Shaped by the tragedy and luck in his life, Biden “expected nothing” | Biden_Sina Finance_Sina.com

Original title: His life was marked by tragedy and luck, Biden did not “wait for nothing”

After many days of long and tormenting wait, at noon on November 7 Eastern time (early morning on November 8 Beijing time), many American media have issued predictions that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden has won 270 tickets. Electoral votes won the 2020 US presidential election.

↑ Biden Image Source Observer Network

At approximately 8:40 p.m. local time, Biden jogged onto the stage outside the Chase Center in Del Wilmington. He looked at the people outside who were constantly honking their horns and waving the national flag and cheering, and delivered his victory speech.

After decades of setbacks and failures, Biden finally won, attacking the office of President of the United States for the third time. From being one of the youngest senators in the United States, he became the oldest president in American history.

Regarding the election of Biden, the American Politician News Network described it as follows: “His life was full of ups and downs and personal tragedies, but he was also inspired by a series of high-profile accidents.” It was precisely for these lives. Biden, created by Zhongxing and Misfortune, played the American key in this campaign to perfection.

About Biden

“He is the most unfortunate person I know and the luckiest person I know”

At the event on the evening of November 7 ET, Kamala Harris, who is expected to become the Vice President of the United States, praised Biden as a healer, a soldier, and a tried and tested person with a will. firm.

Biden, now 77, has been a key figure in American politics for decades. During his long career in Washington, he has experienced many ups and downs. He served as a six-term senator in the United States Senate and experienced the change of six presidents of the United States. The senators he worked with represented the total number of senators in the history of the United States. 15% or more. After resigning as senator, he served as vice president for two terms.

^ On Election Day, Biden greeted supporters at his childhood home in Scranton, Pennsylvania. According to the “Washington Post”

Yet this is not the deepest impression Biden has made as a politician. In everyone’s eyes, Biden’s life is surrounded by the ups and downs of fate, life’s devastating tragedies, and a constantly reliving political career. His happiness and sadness, success and tragedy always follow closely.

“He’s the most unfortunate person I know, and the luckiest person I know,” former Senator Ted Kaufman, a longtime Biden aide, told the Associated Press in 2019.

This is a strange but perfect description. Five years ago, when everyone thought that Biden’s political career, who was mired in the pain of losing his son, was over, no one could have expected that he could break out of depression and rise to the top step by step, that would give an account of his life. Dreaming of becoming president of the United States.

↑ Biden according to the New York Times

After Biden defeated Trump and “elected” him as president of the United States, CNN News stated that there were three unforgettable images on Biden’s path to the “throne” of the president of the United States.

One is 48 years ago today. Biden, 29, defeated a prominent Republican senator and won his first seat in Delaware, becoming one of the youngest US senators at the time. But three weeks later, his wife Nalia and their 13-month-old daughter were killed in a car accident before Christmas. The surviving sons, Hunter and Bo, were seriously injured.

Another image is that four days ago, when voting began on Election Day in the United States, Biden, accompanied by his granddaughter, went to the cemetery of his eldest son Bo Biden to sweep the grave. Once, Bo Biden, with a bright political outlook, was widely regarded as the future governor of Delaware and a possible presidential candidate in the Democratic Party, but died of brain cancer in May 2015.

Finally, today, 48 years later, Biden, 77, was successfully elected as the 46th president of the United States.

These three points in time are the most important points in Biden’s political career and provide the best way to understand what Joe Biden is.

The “Washington Post” stated that in Biden’s “extra long wait” political career, especially the upcoming presidential term, almost everything is not destined. Stuttering was difficult to say his name, but later he became a “great speaker”; his school grades were mediocre, but he became Delaware’s youngest political star at the time; experienced the unfortunate death of his wife and daughter in a car accident, and the eldest son. Bo died of the tragedy of brain cancer, fell to the bottom of his life but always “hit rock bottom”.

When he was a student, Biden was a student with high ambitions but mediocre grades, a sociable soccer player, he worked hard to overcome his stuttering, he dreamed of running for president of the United States when he was 7 years old. It is worth mentioning that Biden, as a student, adapted extremely well to the “political climate” of the school. He was chosen as the class monitor with his approachable qualities, and he could converse with anyone quickly. After a few decades, its advantages once again. “Flash” in the presidential campaign.

“There’s a joke like this. Even if Joe (Biden) stood by a light pole, he would try to talk (to the pole).” Bob Markle, Biden’s childhood friend, recalled: “When After communicating with him for 20 seconds, he will take the initiative to walk up and say, ‘I’m Joe Biden.’

