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US election 2024
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Americans
will head to the polls in November 2024 to elect the next US president.
The person sitting in the White House's Oval Office has a big influence
on people's lives both at home and abroad, so the outcome of this
election matters for everyone.
The US political system today is dominated by just two parties, so every president in modern times has belonged to one of them.
The
Democrats are the liberal political party, with an agenda defined
largely by its push for civil rights, a broad social safety net and
measures to address climate change.
It is the party of incumbent President Joe Biden, who is trying to secure a second term in power.
The
Republicans are the conservative political party in the US. Also known
as the GOP, or the Grand Old Party, it has stood for lower taxes,
shrinking the size of the government, gun rights and tighter
restrictions on immigration and abortion.
Former President Donald
Trump is the last Republican left in the race and has secured enough
support to be nominated the Republican candidate.
The nominations will be made official at party conventions this summer.
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When is the next US presidential election?
The
2024 election will be on Tuesday, 5 November 2024. The winner will
serve a term of four years in the White House starting in January 2025.
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Who are the candidates and how are they nominated?
The
2024 presidential campaign is well under way. It started with 15
candidates - nine Republicans, four Democrats and two independents -
although nearly all have already dropped out of the race.
The two main parties nominate a presidential candidate by holding a series of state primaries and caucuses.
There are differences between the parties and the process varies from one state to another.
One
of the biggest polling days is known as Super Tuesday - named because
more than a dozen states all held their primary contests on Tuesday 5
March.
President Biden announced his re-election bid earlier this
year and has won enough support to secure the Democratic Party
nomination despite some long-shot challenges.
In the Republican
Party, former President Donald Trump saw off his last remaining
challenger, former UN ambassador Nikki Haley, and has won enough primary
contests to propel him over the finish line to be nominated the
Republican candidate.
There are also some independent candidates
running for president, including Robert F Kennedy Jr, nephew to former
president John F Kennedy.
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How does the US presidential election work?
Both candidates compete to win electoral college votes.
Each
state has a certain number of electoral college votes partly based on
its population and there are a total of 538 up for grabs, so the winner
is the candidate that wins 270 or more.
This means voters decide
state-level contests rather than the national one, which is why it's
possible for a candidate to win the most votes nationally - like Hillary
Clinton did in 2016 - but still be defeated by the electoral college.
All
but two states have a winner-takes-all rule, so whichever candidate
wins the highest number of votes is awarded all of the state's electoral
college votes.
Most states lean heavily towards one party or the
other, so the focus is usually on a dozen or so states where either of
them could win. These are known as the battleground states.
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Who else is being elected?
All
of the attention will be on who wins the presidency, but voters will
also be choosing new members of Congress - the government's legislature -
when they fill in their ballots.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives are up for election, while 33 Senate seats are also up for grabs.
Republicans control the House and Democrats are in charge of the Senate.
These
two chambers pass legislation so can act as a check on White House
plans if the controlling party in either chamber disagrees with the
president.
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Who can vote?
If
you're a US citizen and you're 18 or over, you should be eligible to
vote in the presidential election, which takes place every four years.
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When do we know who has won the election?
Usually a winner is declared on the night of the election, but in 2020 it took a few days to count all the votes.
The period after the election is know as the transition if there is a change of president.
It's a time for the new administration, including cabinet ministers, to form and make plans for the new term.
The
president is officially sworn into office in January in a ceremony
known as the inauguration, held on the steps of the Capitol building in
Washington DC.
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More on the US election
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Recap: The Trump life story to date
Donald Trump
president of United States
In full: Donald John Trump
Born: June 14, 1946, New York, New York, U.S. (age 77)
Title / Office: presidency of the United States of America (2017-2021), United States
Political Affiliation: Republican Party
Notable Works: “Crippled America: How to Make America Great Again” “The America We Deserve” “Trump: The Art of the Deal”
Notable
Family Members: spouse Melania Trump daughter Ivanka Trump son Donald
Trump, Jr. son of Frederick Christ Trump son of Mary MacLeod husband of
Melania Trump (January 22, 2005–present) husband of Marla Maples
(December 20, 1993–June 8, 1999) husband of Ivana Trump (April 9,
1977–March 22, 1992) father of Donald Trump, Jr. (b. 1977) father of
Ivanka Trump (b. 1981) father of Eric Trump (b. 1984) father of Tiffany
Trump (b. 1993) father of Barron Trump (b. 2006) brother of Maryanne
Trump Barry brother of Frederick Trump, Jr. brother of Elizabeth Trump
Grau brother of Robert Trump
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Donald
Trump (born June 14, 1946, New York, New York, U.S.) is the 45th
president of the United States (2017–21) and the likely Republican
nominee in the U.S. presidential election of 2024. He is also a real
estate developer and businessman who has owned, managed, or licensed his
name to hotels, casinos, golf courses, resorts, and residential
properties in the New York City area and around the world. Since the
1980s Trump has lent his name to scores of retail ventures—including
branded lines of clothing, cologne, food, and furniture. In the early
21st century his private conglomerate, the Trump Organization, comprised
some 500 companies involved in a wide range of businesses, including
hotels and resorts, residential properties, merchandise, and
entertainment and television.
Trump is the third president in
U.S. history (after Andrew Johnson in 1868 and Bill Clinton in 1998) to
be impeached by the U.S. House of Representatives and the only president
to be impeached twice—once (in 2019) for abuse of power and obstruction
of Congress in connection with the Ukraine scandal and once (in 2021)
for “incitement of insurrection” in connection with the January 6 attack
on the U.S. Capitol by a violent mob of Trump supporters. Both of
Trump’s impeachments ended in his acquittal by the U.S. Senate. Trump
ran for reelection in 2020 but lost to former vice president Joe Biden
by an Electoral College vote of 306 to 232.
Two years after
leaving office, Trump became the first former president to be charged
with a crime when a Manhattan grand jury indicted him on charges of
falsifying business records in connection with a hush-money payment in
2016 to the adult-film star Stephanie Clifford, known as Stormy Daniels,
who claimed to have had an affair with Trump in 2006. Trump was later
indicted on dozens of other federal and state charges in cases relating
to his efforts to overturn Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential
election and his removal of numerous classified documents from the White
House on his last day of office. Trump was also found liable in a major
civil suit alleging business fraud in New York state and two civil
suits accusing him of sexually abusing and defaming the writer E. Jean
Carroll. With the start of his trial in the business-records case on
April 15, 2024, Trump became the first former president to stand trial
on criminal charges.
After the midterm elections of 2022, Trump
declared his intention to run for a second term, and in primary
elections in early 2024 he accumulated enough delegates to win his
party’s nomination, despite the steady progress of the legal cases
against him. Although some Republican Party leaders have worried that a
criminal trial could seriously weaken Trump’s appeal to moderate
Republican and independent voters, others have taken the hopeful view
that Trump will use his court appearances to solidify his support by
casting himself as a political martyr—the victim of Democratic-led
“witch hunts,” “hoaxes,” and “scams,” as he frequently characterizes the
many legal investigations he has faced.
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Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald Trump speaking in front of Trump Tower, New York City, August 2008.
Trump
was the fourth of five children of Frederick (Fred) Christ Trump, a
successful real estate developer, and Mary MacLeod. Donald’s eldest
sister, Maryanne Trump Barry, eventually served as a U.S. district court
judge (1983–99) and later as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Third Circuit until her retirement in 2011. His elder brother,
Frederick, Jr. (Freddy), worked briefly for their father’s business
before becoming an airline pilot in the 1960s. Freddy’s alcoholism led
to his early death in 1981, at the age of 43.
Beginning in the
late 1920s, Fred Trump built hundreds of single-family houses and row
houses in the Queens and Brooklyn boroughs of New York City, and from
the late 1940s he built thousands of apartment units, mostly in
Brooklyn, using federal loan guarantees designed to stimulate the
construction of affordable housing. During World War II he also built
federally backed housing for naval personnel and shipyard workers in
Virginia and Pennsylvania. In 1954 Fred was investigated by the Senate
Banking Committee for allegedly abusing the loan-guarantee program by
deliberately overestimating the costs of his construction projects to
secure larger loans from commercial banks, enabling him to keep the
difference between the loan amounts and his actual construction costs.
In testimony before the Senate committee in 1954, Fred admitted that he
had built the Beach Haven apartment complex in Brooklyn for $3.7 million
less than the amount of his government-insured loan. Although he was
not charged with any crime, he was thereafter unable to obtain federal
loan guarantees. A decade later a New York state investigation found
that Fred had used his profit on a state-insured construction loan to
build a shopping center that was entirely his own property. He
eventually returned $1.2 million to the state but was thereafter unable
to obtain state loan guarantees for residential projects in the Coney
Island area of Brooklyn.
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Key events in the life of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump
Key events in the life of U.S. Pres. Donald Trump
Donald
Trump attended New York Military Academy (1959–64), a private boarding
school; Fordham University in the Bronx (1964–66); and the University of
Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Finance and Commerce (1966–68), where
he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics. In 1968, during the
Vietnam War, he secured a diagnosis of bone spurs, which qualified him
for a medical exemption from the military draft (he had earlier received
four draft deferments for education). Upon his graduation Trump began
working full-time for his father’s business, helping to manage its
holdings of rental housing, then estimated at between 10,000 and 22,000
units. In 1974 he became president of a conglomeration of Trump-owned
corporations and partnerships, which he later named the Trump
Organization.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, Trump-owned
housing developments in New York City, Cincinnati, Ohio, and Norfolk,
Virginia, were the target of several complaints of racial discrimination
against African Americans and other minority groups. In 1973 Fred and
Donald Trump, along with their company, were sued by the U.S. Justice
Department for allegedly violating the Fair Housing Act (1968) in the
operation of 39 apartment buildings in New York City. The Trumps
initially countersued the Justice Department for $100 million, alleging
harm to their reputations. The suit was settled two years later under an
agreement that did not require the Trumps to admit guilt.
In the
late 1970s and the 1980s, Donald Trump greatly expanded his father’s
business by investing in luxury hotels and residential properties and by
shifting its geographic focus to Manhattan and later to Atlantic City,
New Jersey. In doing so, he relied heavily on loans, gifts, and other
financial assistance from his father, as well as on his father’s
political connections in New York City. In 1976 he purchased the
decrepit Commodore Hotel near Grand Central Station under a complex
profit-sharing agreement with the city that included a 40-year property
tax abatement, the first such tax break granted to a commercial property
in New York City. Relying on a construction loan guaranteed by his
father and the Hyatt Corporation, which became a partner in the project,
Trump refurbished the building and reopened it in 1980 as the
1,400-room Grand Hyatt Hotel. In 1983 he opened Trump Tower, an office,
retail, and residential complex constructed in partnership with the
Equitable Life Assurance Company. The 58-story building on 56th Street
and Fifth Avenue eventually contained Trump’s Manhattan residence and
the headquarters of the Trump Organization. Other Manhattan properties
developed by Trump during the 1980s include the Trump Plaza residential
cooperative (1984), the Trump Parc luxury condominium complex (1986),
and the 19-story Plaza Hotel (1988), a historic landmark for which Trump
paid more than $400 million.
In the 1980s Trump invested heavily
in the casino business in Atlantic City, where his properties
eventually included Harrah’s at Trump Plaza (1984, later renamed Trump
Plaza), Trump’s Castle Casino Resort (1985), and the Trump Taj Mahal
(1990), then the largest casino in the world. During that period Trump
also purchased the New Jersey Generals, a team in the short-lived U.S.
Football League; Mar-a-Lago, a 118-room mansion in Palm Beach, Florida,
built in the 1920s by the cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post; a
282-foot yacht, then the world’s second largest, which he named the
Trump Princess; and an East Coast air-shuttle service, which he called
Trump Shuttle.
In 1977 Trump married Ivana Zelníčková Winklmayr, a
Czech model, with whom he had three children—Donald, Jr., Ivanka, and
Eric—before the couple divorced in 1992. Their married life, as well as
Trump’s business affairs, were a staple of the tabloid press in New York
City during the 1980s. Trump married the American actress Marla Maples
after she gave birth to Trump’s fourth child, Tiffany, in 1993. Their
marriage ended in divorce in 1999. In 2005 Trump married the Slovene
model Melania Knauss, and their son, Barron, was born the following
year. Melania Trump became the second foreign-born first lady of the
United States upon Trump’s inauguration as president in 2017.
When
the U.S. economy fell into recession in 1990, many of Trump’s
businesses suffered, and he soon had trouble making payments on his
approximately $5 billion debt, some $900 million of which he had
personally guaranteed. Under a restructuring agreement with several
banks, Trump was forced to surrender his airline, which was taken over
by US Airways in 1992; to sell the Trump Princess; to take out second or
third mortgages on nearly all of his properties and to reduce his
ownership stakes in them; and to commit himself to living on a personal
budget of $450,000 a year. Despite those measures, the Trump Taj Mahal
declared bankruptcy in 1991, and two other casinos owned by Trump, as
well as his Plaza Hotel in New York City, went bankrupt in 1992.
Following those setbacks, most major banks refused to do any further
business with him. Estimates of Trump’s net worth during this period
ranged from $1.7 billion to minus $900 million.
Trump’s fortunes
rebounded with the stronger economy of the later 1990s and with the
decision of the Frankfurt-based Deutsche Bank AG to establish a presence
in the U.S. commercial real estate market. Deutsche Bank extended
hundreds of millions of dollars in credit to Trump in the late 1990s and
the 2000s for projects including Trump World Tower (2001) in New York
and Trump International Hotel and Tower (2009) in Chicago. In the early
1990s Trump had floated a plan to his creditors to convert his
Mar-a-Lago estate into a luxury housing development consisting of
several smaller mansions, but local opposition led him instead to turn
it into a private club, which was opened in 1995. In 1996 Trump
partnered with the NBC television network to purchase the Miss Universe
Organization, which produced the Miss Universe, Miss USA, and Miss Teen
USA beauty pageants. Trump’s casino businesses continued to struggle,
however: in 2004 his company Trump Hotels & Casino Resorts filed for
bankruptcy after several of its properties accumulated unmanageable
debt, and the same company, renamed Trump Entertainment Resorts, went
bankrupt again in 2009.
Beginning in the mid-2000s, Trump enjoyed
an enormous financial windfall from the success of The Apprentice, a
reality television series in which he starred that directly earned him
nearly $200 million over a 16-year period. The Emmy-nominated show, in
each episode of which Trump “fired” one or more contestants competing
for a lucrative one-year contract as a Trump employee, further enhanced
his reputation as a shrewd businessman and self-made billionaire. In
2008 the show was revamped as The Celebrity Apprentice, which featured
news makers and entertainers as contestants.
Trump marketed his
name as a brand in numerous other business ventures, including Trump
Financial, a mortgage company, and the Trump Entrepreneur Initiative
(formerly Trump University), an online education company focusing on
real estate investment and entrepreneurialism. The latter firm, which
ceased operating in 2011, was the target of class-action lawsuits by
former students and a separate action by the attorney general of New
York state, alleging fraud. After initially denying the allegations,
Trump settled the lawsuits for $25 million in November 2016. In 2019,
more than two years into his presidency, Trump agreed to pay $2 million
in damages and to admit guilt to settle another lawsuit by the attorney
general of New York that had accused him of illegally using assets from
his charity, the Trump Foundation, to fund his 2016 presidential
campaign. As part of the settlement, the Trump Foundation was dissolved.
In
2018 The New York Times published a lengthy investigative report that
documented how Fred Trump had regularly transferred vast sums of money,
ultimately amounting to hundreds of millions of dollars, to his children
by means of strategies that involved tax, securities, and real estate
fraud, as well as by legal means. According to the report, Donald Trump
was the main beneficiary of the transfers, having received the
equivalent (in 2018 dollars) of $413 million by the early 2000s.
According to a later report by the Times, based on data from tax returns
filed by Trump during an 18-year period starting in 2000, Trump paid no
federal taxes in 11 years and only $750 in each of two years, 2016 and
2017. Trump was able to reduce his tax obligations to levels
significantly below the average for the wealthiest Americans by claiming
massive losses on many of his businesses; by deducting as business
expenses costs associated with his residences and his personal aircraft;
and by receiving, on the basis of business losses, a tentative refund
from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) of nearly $73 million, which
more than covered the federal taxes Trump had paid on income he received
from The Apprentice in 2005–08. The refund became the subject of an IRS
audit and a legally mandated review by the congressional Joint
Committee on Taxation.
Trump was credited as coauthor of a number
of books on entrepreneurship and his business career, including Trump:
The Art of the Deal (1987), Trump: The Art of the Comeback (1997), Why
We Want You to Be Rich (2006), Trump 101: The Way to Success (2006), and
Trump Never Give Up: How I Turned My Biggest Challenges into Success
(2008).
Presidential election of 2016 of Donald Trump
From the
1980s Trump periodically mused in public about running for president,
but those moments were widely dismissed in the press as publicity
stunts. In 1999 he switched his voter registration from Republican to
the Reform Party and established a presidential exploratory committee.
Although he ultimately declined to run in 2000, he published a book that
year, The America We Deserve, in which he set forth his socially
liberal and economically conservative political views. Trump later
rejoined the Republican Party, and he maintained a high public profile
during the 2012 presidential election. He did not run for office at that
time, but he gained much attention for popularizing “birtherism,” a
conservative conspiracy theory based on the false claim that Democratic
Pres. Barack Obama is not a natural-born U.S. citizen.
In June
2015 Trump announced that he would be a candidate in the U.S.
presidential election of 2016. Pledging to “make America great again”—a
slogan appearing on the red hats that he and his supporters wore at his
rallies—he promised to create millions of new jobs; to punish American
companies that exported jobs overseas; to repeal Obama’s signature
legislative achievement, the Affordable Care Act (ACA); to revive the
U.S. coal industry; to drastically reduce the influence of lobbyists in
Washington, D.C. (“drain the swamp”); to withdraw the United States from
the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change; to impose tariffs on
countries that allegedly engaged in trade practices that were unfair to
the United States; to construct a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border to
prevent illegal immigration from Latin America; and to ban immigration
by Muslims. Trump mused about those and other issues in Crippled
America: How to Make America Great Again (2015).
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald Trump wearing a MAGA (Make America Great Again) red hat at a campaign rally in Fountain Hills, Arizona, March 2016.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald Trump, 2016.
On
the campaign trail, Trump quickly established himself as a political
outsider, a common strategy among nonincumbent candidates at all levels.
In Trump’s case the stance proved popular with conservative
voters—especially those in the Tea Party movement—and he frequently
topped opinion polls, besting established Republican politicians.
However, his campaign was often mired in controversy, much of it of his
own making. In speeches and especially via Twitter (later called X), a
social media platform he had used frequently since 2009, Trump regularly
made inflammatory remarks, including racist and sexist slurs and
insults. Other public comments by Trump, especially those directed at
his rivals or detractors in the Republican establishment, were widely
criticized for their belligerence, their bullying tone, and their
indulgence in juvenile name-calling. Trump’s initial refusal to condemn
the Ku Klux Klan after a former Klansman endorsed him also drew sharp
criticism, as did his failure to repudiate racist elements among his
supporters, including white supremacists and neo-Nazis. While Trump’s
comments worried the Republican establishment, his supporters were
pleased by his combativeness and his apparent willingness to say
whatever came into his mind, a sign of honesty and courage in their
estimation.
After a loss in the Iowa caucuses to open up the
primary season in February 2016, Trump rebounded by winning the next
three contests, and he extended his lead with a strong showing on Super
Tuesday—when primaries and caucuses were held in 11 states—in early
March. After a landslide victory in the Indiana primary in May, Trump
became the presumptive Republican nominee as his last two opponents, Ted
Cruz and John Kasich, dropped out of the race.
Donald Trump campaigning in 2016
Donald Trump campaigning in 2016
Donald Trump at a rally in Akron, Ohio, August 2016.
In
July 2016 Trump announced that Indiana Gov. Mike Pence would be his
vice presidential running mate. At the Republican National Convention
the following week, Trump was officially named the party’s nominee.
There he and other speakers harshly criticized the presumptive
Democratic nominee, former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, blaming
her for the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and
for allegedly having mishandled classified State Department emails by
using a private email server. Earlier in July the Federal Bureau of
Investigation (FBI) announced that an investigation of Clinton’s use of
email as secretary of state had determined that her actions had been
“extremely careless” but not criminal. (A 2019 report by the U.S. State
Department, concluding a yearslong investigation, found “no persuasive
evidence of systemic, deliberate mishandling of classified information”
by Clinton.) Trump continued his criticisms of Clinton in the ensuing
weeks, routinely referring to her as “Crooked Hillary” and repeatedly
vowing to put her in jail if he were elected. Trump’s threat to jail his
political opponent was unprecedented in modern U.S. political history
and was not founded in any constitutional power that a U.S. president
would have.
Despite having pledged in 2015 that he would release
his tax returns, as every presidential nominee of a major party had done
since the 1970s, Trump later refused to do so, explaining that he was
under routine audit by the IRS—though there was no legal bar to
releasing his returns under audit, as Pres. Richard Nixon had done in
1973. In January 2017, soon after Trump’s inauguration as president, a
senior White House official announced that Trump had no intention of
releasing his returns. Trump’s tax returns and other financial
information later became a focus of investigations by the House of
Representatives, the district attorney for Manhattan, and the attorney
general of New York into alleged criminal activity by Trump and his
associates (see below Russia investigation).
In late July, on the
eve of the Democratic National Convention, thousands of internal emails
of the Democratic National Committee were publicly released by the
website WikiLeaks in an apparent effort to damage the Clinton campaign.
Reacting to widespread suspicion that the emails had been stolen by
Russian hackers, Trump publicly encouraged the Russians to hack
Clinton’s private email server to find thousands of emails that he
claimed had been illegally deleted. A later investigation by the office
of Robert Mueller, the special counsel appointed in 2017 to investigate
Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election (see below Russia
investigation), determined that Russian hackers first attempted to
break into the personal email servers of Clinton campaign officials only
hours after Trump issued his invitation.
Following the
Democratic convention, Trump continued to make controversial and
apparently impromptu comments via Twitter and in other forums that
embarrassed the Republican establishment and seriously disrupted his
campaign. In a hot-mic video from 2005, which surfaced in October 2016,
Trump told an entertainment reporter in vulgar language that he had
tried to seduce a married woman and that “when you’re a star…you can do
anything,” including grabbing women by the genitals. Although Trump
dismissed the conversation as “locker room talk,” eventually more than
two dozen women claimed that they had been sexually harassed or
assaulted by Trump in the past. (Some of the allegations were made
during or after Trump’s presidency—see below Postpresidential
activities.) During the campaign, Trump and his legal representatives
generally denied the allegations and asserted that all the women were
lying; they also noted that Bill Clinton had previously been accused of
sexual harassment and assault. In part because of the video, Trump’s
support among women voters—already low—continued to wane, and some
Republicans began to withdraw their endorsements.
United States presidential election of 2016
United States presidential election of 2016
Results of the U.S. presidential election, 2016.
Approximately
one hour after the release of the Trump video, WikiLeaks published a
trove of emails that later investigations determined had been stolen by
Russian hackers from the account of John Podesta, Clinton’s campaign
manager. On the same day, the U.S. intelligence community publicly
announced its assessment that the Russian government had directed
efforts by hackers to steal and release sensitive Democratic Party
emails and other information in order to bolster the Trump campaign and
to weaken public confidence in U.S. democratic institutions, including
the news media. In response, Trump attacked the competence and motives
of U.S. intelligence agencies and insisted that no one really knew who
might have been behind the hacking. A secret CIA report to Congress in
December and a separate report ordered by Obama and released in January
2017 also concluded that the Russians had interfered in the election,
including through the theft and publication of Democratic Party emails
and through a vast public influence campaign that had used fake social
media accounts to spread disinformation and create discord among
Americans.
Despite his ongoing efforts to portray Clinton as
“crooked” and an “insider,” Trump trailed her in almost all polls. As
election day neared, he repeatedly claimed that the election was
“rigged” and that the press was treating him unfairly by reporting “fake
news,” a term he used frequently to disparage news reports containing
negative information about him. He received no endorsements from major
newspapers. During the third and final presidential debate, in October,
he made headlines when he refused to say that he would accept the
election results.
