biden-executive-orders-hunger-workers-461270|title= Biden signs executive orders aimed at combating hunger, protecting workers|work= [[Politico]]|date = 22 January 2021|access-date=23 January 2021}}</ref> His presidency has been focused around his [[Build Back Better Plan]] agenda.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Sigalos|first=MacKenzie|date=2020-11-10|title=Biden's economic recovery plan, called Build Back Better, would spend over $7.3 trillion and invest in green infrastructure, health care and more|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/10/president-elect-joe-bidens-plan-for-the-economy-jobs-and-covid-19-.html|access-date=2021-04-04|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref>
-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.<ref name="aap08-365" /> His positions were generally [[liberal internationalist]].<ref name="nyt-foreign">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/americas/24iht-policy.4.15591832.html | title=In Biden, Obama chooses a foreign policy adherent of diplomacy before force | last=Gordon | first=Michael R. | newspaper=The New York Times | date=August 24, 2008 | access-date=November 5, 2009 | author-link=Michael R. Gordon | archive-date=February 27, 2013 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130227192937/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/world/americas/24iht-policy.4.15591832.html | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="lat-foreign" /> He collaborated effectively with Republicans and sometimes went against elements of his own party.<ref name="aap08-365" /><ref name="lat-foreign" /> During this time he met with at least 150 leaders from 60 countries and international organizations, becoming a well-known Democratic voice on foreign policy.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/23/meetings_with_foreign_leaders.html |title=Meetings with Foreign Leaders? Biden's Been There, Done That |last=Kessler |first=Glenn |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=September 23, 2008 |access-date=November 5, 2009 |author-link=Glenn Kessler (journalist) |archive-date=January 12, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120112112314/http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/23/meetings_with_foreign_leaders.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
-Biden voted against authorization for the [[Gulf War]] in 1991,<ref name="lat-foreign">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-foreignpol24-story.html |title=Joe Biden respected—if not always popular—for foreign policy record |last1=Richter |first1=Paul |last2=Levey |first2=Noam N. |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=August 24, 2008 |access-date=November 5, 2009 |archive-date=May 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502051910/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-foreignpol24-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> siding with 45 of the 55 Democratic senators; he said the U.S. was bearing almost all the burden in the [[Coalition of the Gulf War|anti-Iraq coalition]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/world/confrontation-gulf-congress-acts-authorize-war-gulf-margins-are-5-votes-senate.html |title=Congress Acts to Authorize War in Gulf |last=Clymer |first=Adam |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 13, 1991 |author-link=Adam Clymer |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081353/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/01/13/world/confrontation-gulf-congress-acts-authorize-war-gulf-margins-are-5-votes-senate.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+On February 4, 2021, he announced that the United States will stop giving weapons to [[Saudi Arabia]] and the [[United Arab Emirates]] for use in the [[Yemeni Civil War (2014–present)|Yemeni Civil War]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Doucet|first=Lyse|date=|title=Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-55941588|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=February 4, 2021|website=}}</ref>
-Biden became interested in the [[Yugoslav Wars]] after hearing about [[Serbs|Serbian]] abuses during the [[Croatian War of Independence]] in 1991.<ref name="nyt-foreign" /> Once the [[Bosnian War]] broke out, Biden was among the first to call for the "[[Lift and strike (Bosnia)|lift and strike]]" policy of lifting the arms embargo, training [[Bosnian Muslims]] and supporting them with [[NATO]] air strikes, and investigating [[war crimes]].<ref name="nyt-foreign" /><ref name="aap08-365" /> The [[George H. W. Bush administration]] and [[Clinton administration]] were both reluctant to implement the policy, fearing Balkan entanglement.<ref name="nyt-foreign" /><ref name="lat-foreign" /> In April 1993, Biden spent a week in the Balkans and held a tense three-hour meeting with Serbian leader [[Slobodan Milošević]].<ref name="wapo-bosnia">{{cite news | url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602681.html | title=Biden Played Less Than Key Role in Bosnia Legislation | last=Kessler | first=Glenn | newspaper=The Washington Post | date=October 7, 2008 | access-date=November 5, 2009 | author-link=Glenn Kessler (journalist) | archive-date=August 26, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090826101923/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602681.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Biden related that he had told Milošević, "I think you're a damn war criminal and you should be tried as one."<ref name="wapo-bosnia" />
+On March 11, 2021, the first anniversary of [[COVID-19]] being 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 relief package.<ref>[[U.S. Congress]], ''[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319 H.R. 1319]'', United States Congress, March 11, 2021</ref> The package included direct payments to most Americans, an extension of increased unemployment benefits, funds for vaccine distribution and school reopenings, support for small businesses and state and local governments, and expansions of health insurance subsidies and the child tax credit.<ref name="cnn.com">{{Cite web |last1=Luhby |first1=Tami |last2=Lobosco |first2=Katie |date=2021-01-14 |title=Here's what's in Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue package |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/biden-economic-rescue-package-coronavirus-stimulus/index.html |access-date=2021-01-16 |website=CNN}}</ref> Biden tried to raise the [[minimum wage]] to $15 an hour, but removed it from the stimulus package after criticism from both parties.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news |last1=Tankersley |first1=Jim |last2=Crowley |first2=Michael |date=2021-01-14 |title=Here are the highlights of Biden's $1.9 trillion 'American Rescue Plan.' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/biden-american-rescue-plan.html |access-date=2021-01-16 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaplan |first1=Thomas |title=What's in the Stimulus Bill? A Guide to Where the $1.9 Trillion Is Going |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/whats-in-the-stimulus-bill.html |website=The New York Times |date=March 7, 2021 |access-date=13 March 2021}}</ref>
-Biden wrote an amendment in 1992 to compel the Bush administration to arm the Bosnians, but deferred in 1994 to a somewhat softer stance the Clinton administration preferred, before signing on the following year to a stronger measure sponsored by [[Bob Dole]] and [[Joe Lieberman]].<ref name="wapo-bosnia" /> The engagement led to a successful NATO peacekeeping effort.<ref name="nyt-foreign" /> Biden has called his role in affecting Balkans policy in the mid-1990s his "proudest moment in public life" related to foreign policy.<ref name="lat-foreign" />
+In March 2021, when there was an increase in [[migrants]] coming to the United States from [[Mexico]], Biden told migrants: "Don't come over." He said that the U.S. was arranging a plan for migrants to "apply for asylum in place", without leaving their original locations. 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Biden administration faces pressure on immigration amid influx |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/17/biden-administration-faces-pressure-on-immigration-amid-surge |access-date=March 20, 2021 |work=[[Al Jazeera]] |date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> Biden earlier announced that his administration would not deport unaccompanied migrant children and told the [[Federal Emergency Management Agency]] to help take care of children separated at the border.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Miroff |first1=Nick |title=Biden will deploy FEMA to care for teenagers and children crossing border in record numbers |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fema-border-unaccompanied-minors/2021/03/13/738366a4-8455-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html |access-date=March 23, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=March 14, 2021}}</ref>
-In 1999, during the [[Kosovo War]], Biden supported the [[1999 NATO bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]].<ref name="nyt-foreign" /> He and Senator [[John McCain]] co-sponsored the McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on Clinton to use all necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milošević over [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia|Yugoslav]] actions toward [[Kosovo Albanians|ethnic Albanians]] in [[Kosovo]].<ref name="lat-foreign" /><ref name="wsj082508">{{cite news | url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121954185485266719 | title=Biden, McCain Have a Friendship—and More—in Common | last=Holmes | first=Elizabeth | newspaper=The Wall Street Journal | date=August 25, 2008 | access-date=November 5, 2009 | archive-date=October 16, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016194520/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB121954185485266719 | url-status=live }}</ref>
+On March 23, 2021, all of his [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] members were confirmed by the [[United States Senate]]. Biden is the first president since [[Ronald Reagan]] in 1981 to have all of his original Cabinet secretary nominees confirmed to their posts.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Liptak |first1=Kevin |title=Biden first president in decades to have first-pick Cabinet secretaries confirmed |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/22/politics/joe-biden-cabinet-confirmed/index.html |access-date=March 24, 2021 |work=CNN |date=March 23, 2021}}</ref> Two days later, Biden announced that he would run for re-election in the [[2024 United States presidential election|2024 election]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Subramanian|first=Michael Collins and Courtney|title=Joe Biden said he plans to run for reelection in 2024 and 'would fully expect' Kamala Harris to be running mate|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/03/25/joe-biden-said-he-plans-run-reelection-2024/7000827002/|access-date=2021-03-25|website=USA TODAY|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Schwartz|first=Brian|date=2021-03-25|title=Joe Biden says he expects to run for reelection in 2024|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/03/25/2024-presidential-election-joe-biden-expects-to-run-for-reelection.html|access-date=2021-03-25|website=CNBC|language=en}}</ref>
-====Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq====
+===Rest of 2021===
-{{Main|War on terror}}
+[[File:President Joe Biden speaks with Secretary Antony Blinken, Secretary Lloyd Austin, and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan about the ongoing efforts to safely drawdown the civilian footprint in Afghanistan.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Biden talks to [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]] [[Jake Sullivan]] about the [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|Fall of Kabul]] and evacuation efforts, August 2021]]
-[[File:Joe Biden addresses the press after having a brief meeting with Iraq's interim Prime Minister lyad Allawi.jpg|thumb|right|Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister [[Ayad Allawi]] in [[Baghdad]] in 2004.]]Biden was a strong supporter of the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]], saying, "Whatever it takes, we should do it."<ref name="TNR.hawk">{{cite magazine|last1=Crowley|first1=Michael|title=HawkDown|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/politics/hawk-down|magazine=The New Republic|quote=Even before Obama announced his run for president, Biden was warning that Afghanistan, not Iraq, was the 'central front' in the war against Al Qaeda, requiring a major U.S. commitment. 'Whatever it takes, we should do it,' Biden said in February 2002.|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016194518/http://www.newrepublic.com/article/politics/hawk-down|url-status=live}}</ref> As head of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he said in 2002 that Iraqi president [[Saddam Hussein]] was a threat to national security and there was no other option than to "eliminate" that threat.<ref name="MTP04292007">{{cite news |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/18381961 |work=[[Meet the Press]] |title=MTP Transcript for April 29, 2007 |first=Tim |last=Russert |publisher=[[NBC News]] |date=April 29, 2007 |page=2 |author-link=Tim Russert |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208191954/https://www.nbcnews.com/id/18381961 |url-status=live }}</ref> In October 2002, he voted in favor of the [[Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq]], approving the [[U.S. Invasion of Iraq|U.S. invasion of Iraq]].<ref name="lat-foreign" /> As chair of the committee, he assembled a series of witnesses to testify in favor of the authorization. They gave testimony grossly misrepresenting the intent, history, and status of Saddam and his secular government, which was an avowed enemy of [[al Qaida|al-Qaida]], and touted Iraq's fictional possession of [[Weapons of Mass Destruction|weapons of mass destruction]].<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/17/joe-biden-role-iraq-war Joe Biden championed the Iraq war. Will that come back to haunt him now?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210109174540/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/feb/17/joe-biden-role-iraq-war |date=January 9, 2021 }}, ''[[The Guardian]]'', [[Mark Weisbrot]], February 17, 2020. Retrieved February 19, 2020.</ref> Biden eventually became a critic of the war and viewed his vote and role as a "mistake", but did not push for withdrawal.<ref name="lat-foreign" /><ref name="wapo-bosnia" /> He supported the appropriations for the occupation, but argued that the war should be internationalized, that more soldiers were needed, and that the Bush administration should "level with the American people" about its cost and length.<ref name="aap08-365">''Almanac of American Politics'' 2008, p. 365.</ref><ref name="wsj082508" />
+[[File:P20211102AS-3753 (51845518077).jpg|thumb|right|180px|Biden at the [[2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference|COP26 Summit]] in [[Glasgow]], [[Scotland]], November 2021]]
+On April 22&ndash;23, Biden held an international climate summit at which he announced that the US would cut its [[greenhouse gas]] [[emission]]s by 50%&ndash;52% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.<ref>{{cite web |title=New momentum reduces emissions gap, but huge gap remains - analysis |url=https://climateactiontracker.org/press/new-momentum-reduces-emissions-gap-but-huge-gap-remains-analysis/ |website=Carbon Action Tracker |access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Newburger |first1=Emma |title=Here's what countries pledged on climate change at Biden's global summit |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/biden-climate-summit-2021-what-brazil-japan-canada-others-pledged.html |access-date=29 April 2021 |agency=CNBC |date=22 April 2021}}</ref>
-By late 2006, Biden's stance had shifted considerably. He opposed the [[Iraq War troop surge of 2007|troop surge of 2007]],<ref name="lat-foreign" /><ref name="wapo-bosnia" /> saying General [[David Petraeus]] was "dead, flat wrong" in believing the surge could work.<ref name="nytm-traub">{{cite news|last=Traub|first=James|author-link=James Traub|date=November 24, 2009|title=After Cheney |page=MM34 |magazine=[[The New York Times Magazine]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29Biden-t.html|url-status=live|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103084703/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/magazine/29Biden-t.html|archive-date=January 3, 2021}}</ref> Biden instead advocated dividing Iraq into a loose [[federalism|federation]] of three [[ethnic group|ethnic]] states.<ref name="Divided">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/weekinreview/19shanker.html |title=Divided They Stand, but on Graves |first=Thom |last=Shanker |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 19, 2007 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081421/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/weekinreview/19shanker.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In November 2006, Biden and [[Leslie H. Gelb]], president emeritus of the [[Council on Foreign Relations]], released a comprehensive strategy to end [[Civil war in Iraq (2006-07)|sectarian violence in Iraq]].<ref name="LAT20071001">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-01-fg-iraq1-story.html |first1=Ned |last1=Parker |first2=Raheem |last2=Salman |title=U.S. vote unites Iraqis in anger |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=October 1, 2007 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081500/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-oct-01-fg-iraq1-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Rather than continue the existing approach or withdrawing, the plan called for "a third way": federalizing Iraq and giving [[Kurd]]s, [[Shiite]]s, and [[Sunni Islam|Sunnis]] "breathing room" in their own regions.<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], pp. 572–573.</ref> In September 2007, a non-binding resolution endorsing the plan passed the Senate,<ref name="LAT20071001" /> but the idea was unfamiliar, had no political constituency, and failed to gain traction.<ref name="nytm-traub" /> Iraq's political leadership denounced the resolution as ''de facto'' partitioning of the country, and the [[U.S. Embassy in Baghdad]] issued a statement distancing itself from it.<ref name="LAT20071001" /> In May 2008, Biden sharply criticized President [[George W. Bush]]'s speech to [[Israel]]'s [[Knesset]] in which Bush compared some Democrats to Western leaders who [[Munich Agreement|appeased Hitler before World War{{nbsp}}II]]; Biden called the speech "bullshit", "malarkey", and "outrageous". He later apologized for his language.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/15/bush.dems/index.html |title=Dems fire back at Bush on 'appeasement' statement |last=Henry |first=Ed |work=CNN |date=May 16, 2008 |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-date=September 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080920093550/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/15/bush.dems/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+On April 28, 2021, Biden addressed the [[United States Congress]] in his [[State of the Union Address]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Solender|first=Andrew|date=April 14, 2021|title=Pelosi Invites Biden To Address Joint Session Of Congress On April 28|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/04/13/pelosi-invites-biden-to-address-joint-session-of-congress-on-april-28/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415095215/https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewsolender/2021/04/13/biden-accepts-pelosi-invitation-to-address-joint-session-of-congress-on-april-28/|archive-date=April 15, 2021|access-date=April 14, 2021|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref> Presiding over this joint session was the [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|House Speaker]], [[Nancy Pelosi]], and the [[Vice President of the United States]], [[Kamala Harris]] as [[Vice President of the United States#President of the United States Senate|President of the Senate]] ― the first time two women preside over an address to Congress.<ref name=":1"/>
-===2008 presidential campaign===
+On June 17, Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which officially declared [[Juneteenth]] a federal holiday.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Most Federal Employees Will Receive Friday Off for Juneteenth|url=https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2021/06/most-federal-employees-will-receive-friday-juneteenth/174796/|access-date=2021-06-17|website=Government Executive|language=en}}</ref> Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since [[Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] was declared a holiday in 1986.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-juneteenth-holiday-bill-sign/|title=Biden signs bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday|last1=Watson|first1=Kathryn|last2=Quinn|first2=Melissa|date=June 18, 2021|work=CBS News|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
-{{Main|Joe Biden 2008 presidential campaign}}
-[[File:Sen. Joe Biden attends a Creston house party.jpg|thumb|right|Biden campaigns at a [[Political house party|house party]] in [[Creston, Iowa]], July 2007]]
-After exploring the possibility of a run in several previous cycles, in January 2007, Biden declared [[Democratic Party presidential primaries, 2008|his candidacy in the 2008 elections]].<ref name="aap08-366" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/11/biden/index.html |title=Sen. Biden not running for president |work=CNN |date=August 12, 2003 |access-date=September 18, 2008 |archive-date=February 9, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209123957/http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/08/11/biden/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100404.html|title=Biden Stumbles at the Starting Gate|work=The Washington Post|access-date=August 23, 2008|date=January 1, 2007|last=Balz|first=Dan|author-link=Dan Balz|archive-date=October 18, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018123657/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/31/AR2007013100404.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During his campaign, Biden focused on the [[Iraq War]], his record as chairman of major Senate committees, and his foreign-policy experience. In mid-2007, Biden stressed his foreign policy expertise compared to Obama's.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Decision2008/Story?id=3498294&page=1 |title=Transcript: The Democratic Debate |work=[[ABC News]] |date=August 19, 2007 |access-date=September 24, 2008 |archive-date=October 11, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081011185127/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Decision2008/story?id=3498294&page=1 |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden was noted for his one-liners during the campaign; in one debate he said of Republican candidate [[Rudy Giuliani]]: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun, and a verb and 9/11."<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071101/NEWS01/711010358/1043/NEWS01|newspaper=[[Concord Monitor]]|title=A noun, a verb and 9/11|last=Farrell|first=Joelle|access-date=August 23, 2008|date=November 1, 2007|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828010554/http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20071101%2FNEWS01%2F711010358%2F1043%2FNEWS01 |archive-date=August 28, 2008}}</ref>
+In July 2021, when not many people were getting their [[COVID-19 vaccine]] and the spread of the [[SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant]], Biden said that the country has "a pandemic for those who haven’t gotten the vaccination".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jaffe |first1=Alexandra |last2=Madhani |first2=Aamer |title=Biden says getting COVID-19 vaccine 'gigantically important' |url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-06b4c8c4e0a1d595d94883b24c4ed020 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=July 22, 2021}}</ref> He also criticized the increase of [[COVID-19 misinformation]] on social media, saying it was "killing people".<ref>{{cite news |title=Covid misinformation on Facebook is killing people - Biden |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57870778 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 17, 2021}}</ref>
-Biden had difficulty raising funds, struggled to draw people to his rallies, and failed to gain traction against the high-profile candidacies of Obama and Senator [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080825_3122.php |title=Conventions 2008: Sen. Joseph Biden (D) |work=[[National Journal]] |date=August 25, 2008 |access-date=September 16, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080906210353/http://www.nationaljournal.com/conventions/co_20080825_3122.php |archive-date=September 6, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He never rose above single digits in [[Nationwide opinion polling for the Democratic Party 2008 presidential candidates|national polls of the Democratic candidates]]. In the first contest on January 3, 2008, Biden placed fifth in the [[Iowa Democratic caucuses, 2008|Iowa caucuses]], garnering slightly less than one percent of the state delegates.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.iowacaucusresults.com/ | title=Iowa Democratic Party Caucus Results | publisher=[[Iowa Democratic Party]] | access-date=August 29, 2008 | archive-date=April 15, 2016 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160415000251/http://www.iowacaucusresults.com/ | url-status=live }}</ref> He withdrew from the race that evening.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010400260.html |title=Biden, Dodd Withdraw From Race |last=Murray |first=Shailagh |work=The Washington Post |date=January 4, 2008 |access-date=August 29, 2008 |archive-date=May 20, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520022844/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/04/AR2008010400260.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+By early July 2021, most of the American troops in [[Afghanistan]] were leaving or had left. On August 15, during [[2021 Taliban offensive|an offensive]] by the [[Taliban]], the [[Fall of Kabul (2021)|Afghan government collapsed]].<ref name="messy">{{cite news |title=Biden defends 'messy' US pullout from Afghanistan |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58238497 |access-date=August 17, 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=August 17, 2021}}</ref> Biden reacted by ordering 6,000 American troops to help the evacuation of American personnel and Afghan allies.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Prakash |first1=Nidhi |title=Joe Biden Blamed Afghan Leaders For Giving Up As The Taliban Took Control |url=https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/nidhiprakash/biden-afghanistan-speech-taliban-take-over |access-date=August 17, 2021 |work=[[Buzzfeed News]] |date=August 16, 2021}}</ref> He has been criticized for the way he handled the withdrawal.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Edmondson |first1=Catie |title=Lawmakers Unite in Bipartisan Fury Over Afghanistan Withdrawal |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/us/politics/afghanistan-withdrawal-congress.html |access-date=August 18, 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20210816201146/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/16/us/politics/afghanistan-withdrawal-congress.html |archive-date=August 16, 2021 |url-status=live }}</ref> He defended his decision to withdraw, saying that Americans should not be "dying in a war that Afghan forces are not willing to fight for themselves", since the "Afghan military collapsed [against the Taliban], sometimes without trying to fight".<ref name="buck2">{{cite news |last1=Blake |first1=Aaron |title=Biden says the 'buck stops with me' — while pinning blame on Trump and many Afghans |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/08/16/biden-says-buck-stops-with-me-while-pinning-blame-trump-lots-afghans/ |access-date=August 17, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 16, 2021}}</ref>
-Despite its lack of success, Biden's 2008 campaign raised his stature in the political world.<ref name="gamechange">{{Cite book|last1=Heilemann|first1=John|title=Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime|title-link=Game Change|last2=Halperin|first2=Mark|publisher=HarperCollins|year=2010|isbn=978-0-06-173363-5|location=New York|author-link=John Heilemann|author-link2=Mark Halperin}}</ref>{{rp|336}} In particular, it changed the relationship between Biden and Obama. Although they had served together on the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], they had not been close: Biden resented Obama's quick rise to political stardom,<ref name="nytm-traub" /><ref name="wolffe-218">Wolffe, ''Renegade'', p. 218.</ref> while Obama viewed Biden as garrulous and patronizing.<ref name="gamechange" />{{rp|28, 337–338}} 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".<ref name="gamechange" />{{rp|28, 337–338}}<ref name="wolffe-218" />
+In August 2021, the Biden administration pushed for an infrastructure bill that can reduce the [[greenhouse effect|greenhouse gas emissions]] of the United States by 45% by 2030. He would also support lowering taxes for people who invest in [[renewable energy]] and [[electric vehicle]]s and would add a fee on [[Methane|methane emissions]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Nilsen |first1=Ella |title=Climate measures in reconciliation, infrastructure bills will mostly meet Biden's emissions goals, Schumer says |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2021/08/25/politics/reconciliation-climate-change-emissions-schumer-biden/index.html |access-date=3 September 2021 |agency=CNN |date=25 August 2021}}</ref> The Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Romm |first1=Tony |title=Senate approves bipartisan, $1 trillion infrastructure bill, bringing major Biden goal one step closer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2021/08/10/senate-infrastructure-bill-vote-biden/ |access-date=November 8, 2021 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 10, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pramuk |first1=Jacob |title=Senate passes $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill, sending key part of Biden's economic agenda to the House |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/10/senate-to-pass-bipartisan-infrastructure-bill.html |access-date=November 8, 2021 |work=[[CNBC]] |date=August 10, 2021}}</ref> while the House, also in a bipartisan manner, approved that bill in early November 2021, covering infrastructure related to transport, utilities, and broadband.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jalonick |first1=Mary Clare |title=Roads, transit, internet: What's in the infrastructure bill |url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-business-broadband-internet-congress-d89d6bb1b39cd9c67ae9fc91f5eb4c0d |access-date=November 8, 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=November 7, 2021}}</ref> Biden signed the bill into law in mid-November 2021.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boak |first1=Josh |last2=Long |first2=Colleen |title=Biden signs $1T infrastructure deal with bipartisan crowd |url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-congress-infrastructure-bill-signing-b5b8cca843133de060778f049861b144 |access-date=November 16, 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=November 16, 2021}}</ref>
-==2008 vice-presidential campaign==
+===2022===
-{{Main|Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign|2008 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection}}
+[[File:President Biden at Camp David February 12 2022.jpg|thumb|right|180px|Biden at [[Camp David]] after speaking to [[President of Russia|President]] [[Vladimir Putin]] about [[Ukraine]], February 2022]]
-[[File:Biden Obama 3b.jpg|thumb|Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the [[Old State Capitol State Historic Site|Old State Capitol]] in [[Springfield, Illinois]]]]
+In the start of 2022, Biden's approval ratings were low. He started speaking more in public.<ref>{{cite web |last1=CNN |first1=Kevin Liptak and Phil Mattingly |title=Biden is aiming to hit the road to reset his presidency. He starts with yet another stop in Pennsylvania. |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/28/politics/joe-biden-pittsburgh-trip/index.html |website=CNN |access-date=1 February 2022}}</ref> Early in the year, Biden supported ending the U.S. Senate [[filibuster]] rule to pass a voting rights act.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2022/01/11/biden-endorses-filibuster-change-voting-rights/9165060002/|title='Let the majority prevail': Biden backs filibuster change to pass voting rights in Atlanta speech|first=Courtney|last=Subramanian|website=USA TODAY|accessdate=April 13, 2022}}</ref>
