If Joe Biden is elected president this week, it will be the culmination of a career in politics that has seen successes as well as controversies. Journalist and biographer Evan Osnos examines what his past can tell us about the kind of president he could become
When Joe Biden entered the US Senate as a 29-year-old it was the start of a political career he hoped would lead him to the White House. Now on election day 2020, he stands on the cusp of his dream. With two failed bids behind him, this year as the Democratic nominee he has worked on the basis of one principle above all else: his task is to rid America of the leadership of Donald Trump.
New Yorker journalist Evan Osnos, author of a new Biden biography tells Anushka Asthana that for a Democrat who has been in the centre of the party for decades, including as Barack Obama’s vice-president, he is now running on one of the most radical platforms his party has ever stood on.