Eight days after that debate, the Trump
campaign received a boost when FBI director James Comey notified
Congress that the bureau was reviewing a trove of emails from an
unrelated case that appeared to be relevant to its earlier investigation
of Clinton. Trump seized on the announcement as vindication of his
charge that Clinton was crooked. Six days later Comey announced that the
new emails contained no evidence of criminal activity. Notwithstanding
the damage that Comey’s revelation had done to her campaign, Clinton
retained a slim lead over Trump in polls of swing states (those
considered to be winnable by either candidate) on the eve of election
day, and most pundits and political analysts remained confident that she
would win. When voting proceeded on November 8, 2016, however, Trump
defeated Clinton in a chain of critical Rust Belt states. Although Trump
won the Electoral College vote by 304 to 227, and thereby the
presidency, he lost the nationwide popular vote by more than 2.8
million. After the election, Trump repeatedly claimed, without evidence,
that 3–5 million people had voted for Clinton illegally. Trump was
inaugurated on January 20, 2017.
Trump’s unexpected victory
prompted much discussion in the press regarding the reliability of polls
and the strategic mistakes of the Clinton campaign. Most analysts
agreed that Clinton had taken for granted some of her core
constituencies (including women and minorities) and that Trump had
effectively capitalized upon the economic anxieties and racial
prejudices of some working-class whites, particularly men.
Presidency of Donald Trump
Donald Trump and Barack Obama
Donald Trump and Barack Obama
Pres.
Barack Obama (right) and President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval
Office of the White House, Washington, D.C., November 10, 2016.
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
The official presidential portrait of Donald Trump.
Almost
immediately upon taking office, Trump began issuing a series of
executive orders designed to fulfill some of his campaign promises and
to project an image of swift, decisive action. His first order, signed
on his first day as president, directed that all “unwarranted economic
and regulatory burdens” imposed by the Affordable Care Act should be
minimized pending the “prompt repeal” of that law. Five days later he
directed the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security to begin
planning for the construction of a wall along the country’s southern
border. An executive order on ethics imposed a five-year ban on
“lobbying activities” by former executive branch employees but weakened
or removed some lobbying restrictions imposed by the Obama
administration.
Immigration
One of Trump’s most controversial
early executive orders, issued on January 27, implemented his promised
“Muslim ban,” which temporarily suspended immigration to the United
States from seven Muslim-majority countries in the interest of national
security. The travel ban, as it came to be known, was immediately
challenged in court on statutory and constitutional grounds (i.e., for
allegedly violating anti-discrimination and other provisions of the U.S.
Immigration and Nationality Act and for being inconsistent with the due
process and establishment-of-religion clauses of the Constitution). The
ban also provoked spontaneous demonstrations at major airports in the
United States in support of persons with valid visas who were prevented
from boarding flights to the U.S. or who were detained upon arrival and
forced to return to their originating countries. In February a district
court in Washington state issued a nationwide temporary restraining
order enjoining enforcement of the travel ban, which the Court of
Appeals for the Ninth Circuit declined to stay.
Foreseeing
eventual defeat in the courts, Trump in March issued a second executive
order designed to avoid the constitutional pitfalls of the first, which
it superseded. The second order also dropped Iraq from the list of
targeted countries and narrowed the categories of persons whose travel
would be affected. Nevertheless, district courts in Hawaii and Maryland
issued preliminary injunctions blocking enforcement of the revised
travel ban; the injunctions were largely upheld in May and June by the
Fourth and Ninth Circuit Courts of Appeal, respectively. After agreeing
in June to hear the consolidated cases during its October 2017 term, the
U.S. Supreme Court significantly narrowed the injunctions, allowing the
travel ban to be enforced against all “foreign nationals who lack any
bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.”
In
September Trump issued a third version of the ban, which continued to
apply to immigrants from six Muslim-majority countries but now included
immigrants from North Korea and certain government officials of
Venezuela. The Supreme Court then vacated as moot the cases it had been
scheduled to hear regarding the second travel ban. The third ban, like
the previous two, was immediately challenged and enjoined, but the
Supreme Court stayed the injunctions in December pending review by the
Fourth and Ninth Circuits (which upheld them). The Ninth Circuit’s
decision in Trump v. Hawaii was eventually reversed by the Supreme Court
in June 2018. In its ruling, the Court held, among other things, that
the ban was not obviously motivated by unconstitutional religious bias,
notwithstanding Trump’s many public statements indicating otherwise to
lower courts.
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From
at least the early 2010s most illegal immigration across the U.S.
southern border with Mexico had been undertaken by people seeking asylum
from violence and persecution in their home countries, especially in
Central America and Africa. Under U.S. immigration law, foreign persons
who are physically present in the United States, including those who
entered the country illegally, are entitled to asylum as refugees
provided that they can establish a credible fear of persecution in their
home countries based on their race, religion, nationality, political
opinion, or membership in certain social groups.
In April 2018
the Trump administration announced what it called a “zero-tolerance”
immigration policy under which all foreign adults who entered the United
States illegally (a misdemeanor for first-time offenders) would be
criminally prosecuted. The policy entailed that children in families who
had illegally crossed the U.S. border together would be taken from
their parents (or legal guardians) and placed within a system of
hundreds of shelters across the country, which were operated or
contracted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), a division of
the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Eventually, according
to HHS policy, separated children would be released to sponsors (their
parents, close relatives, or other suitable persons) or to foster
families in the United States. After surrendering their children,
parents would be held in detention centers or jails to await prosecution
for illegal entry. Under the previous immigration policy, known as
“catch and release,” migrant families were usually quickly released and
allowed to remain together in the United States while their cases were
being resolved by immigration authorities. In practice, family
separations conducted under the zero-tolerance policy were traumatic for
both children and parents.
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The
Trump administration had conceived of and initially defended the
separations as a necessary deterrent to illegal economic immigration by
people falsely claiming fear of persecution in their home countries.
Trump himself falsely asserted that the separations were required by
existing immigration law and blamed Democrats for not changing it—though
his own party controlled both houses of Congress at the time. Soon,
however, widely circulated photographs of crying and visibly terrified
children and of children confined within fenced enclosures resembling
cages prompted international condemnation of the separation policy, as
did eventual news reports of the physical and sexual abuse of some
children in shelters and the deaths of others from lack of adequate
medical care. Facing pressure to act from congressional Republicans, in
late June Trump signed an executive order ending the separations. One
week later, pursuant to a class action lawsuit filed by the American
Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), a federal judge in California issued an
injunction against further separations and ordered the Trump
administration to return to their parents all of the more than 2,700
children who had been seized under the zero-tolerance policy. The
judge’s 30-day deadline was not met, however, largely because the
administration had not established any procedures for tracking the
whereabouts of separated children or for reuniting children with their
parents or guardians after separation—a situation noted critically in
the judge’s order and confirmed by an October 2018 report on the family
separation policy by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO).
Even after the zero-tolerance policy was rescinded, border authorities
continued to seize hundreds of children on the basis of clauses in the
injunction and the executive order that permitted taking children from
parents who were “unfit” or who posed a “danger” to their children.
Broadly interpreting those exceptions, border officials reportedly
applied them to parents who had committed minor offenses or who appeared
not to be taking proper care of their children. Other family
separations were undertaken on the basis of the federal government’s
narrow definition of “family,” which allowed children who arrived with
other relatives (e.g., aunts, grandparents, or older siblings) to be
treated as “unaccompanied.”
As another facet of its campaign
to reduce illegal immigration, the Trump administration also greatly
increased arrests of undocumented immigrants by Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security
established in 2003. During the Obama administration, ICE had
concentrated on undocumented immigrants with serious criminal records,
but in January 2017 Trump directed the department to find, arrest, and
deport all persons without documentation, regardless of how long they
had lived in the country or whether they had committed any crimes. ICE
officers thereafter regularly conducted raids—at private homes,
churches, schools, courthouses, and job sites—in select locations
throughout the country. Both criminal and noncriminal arrests increased
nationwide as compared with 2016, but noncriminal arrests constituted a
much greater percentage of the total. The raids were condemned by
prominent Democrats and civil rights organizations as draconian and
wasteful, while some progressive groups proclaimed an “abolish ICE”
movement. At the same time, dozens of cities and towns declared
themselves “sanctuaries,” vowing not to cooperate with ICE and other
federal authorities seeking to remove undocumented immigrants from their
jurisdictions.
Emoluments clause
During the presidential
election campaign, some of Trump’s critics had warned that his
presidency could create a unique and immediate constitutional crisis
because of his possible violation of the foreign emoluments clause of
the U.S. Constitution, which generally prohibits federal officeholders
from accepting gifts, payments, or other items of value from foreign
states or rulers without congressional permission. A related
constitutional provision, known as the domestic emoluments clause,
specifically prohibits the president from receiving any emolument from
the federal government or the states beyond his official compensation.
Trump’s vast, complex, and largely secret international business
interests, it was argued, could create exactly the kind of conflict of
interest that the foreign emoluments clause was intended to
prevent—unless Trump were to sell his assets or place them in a blind
trust. Although federal conflict-of-interest laws did not apply to the
president and vice president, several of Trump’s immediate predecessors
in office had used blind trusts or other means to avoid the appearance
of conflict of interest.
To address such concerns, in January
2017 Trump announced that he would surrender control—but not
ownership—of the Trump Organization to his sons Donald, Jr., and Eric;
that no new business deals with foreign countries or the U.S. government
would be undertaken; and that any profits derived from patronage of
Trump’s properties by foreign governments would be donated to the U.S.
Treasury—an arrangement that failed to satisfy some specialists in
government ethics. In late January a public interest group, Citizens for
Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), later joined by other
plaintiffs, filed suit against Trump (in his capacity as president) in
federal district court in Manhattan, alleging that he was in violation
of the foreign emoluments clause. In June the attorneys general of
Maryland and the District of Columbia sued Trump for allegedly having
violated both the foreign and domestic emoluments clauses, and soon
afterward nearly 200 Democratic members of Congress filed a separate
suit alleging that, by continuing to accept emoluments from foreign
countries without consulting Congress, Trump had denied Congress the
opportunity to give or withhold its required “Consent.” After the CREW
suit was dismissed for lack of standing (the possession of a sufficient
interest in the outcome of a judicial proceeding, usually on the basis
of an existing or anticipated legal injury) in district court in
December, the plaintiffs appealed the case to a three-judge panel of the
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, which vacated the lower
court’s judgment in September 2019, allowing the suit to proceed to
trial. Trump unsuccessfully petitioned the Second Circuit for an en banc
hearing (before all judges of the court) and then filed a writ of
certiorari (petition for review) with the Supreme Court in September
2020.
In March and July 2018 a federal district court denied
motions by Trump to dismiss the suit by Maryland and the District of
Columbia, allowing that case to move forward with regard to the
operation of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. After
issuing a stay of the district court’s proceedings, a three-judge panel
of the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit reversed the district
court’s rulings and ordered a dismissal of the suit for lack of
standing. That judgment in turn was set aside in October 2019, when the
Fourth Circuit agreed to an en banc hearing in December. In May 2020 the
Fourth Circuit upheld the district court’s original rulings, leading
Trump to file a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court in September.
Meanwhile, in the suit brought by Democratic members of Congress, a
district court rejected (in September 2018 and April 2019) the Trump
administration’s motion to dismiss but agreed in August 2019 to stay
discovery and to allow an immediate appeal of the court’s orders after a
three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit remanded the case in July. That panel later agreed to hear oral
arguments in December on the question of whether the district court had
erred in allowing the suit to proceed. In February 2020 it dismissed the
suit for lack of standing, and in October 2020 the Supreme Court
declined to review the circuit court’s judgment. Following Biden’s
inauguration as president in January 2021, the Supreme Court dismissed
both of the remaining emoluments suits as moot.
Although those
cases were not resolved, there was no doubt that Trump had profited from
patronage of his hotels, golf resorts, and other properties by
officials of foreign governments, foreign and domestic lobbyists,
Republican politicians, representatives of conservative interest groups,
and members of his own administration. It was also apparent that much,
if not most, of the business he received from foreign governments and
from foreign and domestic lobbyists was undertaken on the assumption
(justified or not) that Trump would look more favorably upon those who
spent money at his properties than upon those who did not. During his
presidency, it became a matter of routine that persons or groups who
wished to influence the Trump administration at high levels, whether in
the United States or abroad, would patronize a Trump-owned property
whenever feasible. Trump’s properties also received much business from
the U.S. government itself, which was forced to pay Trump for services
and accommodations (e.g., for U.S. Secret Service protection) at his
golf courses and at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida during his frequent
visits to those venues.
Supreme Court of Donald Trump
In
January 2017 Trump made good on his promise to place conservative
justices on the Supreme Court by nominating Neil Gorsuch, a judge of the
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, to fill the seat that had
become vacant with the death in February 2016 of Antonin Scalia.
Although Obama had put forward Merrick Garland, a judicial moderate, as
Scalia’s replacement in March 2016, the majority leader of the Senate,
Republican Mitch McConnell, refused to schedule a vote or even to hold
hearings on Garland’s nomination, declaring that the Senate should not
consider any Supreme Court nominee during an election year. McConnell’s
gamble that a Republican would win the presidency and nominate a more
conservative justice proved successful. Gorsuch was confirmed by the
Senate in April after Senate Republicans overcame a Democratic
filibuster by removing the traditional 60-vote minimum needed for
cloture (ending debate and proceeding to a vote).
In July 2018
Trump nominated another conservative appellate court judge, Brett
Kavanaugh of the District of Columbia Circuit, to replace retiring
Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. In hearings before the Senate
Judiciary Committee in September, Christine Blasey Ford, an academic
psychologist, testified that Kavanaugh had sexually molested her when
the two were underage teens in Maryland and that he was “stumbling
drunk” during the assault. Kavanaugh was also accused of a separate act
of sexual assault by a former classmate at Yale University, Deborah
Ramirez. A third accuser, Julie Swetnick, declared in a sworn statement
that Kavanaugh had attended parties at which gang rapes took place. In
his own testimony, Kavanaugh angrily denied the allegations, insisting
that they were the product of a conspiracy by Democrats to exact revenge
on behalf of “the Clintons” for Kavanaugh’s role as a member of the
legal team of independent counsel Kenneth Starr during the latter’s
investigation in the 1990s of U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton’s affair with
White House intern Monica Lewinsky. A subsequent supplemental
investigation by the FBI, ordered by Trump, was severely limited in
duration and scope: Kavanaugh, Ford, and Swetnick were not interviewed;
dozens of witnesses recommended to the FBI by Ford and Ramirez were not
contacted; and repeated offers of corroborating evidence by numerous
other persons were not acted upon. After the Republican chair of the
Judiciary Committee declared that the FBI’s confidential report had
found “no corroboration” of the allegations, Kavanaugh was narrowly
confirmed by the Senate in October.
Ford’s emotionally compelling
testimony—and the belief among many women of both political parties
that she had been treated unfairly—galvanized the Me Too movement of
survivors of sexual assault and reinforced perceptions of the Republican
Party and the Trump administration as being insensitive to women’s
concerns. Meanwhile, Trump defended Kavanaugh as a victim of persecution
and contended that the Me Too movement had created a dangerous climate
for men.
In September 2020, eight days after the death of
Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Trump announced his nomination of
judge Amy Coney Barrett, whom he had appointed to the Court of Appeals
for the Seventh Circuit only two years earlier, as Ginsburg’s
replacement. Notwithstanding the fact that 2020 was an election year,
Senate Republicans declared their intention to confirm Barrett quickly.
After Judiciary Committee hearings and Senate debate that Democrats
criticized as improperly rushed, Barrett was confirmed by the full
Senate on October 26, exactly one month after her nomination and only
eight days before the presidential election. An extremely conservative
judge, Barrett was expected to move the ideological center of the
Supreme Court even farther to the right than it had been under the
Court’s previous 5–4 conservative majorities and to make conservative
rulings from the Court more likely for many years to come.
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Trump
also successfully appointed a record number of district and appellate
court judges, having inherited more than 100 federal bench vacancies
resulting from the refusal of Senate Republicans to confirm most of
Obama’s judicial nominees during the last two years of his presidency.
Trump’s judicial appointments, almost all of whom were drawn from
recommendations by the conservative Federalist Society, were mostly
white and male; they were also generally young (less than 50 years old),
ensuring that they would serve for several years or even decades. Their
usually quick confirmations on party-line votes helped to further the
Republican Party’s long-standing project of transforming the federal
judiciary, particularly at the appellate level, into a conservative
bulwark against liberal legal initiatives and policy making. By the end
of Trump’s single presidential term in January 2021, nearly 30 percent
of all federal judges were Trump appointees.
Cabinet appointments
Trump
took an unusually long time to assemble his cabinet, in part because
many of his early nominations to positions requiring Senate confirmation
were filibustered by Democrats. His cabinet was also unusual in that
its members were the least diverse in decades and the richest by far in
U.S. history. Several of Trump’s cabinet-level appointments were closely
associated with the firms or industries that their agencies were
charged with overseeing or were well known for having opposed their
agencies’ basic missions in the past. Trump’s cabinet and high-level
executive staff were also distinguished by their relatively high rate of
turnover and eventually by the fact that several cabinet-level
officials served at various times only in acting capacities, not having
been confirmed by the Senate.
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Particularly
controversial among the original members of Trump’s cabinet were
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) administrator Scott Pruitt, who as
Oklahoma attorney general had spent much of his career suing the agency
on behalf of the oil and gas industry; and Secretary of Education Betsy
DeVos, who had frequently expressed contempt for public education while
promoting and financially supporting school voucher legislation and
charter and private schools. Steve Bannon, the former head of Breitbart
News, a far-right publishing platform, was appointed chief strategist
but left the administration after seven months in August 2017. Trump
also gave his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his daughter Ivanka Trump
prominent (though unpaid) roles as senior adviser to the president and
assistant to the president, respectively.
During his
administration, several of Trump’s cabinet members were accused of
ethics violations and other malfeasance, including breaches of travel
regulations and anti-lobbying laws, inappropriate use of their agencies’
resources, perjury, and contempt of Congress for failure to respond to
lawful subpoenas by congressional committees (see below Russia
investigation and Ukraine scandal). In September 2017 Tom Price resigned
as secretary of health and human services after news reports revealed
that he had spent some $400,000 on luxury chartered aircraft for trips
to Europe and within the United States. Treasury Secretary Steven
Mnuchin, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, and Veterans Affairs Secretary
David Shulkin were also criticized for inappropriate use of chartered or
military aircraft, leading to Shulkin’s firing in March 2018. Zinke,
who faced several federal investigations of his conduct as interior
secretary, including one that was referred to the Justice Department,
resigned under pressure in December 2018. Earlier that year Ben Carson,
the secretary of housing and urban development, was investigated by a
House oversight committee for having spent an inordinate sum on
furniture for his government office. In July Pruitt was forced to resign
after a long series of scandals concerning questionable spending, the
use of EPA employees as personal assistants, inappropriate gifts from
lobbyists, and the use of undisclosed email addresses for official EPA
business. Although he did not resign as a result, Secretary of Commerce
Wilbur Ross was heavily criticized (but faced no criminal charges) for
apparently lying to Congress when he told the House Ways and Means
Committee and the Senate Appropriations Committee in March 2018 that his
decision to add a citizenship question to the 2020 decennial census was
made at the request of the Justice Department to help it better enforce
the 1965 Voting Rights Act—a rationale that the Supreme Court later
found to be “contrived.” (See Department of Commerce v. New York.) In
April–May 2019 Mnuchin declined to act on a request by the House Ways
and Means Committee for six years of Trump’s business and personal tax
returns (see below Other investigations); in so doing, he appeared to
flout a 1924 federal law (26 U.S. Code §6103) that requires the
secretary of the Treasury to provide individual tax returns and related
tax information upon request to select committees of Congress.
Russia investigation of Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
Donald Trump speaking at a rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a month after winning the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
In
February 2017 Trump’s new national security adviser, Michael Flynn, was
forced to resign after press reports disclosed that Flynn had continued
to serve in the White House despite a warning from the Justice
Department that he was vulnerable to Russian blackmail for having lied
to Vice Pres. Mike Pence about the substance of a telephone conversation
between Flynn and the Russian ambassador to the United States in
December 2016. Flynn’s contacts with the ambassador, both before and
after the election, had been monitored by the FBI as part of its routine
surveillance of the ambassador’s communications and in connection with a
then secret investigation since July 2016 of possible collusion between
Russian officials and prominent members of the Trump campaign. That
investigation had been triggered by information obtained by Australian
authorities, who reported to the FBI in May that George Papadopoulos, a
foreign-policy adviser in the Trump campaign, had told an Australian
diplomat in London that Russia had “dirt” on Clinton, an apparent
reference to the stolen emails that were eventually released by
WikiLeaks in July. Speculation in the press regarding the existence of
the investigation had been repeatedly dismissed by Trump as “fake news”
but was confirmed by Comey in testimony before the House Intelligence
Committee in March 2017, during which he also contradicted Trump’s claim
that Obama had spied on the Trump campaign by tapping Trump’s
telephones. Democratic members of Congress, meanwhile, expressed dismay
that Comey had chosen to report the discovery of additional Clinton
emails in October 2016 but had waited until after the election to reveal
the Russia investigation.
After Comey testified again in May
about Russian interference in the election, Trump abruptly fired him,
ostensibly on the recommendation of the Justice Department, which in
memos solicited by Trump criticized Comey for his public disclosures
regarding Clinton’s emails. Trump soon acknowledged that he had intended
to fire Comey regardless of the Justice Department’s recommendation and
that “this Russia thing” was a factor in his decision. Later that month
the press obtained a copy of a memo written by Comey that summarized a
conversation between Comey and Trump at a dinner at the White House in
January. The memo stated that Trump had asked Comey to pledge “loyalty”
to him and that Trump had indirectly requested that Comey drop the FBI’s
investigation of Flynn. The memo immediately raised concerns, even
among some Republicans, that Trump’s actions might have constituted
obstruction of justice. The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein,
then announced the appointment of former FBI director Robert Mueller as
special counsel to oversee the FBI’s investigation of Russian
interference in the election and possible collusion between Russian
officials and the Trump campaign, which Rosenstein’s appointment order
characterized as “any links and/or coordination between the Russian
government and individuals associated with the campaign of President
Donald Trump.” Mueller was also authorized to investigate and prosecute
any federal crimes arising directly from or committed in the course of
the investigation, including obstruction of justice, perjury,
destruction of evidence, and witness intimidation.
Comey’s
testimony in June before the Senate Intelligence Committee—which, like
the House Intelligence Committee, was conducting its own
investigation—was broadcast live on television, radio, and the Internet.
Many Americans watched from bars and restaurants, which opened early in
some parts of the country to provide venues for viewing the
much-anticipated event. Comey accused Trump and other administration
officials of lying about Comey’s effectiveness as director of the FBI,
and he attributed his being fired to Trump’s alleged desire to shut down
the Russia investigation. Comey also revealed that, after being fired,
he indirectly leaked the memo that recounted his dinner conversation
with Trump in the hope of triggering the appointment of a special
counsel to continue the Russia investigation.
Early in July
2017 the press reported that in June 2016 senior members of the Trump
campaign, including its chair, Paul Manafort, as well as Jared Kushner
and Trump’s son Donald, Jr., had met secretly in Trump Tower with a
lawyer associated with the Russian government. In response, Donald, Jr.,
issued a statement in which he claimed that the meeting had primarily
concerned adoptions of Russian children by Americans and that he had not
known in advance who on the Russian side would be attending. Three days
later the press reported the existence of emails predating the meeting
in which the British publicist Rob Goldstone (who had helped Trump stage
the 2013 Miss Universe contest in Moscow) notified Donald, Jr., that
the Russian government possessed incriminating “documents and
information” on Clinton and offered to set up a meeting to convey them
through a “Russian government attorney.” Attendance at such a meeting
was potentially a crime under U.S. campaign finance law, which generally
prohibits accepting or soliciting foreign assistance in connection with
a U.S. election.
In January 2018 President Trump’s legal team
acknowledged in a memo to the Mueller investigation that Trump himself
had dictated the false account of the meeting (claiming that it had
concerned adoptions), thus contradicting earlier statements by his
attorneys and by White House press secretaries. In August 2018 Trump
admitted via Twitter that the purpose of the meeting was “to get
information on an opponent” but insisted that the encounter was
perfectly legal, that no information was forthcoming, and that he did
not know about the meeting in advance. For the first time, he also
publicly (on Twitter) called upon Attorney General Jeff Sessions to put
an end to the Russia investigation by firing Mueller—a power, however,
that Sessions did not possess, having recused himself in March 2017
after revelations of his previously undisclosed contacts with the
Russian ambassador as a member of the Trump campaign in September 2016.
