In a memoir, Biden said his son 'had all the best of me, but with the bugs and flaws engineered out.' He served as the 44th attorney general of Delaware from 2007 until 2015. In 2003, Beau joined the Army National Guard as a major in the Judge Advocate General's Corps. Prior to Beau's death, he was a lawyer and politician. They have one daughter together, Ashley Biden. The candidate married his second wife, Jill Jacobs, in 1977. The latter passed away in 2015 at the age of 46 after a battle with brain cancer. The couple's two other children were sons, Hunter and Beau. Alex Wong/Gettyīiden, 76, had three children with his first wife Neila Hunter, who died along with their one-year-old daughter Naomi in a car accident back in 1972. Joe Biden arrives with his family, wife Jill, sons Hunter and Beau, and daughter Ashley at the reviewing stand to watch the inaugural parade in front of the White House on Januin Washington, D.C. Others have questioned why he has invoked his family's personal tragedy for political gain. Some have criticized Biden, accusing him of using Republican talking points to misrepresent the Medicare-for-all proposals put forward by his closest competitors for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, senators Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts. We've got to build on what we did because every American deserves affordable health care,' he said.

'When I see the president try to tear it down and others propose to replace it and start over, that's personal to me too. Obamacare is personal to me,' the candidate said in the clip, discussing the tragedies that befell his own family. Democratic presidential hopeful Joe Biden has discussed his children and family in recent campaign ads in conjunction with the political debate surrounding health care in the United States.īiden, who served as vice president under former President Barack Obama and is the current frontrunner in the Democratic primary race, highlighted his son's death from to brain cancer as well as losing his wife and daughter in a tragic car accident in a recent campaign video.

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