Biden’s Path to Presidency: What Makes His Story so Inspirational
November 27, 2020
As almost everyone knows, Joe Biden recently won the 2020 presidential election. He has been well known for his countless achievements and dedication in the political field. To say that he he had a difficult journey would be an understatement. Like several other presidents, Biden has faced many enormous hardships and overcame them all to become our 2020 president. Here’s what makes his life story so inspirational:
Biden grew up in the lower class area of Scranton, Pennsylvania. When he was thirteen years old, Biden was bullied often for his severe stutter by his classmates and the kids in his neighborhood. The kids at school gave him the name “Joe Impedimenta” to mock his inability to talk like everyone else. Even as a child, Biden showed immense persistence. He began memorizing long speeches and reciting them every day just so he could say his entire name without stuttering. He eventually stopped stuttering as much by the time he was a teenager.
After attending Syracuse University for law and failing some of his classes, Biden met Neilia Hunter, who he soon married and started a family together. Even though he was not the best law student, in 1972, he managed to become the fifth-youngest U.S senator for Delaware at the age of twenty-nine.
Although it seemed like everything was going well for him at this point in his life, one catastrophic event happened that flipped his world upside down. In December 1972, his three children and wife got into a fatal car crash. Sadly, his wife and infant daughter, Naomi Biden, could not be saved and died later that day. Not only that, but his two other children, Beau and Hunter, were both severely injured from the crash. This left his family and job situation a huge mess. Biden was so depressed that he even considered suicide. Although he got remarried to Jill Biden in 1977, the emotional scars that came from the car accident still stuck with him for his entire life. When speaking on the aftermath of their deaths, he says, “I begin to understand how despair led people to just cash in; how suicide wasn’t just an option but a rational option… I felt God had played a horrible trick on me, and I was angry.”
At the considerably worst part of his life, Biden still pulled through to care for his remaining family. He wanted to be there for his sons while still performing his duties as a senator. For every day that he was a senator, he rode a four train ride from Wilmington, Delaware to his workplace, Washington D.C, just so he could say “good night” to his deceased wife and daughter in their home every night.
To add to the devastating losses of Biden’s family, when he was only 46 years old, Beau, one of Biden’s sons, died due to a life-threatening brain tumor in 2015.
Despite Biden’s family tragedies and other struggles, he demonstrated tremendous strength and grit by raising his remaining family well and accomplishing so much in the world of U.S politics. As of now, he is the 2020 president-elect. What else does he plan to achieve as president? Well, you’ll just have to find out in the next article.
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