And endured devastating personal tragedies. We can always get another senator but they cant get another father. You cannot lose a child and three months later get on the campaign trail. This was a tough one. He said beau was his soul. He has stepped off the political stage but doesnt hold back when it comes to an unconventional president. We are in the battle for this nation. I dont think the tombing was ever right for joe biden, but now might be the time. A number of women said his public conduct with them made them uncomfortable. Joe biden tonight is grappling with another womans accusation of unwanted touching. Does joe biden still have what it takes to make history . Its a question people have been asking joe biden for decades. Do you think you could go to your grave never having run for president . Oh, man, youre tough. You going to run for president . Are you going to run . Is there no scenario in which you could see yourself getting into this race . Absolutely not . Im not going to run for president. I dont know. The answer is a lot is at stake and i might. You look like youre going to run for president. Are you . Do i regret not being president . Yes. Thats why today i am announcing my candidacy for president of the United States. Its an announcement 50 years in the making. Which democrat as of now poses the greatest threat to donald trump. Despite a packed democratic field, observers on both sides of the aisle wond per the former Vice President is the democrats best chance of taking over the presidency. He is an authentic guy. Hes be a formidable opponent. I think people like joe biden. There was considerable thinking that he would have been a more formidable candidate than hillary clinton. If only. A lot of democrats are thinking that. Could joe biden have defeated donald trump . I dont know. The rust belt, your home territory. I dont know. Regrets . No. I just wasnt prepared to do it after i lost my son. Condolences are pouring in for Vice President joe biden and his family, after he announced that his son, beau had lost his battle with brain cancer. Beau did not want his illness to stand in the way of his dads running. He wanted joe to run, but of course you cant do it. I mean you cannot lose a child and three months later say, oh, yeah, im going to get on the campaign trail. You just cant do it. After the 2016 election, Vice President joe biden became a private citizen. Instead of using the full might of the executive branch to secure justice and safety for all, the president uses the white house as a literal, literal bully pulpit. When the president of the United States stiffarm and moved and then stood like this, that was the image of america, almost the image of the ugly american. It has such resonance. Ah, i dont know what i said, ah. Whether it was making fun of a reporter or denigrating women or saying things that would be hurtful, thats against everything joe biden stands for. Throughout his political career, joe biden made the rights of women one of his signature issues. Violence against women is a crime, pure and simple. If you want to see joe biden emotional, it is going to be on that issue. Awe you tapes surfaced today. During the 2016 election biden appears outraged by the secretly recorded remarks made by then candidate trump. What he said he did and does is a textbook definition of sexual assault. Former nevada assemblywoman accused joe biden of inappropriately touching and kissing her without her consent. Three more women came forward. He came forward fairly quickly and said i dont believe that i was inappropriate. But throughout my fire life as a politician, i have been extraordinarily affectionate with my constituents and votes. That seems to be a relic of his time as a politician. Hes been a senator since he was 29. Its a more direct way of interacting with your constituents. I think joe is joe and everybody who knows him well knows he is always in your space. He connects. He connects not only by being empathetic but also by touching people. In a tweet, biden acknowledges social norms are changing. I understand that. And i will be more mindful about respecting personal space in the future. I think it will take him fully recognizing how uncomfortable this makes people in order for him to win the nomination. Despite that, biden feels hes the true populist to rally the electorate. Given his experience, history with the campaign and the presidency of barack obama and given his years of service and his life story, he could be the soul of america in this campaign. I do think the moment could be right for joe biden. Now, biden wants another chance. And the resiliency hes shown in overcoming intense personal setbacks. Coming up. 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We must act now. Learn more. Text titlex to 22422 to joe biden the scrappy kid from scranton, who became delawares favorite son. You were the first decision i made as a nominee, and it was the best. [ cheering and applause ] Joseph Robinette biden jr. Is born to a businessman and homemaker in scranton, pennsylvania on november 20, 1942. Looking for better opportunities, his parents moved 10yearold joe and his younger siblings, valerie, james and frank, to delaware. There was no sense of entitlement in my family. There was an imperative that we get an education. In high school, biden is nicknamed dash because of a debilitating stutter. They had an allstar football team. Everybody signed the winning football, and one guy put dash, dash, dash biden. It was because it was jjjoe biden. I was one of the few people exempted from public speaking class because i stuttered so badly. Knowing what it felt like to be the object of someones joke or disdain gave him an even greater ability to walk in somebody elses skin and to know how they felt. I am today announcing my candidacy in 1960 john f. Kennedy runs for president and inspires 17yearold biden to consider politics. I remember getting out the congressional digest where it lists the biographies of all of the senators and congressmen. Everyone was either independently wealthy or a lawyer, and thats when i decided i wanted to go to law school. Biden wins junior and senior class president , and by High School Graduation he has overcome his stutter. One of the nuns i had used to tell me that the way to get it under control was to sort of get a rhythm to the way you read and the way you spoke, and i memorized a great deal. Biden begins college at the university of delaware and works as the only white life guard at an allblack pool. That was the beginning of his education about the black community. Biden would walk the streets, be with folks, protest with folks, go around with us, joke with us like one of us. Biden goes to Syracuse Law School in 1965 and marries nelia hunter a year later. When he graduates, biden begins practicing law in delaware. With two sons, beau and hunter, in 1970 biden runs for the Newcastle County council. He was going for it and so i knew i was going for it with him. Biden wins the county council seat. Two years later after having a third child, naomi, he runs for his seat in the u. S. Senate. I was his campaign manager. My brother, jimmy