A Look Back at Joe Biden's Journey to the Presidency

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🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Trevor highlights Joe Biden's early days as a fresh-faced senator, reputation as a gaffe machine, contentious Democratic primary battle in 2020 and electoral victory over President Trump.

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0:00.0	You're listening to Comedy Central.
0:03.0	Ow!
0:04.0	Joe Biden.
0:12.2	The man may be new to the race, but he definitely isn't new to life.
0:16.3	Joe Biden, like most old people, wasn't always old.
0:18.4	In fact, when he started his political career, he was the fresh face.
0:22.7	Biden Senate career began with him as the fifth youngest senator ever elected at 29,
0:27.8	in 1972.
0:28.8	He served in the Senate for three decades.
0:31.3	Biden's early years in the Senate saw seismic political change.
0:35.2	The end of the Vietnam War.
0:37.2	The impeachment of Richard Nixon.
0:40.1	Biden never moved to Washington,
0:42.0	choosing instead to commute home by train each night.
0:45.2	He has a nickname of Amtrak Joe.
0:47.6	I take this train literally.
0:49.2	I take it over 7,400 times since I got in the Senate.
0:53.1	People don't just love Joe Biden because he's a down-to-earth everyday man.
0:56.0	No, people love him because he's an adorable goofball.
0:59.9	In fact, the only thing that spends more time in Biden's mouth than those perfect teeth
1:03.6	is his own foot.
1:05.0	His biggest possible weakness is reputation for verbal gaffes.
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