After graduating from high school, Biden attended the University of Delaware School of Law and continued to pursue politics as freshman class president. Markle said, “When he was a teenager, we could see gentleness in him. He likes to have fun and of course he’s very outgoing, but he doesn’t do anything crazy.” Despite Biden’s various political ambitions, Pero is far from the antiwar radicalism of his peers, and he does not like to protest.

^ In 1972, Biden (right), with his two children and his first wife, Nalia Biden (center), appeared at the Democratic National Convention. Associated Press

After earning a JD from Syracuse University, Biden embarked on his “presidential dream”: a young lawyer, a part-time public defender, and a rising star in the Delaware party. Soon, Biden made his mark in Delaware. In November 1972, Biden became one of the youngest senators in the United States.

Yet just a few weeks later, when Biden was about to show off his talents in Washington, a phone call brought his life “to the bottom.” In a car accident, Biden’s wife, Naria, and their young daughter, Naomi, were killed, while two sons, Hunter and Bo, were seriously injured and lay in the hospital in urgent need of care. Biden later recalled, “This is the first time in my life that I know why someone decides to commit suicide.”

Grieved, Biden had thought of quitting to care for his injured son, but was eventually persuaded to stay and swore on January 5, 1973 in his son’s ward. Since then, he began his 36-year career as a senator and served as vice president for two terms after 2008.

^ In June 1987, when Senator Biden first announced that he would run for president of the United States, he greeted the train leaving Wilmington. According to “Associated Press”

The admirable thing is that since he served as a senator, in order to occasionally accompany his two sons, Biden insisted on taking the train between Washington and Wilmington for almost 4 hours a day for 36 years.

“The pain of losing a child” makes Biden say goodbye to the political scene

But it inspired him to “come back” to run for president.

33 years after the loss of his wife and daughter, the eldest son Boyin, who survived the car accident, died of brain cancer. Elder Biden once again experienced the pain of “a white-haired man sending a white-haired man black”. Bo’s death caused him to make a decision: withdraw from the party campaign or even withdraw from the political arena.

CNN News stated that the best way to understand the pain and joy throughout Biden’s life and political career is to look back on the long and winding road that led him to the 2020 presidential campaign. This story began ago Five years, accompanied by then-President Obama, then-Vice President Biden announced that he would stop running in the 2016 presidential election.

↑ Obama and Biden image source: Nation Review

At the time, Biden said, “Unfortunately, I don’t think we have time and there is no need to campaign to win the nomination.” The reason is that the death of the eldest son, Bo, left Biden in grief for several months. If there’s no pain in losing a child, maybe Biden will spend time organizing the presidential campaign.

The day before 1844, hardly anyone expected Biden to run for president again, let alone be elected. Because, at that time, I was 72 years old. In everyone’s eyes, Biden’s more than 40-year political career was about to end the day he retired from the White House. At the same time, Hillary Clinton will be nominated by the Democratic Party and will become the first female president in the history of the United States.

However, it was the death of his son Bo that ultimately brought Biden back into the political arena.

In Bo Biden’s last days, the topic that he and his father Biden frequently discussed was the future. “New York Times” columnist Maureen Dodd described those moments: “Bo can barely speak and his right face is partially paralyzed. But he still has a mission: to get his father to promise to run, calling Biden. Values ​​will make him America is better. “

Regarding his son’s dying wish, Biden later told CNN: “What I wanted to say was that I couldn’t evade my obligations. I wanted to make sure he stayed on the public stage. This is what I’ve been doing my whole life. “.

After his son died and he decided not to run for president, Biden wrote a book about Bo, “Dad, promise me.” On a book-selling tour, Biden admitted everyone’s suspicions: He’s considering running for president, but only because his son can’t stand for election.

In response to the question of whether he will run again in 2020, Biden said: “It all depends on what my family and I think. If Bo is still there, what he will do.”

After deciding to run in the 2020 presidential election in April 2019, Biden publicly mentioned Bo’s influence on his decision. A few days after announcing his candidacy for president, Biden said, “When I wake up every morning, I think I hope he is proud of me.”

^ On the morning of Election Day, Biden and his granddaughter Finnigan Biden went to the cemetery to visit Bo Biden’s grave. On the morning of Election Day. According to “New York Times”

Accepting the presidential nomination at the 2020 Democratic Convention, Biden mentioned his eldest son again: “Although he’s gone, Bo inspires me every day.” That is precisely why it is the most important thing in Biden’s political career. One day on the day of the United States general election, he rushed to visit his son’s grave early in the morning. For Biden, Bo represents the promise and pain, the hope and despair of life.

During his election campaign, he promised a grieving voter that one day the memory of his beloved will make people smile before crying, everyone knows that no one is more qualified to say this than him. .

Red Star News reporter Xu Chang

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