biden, was the fundraiser. My brother Frankie Biden was the volunteer coordinator, my mom was the coffee chair. Bidens opponent is veteran republican senator caleb boggs who has run undefeated for 25 years. Nobody took us seriously. The press called us the childrens crusade. Ill tell you how bad it was. On labor day we had a serious poll come in, boggs 47, biden 19. Just two months later in one of the biggest upsets in senate history, 29yearold biden defeats 63yearold caleb boggs. They announced he won, i thought to myself, i will never, ever believe again that something is impossible. Biden is one of the youngest senators ever elected. Just after election day he turns 30, and in december heads to washington. Nelia and the children stay home to prepare for christmas. I was with my brother and we were hiring staff. Jimmy biden called and said, come home. I said, we have to go. And we both we went home. After buying a christmas tree, nelia and the children are in a car accident. In an instant everything changes. The two boys were in the back seat of the car and the new baby was in the front seat of the car, and she was hit by a hay truck. Uhhuh. It was, unfortunately, the most graphic demonstration in the world for me as to how little control one has over their lives and their destiny, how much a role fate plays and how vulnerable we all are. Nelia and the baby had been killed and beau and hunt were in the hospital seriously injured. With both sons in the hospital, biden decides to give up his new senate seat. I had six or seven senior senators, including republicans, who said, joe, come down. In retrospect, they saved my sanity. One of the senators said, nelia and the boys and you worked too hard for this, you have to give it a shot. That one got him. Biden is sworn in next to his sons hospital beds. Congratulations, senator. Thank you. If in six months or so theres a conflict between my being a good father and being a good senator, we can always get another senator but they cant get another father. The boys kept him going and he kept going by trying to be a United States senator. It sounds like an urban myth, but i mean every single day he would take the train back to delaware so that he could read stories to his boys and tuck them in. The hourandahalf commute each way earns him the nickname amtrak joe. Our Senate Hearings sometimes do not begin until 10 30 or 11 00 in the morning. We had to sort of gauge our situation on the basis of joes train. Biden dives into his work but says the absence of nelia and naomi was like a companion that never left his side. My family held me in place from going over the edge until jill lifted me up and moved me on. An advertisement featuring model jill jacobs catches bidens eye at the wilmington airport. Two nights later frank and jim and my sister val were all going out together for dinner with their dates, and my brother frank said, well, i got just the girl for you to meet. Biden agrees to go, and his date is the exact same girl from the photo. I was used to dating guys with jeans and bell bottoms and clogs. When i opened the door there he was in a dark suit and leather shoes, and i thought, well, you know, this is only going to be one date. We went out on a date and he was really interesting. When he took me to the door to say good night, he shook my hand and i went upstairs and i called my mother and i said, mom, i finally met a gentleman. The boys tell their dad, you should marry jill. Biden agrees and proposes but doesnt get the answer he wants on the first proposal. There were absolutely five, but the boys had lost their mother and their sister and i had to be 100 sure that it was going to last till death to us part. Biden marries jill, who has launched a teaching career, and they have a daughter, ashley. As joes political star rises in washington, he sets his sights on the top seat. Coming up you were on the verge of dying, werent you . Yeah. Fo rful claritind. While the leading allergy spray only relieves 6 symptoms, claritind relieves 8, including sinus congestion and pressure. Claritind relieves more. Into your own little world. 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Amid everything biden starts to get debilitating headaches but works through the pain. So the headaches started. It is not like he said, i got a terrible headache. You will just notice he is popping some aspirin. During his campaign, biden is inspired by a speech given by British Labor party leader neil kinnock and begins referencing it on the trail. Neil kinnock was telling a personal story about the dignity of working class life, about the potential of building Something Better for the next generation, about the role government can play in helping families like that, and so he did start making it kind of a staple of his message on the campaign trail. Almost every major press person in the country had heard me repeatedly attribute that quotation to kinnock. Could be made of the time at the iowa state fair, democratic president ial candidates debate, biden again quotes kinnock in his closing statement. Why is it that joe biden is the first in his family ever to go to a university . This time biden forgets to attribute the line to kinnock and faces accusations of plagiarism. Senator, can you clarify any of your comments it wouldnt have been a problem if he had acknowledged the source of it. Plagiarism charges dog bidens campaign. I concluded that i will stop being a candidate for president of the United States. Things that were disqualifying back then are no longer disqualifying. Immediately after ending his president ial campaign, biden walks down the hall and continues presiding over the bork hearing. Ted kennedy slips him a note and says, ive been there, theres life after this. I think that resonated with biden in that moment, because kennedy had been there. After an historic constitutional debate led by biden, the Senate Rejects borks nomination. As Biden Presses forward in the senate his severe headaches continue. The headaches really got bad after he withdrew from the race. And in february of 1988 an aneurism ruptures in joe bidens brain. Biden is rushed into emergency surgery. You were on the verge of dying, werent you . Yeah. What did you say to your children . In general terms i told them how much i believed in them and what i expected of them if i died. I think theres a reason for what happened, and i think that getting out of the race was, quite frankly, a god send. It was at that point that i made my peace with the campaign falling apart. In the longrun if he wants to be president i think it will make him a better president. After lifesaving surgery biden returns to the senate. I mean he is a man who really has a lot of strength and fortitude. He just gets up. In 1990, troubled by data showing increasing crime against women, he introduces the violence against women act. The idea that someone could abuse a woman and not face the full penalty of the law was just an anathema to him. It will act as the first time the government will address domestic and Sexual Violence against women, but it dies in committee. 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