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October 2017 the Mueller investigation announced a plea agreement with
Papadopoulos in which he admitted to lying to the FBI about his contacts
with Russian nationals regarding the theft of emails from the Clinton
campaign and pledged to cooperate with the investigation in exchange for
its promise not to prosecute him on more serious charges. Later that
month the Mueller team also unveiled a 12-count indictment against
Manafort and his associate Rick Gates (who himself had been an adviser
to the Trump campaign), charging them with money laundering, tax
evasion, and bank fraud in connection with Manafort’s consulting and
lobbying efforts on behalf of Ukrainian political parties and leaders
between 2006 and 2015. As part of a plea agreement with prosecutors,
Flynn twice pleaded guilty in federal district court to lying to the
FBI—once in December 2017 and again in December 2018. (Flynn’s
sentencing was postponed by the district court on several occasions,
initially to permit Flynn to cooperate with government investigators,
which he did until mid-2019.) In February 2018 additional charges were
filed against Manafort and Gates in a superseding indictment, leading
Gates to reach a plea agreement; Gates’s testimony at Manafort’s trial
in July–August was instrumental in securing the latter’s conviction on
eight criminal counts. Facing a separate trial on other felony charges
in September, Manafort reached his own plea agreement with the Mueller
investigation that month.
Also in February 2018 the Mueller
investigation indicted 13 Russian nationals and three Russian
organizations on charges of conspiring to defraud the United States by
interfering in its political and electoral processes, including the 2016
election. The indictment charged that the individual defendants,
working in part through facilities provided by the Internet Research
Agency (IRA) in St. Petersburg, used hundreds of fictitious and stolen
social media identities to spread “derogatory information” about Clinton
and to support Trump. According to the indictment, they also engaged in
efforts to discourage minorities from voting, promoted allegations of
voter fraud by the Democratic Party, purchased political advertisements
on social media, and used false U.S. identities to organize
on-the-ground political rallies in several states.
Acting on a
referral by the Mueller investigation, in April the FBI raided the home
and office of Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal attorney, seizing business
records and recordings of telephone conversations between Cohen and his
clients, including Trump. According to press reports, Cohen was being
investigated on charges of tax evasion, bank fraud, and violations of
campaign finance law in connection with his role in making or arranging
hush-money payments in 2016 to Stormy Daniels and the model Karen
McDougal in fulfillment of nondisclosure agreements concerning their
alleged affairs with Trump in 2006–07. In March both women filed
lawsuits seeking to have their agreements declared invalid. Cohen
eventually pleaded guilty to eight criminal counts in August 2018 in a
hearing at which he stated under oath that Trump had directed him to
make or arrange payments to Daniels and McDougal. (Following the end of
his presidential term in 2021, Trump himself was indicted on state
criminal charges of falsifying business records to conceal the Trump
Organization’s reimbursement of Cohen for the hush-money payment to
Daniels. See below Criminal indictments.)
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July 2018 Mueller indicted 12 Russian military intelligence officers
for conspiring to interfere in the 2016 election by stealing thousands
of emails and other documents from computer servers of the Democratic
Party and the Clinton campaign and publicly releasing them through
fictitious social media identities and WikiLeaks. The indictment also
charged the officers with breaking into the computer network of at least
one state board of elections and stealing data on approximately 500,000
voters. (In a secret May 2017 report, later leaked to the press, the
National Security Agency [NSA] determined that a total of 39 state
boards of election had been targeted.) The announcement of the
indictment prompted Trump to again express doubt that Russia was
responsible for the interference, as he had done on several occasions
since the beginning of the Russia investigation, and to again assert
that the FBI was corrupt and dishonest for not pursuing a criminal
investigation of Clinton.
In September 2018 Papadopoulos was
sentenced to serve 14 days in a minimum-security federal prison for
lying to the FBI, becoming the first Trump campaign official to be
jailed in connection with the Russia investigation. Two months later, in
November, Mueller informed a trial judge that Manafort had violated his
plea agreement by again lying in interviews with investigators and by
making false statements before a grand jury. Manafort was eventually
sentenced to a combined 7.5 years in prison by two federal courts in
March 2019. Later that month he was charged with an additional 16 state
felonies by the district attorney for Manhattan. Meanwhile, in November
2018, Cohen pleaded guilty to separate charges of lying to Congress for
having told the House and Senate intelligence committees that Trump’s
efforts to build a hotel in Moscow had ended in January 2016, when, in
fact, they had continued until at least June of that year, by which time
Trump had become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. Cohen
was sentenced to three years in prison in December 2018.
Also
in November 2018, Trump fired Sessions and appointed as acting attorney
general Matthew Whitaker, Sessions’s former chief of staff, who had
been an outspoken critic of the Russia investigation before joining the
Justice Department. Controversy over whether Whitaker should recuse
himself from the investigation was soon overshadowed, however, by
Trump’s nomination in December of William Barr as Sessions’s permanent
successor. Barr, who had served (1991–93) as attorney general in the
George H.W. Bush administration, was known for his extreme view of
executive power—one that entailed, among other things, that presidents
cannot commit obstruction of justice through the exercise of the
discretionary powers granted to them by the Constitution. Notably, Barr
relied upon that theory to question the legitimacy of the Mueller
investigation in an unsolicited memo that he submitted to the Justice
Department in June 2018. The memo, which came to light soon after Barr’s
nomination, immediately drew criticism from Democrats, who viewed it as
an attempt to curry favor with the Trump administration and as a signal
of Barr’s apparent willingness to shut down the Mueller inquiry if
Trump so ordered. At his confirmation hearings Barr pledged that he
would not interfere in the Russia investigation but refused to say
whether he would release Mueller’s final report to the public. He was
confirmed by the Republican-controlled Senate in February 2019 in a
mostly party-line vote.
Approximately five weeks after his
confirmation, Barr informed Congress that Mueller had submitted a final
report on the results of his investigation and that there would be no
additional indictments. (By that time, Mueller’s team had indicted 34
individuals and three businesses on nearly 200 criminal charges and
obtained seven guilty pleas.) Two days later Barr sent to Congress an
unusual written summary of the report’s contents, in which he stated
that Mueller had not found sufficient evidence to establish a charge of
conspiracy regarding the Trump campaign’s interactions with Russia and
that Mueller had not made a traditional recommendation about whether
Trump should be prosecuted for obstruction of justice. Absent that
recommendation, he continued, he and Rosenstein had themselves
determined that the evidence presented in Mueller’s report was “not
sufficient to establish that the President committed an
obstruction-of-justice offense.” Barr’s public release of the summary at
about the same time, and its wide coverage in the press, encouraged
many Americans to assume that Mueller’s report had found no serious
wrongdoing by the president, though others remained skeptical. According
to press reports in late April, Mueller had privately written to Barr
soon after the summary became public to complain that Barr’s
characterization of the report to Congress “did not fully capture the
context, nature, and substance of this Office’s work and conclusions”
and had created “public confusion about critical aspects of the results
of our investigation.”
On April 18, nearly one month after
his letter to Congress, Barr released a redacted version of the Mueller
report. House Democrats welcomed the release but insisted that Barr make
available to them all confidential grand jury materials and the
redacted passages related to them. After Barr refused, the House
Judiciary Committee sued the Justice Department and obtained a court
order in October requiring the release of the grand jury materials. That
order was later upheld by a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals
for the District of Columbia Circuit, a decision that the Justice
Department appealed to the Supreme Court in July. In late November,
after Biden’s victory over Trump in the 2020 presidential election, the
Court removed the case from its argument calendar at the request of the
Judiciary Committee.
The two volumes of Mueller’s report
reflected the dual mandates of his appointment as special counsel: the
first detailed the goals and methods of the Russian attack on the 2016
presidential election, and the second outlined several potentially
obstructive actions taken by Trump in connection with the FBI’s
investigation of Russian interference (begun in July 2016) and the
subsequent investigation led by Mueller (begun in May 2017).
Mueller’s
office concluded in the first volume that there was insufficient
evidence to establish that “members of the Trump campaign conspired or
coordinated with the Russian government” despite “numerous links”
between the two as detailed in the report. In the second volume, Mueller
explained that his office had decided not to recommend charges of
obstruction of justice against Trump because Justice Department
regulations prohibited the indictment or criminal prosecution of a
sitting president and because the office deemed it unfair to accuse
Trump of a crime outside the context of a formal trial, where he would
have the opportunity to answer the charges against him. Nevertheless,
Mueller emphasized in the conclusion of the second volume that
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we had confidence after a thorough investigation of the facts that the
President clearly did not commit obstruction of justice, we would so
state. Based on the facts and the applicable legal standards, we are
unable to reach that judgment. Accordingly, while this report does not
conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not
exonerate him.
Although the Mueller report appeared to document
numerous instances of impeachable behavior by Trump, Democrats in the
House were initially divided over whether a formal impeachment inquiry
should be opened. Despite demands for immediate action from several
liberal Democrats, the House leadership and most other Democratic
members preferred a more cautious approach, arguing that most Americans
were opposed to impeachment and that Trump could not be removed from
office anyway, because he was certain to be acquitted in the
Republican-controlled Senate. The latter view, which House Speaker Nancy
Pelosi had advocated even before the release of the Mueller report,
remained the prevailing position within the Democratic Party until the
late summer of 2019 (see below Ukraine scandal).
In December 2019
the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General released a
report on its investigation of the FBI’s actions during the early stages
of the Russia investigation (then code-named “Crossfire Hurricane”).
The report addressed, among other topics, whether the FBI had observed
proper procedures in opening Crossfire Hurricane and four individual
investigations of members of the Trump campaign (Papadopoulos, Carter
Page, Manafort, and Flynn) and whether the FBI had placed any undercover
agents within the Trump campaign to gain information about possible
links and coordination with the Russian government. Although the report
concluded that the investigation had been legitimately opened and that
there was no evidence of political bias or of FBI “spying” on the Trump
campaign, it also faulted the FBI and the Justice Department for serious
errors and omissions and at least one case of apparent criminal
wrongdoing in its handling of applications (to the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Court [FISC]) for warrants to surveil Page, then a Trump
campaign adviser.
In an extraordinary decision in May 2020,
the Justice Department moved to drop its case against Flynn on the
grounds that his statements to the FBI were not “materially” relevant to
the bureau’s investigation and that, in any event, the investigation of
Flynn itself lacked any legitimate counterintelligence or criminal
purpose. Although the district court’s refusal to drop the case was
eventually upheld by the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit, the case became moot after Trump pardoned Flynn in late
November 2020. In the last weeks of his presidency, Trump also granted
pardons to Manafort and to Roger Stone, a friend and adviser who had
been convicted of lying to Congress, obstruction, and witness tampering
in connection with the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation of
Russian interference in the 2016 election.
Other investigations
As
Mueller’s investigation proceeded, and through the release of his
report in March, several House committees—including the Judiciary
Committee, the Select Committee on Intelligence, the Ways and Means
Committee, the Foreign Affairs Committee, the Committee on Oversight and
Reform, and the Financial Services Committee—were conducting their own
inquiries into possible tax and financial crimes by Trump, the Trump
Organization, the Trump inaugural committee, and the charitable Trump
Foundation (dissolved in 2018), evidence of which had arisen from
Mueller’s investigation and from congressional testimony by Cohen and
other Trump associates. At the same time, the office of the U.S.
District Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY) continued
its separate inquiry into possible tax fraud and violations of
campaign-finance law by Trump in connection with the alleged hush-money
payments to Daniels and McDougal (that investigation, however, was
abruptly closed without explanation in July 2019). Other federal
prosecutors, as well as state and local authorities, were looking into
possible lawbreaking by Trump in connection with questionable donations
to Trump’s inaugural committee, an alleged offer of a presidential
pardon to Cohen, misuse of charitable assets by the Trump Foundation,
accusations that Trump inflated the value of his assets in four major
Trump Organization projects, apparently illegal tax schemes by the Trump
family (see above Early life and business career), and other matters.
By the summer of 2019 approximately 30 criminal or civil investigations
of Trump and his family or associates were underway.
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Since
the early months of that year, however, the Trump administration had
regularly refused to provide documents or witness testimony requested or
subpoenaed by Democratic-led House committees investigating alleged
corruption, abuse of power, and obstruction of justice by Trump or the
Trump administration. In the wake of the public release in April of the
redacted Mueller report, Trump publicly affirmed his administration’s
refusal to cooperate with the House investigations, declaring that
“we’re fighting all the subpoenas.” He and congressional Republicans
frequently insisted that all such inquiries were illegitimate
politically motivated attempts to embarrass Trump or to overturn the
results of the 2016 election. Although past administrations, including
the Richard Nixon administration, had also regularly defied
congressional oversight, particularly with claims of executive
privilege, none had so broadly rejected, on explicitly partisan grounds,
any congressional oversight whatsoever. Some constitutional scholars
warned that Trump’s refusal to recognize any legitimate purpose to
Congress’s investigations of his administration threatened to undermine
the constitutionally established separation of powers between the
executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government. Soon after
Pelosi announced the beginning of a formal impeachment investigation of
Trump in September 2019 (see below Ukraine scandal), the White House
counsel, Pat Cipollone, announced in a letter to her and other House
leaders that the Trump administration would refuse to cooperate with the
inquiry in any way, primarily because it allegedly did not afford Trump
the due process guarantees provided to defendants in criminal trials.
The House investigation, however, was not a trial.
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After
Michael Cohen’s testimony to Congress in February 2019 that Trump had
regularly inflated or deflated the value of his assets in order to
obtain bank loans or to reduce his real estate taxes, respectively, the
House Oversight Committee in March requested 10 years of Trump’s
financial records from Trump’s accounting firm, Mazars, which responded
that it could not legally provide the desired records. The committee’s
subsequent subpoena was challenged by Trump in a lawsuit against Mazars
and the Oversight Committee but ultimately upheld by a U.S. district
court and the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Responding to an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court by Trump’s
attorneys, Chief Justice John Roberts, Jr., indefinitely stayed the
subpoena while the Court considered whether to review the judge’s
decision. Meanwhile, two other House committees, on Financial Services
and Intelligence, issued subpoenas to Deutsche Bank, Trump’s primary
lender since the late 1990s, seeking nearly 10 years of tax returns and
other financial documents; the Financial Services Committee also
subpoenaed the U.S. bank Capital One for similar information. Trump’s
lawsuit to prevent the two banks from releasing his financial
information was rejected by a district court and, on appeal, by the
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In a third case, Trump sued New
York state officials (and preemptively the House Ways and Means
Committee) to block enforcement of a grand jury subpoena to Mazars for
eight years of his state tax returns, arguing that a sitting president
is immune from state criminal subpoenas. After a district court
dismissed that doctrine as “repugnant to the nation’s governmental
structure and constitutional values” and the Second Circuit affirmed,
the U.S. Supreme Court agreed in December 2019 to hear all three cases,
consolidating the first two as Trump v. Mazars. The Court ultimately
declined to invalidate the subpoenas in Mazars but remanded the cases to
the lower courts for further consideration of their implications for
the separation of powers between Congress and the president. In Trump v.
Vance the Court rejected Trump’s assertion of immunity but again
remanded the case to permit him to challenge the subpoena on other
grounds.
Health care
An early goal of the Trump
administration, as reflected in Trump’s first executive order, was the
repeal of Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act, or ACA), which Trump had
long derided—even before announcing his presidential bid—as an expensive
failure. Trump pledged during his campaign that he would replace the
ACA with a bill that would provide better coverage at lower premiums,
and he promised that no one would lose health insurance under his plan.
However, the details of the bill, called in the House of Representatives
the American Health Care Act (AHCA), proved contentious even within his
own party. Because Trump had not worked out a specific plan of his own,
he was forced to rely on Republicans in the House to draft a
substantive bill that would reduce government involvement in the health
insurance market without depriving millions of Americans of the coverage
they had acquired under the ACA. The Republicans did not have a
detailed alternative in hand, however, resulting in a delay in Trump’s
promised repeal of the law.
In early March 2017 House Republicans
introduced their plan, which featured elimination of the ACA’s
“individual mandate” (the requirement that most Americans obtain health
insurance or pay a penalty), a reduction in individual tax credits for
the purchase of insurance, cuts in federal Medicaid funding, and nearly
$1 trillion in tax cuts over a 10-year period, including $274 billion in
cuts for persons earning at least $200,000 a year. The Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) initially estimated that the plan would reduce the
federal deficit by $337 billion over 10 years as compared with current
law but would also increase the number of uninsured people by 24 million
over the same period. The bill immediately faced objections from both
moderate and conservative Republicans. The former worried that too many
people would lose affordable coverage, while the latter complained that
the plan left too many burdensome provisions of the ACA in place. The
anxieties of moderates in particular were amplified by the angry
feedback they received at town hall meetings throughout the country from
constituents who feared the loss of their health insurance. Unable to
bridge the differences between the two factions, in late March the House
leadership withdrew the bill without a vote—a major defeat for Trump,
who had made repeal and replacement of the ACA a centerpiece of his
campaign.
Six weeks later the House narrowly passed a revised
version of the AHCA over the unanimous opposition of Democrats. A
subsequent CBO analysis projected that the new version would reduce the
deficit by $119 billion over 10 years as compared with current law and
increase the number of uninsured people by 23 million.
Soon
after the AHCA was passed, Republicans in the Senate, working largely in
secret and without input from Democrats, began crafting their own
replacement for the ACA, initially called the Better Care Reconciliation
Act (BCRA). Like the AHCA, the BCRA, in numerous versions under various
names, would have decreased the deficit but significantly increased the
number of uninsured, and it would have increased insurance premiums in
the first year after its passage, according to analyses released by the
CBO in late June. The BCRA thus faced the same criticisms that had beset
the House measure, revealing deep divisions between Senate Republicans
who wished to limit the loss of health insurance in their states and
those who aimed to dismantle as much of the current law as possible.
Eventually, within a single week in late July, the Senate voted on three
bills: a repeal of major provisions of the ACA without immediate
replacement; a relatively comprehensive repeal and replacement of the
ACA; and a more modest “skinny” repeal and replacement. Despite
considerable political pressure on Senate Republicans from the Trump
administration, all three measures failed.
Having been
unsuccessful in their attempts to repeal and replace the ACA,
Republicans in Congress and the Trump administration pursued a series of
measures intended to cumulatively undermine the law by making the
health insurance it provided less accessible, less affordable, and less
effective (through reductions in coverage and other measures), a
strategy that Trump described as allowing Obamacare to “explode.” Those
changes, some of which predated the failure of Republican alternatives
to the ACA in the Senate, included cutting funding for advertising and
for assistance with enrollment in Obamacare; drastically reducing open
enrollment periods; ending cost-sharing subsidies that enabled insurance
companies to reduce out-of-pocket expenses for low- and middle-income
Americans; and repealing (effective in 2019) the ACA’s “individual
mandate,” which had required all Americans to obtain health insurance or
pay a penalty. (The last measure was part of Republican tax legislation
drafted in secret and passed without Democratic support in December
2017; Trump signed the measure later that month. A subsequent analysis
by the CBO determined that the legislation, which among other things
reduced the corporate tax rate from 35 to 21 percent, would increase the
federal deficit by approximately $1.8 trillion over a 10-year period.)
In November 2017 a study by the CBO had estimated that repealing the
individual mandate and making no other changes to the ACA would increase
the number of uninsured people by 13 million after 10 years and raise
premiums by 10 percent in most years through 2027. Other changes
included allowing states to impose work requirements on people receiving
Medicaid; allowing the creation of “association health plans” that
would offer fewer essential health benefits than plans under the ACA and
charge higher premiums to certain enrollees based on factors such as
gender, occupation, and age; and permitting the sale of short-term plans
that would provide minimal benefits and would not cover medical
services for preexisting conditions.
Environmental policy
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One
of the areas in which the Trump administration was able to move quickly
to implement its policies was the environment, in part because many of
the changes it sought could be accomplished through executive action by
Trump or his appointees. Other changes were undertaken through
legislation adopted by Congress, whose Republican majority generally
shared Trump’s environmental views. In January, for example, Trump
signed memoranda to hasten approval and completion of the Dakota Access
and Keystone XL oil pipelines, both of which had been blocked by the
Obama administration on environmental grounds. In February Trump signed
legislation to block an Interior Department rule that would have
restricted the dumping of toxic mining waste into streams and other
waterways. In March Trump signed an executive order that rescinded
various Obama-era policies and programs related to climate change,
including a 2016 freeze on new coal leases on federal lands. In the same
month, EPA administrator Pruitt withdrew an EPA request that oil and
natural gas companies report methane emissions from their facilities and
rejected a total ban on the pesticide chlorpyrifos, against the advice
of the EPA’s own scientists. Other significant decisions included
drastically reducing the size of national monuments created by
Presidents Obama and Clinton; rescinding the Obama administration’s
Clean Power Plan, a set of EPA regulations that had mandated a 32
percent reduction in carbon emissions by the U.S. power sector between
2005 and 2030; revoking fuel-efficiency standards for cars and light
trucks developed by the EPA during the Obama administration; and
proposing numerous changes to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that
would weaken legal protections for endangered and threatened animals and
make listing species as threatened more difficult.
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the most momentous environmental decision of the new Trump
administration was Trump’s announcement in June that the United States
would withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change, under which
the United States and 194 other countries had agreed to a broad range of
measures intended to limit potentially catastrophic increases in global
average temperatures during the 21st century and to mitigate the
economic consequences of global warming. Trump contended that the
agreement would harm the American economy (through government-mandated
reductions in the country’s greenhouse gas emissions) and was in other
respects unfair and even demeaning to the United States—historically the
largest emitter of greenhouse gases and in the early 21st century the
second largest emitter after China. Trump’s decision was condemned by
government and political leaders, scientists, business executives, and
activists throughout the world but praised by Republicans in Congress,
who viewed it as a reassertion of American independence in world affairs
and a repudiation of the environmental policies of the Obama
administration. Like Trump, many Republican lawmakers doubted that
climate change was real, while others acknowledged its reality but
questioned the human origins of global warming.
Foreign relations of Donald Trump
A
major theme of Trump’s presidential campaign was his view that the
United States had long been treated unfairly or taken advantage of by
other countries, including by some traditional U.S. allies, and that
under Obama’s leadership the United States had ceased to be respected in
world affairs. In numerous speeches, tweets, and interviews, he
threatened to impose tariffs on countries that engaged in what he deemed
unfair trade practices; harshly criticized the World Trade Organization
(WTO); and promised to renegotiate the North American Free Trade
Agreement (NAFTA), which he called “the worst trade deal” the United
States had ever signed. He also criticized the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), dismissing the alliance as “obsolete” but also
insisting that other NATO countries devote more of their budgets to
defense spending. In January 2017 he withdrew the United States from the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, a regional trade agreement between 12
Pacific Rim countries that had been a major foreign policy achievement
of the Obama administration; Trump’s action was largely symbolic,
however, because the Senate had never ratified the treaty.
In
January and March 2018 the Trump administration announced steep tariffs
on imports of solar panels (worth $8.5 billion per year) and washing
machines (worth $1 billion), aimed particularly at China and South
Korea, and on imports of aluminum and steel (worth $48 billion) made in
several countries, most of them U.S. allies (initial exemptions from the
aluminum and steel duties granted to Canada, the European Union [EU],
and Mexico were lifted in June). Dismissing warnings and criticisms from
economists and business leaders that the tariffs could ignite a trade
war, Trump insisted in a tweet that “trade wars are good, and easy to
win.” In April China imposed retaliatory tariffs on a variety of U.S.
goods worth $2.4 billion annually, approximately the dollar amount of
Chinese aluminum and steel imports affected by the Trump tariffs. The EU
followed suit in June with tariffs on U.S. imports valued at $3.2
billion, as did Canada in July with tariffs on $12.8 billion of U.S.
goods. Following its official finding that the Chinese had engaged in
unfair trade practices, in June the Trump administration announced plans
for tariffs on an additional $50 billion of dollars worth of Chinese
products, prompting China to announce comparable duties. Threats and
counterthreats of additional tariffs soon followed, and by July the two
countries were engaged in a full-blown trade war.
Trump’s tariffs
and his antipathy to the WTO overshadowed the meeting in early June of
the Group of 7 in Quebec, Canada, which was marked by tense disagreement
between Trump and other G7 leaders over language regarding free trade
in the meeting’s final communiqué, usually a bland formality. Following
Trump’s early departure from the meeting, Canadian Prime Minister Justin
Trudeau reiterated his country’s reluctant determination to respond in
kind to Trump’s tariffs on aluminum and steel. Reacting to Trudeau’s
remarks during a flight to Singapore aboard Air Force One, Trump
withdrew his endorsement of the communiqué and called Trudeau
“dishonest” and “weak.” In Singapore Trump held a historic meeting with
North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un, the first face-to-face encounter
between sitting leaders of the two countries. Although Trump declared
after the meeting that “there is no longer a Nuclear Threat from North
Korea,” it was unclear what concrete commitments North Korea had made to
nuclear disarmament. In July Trump attended the annual summit meeting
of NATO in Brussels, where in a speech he called other NATO countries
“delinquent” and insisted that they increase their defense spending
“immediately.” The meeting ended with a joint communiqué in which member
countries agreed to continue their efforts to devote 2 percent of their
GDP to defense spending by 2024, a goal they had agreed to in 2014.
