China News Service, Washington, January 20, report title: Joe Biden: From "2446 North Washington Avenue" to the White House
China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong
On the day of the 2020 presidential election in the United States, Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden returned to the place where he was born-2446 North Washington Avenue in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The house has now changed owners, but it still maintains the layout of Biden’s childhood.
Biden said he wanted to "go to the kitchen and see."
Before leaving, he signed on the white wall in the living room, writing "From this house to White House. November 3, 2020."
At noon on January 20, local time, Biden, a Democrat and President-elect of the United States, was formally sworn in as the 46th President of the United States on Capitol Hill.
Pennsylvania is the key to the "swing state" of the US general election.
This is the beginning of Biden's life, and also the beginning and end of his 2020 presidential campaign.
In May 2019, Biden officially started his campaign in Philadelphia, and the final campaign before the 2020 election ended in Pittsburgh.
In 2016, the Democratic Party lost Pennsylvania by less than a percentage point, resulting in a loss of all.
Four years later, "deeply plowing" Pennsylvania has become Biden's obvious campaign strategy.
The "reversal" here also helped him cross the 270 electoral votes required to enter the White House.
On November 20, 1942, Biden was born at St. Mary's Hospital south of Scranton, the eldest son of the family.
He moved to Delaware with his family when he was a child, where he completed his studies and transformed from a lawyer into politics.
Biden suffers from stuttering and has struggled with it all his life.
He said that he had never received professional treatment, but others taught him to speak rhythmically, so he spent a lot of time reading poems by Emerson and Yeats to train himself.
In speeches or debates, he habitually uses the "first point, second point" approach to explain his position.
Biden's mantra is "this is the case", and he will say "full stop" at the end to strengthen his tone.
Although he served as Vice President during the two terms of former President Obama and has more than 35 years of senator qualifications, Biden's political career has not been smooth sailing.
He ran for president twice in 1988 and 2008, but was not nominated by the party.
When he was first elected to the Senate in 1972, Biden narrowly defeated his opponent by only 3,000 votes.
On February 2, 2020 local time, Biden held a rally in Iowa.
Photo by China News Agency reporter Chen Mengtong
In the 2020 general election, Biden also experienced "difficult moments" in the primary stage.
In February last year, he "opened low and moved high". The first stop Iowa primaries ranked fourth in the vote. It wasn't until the fourth stop North Carolina that he stabilized, and then he gradually established the lead on "Super Tuesday".
Life has brought hardships to Biden.
His first wife and daughter were killed in a car accident in 1972.
In 2015, his eldest son Bo died of brain cancer.
"Four days after Bo's funeral, I watched Joe shave and put on a suit. I saw him plucking up his courage in front of the mirror-he took a breath, straightened his shoulders, and walked into a world without our son. He Going back to work. He is such a person." Biden's current wife Jill said in a speech at the Democratic National Convention last year, "Biden's willpower is unstoppable."
In an interview with Gil's daughter Ashley, Biden talked about how family changes shaped Biden's character.
She said, "My father is full of compassion. He can capture and feel the pain of others and give comfort."
On the afternoon of the 19th, Biden prepared to leave his hometown for Washington.
Biden spoke at the National Guard and Reserve Center named after his son Bo.
He choked several times, and resisted his tears and said, "I know it is a dark hour, but there will always be light. This is what Delaware taught me the most."
On the same day, the number of deaths from new coronary pneumonia in the United States exceeded 400,000.
Biden's inauguration was not as spectacular as a sea of people. Instead, it was replaced by a "sea of flags" composed of nearly 200,000 flags, representing the crowds that were unable to attend the ceremony in all states in the United States.
The picture shows the US President Biden and his wife leaving the Capitol after being sworn in.
In the same place where Biden was sworn in, it was completely occupied by the demonstrators who stormed Congress 14 days ago.
The riots not only highlighted the serious tearing of public opinion in American society, but also made Biden's repeated calls for "unity" more realistic.
During the campaign, Biden tried to bridge the growing division of American society.
On October 6, 2020, he delivered a speech at Gettysburg, a historical symbol.
Borrowing the metaphor of the late President Lincoln, he said, "We are once again a family that is in conflict (Onceagain, weareahousedivided.), but my friends, we can't do that anymore."
In his inauguration speech on the 20th, Biden once again quoted Lincoln’s famous saying when he signed the "Proclamation for the Emancipation of Negro Slaves", “Today, my whole soul will focus on this: to unite America and unite our people, Unite our country."
Savoring the hardship and separation of life, and withstanding political ups and downs and ups and downs, the 78-year-old Biden will take on the double challenge of leading a country to heal the pain of the epidemic and bridge political differences.
At about 15:52 on January 20, 2021, Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States, walked into the White House at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
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