-Shortly after Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Obama privately told him he was interested in finding an important place for Biden in his administration.<ref name="ny-lizza">{{cite news |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/10/20/bidens-brief |title=Biden's Brief |last=Lizza |first=Ryan |work=The New Yorker |date=October 20, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2008 |author-link=Ryan Lizza}}</ref> Biden declined Obama's first request to vet him for the vice-presidential slot, fearing the vice presidency would represent a loss in status and voice from his Senate position, but he later changed his mind.<ref name="nytm-traub" /><ref name="pol091609">{{cite news|last=Cummings|first=Jeanne|date=September 16, 2009|title=Joe Biden, 'the skunk at the family picnic'|publisher=[[The Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/09/the-skunk-at-the-family-picnic-027211|access-date=September 17, 2009}}</ref> In early August, Obama and Biden met in secret to discuss the possibility,<ref name="ny-lizza" /> and developed a strong personal rapport.<ref name="wolffe-218" /> On August 22, 2008, Obama announced that Biden would be his [[running mate]].<ref>{{cite news |agency=Associated Press |title=Obama's veep message to supporters |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/23/AR2008082300455.html |first=Jose Antonio |last=Vargas |work=The Washington Post |date=August 23, 2008 |access-date=August 23, 2008 }}</ref> ''The New York Times'' reported that the strategy behind the choice reflected a desire to fill out the ticket with someone with [[foreign policy]] and [[national security]] experience—and not to help the ticket win a [[swing state]] or to emphasize Obama's "change" message.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Adam |last1=Nagourney |author-link=Adam Nagourney |first2=Jeff|last2=Zeleny |title=Obama Chooses Biden as Running Mate |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/us/politics/24biden.html |work=The New York Times |date=August 23, 2008 |access-date=August 23, 2008 }}</ref> Others pointed out Biden's appeal to middle-class and [[blue-collar]] voters, as well as his willingness to aggressively challenge Republican nominee [[John McCain]] in a way that Obama seemed uncomfortable doing at times.<ref>{{cite news|first=E.J. |last=Dionne |title=Tramps Like Us: How Joe Biden will reassure working class voters and change the tenor of this week's convention |url=https://newrepublic.com/article/62212/tramps-us |work=[[The New Republic]] |date=August 25, 2008 |access-date=August 25, 2008 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080828210626/http://tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=2ecbd0b9-c2c4-44d7-824a-603b4a418c74 |archive-date=August 28, 2008 }}</ref><ref>Wolffe, ''Renegade'', p. 217.</ref> In accepting Obama's offer, Biden ruled out running for president again in 2016,<ref name="ny-lizza" /> but his comments in later years seemed to back off that stance, as he did not want to diminish his political power by appearing uninterested in advancement.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/vp-biden-keeping-the-door-open-for-2016-.html|title= VP Biden Keeping the Door Open for 2016? |last=Travers |first=Karen |date= June 25, 2009|work= [[Political Punch]]|publisher= [[ABC News]]|access-date= October 14, 2010|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101017172435/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/06/vp-biden-keeping-the-door-open-for-2016-.html|archive-date= October 17, 2010 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/10/21/biden-in-2016/ |title=Biden in 2016? |work=CNN |date=October 21, 2011 |access-date=October 29, 2011}}</ref><ref name="nyt0508122" /> Biden was officially nominated for vice president on August 27 by voice vote at the [[2008 Democratic National Convention]] in [[Denver, Colorado|Denver]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://newsblaze.com/usnews/politics/democrats-formally-nominate-barack-obama-for-u-s-presidency_60148/ |title=Democrats Formally Nominate Barack Obama for U.S. Presidency |first=Alan |last=Gray |publisher=NewsBlaze|date=August 29, 2008}}</ref>
+In January, [[Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court Justice]] [[Stephen Breyer]] said he would retire from the [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Justice Stephen Breyer, an influential liberal on the Supreme Court, to retire |url=https://www.npr.org/2022/01/26/1075781724/justice-stephen-breyer-supreme-court-retires |website=NPR.org |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=en}}</ref> Breyer's retirement gave Biden his first chance to nominate a justice to the Supreme Court. Biden had promised to nominate the court's first black female justice.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Chung |first1=Andrew |last2=Hurley |first2=Lawrence |last3=Holland |first3=Steve |title=Biden vows to nominate Black woman to U.S. Supreme Court by end of February |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us/retiring-us-justice-breyer-appear-with-biden-white-house-2022-01-27/ |website=Reuters |access-date=1 February 2022 |language=en |date=28 January 2022}}</ref> On February 25, Biden nominated [[United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit|D.C. Appeals Court Judge]] [[Ketanji Brown Jackson]] to replace Breyer. She was confirmed on April 7th.<ref name="announce">{{Cite web |date=February 25, 2022 |title=First on CNN: Biden to nominate Ketanji Brown Jackson to be first Black woman to sit on Supreme Court |url=https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2022/02/25/politics/supreme-court-ketanji-brown-jackson/index.html |access-date=February 25, 2022 |publisher=CNN}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2022-04-07|title=Jackson confirmed as first Black female high court justice|url=https://apnews.com/article/ketanji-brown-jackson-supreme-court-confirmation-f39263cdbb0c59c8a20a48edf9b6786e|access-date=2022-04-21|website=AP NEWS|language=en}}</ref>
-Biden's vice-presidential campaigning gained little media visibility, as far greater press attention was focused on the Republican running mate, [[List of Governors of Alaska|Alaska Governor]] [[Sarah Palin]].<ref name="nyt-no2">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/20/us/politics/20biden.html |title=Meanwhile, the Other No. 2 Keeps On Punching |last=Leibovich |first=Mark |work=The New York Times |date=September 19, 2008 |access-date=September 20, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/joe-who.html |title=Joe Who? |last=Tapper |first=Jake |work=[[ABC News]] |date=September 14, 2008 |access-date=September 15, 2008 |author-link=Jake Tapper |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080915055913/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/09/joe-who.html |archive-date=September 15, 2008 }}</ref> During one week in September 2008, for instance, the [[Pew Research Center]]'s [[Project for Excellence in Journalism]] found that Biden was included in only five percent of coverage of the race, far less than the other three candidates on the tickets received.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.journalism.org/2008/09/15/pej-campaign-coverage-index-september-8-14-2008/ |title=Northern Exposure Still Dominates the News |publisher=[[Pew Research Center]] |last=Jurkowitz |first=Mark |date=September 14, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2008}}</ref> Biden nevertheless focused on campaigning in economically challenged areas of [[swing state]]s and trying to win over blue-collar Democrats, especially those who had supported [[Hillary Clinton]].<ref name="nytm-traub" /><ref name="nyt-no2" /> Biden attacked McCain heavily despite a long-standing personal friendship.{{refn|group=n| Biden admired McCain politically as well as personally. In May 2004, he had urged McCain to run as vice president with presumptive Democratic presidential nominee [[John Kerry]], saying the cross-party ticket would help heal the "vicious rift" in U.S. politics.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/id/4961694 |title=McCain Urged to Join Kerry Ticket |agency=[[Reuters]] |work=[[NBC News]] |date=May 16, 2004}}</ref>}} He said, "That guy I used to know, he's gone. It literally saddens me."<ref name="nyt-no2" /> As the [[financial crisis of 2007–2010]] reached a peak with the [[financial crisis of 2007–2010|liquidity crisis of September 2008]] and the [[Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008|proposed bailout of the United States financial system]] became a major factor in the campaign, Biden voted in favor of the $700{{nbsp}}billion [[HR1424|Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]], which went on to pass in the Senate 74–25.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.ny1.com/content/features/86538/senate-passes-economic-rescue-package/Default.aspx |title=Senate Passes Economic Rescue Package |publisher=[[NY1]] |date=October 1, 2008 |access-date=October 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081005022401/http://www.ny1.com/content/features/86538/senate-passes-economic-rescue-package/Default.aspx |archive-date=October 5, 2008 }}</ref>
+On 24 February, [[President of Russia|Russian President]] [[Vladimir Putin]] announced the [[Russia|Russian]] [[2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine|invasion]] of [[Ukraine]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-23-22/h_ec5f24d5accb8f8503aabdc63e3fd22d|title=Russia attacks Ukraine|website=CNN|date=24 February 2022|access-date=24 February 2022|archive-date=24 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224073725/https://edition.cnn.com/europe/live-news/ukraine-russia-news-02-23-22/h_ec5f24d5accb8f8503aabdc63e3fd22d|url-status=live}}</ref> In response, Biden announced [[economic sanctions]] on Russia and Putin.<ref>{{cite web|title=What to know about new U.S. sanctions targeting Russia over Ukraine|date=23 February 2022|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sanctions-ukraine-us-biden/|access-date=23 February 2022|website=[[CBS News]]|language=en-US|archive-date=24 February 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220224034030/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russia-sanctions-ukraine-us-biden/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-On October 2, 2008, Biden participated in the [[United States vice-presidential debate, 2008|vice-presidential debate]] with Palin at [[Washington University in St. Louis]]. Post-debate polls found that while Palin exceeded many voters' expectations, Biden had won the debate overall.<ref>[[#Witcover|Witcover (2010)]], pp. 655–661.</ref> During the campaign's final days, he focused on less populated, older, less well-off areas of battleground states, especially Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania, where polling indicated he was popular and where Obama had not campaigned or performed well in the Democratic primaries.<ref name="nyt103008">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/us/politics/31biden.html |title=Hitting the Backroads, and Having Less to Say |last=Broder |first=John M. |newspaper=The New York Times |date=October 30, 2008 |access-date=October 31, 2008}}</ref><ref name="time102908" /><ref name="pol110308">{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2008/11/where-have-you-gone-joe-biden-015205 |title=Where have you gone, Joe Biden? |last=McGrane |first=Victoria |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=November 3, 2008 |access-date=November 3, 2008}}</ref> He also campaigned in some normally Republican states, as well as in areas with large Catholic populations.<ref name="pol110308" />
+During 2022, President Biden had overseen a rise in [[gasoline]] prices and product goods because of rising [[inflation]], with some blaming Biden's American Rescue Plan as a reason.<ref>{{Cite web |title=The American Rescue Plan Shored Up Child Care, But a Long-Term Solution Is Necessary |url=https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-american-rescue-plan-shored-up-child-care-but-a-long-term-solution-is-necessary/ |access-date=2022-03-31 |website=Center for American Progress |language=en}}</ref> In May 2022, there was a [[2022 United States infant formula shortage|nationwide shortage]] of [[infant formula]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Swenson |first1=Kyle |last2=Portnoy |first2=Jenna |title=U.S. baby formula shortage leaves parents scrambling |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/05/11/formula-shortage-parents-inflation/ |access-date=17 May 2022 |newspaper=[[Washington Post]] |date=May 11, 2022}}</ref> During this time, there was an increase of use of "[[I Did That!]]" stickers, which showed Biden pointing to that phrase, as a form to criticize Biden for high gas prices.<ref>{{cite news |last=Schwedel |first=Heather |url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/03/joe-biden-i-did-that-gas-pump-stickers-prices.html |title=The People Behind the Joe Biden Sticker That Has Colonized America's Gas Pumps |work=[[Slate (magazine)]] |date=2022-03-11 |accessdate=2022-05-13 }}</ref>
-Under instructions from the campaign, Biden kept his speeches succinct and tried to avoid offhand remarks, such as one he made about Obama's being tested by a foreign power soon after taking office, which had attracted negative attention.<ref name="nyt103008" /><ref name="time102908">{{cite news |url=https://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1855355,00.html |title=Hidin' Biden: Reining In a Voluble No. 2 |last=Tumulty |first=Karen |magazine=Time |date=October 29, 2008 |access-date=November 1, 2008}}</ref> Privately, Biden's remarks frustrated Obama. "How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?" he asked.<ref name="gamechange" />{{rp|411–414, 419}} Obama campaign staffers referred to Biden blunders as "Joe bombs" and kept Biden uninformed about strategy discussions, which in turn irked Biden.<ref name="nyt0508122" /> Relations between the two campaigns became strained for a month, until Biden apologized on a call to Obama and the two built a stronger partnership.<ref name="gamechange" />{{rp|411–414}} Publicly, Obama strategist [[David Axelrod (political consultant)|David Axelrod]] said Biden's high popularity ratings had outweighed any unexpected comments.<ref>{{cite news |title=Biden reliable running mate despite gaffes |url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/144631311/ |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[Asbury Park Press]] |date=October 26, 2008}}</ref> Nationally, Biden had a 60% favorability rating in a [[Pew Research Center]] poll, compared to Palin's 44%.<ref name="nyt103008" />
+In May 2022, two deadly [[mass shootings in the United States|mass shootings]] happened: one in a [[2022 Buffalo shooting|supermarket]] in [[Buffalo, New York]] which was [[Racism in the United States|racially]] [[hate crime|motivated]] and another in an [[Robb Elementary School shooting|elementary school]] in [[Uvalde, Texas]]. <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2022/05/fifteen-dead-in-uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting|title=At Least 21 Dead in Uvalde, Texas Elementary School Shooting|publisher=[[Vanity Fair]]|date=May 24, 2022|accessdate=May 24, 2022}}</ref> While these mass shootings weren't the only ones that happened that month in the United States, the short time-frame it happened in garnered (got) attention and more people calling out gun violence.
-On November 4, 2008, Obama and Biden were elected with 53% of the popular vote and 365 [[Electoral College (United States)|electoral votes]] to McCain–Palin's 173.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/election.president/index.html |title=Barack Obama wins presidential election |work=CNN |access-date=November 5, 2008|date=November 4, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Franke-Ruta |first=Garance |url=http://voices.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/11/19/mccain_takes_missouri.html |title=McCain Takes Missouri |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=November 19, 2008 |access-date=November 19, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/ |title=President—Election Center 2008 |work=CNN |access-date=November 19, 2008}}</ref>
+Biden tested positive for [[COVID-19]] on July 21, 2022, after having mild symptoms such as [[fatigue]], dry coughs, and a [[nasal congestion|runny nose]].<ref>{{cite web | title=Biden Tests Positive for Covid, Has Mild Symptoms, White House Says | website=Bloomberg | date=2022-07-21 | url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-21/biden-is-positive-for-covid-has-mild-symptoms-white-house-says | access-date=2022-07-21}}</ref><ref name="NYTimesPositive">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/politics/biden-covid-positive.html |title=Biden, 79, is experiencing fatigue, a runny nose and a dry cough after testing positive. |date=July 21, 2022 |last=Shear |first=Michael |work=The New York Times |access-date=July 21, 2022}}</ref> Five days later, he left [[isolation (health care)|isolation]] after testing negative.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Liptak |first=Kevin |last2=Klein |first2=Betsy |last3=Sullivan |first3=Kate |date=27 July 2022 |title=Biden 'feeling great' and back to work in person after testing negative for Covid-19 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/27/politics/joe-biden-negative-covid-test/index.html |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=CNN}}</ref> However, on July 30, he tested positive again and went back to isolation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=CNN |first=Kevin Liptak |title=President Joe Biden tests positive for Covid-19 again |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/30/politics/joe-biden-covid-19-positive/index.html |access-date=2022-07-30 |website=CNN}}</ref>
-At the same time Biden was running for vice president he was also running for reelection to the Senate,<ref name="ap082408">{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Aug24/0,4670,CVNBidenTwoCampaigns,00.html |title=Biden Wages 2 Campaigns At Once |agency=Associated Press |date=August 24, 2008 |access-date=August 29, 2008 |first=Randall |last=Chase |publisher=Fox News}}</ref> as permitted by Delaware law.<ref name="aap08-366">''Almanac of American Politics'' 2008, p. 366.</ref> On November{{nbsp}}4, he was [[2008 United States Senate election in Delaware|reelected]] to the Senate, defeating Republican [[Christine O'Donnell]].<ref name="ap110408">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/2008-11-04-420465768_x.htm |title=Biden wins 7th Senate term but may not serve |last=Nuckols |first=Ben |agency=Associated Press |newspaper=USA Today |date=November 4, 2008 |access-date=February 6, 2009}}</ref> Having won both races, Biden made a point of waiting to resign from the Senate until he was sworn in for his seventh term on January 6, 2009.<ref name="dnj010709">{{cite news|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009901070333 |title=A bittersweet oath for Biden |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |work=[[The News Journal]] |date=January 7, 2009 |access-date=February 7, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090212100305/http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009901070333 |archive-date=February 12, 2009 }}</ref> He became the youngest senator ever to start a seventh full term, and said, "In all my life, the greatest honor bestowed upon me has been serving the people of Delaware as their United States senator."<ref name="dnj010709" /> Biden cast his last Senate vote on January 15, supporting the release of the second $350{{nbsp}}billion for the [[Troubled Asset Relief Program]],<ref>{{cite news |first=Trish |last=Turner |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-releases-350-billion-in-bailout-funds-to-obama |title=Senate Releases $350 Billion in Bailout Funds to Obama |work=Fox News |date=January 15, 2009 |access-date=January 25, 2009 }}</ref> and [[resignation from the United States Senate|resigned from the Senate]] later that day.{{refn|group=n| Delaware's Democratic governor, [[Ruth Ann Minner]], announced on November 24, 2008, that she would appoint Biden's longtime senior adviser [[Ted Kaufman]] to succeed Biden in the Senate.<ref name="bloom112408" /> Kaufman said he would serve only two years, until [[United States Senate special election in Delaware, 2010|Delaware's special Senate election in 2010]].<ref name="bloom112408">{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=apZPaTS_UmpM |title=Kaufman Picked by Governor to Fill Biden Senate Seat (Update 3) |last=Milford |first=Phil |publisher=[[Bloomberg News]] |date=November 24, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081116003829/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087 |archive-date=November 16, 2008 }}</ref> Biden's son [[Beau Biden|Beau]] ruled himself out of the 2008 selection process due to his impending tour in Iraq with the [[Delaware Army National Guard]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/scorecard/1108/Minner_appoints_Ted_Kaufman_to_Biden_seat.html |title=Ted Kaufman to succeed Biden in Senate |last=Kraushaar |first=Josh |publisher=[[Politico]] |date=November 24, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2008}}</ref> He was a possible candidate for the 2010 special election, but in early 2010 said he would not run for the seat.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/25/bidens-son-will-not-run-for-delaware-senate-seat/ |title=Biden's Son Will Not Run for Delaware's Open Senate Seat |last=Hulse |first=Carl |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 25, 2010 |access-date=January 25, 2010}}</ref>}} In an emotional farewell, Biden told the Senate: "Every good thing I have seen happen here, every bold step taken in the 36-plus years I have been here, came not from the application of pressure by interest groups, but through the maturation of personal relationships."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/biden-and-clinton-say-goodbye-to-senate |title=Biden and Clinton Say Goodbye to Senate |last=Becker |first=Bernie |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 15, 2009 |access-date=January 25, 2009}}</ref> Delaware Governor [[Ruth Ann Minner]] appointed longtime Biden adviser [[Ted Kaufman]] to fill Biden's vacated Senate seat.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ballotpedia.org/Ted_Kaufman|title=Ted Kaufman|website=Ballotpedia|access-date=April 25, 2020}}</ref>
+On August 1, 2022, Biden announced the death of [[Al-Qaeda]] Emir [[Ayman al-Zawahiri]] in a U.S.-conducted [[airstrike]] that he approved.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Alexrod |first=Tal |date=August 1, 2022 |title=Biden announces killing of al-Qaeda leader in Kabul: 'Justice has been delivered' |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-announces-killing-al-qaeda-leader-kabul-justice/story?id=87768565 |access-date=August 2, 2022 |website=ABC News |language=en}}</ref>
-==Vice presidency (2009–2017)==
+On September 2, 2022, in a nationally televised [[Battle for the Soul of the Nation speech|Philadelphia speech]], Biden said that Americans are in a "battle for the soul of the nation." He called active Trump supporters "semi-[[fascists]]," which Republican commentators criticized.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/biden-speech-philadelphia-democracy-watch-live-stream-today-2022-09-01/ | title=Biden delivers prime-time speech on the "battle for the soul of the nation" in Philadelphia | website=[[CBS News]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-aud-nw-nyt-biden-philadelphia-speech-20220902-zsfckr7n7jf4rbowcu6e2pre2i-story.html | title=Four takeaways from President Biden's speech in Philadelphia | website=[[Chicago Tribune]] }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Andrew |last=Naughtie |title=Jan 6 committee members back Biden remarks on Trump 'fascism' after rally guest defends neo-Nazi rioter: Joe Biden's warnings of creeping fascism on the pro-Trump right have fired up ex-president's followers and dissenters alike |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/jan-6-trump-fascism-rally-lofgren-raskin-b2159938.html |work=Independent |date=September 5, 2022 }}</ref>
-{{Main|Presidency of Barack Obama}}
-[[File:Joe Biden sworn in 1-20-09 hires 090120-N-0696M-204a.jpg|thumb|right|222px|Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009]]
-===First term (2009–2013)===
+== Allegations of physical misconduct ==
-Biden said he intended to eliminate some explicit roles assumed by George W. Bush's vice president, [[Dick Cheney]], and did not intend to emulate any previous vice presidency.<ref name="lkl122208">{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/22/biden.lkl/index.html |title=Biden says he'll be different vice president |work=CNN |date=December 22, 2008 |access-date=December 22, 2008 |archive-date=December 24, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224093055/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/22/biden.lkl/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> He chaired Obama's transition team<ref>{{cite news |title=Biden picks former Gore aide as chief of staff |work=Reuters |date=November 13, 2008 |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AC5EA20081113 |access-date=November 13, 2008 |first=Steve |last=Holland |archive-date=January 3, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090103152957/http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE4AC5EA20081113 |url-status=live }}</ref> and headed an initiative to improve middle-class economic well-being.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Hornick|first1=Ed|last2=Levs|first2=Josh|date=December 21, 2008|title=What Obama promised Biden|work=CNN|url=https://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/21/transition.wrap/index.html|access-date=December 23, 2008|archive-date=December 24, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081224052111/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/21/transition.wrap/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In early January 2009, in his last act as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he visited the leaders of [[Iraq]], Afghanistan and [[Pakistan]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Lee|first=Carol E.|date=January 6, 2009|title='Senator' Biden's trip raises concerns|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/01/senator-bidens-trip-raises-concerns-017136|access-date=January 9, 2009|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016194519/http://www.politico.com/story/2009/01/senator-bidens-trip-raises-concerns-017136|url-status=live}}</ref> and on January 20 he was sworn in as the 47th [[vice president of the United States]]<ref>{{cite news|date=January 20, 2009|title=In culminating moment, Biden is vice president|work=[[OregonLive.com]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2009/01/in_culminating_moment_biden_is.html|access-date=July 27, 2016|archive-date=January 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200101194210/https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2009/01/in_culminating_moment_biden_is.html|url-status=live}}</ref>{{mdashb}}the first vice president from Delaware<ref>{{cite news|date=November 3, 2008|title=Think you know your election trivia?|work=CNN|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/election.trivia/index.html|access-date=November 9, 2008|archive-date=November 6, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106075757/http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/03/election.trivia/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and the first [[Roman Catholic]] vice president.<ref name="npr2008">{{cite news|date=January 9, 2009|title=The First Catholic Vice President?|agency=[[NPR]]|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/01/the_first_catholic_vice_presid.html|access-date=September 25, 2019|archive-date=September 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190925060421/https://www.npr.org/sections/politicaljunkie/2009/01/the_first_catholic_vice_presid.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gaudiano|first=Nicole|date=November 6, 2008|title=VP's home awaits if Biden chooses|work=[[The News Journal]]|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081106/NEWS02/811060379|url-status=dead|access-date=November 8, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081109060406/http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20081106/NEWS02/811060379|archive-date=November 9, 2008}}</ref>
+{{main|Joe Biden sexual assault allegation}}
+There have been many photographs of Biden hugging, kissing, and touching women and/or children in what commentators said to be inappropriate.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/29/18241598/joe-biden-lucy-flores-touching-women-media-history-explained|title=Lucy Flores isn't alone. Joe Biden's got a long history of touching women inappropriately.|last=McGann|first=Laura|date=March 29, 2019|website=Vox}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-2020-harvey-weinstein_n_5a0a0ba8e4b00a6eece3a13e|title=Joe Biden 2020 Is A Terrible Idea In A Post-Weinstein America|last=Terkel|first=Amanda|date=November 15, 2017|website=HuffPost}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://time.com/3713264/joe-biden-stephanie-carter-shoulder-rub/|title=America Shouldn't Tolerate 'Biden Being Biden'|last=Markowitz|first=Karol|date=February 18, 2015|magazine=Time}}</ref> Biden has said that the behavior had got him in trouble in the past.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-joe-biden-kiss-lucy-flores-20190329-story.html|title=Nevada Democrat accuses Joe Biden of touching and kissing her without consent at 2014 event|last=Brice-Saddler|first=Michael|date=March 29, 2019|website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>
-Obama was soon comparing Biden to a basketball player "who does a bunch of things that don't show up in the stat sheet".<ref name="nyt032809">{{cite news|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|date=March 28, 2009|title=Speaking Freely, Biden Finds Influential Role|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/us/politics/29biden.html|access-date=March 31, 2009|archive-date=April 1, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090401232903/http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/us/politics/29biden.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In May, Biden visited Kosovo and affirmed the U.S. position that its "independence is irreversible".<ref name="Chun9194">{{cite journal|last=Chun|first=Kwang-Ho|title=Kosovo: A New European Nation-State?|url=http://s-space.snu.ac.kr/bitstream/10371/96517/1/5.Kosovo-A-New-European-Nation-State_Kwang-ho-Chun.pdf|journal=Journal of International and Area Studies|volume=18|issue=1|year=2011|pages=91, 94|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082124/https://s-space.snu.ac.kr/bitstream/10371/96517/1/5.Kosovo-A-New-European-Nation-State_Kwang-ho-Chun.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden lost an internal debate to Secretary of State [[Hillary Clinton]] about sending 21,000 new troops to [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|Afghanistan]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Dilanian|first=Ken|date=June 11, 2009|title=In a supporting role, Clinton takes a low-key approach at State Dept.|work=USA Today|url=https://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090611/1aclinton11_cv.art.htm|access-date=July 22, 2009|archive-date=May 16, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110516020144/http://www.usatoday.com/printedition/news/20090611/1aclinton11_cv.art.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=June 23, 2009|title=Hillary Clinton toils in the shadows|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2009/06/clinton-toils-in-the-shadows-024067|access-date=July 22, 2009|archive-date=September 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150916005405/http://www.politico.com/story/2009/06/clinton-toils-in-the-shadows-024067|url-status=live}}</ref> but his skepticism was valued,<ref name="pol091609" /> and in 2009, Biden's views gained more influence as Obama reconsidered his Afghanistan strategy.<ref name="nw-cov-1010092">{{cite news|last1=Bailey|first1=Holly|last2=Thomas|first2=Evan|author-link2=Evan Thomas|date=October 10, 2009|title=An Inconvenient Truth Teller|magazine=[[Newsweek]]|url=https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-white-house-truth-teller-81181|access-date=November 6, 2009|archive-date=November 23, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131123063731/http://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-white-house-truth-teller-81181|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden visited Iraq about every two months,<ref name="nytm-traub" /> becoming the administration's point man in delivering messages to Iraqi leadership about expected progress there.<ref name="pol091609" /> More generally, overseeing Iraq policy became Biden's responsibility: Obama was said to have said, "Joe, you do Iraq."<ref>{{cite news|last=Osnos|first=Evan|author-link=Evan Osnos|date=August 12, 2014|title=Breaking Up: Maliki and Biden|work=The New Yorker|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/breaking-maliki-biden|access-date=August 26, 2015|archive-date=October 2, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151002053443/http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/breaking-maliki-biden|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden said Iraq "could be one of the great achievements of this administration".<ref>{{cite news|date=February 11, 2010|title=Vice President Biden: Iraq "Could Be One of the Great Achievements of This Administration"|work=[[ABC News]]|url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/vice-president-biden-iraq-could-be-one-of-the-great-achievements-of-this-administration/|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=February 23, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223113546/http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2010/02/vice-president-biden-iraq-could-be-one-of-the-great-achievements-of-this-administration/|url-status=live}}</ref> His January 2010 visit to Iraq in the midst of turmoil over banned candidates from the [[Iraqi parliamentary election, 2010|upcoming Iraqi parliamentary election]] resulted in 59 of the several hundred candidates being reinstated by the Iraqi government two days later.<ref>{{cite news|date=January 25, 2010|title=Iraq reinstates 59 election candidates|agency=[[Agence France-Presse]]|url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJGz55dJrnOzzejqmBj6QTolyydg|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=March 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130320192516/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iJGz55dJrnOzzejqmBj6QTolyydg|url-status=live}}</ref> By 2012, Biden had made eight trips there, but his oversight of U.S. policy in Iraq receded with the exit of U.S. troops in 2011.<ref name="time-mo" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Crowley|first=Michael|date=November 9, 2014|title=The war over President Obama's new war in Iraq|work=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/president-obama-war-iraq-112730|access-date=August 26, 2015|archive-date=October 13, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151013002931/http://www.politico.com/story/2014/11/president-obama-war-iraq-112730|url-status=live}}</ref>
+In March 2019, former Nevada assemblywoman [[Lucy Flores]] said that Biden kissed her without consent at a 2014 campaign rally in Las Vegas. Flores wrote that Biden walked up behind her, put his hands on her shoulders, smelled her hair, and kissed the back of her head.<ref name="O’Connor">{{cite news |last1=O’Connor |first1=Lydia |title=Ex-Nevada Assemblywoman Says Joe Biden Inappropriately Kissed Her |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-lucy-flores-kiss_n_5c9e8025e4b0474c08cea7aa |access-date=March 29, 2019 |work=Huff Post |date=March 29, 2019}}</ref> In an interview with ''[[HuffPost]]'', Flores stated she believed Biden's behavior should force him not to run in 2020.<ref name="Marans">{{cite news |last1=Marans |first1=Daniel |title=Lucy Flores Still Wants An Apology From Joe Biden |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/lucy-flores-joe-biden-apology-2020-democrats_n_5ca256a9e4b09786986aaa0a |access-date=April 1, 2019 |publisher=HuffPost |date=April 1, 2019}}</ref> By early April 2019, a total of seven women had made such allegations regarding Biden.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Amanda Arnold |title=All the Women Who Have Spoken Out Against Joe Biden |url=http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html |access-date=April 6, 2019 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=April 5, 2019 }}</ref>
-[[File:President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden shake hands in the Oval Office following a phone call with House Speaker John Boehner securing a bipartisan deal to reduce the nation's deficit and avoid default.jpg|thumb|right|President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the [[United States debt ceiling|debt ceiling]] deal which led to the [[Budget Control Act of 2011]].]]
