America celebrates Joe Biden’s victory as impending the 46th president of the United States.
Biden won the state of Pennsylvania, so he garnered more than 270 state electoral votes.
At age 77, Biden will be the oldest president in American history.
A veteran in politics, Joe Biden served for 35 years as a Delaware senator before becoming Barack Obama’s vice president for two terms from 2008 to 2016.
In 1988, he had an aneurysm twice.
A week before Christmas in 1972, Biden’s wife and three children were involved in a terrible car accident while shopping for a Christmas tree. The accident killed his wife and daughter and severely injured both of his sons, Beau and Hunter.
Joe Biden has been married to his second wife, Jill Biden, since 1977. The couple’s daughter, Ashley, was born in 1981. On May 30, 2015, Biden suffered another personal loss when his son Beau died at 46, after battling brain cancer.
On the other hand, Kamala Harris made history when she was elected vice president of Biden because she was the first woman, Black American, and Asian-American to hold the position.
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Daughter of immigrants from Jamaica and India, Harris was the first female district attorney of San Francisco in California and the first woman of color to be elected attorney general.
In November 2016, Harris handily defeated Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez for a U.S. Senate seat from California, thereby becoming just the second African American woman and the first South Asian American to enter the Senate.
Harris married lawyer Douglas Emhoff on August 22, 2014, in Santa Barbara, California. She is the stepmother of his two children, Ella and Cole, who affectionately call her “S-Mamala.”
The Biden-Harris team promises that the COVID-19 pandemic is their number one priority to boost the American economy.
But it challenges them to find the right strategy and to work with the Republicans.
Biden and Harris will be inaugurated on January 20, 2021.
Meanwhile, some political analysts believe that Biden’s victory will benefit the Philippines.
As the longest and strongest ally of the Philippines, it is said that the relationship between the Philippines and the United States will be strengthened because Biden values democracy.