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KOMPAS.com – The United States will host a party for democracy to elect the president and vice president on November 3, 2020.
There are two candidates running in the political race, they are the incumbent Donald Trump of the Republican Party and Joe Biden of the Democratic Party.
The fight for the highest political position in the US started on Wednesday (09/30/2020) this morning or Tuesday (09/29/2020) evening US time.
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Trump and Biden participated in the first debate held at the Sheila and Eric Samson Pavilion, Cleveland, Ohio.
If the figure of Trump has been widely recognized by public opinion as both a politician and a businessman with all his leadership styles and the controversy that has been generated, Biden is different.
Not much is known about the 77-year-old politician.
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However, to quote The New York Times (9/22/2020), in his campaign as a presidential candidate, Biden said that he would carry the values that Obama inherited and unite the United States in a time full of challenges such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
It is not strange, because Biden is known to have served as the 47th Vice President of the United States.
Biden sat in US seat 2 for 2 terms, namely 2009-2013 and 2013-2017 with the same partner, Barack Obama at the time.
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Former Vice President of the United States, who is also a Democratic candidate for the 2020 presidential election, Joe Biden, delivers a speech on his landslide victory in the South Carolina primary on Saturday (02/29/2020)Long before becoming vice president, Biden served as a senator from Delware for 6 terms and was first elected in 1972.
At that time, he became the fifth youngest US senator in history.
In that way, this man who was born on November 20, 1942 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, has been active as a public servant for about half a century.
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Looking at his current age, if elected later, Biden will be sworn in as president at the age of 78, the oldest in American history.
Even with Trump, if he is elected in this election, then next year he will be sworn in at the age of 74, this is also a record as the age for the inauguration of the oldest president.
Despite leaving his homeland at the age of 13 and moving to Delware, Biden still maintains strong ties to Pennsylvania.
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The state is a critical voter region that Trump won in the 2016 election.
Meanwhile, quoted from BiographyBefore entering politics, Biden had a career as a lawyer.
Biden was born to parents Joseph Biden Sr and Catherine Eugenia “Jean” Finnegan. The father is a stove cleaner and a used car salesman.
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Biden said that many of the values taught by his parents were ingrained in him. For example, hard work, hard, and perseverance.
Biden always remembers the message conveyed by his father. “Punctuation a person is not how often they fall, but how quickly they wake up. “
He learned a lot about political science and got it while studying at Delware University.
That provision is the basis for handing over the current job to Biden, the US presidential candidate.
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