+In April 2019, former Biden staffer [[Tara Reade]] said that she had felt uncomfortable many times when Biden touched her on her shoulder and neck while working in his Senate office in 1993.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Riquelmy |first1=Alan |title=Nevada County woman says Joe Biden inappropriately touched her while working in his U.S. Senate office |url=https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-county-woman-says-joe-biden-inappropriately-touched-her-while-working-in-his-u-s-senate-office/ |access-date=April 14, 2020 |work=The Union |date=April 3, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200401210312/https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-county-woman-says-joe-biden-inappropriately-touched-her-while-working-in-his-u-s-senate-office/ |archive-date=April 1, 2020 |quote="He used to put his hand on my shoulder and run his finger up my neck."}}</ref> In March 2020, Reade said Biden had pushed her against a wall and [[Sexual penetration|penetrated]] her while on [[Capitol Hill]] in 1993. Biden denied the allegations.
-Biden oversaw [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009#Infrastructure Investment|infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package]] intended to help counteract the [[Late-2000s recession|ongoing recession]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Scherer|first=Michael|date=July 1, 2009|title=What Happened to the Stimulus?|work=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1908417,00.html|access-date=July 8, 2009|archive-date=January 9, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140109095116/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1908417,00.html|url-status=live}}</ref> During this period, Biden was satisfied that no major instances of waste or corruption had occurred,<ref name="pol091609" /> and when he completed that role in February 2011, he said the number of fraud incidents with stimulus monies had been less than one percent.<ref>{{cite news|last=Travers|first=Karen|date=February 17, 2011|title='Sheriff Joe' Biden Touts Recovery Act Success—and Hands Over His Badge|work=[[ABC News]]|url=http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/sheriff-joe-biden-touts-recovery-act-success-and-hands-over-his-badge.html|url-status=dead|access-date=March 19, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110221153327/http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2011/02/sheriff-joe-biden-touts-recovery-act-success-and-hands-over-his-badge.html|archive-date=February 21, 2011}}</ref>
+== Personal life ==
+[[File:Joe and Jilly Biden early photo.jpg|thumb|right|180px|An early photo of Jill and Joe Biden]]
+While in college, he married his first wife, Nelia Hunter. They had three children: two sons ([[Beau Biden|Beau]] and [[Hunter Biden|Robert]]) and a daughter (Naomi). After college, he became a [[lawyer]] and served on a County Council, a group of people who run a [[county]]. In 1972, Biden's family got into a car accident. Nelia and Naomi were killed, and Beau and Robert were hurt very badly.<ref name="lat-joe">{{cite news | url=http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-biden24-2008aug24,0,5581055,full.story | title=In his home state, Biden is a regular Joe | author=Levey, Noam M. | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=August 24, 2008 | access-date=September 7, 2008 | archive-date=September 28, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080928145018/http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-biden24-2008aug24,0,5581055,full.story | url-status=dead }}</ref> Both [[:wikt:survive|survived]] the accident. Beau was the Attorney General in Delaware until January 2015 and served as a [[soldier]] in [[Iraq]]. Beau died from [[brain cancer]] on May 30, 2015 in [[Bethesda, Maryland|Bethesda]], [[Maryland]] at the age of 46.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/31/beau-biden-dies-of-brain-cancer|title=Beau Biden, son of US vice-president Joe Biden, dies of brain cancer|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|date=May 31, 2015|access-date=May 31, 2015}}</ref> Biden thought of [[resignation|resigning]] as vice president because of his son's death.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/story/2015/08/joe-biden-considered-resining-after-beau-died-new-york-times-121023.html|title=Joe Biden Considered Resigning After Beau's Death|work=Politico|access-date=August 5, 2015}}</ref>
-In late April 2009, Biden's off-message response to a question during the beginning of the [[2009 flu pandemic|swine flu outbreak]], that he would advise family members against traveling on airplanes or subways, led to a swift retraction by the White House.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Silva|first1=Mark|last2=Parsons|first2=Christi|date=May 1, 2009|title=White House adjusts Biden's swine flu advice|work=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-01-na-biden1-story.html|access-date=May 28, 2009|archive-date=October 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009170032/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-may-01-na-biden1-story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The remark revived Biden's reputation for [[Political gaffe|gaffes]].<ref name="nw-cov-1010092"/><ref>{{cite news|date=May 1, 2009|title=White House tempers Biden's swine flu advice|work=[[The Boston Globe]]|url=https://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/05/01/white_house_tempers_bidens_swine_flu_advice/|url-status=dead|access-date=May 28, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090505114058/http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/05/01/white_house_tempers_bidens_swine_flu_advice/|archive-date=May 5, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Kurtzman|first=Daniel|date=May 8, 2009|title=The Week's Best Late-Night Jokes|publisher=[[About.com]]|url=https://www.liveabout.com/late-night-political-jokes-2733896|access-date=May 28, 2009|archive-date=June 11, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190611193402/https://www.liveabout.com/late-night-political-jokes-2733896|url-status=live}}</ref> Confronted with rising unemployment through July 2009, Biden acknowledged that the administration had "misread how bad the economy was" but maintained confidence the stimulus package would create many more jobs once the pace of expenditures picked up.<ref>{{cite news|date=July 5, 2009|title=Biden: 'We misread how bad the economy was'|work=[[NBC News]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31745563|access-date=July 9, 2009|archive-date=December 17, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131217104812/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/31745563/|url-status=live}}</ref> On March 23, 2010, a microphone picked up Biden telling the president that his signing the [[Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act]] was "a big fucking deal" during live national news telecasts. Despite their different personalities, Obama and Biden formed a friendship, partly based around Obama's daughter Sasha and Biden's granddaughter Maisy, who attended [[Sidwell Friends School]] together.<ref name="nyt0508122">{{cite news|last=Leibovich|first=Mark|date=May 8, 2012|title=For a Blunt Biden, an Uneasy Supporting Role|page=1|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/us/politics/for-a-blunt-biden-an-uneasy-supporting-role.html|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103081748/https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/08/us/politics/for-a-blunt-biden-an-uneasy-supporting-role.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Biden married his second wife, [[Jill Biden|Jill Tracy Jacobs Biden]], in 1977.<ref name="nyt082508">{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/politics/25wife.html | title=Jill Biden Heads Toward Life in the Spotlight | author=Seelye, Katharine Q. | newspaper=The New York Times | date=August 24, 2008 | access-date=August 25, 2008}}</ref> She is a teacher and the former [[Second Lady of the United States]]. In 1981, they had a daughter, [[Ashley Biden|Ashley]], who is now a [[social worker]].<ref name="ap-timeline">{{cite news | url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/08/22/politics/p222636D16.DTL | title=Timeline of Biden's life and career | agency=Associated Press | date=August 23, 2008 | access-date=September 6, 2008 | archive-date=September 25, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925021142/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=%2Fn%2Fa%2F2008%2F08%2F22%2Fpolitics%2Fp222636D16.DTL | url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="nydn122808">{{cite news | url=http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/12/27/2008-12-27_from_a_blind_date_to_second_lady_jill_bi.html?page=0 | title=From a blind date to second lady, Jill Biden's coming into her own | author=Evans, Heidi | newspaper=Daily News | location=New York | date=December 28, 2008 | access-date=January 3, 2009 | archive-date=January 22, 2009 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090122021045/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/12/27/2008-12-27_from_a_blind_date_to_second_lady_jill_bi.html?page=0 | url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1988, Biden suffered from bleeding in his [[brain]] and needed brain [[surgery]] twice.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE5D91E38F930A15751C0A96E948260
-[[File:Joe Biden in Baghdad - 2016-04-28.jpg|thumb|Biden during a visit to [[Baghdad]]]]
+|title= The Doctor's World; Subtle Clues Are Often The Only Warnings Of Perilous Aneurysms
-Members of the Obama administration said Biden's role in the White House was to be a contrarian and force others to defend their positions.<ref name=":32">{{Cite news|last=Baker|first=Peter|date=April 28, 2019|title=Biden and Obama's 'Odd Couple' Relationship Aged Into Family Ties|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/us/politics/barack-obama-biden.html|access-date=April 26, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=June 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606093422/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/us/politics/barack-obama-biden.html|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Rahm Emanuel]], White House chief of staff, said that Biden helped counter [[groupthink]].<ref name="nyt032809" /> White House press secretary [[Jay Carney]], Biden's former communications director, said Biden played the role of "the bad guy in the Situation Room".<ref name=":32" /> Another senior Obama advisor said Biden "is always prepared to be the skunk at the family picnic to make sure we are as intellectually honest as possible."<ref name="pol091609" /> Obama said, "The best thing about Joe is that when we get everybody together, he really forces people to think and defend their positions, to look at things from every angle, and that is very valuable for me."<ref name="pol091609" /> The Bidens maintained a relaxed atmosphere at their [[Number One Observatory Circle|official residence]] in Washington, often entertaining their grandchildren, and regularly returned to their home in Delaware.<ref name="pol-regular">{{cite news|last=Parnes|first=Amie|date=June 28, 2011|title=Joe and Jill Biden's 'regular' lives|newspaper=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/the-bidens-regular-lives-057887|access-date=June 28, 2011|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016194519/http://www.politico.com/story/2011/06/the-bidens-regular-lives-057887|url-status=live}}</ref>
+|author=Altman, Lawrence, M.D. | newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=February 23, 1998| access-date=August 23, 2008}}</ref> Because of what he saw in his family and neighborhood, Biden does not drink [[Alcoholic drink|alcohol]].<ref name="nyt-father"/><ref>{{cite news | url=http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/riding-the-rails-with-amtrak-joe/ | title=Riding the Rails With Amtrak Joe | author=Leibovich, Mark | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=September 16, 2008 | access-date=September 17, 2008}}</ref>
-Biden campaigned heavily for Democrats in the [[United States elections, 2010|2010 midterm elections]], maintaining an attitude of optimism in the face of predictions of large-scale losses for the party.<ref name="nyt1013102">{{cite news|last=Stolberg|first=Sheryl Gay|date=October 12, 2010|title=Vice President Tries to Energize Democrats|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/us/politics/13biden.html|access-date=October 14, 2010|archive-date=October 28, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101028044617/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/us/politics/13biden.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Following big Republican gains in the elections and the departure of White House chief of staff [[Rahm Emanuel]], Biden's past relationships with Republicans in Congress became more important.<ref name="pol1209102">{{cite news|last1=Lee|first1=Carol E.|last2=Bresnahan|first2=John|date=December 9, 2010|title=Joe Biden expands role as White House link to Congress|newspaper=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2010/12/biden-steps-into-rahms-shoes-046173|access-date=December 10, 2010|archive-date=October 16, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151016194519/http://www.politico.com/story/2010/12/biden-steps-into-rahms-shoes-046173|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nyt1211102">{{cite news|last=Cooper|first=Helene|date=December 11, 2010|title=As the Ground Shifts, Biden Plays a Bigger Role|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/politics/12biden.html|access-date=December 13, 2010|archive-date=December 13, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101213044241/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/us/politics/12biden.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He led the successful administration effort to gain Senate approval for the [[New START treaty]].<ref name="pol1209102" /><ref name="nyt1211102" /> In December 2010, Biden's advocacy for a middle ground, followed by his negotiations with Senate minority leader [[Mitch McConnell]], were instrumental in producing the administration's compromise tax package that included a temporary [[extension of the Bush tax cuts]].<ref name="nyt1211102" /><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Hulse|first1=Carl|last2=Calmes|first2=Jackie|date=December 7, 2010|title=Biden and G.O.P. Leader Helped Hammer Out Bipartisan Tax Accord|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/politics/08deal.html|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-date=December 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101208043606/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/politics/08deal.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden then took the lead in trying to sell the agreement to a reluctant Democratic caucus in Congress.<ref name="nyt1211102" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Herszenhorn|first1=David M.|last2=Stolberg|first2=Sheryl Gay|date=December 7, 2010|title=Democrats Skeptical of Obama on New Tax Plan|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/politics/08cong.html|access-date=December 8, 2010|archive-date=May 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520053117/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/08/us/politics/08cong.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The package passed as the [[Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010]].
