Joe Biden Tombs Donald Trump: At 78 He Will Be The Oldest President In The History Of The United States | US Election Result

Joe Biden (Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1942) will become the 46th president in US history. About to turn 78 on November 20, he will be the oldest since George Washington was sworn in as the new republic in 1789. To reach that moment on Capitol Hill, next January, the leader Democrat will still have had to overcome the countless litigation that Donald Trump will raise to the electoral result, after Pennsylvania has definitively tipped the balance on Biden’s side after a very tight results recount. Four days of scrutiny typical of an underdeveloped country have left the widespread impression that Biden has ended up narrowly winning. And it is not like that. Biden’s 50.5% versus Trump’s 47.7% is the second-greatest gap between two candidates in the last twenty years, surpassed only by Obama’s landslide victory over McCain in 2008 (52.9% versus 45, 6%) Since the beginning of the last century, only four candidates who were not from the White House won the Presidency of the world’s leading power with more support than Biden will be able to boast: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Eisenhower, Bush Sr. and Obama. Because if we speak of close elections, none like the one that faced Kennedy and Nixon in 1960: barely 100,000 votes (0.2% of the total) separated the first Catholic president from the one who would later become years later. Or the one that in 2000 allowed Bush Jr. to become the second president of the Texan dynasty, by just 537 ballots in Florida, with the Democrat Gore turning to the Supreme Court to try to abort the Republican triumph.It is not easy at all to defeat the candidate who aspires to a second term, as the veteran politician from Scranton has done. Since the beginning of the last century, there are only three precedents for non-reelected presidents: Hoover against Roosevelt in the middle of the Great Depression, Carter against Reagan after the Iran hostage crisis, and Bush Sr. against Clinton in an election with a third in Liza, Ross Perot, conservative candidate who diluted the options of the Republican. Joe Biden will also be the 15th vice president to arrive in the Oval Office, since he served during the second term of Obama. An unrivaled climax for those who started his political career in 1972, when he became one of the youngest senators in the United States, and who for decades developed his political work without excessive brilliance but, at the same time, without fatal errors while life forged his character. with pain: in 1972 his wife and his daughter, just over a year old, died in a road accident when they were returning home from buying the Christmas tree, his first-born son died in 2015 from brain cancer and his youngest son has been a drug addict. Most of his life An Unexpected Ally He had failed in all his previous attempts to reach the highest magistracy of the North American republic (he did not win the nomination in the Democratic Primary of 1988 and 2008), but the unexpected pandemic – and the disconcerting management that Trump made it – they have given him the opportunity that no longer existed on his life horizon. The ‘Chinese virus’ emerged as an unexpected ally of a candidate that the Democratic elite chose by default in the absence of alternatives with a greater capacity for seduction. Not age, not his lack of reflexes, not his usual gaffes (“I am a blunder machine.But, by God, what a wonderful thing compared to a guy who can not tell the truth, “he ironically compared himself to Trump) they have prevented him from absorbing all the tide of anti-Trumpism. Along with Kamala Harris, the first woman to access the Vice Presidency, Joe Biden will serve as commander-in-chief of a deeply divided nation in January. “As never since Gettysburg,” as some analysts have dared to assess. “We do not win every battle, but we have won the war,” said the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Democrat Nancy Pelosi, with that warlike language that is being abused so much by large sectors of a nation that has dangerously begun to disrespect the other half as adversary.