In
May 2018 Trump announced the withdrawal of the United States from a
2015 accord between Iran and five major powers—formally known as the
Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)—that had limited Iran’s
uranium-enrichment activities and required it to submit to frequent
international inspections of its nuclear facilities in return for the
lifting of economic sanctions. After the United States killed Iran’s
highest-ranking security and intelligence official in a drone strike
ordered by Trump, Iran announced in January 2020 that it would no longer
observe the JCPOA-imposed restrictions on its enrichment activities,
though it stopped short of formally exiting the agreement.
Ukraine scandal
In
August 2019 an anonymous whistleblower, later determined to be an
official of the CIA, filed a complaint with the inspector general of the
U.S. intelligence community, Michael Atkinson, alleging that in a July
25 phone call with the newly elected president of Ukraine, Volodymyr
Zelensky, Trump had attempted to extort a promise from Zelensky to
interfere in the 2020 U.S. presidential election on Trump’s behalf.
Specifically, according to the complaint, Trump strongly implied that
some $400 million in congressionally mandated security assistance to
Ukraine would not be provided unless Zelensky carried out two requests,
which Trump introduced by saying, “I would like you to do us a favor
though….” The first request was that Zelensky search for a computer
server used by the Democratic National Committee that supposedly had
been hidden in Ukraine after the Internet security firm CrowdStrike
determined in 2016 that it had been broken into by hackers based in
Russia. According to the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory, which originated
as a disinformation campaign by Russia, the missing server contained
evidence that the hackers were in fact Ukrainian and that Democrats and
CrowdStrike had conspired to falsely blame Russia for interfering in the
2016 presidential election.
The second request was that
Zelensky investigate Biden’s allegedly corrupt motive for pressuring the
Ukrainian government in 2015, while Biden was serving as vice president
in the Obama administration, to fire the country’s prosecutor general,
Viktor Shokin. According to the Burisma conspiracy theory, as it came to
be known, Biden called for Shokin’s removal only in order to halt an
investigation of the Ukrainian energy company Burisma Holdings, Ltd.,
that threatened to uncover wrongdoing by Biden’s son Hunter, who was
then serving on the company’s board of directors. No serious evidence of
wrongdoing by Biden or his son was ever produced, however. In his phone
conversation, Trump also repeatedly suggested to Zelensky that in
planning or conducting the requested investigations he deal directly
with Attorney General Barr and Trump’s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani.
In
September 2019, after the press began reporting that Trump’s
conversation with Zelensky may have involved a “quid pro quo,” the aid
to Ukraine was finally released, and the White House later issued what
it called a “rough transcript” of the phone call, which nevertheless did
not support Trump’s assertion that there had been no quid pro quo.
Later that month Pelosi changed her stance on the impeachment question,
announcing that Trump’s attempt to extort a foreign leader to interfere
in a U.S. election constituted a betrayal of his oath of office and
therefore warranted a formal impeachment inquiry. In testimony before
the House Intelligence Committee and later the House Judiciary
Committee, career civil servants in the State Department and other
witnesses confirmed the outlines of the whistleblower’s account of
Trump’s phone call and further indicated that Trump had been attempting
to conduct what amounted to a separate “back channel” foreign policy
through Giuliani, Barr, and others. In December the Judiciary Committee
drafted two articles of impeachment against Trump, one for abuse of
power and the other for obstruction of Congress. Those articles were
adopted in two party-line votes by the entire House on December 18,
making Trump the third president in U.S. history to be impeached. Trump
was acquitted by the Senate in February 2020 after a majority of
senators voted to find him not guilty on both charges. For additional
discussion, see Ukraine scandal.
COVID-19 pandemic
In January
2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the continuing spread
of COVID-19—a deadly and highly contagious respiratory illness caused by
a new form of the coronavirus known as novel coronavirus, or
coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2)—to be a global health emergency. First
reported in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, the virus soon
spread throughout China and then to Europe, the United States, and other
regions, prompting WHO to announce in March 2020 that COVID-19 had
become a global pandemic. At that time there were more than 118,000
confirmed cases of COVID-19 worldwide and nearly 4,300 deaths. By year’s
end those numbers had reached approximately 83 million and 1.8 million,
respectively.
(Read about the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.)
Soon
after the first known case in the United States was identified in
mid-January 2020, Trump was privately informed by officials within his
administration that the pandemic could result in massive numbers of
American deaths and severe damage to the U.S. economy. Those warnings
were repeated to Trump for several weeks through February and early
March as the numbers of positive tests for the coronavirus and confirmed
cases of COVID-19 in the country continued to rise.
At the end
of January, Trump imposed a partial entry ban on foreign travelers who
had recently visited China. However, he initially neglected to implement
the aggressive measures that had been recommended to him to slow the
spread of the coronavirus and reduce the number of likely deaths. Such
proposals included increasing the country’s testing capacity and
developing a national strategy for testing, contact tracing, and
quarantining; using his authority under the Defense Production Act (DPA)
of 1950 to increase production of personal protective equipment (PPE)
for medical personnel and ventilators for critically ill patients;
establishing a national purchasing and distribution system to allocate
PPE and ventilators to states and localities according to need; and
issuing national science-based guidelines for closing businesses and
schools, social distancing, mask wearing, and other safety measures. In
many of his public statements, Trump downplayed the threat posed by the
pandemic, the extent of its spread in the United States, and the
severity of COVID-19 itself. In other statements, some made in tweets
and at press briefings in April following meetings of the White House
coronavirus task force (first convened in late January), he promoted
supposed alternative remedies for the virus that were known to be
ineffective, unproved, or even deadly, and he made other false claims
that expert members of the task force were obliged to contradict.
After
WHO’s global pandemic announcement, Trump declared a national
emergency, suspended travel to the United States from several European
countries, and recommended that Americans practice social distancing for
the remainder of March (he later extended that period to April 30). At
the end of March he invoked the DPA to officially direct the automobile
manufacturer General Motors to produce ventilators. By then, many states
had already closed businesses and schools, restricted public
gatherings, issued stay-at-home orders, and mandated mask wearing in
public spaces. States and individual hospitals were also redoubling
their efforts to find increasingly scarce ventilators and respirators
after Trump told state governors in a conference call that they should
make their own arrangements to obtain such equipment.
The
widespread business closings and the shift to work-from-home
arrangements in some industries resulted in massive layoffs, eventually
producing unemployment levels not seen since the early 1930s and a deep
recession. In late March Congress passed, and Trump signed into law, a
$2.2 trillion economic relief package, the CARES (Coronavirus Aid,
Relief, and Economic Security) Act, which included a loan program for
small businesses, an increase in unemployment benefits through July,
one-time direct payments to households, increased funding for food-stamp
and child-nutrition programs, and financial aid to state and local
governments, which had been overwhelmed by unemployment claims and
unprecedented demands for emergency services. Two months later the
Democratic-controlled House of Representatives adopted a more extensive
($3 trillion) relief measure, the HEROES (Health and Economic Recovery
Omnibus Emergency Solutions) Act, whose provisions included a
vote-by-mail option in all federal elections beginning in November and
additional funding for the U.S. Postal Service, which was then handling
greatly increased numbers of mail-in (or absentee) ballots cast by
primary-election voters wishing to avoid exposure to the coronavirus in
voting lines and polling stations. Senate Republicans, however, refused
to take up the measure, in part because it failed to protect reopened
businesses against potential lawsuits by workers who contracted COVID-19
on the job. In late December, after several months of inaction,
Congress finally passed scaled-back relief legislation, including a
modest temporary increase in unemployment benefits.
Through
the spring and summer, while occasionally acknowledging the real scope
and seriousness of the pandemic, Trump continued to predict the imminent
disappearance of the coronavirus; to dispute or misrepresent official
numbers of positive tests, confirmed cases, and deaths in the United
States; to promote conspiracy theories that attributed high official
numbers to a variety of patently false causes; and to criticize public
health officials whose assessments or recommendations did not reflect
positively on his leadership. In April and May, as the numbers of new
COVID-19 cases and deaths nationwide began to plateau, Trump pushed the
states to quickly rescind the public health measures that had helped to
slow the spread of the coronavirus, portraying state-imposed business
closings and especially mask mandates as violations of economic freedom
and individual liberty. Trump’s misrepresentations inspired many of his
supporters to hold anti-lockdown demonstrations and to flout state and
local mask-wearing orders and limits on public gatherings. Trump’s own
refusal to wear a mask in public, a pointed signal of his contempt for
such regulations, led many of his supporters, including several
Republican governors and lawmakers, to regard the refusal to wear a mask
in public as a kind of political statement—an expression of allegiance
to Trump and the Republican Party.
In May and June the governors
of several states, mostly in the South, responded to Trump’s pressure by
relaxing or lifting pandemic-related restrictions—in particular,
mask-wearing orders. Partly as a result of those premature changes, a
second surge of the pandemic—a spike in positive test rates and in
numbers of COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations, and deaths—occurred in
those and a few other states, forcing governors to reimpose restrictions
they had declared unnecessary only a few weeks before.
In
early October, during the final weeks of his presidential campaign,
Trump himself tested positive for the coronavirus and developed
COVID-19. He was admitted to Walter Reed Medical Center in Bethesda,
Maryland, with respiratory symptoms and was reportedly treated there
with advanced experimental drugs unavailable to almost all other
Americans. Released at his insistence after only three days, he
eventually resumed his campaign rallies before mostly unmasked
supporters in several states. As before, Trump declined to wear a mask
in public. Meanwhile, a third surge of the pandemic, which experts had
warned would be far more deadly than the second, had begun. By the end
of December 2020, more than 350,000 Americans had died of the illness.
Presidential election of 2020
Campaigns and litigation
Facing
no serious challengers in the Republican presidential primaries of
2020, Trump became the party’s presumptive nominee in March, having by
then collected the minimum number of delegates necessary to win the
nomination. He was formally nominated at the Republican National
Convention in late August. In an unusual decision, the Republican
National Committee declined to write a platform for the 2020 election,
instead adopting the same platform it had issued in 2016 (despite its
ironically dated criticisms of the “current” president) with an
accompanying resolution declaring that “the Republican Party has and
will continue to enthusiastically support the President’s America-first
agenda.” Shortly before the start of the Republican convention, the
Trump campaign released a list of Trump’s “core priorities” for a second
term, including “Create 10 Million New Jobs in 10 Months,” “Develop a
[COVID-19] Vaccine by The End of 2020,” “Return to Normal in 2021,”
“Protect Social Security and Medicare,” “Bring Violent Extremist Groups
Like ANTIFA to Justice,” and “Require New Immigrants to Be Able to
Support Themselves Financially.” Throughout his campaign Trump also kept
up a steady stream of insults and name-calling aimed at Biden, who
became the Democratic Party’s presumptive presidential nominee in April
and was formally nominated at his party’s national convention in
mid-August. Biden promised that as president he would, among other
things, bring the COVID-19 pandemic under control, reverse Trump’s
policies on immigration and the environment, repair the country’s frayed
relations with foreign allies, repeal the 2017 corporate tax cut,
strengthen voting rights, and expand access to health insurance under
Obamacare.
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COVID-19 pandemic was understandably a dominant issue in the election.
Biden accused Trump of ignoring the early spread of the illness in the
United States, mismanaging the nation’s pandemic response, and resisting
appropriate input and leadership from government scientific and health
experts. Trump, for his part, initially accused Democrats of
perpetrating a “hoax” by exaggerating the extent of infection and the
danger of the illness. Through the remainder of his campaign, he
continued to allege that Biden and other Democrats were overstating the
severity of the health crisis for political advantage. A parallel issue
was the adequacy of pandemic-related economic relief for individuals,
businesses, and state and local governments.
The pandemic also
prompted governors and election officials in several states to postpone
primary elections or to implement changes in election procedures to
enable voters to cast their ballots safely. Such changes included
extending voter registration deadlines and early voting periods;
loosening or eliminating requirements for obtaining or casting mail-in
ballots, which millions of voters were expected to use as an alternative
to in-person voting; authorizing the use of drop boxes for returning
mail-in ballots; and extending postelection deadlines for receipt of
mail-in ballots, whose delivery was expected to be slowed by postal
service delays and overwhelming demand. A smaller but still significant
number of states declined to change their election procedures or did so
in ways that arguably made voting more difficult or less safe than in
other states. In October 2020, for example, the Republican governor of
Texas, Greg Abbott, issued a directive that limited mail-in ballot drop
boxes to one per county.
Pandemic-related changes to state
election procedures were intensively litigated. Some were adopted in
response to orders issued by federal or state courts, whose rulings were
then upheld or struck down on appeal; others were initiated by state
authorities and then challenged in the courts. In general, challenges to
such changes were lodged by Republican election and government
officials, state Republican parties and the Republican National
Committee, and the Trump campaign, usually on the grounds that the
changes usurped the constitutional authority of state legislatures to
establish electoral laws and procedures or that they invited voter fraud
(none of the suits, however, presented any evidence of significant
fraud). Democrats generally defended the changes as both constitutional
and necessary to ensure the opportunity to vote amid an extraordinary
public health emergency; they also alleged that Republican opposition to
the changes amounted to a form of voter suppression that could unfairly
turn the election in Trump’s favor in swing states. In all, more than
300 election-related lawsuits were filed by both Democrats and
Republicans prior to election day. The vast majority of Republican
challenges were eventually dismissed.
Underlying the strategies
of both parties was the accurate perception that Democratic voters were
more likely to use mail-in ballots than Republican voters. Trump’s
oft-repeated but baseless claim that mail-in voting was rife with fraud
and abuse only magnified Democratic concerns about alleged Republican
voter suppression. So too did the appointment in May 2020 of a new
postmaster general, Louis DeJoy, a major Trump donor, who immediately
implemented service cuts and other operational changes in the U.S.
Postal Service that slowed mail delivery throughout the country.
Trump’s
attacks on mail-in voting and on the postal service itself were one
element of a broader accusation that he had emphasized during the 2016
presidential campaign and continued in the 2020 campaign and beyond:
that the November election would be “rigged” by Democrats, resulting in
“the most INACCURATE & FRAUDULENT Election in history,” as he stated
in a July 2020 tweet. In dozens of other tweets and at numerous
campaign rallies, interviews, and press encounters, Trump claimed that
thousands of mail-in ballots would be stolen or forged by foreign
countries and that Democratic election officials would neglect to send
mail-in ballots to Republicans and would commit election fraud by
intentionally miscounting mail-in ballots. In the summer and fall of
2020 Trump notably refused to commit himself to accepting a Biden
victory in November, which seemed likely, given Biden’s consistent and
sizable lead over Trump in nationwide opinion polls. Trump insisted, to
the contrary, that the only way the Democrats could win would be through
fraud, at one point suggesting in a tweet that the election should be
delayed “until people can properly, securely and safely vote???” On
other occasions he asserted that he should be permitted to extend his
first term to make up for the distraction of the Russia investigation.
Trump’s
promotion of what amounted to a conspiracy theory of Democratic vote
rigging prompted criticism and varying levels of concern among Democrats
as well as Trump’s conservative critics, including a small but vocal
minority of Republican pundits and journalists. Some believed that Trump
was merely setting the stage for a face-saving end to his presidency;
others speculated that he would use lawsuits alleging election fraud in a
dubious strategy to invalidate mail-in votes in swing states or to
delay certification of state elections long enough to enable
Republican-controlled state legislatures to take the extreme (albeit
constitutional) step of replacing slates of pro-Biden electors chosen by
voters with the legislatures’ own slates of pro-Trump electors. Still
others feared a scenario in which Trump would simply refuse to leave
office, provoking a constitutional crisis in which (in a worst-case
scenario) the U.S. military would become involved. An abiding and widely
shared concern, particularly among historians and political scholars,
was that Trump’s apparent conspiracy mongering would undermine
Americans’ trust in democratic institutions. American democracy would be
severely damaged, they argued, if a significant segment of either major
party consistently refused to accept defeat in elections for president
or any other high office.
The 2020 presidential election was
unique and historic for the vast number of voters who cast
ballots—whether in person or via mail, whether through early voting or
on election day—and consequently for the vote totals of both the winning
and losing candidates, Biden and Trump, respectively. Trump ultimately
received more than 74 million votes and Biden more than 81 million—the
latter figure being the highest for any presidential candidate in U.S.
history. On the eve of the election, Trump continued to trail Biden in
opinion polls in most swing states, though by thinner margins than in
polls the previous summer. As voting proceeded, however, it became clear
that the vote totals in some states would be far closer than polls had
indicated. For a few days after election day (November 3), the outcome
remained uncertain, in part because of the vast number of mail-in
ballots (more than 65 million nationwide), which naturally took longer
to count than in-person ballots. On November 7 the Associated Press and
the major U.S. television networks called the election for Biden, who,
in their analysis, had by then secured 270 electoral votes, the minimum
number needed to win the presidency. The eventual vote of the Electoral
College, which took place on December 14, was 306 for Biden and 232 for
Trump.
Aftermath
At a press encounter in the early morning of
November 4, Trump declared himself the winner of the election and
denounced the counting of mail-in ballots as a “fraud on the American
people.” During the next several weeks he continually accused Biden and
the Democrats of having stolen the presidential election and repeated
far-fetched conspiracy theories about ballot stuffing, dead voters, and
malicious voting-machine software that had deleted or changed millions
of votes for Trump. In addition, he personally pressured election
officials and other authorities in Michigan, Georgia, and Pennsylvania
to delay certifying or to overturn elections in their states and later
attacked those among them who declined to cooperate.
In
February 2023 a judge in Georgia ordered the partial release of the
final report of a special-purpose grand jury convened in 2022 to
investigate possible criminal interference in the 2020 presidential
election in Georgia by Trump and his allies. In the released portions of
the report, the grand jury concluded that “no widespread fraud took
place in the Georgia 2020 presidential election that could result in
overturning that election.” The grand jury also reported its belief that
“perjury may have been committed by one or more witnesses testifying
before it.”
Although nearly all preelection Republican lawsuits
had been dismissed, Trump and his allies mounted scores of new
challenges on similar grounds. As those efforts also failed, the Trump
campaign conceived a more ambitious legal strategy. In late November a
team of Trump-supporting lawyers drafted a complaint designed to be
submitted directly to the Supreme Court on the basis of its original
jurisdiction in cases involving disputes between the states. Eventually
filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in early December, the
complaint alleged that pandemic-related changes to electoral procedures
in four swing states that had voted for Biden—Pennsylvania, Georgia,
Michigan, and Wisconsin—were illegal and unconstitutional and had so
increased the potential for voter fraud that Biden’s victories in those
states must be overturned. On December 11 the Court tersely dismissed
the suit for lack of standing.
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Trump’s
legal efforts were ultimately unsuccessful, but his postelection
narrative of election fraud and conspiracy, thematically continuous with
the false claims of vote rigging that he had been making for months,
was accepted by his base of dedicated supporters. Even the less ardent
among Trump voters were sympathetic to the notion that Biden had somehow
cheated to win the presidential election. According to an opinion poll
taken in mid-November, more than 50 percent of all Republicans believed
that Trump had “rightfully” won the election; another poll, in December,
found that 77 percent of Republicans believed that there had been
widespread election fraud.
As vote counting continued, various
groups of radicalized Trump supporters quickly coalesced around the idea
that forceful protests and even violent direct action were necessary
and justified to stop the counting of fraudulent ballots and prevent
Biden from taking office. A short-lived Facebook group calling itself
“Stop the Steal” was created on November 4 and grew to some 320,000
members in less than 24 hours before the social media company shut it
down because of posts containing disinformation and calls for violence.
Stop the Steal enthusiasts soon migrated to other (renamed) Facebook
groups and other social media venues, where they repeated and elaborated
conspiracy theories about the election and organized on-the-ground
demonstrations in several cities, including at polling stations where
supposedly fraudulent vote counting was underway.
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After
the electors from each state cast their votes for president and vice
president on December 14, giving Biden an Electoral College victory of
306 to 232, Trump and his allies, as well as leaders of Stop the Steal
and other pro-Trump groups across the country, turned their attention to
the last, formal step in the election of a U.S. president, the
ceremonial opening and counting of the electoral votes of each state in a
joint session of Congress presided over by the vice president, Mike
Pence, on January 6. Some Trump allies reportedly advised the
president—incorrectly—that the vice president’s role in the ceremony
entailed that Pence would have the constitutional authority to determine
which slate of electors, Democratic or Republican, to accept from any
given state. A federal lawsuit seeking a judgment to that effect, filed
in late December by Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert, was dismissed
for lack of standing.
Meanwhile, in several tweets beginning in
mid-December, Trump encouraged his supporters to attend a
rally—initially planned by a pro-Trump group, Women for America First—in
Washington, D.C., on January 6 to protest Congress’s confirmation of
Biden’s victory. In one of the tweets, Trump stated, “Be there, will be
wild!” At the rally, held at a public park near the White House, a crowd
of thousands, including members of white supremacist and right-wing
militia groups, listened to speeches by Trump’s attorney Rudy Giuliani
and Trump’s sons Donald, Jr., and Eric, among others. In his own
address, Trump repeated well-worn falsehoods and conspiracy theories
about election fraud, called on Pence to block Congress’s confirmation
of the Electoral College vote—declaring that if Pence failed to act, the
crowd would not let the confirmation take place (“We’re just not going
to let that happen”)—encouraged the crowd to “walk down Pennsylvania
Avenue” to the Capitol building, and urged his audience to “fight like
hell” or “you’re not going to have a country anymore.” Although Trump
did not explicitly direct those in attendance to commit illegal acts,
his generally incendiary language suggested to at least some of his
supporters that they would be justified in violently attacking Congress
to prevent Biden’s victory.
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What caused the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack?
What caused the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack?
On the afternoon of January 6, 2021, supporters of Donald Trump stormed the United States Capitol building.
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Even
before Trump finished his address, a violent mob began storming the
perimeter of the Capitol building, where the House and Senate were then
debating a doomed challenge by Republican lawmakers to the slate of
electors from Arizona, which had voted for Biden. The mob grew larger as
more people arrived from the rally at which Trump had spoken. Capitol
police were quickly overwhelmed, and for the next several hours rioters
vandalized and looted various parts of the complex, including the Senate
chamber and the offices of Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and
others. One rioter was shot and killed by police, and four others,
including a Capitol police officer, later died of injuries sustained in
the assault. After the complex was cleared that evening, Congress
resumed the confirmation process, and Biden was certified as the winner
of the presidential election of 2020 in the early morning hours of
January 7. On January 8 Trump was permanently banned from Twitter for
having posted tweets before, during, and after the assault that the
company deemed to be in violation of its policy against glorification of
violence. (Trump’s Twitter account was later reinstated by the South
African-born American billionaire Elon Musk, who purchased the company
in 2022.)
Less than one week later the House of
Representatives, by a vote of 232 to 197, adopted a single article of
impeachment against Trump for “incitement of insurrection,” making him
the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. At his Senate
trial in February, which began three weeks after he left office on
January 20, there was some debate about whether the Senate could try a
president who was no longer in office. Trump was ultimately acquitted
after only 57 senators, 10 short of the required two-thirds majority,
voted to find him guilty.
Postpresidential activities
Two days
after the insurrection of January 6, which had failed to prevent
Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election,
Trump announced that he would not attend Biden’s inauguration. He
thereby defied a tradition nearly as old as the United States, one
understood to symbolize the peaceful transfer of power and thus the
strength and continuity of American democracy. (Trump was the first U.S.
president to decline to attend his successor’s inauguration since 1869,
when Pres. Andrew Johnson refused to witness the swearing in of Ulysses
S. Grant.) Trump and first lady Melania Trump left the White House on
the morning of January 20, a few hours before Biden’s inauguration
ceremony, and returned to their residence at Mar-a-Lago.
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Unlike
most former presidents in the months following their departure from
office, Trump did not attempt to keep a low public profile in deference
to his successor. Indeed, beginning with an address at the Conservative
Political Action Conference (CPAC) in February 2021, Trump delivered
several public speeches in which he sharply criticized the new Biden
administration, denounced Republican officeholders who had criticized or
opposed him (including the 10 Republican House members who had voted to
impeach him for inciting the January 6 U.S. Capitol attack), repeated
his well-worn narrative of voter fraud in the 2020 election, and hinted
that he intended to run for president again in 2024.