+Biden lives just outside of [[Wilmington, Delaware]] and often goes there on the weekends since becoming president.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tampabay.com/news/nation-world/2021/03/13/for-biden-theres-no-place-like-a-weekend-home-in-delaware/|title=For Biden, there's no place like a weekend home in Delaware|publisher=Tampa Bay|accessdate=August 22, 2021}}</ref> {{As of|2020|November|alt=By November 2020}}, the Bidens were worth $9&nbsp;million, mainly because of Biden's book sales and speaking fees after his vice presidency.<ref>{{cite web|first=Gabrielle|last=Olya|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-president-joe-biden-worth-153007387.html|title=How Much Is President Joe Biden Worth?|publisher=[[Yahoo! Finance]]|date=March 11, 2021|access-date=August 25, 2021|archive-date=August 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827112252/https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-president-joe-biden-worth-153007387.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first=Gabrielle|last=Olya|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-much-is-joe-biden-worth/ar-BB1aiQdb|title=How Much Is President Joe Biden Worth?|publisher=[[MSN]]|date=April 18, 2021|access-date=August 25, 2021|archive-date=March 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319145544/https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-much-is-joe-biden-worth/ar-BB1aiQdb|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|date=January 7, 2020|access-date=August 25, 2021|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-net-worth-lifestyle-real-estate-family-wealth-assets-2020-1|title=President-elect Joe Biden just turned 78. Here's how he went from 'Middle-Class Joe' to millionaire.|first=Taylor|last=Borden|website=[[Business Insider]]|archive-date=March 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319163402/https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-net-worth-lifestyle-real-estate-family-wealth-assets-2020-1|url-status=live}}</ref>
-In March 2011, Obama delegated Biden to lead negotiations with Congress to resolve federal spending levels for the rest of the year and avoid a government shutdown.<ref>{{cite news|date=March 2, 2011|title=Obama Welcomes Budget Deal; Biden to Lead Talks|publisher=[[CNBC]]|agency=Reuters|url=https://www.cnbc.com/id/41870549|url-status=dead|access-date=March 9, 2011|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120729195403/http://www.cnbc.com/id/41870549|archive-date=July 29, 2012}}</ref> By May 2011, a "Biden panel" with six congressional members was trying to reach a bipartisan deal on raising the [[United States public debt|U.S. debt ceiling]] as part of an overall [[Government budget deficit|deficit reduction]] plan.<ref>{{cite news|last=Reid|first=Tim|date=May 16, 2011|title=Q+A: Debt and deficit talks in early stages|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-debt-talks-idUSTRE74F26V20110516|access-date=May 17, 2011|archive-date=May 20, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520004749/http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/05/16/us-usa-debt-talks-idUSTRE74F26V20110516|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Gaudiano|first=Nicole|date=May 4, 2011|title=Biden tasked with achieving consensus on cutting deficit|newspaper=[[The News Journal]]|url=http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110505/NEWS02/105050326/Biden-tasked-achieving-consensus-cutting-deficit?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CHome|access-date=May 17, 2011}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The [[United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2011|U.S. debt ceiling crisis]] developed over the next few months, but Biden's relationship with McConnell again proved key in breaking a deadlock and bringing about a deal to resolve it, in the form of the [[Budget Control Act of 2011]], signed on August 2, 2011, the same day an unprecedented [[Sovereign default|U.S. default]] had loomed.<ref name="pol-bca2">{{cite news|last1=Thrush|first1=Glenn|last2=Brown|first2=Carrie Budoff|last3=Raju|first3=Manu|last4=Bresnahan|first4=John|date=August 2, 2011|title=Joe Biden, Mitch McConnell and the making of a debt deal|newspaper=[[Politico]]|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/biden-mcconnell-and-the-making-of-a-deal-060463|access-date=August 4, 2011|archive-date=September 22, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150922144250/http://www.politico.com/story/2011/08/biden-mcconnell-and-the-making-of-a-deal-060463|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="ap-bca2">{{cite news|date=August 3, 2011|title=The real drama was in private as debt deal hatched|work=[[Fox News]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-real-drama-was-in-private-as-debt-deal-hatched|access-date=August 4, 2011|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230142752/https://www.foxnews.com/us/the-real-drama-was-in-private-as-debt-deal-hatched|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Bohan|first1=Caren|last2=Sullivan|first2=Andy|last3=Ferraro|first3=Thomas|date=August 3, 2011|title=Special report: How Washington took the U.S. to the brink|work=[[Reuters]]|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-debt-brink/special-report-how-washington-took-the-u-s-to-the-brink-idUSTRE77271R20110803|access-date=August 4, 2011|archive-date=October 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171013231825/http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-debt-brink/special-report-how-washington-took-the-u-s-to-the-brink-idUSTRE77271R20110803|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden had spent the most time of anyone in the administration bargaining with Congress on the debt question,<ref name="ap-bca2" /> and one Republican staffer said, "Biden's the only guy with real negotiating authority, and [McConnell] knows that his word is good. He was a key to the deal."<ref name="pol-bca2" />
+===Health===
+In February 1988, Biden had surgery to help heal a brain [[aneurysm]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Altman |first=Lawrence K. |date=February 23, 1998 |title=The Doctor's World; Subtle Clues Are Often The Only Warnings Of Perilous Aneurysms |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/02/23/science/the-doctors-world-subtle-clues-are-often-the-only-warnings-of-perilous-aneurysms.html |access-date=August 23, 2008}}</ref><ref name="nyt-4cmed">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/us/politics/20health.html | title=Many Holes in Disclosure of Nominees' Health |last=Altman|first=Lawrence K.| newspaper=The New York Times|date=October 19, 2008|access-date=October 26, 2008}}</ref> While recuperating, he had a [[pulmonary embolism]] and recovered a few months later.<ref name="nyt-4cmed" /> In November 2020, while playing with his two dogs [[Champ and Major]], he suffered a [[stress fracture]] in his [[foot]] and was hospitalized.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/29/politics/biden-twisted-ankle/index.html|title=Biden's doctor says he has hairline fractures in his foot after slipping while playing with his dog|publisher=[[CNN]]|date=November 30, 2020}}</ref> In July 2022, it was revealed that Biden had some "non-[[melanoma]] [[skin cancer]]s" removed before he became president.<ref>[https://news.yahoo.com/heres-why-president-biden-just-223143153.html Here's Why President Biden Just Said He's Been Affected by Cancer]</ref> That same month, he was diagnosed with [[COVID-19]].<ref name="NYTimesPositive"/>
-[[File:Obama and Biden await updates on bin Laden.jpg|thumb|right|Biden, Obama and the national security team gathered in the [[White House Situation Room]] to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill [[Osama bin Laden]]]]
+==Awards and honors==
+[[File:Joe Biden in Kosovo.JPG|thumb|right|Vice President Biden visiting [[Kosovo]], May 2009]]
+Biden has received [[honorary degree]]s from
+the University of Scranton (1976),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://matrix.scranton.edu/about/ab_degree_recipients.shtml | title=Honorary Degree Recipients | publisher=University of Scranton | year=2008 | access-date=November 26, 2008 | archive-date=July 20, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080720153525/http://matrix.scranton.edu/about/ab_degree_recipients.shtml | url-status=dead }}</ref>
+Saint Joseph's University (1981),<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.sju.edu/ir/documents/HonDegreeRecip_IR2008.pdf | title=Honorary Degree Recipients | publisher=Saint Joseph's University | access-date=August 19, 2008 | archive-date=September 4, 2008 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080904003527/http://www.sju.edu/ir/documents/HonDegreeRecip_IR2008.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>
+Widener University School of Law (2000),<ref name="wid-veep-elect">{{cite web |url= http://law.widener.edu/NewsandEvents/Articles/2008/de110508bidenvpelect.aspx |title= Senator Biden becomes Vice President-elect |publisher= Widener University School of Law |date= Nov 6, 2008 |access-date= Nov 26, 2008 |archive-date= January 5, 2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20090105150946/http://law.widener.edu/NewsandEvents/Articles/2008/de110508bidenvpelect.aspx |url-status= dead }}</ref>
+Emerson College (2003),<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.emerson.edu/emersontoday/index.cfm?action=3&articleID=782&editionID=52 |title= Senator Biden to Address 123rd Commencement Rites On May 19 |publisher= Emerson College |date= May 2003 |access-date= November 26, 2008 |archive-date= September 18, 2006 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20060918144250/http://www.emerson.edu/emersontoday/index.cfm?action=3&articleID=782&editionID=52 |url-status= dead }}</ref>
+his alma mater the [[University of Delaware]] (2004),<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2004/biden052904.html |title= Honorary Degree Citation for Joseph R. Biden Jr. |publisher=[[University of Delaware]] |date=May 29, 2004 |access-date= November 6, 2008}}</ref>
+Suffolk University Law School (2005),<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2005/05/23/commencements_boston_globe/ |title=Commencements |work= Boston Globe |date=May 23, 2005 |access-date= Nov 26, 2008}}</ref> and his other alma mater [[Syracuse University]] (2009).<ref name=AP1/>
-Some reports suggest that Biden opposed proceeding with the May 2011 [[U.S. mission to kill Osama bin Laden]],<ref name="time-mo" /><ref>{{cite news|last=Weigel|first=David|author-link=David Weigel|date=January 10, 2014|title=Hillary Told the President That Her Opposition to the Surge in Iraq Had Been Political|work=Slate|url=https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/01/robert-gates-duty-hillary-told-the-president-that-her-opposition-to-the-surge-in-iraq-had-been-political.html|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082441/https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/01/robert-gates-duty-hillary-told-the-president-that-her-opposition-to-the-surge-in-iraq-had-been-political.html|url-status=live}}</ref> lest failure adversely affect Obama's reelection prospects.<ref>{{cite news|last=Thiessen|first=Marc A.|date=October 8, 2012|title=Biden's Bin Laden Hypocrisy|work=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-bidens-bin-laden-hypocrisy/2012/10/08/990aca7c-114d-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html|access-date=August 29, 2015|archive-date=September 4, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904124649/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/marc-thiessen-bidens-bin-laden-hypocrisy/2012/10/08/990aca7c-114d-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Perks|first=Ashley|date=June 1, 2018|title=Hillary Clinton's 'ass-covering' on bin Laden raid 'rattled' Biden|website=TheHill|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390144-hillary-clintons-ass-covering-on-bin-laden-raid-rattled-biden|access-date=April 29, 2019|archive-date=May 13, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513134732/https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390144-hillary-clintons-ass-covering-on-bin-laden-raid-rattled-biden|url-status=live}}</ref> He took the lead in notifying Congressional leaders of the successful outcome.<ref>{{cite news|date=May 2, 2011|title=Osama Bin Laden dead; President Obama addresses nation|newspaper=[[Times Herald-Record]]|agency=[[NewsCore]]|url=https://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110501/NEWS/110509984|access-date=May 17, 2011|archive-date=September 28, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110928012811/http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20110501%2FNEWS%2F110509984|url-status=live}}</ref>
+Biden got the Chancellor Medal from his alma mater, [[Syracuse University]], in 1980.<ref name="nd051009">{{cite news | url=http://www.newsday.com/news/politics/wire/sns-ap-us-biden-commencement,0,5937836.story | title=Biden tells Syracuse University graduates they have special opportunity to help shape history | author=Kates, William | newspaper=Newsday | date=May 10, 2009 | access-date=May 11, 2009 }}{{Dead link|date=May 2022 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> In 2005, he got the George Arents Pioneer Medal—Syracuse's highest alumni award<ref name="nd051009"/>—"for excellence in public [[wikt:affairs|affairs]]."<ref>{{cite web | url=http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=2601 | title=Five SU alumni to be honored with Arents Awards | publisher=[[Syracuse University]] | date=May 25, 2005 | access-date=November 26, 2008 | archive-date=September 7, 2006 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060907182627/http://sunews.syr.edu/story_details.cfm?id=2601 | url-status=dead }}</ref>
-===Reelection===
+In 2008, Biden got the Best of Congress Award, for "improving the American quality of life through family-friendly work policies," from ''Working Mother'' magazine.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://biden.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=dca94360-b4ac-4bed-a41e-b7c27f42b4a1 | title=Biden Honored for Making a Difference for Working Families | publisher=[[U.S. Senate]] | date=August 12, 2008 | access-date=November 26, 2008 | archivedate=November 25, 2008 | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081125111957/http://biden.senate.gov/press/press_releases/release/?id=DCA94360-B4AC-4BED-A41E-B7C27F42B4A1 }}</ref>
-{{Main|Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign}}
+Also in 2008, Biden shared with fellow Senator [[Richard Lugar]] the Hilal-i-Pakistan award from the [[Government of Pakistan]], "in recognition of their consistent support for Pakistan."<ref name=Reuters1/> In 2009, Biden got The Golden Medal of Freedom award from [[Kosovo]], that region's highest award, for his vocal support for their independence in the late 1990s.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtMFK8wLcamElXQlmEBh0CEBE9dQ |title= Biden ends Balkans tour, heads to Lebanon |agency= [[Agence France-Presse]] |date= May 22, 2009 |access-date= May 23, 2009 |archive-date= May 25, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120525035803/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jtMFK8wLcamElXQlmEBh0CEBE9dQ |url-status= dead }}</ref>
-In October 2010, Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running mate for the [[2012 United States presidential election|2012 presidential election]],<ref name="nyt1013102" /> but with Obama's popularity on the decline, [[White House Chief of Staff]] [[William M. Daley]] conducted some secret polling and focus group research in late 2011 on the idea of replacing Biden on the ticket with Hillary Clinton.<ref name="nyt-dd-replace" /> The notion was dropped when the results showed no appreciable improvement for Obama,<ref name="nyt-dd-replace">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/us/politics/book-details-consideration-of-replacing-biden-on-2012-ticket.html |title=Book Details Obama Aides' Talks About Replacing Biden on 2012 Ticket |last=Martin |first=Jonathan |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=October 31, 2013 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082553/https://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/01/us/politics/book-details-consideration-of-replacing-biden-on-2012-ticket.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and White House officials later said Obama had never entertained the idea.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/politico44/2013/11/wh-obama-never-considered-dropping-joe-biden-176520 |title=W.H.: Obama never considered dropping Joe Biden |last=Allen |first=Jonathan |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=November 1, 2013 |access-date=November 3, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131104143531/http://www.politico.com/politico44/2013/11/wh-obama-never-considered-dropping-biden-176520.html |archive-date=November 4, 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref>
+Biden is an member of the Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association Hall of Fame.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.dvfassn.com/awards.cfm?id=2 |title=Hall of Fame |publisher=Delaware Volunteer Firemen's Association |access-date= September 16, 2008}}</ref>
-[[File:Official portrait of President Obama and Vice President Biden 2012.jpg|thumb|upright|Biden and Obama, July 2012]]
+In 2017, during his final days as president, Barack Obama awarded Biden the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] with distinction.<ref name=mof>{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/2017/01/12/509545778/in-surprise-send-off-president-obama-awards-biden-presidential-medal-of-freedom|title=In A Surprise Send-Off, Obama Awards Biden Presidential Medal Of Freedom|website=NPR |date=January 12, 2017 |publisher=NPR|accessdate=August 25, 2021|last1=Taylor |first1=Jessica }}</ref>
-Biden's May 2012 statement that he was "absolutely comfortable" with [[same-sex marriage]] gained considerable public attention in comparison to Obama's position, which had been described as "evolving".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2012-may-06-la-na-biden-gay-marriage-20120507-story.html |title=Biden 'comfortable' with equal rights for gays who wed |date=May 6, 2012 |first=Christi |last=Parsons |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |access-date=May 8, 2012 |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526082737/https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2012-may-06-la-na-biden-gay-marriage-20120507-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden made his statement without administration consent, and Obama and his aides were quite irked, since Obama had planned to shift position several months later, in the build-up to the party convention, and since Biden had previously counseled the president to avoid the issue lest key Catholic voters be offended.<ref name="nyt0508122" /><ref name="ap051012" /><ref name="pol-ebook">{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/politico-e-book-obama-campaign-roiled-by-conflict-079867 |title=Politico e-book: Obama campaign roiled by conflict |last=Thrush |first=Glenn |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=August 20, 2012 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103084846/https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/politico-e-book-obama-campaign-roiled-by-conflict-079867 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/6-hidden-obama-campaign-fault-lines-080028 |title=6 hidden fault lines in President Obama's campaign |last=Thursh |first=Glenn |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=August 23, 2012 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208190849/https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/6-hidden-obama-campaign-fault-lines-080028 |url-status=live }}</ref> Gay rights advocates seized upon Biden's statement,<ref name="ap051012" /> and within days, Obama announced that he too supported same-sex marriage, an action in part forced by Biden's remarks.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/us/politics/obama-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal.html | title=Obama Says Same-Sex Marriage Should Be Legal | first1=Jackie | last1=Calmes | first2=Peter | last2=Baker | newspaper=[[The New York Times]] | date=May 9, 2012 | access-date=May 10, 2012 | archive-date=May 10, 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510014102/http://www.nytimes.com//2012/05/10/us/politics/obama-says-same-sex-marriage-should-be-legal.html | url-status=live }}</ref> Biden apologized to Obama in private for having spoken out,<ref name="pol-ebook" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/joe-biden-gay-marriage-apology_n_1507939.html |title=Joe Biden Reportedly Apologized To Obama Over Gay Marriage Comments |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=Huffington Post |date=May 10, 2012 |access-date=May 11, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130528233546/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/10/joe-biden-gay-marriage-apology_n_1507939.html |archive-date=May 28, 2013 }}</ref> while Obama acknowledged publicly it had been done from the heart.<ref name="ap051012">{{cite news | url=https://www.foxnews.com/us/ap-source-biden-apologizes-to-obama-over-comments | title=AP source: Biden apologizes to Obama over comments | agency=[[Associated Press]] | publisher=[[Fox News]] | date=May 10, 2012 | access-date=May 16, 2012 | archive-date=October 6, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181006123920/https://www.foxnews.com/us/ap-source-biden-apologizes-to-obama-over-comments | url-status=live }}</ref> The incident showed that Biden still struggled at times with [[message discipline]],<ref name="nyt0508122" /> as ''Time'' wrote, "Everyone knows Biden's greatest strength is also his greatest weakness."<ref name="time-mo" /> Relations were also strained between the vice presidential and presidential campaigns when Biden appeared to use his position to bolster fundraising contacts for a possible run for president in [[2016 United States presidential election|2016]], and he ended up being excluded from Obama campaign strategy meetings.<ref name="nyt-dd-replace" />
+In 2020, Biden and his Vice President [[Kamala Harris]] were named [[Time Person of the Year]].<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Alter |first1=Charlotte |title=2020 Person of the Year - Joe Biden and Kamala Harris |url=https://time.com/person-of-the-year-2020-joe-biden-kamala-harris |access-date=December 11, 2020 |magazine=Time |date=December 11, 2020}}</ref>
-The Obama campaign nevertheless valued Biden as a retail-level politician who could connect with disaffected blue-collar workers and rural residents, and he had a heavy schedule of appearances in swing states as the [[Barack Obama presidential campaign, 2012|reelection campaign]] began in earnest in spring 2012.<ref name="time-mo">{{cite news | title=Mo Joe | last=Scherer|first=Michael | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=June 11, 2012 | pages=26–30}}</ref><ref name="time-be-joe" /> An August 2012 remark before a mixed-race audience that Republican proposals to relax Wall Street regulations would "put y'all back in chains" led to a similar analysis of Biden's face-to-face campaigning abilities versus his tendency to go off track.<ref name="time-be-joe" /><ref name="lat-offt" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/mission-impossible-managing-biden-079776 |title=Mission Impossible: Managing Joe Biden |last=Martin |first=Jonathan |newspaper=[[Politico]] |date=August 16, 2012 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103084811/https://www.politico.com/story/2012/08/mission-impossible-managing-biden-079776 |url-status=live }}</ref> The ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'' wrote, "Most candidates give the same stump speech over and over, putting reporters if not the audience to sleep. But during any Biden speech, there might be a dozen moments to make press handlers cringe, and prompt reporters to turn to each other with amusement and confusion."<ref name="lat-offt">{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-aug-17-la-na-biden-20120817-story.html |title=Biden's unscripted moments keep campaign on its toes |last=Memoli |first=Michael A. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=August 17, 2012 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082611/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2012-aug-17-la-na-biden-20120817-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Time (magazine)|''Time'' magazine]] wrote that Biden often went too far and "Along with the familiar Washington mix of neediness and overconfidence, Biden's brain is wired for more than the usual amount of goofiness."<ref name="time-be-joe">{{cite news |url=http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2123322,00.html |title=Let There Be Joe |last=Von Drehle |first=David |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=September 10, 2012 |pages=41–43 |author-link=David Von Drehle |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=November 9, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201109162947/http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2123322,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+== Related pages ==
+* [[President of the United States]]
-Biden was nominated for a second term as vice president at the [[2012 Democratic National Convention]] in September.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beau-biden-speech-read-th_n_1862997 |title=Beau Biden Speech Kicks Of Motion To Nominate Father Joe Biden For Vice President |work=[[Huffington Post]] |date=September 6, 2012 |first=Elyse |last=Siegel |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082621/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beau-biden-speech-read-th_n_1862997 |url-status=live }}</ref> Debating his Republican counterpart, Representative [[Paul Ryan]], in the [[2012 United States presidential debates#October 11: Vice presidential debate (Centre College)|vice-presidential debate]] on October 11 he made a spirited and emotional defense of the Obama administration's record and energetically attacked the Republican ticket.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14376267-biden-plays-aggressor-in-debate-as-ryan-argues-gop-case |title=Biden plays aggressor in debate as Ryan makes GOP case |last=O'Brien |first=Michael |work=[[NBC News]] |date=October 11, 2012 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=September 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200928140933/http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/10/11/14376267-biden-plays-aggressor-in-debate-as-ryan-argues-gop-case |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sparks-fly-as-biden-ryan-face-off-in-feisty-vice-presidential-debate | title=Sparks fly as Biden, Ryan face off in feisty vice presidential debate | publisher=[[Fox News]] | date=October 11, 2012 | access-date=January 24, 2021 | archive-date=January 3, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082631/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/sparks-fly-as-biden-ryan-face-off-in-feisty-vice-presidential-debate | url-status=live }}</ref> On November 6, Obama and Biden won reelection<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/obama-defeats-romney-to-win-second-term-vows-he-has-more-work-to-do | title=Obama defeats Romney to win second term, vows he has 'more work to do' | publisher=[[Fox News]] | date=November 7, 2012}}</ref> over [[Mitt Romney]] and Paul Ryan with 332 of 538 [[Electoral College (United States)|Electoral College votes]] and 51% of the popular vote.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2013-jan-04-la-pn-obama-biden-officially-win-second-term-20130104-story.html |title=It's official: Obama, Biden win second term |last=Memoli |first=Michael A. |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=January 4, 2013 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082641/https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2013-jan-04-la-pn-obama-biden-officially-win-second-term-20130104-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
+== References ==
+{{reflist}}
-In December 2012, Obama named Biden to head the [[Gun Violence Task Force]], created to address the causes of [[gun violence in the United States]] in the aftermath of the [[Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting]].<ref name="Caldwell">{{cite news|last=Caldwell|first=Leigh Ann|date=December 19, 2012|title=Obama sets up gun violence task force|work=[[CBS News]]|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-sets-up-gun-violence-task-force/|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185454/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-sets-up-gun-violence-task-force/|url-status=live}}</ref> Later that month, during the final days before the United States fell off the "[[United States fiscal cliff|fiscal cliff]]", Biden's relationship with McConnell again proved important as the two negotiated a deal that led to the [[American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012]] being passed at the start of 2013.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jan/01/its-over-house-passes-fiscal-cliff-deal/ |title=It's over: House passes 'fiscal cliff' deal |last=Demirjian |first=Karoun |newspaper=[[Las Vegas Sun]] |date=January 1, 2013 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185455/https://lasvegassun.com/news/2013/jan/01/its-over-house-passes-fiscal-cliff-deal/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="ap-cliff">{{cite news|url=http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/185276422.html |title=Congress' OK of fiscal cliff deal gives Obama a win, prevents GOP blame for tax boosts |last=Fram|first=Alan |agency=[[Associated Press]] |newspaper=[[Star Tribune]] |location=Minneapolis |date=January 2, 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130105020524/http://www.startribune.com/politics/national/185276422.html |archive-date=January 5, 2013 }}</ref> It made many of the Bush tax cuts permanent but raised rates on upper income levels.<ref name="ap-cliff" />
+== External links==
-===Second term (2013–2017)===
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-[[File:Joe Biden official portrait 2013.jpg|thumb|upright|Official vice president portrait, 2013]]
+{{Wikisource|Author:Joe Biden|Joe Biden}}
+* [http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/vice-president-biden White House official biography]
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+* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080403001745/http://bidenforsenate.com/ Senate campaign website (archived)]
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-Biden was [[Second inauguration of Barack Obama|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).<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-inauguration-biden-idUSBRE90J08B20130120 | title=Vice President Biden sworn into office for second term | last=Rampton|first=Roberta | work=Reuters | date=January 20, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130122062434/https://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/20/us-usa-inauguration-biden-idUSBRE90J08B20130120| archive-date=January 22, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref>
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+{{Group of 7}}
-Biden played little part in discussions that led to the October 2013 passage of the [[Continuing Appropriations Act, 2014]], which resolved the [[2013 United States federal government shutdown|federal government shutdown of 2013]] and the [[United States debt-ceiling crisis of 2013|debt-ceiling crisis of 2013]]. This was because Senate majority leader [[Harry Reid]] and other Democratic leaders cut him out of any direct talks with Congress, feeling Biden had given too much away during previous negotiations.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/anatomy-of-a-shutdown-098518 |title=Anatomy of a shutdown |last1=Bresnahan |first1=John |last2=Manu |first2=Raju |last3=Sherman |first3=Jake |last4=Brown |first4=Carrie Budoff |newspaper=Politico |date=October 18, 2013 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185529/https://www.politico.com/story/2013/10/anatomy-of-a-shutdown-098518 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/13/biden-mostly-out-of-sight-during-shutdown-showdown/2968373/ |title=Biden mostly out of sight as shutdown drags on |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |newspaper=USA Today |date=October 13, 2013 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082716/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/13/biden-mostly-out-of-sight-during-shutdown-showdown/2968373/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/biden-takes-back-seat-in-budget-negotiations-during-shutdown | title=Biden takes a back seat during budget negotiations over shutdown | last=Bowman | first=Bridget | work=PBS NewsHour | publisher=PBS | date=October 14, 2013 | access-date=January 24, 2021 | archive-date=January 3, 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082723/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/biden-takes-back-seat-in-budget-negotiations-during-shutdown | url-status=live }}</ref>
+{{Current G8 Leaders}}
+{{USVicePresidents}}
