Former vice president Joe Biden is scheduled to take over as the 46th President of the United States this week.
It's unfortunate to see a liberal Democrat in power. Biden supports a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants living in the United States — whether that's 11 million, 14 million, or 22 million people. He supports repealing the Hyde Amendment, which would allow women to use Medicaid to pay for abortions everywhere in the country; the Hyde Amendment saves an estimated 50,000 babies' lives each year. And his health care policy would surely drive up the cost of coverage for the average family, the way Obamacare doubled premiums.
Joe Biden's third presidential run was his first successful one — with a much different platform from what he had last time.
The former two-term vice president ran for president twice before: once in 1988 and again in 2008. He dropped out in 1988 after a plagiarism scandal; and in 2008, he failed to gain much traction with then-Illinois U.S. Senator Barack Obama, former first lady and then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton, and 2004 Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards in the race. Biden dropped out in January 2008.