Despite his
real-life electoral defeat and the ignominious circumstances of his
departure from office, Trump retained a sizable base of dedicated
supporters, which he continued to cultivate at his own campaign-style
rallies and other events. Trump took advantage of his popularity among
Republican voters to become an effective kingmaker within the party, a
role that he exercised by granting or withholding endorsements of
individual Republican candidates for federal, state, and even local
offices, many of whom traveled to Mar-a-Lago to seek his approval.
(Trump’s endorsed candidates tended to fare well in the primary
elections of 2022 but were only partially successful overall in the
November midterm elections.) Trump also amassed huge sums of money from
millions of individual donors through his political action committees
(PACs) Save America and Make America Great Again Inc. and other
organizations.
2024 presidential campaign
Soon after the
midterm elections of 2022, Trump announced his candidacy for the 2024
Republican presidential nomination. He initially faced several
challengers within his party; by June 2023 nearly a dozen Republicans
other than Trump had begun their own presidential campaigns. They
included Nikki Haley, who had served as U.S. ambassador to the United
Nations under Trump (2017–18) and as governor of South Carolina
(2011–17); Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida (2019– ); former U.S.
vice president (2017–21) Mike Pence; and former New Jersey governor
(2010–18) and 2016 Republican presidential primary contender Chris
Christie. Mindful of Trump’s continued popularity among Republican
voters, most of his primary challengers avoided criticizing him directly
or forcefully. They instead presented themselves as reliable
conservatives who did not face any of the serious legal challenges that
threatened to eliminate support for Trump among independent voters. As
Trump’s indictments were handed down, however, his popularity among
Republicans did not decline significantly, as his challengers had
expected. Indeed, some polls showed that his support had increased.
During
the remainder of 2023, Trump continued to dominate his rivals in polls
of Republican voters, despite his refusal to participate in presidential
primary debates sponsored by the Republican National Committee and the
steady progress of the legal cases against him. A significant proportion
of Republican voters continued to accept Trump’s oft-repeated (but
unsupported) claims that the criminal and civil charges against him were
false and politically motivated, and many reacted positively to Trump’s
suggestions that he would seek retribution for the prosecutions if
elected president. By the end of the year, most other Republican
presidential candidates, including Pence and Christie, had abandoned
their campaigns. After Trump easily won the Republican Iowa caucuses in
January 2024, DeSantis, who had long been the second most-popular
Republican presidential candidate after Trump, also dropped out of the
race. Haley, the sole remaining Trump challenger, continued her campaign
through January and February, despite suffering losses to Trump in
subsequent Republican primaries and caucuses in New Hampshire, Nevada,
the Virgin Islands, Michigan, and her home state of South Carolina.
After Trump defeated her in 14 of the 16 Republican presidential
primaries held on Super Tuesday (March 5, 2024), Haley finally suspended
her campaign, though she declined to endorse Trump.
Criminal investigations and civil suits
From
the start of his campaign, Trump was forced to contend with ongoing
criminal investigations and civil suits stemming from his conduct
before, during, and after his presidency. Among the major criminal
probes were Justice Department investigations, conducted from November
2022 by special counsel Jack Smith, dealing with Trump’s alleged
incitement of the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6,
2021, and his improper removal from the White House of classified
documents, which were discovered at Mar-a-Lago during an FBI search of
the property in August 2022. In December 2022 Smith’s office expanded
the January 6 investigation to focus on how the January 6 attack was
funded and organized as well as on broader efforts by Trump and his
aides to overturn election results in certain swing states, including by
creating “fake” slates of pro-Trump electors.
Meanwhile, the
district attorney of Fulton county, Georgia, pursued a parallel
criminal investigation into efforts by Trump and his associates to
pressure Georgia government officials into reversing or invalidating
Biden’s electoral victory in the state. Another state criminal
investigation, focusing on the falsification of business records related
to the hush-money payment to Daniels, was revived by the district
attorney of Manhattan in November 2022 after the Trump Organization’s
chief financial officer, Allen Weisselberg, in a plea bargain with
prosecutors, agreed to testify against the firm in a trial on charges of
tax fraud and other crimes. The Trump Organization was convicted on all
counts in December.
In September 2022 the attorney general of
New York state filed a $250 million civil suit accusing Trump, three of
Trump’s children, and the Trump Organization of business fraud in
connection with misrepresentations of properties and other assets
designed to secure favorable loan and insurance rates and to minimize
tax liabilities. Trump also faced a civil suit accusing him of sexual
abuse and defamation brought by the writer E. Jean Carroll, who alleged
that Trump had raped her in a department-store dressing room in the
mid-1990s.
In February 2024, after being found liable in the
civil business-fraud case, Trump was ordered to pay more than $350
million in penalties and interest and barred from serving as an officer
or director of any company in New York state, including the Trump
Organization, for three years. He was granted a 30-day grace period for
either paying the penalties and accumulated interest himself or
submitting a bond that would guarantee full payment should he lose his
appeal. As the grace period came to a close in late March, a New York
appeals court panel reduced to $175 million the amount of the bond that
Trump would need to secure. Trump submitted the bond in April.
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May 2023 Trump was found liable in the civil sexual-abuse and
defamation case and was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million. Despite that
ruling, Trump continued to publicly insult and disparage Carroll, who
then filed a second defamation suit. In January 2024 Trump was again
found liable and was ordered to pay Carroll more than $83 million.
Criminal indictments
Presidential mug shot
Presidential mug shot
Former
president Donald J. Trump as he appeared in a mug shot taken in August
2023 at the Fulton County Courthouse in Georgia. Trump was charged along
with 18 others in a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election
results in that state.
In March 2023 Trump was indicted on 34 felony
counts of falsifying business records to conceal the Trump
Organization’s reimbursement of Cohen for the latter’s payment of hush
money to Daniels. The indictment marked the first time in U.S. history
that a former president was charged with a crime. In June 2023 Trump was
indicted by a grand jury in Miami on federal criminal charges related
to his removal of classified documents from the White House upon leaving
office. The indictment marked the first time in U.S. history that a
former president was charged with a federal crime. In August 2023 Trump
was indicted by a grand jury in Washington, D.C., on federal criminal
charges related to his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential
election. The indictment charged him with obstruction of an official
proceeding and three counts of conspiracy: to obstruct an official
proceeding, to defraud the United States, and to impede the free
exercise of the right to vote and to have one’s vote counted. Later that
month, Trump and 18 of his associates were indicted by a grand jury in
Fulton county, Georgia, on criminal charges related to Trump’s efforts
to reverse Biden’s electoral victory in that state.
The ensuing
trials in three of Trump’s criminal cases—the federal and state cases
concerning his efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the criminal
business-fraud case—were originally scheduled to begin in March and May
2024. (As of April 2024, the judge in the federal case concerning
Trump’s removal of classified documents from the White House was widely
expected to postpone the trial’s starting date of May 20.) In each
instance, however, Trump’s legal team filed numerous motions or appeals
arguing for dismissal of the charges or requesting court actions or
judgments whose execution would effectively delay the start of the
trial. In January 2024 the federal case concerning Trump’s efforts to
overturn the 2020 election, whose trial date had been scheduled for
March 4, was indefinitely postponed after Trump appealed the district
court’s ruling rejecting his contention that he should be immune from
prosecution for actions he committed while serving as president. In
February a three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia Circuit agreed with the district court that Trump did not
possess absolute, or permanent, immunity and thus could be prosecuted as
a private citizen for his efforts as president to overturn the 2020
election. Trump then asked the U.S. Supreme Court to put the panel’s
ruling on hold while he filed a petition for review by the full appeals
court. The Supreme Court instead chose to hear the case itself,
scheduling oral arguments for the end of April 2024.
Earlier that
month, the Supreme Court also heard oral arguments in a case
challenging the conviction of a participant in the January 6 U.S.
Capitol attack under a federal law—18 U.S. Code §1512(c)—that prohibits
the obstruction of an official proceeding. The plaintiff in the case
argued that the law was intended to apply only to evidence tampering and
thus could not be violated by other acts, such as physically assaulting
police officers, which the plaintiff did during the attack. Should the
Court decide in the plaintiff’s favor, the charges and convictions under
the law of more than 300 participants in the January 6 attack would
have to be dropped or reversed. Notably, two of the four federal charges
related to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election—obstruction of
an official proceeding and conspiracy to obstruct an official
proceeding—would also be invalidated.
(In yet another case
concerning Trump’s role in the January 6 attack, the Supreme Court in
March 2024 overturned a ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court that had
removed Trump from the state’s Republican primary ballot on the grounds
that Trump had disqualified himself under Section 3 of the Fourteenth
Amendment [1868], which prohibits any person from “hold[ing] any office,
civil or military, under the United States, or under any state” if that
person has “previously taken an oath…to support the Constitution of the
United States” and subsequently “engaged in insurrection or rebellion
against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof.” See
United States presidential election of 2024.)
In March 2024 the
criminal business-records case, whose trial date had been scheduled for
March 25, was postponed to April 15 following a request by the Manhattan
district attorney’s office to allow Trump’s legal team to review a set
of records from an earlier federal investigation focusing on the role of
Cohen in the hush-money payment to Daniels. The judge in the case
rejected Trump’s motion for dismissal, disputing his claim that
prosecutors had improperly withheld federal records from Trump’s
attorneys. As the starting date of the trial drew closer, Trump
performed various legal maneuvers aimed at dismissing the case or
significantly delaying the trial, including filing a civil suit against
the judge for issuing and then expanding a gag order preventing Trump
from verbally attacking witnesses, jurors, and the families of the judge
and the Manhattan district attorney, among others. None of Trump’s
tactics were successful, and the trial began as scheduled.
Style and rhetoric
Trump’s
personal style is unusual, if not unique, among national political
figures in modern U.S. history. In part reflecting his experiences as a
prominent figure in the New York real estate industry, Trump is fiercely
competitive as well as intensely concerned with demonstrating his
success and accomplishments to others. Indeed, from the very beginning
of his career, he has cultivated and cherished his reputation as a
shrewd businessman, an image that often aided him in his real estate
dealings and which he eventually exploited as a brand beginning in the
1990s. That concern, however, has been accompanied by an unusual
sensitivity to criticism and a tendency to retaliate harshly against
those who, in his view, betrayed him or treated him unfairly. His
longtime mentor, friend, and legal adviser Roy Cohn (who had assisted
Joseph McCarthy’s investigations of alleged communist subversion in the
U.S. government in the 1950s) encouraged him in the latter regard,
counseling him on numerous occasions never to apologize (because it is a
sign of weakness) and always to hit back harder than you are hit, as
Trump put the lesson in The Art of the Deal. As he declared in a tweet
in 2012, “When someone attacks me, I always attack back…except 100×
more. This has nothing to do with a tirade but rather, a way of life!”
In
keeping with his bellicose and confrontational style, Trump in his
business career characteristically used blunt language as a weapon
against his rivals and adversaries, pointedly insulting or belittling
them in the press in retaliation for their real or perceived slights.
Perhaps surprisingly, Trump did not significantly alter his style or
temper his rhetoric upon his entry into politics, notwithstanding the
conventional view that success in politics is necessarily a matter of
persuasion and compromise rather than “hitting back harder.” The advent
of Twitter in 2006 eventually gave Trump (who joined the service in
2009) a larger platform for his unfiltered political comments, once he
began regularly tweeting about politics in about 2011. During the
presidential primaries and in the 2015–16 election campaign, Trump
frequently used his Twitter account, which had more than 40 million
followers, to angrily attack individual Democrats, his Republican rivals
and critics, members of the news media, and others in comments that
were widely perceived as aggressive, boastful, petty, vindictive,
juvenile, and vulgar. Trump similarly declined to filter himself in
speeches, once even mocking the physical disability of a reporter he
disliked.
Another unique feature of Trump’s rhetoric is the
extremely large number of his public statements that have been shown to
be false or misleading by the press or by independent fact-checking
organizations (The Washington Post counted more than 30,500 such claims
during Trump’s presidency). Although Trump’s detractors, including some
in the Republican Party, admonished him for what they considered his
undignified behavior, their criticism only provoked him to make fresh
attacks. Despite some speculation after his election that the weight of
the presidential office and his eventual need for tangible political and
diplomatic successes would lead him to adopt a more conventional
demeanor, his confrontational style and rhetoric continued unchanged
during his presidency, and, indeed, the targets of his abuse only
expanded. Trump’s frequent expressions of contempt for Democrats, along
with his general unwillingness to compromise with Democratic leaders in
Congress, considerably worsened partisan divisions in American politics,
according to many analysts. In any event, Trump certainly distinguished
himself from previous U.S. presidents by his heavy use of social media.
He was the first president to rely on Twitter as a primary means of
communication with his political supporters and the press, using it even
as a venue for semiofficial presidential statements.
Trump’s
rhetoric has also raised serious concerns among members of both parties
about its potential damage to Americans’ faith in democratic
institutions, particularly freedom of the press and the rule of law.
From early in his presidential campaign, Trump has dismissed unfavorable
press reports about him as “fake news,” implying that the news
organizations in question knowingly published falsehoods. After his
election, Trump frequently condemned most major news organizations as
“the enemy of the American people,” a phrase reminiscent of totalitarian
societies. The effect of his accusations was to engender distrust and
hostility among his supporters toward major media outlets other than Fox
News, which generally supported Trump in its reporting and which he
regularly watched. Many political scientists and media scholars also
pointed to more general problems, claiming that Trump’s efforts to
portray the press as untrustworthy had created broad confusion and
uncertainty among the electorate about what was true—or even a passive
and resigned attitude about the possibility of ever knowing what was
true. They also worried that Trump’s rhetoric would so diminish public
confidence in the press that it would cease to effectively serve as a
check on governmental power, the role that the founders of the country
had envisioned for it. Analogous concerns were raised about Trump’s
treatment of his perceived enemies in the FBI, the Justice Department,
and the judiciary. His rhetoric, critics feared, would encourage some
people to view those traditionally apolitical and independent
institutions as untrustworthy and incapable of carrying out their
responsibilities objectively and impartially.
Another
controversial feature of Trump’s rhetoric, one that drew especially
heavy criticism from civil rights organizations, was his regular appeals
to racist stereotypes, his frequent indulgence in racist slurs aimed at
non-European minority and immigrant groups, and his refusal to
consistently condemn violence aimed at minorities, including several
acts of police brutality against African Americans that prompted large
protests in cities across the United States in the summer of 2020 (see
Black Lives Matter). Indeed, Trump repeatedly mischaracterized the
mostly peaceful demonstrations against police brutality and for racial
justice as mob violence by anarchist thugs. Trump’s detractors condemned
him for such behavior and warned that he was stirring up racial
animosities among his supporters and other Americans and encouraging
those who already harbored such prejudices to express them more freely
in public or even to act on them violently. In the final months of the
2016 presidential campaign, in the period shortly after Trump’s
election, and during the first three years of Trump’s presidency, there
were notable increases in hate crimes throughout the country—ranging
from vandalism and assaults to bomb threats and mass
shootings—particularly against Jews, Muslims, African Americans,
Latinos, and LGBTQ persons, as indicated in various studies, including
the FBI’s annual hate crime report. Although the validity and
implications of such statistics were disputed, many researchers and
journalists agreed that Trump’s rhetoric had changed the country’s
political culture by making the public expression of hate-based and
extremist attitudes more acceptable. Trump himself, meanwhile, denied
that his speeches had had any such effect, proclaiming on more than one
occasion that he was “the least racist person” in the world.
Joe Biden
Official portrait of Joe Biden as president of the United States
Official portrait, 2021
46th President of the United States
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 20, 2021
Vice President Kamala Harris
Preceded by Donald Trump
47th Vice President of the United States
In office
January 20, 2009 – January 20, 2017
President Barack Obama
Preceded by Dick Cheney
Succeeded by Mike Pence
United States Senator
from Delaware
In office
January 3, 1973 – January 15, 2009
Preceded by J. Caleb Boggs
Succeeded by Ted Kaufman
Personal details
Born Joseph Robinette Biden Jr.
November 20, 1942 (age 81)
Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party Democratic (since 1969)
Other political
affiliations Independent (before 1969)
Spouses
Neilia Hunter
(m. 1966; died 1972)
Jill Jacobs
(m. 1977)
Children
Beau Hunter Naomi Ashley
Relatives Biden family
Residence White House
Education
University of Delaware (BA)
Syracuse University (JD)
Occupation
Politician lawyer author
Awards Full list
Signature Cursive signature in ink
Website
Campaign website
White House website
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Joseph
Robinette Biden Jr. (/ˈbaɪdən/ ⓘ, BY-dən; born November 20, 1942) is an
American politician who is the 46th and current president of the United
States since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously
served as the 47th vice president from 2009 to 2017 under President
Barack Obama and represented Delaware in the United States Senate from
1973 to 2009.
Born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, Biden moved with
his family to Delaware in 1953. He graduated from the University of
Delaware before earning his law degree from Syracuse University. He was
elected to the New Castle County Council in 1970 and to the U.S. Senate
in 1972. As a senator, Biden drafted and led the effort to pass the
Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act and the Violence Against
Women Act. He also oversaw six U.S. Supreme Court confirmation hearings,
including the contentious hearings for Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas.
Biden ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic presidential nomination in
1988 and 2008. In 2008, Obama chose Biden as his running mate, and he
was a close counselor to Obama during his two terms as vice president.
In the 2020 presidential election, Biden and his running mate, Kamala
Harris, defeated incumbents Donald Trump and Mike Pence. He is the
oldest president in U.S. history, and the first to have a female vice
president.
As president, Biden signed the American Rescue Plan
Act in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent recession. He
signed bipartisan bills on infrastructure and manufacturing. He proposed
the Build Back Better Act, which failed in Congress, but aspects of
which were incorporated into the Inflation Reduction Act that he signed
into law in 2022. Biden appointed Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme
Court. He worked with congressional Republicans to resolve the 2023
United States debt-ceiling crisis by negotiating a deal to raise the
debt ceiling. In foreign policy, Biden restored America's membership in
the Paris Agreement. He oversaw the complete withdrawal of U.S. troops
from Afghanistan that ended the war in Afghanistan, during which the
Afghan government collapsed and the Taliban seized control. He responded
to the Russian invasion of Ukraine by imposing sanctions on Russia and
authorizing civilian and military aid to Ukraine. During the
Israel–Hamas war, Biden condemned the actions of Hamas and other
Palestinian militants as terrorism, announced military support for
Israel, and ordered the U.S. military to build a port to facilitate the
delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians in Gaza.[1] In
April 2023, Biden announced his candidacy for the Democratic nomination
in the 2024 presidential election.
Early life (1942–1965)
Main article: Early life and career of Joe Biden
Joseph
Robinette Biden Jr. was born on November 20, 1942,[2] at St. Mary's
Hospital in Scranton, Pennsylvania,[3] to Catherine Eugenia "Jean" Biden
(née Finnegan) and Joseph Robinette Biden Sr.[4][5] The oldest child in
a Catholic family of English, French, and Irish descent, he has a
sister, Valerie, and two brothers, Francis and James.[6]
Biden's
father had been wealthy and the family purchased a home in the affluent
Long Island suburb of Garden City in the fall of 1946,[7] but he
suffered business setbacks around the time Biden was seven years
old,[8][9][10] and for several years the family lived with Biden's
maternal grandparents in Scranton.[11] Scranton fell into economic
decline during the 1950s and Biden's father could not find steady
work.[12] Beginning in 1953 when Biden was ten,[13] the family lived in
an apartment in Claymont, Delaware, before moving to a house in nearby
Mayfield.[14][15][9][11] Biden Sr. later became a successful used-car
salesman, maintaining the family in a middle-class
lifestyle.[11][12][16]
At Archmere Academy in Claymont,[17] Biden
played baseball and was a standout halfback and wide receiver on the
high school football team.[11][18] Though a poor student, he was class
president in his junior and senior years.[19][20] He graduated in
1961.[19] At the University of Delaware in Newark, Biden briefly played
freshman football,[21][22] and, as an unexceptional student,[23] earned a
Bachelor of Arts degree in 1965 with a double major in history and
political science.[24][25]
Biden had a stutter and has mitigated
it since his early twenties.[26] He has described his efforts to reduce
it by reciting poetry before a mirror.[20][27]
Biden is a teetotaler. He has said he abstains from alcohol because there were "too many alcoholics in my family".[28]
Marriages, law school, and early career (1966–1973)
Main article: Early career of Joe Biden
See also: Family of Joe Biden
Neilia Hunter, Joe, Hunter, Naomi Christina and Beau Biden, c. 1972
Biden
married Neilia Hunter, a student at Syracuse University, on August 27,
1966,[24][29] after overcoming her parents' disinclination for her to
wed a Catholic. Their wedding was held in a Catholic church in
Skaneateles, New York.[30] They had three children: Joseph R. "Beau"
Biden III, Robert Hunter Biden, and Naomi Christina "Amy" Biden.[24]
Biden in the Syracuse 1968 yearbook
Biden
earned a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University College of Law in 1968.
He ranked 76th in a class of 85 students after failing a course because
he plagiarized a law review article for a paper he wrote in his first
year at law school.[23] He was admitted to the Delaware bar in 1969.[2]
Biden
clerked at a Wilmington law firm headed by prominent local Republican
William Prickett in 1968 and, he later said, "thought of myself as a
Republican".[31][32] He disliked incumbent Democratic Delaware governor
Charles L. Terry's conservative racial politics and supported a more
liberal Republican, Russell W. Peterson, who defeated Terry in 1968.[31]
Local Republicans attempted to recruit Biden, but he registered as an
Independent because of his distaste for Republican presidential
candidate Richard Nixon.[31]
In 1969, Biden practiced law, first
as a public defender and then at a law firm headed by a locally active
Democrat,[33][31] who named him to the Democratic Forum, a group trying
to reform and revitalize the state party;[34] Biden subsequently
reregistered as a Democrat.[31] He and another attorney also formed a
law firm.[33] Corporate law did not appeal to him, and criminal law did
not pay well.[11] He supplemented his income by managing properties.[35]
Biden
ran for the 4th district seat on the New Castle County Council in 1970
on a liberal platform that included support for public housing in the
suburbs.[36][37] The seat had been held by Republican Henry R. Folsom,
who was running in the 5th District following a reapportionment of
council districts.[38][39][40] Biden won the general election, defeating
Republican Lawrence T. Messick, and took office on January 5,
1971.[41][42] He served until January 1, 1973, and was succeeded by
Democrat Francis R. Swift.[43][44] During his time on the county
council, Biden opposed large highway projects, which he argued might
disrupt Wilmington neighborhoods.[44]
Biden had not openly
supported or opposed the Vietnam War until he ran for Senate and opposed
Richard Nixon's conduct of the war.[45] While studying at the
University of Delaware and Syracuse University, Biden obtained five
student draft deferments at a time when most draftees were sent to the
war. Based on a physical examination, he was given a conditional medical
deferment in 1968; in 2008, a spokesperson for Biden said his having
had "asthma as a teenager" was the reason for the deferment.[46]
1972 U.S. Senate campaign in Delaware
Main article: 1972 United States Senate election in Delaware
Biden
defeated Republican incumbent J. Caleb Boggs to become the junior U.S.
senator from Delaware in 1972. He was the only Democrat willing to
challenge Boggs and, with minimal campaign funds, he was thought to have
no chance of winning.[33][11] Family members managed and staffed the
campaign, which relied on meeting voters face-to-face and
hand-distributing position papers,[47] an approach made feasible by
Delaware's small size.[35] He received help from the AFL–CIO and
Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell.[33] His platform focused on the
environment, withdrawal from Vietnam, civil rights, mass transit,
equitable taxation, health care and public dissatisfaction with
"politics as usual".[33][47] A few months before the election, Biden
trailed Boggs by almost thirty percentage points,[33] but his energy,
attractive young family, and ability to connect with voters' emotions
worked to his advantage,[16] and he won with 50.5% of the vote.[47]
Death of wife and daughter
A
few weeks after Biden was elected senator, his wife Neilia and
one-year-old daughter Naomi were killed in an automobile accident while
Christmas shopping in Hockessin, Delaware, on December 18, 1972.[24][48]
Neilia's station wagon was hit by a semi-trailer truck as she pulled
out from an intersection. Their sons Beau (aged 3) and Hunter (aged 2)
were in the car, and were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening
injuries, Beau with a broken leg and other wounds and Hunter with a
minor skull fracture and other head injuries.[49] Biden considered
resigning to care for them,[16] but Senate majority leader Mike
Mansfield persuaded him not to.[50] Biden contemplated suicide and was
filled with anger and religious doubt.[51][52] He wrote that he "felt
God had played a horrible trick" on him,[53] and had trouble focusing on
work.[54][55]
Second marriage
Photo of Biden and his wife smiling, dressed casually
Biden and his second wife, Jill, met in 1975 and married in 1977.