-Biden's Violence Against Women Act was reauthorized again in 2013. The act led to related developments, such as the [[White House Council on Women and Girls]], begun in the first term, as well as the [[White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault]], begun in January 2014 with Biden and [[Valerie Jarrett]] as co-chairs.<ref name="Report">{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/sexual_assault_report_1-21-14.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121105625/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/docs/sexual_assault_report_1-21-14.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=January 21, 2017 |title=Rape and sexual assault: A renewed call to action |date=January 2014 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=August 24, 2016 }}</ref><ref>{{cite press release | url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/22/memorandum-establishing-white-house-task-force-protect-students-sexual-a | title=Memorandum: Establishing White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault | date=January 22, 2014 | access-date=June 10, 2014 | archive-date=January 22, 2017 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122115707/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2014/01/22/memorandum-establishing-white-house-task-force-protect-students-sexual-a | via=[[NARA|National Archives]] | work=[[whitehouse.gov]] | url-status=live }}</ref> Biden discussed federal guidelines on sexual assault on university campuses while giving a speech at the University of New Hampshire. He said, "No means no, if you're drunk or you're sober. No means no if you're in bed, in a dorm or on the street. No means no even if you said yes at first and you changed your mind. No means no."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hayes|first=Dianne|year=2012|title=Looking The Other Way?|journal=Diverse: Issues in Higher Education}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Elaine Grant |title=Federal Effort Targets Sexual Assaults At Colleges |url=https://www.npr.org/2011/04/05/135135544/federal-effort-targets-sexual-assaults-at-colleges |access-date=April 5, 2019 |work=National Public Radio NPR |date=April 5, 2011 |quote=BIDEN: Look, guys, no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink, it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent. |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405205021/https://www.npr.org/2011/04/05/135135544/federal-effort-targets-sexual-assaults-at-colleges |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ashe Schow |title=Biden Reaps the #MeToo Whirlwind |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-reaps-the-metoo-whirlwind-11554419738 |access-date=April 5, 2019 |work=The Wall Street Journal |date=April 4, 2019 |quote=While speaking to students at the University of New Hampshire in 2011, then-Vice President Joe Biden told men in the audience that 'no matter what a girl does, no matter how she's dressed, no matter how much she's had to drink—it's never, never, never, never, never OK to touch her without her consent.' |archive-date=April 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405063733/https://www.wsj.com/articles/biden-reaps-the-metoo-whirlwind-11554419738 |url-status=live }}</ref>
-Biden favored arming [[Timber Sycamore|Syria's rebel fighters]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Who to Blame If Arming the Syrian Rebels Goes Wrong |first=Conor |last=Friedersdorf |author-link=Conor Friedersdorf |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/who-to-blame-if-arming-syrian-rebels-goes-wrong/380411/ |work=The Atlantic |date=September 18, 2014 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=May 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190512184447/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/09/who-to-blame-if-arming-syrian-rebels-goes-wrong/380411/ |url-status=live }}</ref> As [[Timeline of the Iraq War|Iraq fell apart during 2014]], renewed attention was paid to the Biden-Gelb Iraqi federalization plan of 2006, with some observers suggesting Biden had been right all along.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/joe-biden-iraq-107858 | title=Was Joe Biden right? | last=Gerstein | first=Josh | newspaper=Politico | date=June 13, 2014 | access-date=September 14, 2014 | archive-date=September 27, 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150927001111/http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/joe-biden-iraq-107858 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/62830 |title=Turns Out, Joe Biden Was Right About Dividing Iraq |last=Kitfield |first=James |magazine=National Journal |date=January 30, 2014 |access-date=September 14, 2014 |archive-date=October 11, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011194233/https://www.nationaljournal.com/s/62830 |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden himself said the U.S. would follow [[ISIL]] "to the gates of hell".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2014/0903/Joe-Biden-vows-to-chase-Islamic-State-to-gates-of-hell.-Does-he-mean-it |title=Joe Biden vows to chase Islamic State to 'gates of hell'. Does he mean it? |last=Grier |first=Peter |newspaper=The Christian Science Monitor |date=September 3, 2014 |access-date=September 14, 2014 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185455/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/Decoder/2014/0903/Joe-Biden-vows-to-chase-Islamic-State-to-gates-of-hell.-Does-he-mean-it |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden had close relationships with several Latin American leaders and was assigned a focus on the region during the administration; he visited the region 16 times during his vice presidency, the most of any president or vice president.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Paz|first=Christian|date=October 26, 2020|title=The Biden Doctrine Begins With Latin America|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/joe-biden-foreign-policy-latin-america/616841/|access-date=November 15, 2020|issn=1072-7825|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111041523/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2020/10/joe-biden-foreign-policy-latin-america/616841/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-[[File:Vice President Joe Biden visit to Israel March 2016 (25554709411).jpg|thumb|Biden with [[Prime Minister of Israel|Israeli prime minister]] [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] in [[Jerusalem]], March 9, 2016]]
-In 2015, [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] [[John Boehner]] and [[Party leaders of the United States Senate|Senate majority leader]] [[Mitch McConnell]] invited Israeli prime minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]] to address a joint session of Congress without notifying the Obama administration. This defiance of protocol led Biden and more than 50 congressional [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrats]] to skip Netanyahu's speech.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/democrats-missing-netanyahu-whip-list/index.html|title=The list of Democrats skipping Netanyahu's speech|first=Alexandra|last=Jaffe|website=CNN|access-date=February 26, 2020|archive-date=August 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818185113/https://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/democrats-missing-netanyahu-whip-list/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In August 2016, Biden visited [[Serbia]], where he met with Serbian president [[Aleksandar Vučić]] and expressed his condolences for civilian victims of the bombing campaign during the Kosovo War.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Melander |first1=Ingrid |title=Biden offers condolences for Serbs killed in 1999 NATO air strikes |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-balkans-biden-serbia/biden-offers-condolences-for-serbs-killed-in-1999-nato-air-strikes-idUSKCN10R1ZD |work=Reuters |date=August 16, 2016 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185455/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-balkans-biden-serbia/biden-offers-condolences-for-serbs-killed-in-1999-nato-air-strikes-idUSKCN10R1ZD |url-status=live }}</ref> In Kosovo, he attended a ceremony renaming a highway after his son Beau, in honor of Beau's service to Kosovo in training its judges and prosecutors.<ref name="Bytyci">{{cite news|last=Bytyci|first=Fatos|title='We owe you so much,' Kosovo to tell Biden as street named after late son|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kosovo-biden-street-idUSKCN10Q17X|work=Reuters|date=August 15, 2016|access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115185456/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-kosovo-biden-street-idUSKCN10Q17X|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Bezhan">{{cite news|last=Bezhan|first=Frud|title=Word On The Street Is That Kosovo Has A Love Affair With Americans|url=https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-love-affair-americans-biden-clinton-bush/27928807.html|agency=Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty|date=August 17, 2016|access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-date=October 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201023065019/https://www.rferl.org/a/kosovo-love-affair-americans-biden-clinton-bush/27928807.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="RuViDeBi">{{cite news|last1=Rucker|first1=Philip|last2=Viser|first2=Matt|last3=DeBonis|first3=Mike|title=Trump and allies resume attacks on Biden's son as the Democrat surges|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-allies-resume-attacks-on-bidens-son-as-the-democrat-surges/2020/03/05/cad7fa02-5eed-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html|agency=The Washington Post|date=March 6, 2020|access-date=October 24, 2020|archive-date=October 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201028094653/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-and-allies-resume-attacks-on-bidens-son-as-the-democrat-surges/2020/03/05/cad7fa02-5eed-11ea-b29b-9db42f7803a7_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Biden never [[List of tie-breaking votes cast by vice presidents of the United States|cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate]], making him the longest-serving vice president with this distinction.<ref>{{cite web|last=Bycoffe|first=Aaron|date=February 7, 2017|title=Pence Has Already Done Something Biden Never Did: Break A Senate Tie|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pence-has-already-done-something-biden-never-did-break-a-senate-tie/|website=[[FiveThirtyEight]]|quote=Twelve vice presidents, including Biden, never broke a tie; Biden was the longest-serving vice president to never do so.|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103082937/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/pence-has-already-done-something-biden-never-did-break-a-senate-tie/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-[[File:VP Biden with Pence.jpg|thumb|right|220px|Biden with Vice President-elect [[Mike Pence]] on November 10, 2016]]
-===Role in the 2016 presidential campaign===
-During his second term, Biden was often said to be preparing for a possible bid for the [[2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2016 Democratic presidential nomination]].<ref name=Itkowitz1 /> With his family, many friends, and donors encouraging him in mid-2015 to enter the race, and with [[Hillary Clinton]]'s favorability ratings in decline at that time, Biden was reported to again be seriously considering the prospect and a "[[Draft (politics)|Draft]] Biden 2016" [[Political action committee|PAC]] was established.<ref name=Itkowitz1>{{cite news |first=Colby |last=Itkowitz |title=There is a 'Draft Joe Biden' Super PAC Now; It's Even Hiring a Fundraiser |newspaper=Washington Post |date=March 23, 2015 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/03/23/job-opening-raise-money-to-draft-joe-biden-to-run-in-2016/ |access-date=August 2, 2015 |archive-date=July 16, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150716011912/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/in-the-loop/wp/2015/03/23/job-opening-raise-money-to-draft-joe-biden-to-run-in-2016/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=Dowd1>{{cite news |first=Maureen |last=Dowd |title=Joe Biden in 2016: What Would Beau Do? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-joe-biden-in-2016-what-would-beau-do.html |newspaper=The New York Times |date=August 1, 2015 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 6, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210106105547/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/opinion/sunday/maureen-dowd-joe-biden-in-2016-what-would-beau-do.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Jeff |last1=Zeleny |first2=Kevin |last2=Liptak |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/vice-president-joe-biden-presidential-elections/ |title=Joe Biden Keeps Watchful Eye on 2016 Race |work=CNN |date=August 1, 2015 |access-date=August 2, 2015 |archive-date=February 2, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202185430/http://edition.cnn.com/2015/07/31/politics/vice-president-joe-biden-presidential-elections/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
-{{as of|2015|September|11|df=US}}, Biden was still uncertain about running. He felt his son's recent death had largely drained his emotional energy, and said, "nobody has a right{{nbsp}}... to seek that office unless they're willing to give it 110% of who they are."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34216117|title=Joe Biden still undecided on presidential run|work=[[BBC News]]|date=September 11, 2015|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083021/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-34216117|url-status=live}}</ref> On October 21, speaking from a podium in the [[White House Rose Garden|Rose Garden]] with his wife and Obama by his side, Biden announced his decision not to run for president in 2016.<ref>{{cite news |first=Jeff |last=Mason |url=https://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/21/biden-announces-hes-not-running-for-president/21252056/ |title=Biden says he will not seek 2016 Democratic nomination |agency=Thomson Reuters |date=October 21, 2015 |access-date=October 21, 2015 |website=aol.com |archive-date=October 22, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022211907/http://www.aol.com/article/2015/10/21/biden-announces-hes-not-running-for-president/21252056/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Comment Joe Biden Is Not Running For President In 2016|url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-president-2016_n_55f1cefbe4b093be51be0d69|work=Huffington Post|access-date=October 21, 2015|archive-date=April 5, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405213056/https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-president-2016_n_55f1cefbe4b093be51be0d69|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Joe Biden Decides Not to Enter Presidential Race|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-decides-not-to-enter-presidential-race-1445444657|newspaper=The Wall Street Journal|access-date=October 21, 2015|archive-date=October 21, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151021204730/http://www.wsj.com/articles/joe-biden-decides-not-to-enter-presidential-race-1445444657|url-status=live}}</ref> In January 2016, Biden affirmed that it was the right decision, but admitted to regretting not running for president "every day".<ref>{{cite news|last1=Fabian|first1=Jordan|title=Biden regrets not running for president 'every day'|url=https://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/265011-biden-regrets-not-running-but-calls-it-right-decision|access-date=January 12, 2017|work=TheHill|date=January 6, 2016|archive-date=January 2, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170102173755/http://thehill.com/blogs/ballot-box/265011-biden-regrets-not-running-but-calls-it-right-decision|url-status=live}}</ref>
-After Obama endorsed Hillary Clinton on June 9, 2016, Biden endorsed her later that day.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/joe-biden-endorses-hillary-clinton-224162|title=Joe Biden endorses Hillary Clinton|publisher=[[Politico]]|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083139/https://www.politico.com/story/2016/06/joe-biden-endorses-hillary-clinton-224162|url-status=live}}</ref> Throughout the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 election]], Biden strongly criticized Clinton's opponent, Donald Trump, in often colorful terms.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-to-slam-donald-trump-in-speech-monday/|title=Joe Biden slams Donald Trump on wall, Muslim entry ban|date=June 20, 2016|work=CBS News|first=Rebecca|last=Shabad|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083051/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-to-slam-donald-trump-in-speech-monday/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-wishes-trump-gym-groping-comments/story?id=42965866|title=Biden Says He Wishes He Could Take Trump 'Behind the Gym' Over Groping Comments|date=October 21, 2016|publisher=ABC|first=Maryalice|last=Parks|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 3, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083055/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/biden-wishes-trump-gym-groping-comments/story?id=42965866|url-status=live}}</ref>
-==Subsequent activities (2017–2019)==
-[[File:58th Presidential Inaugural Ceremony 170120-D-BP749-1327.jpg|thumb|Biden with [[Barack Obama]] and [[Donald Trump]], at the latter's [[Inauguration of Donald Trump|inauguration]] on January 20, 2017]]
-After leaving the vice presidency, Biden became a professor at the [[University of Pennsylvania]], while continuing to lead efforts to find treatments for cancer.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/12/technology/sxsw-joe-biden-cancer/index.html |title=Joe Biden: The fight against cancer is bipartisan |last=O'Brien |first=Sara Ashley |date=March 12, 2017 |website=CNNMoney |access-date=March 13, 2017 |archive-date=May 26, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190526151625/https://money.cnn.com/2017/03/12/technology/sxsw-joe-biden-cancer/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2017 he wrote a memoir, ''[[Promise Me, Dad]]'', and went on a book tour.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kane|first=Paul|title=Analysis {{!}} Biden wraps up book tour amid persistent questions about the next chapter|language=en-US|work=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/biden-wraps-up-book-tour-amid-persistent-questions-about-the-next-chapter/2018/06/11/33ebbe8e-6daf-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html|access-date=November 10, 2020|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=November 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107171225/https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/biden-wraps-up-book-tour-amid-persistent-questions-about-the-next-chapter/2018/06/11/33ebbe8e-6daf-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden earned $15.6{{nbsp}}million in 2017–2018.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Viser|first1=Matt|last2=Narayanswamy|first2=Anu|date=July 9, 2019|title=Joe Biden earned $15.6 million in the two years after leaving the vice presidency|work=The Washington Post|url=https://beta.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-earned-156-million-in-the-two-years-after-leaving-the-vice-presidency/2019/07/09/55aad492-a27e-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html?outputType=amp|access-date=July 16, 2019|archive-date=January 24, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210124023752/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-earned-156-million-in-the-two-years-after-leaving-the-vice-presidency/2019/07/09/55aad492-a27e-11e9-b8c8-75dae2607e60_story.html?outputType=amp|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2018, he gave a eulogy for Senator [[John McCain]], praising McCain's embrace of American ideals and bipartisan friendships.<ref name="townandcountrymag">{{cite news|last=Friedman|first=Megan|date=August 30, 2018|title=Joe Biden Just Gave an Incredibly Powerful Speech at John McCain's Memorial|website=Town & Country|url=https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a22877209/joe-biden-eulogy-john-mccain-memorial-full-transcript/|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=June 10, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200610041411/https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/politics/a22877209/joe-biden-eulogy-john-mccain-memorial-full-transcript/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Biden remained in the public eye, endorsing candidates while continuing to comment on politics, climate change, and the [[presidency of Donald Trump]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/05/28/biden-backing-phil-murphy-says-nj-governors-race-single-most-important-112380|title=Biden backs Phil Murphy, says N.J. governor's race 'most important' in nation|first=Ryan|last=Hutchins|date=May 28, 2017|publisher=Politico|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=December 30, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191230125059/https://www.politico.com/states/new-jersey/story/2017/05/28/biden-backing-phil-murphy-says-nj-governors-race-single-most-important-112380|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="foreign-policy2"/><ref>{{cite news|url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/335859-biden-paris-deal-best-way-to-protect-us-leadership|title=Biden: Paris deal 'best way to protect' US leadership|first=Max|last=Greenwood|newspaper=The Hill|date=May 31, 2017|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=February 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225090215/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/335859-biden-paris-deal-best-way-to-protect-us-leadership|url-status=live}}</ref> He also continued to speak out in favor of LGBT rights, continuing advocacy on an issue he had become more closely associated with during his vice presidency.<ref>{{cite news |title=VP's LGBT comments raise eyebrows |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/joe-biden-lgbt-workplace-discrimination-executive-order-human-rights-campaign-105018 |work=Politico.com |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 3, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083142/https://www.politico.com/story/2014/03/joe-biden-lgbt-workplace-discrimination-executive-order-human-rights-campaign-105018 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/joe-biden-to-lgbt-gala-hold-president-trump-accountable/|title=Joe Biden to LGBT gala: 'Hold President Trump accountable'|date=June 21, 2017|first=Steve|last=Peoples|newspaper=Seattle Times|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090144/https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/joe-biden-to-lgbt-gala-hold-president-trump-accountable//|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2019, Biden criticized [[Brunei]] for its intention to implement [[Sharia|Islamic laws]] that would allow death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality, calling it "appalling and immoral" and saying, "There is no excuse—not culture, not tradition—for this kind of hate and inhumanity."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brunei-islamiclaws-idUSKCN1RB0E1 |title=Brunei defends tough new Islamic laws against growing backlash |work=Reuters |date=March 30, 2019 |access-date=December 31, 2020 |archive-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090148/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brunei-islamiclaws-idUSKCN1RB0E1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2019, Biden and his wife reported that their assets had increased to between $2.2 million and $8 million from speaking engagements and a contract to write a set of books.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Eder|first1=Steve|last2=Glueck|first2=Katie|date=July 9, 2019|title=Joe Biden's Tax Returns Show More Than $15 Million in Income After 2016|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/joe-biden-net-worth.html|access-date=July 16, 2019|archive-date=July 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190715211457/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/joe-biden-net-worth.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-==2020 presidential campaign==
-{{Main|Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign}}
-{{See also|2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries|2020 United States presidential election}}
-=== Speculation and announcement ===
-[[File:Joe Biden kickoff rally May 2019.jpg|thumb|Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in [[Philadelphia]], May 2019]]
-Between 2016 and 2019, media outlets often mentioned Biden as a likely candidate for president in 2020.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-201612-htmlstory.html#joe-biden-wouldnt-count-out-a-2020-run-for-president-but-he-was-asked-in-an-emotional-moment|title=Joe Biden wouldn't count out a 2020 run for president. But he was asked in an emotional moment|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=December 5, 2016|date=December 5, 2016|last=Memoli|first=Michael|archive-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090152/https://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trailguide-updates-201612-htmlstory.html#joe-biden-wouldnt-count-out-a-2020-run-for-president-but-he-was-asked-in-an-emotional-moment|url-status=live}}</ref> When asked if he would run, he gave varied and ambivalent answers, saying "never say never".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/joe-biden-colbert-interview-2020-buzz/|title=Biden stokes 2020 buzz on Colbert: 'Never say never'|publisher=CNN|access-date=December 8, 2016|date=December 7, 2016|last=Wright|first=David|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090156/https://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/07/politics/joe-biden-colbert-interview-2020-buzz//|url-status=live}}</ref> At one point he suggested he did not see a scenario where he would run again,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://time.com/4593693/joe-biden-stephen-colbert-2020-run/|title=Joe Biden Discussed Running in 2020 With Stephen Colbert: 'Never Say Never'|work=Time|access-date=December 8, 2016|date=December 7, 2016|last=Lang|first=Cady|archive-date=December 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161208083645/http://time.com/4593693/joe-biden-stephen-colbert-2020-run/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Revesz">{{cite news|last=Revesz|first=Rachael|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-biden-think-tank-research-centre-university-pennsylvania-delaware-white-house-staff-cancer-a7526881.html|title=Joe Biden: I will not run for president in 2020 but I am working to cure cancer|work=The Independent|date=January 13, 2017|access-date=January 20, 2017|archive-date=January 16, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170116185058/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/joe-biden-think-tank-research-centre-university-pennsylvania-delaware-white-house-staff-cancer-a7526881.html|url-status=live}}</ref> but a few days later, he said, "I'll run if I can walk."<ref name="IfICanWalk">{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/magazine/joe-biden-i-wish-to-hell-id-just-kept-saying-the-exact-same-thing.html|title=Joe Biden: 'I Wish to Hell I'd Just Kept Saying the Exact Same Thing'|newspaper=The New York Times|last=Alter|first=Jonathan|date=January 17, 2017|access-date=January 22, 2017|archive-date=January 21, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170121233919/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/17/magazine/joe-biden-i-wish-to-hell-id-just-kept-saying-the-exact-same-thing.html|url-status=live}}</ref> A [[political action committee]] known as [[Time for Biden]] was formed in January 2018, seeking Biden's entry into the race.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wvik.org/post/new-quad-city-super-pac-time-biden|title=New Quad City Super PAC: "Time for Biden"|last=Charnetzki|first=Tori|publisher=WVIK|date=January 10, 2018 |access-date=January 24, 2018|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090209/https://www.wvik.org/post/new-quad-city-super-pac-time-biden/|url-status=live}}</ref> He finally launched his campaign on April 25, 2019,<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Scherer|first1=Michael|last2=Wagner|first2=John|date=April 25, 2019|title=Former vice president Joe Biden jumps into White House race|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-vice-president-joe-biden-jumps-into-white-house-race/2019/04/25/093ff596-0aef-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html|url-status=live|access-date=April 25, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200526072655/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/former-vice-president-joe-biden-jumps-into-white-house-race/2019/04/25/093ff596-0aef-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html|archive-date=May 26, 2020}}</ref> saying he was prompted to run, among other reasons, by his "sense of duty."<ref name="bidenclose">{{Cite news|last=Dovere|first=Edward-Isaac|date=February 4, 2019|title=Biden's Anguished Search for a Path to Victory|work=The Atlantic|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/joe-biden-close-running-president-despite-doubts/581956/|url-status=live|access-date=February 9, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090215/https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2019/02/joe-biden-close-running-president-despite-doubts/581956//|archive-date=June 20, 2020}}</ref>
-=== Campaign ===
-{{See also|Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory}}
-In September 2019, it was reported that Trump had pressured Ukrainian president [[Volodymyr Zelensky]] to investigate [[Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory|alleged wrongdoing]] by Biden and his son [[Hunter Biden]].<ref name="pressure">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/world/europe/ukraine-trump-zelensky.html|title=Ukraine Pressured on U.S. Political Investigations|last=Kramer|first=Andrew E.|date=September 20, 2019|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 20, 2019|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 20, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920171010/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/20/world/europe/ukraine-trump-zelensky.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite the allegations, no evidence was produced of any wrongdoing by the Bidens.<ref>{{cite news |last=Isachenkov |first=Vladimir |title=Ukraine's prosecutor says there is no probe into Biden |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ukraines-prosecutor-says-there-is-no-probe-into-biden |access-date=October 1, 2019 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |date=September 27, 2019 |quote=Though the timing raised concerns among anti-corruption advocates, there has been no evidence of wrongdoing by either the former vice president or his son. |archive-date=October 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191001005328/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/ukraines-prosecutor-says-there-is-no-probe-into-biden |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=White House 'tried to cover up details of Trump-Ukraine call' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49842895 |access-date=October 1, 2019 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=September 26, 2019 |quote=There is no evidence of any wrongdoing by the Bidens. |archive-date=September 30, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930105132/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-49842895 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|first1=Matthew|last1=Brown|accessdate=2021-07-07|title=Fact check: False conspiracy theories allege connection between Biden victory and Ukraine|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/01/15/fact-check-conspiracy-theories-falsely-link-bidens-victory-ukraine/4149335001/|website=USA TODAY}}</ref>  The media widely interpreted this pressure to investigate the Bidens as trying to hurt Biden's chances of winning the presidency, resulting in [[Trump–Ukraine scandal|a political scandal]]<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176 |date=September 21, 2019 |title=Trump Repeatedly Pressed Ukraine President to Investigate Biden's Son |last3=Volz |first1=Alan |last1=Cullison |first2=Rebecca |last2=Ballhaus |first3=Dustin |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |access-date=September 20, 2019 |archive-date=September 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190923092317/https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-defends-conversation-with-ukraine-leader-11568993176 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/20/is-trump-trying-to-get-ukraine-to-take-out-biden-for-him/ |date=September 20, 2019 |title=Is Trump Trying to Get Ukraine to Take Out Biden for Him? |last=Mackinnon |first=Amy |work=Foreign Policy |publisher=[[Graham Holdings]] |access-date=September 20, 2019 |archive-date=September 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920210034/https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/09/20/is-trump-trying-to-get-ukraine-to-take-out-biden-for-him/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and [[First impeachment of Donald Trump|Trump's impeachment]] by the House of Representatives.
