President Elect of the United States: Who is Joe Biden? -BBC Chinese News

In 1972, Biden was elected to the United States Senate at the age of 29. A few weeks later, he officially took office at age 30, becoming the youngest senator in American history.

However, on the eve of taking office, he suffered a misfortune: his wife Neilia and their little daughter Naomi were killed in a car accident.

Biden first ran for president of the United States in 1988. He later confessed that he had plagiarized the speech of Neil Kinnock, leader of the British Labor Party, causing a scandal, and he soon withdrew from the election.

After that, he spent time rising in the Senate and eventually became chairman of the Foreign Relations and Judiciary Committee.

In 2008, he ran for president again, but failed to accumulate the necessary political contacts, withdrew from the election again and joined the Obama team.

In 2020, Biden faced Trump as the Democratic presidential candidate.

The election, for Biden, has become commonplace.

His political career began in the United States Senate in 1973, 47 years ago! His first presidential campaign was in 1987, 33 years ago! This means that when Biden broke into politics, many of today’s voters were not yet born.

Biden is good at wooing voters, but at the same time he is considered a “time bomb”, due to accidental comments causing problems and starting fires.

The first time he participated in the presidential election, Biden was because he believed in his public speaking, and the road to the White House came to an end before it even began.

In a public meeting at the time, Biden said his ancestors had worked in the Northeast Pennsylvania coal mine and didn’t get the chance at the life they deserved, which infuriated him greatly.

However, there are no miners among Biden’s ancestors. His words (and a few more) are “borrowing” from British politician and former Labor Party leader Neil Kinnock. Kinnock’s family are in fact miners.

Later, Biden’s misrepresentation was often dubbed “Joe Bomb.”

In 2012, when Biden described his political experience in a public address, he said, “What I can tell you is that I know eight presidents and I am very close to three of them.” Here he uses the English “intimate” (The word intimately implies a sexual relationship, not just a comrade in arms or a friend.

When he was Obama’s vice president in 2009, when he talked about the economy, Biden said, “The probability that we are wrong is about 30%.” This comment caused quite a stir.

In the past, before announcing the Democratic Party candidate, Biden agreed to an interview with a New York Observer reporter. He said his opponent Barack Obama was “the first articulate, smart, clean and mainstream African-American with good looks.”

Biden was forced to defend himself for the first time, he did not intend to demean former black presidential candidates or underestimate Obama.

This is seen as yet another example of Biden’s tendency to make low-level mistakes: speeches that embarrassed him or made him go unnoticed, often causing damage throughout his political career.

However, Biden’s “big mouth” also has some advantages. On the world stage today, there are too many politicians who are cautious and rigid in their words. There are too many politicians who have to repeatedly consider every word. The sentiment Biden left behind is: true. .

He explained that he stuttered as a child, and later did not want to read the manuscript according to the subtitles, so each speech was from the bottom of his heart.

At the workers’ rally on the campaign trail, Biden’s casual and natural speech was very “sensational.” Later, he also mingled with the crowd, shaking hands, taking selfies, and high-fives, like a silver-haired singer.

However, “intimacy” also brought him problems.

Last year, eight women accused Biden of feeling “uncomfortable” when touching, hugging and kissing. American television also broadcast his close interaction with women in public; at times, Biden seemed to be sniffing each other’s hair. .

Biden promised that he will be “more careful” when interacting with voters in the future.

In 1972, Biden was successfully elected to the Senate, but unfortunate things happened. His wife and newborn daughter were killed in a car accident and sons Bo and Hunter were seriously injured.

He was sworn in by his son Bo’s hospital bed, and his first time as a Democratic senator is widely known.

In 2015, Bo died of brain cancer at the age of 46.

White-haired people emit black-haired people. Biden’s loss of so many dearest relatives in his life also resonates with many Americans, because it shows that no matter how powerful and rich you are, you have to face the same challenges of life and tragedy.

However, the story of Biden’s son Hunter is another matter.

Hunter’s personal and professional life has caused problems for his father.

Hunter’s first wife accused him of using drugs, drinking alcohol and going to strip clubs on the divorce certificate. He admitted to the New Yorker magazine that a Chinese energy mogul once gave him diamonds, and that the mogul was later arrested by Beijing. Corruption investigation.

Many details of Hunter’s personal life and the enormous amount of money he made in the workplace also affected the image of his father Biden.

Americans may sympathize with addicts, but Hunter also seems to have a lot of money in the workplace, highlighting the difference between life for the political elite and ordinary people.

One of Hunter’s “high paying” jobs is in Ukraine. This incident led to Trump being accused of calling the President of Ukraine in an attempt to force him to investigate the corruption of the Biden family. That phone call led to Trump’s impeachment.

Getting into a scandal abroad is bad news for Biden, because one of his strengths is his rich diplomatic experience.

Biden once served as chairman of the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee and boasted of having “seen all the important leaders of the world” in the past 45 years.

As in other areas, Biden’s diplomacy is generally believed to be relatively moderate. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991 and supported the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but later criticized the intervention of the United States government.

Although Biden is very experienced, it is difficult to predict his future foreign policy.

Additionally, in his decades-long political career, Biden has made speeches and statements on almost every major event. Some of them may seem inappropriate in the current political climate. Will this become a weapon of the “enemy” again?

In any case, the White House term is likely to be the last leg of Biden’s political career.