Joe Biden's Defining Moments
From 26 years in the Senate to two failed Presidential campaigns, the experiences that forged Obama's Veep nominee
Biden ran for President in 1987 but dropped out six months before the first primary after he was found to have lifted parts of a speech on his personal background from British politician Neil Kinnock. The plagiarism charge did less damage than the false impression Biden tried to convey of a scrappy working-class background; he grew up in a middle-class family in suburban Pennsylvania and Delaware.
—Massimo Calabresi
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