-Beginning in 2019, Trump and his allies falsely accused Biden of getting the Ukrainian prosecutor general [[Viktor Shokin]] fired because he was supposedly pursuing an investigation into [[Burisma Holdings]], which employed Hunter Biden. Biden was accused of withholding $1{{nbsp}}billion in aid from Ukraine in this effort. In 2015, Biden pressured the Ukrainian parliament to remove Shokin because the United States, the European Union and other international organizations considered Shokin corrupt and ineffective, and in particular because Shokin was not assertively investigating Burisma. The withholding of the $1{{nbsp}}billion in aid was part of this official policy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/11/donald-trump/trump-ad-misleads-about-biden-ukraine-and-prosecut/|title=Donald Trump ad misleads about Joe Biden, Ukraine and the prosecutor|website=PolitiFact|date=October 9, 2019|access-date=November 14, 2020|archive-date=November 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201111194554/https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2019/oct/11/donald-trump/trump-ad-misleads-about-biden-ukraine-and-prosecut/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/27/quick-guide-trumps-false-claims-about-ukraine-bidens/|title=A quick guide to President Trump's false claims about Ukraine and the Bidens|first=Glenn|last=Kessler|date=September 27, 2019|website=The Washington Post|access-date=November 14, 2020|archive-date=November 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201114222235/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/27/quick-guide-trumps-false-claims-about-ukraine-bidens/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/23/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-hunter-biden-joe-biden/index.html|title=Fact check: What Trump has been getting wrong on Biden and Ukraine|first=Daniel|last=Dale|publisher=CNN|date=September 25, 2020|access-date=November 14, 2020|archive-date=November 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201120000522/https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/23/politics/fact-check-trump-ukraine-hunter-biden-joe-biden/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>In March 2016 testimony to the [[Senate Foreign Relations Committee]], former ambassador to Ukraine [[John E. Herbst]] said, "By late fall of 2015, the EU and the United States joined the chorus of those seeking Mr. Shokin's removal" and that Joe Biden "spoke publicly about this before and during his December visit to Kyiv." During the same hearing, assistant secretary of state [[Victoria Nuland]] said, "We have pegged our next $1{{nbsp}}billion loan guarantee, first and foremost, to having a rebooting of the reform coalition so that we know who we are working with, but secondarily, to ensuring that the prosecutor general's office gets cleaned up."{{cite web |title=Ukrainian Reforms Two Years After the Maidan Revolution and the Russian Invasion |publisher=U.S. Government Publishing Office |url=https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03%2015%2016%20Ukrainian%20Reforms%20Two%20Years%20After%20the%20Maidan%20Revolution%20and%20the%20Russian%20Invasion.pdf |date=March 15, 2016 |access-date=November 14, 2020 |archive-date=November 19, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191119210006/https://www.foreign.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/03%2015%2016%20Ukrainian%20Reforms%20Two%20Years%20After%20the%20Maidan%20Revolution%20and%20the%20Russian%20Invasion.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Senate Homeland Security Committee]] and [[Senate Finance Committee]], led by Republicans, investigated allegations of wrongdoing by the Bidens in Ukraine, ultimately releasing a report in September 2020 that detailed no evidence of wrongdoing by Joe Biden, and concluded that it was "not clear" whether Hunter Biden's role in Burisma "affected U.S. policy toward Ukraine".<ref>{{Cite news|last=Fandos|first=Nicholas|author-link=Nicholas Fandos|date=September 23, 2020|title=Republican Inquiry Finds No Evidence of Wrongdoing by Biden|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html|url-status=live|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=September 24, 2020|access-date=July 18, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924004731/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/23/us/politics/biden-inquiry-republicans-johnson.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Blake|first=Aaron|date=September 23, 2020|title=GOP's Hunter Biden report doesn't back up Trump's actual conspiracy theory — or anything close to it|language=en-US|work=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/23/gops-hunter-biden-report-doesnt-back-up-trumps-actual-conspiracy-theory-or-anything-close-it/|url-status=live|access-date=July 18, 2021|issn=0190-8286|archive-date=September 24, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200924203416/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/09/23/gops-hunter-biden-report-doesnt-back-up-trumps-actual-conspiracy-theory-or-anything-close-it/}}</ref>
-In March 2019 and April 2019, Biden was accused by eight women of previous instances of inappropriate physical contact, such as embracing, touching or kissing.<ref>{{cite web|title=All the Women Who Have Spoken Out Against Joe Biden|url=https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html|work=[[The Cut (website)|The Cut]]|access-date=May 19, 2021|date=April 12, 2020|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20201217214742/https://www.thecut.com/2020/04/joe-biden-accuser-accusations-allegations.html|url-status=live|first1=Amanda|last1=Arnold|first2=Claire|last2=Lampen}}</ref> Biden had previously described himself as a "tactile politician" and admitted this behavior has caused trouble for him.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-joe-biden-kiss-lucy-flores-20190329-story.html |title=Nevada Democrat accuses Joe Biden of touching and kissing her without consent at 2014 event |access-date=December 30, 2019 |last=Brice-Saddler |first=Michael |date=March 29, 2019 |website=Los Angeles Times |archive-date=June 20, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090227/https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-joe-biden-kiss-lucy-flores-20190329-story.html/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In April 2019, Biden pledged to be more "respectful of people's personal space".<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Ember|first1=Sydney|last2=Martin|first2=Jonathan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/joe-biden-women-video.html|title=Joe Biden, in video, says he will be 'more mindful' of personal space|date=April 3, 2019|newspaper=The New York Times|access-date=March 28, 2020|archive-date=June 20, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200620090251/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/03/us/politics/joe-biden-women-video.html/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Throughout 2019, Biden stayed generally ahead of other Democrats in national polls.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/nbc-wsj-poll-former-vice-president-joe-biden-frontrunner-in/article_24e6b0ee-2256-11ea-9a8d-e79be1ad7f68.html|title=NBC/WSJ poll: Former Vice-President Joe Biden frontrunner in race for Democratic nomination|date=December 19, 2019|publisher=[[WPSD-TV]]|access-date=February 10, 2020|archive-date=February 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200213155327/https://www.wpsdlocal6.com/news/nbc-wsj-poll-former-vice-president-joe-biden-frontrunner-in/article_24e6b0ee-2256-11ea-9a8d-e79be1ad7f68.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-is-the-front-runner-but-there-is-no-clear-favorite/|title=Biden Is The Front-Runner, But There's No Clear Favorite|last=Silver|first=Nate|date=January 10, 2020|work=FiveThirtyEight|access-date=February 10, 2020|archive-date=February 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200214220639/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-is-the-front-runner-but-there-is-no-clear-favorite/|url-status=live}}</ref> Despite this, he finished fourth in the [[2020 Iowa caucuses|Iowa caucuses]], and eight days later, fifth in the [[New Hampshire presidential primary|New Hampshire primary]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title=2020 Iowa Democratic Caucuses Live Results|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/iowa/|date=February 3, 2020|website=The Washington Post|access-date=March 22, 2020|archive-date=December 7, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201207234356/https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/election-results/iowa/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=February 11, 2020|title=New Hampshire results|work=NBC News|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-primary-elections/new-hampshire-results|access-date=February 12, 2020|archive-date=February 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200212082135/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2020-primary-elections/new-hampshire-results|url-status=live}}</ref> He performed better in the [[Nevada presidential caucuses|Nevada caucuses]], reaching the 15% required for delegates, but still was behind [[Bernie Sanders 2020 presidential campaign|Bernie Sanders]] by 21.6 percentage points.<ref>{{Cite web|title=2020 Nevada Caucus Results|url=https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/nevada/|access-date=November 14, 2020|website=[[Politico]]|archive-date=November 15, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201115105350/https://www.politico.com/2020-election/results/nevada/|url-status=live}}</ref> Making strong appeals to black voters on the campaign trail and in the South Carolina debate, Biden won the [[2020 South Carolina Democratic primary|South Carolina primary]] by more than 28 points.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://apnews.com/article/b9872b58b495fd17044f359338ab3f2a|title=Biden wins South Carolina, aims for Super Tuesday momentum|date=February 29, 2020|publisher=Associated Press|access-date=March 1, 2020|first1=Steve|first2=Meg|last1=Kinnard|first3=Bill|last2=Barrow|last3=x|archive-date=February 29, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200229231101/https://apnews.com/b9872b58b495fd17044f359338ab3f2a|url-status=live}}</ref> After the withdrawals and subsequent endorsements of candidates [[Pete Buttigieg]] and [[Amy Klobuchar]], he made large gains in the March{{nbsp}}3 [[Super Tuesday]] primary elections. Biden won [[Results of the 2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries|18 of the next 26 contests]], including Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, putting him in the lead overall.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Montanaro |first1=Domenico |date=March 4, 2020 |access-date=November 14, 2020 |title=5 Takeaways From Super Tuesday And Joe Biden's Big Night |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/811868704/5-takeaways-from-super-tuesday-and-joe-bidens-big-night |publisher=NPR |archive-date=November 13, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113205101/https://www.npr.org/2020/03/04/811868704/5-takeaways-from-super-tuesday-and-joe-bidens-big-night |url-status=live }}</ref> Elizabeth Warren and Mike Bloomberg soon dropped out, and Biden expanded his lead with victories over Sanders in four states (Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri) on March 10.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/2020-primary-election-takeaways/index.html|title=5 takeaways as Biden takes command of Democratic race on Super Tuesday II|publisher=CNN|access-date=March 11, 2020|date=March 11, 2020|first1=Eric|last1=Bradner|first2=Gregory|last2=Krieg|first3=Dan|last3=Merica|archive-date=March 11, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200311093752/https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/11/politics/2020-primary-election-takeaways/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-In late March 2020, Tara Reade, one of the eight women who previously accused Biden of inappropriate physical contact, made a new allegation against Biden, [[Joe Biden sexual assault allegation|accusing him of a 1993 sexual assault]].<ref name="nytimesallegations">{{cite news |last1=Lerer |first1=Lisa |last2=Ember |first2=Sydney |title=Examining Tara Reade's Sexual Assault Allegation Against Joe Biden |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html |access-date=April 14, 2020 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=April 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414043025/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/us/politics/joe-biden-tara-reade-sexual-assault-complaint.html |archive-date=April 14, 2020}}</ref> There were inconsistences between Reade's 2019 and 2020 allegations.<ref>{{cite news |last1=McGann |first1=Laura |title=The agonizing story of Tara Reade |url=https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation |access-date=May 19, 2021 |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |date=May 7, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507224441/https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2020/5/7/21248713/tara-reade-joe-biden-sexual-assault-accusation |archive-date=May 7, 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> Biden and his campaign vehemently denied the sexual assault allegation.<ref name="WaPoDenial">{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sexual-assault-allegation-by-former-biden-senate-aide-emerges-in-campaign-draws-denial/2020/04/12/bc070d66-7067-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html|title=Sexual assault allegation by former Biden Senate aide emerges in campaign, draws denial|date=April 12, 2020|access-date=April 14, 2020|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|first1=Beth|last1=Reinhard|first2=Elise|last2=Viebeck|first3=Matt|last3=Viser|first4=Alice|last4=Crites|archive-date=April 28, 2020|archive-url=https://archive.today/20200428141345/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/sexual-assault-allegation-by-former-biden-senate-aide-emerges-in-campaign-draws-denial/2020/04/12/bc070d66-7067-11ea-b148-e4ce3fbd85b5_story.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Phillips|first=Amber|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/30/who-is-tara-reade-biden-accuser/|title=What we know about Tara Reade's sexual assault allegation against Joe Biden|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]|date=May 1, 2020|access-date=May 1, 2020|archive-date=June 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200618153105/https://www.washingtonpost.com//politics/2020/04/30/who-is-tara-reade-biden-accuser/|url-status=live}}</ref>
-When Sanders suspended his campaign on April 8, 2020, Biden became the Democratic Party's [[presumptive nominee]] for president.<ref name="NYT4-8-2020">{{Cite news|last=Ember|first=Sydney|date=April 8, 2020|title=Bernie Sanders Drops Out of 2020 Democratic Race for President|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html|access-date=April 8, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408160232/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/08/us/politics/bernie-sanders-drops-out.html|url-status=live}}</ref> On April 13, Sanders endorsed Biden in a live-streamed discussion from their homes.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-endorsement.html|title=Bernie Sanders Endorses Joe Biden for President|last1=Ember|first1=Sydney|last2=Glueck|first2=Katie|date=April 13, 2020|work=The New York Times|access-date=April 13, 2020|archive-date=April 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200413182004/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/us/politics/bernie-sanders-joe-biden-endorsement.html|url-status=live}}</ref> Former President [[Barack Obama]] endorsed Biden the next day.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Merica |first=Dan |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/obama-endorses-biden/index.html |title=Obama endorses Biden for president in video message |date=April 14, 2020 |publisher=CNN |access-date=April 14, 2020 |archive-date=April 14, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200414183659/https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/14/politics/obama-endorses-biden/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In March 2020, Biden committed to choosing a woman as his running mate.<ref>{{cite news|title=Joe Biden commits to picking a woman as his running mate|work=[[Axios (website)|Axios]]|url=https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-woman-running-mate-6add0a5b-2600-43b0-8e83-b38d74042881.html|date=March 16, 2020|access-date=May 3, 2020|archive-date=October 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201008164423/https://www.axios.com/joe-biden-woman-running-mate-6add0a5b-2600-43b0-8e83-b38d74042881.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In June, Biden met the 1,991-delegate threshold needed to secure the party's presidential nomination.<ref name="delegates">{{Cite news|last=Linskey|first=Annie|date=June 9, 2020|title=Biden clinches the Democratic nomination after securing more than 1,991 delegates|work=[[The Washington Post]]|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/biden-clinches-the-democratic-nomination-after-securing-more-than-1991-delegates/2020/06/09/ee8a4e66-a7e3-11ea-b473-04905b1af82b_story.html|access-date=January 27, 2021}}</ref> On August 11, he 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.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53739323 |title=Biden VP pick: Kamala Harris chosen as running mate |website=BBC News |date=August 11, 2020 |access-date=August 11, 2020 |archive-date=October 10, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201010223842/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53739323 |url-status=live }}</ref>
-On August 18, 2020, Biden was officially nominated at the [[2020 Democratic National Convention]] as the Democratic Party nominee for president in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 election]].<ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=DNC Nominates Joe Biden to Lead Nation Through Pandemic |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-to-nominate-joe-biden-bill-clinton-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-to-speak-11597777946 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=August 18, 2020 |access-date=August 19, 2020 |first1=Joshua |last1=Jamerson |first2=Chad |last2=Day |archive-date=August 18, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200818221830/https://www.wsj.com/articles/democrats-to-nominate-joe-biden-bill-clinton-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-to-speak-11597777946 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |title=Joe Biden officially becomes the Democratic Party's nominee on convention's second night |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/18/democratic-national-convention-live-updates/ |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=August 19, 2020 |access-date=August 19, 2020 |first1=Toluse |last1=Olorunnipa |first2=Chelsea |last2=Janes |first3=Felicia |last3=Sonmez |first4=Colby |last4=Itkowitz |first5=John |last5=Wagner |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117190515/https://www.washingtonpost.com/elections/2020/08/18/democratic-national-convention-live-updates/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Schultz |first=Marisa |date=August 18, 2020 |title=Democrats formally nominate Joe Biden for president in virtual roll call |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-formally-nominate-joe-biden-to-be-2020-presidential-nominee |publisher=[[Fox News]] |access-date=August 19, 2020 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115190502/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/democrats-formally-nominate-joe-biden-to-be-2020-presidential-nominee |url-status=live }}</ref>
-=== Presidential transition ===
-{{further|Presidential transition of Joe Biden}}
-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|George H.{{nbsp}}W. Bush]] in [[1992 United States presidential election|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 [[Attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election|overturn the election results]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2020/12/09/bidens-transition-continues-trump-refuses-concede-timeline/3801714001/|title=Timeline: Trump insists he won the election as Biden prepares to take the White House|last=Santucci|first=Jeanine|date=December 9, 2020|work=USA Today|access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref> Biden's transition was delayed by several weeks as the White House ordered federal agencies not to cooperate.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/techtank/2020/11/18/with-only-11-weeks-a-transition-delayed-is-a-transition-denied/|title=With only 11 weeks, a transition delayed is a transition denied|last=Wheeler|first=Tom|date=November 18, 2020|work=The Brookings Institution|access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref> On November{{nbsp}}23, [[General Services Administration|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.<ref>{{cite news|work=[[CNN]]|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html|title=First on CNN: GSA tells Biden that transition can formally begin|author1=Kristen Holmes|author2=Jeremy Herb|date=November 23, 2020|access-date=November 23, 2020|archive-date=November 23, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201123232709/https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/23/politics/transition-biden-gsa-begin/index.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-On January 6, 2021, during Congress's 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."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2021-01-13/transcript-of-trumps-speech-at-rally-before-us-capitol-riot|title= Transcript of Trump's Speech at Rally Before US Capitol Riot|website= US News|access-date= February 9, 2021}}</ref> Soon after, they [[storming of the United States Capitol|stormed 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." He specifically called on Trump to "go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege", adding, "it must end now."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://people.com/politics/biden-speaks-capitol-riots/|title= Joe Biden Calls on Donald Trump to 'Step Up' amid Chaos Led by 'Extremists' at Capitol|website= People|first=Lindsay|last=Kimble|access-date= February 9, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-us-capitol-c68378d16055c53e3942da66e968ea6b|title= Biden urges restoring decency after 'assault' on democracy|website= Associated Press|access-date= February 9, 2021}}</ref> After the Capitol was cleared, Congress resumed its joint session and officially certified the election results with Pence declaring Biden and Harris the winners.<ref name = USATODAY>{{Cite news|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/congress-count-electoral-college-votes-biden-win/6556555002/|author1=King, Ledyard|author2=Groppe, Maureen|author3=Wu, Nicholas|author4=Jansen, Bart|author5=Subramanian, Courtney|author6=Garrison, Joey|title=Pence confirms Biden as winner, officially ending electoral count after day of violence at Capitol|website=[[USA Today]]|access-date=January 7, 2021|date=January 6, 2021|url-status=live|archive-date=January 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107100543/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2021/01/06/congress-count-electoral-college-votes-biden-win/6556555002/}}</ref>
-In December 2020, Biden received his first dose of the [[Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine]] at the [[Christiana Hospital]] in [[Delaware]], publicly taking the vaccine on live television to build trust in the vaccine and to encourage Americans to get inoculated.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Higgins |first1=Tucker |date=December 21, 2020|title=Joe Biden receives Covid vaccine on live television, encourages Americans to get inoculated |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/joe-biden-receives-covid-vaccine-on-live-televisio.html |website=CNBC |access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last1=Karni|first1=Annie|last2=Weiland|first2=Noah|date=December 21, 2020|title=Biden receives the coronavirus vaccine.|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/biden-coronavirus-vaccine.html|access-date=January 15, 2021|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=January 14, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114033749/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/21/us/biden-coronavirus-vaccine.html|url-status=live}}</ref> He returned for his second dose in January 2021.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kalich|first=Sydney|date=January 11, 2021|title=President-elect Biden receives final COVID-19 vaccine dose|url=https://www.wiproud.com/news/washington-dc/president-elect-biden-to-get-final-covid-19-vaccine-dose/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115080842/https://www.wiproud.com/news/washington-dc/president-elect-biden-to-get-final-covid-19-vaccine-dose/|archive-date=January 15, 2021|access-date=January 15, 2021|website=FOX2548 & WIProud|language=en-US}}</ref>
-==Presidency (2021–present)==
-{{Main|Presidency of Joe Biden}}
-{{For timeline|Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency}}
-{{See also|Cabinet of Joe Biden}}
-[[File:President Biden taking oath of office (cropped).png|thumb|222px|Biden takes [[Oath of office of the President of the United States|the oath of office]] administered by [[Chief Justice of the United States|Chief Justice]] [[John Roberts|John G. Roberts Jr.]] at [[United States Capitol|the Capitol]], January 20, 2021]]
-=== Inauguration ===
-{{main|Inauguration of Joe Biden}}
-[[Inauguration of Joe Biden|Biden was inaugurated]] as the 46th president of the United States on January 20, 2021.<ref name="hunnicutt">{{cite news|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/assuming-u-s-presidency-biden-tells-divided-nation-democracy-has-prevailed-idUSKBN29P0HG|title=Taking helm of divided nation, U.S. President Biden calls for end to 'uncivil war'|date=January 20, 2021|last1=Hunnicutt|first1=Trevor|last2=Zengerle|first2=Patricia|last3=Renshaw|first3=Jarrett|work=Reuters|access-date=January 20, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120171341/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-inauguration/assuming-u-s-presidency-biden-tells-divided-nation-democracy-has-prevailed-idUSKBN29P0HG|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden inauguration: New president sworn in amid Trump snub|language=en-GB|work=BBC News|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55736856|access-date=January 20, 2021|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120145011/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55736856|url-status=live}}</ref>{{refn|name=GSA01b|group=n|Like previous potential transition teams, such as that of unsuccessful candidate [[Mitt Romney]] in [[Planned presidential transition of Mitt Romney|2012]], the Biden transition team remained eligible for government funding in accordance with the [[Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010]],<ref name="parker">{{cite news|last1=Parker|first1=Ashley|title=Campaigning Aside, Team Plans a Romney Presidency|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/politics/mitt-romneys-transition-team-is-hard-at-work.html?_r=0|access-date=January 22, 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=August 16, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180205184839/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/17/us/politics/mitt-romneys-transition-team-is-hard-at-work.html?_r=0|archive-date=February 5, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="nr">{{cite news|last1=Fund|first1=John|title=What was Romney Planning?|url=http://www.nationalreview.com/article/338182/what-was-romney-planning-john-fund|access-date=January 22, 2016|work=[[National Review]]|date=January 13, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131073601/http://www.nationalreview.com/article/338182/what-was-romney-planning-john-fund|archive-date=January 31, 2016 |url-status=live}}</ref> and Biden had been eligible to receive classified intelligence briefings since his nomination in August.<ref name=CBS2020-09-18-01a>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-receives-first-classified-intelligence-briefing/|work=CBS News|title=Biden receives first classified intelligence briefing |date=September 18, 2020 |first1=Olivia |last1=Gazis |first2=Bo |last2=Erickson |first3=Grace |last3=Segers |access-date=October 22, 2020 |archive-date=November 1, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101043140/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-receives-first-classified-intelligence-briefing/|url-status=live}}</ref> At least some government agencies had reportedly started their transition plans as early as November{{nbsp}}9, 2020, with airspace being restricted over his home, and "the Secret Service{{nbsp}}... using agents from its presidential protective detail for the president-elect and his family."<ref name=TribuneIndia2020-11-09-01a>{{cite news|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/health/trump-faces-calls-to-work-with-biden-team-on-transition-168288|newspaper=[[The Tribune (Chandigarh)|The Tribune]]|title=Trump faces calls to work with Biden team on transition|date=November 9, 2020|access-date=November 9, 2020|archive-date=January 15, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115190525/https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/health/trump-faces-calls-to-work-with-biden-team-on-transition-168288|url-status=live}}</ref>}} At 78, he is the oldest person to have assumed the office.<ref name="hunnicutt"/> He is the second [[Catholic]] president (after [[John F. Kennedy]])<ref>{{Cite web|author=NBC News|date=January 19, 2021|title=Biden to become the second Catholic president in U.S. history, after JFK|url=https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-become-the-second-catholic-president-in-u-s-history-after-jfk-99673157918|access-date=January 20, 2021|website=NBC News|language=en|archive-date=January 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210119212606/https://www.nbcnews.com/now/video/biden-to-become-the-second-catholic-president-in-u-s-history-after-jfk-99673157918|url-status=live}}</ref> and the first president whose home state is [[Delaware]].<ref>{{Cite web|last1=Cormier|first1=Ryan|last2=Talorico|first2=Patricia|date=November 7, 2020|title=Delaware history is made: The First State gets its first president in Joe Biden|url=https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/07/one-us-delaware-pride-soars-biden-makes-history/6121243002/|access-date=January 20, 2021|website=The News Journal|language=en-US|archive-date=November 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108021346/https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/politics/2020/11/07/one-us-delaware-pride-soars-biden-makes-history/6121243002/|url-status=live}}</ref> He is the second non-incumbent vice president (after [[Richard Nixon]] in [[1968 United States presidential election|1968]]) to be elected president.<ref name="Azari">{{Cite news|last=Azari|first=Julia|date=August 20, 2020|title=Biden Had To Fight For The Presidential Nomination. But Most VPs Have To.|work=FiveThirtyEight|url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-had-to-fight-for-the-presidential-nomination-but-most-vps-have-to/|url-status=live|access-date=August 25, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117190453/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/biden-had-to-fight-for-the-presidential-nomination-but-most-vps-have-to/|archive-date=November 17, 2020}}</ref> He is also the first president from the [[Silent Generation]].<ref>{{Citeweb|title=At long last, the silent generation's hour has come|url=https://www.ft.com/content/b66a24e4-5eea-11ea-b0ab-339c2307bcd4}}</ref>
