After 4 years of highly chaotic and scandalous presidency of Donald Trump, the entire nation of United States of America, celebrated the victory of the former vice president Joe Biden as the president-elect and Asian-American Vice president elect Sen. Kamala Harris. People got on the streets and celebrated in the form of rallies, firecrackers and even showed their detestation of the businessman turned President Trump, by flipping at his car, as it passed by the White House.
The tenure of the pompous and highly arrogant President Donald Trump’s presidency was marked with many chaotic and rather outrageous milestones, like, mishandling of the Coronavirus Pandemic, inducing panic amongst the people, increased racism, migrant detention and the government shut-down in the year 2018, amongst the many. After his win from the key-stone state of Pennsylvania, Joe Biden, grabbed his victory and became the 46th president-elect of the US, along with his running mate Sen. Kamala Harris, the first woman vice president in the history of the United States of America. Both the leaders are not only a ray of hope for an otherwise damaged democracy, but have also created history.
While Biden has become the oldest president-elect, at the age of 77, in the history of the US, Kamala Harris has become the first woman, Asian-American and African-American to ever be the vice president of the country.
Here we bring about a dig in their past, so that you know better about the people, going to hold the most powerful positions in the most powerful country of the world.
Joe Biden
By leveraging his years of experience, serving the government of the USA against the lack of service and failure to serve the needs of a democracy of the Former president of USA, Donald Trump, Joe Biden, bagged a historic victory by securing 74 million votes in the 2020 elections.
Education
Joe Biden, attended the University of Delaware and studied, History and Political Science and played football. He later studies Law at the Syracuse university of Law.
Personal life
After meeting his first wife, Neilia Hunter, Joe got into the Syracuse University Law School after being motivated by her. They soon got married in the year 1966 and had 3 kids. Before getting into politics, Joe Biden worked mostly as an Attorney.
Transition to Political Career
Everything was going fine and in-fact amazingly well for Biden in 1972, in a tight race with a large turnout, Biden won an upset victory to become the fifth-youngest U.S. senator elected in the nation's history.
A victory marked by loss
This life turning event in his life was marked with major tragedy, when in the same year, just a few weeks later, in a car accident, Biden lost his Wife and daughter, while his sons, got severely injured. After this tragedy, Biden was immensely depressed and even considered suicide. In the year 1988, after much thoughts and speculation, he decided to run for presidency, however, he dropped at the democratic primary.
Not the first presidential run
In the year, 2008, he again ran for president, but his campaign didn’t catch any momentum. However, Joe was selected as the running mate by Barack Obama and finally went on to serve as the 47th Vice President of the USA and then again during the second term of Obama-Biden leadership in the white house. On April 25, 2019, Biden delivered the news that he was running for president in 2020. On 11th August 2020, he announced that Kamala Harris is going to be his running mate for the elections.
46th president-elect
After much anticipation and amidst the most terrifying, and historic pandemics of the world on 7th November’2020, 4 days after the election day , Joe Biden, got elected to be the 46th President of the United states of America at the age of 77.
Kamala Harris
Education
Kamala Harris became the After attending Howard University and the University of California's Hastings College of the Law, Kamala Harris launched into a upward push via the California prison system, rising as kingdom legal professional fashionable in 2010.
Background
Kamala Devi Harris was born on October 20, 1964, in Oakland, California. Reared in a predominantly African American neighbourhood. Harris' mother, Shyamala, emigrated from India to wait the University of California, Berkeley, wherein she met Harris' Jamaican-born father, Donald. Shyamala carved out a profession as a famed breast-most cancers researcher, at the same time as Donald had become a Stanford University economics professor.
Political Career
After incomes admittance to the State Bar of California in 1990, Harris commenced her profession as a deputy district legal professional. In 2016, Harris handily defeated Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez for a U.S. Senate seat from California, thereby turning into simply the second one African American girl and the primary South Asian American to go into the Senate. On January 21, 2019, Harris introduced she become strolling for president in 2020. On August 11, 2020, presidential hopeful Biden introduced that he selected his former rival Harris as his strolling mate. Harris is the primary Black girl and character of South Asian descent to be nominated for a countrywide workplace through a prime party. She is likewise the fourth girl in records to compete on a prime party's presidential ticket. On November 7, 2020, 4 days after election day, Biden become declared because the forty sixth president-elect for after prevailing Pennsylvania, making Harris the primary girl Vice president and primary Black character and Asian American to preserve the position.
Relations between India and America, after they take the office
To understand how good Biden is for India, and how it will affect India-US relations, we need to shed light on the times when Barack Obama was president and Biden was vice president. Looking at the time, it is revealed that Biden had shown his inclination towards India. As vice-president of the United States, he sought to repair relations by advocating to strengthen the Indo-US partnership, particularly in strategic areas such as that of nuclear missiles and terrorism.
Another thing that is most important for Indians is what Biden's stance will be for Indians on immigration and visas, especially what Biden will decide on H1B visas. Democrats appear more liberal on immigration policy.
by- Amodita Joshi