Biden
met teacher Jill Tracy Jacobs in 1975 on a blind date.[56] They married
at the United Nations chapel in New York on June 17, 1977.[57][58] They
spent their honeymoon at Lake Balaton in the Hungarian People's
Republic.[59][60] Biden credits her with the renewal of his interest in
politics and life.[61] Biden is Roman Catholic and attends Mass with his
wife, Jill, at St. Joseph's on the Brandywine in Greenville,
Delaware.[62][63][64] Their daughter, Ashley Biden,[24] is a social
worker and is married to physician Howard Krein.[65] Beau Biden became
an Army judge advocate in Iraq and later Delaware attorney general;[66]
he died of brain cancer in 2015.[67][68] Hunter Biden worked as a
Washington lobbyist and investment adviser; his business dealings and
personal life came under significant scrutiny during his father's
presidency.[69][70]
Teaching
From 1991 to 2008, as an adjunct
professor, Biden co-taught a seminar on constitutional law at Widener
University School of Law.[71][72] He sometimes flew back from overseas
to teach the class.[73][74][75][76]
U.S. Senate (1973–2009)
Main article: US Senate career of Joe Biden
Senate activities
Scanned
photo of Biden and Carter smiling at each other in the Oval Office. On
the photo, Carter wrote: "Best wishes to my friend Joe Biden"
Biden with President Jimmy Carter, 1979
Biden (left) and Frank Church (middle) with president of Egypt Anwar el-Sadat after signing the Egypt–Israel peace treaty, 1979
Secretary
of the Senate Francis R. Valeo swore Biden in at the Delaware Division
of the Wilmington Medical Center in January 1973.[77][49] Present were
his sons Beau (whose leg was still in traction from the automobile
accident) and Hunter and other family members.[77][49] At age 30, he was
the seventh-youngest senator in U.S. history.[78] To see his sons,
Biden traveled by train between his Delaware home and D.C.[79]—74
minutes each way—and maintained this habit throughout his 36 years in
the Senate.[16]
Elected to the U.S. Senate in 1972, Biden was
reelected in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002, and 2008, regularly receiving
about 60% of the vote.[80] He was junior senator to William Roth, who
was first elected in 1970, until Roth was defeated in 2000.[81] As of
2024, he was the 19th-longest-serving senator in U.S. history.[82]
During
his early years in the Senate, Biden focused on consumer protection and
environmental issues and called for greater government
accountability.[83] In a 1974 interview, he described himself as liberal
on civil rights and liberties, senior citizens' concerns and
healthcare, but conservative on other issues, including abortion and
military conscription.[84] Biden was the first U.S. senator to endorse
Jimmy Carter for president in the 1976 Democratic primary.[85] Carter
went on to win the Democratic nomination and defeat incumbent Republican
President Gerald Ford in the 1976 election. Biden also worked on arms
control.[86][87] After Congress failed to ratify the SALT II Treaty
signed in 1979 by Soviet general secretary Leonid Brezhnev and President
Jimmy Carter, Biden met with Soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko to
communicate American concerns and secured changes that addressed the
Senate Foreign Relations Committee's objections.[88] He received
considerable attention when he excoriated Secretary of State George
Shultz at a Senate hearing for the Reagan administration's support of
South Africa despite its continued policy of apartheid.[31]
In
the mid-1970s, Biden was one of the Senate's strongest opponents of
race-integration busing. His Delaware constituents strongly opposed it,
and such opposition nationwide later led his party to mostly abandon
school integration policies.[89] In his first Senate campaign, Biden had
expressed support for busing to remedy de jure segregation, as in the
South, but opposed its use to remedy de facto segregation arising from
racial patterns of neighborhood residency, as in Delaware; he opposed a
proposed constitutional amendment banning busing entirely.[90] Biden
supported a 1976 measure forbidding the use of federal funds for
transporting students beyond the school closest to them.[89] He
co-sponsored a 1977 amendment closing loopholes in that measure, which
President Carter signed into law in 1978.[91]
Photo of Biden shaking hands with Reagan in the Oval Office
Biden shaking hands with President Ronald Reagan, 1984
Biden
became ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee in
1981. He was a Democratic floor manager for the successful passage of
the Comprehensive Crime Control Act in 1984. His supporters praised him
for modifying some of the law's worst provisions, and it was his most
important legislative accomplishment to that time.[92] In 1994, Biden
helped pass the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which
included a ban on assault weapons,[93][94] and the Violence Against
Women Act,[95] which he has called his most significant legislation.[96]
The 1994 crime law was unpopular among progressives and criticized for
resulting in mass incarceration;[97][98] in 2019, Biden called his role
in passing the bill a "big mistake", citing its policy on crack cocaine
and saying that the bill "trapped an entire generation".[99]
Biden
voted for a 1993 provision that deemed homosexuality incompatible with
military life, thereby banning gays from serving in the armed
forces.[100][101] In 1996, he voted for the Defense of Marriage Act,
which prohibited the federal government from recognizing same-sex
marriages, thereby barring individuals in such marriages from equal
protection under federal law and allowing states to do the same.[102] In
2015, the act was ruled unconstitutional in Obergefell v. Hodges.[103]
Biden
was critical of Independent Counsel Ken Starr during the 1990s
Whitewater controversy and Lewinsky scandal investigations, saying "it's
going to be a cold day in hell" before another independent counsel
would be granted similar powers.[104] He voted to acquit during the
impeachment of President Clinton.[105] During the 2000s, Biden sponsored
bankruptcy legislation sought by credit card issuers.[16] Clinton
vetoed the bill in 2000, but it passed in 2005 as the Bankruptcy Abuse
Prevention and Consumer Protection Act,[16] with Biden being one of only
18 Democrats to vote for it, while leading Democrats and consumer
rights organizations opposed it.[106] As a senator, Biden strongly
supported increased Amtrak funding and rail security.[80][107]
Brain surgeries
In
February 1988, after several episodes of increasingly severe neck pain,
Biden underwent surgery to correct a leaking intracranial berry
aneurysm.[108][109] While recuperating, he suffered a pulmonary
embolism, a serious complication.[109] After a second aneurysm was
surgically repaired in May,[109][110] Biden's recuperation kept him away
from the Senate for seven months.[111]
Senate Judiciary Committee
Photo of Senator Biden giving a speech, with uniformed law enforcement officers in the background
Biden speaking at the signing of the 1994 Crime Bill with President Bill Clinton in 1994
Biden
was a longtime member of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary. He
chaired it from 1987 to 1995 and was a ranking minority member from 1981
to 1987 and again from 1995 to 1997.[112]
As chair, Biden
presided over two highly contentious U.S. Supreme Court confirmation
hearings.[16] When Robert Bork was nominated in 1988, Biden reversed his
approval— given in an interview the previous year— of a
hypothetical Bork nomination. Conservatives were angered,[113] but at
the hearings' close Biden was praised for his fairness, humor, and
courage.[113][114] Rejecting the arguments of some Bork opponents,[16]
Biden framed his objections to Bork in terms of the conflict between
Bork's strong originalism and the view that the U.S. Constitution
provides rights to liberty and privacy beyond those explicitly
enumerated in its text.[114] Bork's nomination was rejected in the
committee by a 5–9 vote[114] and then in the full Senate, 42–58.[115]
During
Clarence Thomas's nomination hearings in 1991, Biden's questions on
constitutional issues were often convoluted to the point that Thomas
sometimes lost track of them,[116] and Thomas later wrote that Biden's
questions were akin to "beanballs".[117] After the committee hearing
closed, the public learned that Anita Hill, a University of Oklahoma law
school professor, had accused Thomas of making unwelcome sexual
comments when they had worked together.[118][119] Biden had known of
some of these charges, but initially shared them only with the committee
because Hill was then unwilling to testify.[16] The committee hearing
was reopened and Hill testified, but Biden did not permit testimony from
other witnesses, such as a woman who had made similar charges and
experts on harassment.[120] The full Senate confirmed Thomas by a 52–48
vote, with Biden opposed.[16] Liberal legal advocates and women's groups
felt strongly that Biden had mishandled the hearings and not done
enough to support Hill.[120] In 2019, he told Hill he regretted his
treatment of her, but Hill said afterward she remained unsatisfied.[121]
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Photo of Clinton, his senior officials, and Biden on Air Force One
Senator Biden accompanies President Clinton and other officials to Bosnia and Herzegovina, December 1997.
Biden
was a longtime member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He
became its ranking minority member in 1997 and chaired it from June 2001
to 2003 and 2007 to 2009.[122] His positions were generally liberal
internationalist.[86][123] He collaborated effectively with Republicans
and sometimes went against elements of his own party.[122][123] During
this time he met with at least 150 leaders from 60 countries and
international organizations, becoming a well-known Democratic voice on
foreign policy.[124]
Biden voted against authorization for the
Gulf War in 1991,[123] siding with 45 of the 55 Democratic senators. He
said the U.S. was bearing almost all the burden in the anti-Iraq
coalition.[125]
Biden became interested in the Yugoslav Wars
after hearing about Serbian abuses during the Croatian War of
Independence in 1991.[86] Once the Bosnian War broke out, Biden was
among the first to call for the "lift and strike" policy.[86][122] The
George H. W. Bush administration and Clinton administration were both
reluctant to implement the policy, fearing Balkan entanglement.[86][123]
In April 1993, Biden held a tense three-hour meeting with Serbian
leader Slobodan Milošević.[126] Biden worked on several versions of
legislative language urging the U.S. toward greater involvement.[126]
Biden has called his role in affecting Balkan policy in the mid-1990s
his "proudest moment in public life" related to foreign policy.[123] In
1999, during the Kosovo War, Biden supported the 1999 NATO bombing of FR
Yugoslavia.[86] He and Senator John McCain co-sponsored the
McCain-Biden Kosovo Resolution, which called on Clinton to use all
necessary force, including ground troops, to confront Milošević over
Yugoslav actions toward ethnic Albanians in Kosovo.[123][127]
Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq
Main article: War on terror
refer to caption
Biden addresses the press after meeting with Prime Minister Ayad Allawi in Baghdad in 2004.
Biden
was a strong supporter of the War in Afghanistan, saying, "Whatever it
takes, we should do it."[128] As head of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, he said in 2002 that Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was a
threat to national security and there was no other option than to
"eliminate" that threat.[129] In October 2002, he voted in favor of the
Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq, approving the U.S.
Invasion of Iraq.[123] As chair of the committee, he assembled a series
of witnesses to testify in favor of the authorization. They gave
testimony grossly misrepresenting the intent, history, and status of
Saddam and his secular government, which was an avowed enemy of
al-Qaeda, and touted Iraq's fictional possession of Weapons of Mass
Destruction.[130] Biden eventually became a critic of the war and called
his vote and role a "mistake" but did not push for
withdrawal.[123][126] He supported the appropriations for the
occupation, but argued that the war should be internationalized, that
more soldiers were needed, and that the Bush administration should
"level with the American people" about its cost and length.[122][127]
By
late 2006, Biden's stance had shifted considerably. He opposed the
troop surge of 2007,[123][126] saying General David Petraeus was "dead,
flat wrong" in believing the surge could work.[131] Biden instead
advocated dividing Iraq into a loose federation of three ethnic
states.[132] Rather than continue the existing approach or withdrawing,
the plan called for "a third way": federalizing Iraq and giving Kurds,
Shiites, and Sunnis "breathing room" in their own regions.[133] In
September 2007, a non-binding resolution endorsing the plan passed the
Senate,[134] but the idea failed to gain traction.[131]
1988 and 2008 presidential campaigns
1988 campaign
Main article: Joe Biden 1988 presidential campaign
Biden speaks at a campaign event, 1987
Biden
formally declared his candidacy for the 1988 Democratic presidential
nomination on June 9, 1987.[135] He was considered a strong candidate
because of his moderate image, his speaking ability, his high profile as
chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee at the upcoming Robert Bork
Supreme Court nomination hearings, and his appeal to Baby Boomers; he
would have been the second-youngest person elected president, after John
F. Kennedy.[31][136][137] He raised more in the first quarter of 1987
than any other candidate.[136][137]
By August his campaign's
messaging had become confused due to staff rivalries,[138] and in
September, he was accused of plagiarizing a speech by British Labour
Party leader Neil Kinnock.[139] Biden's speech had similar lines about
being the first person in his family to attend university. Biden had
credited Kinnock with the formulation on previous occasions,[140][141]
but did not on two occasions in late August.[142]: 230–232 [141] Kinnock
himself was more forgiving; the two men met in 1988, forming an
enduring friendship.[143]
Earlier that year, Biden had also used
passages from a 1967 speech by Robert F. Kennedy (for which his aides
took blame) and a short phrase from John F. Kennedy's inaugural address;
two years earlier he had used a 1976 passage by Hubert Humphrey.[144]
Biden responded that politicians often borrow from one another without
giving credit, and that one of his rivals for the nomination, Jesse
Jackson, had called him to point out that he (Jackson) had used the same
material by Humphrey that Biden had used.[16][23]
A few days
later, an incident in law school in which Biden drew text from a Fordham
Law Review article with inadequate citations was publicized.[23] He was
required to repeat the course and passed with high marks.[145] At
Biden's request the Delaware Supreme Court's Board of Professional
Responsibility reviewed the incident and concluded that he had violated
no rules.[146]
Biden has made several false or exaggerated claims
about his early life: that he had earned three degrees in college, that
he attended law school on a full scholarship, that he had graduated in
the top half of his class,[147][148] and that he had marched in the
civil rights movement.[149] The limited amount of other news about the
presidential race amplified these disclosures[150] and on September 23,
1987, Biden withdrew his candidacy, saying it had been overrun by "the
exaggerated shadow" of his past mistakes.[151]
2008 campaign
Main article: Joe Biden 2008 presidential campaign
Photo of Biden, casually dressed, talking with a citizen in a garden
Biden campaigns at a house party in Creston, Iowa, July 2007.
After
exploring the possibility of a run in several previous cycles, in
January 2007, Biden declared his candidacy in the 2008
elections.[80][152][153] During his campaign, Biden focused on the Iraq
War, his record as chairman of major Senate committees, and his
foreign-policy experience.[154] Biden was noted for his one-liners
during the campaign; in one debate he said of Republican candidate Rudy
Giuliani: "There's only three things he mentions in a sentence: a noun,
and a verb and 9/11."[155]
Biden had difficulty raising funds,
struggled to draw people to his rallies, and failed to gain traction
against the high-profile candidacies of Obama and Senator Hillary
Clinton.[156] He never rose above single digits in national polls of the
Democratic candidates. In the first contest on January 3, 2008, Biden
placed fifth in the Iowa caucuses, garnering slightly less than one
percent of the state delegates.[157] He withdrew from the race that
evening.[158]
Despite its lack of success, Biden's 2008 campaign
raised his stature in the political world.[159]: 336 In particular, it
changed the relationship between Biden and Obama. Although they had
served together on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, they had not
been close: Biden resented Obama's quick rise to political
stardom,[131][160] while Obama viewed Biden as garrulous and
patronizing.[159]: 28, 337–338 Having gotten to know each other during
2007, Obama appreciated Biden's campaign style and appeal to
working-class voters, and Biden said he became convinced Obama was "the
real deal".[160][159]: 28, 337–338
Vice presidential campaigns of 2008 and 2012
2008 campaign
Main articles: Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign and 2008 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection
Photo of Biden outdoors behind a lectern, with Obama seated behind him and smiling
Biden speaks at the August 23, 2008, vice presidential announcement at the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois.
Shortly
after Biden withdrew from the presidential race, Obama privately told
him he was interested in finding an important place for Biden in his
administration.[161] In early August, Obama and Biden met in secret to
discuss the possibility,[161] and developed a strong personal
rapport.[160] On August 22, 2008, Obama announced that Biden would be
his running mate.[162] The New York Times reported that the strategy
behind the choice reflected a desire to fill out the ticket with someone
with foreign policy and national security experience.[163] Others
pointed out Biden's appeal to middle-class and blue-collar
voters.[164][165] Biden was officially nominated for vice president on
August 27 by voice vote at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in
Denver.[166]
Biden's vice-presidential campaigning gained little
media attention, as the press devoted far more coverage to the
Republican nominee, Alaska governor Sarah Palin.[167][168] Under
instructions from the campaign, Biden kept his speeches succinct and
tried to avoid offhand remarks, such as one he made about Obama's being
tested by a foreign power soon after taking office, which had attracted
negative attention.[169][170] Privately, Biden's remarks frustrated
Obama. "How many times is Biden gonna say something stupid?" he
asked.[159]: 411–414, 419 Obama campaign staffers called Biden's
blunders "Joe bombs" and kept Biden uninformed about strategy
discussions, which in turn irked Biden.[171] Relations between the two
campaigns became strained for a month, until Biden apologized on a call
to Obama and the two built a stronger partnership.[159]: 411–414
As
the financial crisis of 2007–2010 reached a peak with the liquidity
crisis of September 2008 and the proposed bailout of the United States
financial system became a major factor in the campaign, Biden voted for
the $700 billion Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008, which
passed in the Senate, 74–25.[172] On October 2, 2008, he participated in
the vice-presidential debate with Palin at Washington University in St.
Louis. Post-debate polls found that while Palin exceeded many voters'
expectations, Biden had won the debate overall.[173]
On November
4, 2008, Obama and Biden were elected with 53% of the popular vote and
365 electoral votes to McCain–Palin's 173.[174][175][176]
At the
same time Biden was running for vice president, he was also running for
reelection to the Senate,[177] as permitted by Delaware law.[80] On
November 4, he was reelected to the Senate, defeating Republican
Christine O'Donnell.[178] Having won both races, Biden made a point of
waiting to resign from the Senate until he was sworn in for his seventh
term on January 6, 2009.[179] Biden cast his last Senate vote on January
15, supporting the release of the second $350 billion for the Troubled
Asset Relief Program,[180] and resigned from the Senate later that
day.[b]
2012 campaign
Main article: Barack Obama 2012 presidential campaign
In
October 2010, Biden said Obama had asked him to remain as his running
mate for the 2012 presidential election,[184] but with Obama's
popularity on the decline, White House chief of staff William M. Daley
conducted some secret polling and focus group research in late 2011 on
the idea of replacing Biden on the ticket with Hillary Clinton.[185] The
notion was dropped when the results showed no appreciable improvement
for Obama,[185] and White House officials later said Obama himself had
never entertained the idea.[186]
Biden's May 2012 statement that
he was "absolutely comfortable" with same-sex marriage gained
considerable public attention in comparison to Obama's position, which
had been described as "evolving".[187] Biden made his statement without
administration consent, and Obama and his aides were quite irked, since
Obama had planned to shift position several months later, in the
build-up to the party convention.[171][188][189] Gay rights advocates
seized upon Biden's statement,[188] and within days, Obama announced
that he too supported same-sex marriage, an action in part forced by
Biden's remarks.[190] Biden apologized to Obama in private for having
spoken out,[191][192] while Obama acknowledged publicly it had been done
from the heart.[188]
The Obama campaign valued Biden as a
retail-level politician, and he had a heavy schedule of appearances in
swing states as the reelection campaign began in earnest in spring
2012.[193][194] An August 2012 remark before a mixed-race audience that
Republican proposals to relax Wall Street regulations would "put y'all
back in chains" once again drew attention to Biden's propensity for
colorful remarks.[193][195][196]
Obama watching Biden debate Paul Ryan in the vice presidential debate on Air Force One
In
the first presidential debate of the general election, President
Obama's performance was considered surprisingly lackluster.[197] Time
magazine's Joe Klein called it "one of the most inept performances I've
ever seen by a sitting president."[198] Over the next few days, Obama's
lead over Romney collapsed,[199] putting pressure on Biden to stop the
bleeding with a strong showing against the Republican vice-presidential
nominee, Paul Ryan.[200][201] Some political analysts considered Biden's
performance against Ryan in the October 11 vice-presidential debate one
of the best of his career[202][203] and a key factor in Obama's rebound
in the polls and eventual victory over Romney.[204][205] The debate
also became memorable for the popularization of Biden's use of the
phrase "a bunch of malarkey" in response to an attack by Ryan on the
administration's response to the September 11, 2012, attacks on the U.S.
embassy in Benghazi.[206][207] Biden reused the phrase during his 2020
presidential campaign.[208]
On November 6, Obama and Biden won
reelection[209] over Romney and Ryan with 332 of 538 Electoral College
votes and 51% of the popular vote.[210]
Vice presidency (2009–2017)
See also: Presidency of Barack Obama
First term (2009–2013)
Photo of Biden raising his right hand, reciting the Oath
Biden being sworn in as vice president on January 20, 2009
Biden
said he intended to eliminate some explicit roles assumed by George W.
Bush's vice president, Dick Cheney, and did not intend to emulate any
previous vice presidency.[211] He was sworn in as the 47th vice
president of the United States on January 20, 2009.[212] He was the
first vice president from Delaware[213] and the first Roman Catholic
vice president.[214][215]
Obama was soon comparing Biden to a
basketball player "who does a bunch of things that don't show up in the
stat sheet".[216] Biden visited Kosovo in May and affirmed the U.S.
position that its "independence is irreversible."[217] Biden lost an
internal debate to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about sending
21,000 new troops to Afghanistan,[218][219] but his skepticism was
valued,[220] and in 2009, Biden's views gained more influence as Obama
reconsidered his Afghanistan strategy.[221] Biden visited Iraq about
every two months,[131] becoming the administration's point man in
delivering messages to Iraqi leadership about expected progress
there.[220] More generally, overseeing Iraq policy became Biden's
responsibility: Obama was said to have said, "Joe, you do Iraq."[222] By
2012, Biden had made eight trips there, but his oversight of U.S.
policy in Iraq receded with the exit of U.S. troops in 2011.[194][223]
Photo of Obama and Biden shaking hands in the Oval Office
President Obama congratulates Biden for his role in shaping the debt ceiling deal which led to the Budget Control Act of 2011.
Biden
oversaw infrastructure spending from the Obama stimulus package
intended to help counteract the ongoing recession.[224] During this
period, Biden was satisfied that no major instances of waste or
corruption had occurred,[220] and when he completed that role in
February 2011, he said the number of fraud incidents with stimulus
monies had been less than one percent.[225]
Biden's off-message
response to a question in late April 2009, during the beginning of the
swine flu outbreak, led to a swift retraction by the White House.[226]
The remark revived Biden's reputation for gaffes.[227][221][228]
Confronted with rising unemployment through July 2009, Biden
acknowledged that the administration had "misread how bad the economy
was" but maintained confidence the stimulus package would create many
more jobs once the pace of expenditures picked up.[229] A hot mic picked
up Biden telling Obama that his signing the Patient Protection and
Affordable Care Act was "a big fucking deal" on March 23, 2010. Despite
their different personalities, Obama and Biden formed a friendship,
partly based around Obama's daughter Sasha and Biden's granddaughter
Maisy, who attended Sidwell Friends School together.[171]
Members
of the Obama administration said Biden's role in the White House was to
be a contrarian and force others to defend their positions.[230] Rahm
Emanuel, White House chief of staff, said that Biden helped counter
groupthink.[216] Obama said, "The best thing about Joe is that when we
get everybody together, he really forces people to think and defend
their positions, to look at things from every angle, and that is very
valuable for me."[220] The Bidens maintained a relaxed atmosphere at
their official residence in Washington, often entertaining their
grandchildren, and regularly returned to their home in Delaware.[231]
Biden
campaigned heavily for Democrats in the 2010 midterm elections,
maintaining an attitude of optimism in the face of predictions of
large-scale losses for the party.[184] Following big Republican gains in
the elections and the departure of White House chief of staff Rahm
Emanuel, Biden's past relationships with Republicans in Congress became
more important.[232][233] He led the successful administration effort to
gain Senate approval for the New START treaty.[232][233] In December
2010, Biden's advocacy for a middle ground, followed by his negotiations
with Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, were instrumental in
producing the administration's compromise tax package that included a
temporary extension of the Bush tax cuts.[233][234] The package passed
as the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job
Creation Act of 2010.