-Biden's inauguration was "a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration" due to coronavirus precautions as well as massively increased security measures because of the January 6 insurrection. Biden took the oath of office on the Capitol's west steps and gave an inaugural address, but there were no spectators on the Mall and no in-person parades or inaugural balls. Trump did not attend, becoming the first outgoing president since [[First inauguration of Ulysses S. Grant|1869]] to not attend his successor's inauguration.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.ndtv.com/world-news/why-joe-biden-swearing-in-will-be-muted-affair-unlike-previous-inaugurations-2353966|title=Masked Crowd, No Trump: Why Biden Inauguration Will Be Like No Other|date=January 18, 2021|work=Agence France-Presse|publisher=NDTV|access-date=21 June 2021}}</ref>
-=== First 100 days ===
-In his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 executive orders, more than most recent presidents did in their first 100 days. By his third day, orders had included rejoining the [[Paris Agreement|Paris Climate Agreement]], ending the state of national emergency at the [[Mexico–United States border|border with Mexico]], directing the government to rejoin the [[World Health Organization]], [[100 Days Masking Challenge|face mask requirements]] on [[Federal lands|federal property]], measures to combat [[hunger in the United States]],<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden's first act: Orders on pandemic, climate, immigration|url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-executive-orders-b5b409da08e42414b9a12e2c67ee2df6|access-date=January 21, 2021|website=Associated Press|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120230130/https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-executive-orders-b5b409da08e42414b9a12e2c67ee2df6|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Erikson|first=Bo|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden signs executive actions on COVID, climate change, immigration and more|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-executive-orders-watch-live-stream-today-2021-01-20/|access-date=January 21, 2021|website=CBS News|language=en-US|archive-date=January 20, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210120233631/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-executive-orders-watch-live-stream-today-2021-01-20/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/22/joe-biden-is-taking-executive-action-at-a-record-pace|title= Joe Biden is taking executive action at a record pace|work= [[The Economist]]|date= January 22, 2021|access-date= January 23, 2021|archive-date= January 24, 2021|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210124002448/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2021/01/22/joe-biden-is-taking-executive-action-at-a-record-pace|url-status= live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.politico.com/news/2021/01/22/biden-executive-orders-hunger-workers-461270 |title= Biden signs executive orders aimed at combating hunger, protecting workers|work= [[Politico]]|date = January 22, 2021|access-date=January 23, 2021}}</ref> and revoking permits for the construction of the [[Keystone XL pipeline]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Allassan|first1=Fadel|first2=Ursula|last2=Perano|date=January 20, 2021|title=Biden will issue executive order to rescind Keystone XL pipeline permit|url=https://www.axios.com/biden-keystone-pipeline-9ffcedfb-42c1-4778-8183-27d858f0c966.html|work=Axios|access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Massie|first=Graeme|date=January 23, 2021|title=Canada's Trudeau 'disappointed' with Biden order to cancel Keystone pipeline|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trudeau-biden-keystone-xl-pipeline-b1791756.html|work=The Independent|access-date=January 25, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Volcovici|first1=Rod |last2=Nickel|first2=Valerie|date=January 21, 2021|title=TC Energy cuts jobs as Keystone pipeline nixed, but markets start to move on|agency=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biden-keystone-idUSKBN29Q1T8|access-date=January 24, 2021}}</ref> In his first two weeks in office, Biden signed more executive orders than any other president since [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] had in their first month in office.<ref name="With 28 Executive Orders Signed, President Biden Is Off To A Record Start">{{cite web |last1=Keith |first1=Tamara |date=February 3, 2021 |title=With 28 Executive Orders Signed, President Biden Is Off To A Record Start |url=https://www.npr.org/2021/02/03/963380189/with-28-executive-orders-signed-president-biden-is-off-to-a-record-start |website=NPR |access-date=February 4, 2021}}</ref>
-On February 4, 2021, the Biden administration announced that the United States was ending its support for the [[Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen|Saudi-led bombing campaign]] in [[Yemen]]. In his first visit to the State Department as president, Biden said "this war has to end" and that the conflict had created a "humanitarian and strategic catastrophe."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Knickmeyer |first1=Ellen |date=February 5, 2021 |title=Biden ending US support for Saudi-led offensive in Yemen |url=https://apnews.com/article/biden-end-support-saudi-offenseive-yemen-b68f58493dbfc530b9fcfdb80a13098f |website=Associated Press |access-date=February 5, 2021}}</ref> On February 25, the Biden administration "[[February 2021 United States airstrike in Syria|struck a site]] in [[Syria]] used by two Iranian-backed militia groups in response to rocket attacks on American forces in the region in the past two weeks." This marked the first known action by the military under Biden.<ref name="syria_strikes">{{cite web |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/02/25/politics/us-iraq-iran/index.html |title=US carries out air strikes in Syria targeting Iranian backed militias |first1=Barbara |first2=Oren |first3=Nicole |last1=Starr |last2=Liebermann |last3=Gaouette |date=February 25, 2021 |publisher=[[CNN]] |access-date=March 2, 2021}}</ref> On April 14, Biden announced that the United States [[2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan|would delay the withdrawal of all troops]] from the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|war in Afghanistan]] until September 11 of that year, ending the country's direct military involvement in Afghanistan after 20 years. The decision, changing an upcoming May target set by the Trump administration, met with a wide range of reactions, from support and relief to trepidation at the possible collapse of the Afghan government without American support.<ref>{{Cite news|last1=Sanger|first1=David E.|last2=Shear|first2=Michael D.|date=April 15, 2021|title=Biden, Setting Afghanistan Withdrawal, Says 'It Is Time to End the Forever War'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/14/us/politics/biden-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal.html|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=April 23, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Wadington|first=Katie|title=Afghanistan withdrawal draws strong Capitol Hill reactions, making some strange alliances|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/04/14/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-plan-draws-strong-reaction-capitol-hill/7220926002/|website=USA Today|language=en-US|access-date=April 23, 2021}}</ref>
-[[File:Cabinet of President Joe Biden in April 2021.jpg|thumb|Biden with his [[Cabinet of Joe Biden|Cabinet]], April 2021]]
-On March 11, the first anniversary of COVID-19 being declared a global pandemic by the [[World Health Organization]], Biden signed into law the [[American Rescue Plan Act of 2021]], a $1.9 trillion [[Stimulus (economics)|economic stimulus]] relief package he proposed and lobbied for that aimed to speed up the United States' recovery from the [[Economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|economic]] and health effects of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in the United States|COVID-19 pandemic]] and the ongoing [[COVID-19 recession#United States|recession]].<ref>[[U.S. Congress]], ''[https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/house-bill/1319 H.R. 1319]'', United States Congress, March 11, 2021</ref> The package included direct payments to most Americans, an extension of increased unemployment benefits, funds for vaccine distribution and school reopenings, support for small businesses and state and local governments, and expansions of health insurance subsidies and the child tax credit. Biden's initial proposal included an increase of the [[Minimum wage in the United States|federal minimum wage]] to $15 per hour, but after [[Parliamentarian of the United States Senate|Senate parliamentarian]] [[Elizabeth MacDonough]] 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.<ref name="cnn.com">{{Cite web |last1=Luhby |first1=Tami |last2=Lobosco |first2=Katie |date=January 14, 2021 |title=Here's what's in Biden's $1.9 trillion economic rescue package |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/14/politics/biden-economic-rescue-package-coronavirus-stimulus/index.html |access-date=January 16, 2021 |website=CNN}}</ref><ref name="nytimes.com">{{Cite news |last1=Tankersley|first1=Jim|last2=Crowley|first2=Michael|date=January 14, 2021|title=Here are the highlights of Biden's $1.9 trillion 'American Rescue Plan.'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/14/us/biden-american-rescue-plan.html|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|access-date=January 16, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Kaplan|first1=Thomas|title=What's in the Stimulus Bill? A Guide to Where the $1.9 Trillion Is Going|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/us/politics/whats-in-the-stimulus-bill.html|website=The New York Times|access-date=March 13, 2021}}</ref>
-Also in March, amid [[Mexico–United States border crisis|a rise in migrants entering the U.S. from Mexico]], Biden told migrants, "Don't come over." He said that the U.S. was arranging a plan for migrants to "apply for asylum in place", without leaving their original locations. 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.<ref>{{cite news |title=Biden administration faces pressure on immigration amid influx |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/3/17/biden-administration-faces-pressure-on-immigration-amid-surge |access-date=March 20, 2021 |work=[[Al Jazeera]] |date=March 17, 2021}}</ref> 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 manage these children.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Miroff|first1=Nick|date=March 14, 2021|title=Biden will deploy FEMA to care for teenagers and children crossing border in record numbers|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/fema-border-unaccompanied-minors/2021/03/13/738366a4-8455-11eb-bb5a-ad9a91faa4ef_story.html|work=[[The Washington Post]]|access-date=March 23, 2021}}</ref>
-According to some analysts, such as Alexander Nazaryan, Biden broke with both Obama and Trump by spending more and by [[2021 withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan|withdrawing U.S. troops from Afghanistan]]. Nazaryan writes that Biden's approach "has been marked by an obvious rejection of the daily chaos of the Trump years but also, more subtly, by a no-less-decisive rejection of Obama's proceduralism. His aggressive approach to governing has put Republicans on the back foot, while delighting progressives who didn't think that the 78-year-old former Delaware senator had a wholly original act in the works".<ref name="Nazaryan 2021">{{cite news|last=Nazaryan|first=Alexander|date=April 14, 2021|url=https://news.yahoo.com/biden-breaks-with-obama-as-well-as-trump-on-everything-from-afghanistan-to-spending-211954060.html|title=Biden breaks with Obama, as well as Trump, on everything from Afghanistan to spending|agency=Yahoo|accessdate=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
-=== Remainder of 2021 ===
-[[File:P20210607AS-0995 (51268398621).jpg|thumb|Biden meeting with [[Secretary General of NATO]] [[Jens Stoltenberg]] in the [[Oval Office]], June 7, 2021]]
-[[File:Reuven Rivlin. Farewell visit to the United States, June 2021 (GPOHA1 4388).jpg|thumb|left|Biden meeting with Israeli President [[Reuven Rivlin]], June 28, 2021]]
-On April 22–23, Biden held an [[2021 Leaders' Climate Summit|international climate summit]] at which he announced that the U.S. would cut its [[greenhouse gas emissions]] by 50%–52% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels. Other countries also increased their pledges. If the pledges made at the summit are met, they will cut global [[greenhouse gas emissions]] by 2.6–3.7 [[GtCO2e|Gt{{CO2}}e]] by 2030.<ref>{{cite web |title=New momentum reduces emissions gap, but huge gap remains - analysis |url=https://climateactiontracker.org/press/new-momentum-reduces-emissions-gap-but-huge-gap-remains-analysis/ |website=Carbon Action Tracker |access-date=27 April 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Newburger |first1=Emma |title=Here's what countries pledged on climate change at Biden's global summit |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2021/04/22/biden-climate-summit-2021-what-brazil-japan-canada-others-pledged.html |access-date=29 April 2021 |agency=CNBC |date=22 April 2021}}</ref>
-On April 28, Biden delivered his [[2021 Joe Biden speech to a joint session of Congress|first address to a joint session of Congress]], in which he highlighted the effectiveness of [[COVID-19 vaccine]]s and addressed withdrawing troops from Afghanistan, the [[murder of George Floyd]], and the [[2021 storming of the United States Capitol|storming of the U.S. Capitol]] while urging Congress to pass comprehensive immigration, gun, and health care reform.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Lemire|first1=Jonathan|last2=Boak|first2=Josh|date=April 28, 2021|title=Biden to the nation and world: 'America is rising anew'|url=https://www.startribune.com/biden-to-the-nation-and-world-america-is-rising-anew/600051057/|website=Star Tribune|access-date=April 28, 2021}}</ref> In May 2021, during [[2021 Israel–Palestine crisis|a flareup]] in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]], Biden expressed his support for Israel, saying "my party still supports Israel" amid disagreement from some Democrats.<ref>{{cite web|date=May 21, 2021|title=Remarks by President Biden and H.E. Moon Jae-in, President of the Republic of Korea at Press Conference|url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/05/21/remarks-by-president-biden-and-h-e-moon-jae-in-president-of-the-republic-of-korea-at-press-conference/|access-date=June 23, 2021|website=The White House}}</ref>
-In June 2021, Biden took his first trip abroad as president. In eight days he visited Belgium, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He attended [[47th G7 summit|a G7 summit]], [[2021 Brussels summit|a NATO summit]], and an [[European Union|EU]] summit, and held [[2021 Russia–United States summit|one-on-one talks]] with Russian president [[Vladimir Putin]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/bidens-first-trip-abroad-whirlwind-of-meetings-with-allies-rivals-2021-6|title=Biden's first trip abroad will be a whirlwind of major meetings with key allies and top rivals|last=Haltiwanger|first=John|date=June 3, 2021|work=Business Insider|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
-On June 17, Biden signed the [[Juneteenth National Independence Day Act]], which officially declared [[Juneteenth]] a [[Federal holidays in the United States|federal holiday]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Most Federal Employees Will Receive Friday Off for Juneteenth|url=https://www.govexec.com/pay-benefits/2021/06/most-federal-employees-will-receive-friday-juneteenth/174796/|access-date=June 17, 2021|website=Government Executive|language=en}}</ref> Juneteenth is the first new federal holiday since [[Martin Luther King Jr. Day]] was declared a holiday in 1986.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/biden-juneteenth-holiday-bill-sign/|title=Biden signs bill making Juneteenth a federal holiday|last1=Watson|first1=Kathryn|last2=Quinn|first2=Melissa|date=June 18, 2021|work=CBS News|access-date=19 June 2021}}</ref>
-In July 2021, amid a slowing of [[COVID-19 vaccination in the United States|the COVID-19 vaccination rate in the country]] and the spread of the [[SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant]], Biden said that the country has "a pandemic for those who haven’t gotten the vaccination" and that it was therefore "gigantically important" for Americans to be vaccinated, touting the vaccines' effectiveness against hospitalizations and deaths from COVID-19.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jaffe |first1=Alexandra |last2=Madhani |first2=Aamer |title=Biden says getting COVID-19 vaccine ‘gigantically important’ |url=https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-business-health-government-and-politics-coronavirus-pandemic-06b4c8c4e0a1d595d94883b24c4ed020 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=July 22, 2021}}</ref> He also criticized the prevalence of [[COVID-19 misinformation]] on social media, saying it was "killing people".<ref>{{cite news |title=Covid misinformation on Facebook is killing people - Biden |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-57870778 |access-date=July 23, 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=July 17, 2021}}</ref>
-==Political positions==
-{{Main|Political positions of Joe Biden}}
-Biden is considered a [[moderate Democrat]]<ref>{{Cite news |first=John |last=Kruzel |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/06/joe-biden/joe-biden-claims-he-was-staunch-liberal-senate-he-/ |date=May 6, 2019 |title=Biden says he was a staunchly liberal senator. He wasn't |website=[[PolitiFact]] |access-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-date=May 6, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190506170707/https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2019/may/06/joe-biden/joe-biden-claims-he-was-staunch-liberal-senate-he-/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and a [[centrist]],<ref>{{cite web|last=Smith|first=Sean|title=Be warned Joe Biden – centrism is no longer a safe haven in politics|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/biden-president-trump-centrism-keir-starmer-b1721977.html|work=The Independent|date=November 15, 2020|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=December 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201217015836/https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/biden-president-trump-centrism-keir-starmer-b1721977.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Hook|first=Janet|title=Picking Harris, Biden puts centrist stamp on Democrats' future|url=https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-12/harris-biden-different-generation-similar-political-instinct|work=Los Angeles Times|date=August 12, 2020|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=December 14, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201214182536/https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-08-12/harris-biden-different-generation-similar-political-instinct|url-status=live}}</ref> though more recently he has been seen as shifting to the left.<ref>{{cite news |first1=Paul |last1=Waldman |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/how-joe-biden-is-moving-left-while-still-being-seen-moderate/ |title=Opinion {{!}} How Joe Biden is moving left while still being seen as a moderate |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=July 16, 2020 |access-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-date=January 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210118085134/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/16/how-joe-biden-is-moving-left-while-still-being-seen-moderate/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Perry Jr. |last1=Bacon |title=The Pandemic Has Pushed Biden To The Left. How Far Will He Go? |url=https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-pandemic-has-pushed-biden-to-the-left-how-far-will-he-go/ |website=FiveThirtyEight |date=May 21, 2020 |access-date=January 21, 2021 |archive-date=December 28, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201228141121/https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-pandemic-has-pushed-biden-to-the-left-how-far-will-he-go/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Shifting farther to the left, Biden is now a Bernie Bro |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/08/08/shifting-farther-to-the-left-biden-is-now-a-bernie-bro/ |website=Boston Herald |access-date=January 21, 2021 |date=August 8, 2020 |archive-date=January 14, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210114094708/https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/08/08/shifting-farther-to-the-left-biden-is-now-a-bernie-bro/ |url-status=live }}</ref> He has a lifetime [[Modern liberalism in the United States|liberal]] 72% score from the [[Americans for Democratic Action]] through 2004, while the [[American Conservative Union]] gave him a lifetime [[conservatism in the United States|conservative]] rating of 13% through 2008.<ref>{{cite news|last=Kiely|first=Kathy|date=September 12, 2005|title=Judging Judge Roberts: A look at the Judiciary Committee|newspaper=USA Today|url=https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2005-09-11-judiciarycommitteeprofiles_x.htm|url-status=live|access-date=August 24, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200517220915/https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/judicial/2005-09-11-judiciarycommitteeprofiles_x.htm|archive-date=May 17, 2020}} See also: {{cite web|title=2008 U.S. Senate Votes|url=http://www.acuratings.org/2008senate.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090330124737/http://www.acuratings.org/2008senate.htm|archive-date=March 30, 2009|access-date=March 20, 2009|publisher=[[American Conservative Union]]}} Lifetime rating is given.</ref>
-Biden supported the [[fiscal stimulus]] in the [[American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009]];<ref>{{cite news|last=Biden|first=Joe|date=February 5, 2017|title=Assessing the Recovery Act: 'The best is yet to come'|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/op-ed-vice-president-joe-biden-todays-usa-today|access-date=April 5, 2013|archive-date=January 24, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170124150619/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/op-ed-vice-president-joe-biden-todays-usa-today|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="pbs27jan112">{{cite news|last=Biden|first=Joe|date=January 27, 2011|title=Biden: Mubarak Is Not a Dictator, But People Have a Right to Protest|newspaper=[[PBS NewsHour]]|url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exclusive-biden-mubarak-is-not-a-dictator-but-people-have-a-right-to-protest|access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201113235439/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/exclusive-biden-mubarak-is-not-a-dictator-but-people-have-a-right-to-protest|url-status=live}}</ref> the Obama administration's proposed increase in infrastructure spending;<ref name="pbs27jan112" /> subsidies for [[mass transit]], including [[Amtrak]], bus, and subway;<ref>{{cite news|last=Hockenberry|first=John|date=April 23, 2009|title=Vice President Joe Biden pushes mass transit spending|newspaper=The TakeAway|url=http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/apr/23/amtrak-joes-new-portfolio/|url-status=dead|access-date=April 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719151247/http://www.thetakeaway.org/2009/apr/23/amtrak-joes-new-portfolio/|archive-date=July 19, 2013}}</ref> and the reduced military spending in the Obama administration's fiscal year 2014 budget.<ref>{{cite web|last=Biden|first=Joe|date=June 23, 2011|title=Statement by Vice President Biden On the Bipartisan Debt Talks|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/06/23/statement-vice-president-biden-bipartisan-debt-talks|via=[[NARA|National Archives]]|work=[[whitehouse.gov]]|access-date=April 6, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last1=Hellman|first1=Chris|last2=Kramer|first2=Mattea|date=April 10, 2013|title=Competing Visions: President Obama, Rep. Paul Ryan, Sen. Patty Murray, and House Progressives Release Budget Proposals for 2014|url=https://www.nationalpriorities.org/analysis/2013/budget-proposals-2014/|access-date=June 3, 2013|publisher=National Priorities Project|archive-date=November 25, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131125214704/http://nationalpriorities.org/en/analysis/2013/budget-proposals-2014/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has proposed partially reversing the corporate tax cuts of the [[Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017]], saying that doing so would not hurt businesses' ability to hire.<ref>{{cite news|date=September 11, 2020|title=Joe Biden pledges to roll back Trump's corporate tax cuts on 'day one,' saying it won't hurt businesses' ability to hire|work=Business Insider|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-trumps-tax-cuts-day-one-presidency-economy-2020-9|access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-date=November 22, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201122232506/https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-trumps-tax-cuts-day-one-presidency-economy-2020-9|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=June 30, 2020|title=Biden pledges to roll back Trump's tax cuts: 'A lot of you may not like that'|work=Fox Business|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/biden-pledges-to-undo-trumps-tax-cuts-a-lot-of-you-may-not-like-that|access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112205316/https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/biden-pledges-to-undo-trumps-tax-cuts-a-lot-of-you-may-not-like-that|url-status=live}}</ref> He voted for the [[North American Free Trade Agreement]] (NAFTA)<ref>{{cite news|title=Final Senate Vote on NAFTA|publisher=[[Public Citizen]]|url=http://www.citizen.org/print_article.cfm?ID=15960|access-date=August 22, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080608182639/http://www.citizen.org/print_article.cfm?ID=15960|archive-date=June 8, 2008}}</ref> and the [[Trans-Pacific Partnership]].<ref>{{Cite web|author=Mike Lillis|date=January 28, 2016|title=Biden coaxes Dems on Obama trade deal|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/267420-biden-coaxes-dems-on-obama-trade-deal|website=The Hill|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=November 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191107075246/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/267420-biden-coaxes-dems-on-obama-trade-deal|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden is a staunch supporter of the [[Affordable Care Act]] (ACA).<ref name="ACA203">Dan Diamond, [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/15/joe-biden-health-care-plan-1415850 Biden unveils health care plan: Affordable Care Act 2.0] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083823/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/07/15/joe-biden-health-care-plan-1415850 |date=January 3, 2021 }}, ''Politico'' (July 15, 2019).</ref><ref>Bill Barrow, [https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-aggressively-defends-the-affordable-care-act Biden aggressively defends the Affordable Care Act] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103083902/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/biden-aggressively-defends-the-affordable-care-act |date=January 3, 2021 }}, Associated Press (July 15, 2019).</ref> He has promoted a plan to expand and build upon it, paid for by revenue gained from reversing some Trump administration tax cuts.<ref name="ACA203" /> Biden's plan aims to expand [[Health insurance coverage in the United States|health insurance coverage]] to 97% of Americans, including by creating a [[public health insurance option]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Scott|first=Dylan|date=August 20, 2020|title=Joe Biden has a chance to finish the work of Obamacare|url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/20/21372511/joe-biden-obamacare-health-care-plan|access-date=November 27, 2020|work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]]|language=en|archive-date=November 5, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201105044015/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/8/20/21372511/joe-biden-obamacare-health-care-plan|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Biden has supported [[same-sex marriage]] since 2012<ref>{{Cite news|last=Nagourney|first=Adam|last2=Kaplan|first2=Thomas|date=2020-06-21|title=Behind Joe Biden’s Evolution on L.G.B.T.Q. Rights|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/21/us/politics/biden-gay-rights-lgbt.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Biden|first=Joe|date=May 6, 2013|title=May 6: Joe Biden, Kelly Ayotte, Diane Swonk, Tom Brokaw, Chuck Todd|work=[[NBC News]]|url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47311900/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/may-joe-biden-kelly-ayotte-diane-swonk-tom-brokaw-chuck-todd/|access-date=April 5, 2013|archive-date=April 5, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130405045344/http://www.nbcnews.com/id/47311900/ns/meet_the_press-transcripts/t/may-joe-biden-kelly-ayotte-diane-swonk-tom-brokaw-chuck-todd/|url-status=live}}</ref> and also supports ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'' and repealing the [[Hyde Amendment]].<ref>{{Cite news|last=Lerer|first=Lisa|date=March 29, 2019|title=When Joe Biden Voted to Let States Overturn Roe v. Wade|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html|access-date=August 8, 2020|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806121254/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/us/politics/biden-abortion-rights.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Siders|first=Dave|date=June 22, 2019|title=Biden calls for enshrining Roe v. Wade in federal law|url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/22/biden-roe-v-wade-2020-1376712|access-date=April 19, 2020|work=[[Politico]]|archive-date=April 2, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200402175549/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/22/biden-roe-v-wade-2020-1376712|url-status=live}}</ref> He opposes drilling for oil in the [[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]] and supports governmental funding to find new energy sources.<ref>{{cite web|title=Presidential Candidates views on ANWR, The Democrats|url=http://www.anwr.org/Politics/Presidential-Candidates-views-on-ANWR-The-Democrats.php|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080807162357/http://www.anwr.org/Politics/Presidential-Candidates-views-on-ANWR-The-Democrats.php|archive-date=August 7, 2008|access-date=August 25, 2008|publisher=Arctic Power}}</ref>  As a senator, he forged deep relationships with police groups and was a chief proponent of a [[Law Enforcement Officers' Bill of Rights|Police Officer's Bill of Rights]] measure that police unions supported but police chiefs opposed. As vice president, he served as a White House liaison to police.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Kranish|first=Michael|date=June 9, 2020|title=Joe Biden let police groups write his crime bill. Now, his agenda has changed.|work=The Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-let-police-groups-write-his-crime-bill-now-his-agenda-has-changed/2020/06/08/82ab969e-a434-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html|url-status=live|access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112174038/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/joe-biden-let-police-groups-write-his-crime-bill-now-his-agenda-has-changed/2020/06/08/82ab969e-a434-11ea-8681-7d471bf20207_story.html|archive-date=November 12, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last1=McDermott|first1=Nathan|last2=Steck|first2=Em|date=June 10, 2020|title=Biden repeatedly pushed bill in Senate that critics said would have made investigating police officers for misconduct more difficult|url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/biden-senate-police-officers-kfile/index.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201116122904/https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/10/politics/biden-senate-police-officers-kfile/index.html|archive-date=November 16, 2020|access-date=November 13, 2020|publisher=CNN}}</ref>
