Former Vice President Biden Anyone November 4, 7:54
Former Vice President Joe Biden, who seeks to regain power, is from Scranton, eastern Pennsylvania, and is a Catholic.
Born into a middle-class family, he is a centrist leader who served as a senator for 36 years and as vice president under the Obama administration for eight years.
Biden moved to Delaware at the age of 10 because of his father's work.
Mr. Biden, who has been suffering from squeaks since he was a child, revealed that he practiced speaking while looking in the mirror, and talked about how he overcame it at the election campaign rally.
After working as an attorney and a member of the local county council, Biden was first elected to the Senate in 1972 at the age of 29.
Since then, he has been known as a Democratic center démocrate, having served as a Senator from Delaware for 36 years until 2009 and chaired the Senate's diplomacy.
Since assuming the post of Vice President in 2009, he has supported former President Obama, who has little diplomatic experience, and visited Japan in 2011 and 2013 during his tenure to observe the current state of reconstruction by visiting the areas affected by the Great East Japan Earthquake.
In January 2017, he received the highest Order of Freedom as a civilian from then-President Obama.
Mr. Biden turns 78 on his birthday after the presidential election.
If he wins the presidential election and becomes president, he will break the record of President Trump, who took office at the age of 70 in 2017, and become the oldest president in American history.
Family tragedy
Mr. Biden has lost his family in an accident or illness.
Only a month after being elected to the Senate for the first time, he lost his wife and one-year-old daughter in a car accident.
The two sons in the car were saved, and Mr. Biden took an oath as a senator in the hospital room where the children were hospitalized.
In addition, in 2015, when Biden was Vice President, his eldest son, including the Attorney General of Delaware, died of a brain tumor at the young age of 46.
The funeral was televised nationwide, and President Obama at the time read the condolences.
Mr. Biden was officially nominated as a Democratic presidential candidate, and at the party convention in August, he mentioned that Mr. Biden had lost his family and overcame it, and he said that he could become a president who can understand and sympathize with people's pain. I appealed.
Even in the election campaign, he actively talks about his experience of losing his family at a rally of supporters and emphasizes the importance of the medical insurance system introduced by former President Obama.
Suspicion of false words and sexual harassment
Mr. Biden is known for his misrepresentations, including slipping "fighting the election campaign" before announcing his candidacy for the presidential election, urging wheelchair guests to stand up and greet him.
Some of them are related to Japan, such as stating that "The Constitution of Japan was written by the United States."
Democratic officials say, "If you don't make a mistake, you're not Joe," Biden said.
In addition, Mr. Biden has been forced to explain after being accused of sexual harassment by several women who had been touched by the body in the past and felt uncomfortable.
My favorite food is ice cream
Mr. Biden is 181 cm tall and weighs 80 kg.
It is said that ice cream has no eyes, and some people stop by at ice cream shops during the campaign to select candidates for the Democratic Party.
This election was an election campaign in which a large-scale rally could not be held due to the spread of the new coronavirus, and Mr. Biden built a studio in the basement of his house and appealed to supporters from there via the Internet. I have continued.
In addition, President Trump nicknamed Mr. Biden "Sleepy Joe (= sleepy Joe)" and repeatedly said that the election campaign conducted from the basement was "Biden who can not come out of the basement". However, at the end of the election campaign, he energetically traveled to the fierce battle state and held a rally after taking strict measures against infection.
(Born November 20, 1942)