The 2008 presidential campaign of Joe Biden, the longtime U.S. senator from Delaware, began when Biden announced his candidacy for President of the United States on January 7, 2007. If elected, Biden would have been the first sitting Senator and Roman Catholic to become president since John F. Kennedy, and the only president to be born during World War II. Biden failed to garner significant support in opinion polls, and was marred by controversial comments made while campaigning. He ultimately dropped out of the race on January 3, 2008, after coming in fifth place and capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus. Seven months after the conclusion of his campaign, Biden was selected to be Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate.
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The 2008 presidential campaign of Joe Biden, the longtime U.S. senator from Delaware, began when Biden announced his candidacy for President of the United States on January 7, 2007. He officially became a candidate on January 31, 2007, after filing papers with the Federal Election Commission. If elected, Biden would have been the first sitting Senator and Roman Catholic to become president since John F. Kennedy, and the only president to be born during World War II. Biden failed to garner significant support in opinion polls, and was marred by controversial comments made while campaigning. He ultimately dropped out of the race on January 3, 2008, after coming in fifth place and capturing less than 1% of the vote in the Iowa caucus. Seven months after the conclusion of his campaign, Biden was selected to be Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama’s vice presidential running mate. The pair won in the general election, and were sworn in on January 20, 2009. In the 2020 election, Biden became the Democratic presidential candidate and was declared President-elect on November 7, 2020. Biden had run for president once before, but his 1988 presidential campaign had lasted for only three and a half months. He had been forced to withdraw due to controversies arising over plagiarizing other politicians’ speeches without credit, and falsely recollecting parts of his academic record. He drew criticism for his attempted praise of Illinois Senator Barack Obama, referring to him as \”the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy\”, a remark criticized as racist.
Biden was criticized in the popular press for his comments about Obama, and although he apologized, his campaign was damaged by the remark. He said that he would put a great quantity of focus on the first primary state of South Carolina as a strategy to attract independents to the Democratic nomination. In March 2007 Biden noted that the war in Iraq continued to be an important facet of his agenda. In a campaign he plans to stress the dangers to the security of the average American, not just from the terrorist threat, but from the lack of health assistance, crime, and energy dependence on unstable parts of the world. In an interview on Good Morning America, Biden called Hillary Clinton’s plan for the War in Iraq ‘a disaster’ and ‘counterproductive’ He said he would not accept the position of Secretary of State because of his foreign policy experience and credentials. He stated that he was focused only on the presidency. A few weeks later, Biden appeared on the Feb. 18 episode of Face the Nation, criticizing the new surge policy of the Bush administration in Iraq. He spoke about a piece of legislation that he put forth before the Senate to stall the surge policy from enactment, which would strip the president of the authorization he was given to go to go in 2002. Biden stated that the purpose of the war is to make it clear that he has troops in Iraq to protect against al Qaeda, training the Iraqi forces, and for our forces, not to get into a civil war.
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