Joe Biden, the tragedy-scarred president who keeps his promise to his son | 2020 US Elections

Joe Biden (Pennsylvania, 1942) has kept the promise he made to his son Joseph (Beau) Biden, the Delaware attorney general, before he died in 2015 from a brain tumor: be well and get to the White House leaving out playing Donald Trump. This feat would have been tried as early as 2016, however, he abandoned the race in favor of Hillary Clinton when the tragedy settled again in the course of his life. A fate that also seems to haunt him permanently, but one that recovers in an amazing way, they say, thanks to a phrase from his father that does not stop echoing in his memories: “Get up after being knocked down. Stand up! ”In November 1972, Biden won a US Senate seat from the state of Delaware and became the youngest senator in American history. There was no doubt, the Democrat was the paradigm of American success: successful, married to a beautiful woman and father of three children. He couldn’t imagine that on December 18 of that same year, in the middle of the afternoon, he would receive the most painful call of his life and would have to swear his public office in a hospital room. His wife Neilia Hunter Biden and their young daughter Amy (13 months) had died in a traffic accident and his other children, Beau (3 years) and Robert Hunter (2 years), were very serious. Neilia and the children had announced to Biden that they were going to buy a Christmas fir tree, but a corncob storage truck ran over the vehicle and ended the celebration. Since then, the new president has never worked on the day of the year in which he lost his wife and daughter with the sole purpose of honoring his memory and alleviating, even with a temporary bandage, the wound of loss.”I looked at my children and knew I had no choice but to fight to stay alive” A widower in his early 30s, Biden buried himself in work and raised his children with fierce dedication. To the point that every day for three decades, the young senator traveled 300 kilometers by train from Delaware to Washington DC so as not to be separated from them. «I began to understand how despair leads people to liquidate everything, how suicide was not just an option but a rational option. But I looked at Beau and Hunter asleep and, honestly, I wondered what terrors they had in their dreams and who would explain my absence. And I knew I had no choice but to fight to stay alive, “wrote Biden years later. In 1977, Biden meets Jill Tracy, an American teacher a little younger than him, on a blind date arranged by his brother. she marries almost immediately, with the goodwill and encouragement of Beau and Hunter, and with whom she has a new daughter: Ashley. Jill, as in the case of Melania Trump with her husband, has also had a very important role in Biden’s 2020 electoral campaign because, among other aspects, she has been in charge of making known one of the most valued aspects of the new president: your empathy and your ability to connect with people who suffer significant losses. “It will do for your family what it did for ours: unite and complete us,” the future first lady said in a speech in Michigan. “It will do for your family what it did for ours: unite and complete us.” Politicians often point out that his family and poor speaking skills are two of the former US vice president’s weaknesses, and they are probably right.Biden was deflated in one of the debates with Trump when the Republican blurted out in prime time that he did not know who his son Beau was, a personal friend of Kamala Harris, but that he did know about the problems with the cocaine of Hunter, the only son who The little Biden, according to his career, has turned out to be the black sheep of the president’s circle. He has been married three times and has had a romantic relationship with his sister-in-law and his brother Beau’s widow, he was expelled from the Navy Reserve after testing positive for drugs and alcohol and now, in addition, he is facing a lawsuit parenthood brought by a younger Arkansas woman whom he apparently met at a strip club in the back-and-forth of his detox phases. “My son Hunter, like many people we know around us, had a problem with the drugs. He’s gotten over it. He has fixed it. He has worked on it. And I am proud of him. I’m proud of my son, ”Biden replied, his voice cracking and doubtful, exposing his Achilles heel. Now, and after the victory, Biden will have to resort more than ever to that inner tranquility that they say he has because his family will cease to be his alone and, predictably, will become everyone’s business.