-Biden believes action must be taken on [[global warming]]. As a senator, he co-sponsored the Sense of the Senate resolution calling on the United States to take part in the United Nations climate negotiations and the [[Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act of 2007|Boxer–Sanders Global Warming Pollution Reduction Act]], the most stringent climate bill in the [[United States Senate]].<ref>{{cite news|date=January 3, 2008|title=A look at the environmental record of Joe Biden, Barack Obama's running mate|magazine=[[Grist (magazine)|Grist]]|url=https://grist.org/article/biden_factsheet/|access-date=May 4, 2008|archive-date=May 26, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100526083021/http://www.grist.org/article/biden_factsheet/|url-status=live}}</ref> He wants to achieve a carbon-free power sector in the U.S. by 2035 and stop emissions completely by 2050.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Carr|first1=Bob|date=September 2, 2020|title=Joe Biden's bold climate policies would leave Australia behind|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/02/joe-bidens-bold-climate-policies-would-leave-australia-behind|access-date=September 21, 2020|archive-date=September 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921170525/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/02/joe-bidens-bold-climate-policies-would-leave-australia-behind|url-status=live}}</ref> His program includes reentering the [[Paris Agreement]], [[nature conservation]], and [[green building]].<ref>{{cite news|last1=Moore|first1=Elena|date=October 16, 2020|title=Trump's And Biden's Plans For The Environment|agency=NPR|url=https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/920484187/trumps-and-biden-s-plans-for-the-environment|access-date=October 21, 2020|archive-date=October 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030113807/https://www.npr.org/2020/10/16/920484187/trumps-and-biden-s-plans-for-the-environment|url-status=live}}</ref> Biden wants to pressure China and other countries to cut greenhouse gas emissions, by carbon tariffs if necessary.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Bade|first1=Gavin|date=October 14, 2020|title=How Biden would use trade agreements to fight global warming|work=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/biden-trade-fight-global-warming-429495|access-date=October 22, 2020|archive-date=October 21, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201021021812/https://www.politico.com/news/2020/10/14/biden-trade-fight-global-warming-429495|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=September 8, 2020|title=Biden's hands may be tied on Trump's China tariffs, trade experts say|publisher=CNBC|url=https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/08/bidens-hands-may-be-tied-on-trumps-china-tariffs-trade-experts-say-.html|access-date=October 22, 2020|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026034203/https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/08/bidens-hands-may-be-tied-on-trumps-china-tariffs-trade-experts-say-.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Biden has said the U.S. needs to "get tough" on China and build "a united front of U.S. allies and partners to confront China's abusive behaviors and human rights violations".<ref name="fore_Why_America">{{Cite web |title=Why America Must Lead Again |last=Biden |first=Joseph R. |magazine=[[Foreign Affairs]] |date=January 23, 2020 |access-date=January 29, 2021 |url= https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-01-23/why-america-must-lead-again}}</ref> He has called China the "most serious competitor" that poses challenges to the United States' "prosperity, security, and democratic values".<ref name="whit_Remarks_by">{{Cite web |title=Remarks by President Biden on America's Place in the World |publisher=[[The White House]] |date=February 4, 2021 |access-date=February 6, 2021 |url= https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-americas-place-in-the-world/}}</ref> Biden has voiced concerns about China's "coercive and unfair" economic practices and human rights abuses in the [[Xinjiang]] region to the [[Chinese Communist Party]] leader [[Xi Jinping]].<ref>{{cite news|title=President Biden Raises Human Rights and Trade Concerns in First Call With China's Xi|url=https://time.com/5938307/biden-xi-china-first-call/|publisher=TIME|date=February 8, 2021|access-date=February 8, 2021}}</ref> He also pledged to sanction and commercially restrict Chinese government officials and entities who carry out repression.<ref name="WongCrowleySwanson2">{{cite news|last1=Edward|first1=Wong|last2=Crawley|first2=Michael|last3=Swanson|first3=Ana|date=September 6, 2020|title=Joe Biden's China Journey|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/biden-china.html|access-date=November 13, 2020|archive-date=November 12, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201112163033/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/06/us/politics/biden-china.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
-Biden has said he is against [[regime change]], but for providing non-military support to opposition movements.<ref name="NYTForeignPolicy2">[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/joe-biden-foreign-policy.html Foreign Policy, Joseph R. Biden Jr.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107123211/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/politics/joe-biden-foreign-policy.html |date=January 7, 2021 }}, ''New York Times'' (2000).</ref> He opposed direct U.S. [[2011 military intervention in Libya|intervention in Libya]],<ref>Peter Baker, [https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/us/politics/a-biden-run-would-expose-foreign-policy-differences-with-hillary-clinton.html A Biden Run Would Expose Foreign Policy Differences With Hillary Clinton] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201216223923/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/10/us/politics/a-biden-run-would-expose-foreign-policy-differences-with-hillary-clinton.html |date=December 16, 2020 }}, ''New York Times'' (October 10, 2015): "She argued for the military intervention that ultimately toppled Muammar el-Qaddaf in Libya while he opposed it."</ref><ref name="OddCouple2">[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/us/politics/barack-obama-biden.html Biden and Obama's 'Odd Couple' Relationship Aged Into Family Ties] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606093422/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/28/us/politics/barack-obama-biden.html |date=June 6, 2020 }}, ''New York Times'' (April 28, 2019): "He was also the in-house skeptic on the use of force, arguing against a troop surge to Afghanistan, military intervention in Libya and the raid that killed Osama bin Laden."</ref> voted against U.S. participation in the [[Gulf War]],<ref>{{cite news|last=Wehner|first=Peter|title=Biden Was Wrong On the Cold War|work=The Wall Street Journal|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB122049148440397625|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081006022121/http://online.wsj.com/public/article_print/SB122049148440397625.html|archive-date=October 6, 2008}}</ref> voted in favor of the [[Iraq War]],<ref name="FarleyRecord2">{{cite news|author=Robert Farley|date=September 10, 2019|title=Biden's Record on Iraq War|work=FactCheck.org|publisher=Annenberg Public Policy Center|url=https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/bidens-record-on-iraq-war/|access-date=January 24, 2021|archive-date=January 7, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107172331/https://www.factcheck.org/2019/09/bidens-record-on-iraq-war/|url-status=live}}</ref> and supports a [[two-state solution]] in the [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict]].<ref name="JTA20192">[https://www.jta.org/2019/12/12/united-states/where-does-joe-biden-stand-on-anti-semitism-israel-and-other-issues-that-matter-to-jewish-voters-in-2020 Where does Joe Biden stand on anti-Semitism, Israel and other issues that matter to Jewish voters in 2020?] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210111070241/https://www.jta.org/2019/12/12/united-states/where-does-joe-biden-stand-on-anti-semitism-israel-and-other-issues-that-matter-to-jewish-voters-in-2020 |date=January 11, 2021 }}, Jewish Telegraphic Agency (December 12, 2019).</ref> Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the [[Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen]] and to reevaluate the United States' relationship with [[Saudi Arabia]].<ref name="foreign-policy2">{{cite news|title=The Democratic candidates on foreign policy|work=[[Foreign Policy]]|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020-election/|archive-date=June 16, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200616084737/https://foreignpolicy.com/2020-election/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has called [[North Korea]] a "[[paper tiger]]".<ref name="CFR2">{{cite web|title=Joseph R. Biden, Jr. – Council on Foreign Relations|url=http://www.cfr.org/bios/1451/joseph_r_biden_jr.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080206202245/http://www.cfr.org/bios/1451/joseph_r_biden_jr.html|archive-date=February 6, 2008|access-date=August 25, 2008}}</ref> As vice president, Biden supported Obama's [[Cuban thaw]].<ref name="Engage2">[https://www.engagecuba.org/2020-presidential-election 2020 presidential election] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210103084023/https://www.engagecuba.org/2020-presidential-election |date=January 3, 2021 }}, Engage Cuba Coalition (last accessed May 1, 2020).</ref> He has said that, as president, he would restore U.S. membership in key [[United Nations]] bodies, such as the [[United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization|UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization]] (UNESCO), the [[World Health Organization]],<ref>{{Cite web|last=July 2020|first=Rafi Letzter-Staff Writer 07|title=The US formally announced its withdrawal from the World Health Organization|url=https://www.livescience.com/trump-exits-who-united-states.html|access-date=November 20, 2020|website=livescience.com|language=en|archive-date=November 18, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201118203522/https://www.livescience.com/trump-exits-who-united-states.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and possibly the [[United Nations Human Rights Council|Human Rights Council]].<ref name="LeeWeissert2">Matthew Lee & Weissert, [https://apnews.com/article/1d2a57631fee12c761f91053124606ab Biden eyes major foreign policy shifts if he wins] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210107211459/https://apnews.com/1d2a57631fee12c761f91053124606ab |date=January 7, 2021 }}, Associated Press (August 1, 2020).</ref> Biden supports extending the [[New START]] arms control treaty with [[Russia]] to limit the number of [[nuclear weapon]]s deployed by both sides.<ref>{{cite news |author1=Jonathan Landay|author2=Arshad Mohammed |title=Biden urged to extend U.S.-Russia arms treaty for full 5 years without conditions |url=https://de.reuters.com/article/usa-biden-armscontrol/biden-urged-to-extend-u-s-russia-arms-treaty-for-full-5-years-without-conditions-idUSKBN2852Y0 |work=Reuters |date=November 25, 2020 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=January 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210115190457/https://www.reuters.com/?edition-redirect=de |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Pifer |first1=Steven |title=Reviving nuclear arms control under Biden |url=https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/01/reviving-nuclear-arms-control-under-biden/ |work=[[Brookings Institution]] |date=December 1, 2020 |access-date=January 24, 2021 |archive-date=December 1, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201201173216/https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2020/12/01/reviving-nuclear-arms-control-under-biden/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2021, Biden [[Armenian genocide recognition|recognized]] the [[Armenian genocide]], becoming the first US president to do so.<ref>{{cite web|title=Biden officially recognizes the massacre of Armenians in World War I as a genocide|url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/04/24/politics/armenian-genocide-biden-erdogan-turkey/index.html|work=CNN|date=April 24, 2021|access-date=April 25, 2021}}</ref>
-==Reputation==
-{{main|Public image of Joe Biden}}
-Biden was consistently ranked one of the least wealthy members of the Senate,<ref name="lat082408nw">{{cite news|last=Wallsten|first=Peter|date=August 24, 2008|title=Demographics part of calculation: Biden adds experience, yes, but he could also help with Catholics, blue-collar whites and women|newspaper=Los Angeles Times|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-assess24-story.html|url-status=live|access-date=August 25, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515025410/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-aug-24-na-assess24-story.html|archive-date=May 15, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|date=August 24, 2008|title=A look at Biden's net worth|newspaper=[[The Boston Globe]]|agency=[[Associated Press]]|url=https://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/08/24/a_look_at_bidens_net_worth/|url-status=dead|access-date=February 6, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120725145844/http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2008/08/24/a_look_at_bidens_net_worth/|archive-date=July 25, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Broder|first=John M.|date=September 13, 2008|title=Biden Releases Tax Returns, in Part to Pressure Rivals|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/us/politics/13biden.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110425024153/http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/us/politics/13biden.html|archive-date=April 25, 2011}}</ref> which he attributed to his having been elected young.<ref>{{cite news|last=Mooney|first=Alexander|date=September 12, 2008|title=Biden tax returns revealed|work=CNN|url=http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/12/biden-tax-returns-revealed/|url-status=live|access-date=September 13, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080913001912/http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/12/biden-tax-returns-revealed/|archive-date=September 13, 2008}}</ref> Feeling that less-wealthy public officials may be tempted to accept contributions in exchange for political favors, he proposed [[Campaign finance reform in the United States|campaign finance reform]] measures during his first term.<ref name="cby-44" /> {{As of|2009|November}}, Biden's net worth was $27,012.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/237-millionaires-in-congress/|title=237 Millionaires in Congress|website=www.cbsnews.com}}</ref> {{As of|2020|November|alt=By November 2020}}, the Bidens were worth $9&nbsp;million, largely due to sales of Biden's books and speaking fees after his vice presidency.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/much-president-joe-biden-worth-153007387.html|title=How Much Is President Joe Biden Worth?|website=finance.yahoo.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-much-is-joe-biden-worth/ar-BB1aiQdb|title=How Much Is President Joe Biden Worth?|website=www.msn.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.businessinsider.com/joe-biden-net-worth-lifestyle-real-estate-family-wealth-assets-2020-1|title=President-elect Joe Biden just turned 78. Here's how he went from 'Middle-Class Joe' to millionaire.|first=Taylor|last=Borden|website=Business Insider}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelatindera/2019/08/28/joe-bidens-net-worth-how-the-2020-presidential-candidate-built-a-9-million-fortune/|title=Here's How Much 2020 Presidential Candidate Joe Biden Is Worth|first=Michela|last=Tindera|website=Forbes}}</ref>
-The political writer [[Howard Fineman]] has written, "Biden is not an academic, he's not a theoretical thinker, he's a great street pol. He comes from a long line of working people in Scranton—auto salesmen, car dealers, people who know how to make a sale. He has that great Irish gift."<ref name="watn020109"/> 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."<ref name="watn020109"/> 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."<ref name="nytm-traub"/>
-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.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Baldoni|first=John|title=How Empathy Defines Joe Biden|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnbaldoni/2020/08/20/how-empathy-defines-joe-biden/|access-date=March 17, 2021|website=Forbes|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Nagle|first=Molly|date=December 19, 2020|title=Nearly 50 years after death of wife and daughter, empathy remains at Joe Biden's core|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/50-years-death-wife-daughter-empathy-remains-joe/story?id=74814251|access-date=March 17, 2021|website=ABC News|language=en}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Glueck|first1=Katie|last2=Flegenheimer|first2=Matt|date=June 11, 2020|title=Joe Biden, Emissary of Grief|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/11/us/politics/joe-biden-funeral-speech.html|access-date=March 17, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
-Journalist and TV anchor [[Wolf Blitzer]] has described Biden as [[wikt:loquacious|loquacious]].<ref>{{cite news|date=January 12, 2006|title=Transcripts|work=[[The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer|The Situation Room]]|publisher=CNN|url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/12/sitroom.01.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080719103425/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0601/12/sitroom.01.html|archive-date=July 19, 2008}}</ref> He often deviates from prepared remarks<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=Ben|date=December 2, 2008|title=Biden, enemy of the prepared remarks|work=Politico|url=https://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/12/biden-enemy-of-the-prepared-remarks-014500|url-status=live|access-date=December 2, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911131530/http://www.politico.com/blogs/ben-smith/2008/12/biden-enemy-of-the-prepared-remarks-014500|archive-date=September 11, 2015}}</ref> and sometimes "puts his foot in his mouth."<ref name="nyt-no2"/><ref name="abc-loq">{{cite news|last=Tapper|first=Jake|author-link=Jake Tapper|date=January 31, 2007|title=A Biden Problem: Foot in Mouth|work=[[ABC News]]|url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2838420|url-status=live|access-date=September 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080827211803/http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Story?id=2838420|archive-date=August 27, 2008}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last=Seelye|first=Katharine Q.|date=March 19, 1998|title=Senate Struggles to Pay Attention to the Remapping of NATO|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/19/world/senate-struggles-to-pay-attention-to-the-remapping-of-nato.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121110045839/http://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/19/world/senate-struggles-to-pay-attention-to-the-remapping-of-nato.html|archive-date=November 10, 2012}}</ref><ref name="time-pcs">{{cite news|last=Halperin|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Halperin|date=August 23, 2008|title=Halperin on Biden: Pros and Cons|magazine=Time|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835480,00.html|url-status=live|access-date=September 21, 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722092813/http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1835480,00.html|archive-date=July 22, 2014}}</ref> ''The New York Times'' wrote that Biden's "weak filters make him capable of blurting out pretty much anything."<ref name="nyt-no2"/> In 2018, Biden called himself "a gaffe machine".<ref>{{cite web|date=April 25, 2019|title='I am a gaffe machine': a history of Joe Biden's biggest blunders|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/25/joe-biden-2020-public-gaffes-mistakes-history|access-date=January 26, 2021|website=The Guardian}}</ref>
-[[File:Joe Biden Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom.jpg|thumb|President Obama presents Biden with the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] with Distinction, January 12, 2017]]
-==Distinctions==
-{{Main|List of honors and awards received by Joe Biden}}
-{{See also|List of things named after Joe Biden}}
-==Electoral history==
-{{Main|Electoral history of Joe Biden}}
-{|class="wikitable sortable" style="width:70%; text-align: center;"
-|+ Election results
-|-
-! Year
-! Office
-! Party
-! Votes for Biden
-! %
-! Opponent
-! Party
-! Votes
-!%
-|-
-! 1970
-| [[County council#United States|County councilor]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 10,573
-| 55%
-| Lawrence T. Messick
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 8,192
-| 43%
-|-
-! [[1972 United States Senate election in Delaware|1972]]
-| rowspan=7 |[[U.S. Senate|U.S. senator]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 116,006
-| 50%
-| [[J. Caleb Boggs]]
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 112,844
-| 49%
-|-
-! [[1978 United States Senate election in Delaware|1978]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 93,930
-| 58%
-| James H. Baxter Jr.
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 66,479
-| 41%
-|-
-! [[1984 United States Senate election in Delaware|1984]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 147,831
-| 60%
-| John M. Burris
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 98,101
-| 40%
-|-
-! [[1990 United States Senate election in Delaware|1990]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 112,918
-| 63%
-| [[M. Jane Brady]]
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 64,554
-| 36%
-|-
-! [[1996 United States Senate election in Delaware|1996]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 165,465
-| 60%
-| Raymond J. Clatworthy
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 105,088
-| 38%
-|-
-! [[2002 United States Senate election in Delaware|2002]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 135,253
-| 58%
-| Raymond J. Clatworthy
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 94,793
-| 41%
-|-
-! [[2008 United States Senate election in Delaware|2008]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 257,484
-| 65%
-| [[Christine O'Donnell]]
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 140,584
-| 35%
-|-
-! [[2008 United States presidential election|2008]]
-| rowspan=2|[[Vice President of the United States|Vice president]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 69,498,516<br />365 electoral votes (270 needed)
-| 53%
-| [[Sarah Palin]]
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 59,948,323<br />173 electoral votes
-| 46%
-|-
-! [[2012 United States presidential election|2012]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 65,915,795<br />332 electoral votes (270 needed)
-| 51%
-| [[Paul Ryan]]
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 60,933,504<br />206 electoral votes
-| 47%
-|-
-! [[2020 United States presidential election|2020]]
-| [[President of the United States|President]]
-| {{Party shading/Democratic}}|{{Aye}} Democratic
-| 81,268,924<br /> 306 electoral votes (270 needed)
-| 51%
-| [[Donald Trump]]
-| {{Party shading/Republican}}|Republican
-| 74,216,154<br /> 232 electoral votes
-| 47%
-|}
-==Publications==
-{{Refbegin}}
-'''Books'''
-* {{Cite book|title=Hague Convention on International Child Abduction: Applicable Law and Institutional Framework Within Certain Convention Countries Report to the Senate |last1=Biden |first1=Joseph R., Jr. |date=April 1, 2000|publisher=Diane Publishing|isbn=0756722500|first2=Jesse|last2=Helms|author2-link=Jesse Helms}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg75011/pdf/CHRG-107shrg75011.pdf|title=Putin Administration's Policies toward Non-Russian Regions of the Russian Federation: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=July 8, 2001|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|isbn=0756726247}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/sfr240701.pdf|title=Administration's Missile Defense Program and the ABM Treaty: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=July 24, 2001|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|isbn=0-7567-1959-3|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305135604/https://fas.org/spp/starwars/program/sfr240701.pdf|archive-date=March 5, 2016}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg75040/pdf/CHRG-107shrg75040.pdf|title=Threat of Bioterrorism and the Spread of Infectious Diseases: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=September 5, 2001|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|isbn=0756726255}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg78178/pdf/CHRG-107shrg78178.pdf|title=Examining The Theft Of American Intellectual Property At Home And Abroad: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=February 12, 2002|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|isbn=0756741777}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=q10PD-tFBfsC|title=Halting the Spread of HIV/AIDS: Future Efforts in the U.S. Bilateral & Multilateral Response: Hearings before the Comm. on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |publisher=Diane Publishing|date=February 14, 2002|isbn=0756734541}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg77983/pdf/CHRG-107shrg77983.pdf|title=How Do We Promote Democratization, Poverty Alleviation, and Human Rights to Build a More Secure Future: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=February 27, 2002|publisher=[[U.S. Government Printing Office]]|isbn=0756724783}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CHRG-107shrg81697/pdf/CHRG-107shrg81697.pdf|title=Hearings to Examine Threats, Responses, and Regional Considerations Surrounding Iraq: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=August 1, 2002|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|isbn=0756728231}}
-* {{Cite book|title=International Campaign Against Terrorism: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=January 1, 2003|publisher=Diane Publishing|isbn=0756730414}}
-* {{Cite book|title=Political Future of Afghanistan: Hearing before the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=January 1, 2003|publisher=Diane Publishing|isbn=0756730392}}
-* {{Cite book|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CPRT-107SPRT75249/html/CPRT-107SPRT75249.htm|title=Strategies for Homeland Defense: A Compilation by the Committee on Foreign Relations, U.S. Senate |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr. |date=September 1, 2003|publisher=Diane Publishing|isbn=0756726239}}
-* {{Cite book|title=[[Promises to Keep (Biden book)|Promises to Keep]]|last=Biden|first=Joseph R., Jr. |publisher=[[Random House]]|date=July 31, 2007|isbn=978-1400065363}} Also paperback edition, [[Random House]] 2008, {{ISBN|0812976215}}.
-* {{Cite book|title=[[Promise Me, Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose]] |last=Biden |first=Joseph R., Jr.|publisher=[[Flatiron Books]] |date=November 14, 2017 |isbn=978-1-250-17167-2}}
-'''Book contributions'''
-* {{Cite book|url=https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/3578859|title=Homeland Security Law and Policy|editor-last=Nicholson|editor-first=William C.|publisher=C. C Thomas|year=2005|isbn=0398075832|chapter=Foreword |first=Joseph R., Jr.|last=Biden}}
-* Biden, Joseph R., Jr. (2009). "Foreword." In: ''Choosing Equality: Essays and Narratives on the Desegregation Experience''. Edited by Robert L. Hayman, Jr. and Leland Ware. University Park: [[Pennsylvania State University Press]], 2009. {{ISBN|978-0271034331}}.
-'''Pamphlets'''
-* Biden, Joseph R., Jr., and [[Les Aspin]], [[William Louis Dickinson]], [[Brent Scowcroft]] (1982). [https://www.aei.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/AEIForums56.pdf ''Arms Sales: A Useful Foreign Policy Tool?''] [[American Enterprise Institute]]. AEI Forum 56. Moderated by [[John Charles Daly]].
-'''Articles'''
-* Biden, Joseph R., Jr., and Miga Purev-Ochir (Spring 2015). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/43649299 "U.S.-Russian Relations in a Post-Cold War World: A Strategic Vision: Mapping a Future for U.S.-Russian Relations."] ''[[Harvard International Review]]'', vol. 36, no. 3, pp.&nbsp;72–76. {{JSTOR|43649299}}.
-{{Refend}}
-==Notes==
-{{Reflist|group=n}}
-{{notelist}}
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
-===Works cited===
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-* [https://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/president-biden/ President Joe Biden] official website
-* [https://joebiden.com/ Presidential campaign website]
-* [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/vp Obama White House biography] (archived)
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-* [https://www.ontheissues.org/joe_biden.htm Joe Biden] at [[On the Issues]]
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Joe Biden
Official portrait, 2021

46th President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office January 20, 2021
Vice President	Kamala Harris
Preceded by	Donald Trump
47th Vice President of the United States
In office January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	Dick Cheney
Succeeded by	Mike Pence
United States Senator from Delaware
In office January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Preceded by	J. Caleb Boggs
Succeeded by	Ted Kaufman

Personal details
Born	Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (1942-11-20) November 20, 1942 (age 83) Scranton, Pennsylvania, United States
Political party	Democratic (1969–present)
Other political affiliations	Independent (before 1969)
Spouse(s)	Neilia Hunter ( m. 1966; died 1972) Jill Jacobs ( m. 1977)
Children	Beau Hunter Naomi Ashley
Parent(s)	Joseph Robinette Biden Sr. Catherine Eugenia Finnegan
Relatives	Biden family
Residence	White House (official) Wilmington, Delaware (private)
Education	University of Delaware (BA) Syracuse University (JD)
Occupation	Politician lawyer author
Awards	See Awards and honors
Signature
Website	joebiden.com