What You Still May Not Know About Joe: Insights From Biden Biographer Evan Osnos

GZERO World with Ian Bremmer

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🗓️ 21 November 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Joe Biden has been a public figure for decades but he’s far from an open book. For a man who has been in national politics since the age of 29 and has made multiple attempts at the presidency (third time’s a charm) it’s remarkable how much he has been willing to change. In a conversation with Ian Bremmer, Biden biographer and New Yorker staff writer Evan Osnos provides a deep dive into the life, legacy and potential presidency of the next leader of the free world.

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0:00.0	Biden actually is the precise combination of qualities that we need now, which is experience and a
0:06.6	fundamental belief that unity is not an impossibility.
0:12.1	Hello and welcome to the GZero World Podcast. Here you'll find extended versions of the
0:17.9	interviews from my show on public television. I'm Ian Bremmer, and today I'm
0:22.8	asking, how much do you really know about Joe? Joe Biden has had one of the longest political careers
0:30.6	in U.S. history, and on his third try, he was elected the nation's 46th president, And there are plenty of challenges ahead for him.
0:40.1	I'm talking to a man who has spent nearly a decade covering Biden.
0:44.1	It's Evan Osnose of The New Yorker,
0:46.6	who has just penned an important new biography,
0:49.1	offering insight into how he'll govern a deeply divided America.
0:53.4	Let's get to it.
1:00.2	Thank you. and to how he'll govern a deeply divided America. Let's get to it. The GZero World podcast is brought to you by our founding sponsor, First Republic.
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1:23.9	The book is called Joe Biden, the life, the Run, and What Matters now.
1:28.9	Evan Osnose, staff, writer, the New Yorker, and someone I've known for a very long time.
1:33.9	So nice to have you back on G0 World.
1:36.5	My pleasure. Thanks for having me, Ian.
1:38.6	Timely topic. You got that started.
1:40.9	It was not in any way presumed that Biden was even getting the nomination,
1:45.7	never mind becoming the president. You know, it was the kind of thing that came together as it
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