Joe Biden (Valve Dystopia)

Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. (November 20, 1942- April 13, 2027) was an American politician who served as a U.S. Senator from Delaware from 1973 to 2009, 47th Vice President Of The United States (2009-2017) and 46th President Of The United States (2021-2025). A member of the Democrat Party, Biden won the 2020 U.S. Presidential election against Donald J. Trump and lost the 2024 U.S. Presidential election to Kevin McCarthy.

Early life and beginning of political career
Raised in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and New Castle County, Delaware, Biden studied at the University of Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University in 1968. He was elected a New Castle County Councillor in 1970 and became the sixth-youngest senator in American history when he was elected to the U.S. Senate from Delaware in 1972, at the age of 29. Biden was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and eventually its chairman. He opposed the Gulf War in 1991 and supported expanding the NATO alliance into Eastern Europe and its intervention in the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s. He supported the resolution authorizing the Iraq War in 2002, and later opposed the surge of U.S. troops in 2007. He also chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee from 1987 to 1995, dealing with drug policy, crime prevention, and civil liberties issues; led the effort to pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against Women Act; and oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings, including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. He ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1988 and again in 2008.

Vice Presidency
Biden said he intended to eliminate some of the explicit roles assumed by George W. Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, and did not intend to emulate any previous vice presidency. He chaired Obama's transition team and headed an initiative to improve middle-class economic well-being. In early January 2009, in his last act as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, he visited the leaders of Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, and on January 20 he was sworn in as the 47th vice president of the United States‍—‌the first vice president from Delaware and the first Roman Catholic vice president.

Obama was soon comparing Biden to a basketball player "who does a bunch of things that don't show up in the stat sheet". In May, Biden visited Kosovo and affirmed the U.S. position that its "independence is irreversible". Biden lost an internal debate to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about sending 21,000 new troops to Afghanistan, but his skepticism was valued, and in 2009, Biden's views gained more influence as Obama reconsidered his Afghanistan strategy. He would continue to travel to Iraq to visit troops in the U.S. army.

Presidency
When Sanders suspended his campaign on April 8, 2020, Biden became the Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president. On April 13, Sanders endorsed Biden in a live-streamed discussion from their homes. Former President Barack Obama endorsed Biden the next day. In March 2020, Biden committed to choosing a woman as his running mate. In June, Biden met the 1,991-delegate threshold needed to secure the party's presidential nomination. On August 11, he announced U.S. Senator Kamala Harris of California as his running mate, making her the first African American and South Asian American vice-presidential nominee on a major-party ticket.

On August 18, 2020, Biden was officially nominated at the 2020 Democratic National Convention as the Democratic Party nominee for president in the 2020 election. He won the 2020 election and was sworn in on January 20, 2021. His presidency was uneventful and many criticized him for "not being able to handle the job properly at old age" and that "he only won because he was against Donald Trump".

Post-political life and death
After the 2024 U.S. elections, Biden officially retired from politics. He spent the rest of his life away from public eye in his home in New Castle County, Delaware. He established the Joe Biden American History Library and Presidential Archive in Delaware on November 2025. He suffered from a stroke on April 3rd, 2027 and was taken to a hospital. He lost his life 10 days later. A state funeral was held for him on April 16th, 2027 attended by former president Barack Obama and former vice president Kamala Harris. He was buried next to his son Beau Biden.