After family tragedies, two failed attempts to win the White House and an election campaign that disrupted the pandemic, political veteran Joe Biden, 77, convinced Americans that he was the person who would unite them after Donald Trump.
Until the very end, Biden remains true to the message he emphasized when announcing his candidacy in April last year - "We are fighting for the soul of America."
In November 1972, he celebrated his election as US Senator, as the fifth youngest in history, surrounded by a happy family. One month later, his wife and daughter were killed in a car accident, while his two sons were injured. His political career is long, full of controversial episodes, but also successes that he is proud of. Harris will be the first African-American vice president in the history of the United States. She is of Indian descent by mother. "My father always said - champions, the size of a man is not measured by how many times he fell to the ground, but by how long it took him to stand on his feet," he often recalls.
Leading the campaign for him across the country, his wife Jill Biden, 69, is discreet about it. A dynamic teacher, she is one of his greatest assets. The couple married in 1977 and have a daughter, Ashley. Biden is very attached to his family. In 2015, his eldest son Bo Biden died of brain cancer. He often talks about it with sadness. That is why he did not run in the 2016 presidential election. Proud of his Irish roots, Biden attends the small church of Sts. Joseph in Wilmington. In January, he said of his late son: "I wake up every morning and ... I wonder if he is proud of me?"
