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Joe Biden is one step away from the White House after taking the lead in the key state of Pennsylvania.
In a drip count, the trend reversed a few hours ago with the Democratic candidate now more than 6,700 votes ahead of the outgoing president.
If Joe Biden wins the top industrial state in the Northeast, he will become the 46th president.
Biden was born in 1942 in the Rast Belt, Scranton, Pennsylvania. His father, Joseph, was a used car salesman whose fortune fluctuated widely throughout his life.
He was the eldest of four siblings in an Irish Catholic family and from time to time faced many financial difficulties.
Despite his stuttering, Joe Biden was popular in school and was elected class president for several years before his athletic success led him to the University of Delaware, where he played soccer. Eventually he graduated with a degree in political science.
A year after graduating in 1965, Biden met his first wife, Nilia Hunter, in the Bahamas while on vacation. They married two years later and had three children.
However, personal difficulties did not take long despite the successes in his professional life and the career he built in politics. His wife, Nilia, and their one-year-old daughter, Naomi, were killed in a car accident while Christmas shopping in Delaware.
His other two children were the only survivors, with a broken leg and a small skull fracture respectively, but his wife Nilia and Naomi died.
Biden even considered giving up to care for his two young children. Such was the shock that she had even considered committing suicide in the first days after the tragedy, but decided she could not leave her two children. As he said: “I thought about it, but I didn’t.” I thought what it would be like to go to the bridge and jump and finish forever.
A few days later, he was sworn in in Congress while his two sons were in the hospital. “I feel like I should have my kids by my side,” Biden told reporters at the time, according to an Associated Press article at the time.
Joe Biden continued to work, and a few years later he met his second wife, Jill Jacobs, on a blind date. They married two years later and had a daughter together, Ashley, in 1981.
In 2015, her son, Bo Biden, 46, who had served as Delaware’s attorney general for eight years, died.
He had served for a year in Iraq, with the rank of captain. He underwent surgery at a Texas medical center last year, but ultimately lost the battle.
Joe Biden, who does not seem to give up easily, assures today that he is sure that he will be the winner of the US presidential elections, while emphasizing that he will be elected as a Democrat, but will govern as an American.
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