Photo of Obama, Biden, and national security staffers in the Situation Room, somberly listening to updates on the bin Laden raid
Biden,
Obama and the national security team gathered in the White House
Situation Room to monitor the progress of the May 2011 mission to kill
Osama bin Laden.
Obama delegated Biden to lead negotiations with
Congress in March 2011 to resolve federal spending levels for the rest
of the year and avoid a government shutdown.[235] The U.S. debt ceiling
crisis developed over the next few months, but Biden's relationship with
McConnell again proved key in breaking a deadlock and bringing about a
deal to resolve it, in the form of the Budget Control Act of 2011,
signed on August 2, 2011, the same day an unprecedented U.S. default had
loomed.[236][237][238] Some reports suggest that Biden opposed
proceeding with the May 2011 U.S. mission to kill Osama bin
Laden,[194][239] lest failure adversely affect Obama's reelection
prospects.[240][241]
Obama named Biden to head the Gun Violence
Task Force, created to address the causes of school shootings and
consider possible gun control to implement in the aftermath of the Sandy
Hook Elementary School shooting, in December 2012.[242] Later that
month, during the final days before the United States fell off the
"fiscal cliff", Biden's relationship with McConnell again proved
important as the two negotiated a deal that led to the American Taxpayer
Relief Act of 2012 being passed at the start of 2013.[243][244] It made
many of the Bush tax cuts permanent but raised rates on upper income
levels.[244]
Second term (2013–2017)
Biden in Morocco, November 2014
Biden
was inaugurated to a second term on January 20, 2013, at a small
ceremony at Number One Observatory Circle, his official residence, with
Justice Sonia Sotomayor presiding (a public ceremony took place on
January 21).[245]
Biden played little part in discussions that
led to the October 2013 passage of the Continuing Appropriations Act,
2014, which resolved the federal government shutdown of 2013 and the
debt-ceiling crisis of 2013. This was because Senate majority leader
Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders cut him out of any direct talks
with Congress, feeling Biden had given too much away during previous
negotiations.[246][247][248]
Biden's Violence Against Women Act
was reauthorized again in 2013. The act led to related developments,
such as the White House Council on Women and Girls, begun in the first
term, as well as the White House Task Force to Protect Students from
Sexual Assault, begun in January 2014 with Biden and Valerie Jarrett as
co-chairs.[249][250]
Biden favored arming Syria's rebel
fighters.[251] As the ISIL insurgency in Iraq intensified in 2014,
renewed attention was paid to the Biden-Gelb Iraqi federalization plan
of 2006, with some observers suggesting Biden had been right all
along.[252][253] Biden himself said the U.S. would follow ISIL "to the
gates of hell".[254] Biden had close relationships with several Latin
American leaders and was assigned a focus on the region during the
administration; he visited the region 16 times during his vice
presidency, the most of any president or vice president.[255] In August
2016, Biden visited Serbia, where he met with the Serbian Prime
Minister, Aleksandar Vučić, and expressed his condolences for civilian
victims of the bombing campaign during the Kosovo War.[256]
Photo of Biden and Netanyahu giving speeches, with American and Israeli flags in the background
Biden with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, March 9, 2016
Biden never cast a tie-breaking vote in the Senate, making him the longest-serving vice president with this distinction.[257]
Role in the 2016 presidential campaign
During
his second term, Biden was often said to be preparing for a bid for the
2016 Democratic presidential nomination.[258] With his family, many
friends, and donors encouraging him in mid-2015 to enter the race, and
with Hillary Clinton's favorability ratings in decline at that time,
Biden was reported to again be seriously considering the prospect and a
"Draft Biden 2016" PAC was established.[258][259][260]
By late
2015, Biden was still uncertain about running. He felt his son Beau's
recent death had largely drained his emotional energy, and said, "nobody
has a right ... to seek that office unless they're willing to give it
110% of who they are."[261] On October 21, speaking from a podium in the
Rose Garden with his wife and Obama by his side, Biden announced his
decision not to run for president in 2016.[262][263][264]
Subsequent activities (2017–2019)
Photo of Trump speaking to Biden and Obama, with Trump's hand on Obama's shoulder
Biden with Barack Obama and Donald Trump, at the latter's inauguration on January 20, 2017
After
leaving the vice presidency, Biden became an honorary professor at the
University of Pennsylvania, developing the Penn Biden Center for
Diplomacy and Global Engagement. Biden remained in that position into
2019, before running for president.[265][266]
In 2017, Biden
wrote a memoir, Promise Me, Dad, and went on a book tour.[267] By 2019,
he and his wife reported that they had earned over $15 million since the
end of his vice presidency from speaking engagements and book
sales.[268]
Biden remained in the public eye, endorsing
candidates while continuing to comment on politics, climate change, and
the presidency of Donald Trump.[269][270][271] He also continued to
speak out in favor of LGBT rights, continuing advocacy on an issue he
had become more closely associated with during his vice
presidency.[272][273] In 2018, he gave a eulogy for Senator John McCain,
praising McCain's embrace of American ideals and bipartisan
friendships.[274] Biden continued to support cancer research.[275]
2020 presidential campaign
Main article: Joe Biden 2020 presidential campaign
Speculation and announcement
Photo of Biden raising his fist while while standing behind a lectern
Biden at his presidential kickoff rally in Philadelphia, May 2019
Between
2016 and 2019, media outlets often mentioned Biden as a likely
candidate for president in 2020.[276] When asked if he would run, he
gave varied and ambivalent answers, saying "never say never".[277] A
political action committee known as Time for Biden was formed in January
2018, seeking Biden's entry into the race.[278] He finally launched his
campaign on April 25, 2019,[279] saying he was prompted to run because
he was worried by the Trump administration and felt a "sense of
duty."[280]
Campaign
As the 2020 campaign season heated up,
voluminous public polling showed Biden as one of the best-performing
Democratic candidates in a head-to-head matchup against President
Trump.[281][282][283] With Democrats keenly focused on "electability"
for defeating Trump,[284] this boosted his popularity among Democratic
voters.[285] It also made Biden a frequent target of Trump.[286][287] In
September 2019, it was reported that Trump had pressured Ukrainian
president Volodymyr Zelenskyy to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Biden
and his son Hunter Biden.[288] Despite the allegations, no evidence was
produced of any wrongdoing by the Bidens.[289][290][291] Trump's
pressure to investigate the Bidens was perceived by many as an attempt
to hurt Biden's chances of winning the presidency.[292] Trump's alleged
actions against Biden resulted in a political scandal[293] and Trump's
impeachment by the House of Representatives for abuse of power and
obstruction of congress.[294]
In March 2019 and April 2019, eight
women accused Biden of previous instances of inappropriate physical
contact, such as embracing, touching or kissing.[295] Biden had
previously called himself a "tactile politician" and admitted this
behavior had caused trouble for him.[296] Journalist Mark Bowden
described Biden's lifelong habit of talking close, writing that he
"doesn't just meet you, he engulfs you... scooting closer" and leaning
forward to talk.[297] In April 2019, Biden pledged to be more
"respectful of people's personal space".[298]
Photo of Biden holding a microphone, with a crowd in the background
Biden at a rally on the eve of the Iowa caucuses, February 2020
Throughout
2019, Biden stayed generally ahead of other Democrats in national
polls.[299][300] Despite this, he finished fourth in the Iowa caucuses,
and eight days later, fifth in the New Hampshire primary.[301][302] He
performed better in the Nevada caucuses, reaching the 15% required for
delegates, but still finished 21.6 percentage points behind Bernie
Sanders.[303] Making strong appeals to Black voters on the campaign
trail and in the South Carolina debate, Biden won the South Carolina
primary by more than 28 points.[304] After the withdrawals and
subsequent endorsements of candidates Pete Buttigieg and Amy Klobuchar,
he made large gains in the March 3 Super Tuesday primary elections.
Biden won 18 of the next 26 contests, putting him in the lead
overall.[305] Elizabeth Warren and Mike Bloomberg soon dropped out, and
Biden expanded his lead with victories over Sanders in four states on
March 10.[306]
In late March 2020, Tara Reade, one of the eight
women who in 2019 had accused Biden of inappropriate physical contact,
accused Biden of having sexually assaulted her in 1993.[307] There were
inconsistencies between Reade's 2019 and 2020 allegations.[307][308]
Biden and his campaign denied the sexual assault allegation.[309][310]
When
Sanders suspended his campaign on April 8, 2020, Biden became the
Democratic Party's presumptive nominee for president.[311] On April 13,
Sanders endorsed Biden in a live-streamed discussion from their
homes.[312] Former president Barack Obama endorsed Biden the next
day.[313] On August 11, Biden announced U.S. senator Kamala Harris of
California as his running mate, making her the first African American
and first South Asian American vice-presidential nominee on a
major-party ticket.[314] 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.[315][316]
Presidential transition
Main article: Presidential transition of Joe Biden
Biden
was elected the 46th president of the United States in November 2020.
He defeated the incumbent, Donald Trump, becoming the first candidate to
defeat a sitting president since Bill Clinton defeated George H. W.
Bush in 1992. Trump refused to concede, insisting the election had been
"stolen" from him through "voter fraud", challenging the results in
court and promoting numerous conspiracy theories about the voting and
vote-counting processes, in an attempt to overturn the election
results.[317] Biden's transition was delayed by several weeks as the
White House ordered federal agencies not to cooperate.[318] On November
23, General Services Administrator Emily W. Murphy formally recognized
Biden as the apparent winner of the 2020 election and authorized the
start of a transition process to the Biden administration.[319]
On
January 6, 2021, during Congress' electoral vote count, Trump told
supporters gathered in front of the White House to march to the Capitol,
saying, "We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't
happen. You don't concede when there's theft involved."[320] Soon after,
they attacked the Capitol. During the insurrection at the Capitol,
Biden addressed the nation, calling the events "an unprecedented assault
unlike anything we've seen in modern times".[321][322] After the
Capitol was cleared, Congress resumed its joint session and officially
certified the election results with Vice President Mike Pence, in his
capacity as President of the Senate, declaring Biden and Harris the
winners.[323]
Presidency (2021–present)
Main article: Presidency of Joe Biden
For a chronological guide, see Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency.
Photo of Biden raising his right hand, with his left hand placed on a thick Bible
Biden takes the oath of office administered by Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. at the Capitol, January 20, 2021.
Inauguration
Main article: Inauguration of Joe Biden
Biden
was inaugurated as the 46th president of the United States on January
20, 2021.[324] At 78, he is the oldest person to have assumed the
office.[324] He is the second Catholic president (after John F.
Kennedy)[325] and the first president whose home state is Delaware.[326]
He is also the first man since George H. W. Bush to have been both vice
president and president, and the second non-incumbent vice president
(after Richard Nixon in 1968) to be elected president.[327] He is also
the first president from the Silent Generation.[328]
Biden's
inauguration was "a muted affair unlike any previous inauguration" due
to COVID-19 precautions as well as massively increased security measures
because of the January 6 United States Capitol attack. Trump did not
attend, becoming the first outgoing president since 1869 to not attend
his successor's inauguration.[329]
First 100 days
See also: First 100 days of Joe Biden's presidency
In
his first two days as president, Biden signed 17 executive orders. By
his third day, orders had included rejoining the Paris Climate
Agreement, ending the state of national emergency at the border with
Mexico, directing the government to rejoin the World Health
Organization, face mask requirements on federal property, measures to
combat hunger in the United States,[330][331][332][333] and revoking
permits for the construction of the Keystone XL pipeline.[334][335][336]
Group photo of Biden, Harris and cabinet members standing outdoors
Biden with his Cabinet, July 2021
On
March 11, the first anniversary of COVID-19 having been declared a
global pandemic by the World Health Organization, Biden signed into law
the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus
and relief package that he had proposed to support the United States'
recovery from the economic and health effects of the COVID-19
pandemic.[337] The package included direct payments to most Americans,
an extension of increased unemployment benefits, funds for vaccine
distribution and school reopenings, and expansions of health insurance
subsidies and the child tax credit. Biden's initial proposal included an
increase of the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour, but after the
Senate parliamentarian determined that including the increase in a
budget reconciliation bill would violate Senate rules, Democrats
declined to pursue overruling her and removed the increase from the
package.[338][339][340]
Also in March, amid a rise in migrants
entering the U.S. from Mexico, Biden told migrants, "Don't come over."
In the meantime, migrant adults "are being sent back", Biden said, in
reference to the continuation of the Trump administration's Title 42
policy for quick deportations.[341] Biden earlier announced that his
administration would not deport unaccompanied migrant children; the rise
in arrivals of such children exceeded the capacity of facilities meant
to shelter them (before they were sent to sponsors), leading the Biden
administration in March to direct the Federal Emergency Management
Agency to help.[342]
On April 14, Biden announced that the United
States would delay the withdrawal of all troops from the war in
Afghanistan until September 11, signaling an end to the country's direct
military involvement in Afghanistan after nearly 20 years.[343] In
February 2020, the Trump administration had made a deal with the Taliban
to completely withdraw U.S. forces by May 1, 2021.[344] Biden's
decision met with a wide range of reactions, from support and relief to
trepidation at the possible collapse of the Afghan government without
American support.[345] On April 22–23, Biden held an international
climate summit at which he announced that the U.S. would cut its
greenhouse gas emissions by 50%–52% by 2030 compared to 2005 levels.
Other countries also increased their pledges.[346][347] On April 28, the
eve of his 100th day in office, Biden delivered his first address to a
joint session of Congress.[348]
Domestic policy
On June 17,
Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act, which
officially declared Juneteenth a federal holiday.[349] Juneteenth is the
first new federal holiday since 1986.[350] In July 2021, amid a slowing
of the COVID-19 vaccination rate in the country and the spread of the
SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant, Biden said that the country has "a pandemic
for those who haven't gotten the vaccination" and that it was therefore
"gigantically important" for Americans to be vaccinated.[351]
Economy
Inflation rate, United States and eurozone, January 2018 through June 2023
Main article: Economic policy of the Joe Biden administration
Biden
entered office nine months into a recovery from the COVID-19 recession
and his first year in office was characterized by robust growth in real
GDP, employment, wages and stock market returns, amid significantly
elevated inflation. Real GDP grew 5.9%, the fastest rate in 37
years.[352][353] Amid record job creation, the unemployment rate fell at
the fastest pace on record during the year.[354][355][356] By the end
of 2021, inflation reached a nearly 40-year high of 7.1%, which was
partially offset by the highest nominal wage and salary growth in at
least 20 years.[357][358][359][360] In his third month in office, Biden
signed an executive order to increase the minimum wage for federal
contractors to $15 per hour, an increase of nearly 37%. The order went
into effect for 390,000 workers in January 2022.[361][362]
Amid a
surge in inflation and high gas prices, Biden's approval ratings
declined, reaching net negative in early 2022.[363][364][365] After 5.9%
growth in 2021, real GDP growth cooled in 2022 to 2.1%, after slightly
negative growth in the first half spurred recession concerns. Job
creation and consumer spending remained strong through the year, as the
unemployment rate fell to match a 53-year low of 3.5% in December.
Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June before easing to 3.2% by October 2023.
Stocks had had their worst year since 2008[366][367][368] before
recovering. Widespread predictions of an imminent recession did not
materialize in 2022 or 2023, and by late 2023 indicators showed sharply
lower inflation with economic acceleration. GDP growth hit 4.9% in the
third quarter of 2023 and the year ended with stocks near record highs,
with robust holiday spending.[369][370][371]
Biden signed
numerous major pieces of economic legislation in the 117th Congress,
including the American Rescue Plan, Infrastructure Investment and Jobs
Act, CHIPS and Science Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, and the
Honoring our PACT Act.[372] Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into
law on August 9, 2022.[373] The act provides billions of dollars in new
funding to boost domestic research on and manufacture of semiconductors,
to compete economically with China.[374]
Over the course of five
days in March 2023, three small- to mid-size U.S. banks failed,
triggering a sharp decline in global bank stock prices and swift
response by regulators to prevent potential global contagion. After
Silicon Valley Bank collapsed, the first to do so, Biden expressed
opposition to a bailout by taxpayers.[375] He claimed that the partial
rollback of Dodd-Frank regulations contributed to the bank's
failure.[376]
At the beginning of the 118th Congress, Biden and
congressional Republicans engaged in a standoff after the United States
hit its debt limit, which raised the risk that the U.S. would default on
its debt.[377] Biden and House speaker Kevin McCarthy struck a deal to
raise the debt limit, the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which
suspended the debt limit until January 2025. Biden signed it on June 3,
averting a default.[378] The deal was generally seen as favorable to
Biden.[379][380]
Judiciary
Further information: List of federal judges appointed by Joe Biden
Photo of Biden and Jackson looking at an off-camera television screen
Biden and Ketanji Brown Jackson watching the U.S. Senate vote on her confirmation, April 2022
By
the end of 2021, 40 of Biden's appointees to the federal judiciary had
been confirmed, more than any president in his first year in office
since Ronald Reagan.[381] Biden has prioritized diversity in his
judicial appointments more than any president in U.S. history, with most
of his appointees being women and people of color.[382] Most of his
appointments have been in blue states, making a limited impact since the
courts in these states already generally lean liberal.[383]
In
January 2022, Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer, a moderate liberal
nominated by Bill Clinton, announced his intention to retire from the
Supreme Court. During his 2020 campaign, Biden vowed to nominate the
first Black woman to the Supreme Court if a vacancy occurred,[384] a
promise he reiterated after Breyer announced his retirement.[385] On
February 25, Biden nominated federal judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the
Supreme Court.[386] She was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on April 7[387]
and sworn in on June 30.[388] By November 2023, Biden had confirmed 150
federal judges, including 100 women.[389]
Infrastructure and climate
Further information: Build Back Better Plan and Environmental policy of the Joe Biden administration
Phot of Biden, Johnson and Guterres standing onstage
Biden,
UK prime minister Boris Johnson and UN secretary-general António
Guterres at the opening ceremony of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow
on November 1, 2021
As part of Biden's Build Back Better agenda,
in late March 2021, he proposed the American Jobs Plan, a $2 trillion
package addressing issues including transport infrastructure, utilities
infrastructure, broadband infrastructure, housing, schools,
manufacturing, research and workforce development.[390][391] After
months of negotiations among Biden and lawmakers, in August 2021 the
Senate passed a $1 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill called the
Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act,[392][393] while the House, also
in a bipartisan manner, approved that bill in early November 2021,
covering infrastructure related to transport, utilities, and
broadband.[394] Biden signed the bill into law in mid-November
2021.[395]
The other core part of the Build Back Better agenda
was the Build Back Better Act, a $3.5 trillion social spending bill that
expands the social safety net and includes major provisions on climate
change.[396][397] The bill did not have Republican support, so Democrats
attempted to pass it on a party-line vote through budget
reconciliation, but struggled to win the support of Senator Joe Manchin,
even as the price was lowered to $2.2 trillion.[398] After Manchin
rejected the bill,[399] the Build Back Better Act's size was reduced. It
was comprehensively reworked into the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022,
covering deficit reduction, climate change, healthcare, and tax
reform.[400]
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 was introduced
by senators Chuck Schumer and Joe Manchin.[401][402] The package aimed
to raise $739 billion and authorize $370 billion in spending on energy
and climate change, $300 billion in deficit reduction, three years of
Affordable Care Act subsidies, prescription drug reform to lower prices,
and tax reform.[403] According to an analysis by the Rhodium Group, the
bill will lower US greenhouse gas emissions between 31 percent and 44
percent below 2005 levels by 2030.[404] On August 7, 2022, the Senate
passed the bill (as amended) on a 51–50 vote, with all Democrats voting
in favor, all Republicans opposed, and Vice President Kamala Harris
breaking the tie. The bill was passed by the House on August 12[404] and
was signed by Biden on August 16.[405][406]
Before and during
the 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26), Biden
promoted an agreement that the U.S. and the European Union cut methane
emissions by a third by 2030 and tried to add dozens of other countries
to the effort.[407] Biden pledged to double climate funding to
developing countries by 2024.[408] Also at COP26, the U.S. and China
reached a deal on greenhouse gas emission reduction. The two countries
are responsible for 40 percent of global emissions.[409] In July 2023,
when the 2023 heat waves hit the U.S., Biden announced several measures
to protect the population and said the heat waves were linked to climate
change.[410][411]
COVID-19 diagnosis
On July 21, 2022, Biden
tested positive for COVID-19 with reportedly mild symptoms.[412]
According to the White House, he was treated with Paxlovid.[413] He
worked in isolation in the White House for five days[414] and returned
to isolation when he tested positive again on July 30.[415]
Other domestic policy issues
In
2022, Biden endorsed a change to the Senate filibuster to allow for the
passing of the Freedom to Vote Act and John Lewis Voting Rights Act, on
both of which the Senate had failed to invoke cloture.[416] The rules
change failed when two Democratic senators, Joe Manchin and Kyrsten
Sinema, joined Senate Republicans in opposing it.[417] In April 2022,
Biden signed into law the bipartisan Postal Service Reform Act of 2022
to revamp the finances and operations of the United States Postal
Service agency.[418]
On July 28, 2022, the Biden administration
announced it would fill four wide gaps on the Mexico–United States
border in Arizona near Yuma, an area with some of the busiest corridors
for illegal crossings. During his presidential campaign, Biden had
pledged to cease all future border wall construction.[419] This occurred
after both allies and critics of Biden criticized his administration's
management of the southern border.[420]
Photo of Biden and staffers, seated, looking at a television
Biden and senior advisers watch the Senate pass the CHIPS and Science Act on July 27, 2022.
In
the summer of 2022, several other pieces of legislation Biden supported
passed Congress. The Bipartisan Safer Communities Act aimed to address
gun reform issues following the Robb Elementary School shooting in
Uvalde, Texas.[421] The act's gun control provisions include extended
background checks for gun purchasers under 21, clarification of Federal
Firearms License requirements, funding for state red flag laws and other
crisis intervention programs, further criminalization of arms
trafficking and straw purchases, and partial closure of the boyfriend
loophole.[422][423][424] Biden signed the bill on June 25, 2022.[425]
The
Honoring our PACT Act of 2022 was introduced in 2021 and signed into
law by Biden on August 10, 2022.[426] The act intends to significantly
improve healthcare access and funding for veterans who were exposed to
toxic substances, including burn pits, during military service.[427]
On
October 6, 2022, Biden pardoned all Americans convicted of "small"
amounts of cannabis possession under federal law.[428] On December 22,
2023, he pardoned Americans of cannabis use or possession on federal
lands regardless of whether they had been charged or
prosecuted.[429][430] Two months after his first round of pardons, he
signed the Respect for Marriage Act, which repealed the Defense of
Marriage Act and requires the federal government to recognize the
validity of same-sex and interracial marriages.[431]
2022 elections
Main article: 2022 United States elections
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Biden holding a rally at Bowie State University in Maryland for gubernatorial candidate Wes Moore, November 7, 2022
On
September 2, 2022, in a nationally broadcast Philadelphia speech, Biden
called for a "battle for the soul of the nation". Off camera, he called
Trump supporters "semi-fascists", which Republican commentators
denounced.[432][433][434] A predicted Republican wave election did not
materialize and the race for U.S. Congress control was much closer than
expected, with Republicans securing a slim majority of 222 seats in the
House of Representatives,[435][436][437][438] and the Democratic caucus
keeping control of the U.S. Senate, with 51 seats, a gain of one seat
from the last Congress.[439][c]
It was the first midterm election
since 1986 in which the party of the incumbent president achieved a net
gain in governorships, and the first since 1934 in which the
president's party lost no state legislative chambers.[442] Democrats
credited Biden for their unexpectedly favorable performance,[443] and he
celebrated the results as a strong day for democracy.[444]
Foreign policy
Main article: Foreign policy of the Joe Biden administration
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Biden meeting with Secretary General of NATO Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office, June 7, 2021
In
June 2021, Biden took his first trip abroad as president. In eight days
he visited Belgium, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. He attended a
G7 summit, a NATO summit, and an EU summit, and held one-on-one talks
with Russian president Vladimir Putin.[445]
In September 2021,
Biden announced AUKUS, a security pact between Australia, the United
Kingdom and the United States, to ensure "peace and stability in the
Indo-Pacific over the long term"; the deal included nuclear-powered
submarines built for Australia's use.[446]
Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Main article: 2020–2021 US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
Photo of Biden seated alone at a table, looking at a videoconference screen
Biden
in a video conference with Vice President Harris and the U.S. National
Security team, discussing the Fall of Kabul on August 15, 2021
American
forces began withdrawing from Afghanistan in 2020, under the provisions
of a February 2020 US-Taliban agreement that set a May 1, 2021,
deadline.[447] The Taliban began an offensive on May 1.[448][449] By
early July, most American troops in Afghanistan had withdrawn.[344]
Biden addressed the withdrawal in July, saying, "The likelihood there's
going to be the Taliban overrunning everything and owning the whole
country is highly unlikely."[344]
On August 15, the Afghan
government collapsed under the Taliban offensive, and Afghan President
Ashraf Ghani fled the country.[344][450] Biden reacted by ordering 6,000
American troops to assist in the evacuation of American personnel and
Afghan allies.[451] He faced bipartisan criticism for the manner of the
withdrawal,[452] with the evacuation of Americans and Afghan allies
described as chaotic and botched.[453][454][455] On August 16, Biden
addressed the "messy" situation, taking responsibility for it, and
admitting that the situation "unfolded more quickly than we had
anticipated".[450][456] He defended his decision to withdraw, saying
that Americans should not be "dying in a war that Afghan forces are not
willing to fight for themselves."[456][457]
On August 26, a
suicide bombing at the Kabul airport killed 13 U.S. service members and
169 Afghans. On August 27, an American drone strike killed two ISIS-K
targets, who were "planners and facilitators", according to a U.S. Army
general.[458] On August 29, another American drone strike killed ten
civilians, including seven children. The Defense Department initially
claimed the strike was conducted on an Islamic State suicide bomber
threatening Kabul Airport, but admitted the suspect was harmless on
September 17, calling its killing of civilians "a tragic mistake".[459]
The
U.S. military completed withdrawal from Afghanistan on August 30. Biden
called the extraction of over 120,000 Americans, Afghans and other
allies "an extraordinary success".[460] He acknowledged that up to 200
Americans who wanted to leave did not, despite his August 18 pledge to
keep troops in Afghanistan until all Americans who wanted to leave had
left.[461]
Aid to Ukraine
Photo of a smiling Biden holding a child, with a mask lowered onto his chin
Biden with refugees from Ukraine in Warsaw, Poland, March 2022
In
late February 2022, after warning for several weeks that an attack was
imminent, Biden led the U.S. response to the Russian invasion of
Ukraine, imposing severe sanctions on Russia and authorizing over $8
billion in weapons shipments to Ukraine.[462][463][464] On April 29,
Biden asked Congress for $33 billion for Ukraine,[465] but lawmakers
later increased it to about $40 billion.[466] Biden blamed Vladimir
Putin for the emerging energy and food crises,[467][468]
On
February 20, 2023, four days before the anniversary of Russia's invasion
of Ukraine, Biden visited Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy.[469] While there, he promised more military aid to Ukraine
and denounced the war.[470]
In 2022, Congress approved about $113
billion in aid to Ukraine.[471] In October 2023, the Biden
administration requested an additional $61.4 billion in aid for Ukraine
for the year ahead.[472]
NATO enlargement
Following the 2022
Russian invasion of Ukraine, Biden expressed support for the expansion
of NATO to cover both Sweden and Finland.[473][474] On August 9, 2022,
he signed the instruments of ratification stipulating U.S. support for
their mutual entry into the security pact.[475] While Finnish ascenscion
occurred on April 4, 2023, opposition by Hungary and Turkey to Swedish
entry into the organization led to a stalemate.[476] Biden led
diplomatic talks between the two nations resulting in formal Swedish
ascension into NATO on March 7, 2024.[477][478] He has also expressed
openness to Ukrainian entry into NATO following the end of the
conflict.[479] In doing so he has supported an expedited timetable in
its ascension and the removal of requirements such as the Membership
Action Plan typically required for NATO entry.[480][481]
China relations
Further information: China–United States relations
Biden with Chinese leader Xi Jinping during the G20 summit in Bali, November 14, 2022
China's
assertiveness, particularly in the Pacific, remains a challenge for
Biden. The Solomon Islands-China security pact caused alarm, as China
could build military bases across the South Pacific. Biden sought to
strengthen ties with Australia and New Zealand in the wake of the deal,
as Anthony Albanese succeeded to the premiership of Australia and
Jacinda Ardern's government took a firmer line on Chinese
influence.[482][483][484] In a September 2022 interview with 60 Minutes,
Biden said that U.S. forces would defend Taiwan in the event of "an
unprecedented attack" by the Chinese,[485] which is in contrast to the
long-standing U.S. policy of "strategic ambiguity" toward China and
Taiwan.[486][487][488] In late 2022, Biden issued several executive
orders and federal rules designed to slow Chinese technological growth,
and maintain U.S. leadership over computing, biotech, and clean
energy.[489]
On February 4, 2023, Biden ordered the United States
Air Force to shoot down a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon off
the coast of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.[490][491] The State
Department said the balloon carried antennas and other equipment capable
of geolocating communications signals, and similar balloons from China
have flown over more than 40 nations.[492] The Chinese government denied
that the balloon was a surveillance device, instead claiming it was a
civilian (mainly meteorological) airship that had blown off course.[493]
The incident was seen as damaging to U.S. and China
relations.[494][495][496]
Israel
Biden with Israeli president Isaac Herzog and prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, October 18, 2023
In
October 2023, Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel that devolved
into a war, jeopardizing the administration's push to normalize
relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia.[497] Biden stated his
unequivocal support for Israel and condemned the attack by Hamas.[498]
He deployed aircraft carriers in the region to deter others from joining
the war,[499] and called for an additional $14 billion in military aid
to Israel.[500] He later began pressuring Israel to address the growing
humanitarian crisis in Gaza.[501] Biden rejected calls for a ceasefire
but said he supported "humanitarian pauses" to deliver aid to the people
of the Gaza Strip.[502] He asked Israel to pause its invasion of Gaza
for at least three days to allow for hostage negotiations; Israel agreed
to daily four-hour pauses.[503] He also directed the U.S. military to
facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in
Gaza.[504] Biden has said he is a Zionist.[505][506]
As of May
2024, Biden has continued to support Israel during the course of the war
despite significant domestic opposition to American involvement in it
and subsequent widespread protests. A March 2024 Gallup poll found that a
strong majority of Americans disapproved of Israeli conduct during the
war.[507] It found that 36% approved "of the military action Israel has
taken in Gaza" and 55% disapproved.[507] Young Americans have been
significantly less supportive of Israel than older
generations.[508][509] Beginning in April 2024, widespread Israel–Hamas
war protests emerged on university campuses, denouncing Biden.[510]
Other foreign issues
On
February 4, 2021, the Biden administration announced that the United
States was ending its support for the Saudi-led bombing campaign in
Yemen.[511] In early February 2022, Biden ordered the counterterrorism
raid in northern Syria that resulted in the death of Abu Ibrahim
al-Hashimi al-Qurashi, the second leader of the Islamic State.[512] In
late July, Biden approved the drone strike that killed Ayman
al-Zawahiri, the second leader of Al-Qaeda, and an integral member in
the planning of the September 11 attacks.[513] The 2022 OPEC+ oil
production cut caused a diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia, widening the
rift between the two countries, and threatening a longstanding
alliance.[514][515]
Investigations
Retaining of classified documents
Main article: Joe Biden classified documents incident
On
November 2, 2022, while packing files at the Penn Biden Center, Biden's
attorneys found classified documents dating from his vice presidency in
a "locked closet".[516][517] According to the White House, the
documents were reported that day to the U.S. National Archives, which
recovered them the next day.[517] On November 14, Attorney General
Merrick Garland appointed U.S. attorney John R. Lausch Jr. to conduct an
investigation.[518][519] On December 20, a second batch of classified
documents was discovered in the garage of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware
residence.[520]
The findings broke news on January 9, 2023, after
CBS News published an article on the Lausch
investigation.[517][521][522] On January 12, Garland appointed Robert K.
Hur as special counsel to investigate "possible unauthorized removal
and retention of classified documents or other records".[523] On January
20, after a 13-hour consensual search by FBI investigators, six more
items with classified markings were recovered from Biden's Wilmington
residence.[524] FBI agents searched Biden's home in Rehoboth Beach on
February 1 and collected papers and notes from his time as vice
president, but did not find any classified information.[525] On February
8, 2024, Hur concluded the special counsel investigation and announced
that no charges would be brought against Biden.[526]
Business activities
Main article: United States House Oversight Committee investigation into the Biden family
Further information: Impeachment inquiry into Joe Biden
On
January 11, 2023, the House of Representatives launched an
investigative committee into the foreign business activities of Biden's
son, Hunter, and brother, James.[527] The committee's chair,
Representative James Comer, simultaneously investigated alleged
corruption related to the Hunter Biden laptop controversy.[528]
On
September 12, House speaker Kevin McCarthy initiated a formal
impeachment inquiry against Biden, saying that the recent House
investigations "paint a picture of corruption" by Biden and his
family.[529][530][531][532] Congressional investigations, most notably
by the House Oversight committee, have discovered no evidence of
wrongdoing by Biden as of December 2023.[d] On December 13, 2023, the
House of Representatives voted 221–212 to formalize an impeachment
inquiry into Biden.[537][538][539]
2024 presidential campaign
Main article: Joe Biden 2024 presidential campaign
Ending
months of speculation,[540][541] on April 25, 2023, Biden confirmed he
would run for reelection as president in the 2024 election, with Harris
again as his running mate. The campaign launched four years to the day
after the start of his 2020 presidential campaign.[542] On the day of
his announcement, a Gallup poll found that Biden's approval rating was
37 percent.[543] Most of those surveyed in the poll said the economy was
their biggest concern.[543] During his campaign, Biden has promoted
higher economic growth and recovery following the COVID-19
pandemic.[544][545] He has frequently stated his intention to "finish
the job" as a political rallying cry.[546]
2024 primaries
Main article: 2024 Democratic Party presidential primaries
Biden
was not on the ballot in the January 23 New Hampshire primary, but won
it in a write-in campaign with 63.8% of the vote. He had wanted South
Carolina to be the first primary, and won that state on February 3 with
96.2% of the vote.[547] Biden received 89.3% of the vote in Nevada and
81.1% of the vote in Michigan, with "none of these candidates" and
"uncommitted" coming in second in each state, respectively. On March 5
("Super Tuesday"), he won 15 of 16 primaries, netting 80% or more of the
vote in 13 of them.[548][549] On March 12, he reached more than the
1,968 delegates needed to win the Democratic nomination, becoming the
presumptive nominee.[550]
Political positions
Main article: Political positions of Joe Biden
Photo of Obama, Biden and Gorbachev smiling at each other
Mikhail
Gorbachev (right) being introduced to President Obama by Joe Biden,
March 2009. U.S. ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul is pictured in the
background.
Pope Francis (left) meets Joe Biden at the White House, September 2015.
As
a senator, Biden was regarded as a moderate Democrat.[551] As a
presidential nominee, Biden's platform was the most progressive of any
major party platform in history, although not within his party's
ideological vanguard.[552]
Biden says his positions are deeply influenced by Catholic social teaching.[553][554][555]
According
to political scientist Carlo Invernizzi Accetti, "it has become second
nature to describe his politics with such ready-made labels as centrist
or moderate."[556] Accetti says that Biden represents an Americanized
form of Christian democracy, taking positions characteristic of both the
center-right and center-left.[556] Biden has cited the Catholic
philosopher Jacques Maritain, credited with starting the Christian
democratic movement, as immensely influential in his thinking.[557]
Other analysts have likened his ideology to traditional liberalism, "a
doctrine of liberty, equality, justice and individual rights that
relies, in the modern age, on a strong federal government for
enforcement".[558][559] Such analysts distinguish liberals, who believe
in a regulated market economy, from the left, who believe in greater
economic intervention or a command economy.[558][559] In 2022,
journalist Sasha Issenberg wrote that Biden's "most valuable political
skill" was "an innate compass for the ever-shifting mainstream of the
Democratic Party".[560]
Biden has proposed partially reversing
the corporate tax cuts of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, saying that
doing so would not hurt businesses' ability to hire.[561][562] But he
supports raising the corporate tax only up to 28% from the 21%
established in the 2017 bill, not back to 35%, the corporate tax rate
until 2017.[563] He voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA)[564] and the Trans-Pacific Partnership.[565] Biden is a staunch
supporter of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).[566][567] He has promoted a
plan to expand and build upon it, paid for by revenue gained from
reversing some Trump administration tax cuts.[566] Biden's plan aims to
expand health insurance coverage to 97% of Americans, including by
creating a public health insurance option.[568]
Biden did not
support national same-sex marriage rights while in the Senate and voted
for the Defense of Marriage Act,[569] but opposed proposals for
constitutional amendments that would have banned same-sex marriage
nationwide.[570] Biden has supported same-sex marriage since
2012.[571][572]
As a senator, Biden forged deep relationships
with police groups and was a chief proponent of a Police Officer's Bill
of Rights measure that police unions supported but police chiefs
opposed.[573][574] In 2020, Biden also ran on decriminalizing
cannabis,[575] after advocating harsher penalties for drug use as a U.S.
senator.[576][577]
Biden believes action must be taken on global
warming. As a senator, he co-sponsored the Boxer–Sanders Global Warming
Pollution Reduction Act, the most stringent climate bill in the United
States Senate.[578] Biden supports nature conservation. According to a
report from the Center for American Progress, he broke several records
in this domain.[579] He took steps to protect Old-growth forests.[580]
Biden opposes drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife
Refuge.[581] He wants to achieve a carbon-free power sector in the U.S.
by 2035 and stop emissions completely by 2050.[582] His program includes
reentering the Paris Agreement, green building and more.[583] Biden
supports environmental justice, including climate justice and ocean
justice,[584][585] and has taken steps to implement it.[586] A major
step is increasing energy efficiency, water efficiency and resilience to
climate disasters in low-income houses for mitigate climate change,
reduce costs, improve health and safety.[587][588] Biden has called
global temperature rise above the 1.5 degree limit the "only existential
threat humanity faces even more frightening than a nuclear war".[589]
Despite his clean energy policies and congressional Republicans
characterizing them as a "War on American Energy", domestic oil
production reached a record high in October 2023.[590]
Biden has
said the U.S. needs to "get tough" on China, calling it the "most
serious competitor" that poses challenges to the United States'
"prosperity, security, and democratic values".[591][592] Biden has
spoken about human rights abuses in the Xinjiang region to the Chinese
Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, pledging to sanction and commercially
restrict Chinese government officials and entities who carry out
repression.[593][594]
Biden has said he is against regime change,
but for providing non-military support to opposition movements.[595] He
opposed direct U.S. intervention in Libya,[596][230] voted against U.S.
participation in the Gulf War,[597] voted in favor of the Iraq
War,[598] and supports a two-state solution in the Israeli–Palestinian
conflict.[599] Biden has pledged to end U.S. support for the Saudi
Arabian-led intervention in Yemen and to reevaluate the United States'
relationship with Saudi Arabia.[270] Biden supports extending the New
START arms control treaty with Russia to limit the number of nuclear
weapons deployed by both sides.[600][601] In 2021, Biden officially
recognized the Armenian genocide, becoming the first U.S. president to
do so.[602][e]
Biden has supported abortion rights throughout his
presidency, though he personally opposes abortion because of his
Catholic faith.[605][606] In 2019, he said he supported Roe v. Wade and
repealing the Hyde Amendment.[607][608] After Dobbs v. Jackson Women's
Health Organization, he criticized near-total bans on abortion access
passed in a majority of Republican-controlled states,[609] and took
measures to protect abortion rights in the United States.[610] He has
vowed to sign a bill codifying the protections of Roe into federal law;
such a bill passed the House in 2022, but was unable to clear the Senate
filibuster.[611][612]
Public image
Main article: Public image of Joe Biden
Biden
was consistently ranked one of the least wealthy members of the
Senate,[613][614] which he attributed to his having been elected
young.[615] Feeling that less-wealthy public officials may be tempted to
accept contributions in exchange for political favors, he proposed
campaign finance reform measures during his first term.[92] As of
November 2009, Biden's net worth was $27,012.[616] By November 2020, the
Bidens were worth $9 million, largely due to sales of Biden's books and
speaking fees after his vice presidency.[617][618]
The political
writer Howard Fineman has written, "Biden is not an academic, he's not a
theoretical thinker, he's a great street pol. He comes from a long line
of working people in Scranton—auto salesmen, car dealers, people who
know how to make a sale. He has that great Irish gift."[35] Political
columnist David S. Broder wrote that Biden has grown over time: "He
responds to real people—that's been consistent throughout. And his
ability to understand himself and deal with other politicians has gotten
much much better."[35] Journalist James Traub has written that "Biden
is the kind of fundamentally happy person who can be as generous toward
others as he is to himself".[131] In recent years, especially after the
2015 death of his elder son Beau, Biden has been noted for his
empathetic nature and ability to communicate about grief.[619][620] In
2020, CNN wrote that his presidential campaign aimed to make him
"healer-in-chief", while The New York Times described his extensive
history of being called upon to give eulogies.[621]
Journalist
and TV anchor Wolf Blitzer has called Biden loquacious;[622] journalist
Mark Bowden has said that he is famous for "talking too much", leaning
in close "like an old pal with something urgent to tell you".[297] He
often deviates from prepared remarks[623] and sometimes "puts his foot
in his mouth".[167][624][625] Biden has a reputation for being prone to
gaffes[626] and in 2018 called himself "a gaffe machine".[627][628] The
New York Times wrote that Biden's "weak filters make him capable of
blurting out pretty much anything."[167]
Joe Biden's 81st birthday cake.
Joe
Biden is the oldest sitting president in United States
history.[629][630] During his presidency, Republicans, Democrats, and
pundits raised questions about Biden's cognitive health in reaction to
his publicized gaffes. Biden has repeatedly said that he is fit for the
presidency.[631][632][633][634]
According to The New York Times,
Biden often embellishes elements of his life or exaggerates, a trait
also noted by The New Yorker in 2014.[635][636] For instance, he has
claimed to have been more active in the civil rights movement than he
actually was, and has falsely recalled being an excellent student who
earned three college degrees.[635] The Times wrote, "Mr. Biden's
folksiness can veer into folklore, with dates that don't quite add up
and details that are exaggerated or wrong, the factual edges shaved off
to make them more powerful for audiences."[636]
Job approval
According
to Morning Consult polling, Biden maintained an approval rating above
50 percent in the first eight months of his presidency. In August 2021,
it began to decline, and it reached the low forties by December.[637]
This was attributed to the Afghanistan withdrawal, increasing
hospitalizations from the Delta variant, high inflation and gas prices,
disarray within the Democratic Party, and a general decline in
popularity customary in politics.[638][639][640][641] According to
Gallup, Biden averaged 41 percent approval in his second year in
office,[642] and 39.8 percent in his third year.[643]
In February
2021, Gallup, Inc. reported that 98 percent of Democrats approved of
Biden.[644][645] As of December 2023, that number had declined to 78
percent.[646] His approval rating among Republicans reached a high of 12
percent in February 2021 and again in July 2021.[644]
Biden
ended 2023 with a job approval rating of 39 percent, the lowest of any
modern U.S. president after three years in office.[646]
See also
2020 Democratic Party presidential primaries
2020 United States presidential debates
Cabinet of Joe Biden
Electoral history of Joe Biden
List of awards and honors received by Joe Biden
List of things named after Joe Biden
Bibliography of Joe Biden
Notes
Biden
held the chairmanship from January 3 to 20, then was succeeded by Jesse
Helms until June 6, and thereafter held the position until 2003.
Delaware's
Democratic governor, Ruth Ann Minner, announced on November 24, 2008,
that she would appoint Biden's longtime senior adviser Ted Kaufman to
succeed Biden in the Senate.[181] Kaufman said he would serve only two
years, until Delaware's special Senate election in 2010.[181] Biden's
son Beau ruled himself out of the 2008 selection process due to his
impending tour in Iraq with the Delaware Army National Guard.[182] He
was a possible candidate for the 2010 special election, but in early
2010 said he would not run for the seat.[183]
Kyrsten Sinema, whose
seat was not up for election in 2022, left the Democratic Party and
became an independent politician in December 2022, after the election
but before the swearing in of the next Congress. As a result, 48
Democrats (rather than 49), plus Angus King and Bernie Sanders,
independents who caucus with Democrats, were in the Senate upon
commencement of the 118th United States Congress, on January 3, 2023.
Sinema has opted to caucus with neither party but to continue to align
with the Democrats, bringing the Democratic Senate majority to 51
seats.[440][441]
Attributed to multiple sources:[533][534][535][536]
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan referred to the Armenian genocide in
passing in a statement regarding The Holocaust, but never made a formal
declaration recognizing it.[603][604]
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Politics. Washington, D.C.: National Journal Group. ISBN
978-0-89234-116-0.
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LXXI, no. 1 (January 18, 2024), pp. 17–19. "Biden's signature
achievements as president [are] securing large-scale investment in
infrastructure and in the transition to a carbon-free economy... [But
t]here has been a relentless decline in absolute [economic] mobility
from one generation to the next..." (p. 18.) "With the promised bridge
to a new generation as yet unbuilt, time is not on Biden's side, or on
the side of American democracy." (p. 19.)
Whipple, Chris (2023). The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1-9821-0643-0.
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Roopun Mozambique Filipe Nyusi Namibia Nangolo Mbumba Niger
Abdourahamane Tchiani* Nigeria Bola Tinubu Rwanda Paul Kagame Sahrawi
Arab Democratic Republic Brahim Ghali São Tomé and Príncipe Carlos Vila
Nova Senegal Bassirou Diomaye Faye Seychelles Wavel Ramkalawan Sierra
Leone Julius Maada Bio Somaliland Muse Bihi Abdi Somalia Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud South Africa Cyril Ramaphosa South Sudan Salva Kiir Mayardit
Sudan Transitional Sovereignty Council* Tanzania Samia Suluhu Hassan
Togo Faure Gnassingbé Tunisia Kais Saied Uganda Yoweri Museveni Zambia
Hakainde Hichilema Zimbabwe Emmerson Mnangagwa
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Marcos Singapore Tharman Shanmugaratnam South Korea Yoon Suk Yeol South
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Lacalle Pou Venezuela Nicolás Maduro
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Ken Salazar (2009–2013) Sally Jewell (2013–2017)
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Ray LaHood (2009–2013) Anthony Foxx (2013–2017)
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(Baltimore): Van Buren/R. Johnson 1840 (Baltimore): Van Buren/None 1844
(Baltimore): Polk/Dallas 1848 (Baltimore): Cass/Butler 1852 (Baltimore):
Pierce/King 1856 (Cincinnati): Buchanan/Breckinridge 1860
(Charleston/Baltimore): Douglas/H. Johnson (Breckinridge/Lane, SD) 1864
(Chicago): McClellan/Pendleton 1868 (New York): Seymour/Blair 1872
(Baltimore): Greeley/Brown 1876 (Saint Louis): Tilden/Hendricks 1880
(Cincinnati): Hancock/English 1884 (Chicago): Cleveland/Hendricks 1888
(Saint Louis): Cleveland/Thurman 1892 (Chicago): Cleveland/Stevenson I
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1904 (Saint Louis): Parker/H. Davis 1908 (Denver): W. Bryan/Kern 1912
(Baltimore): Wilson/Marshall
primaries 1916 (Saint Louis): Wilson/Marshall
primaries 1920 (San Francisco): Cox/Roosevelt
primaries 1924 (New York): J. Davis/C. Bryan
primaries 1928 (Houston): Smith/Robinson
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primaries 1984 (San Francisco): Mondale/Ferraro
primaries 1988 (Atlanta): Dukakis/Bentsen
primaries 1992 (New York): B. Clinton/Gore
primaries 1996 (Chicago): B. Clinton/Gore
primaries 2000 (Los Angeles): Gore/Lieberman
primaries 2004 (Boston): Kerry/Edwards
primaries 2008 (Denver): Obama/Biden
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93rd
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌P. du Pont (R)
94th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌P. du Pont (R)
95th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Evans (R)
96th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Evans (R)
97th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Evans (R)
98th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Carper (D)
99th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Carper (D)
100th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Carper (D)
101st
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Carper (D)
102nd
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌T. Carper (D)
103rd
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
104th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
105th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
106th
Senate:
▌W. Roth (R) ▌J. Biden (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
107th
Senate:
▌J. Biden (D) ▌T. Carper (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
108th
Senate:
▌J. Biden (D) ▌T. Carper (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
109th
Senate:
▌J. Biden (D) ▌T. Carper (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
110th
Senate:
▌J. Biden (D) ▌T. Carper (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
111th
Senate:
▌J. Biden (D) ▌T. Carper (D)
▌T. Kaufman (D) ▌C. Coons (D)
House: ▌M. Castle (R)
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