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A rocky road to the White House As a young boy, Joe Biden used to say he wanted to become President of the United States when he grew up. Sure enough, he announced his first presidential bid in 1987, aged just 44 years. He ran again in 2008, in a Democratic Primary that included Barack Obama who later chose him as his running mate. The 2020 cycle was the fulfilment of a lifelong ambition for Mr Biden, but the weeks following the election in November proved the most treacherous journey in 33 years of campaigning. The Republican camp pulled out an early upset in Florida, a state many had predicted would go down to the wire. Other battleground states were impossible to call on election night as record turnout across counties and an unprecedented number of mail-in votes placed initial projections within a tight margin of error. For four agonisingly long days, the US and indeed the world hovered in a state of uncertainty until Pennsylvania was finally called for the Democrats, propelling Biden over the 270 Electoral Votes threshold. President Donald Trump, who had been peddling allegations of possible vote rigging for months, refused to concede and ordered an army of lawyers to challenge vote results up and down the country. State and federal courts threw out all but one of the nearly 60 complaints filed by the Trump team. The incumbent doubled down on his Twitter account, repeating claims of widespread fraud and declaring himself the true winner of the election. Meanwhile, Biden started assembling his team even if the General Services Administration – the agency tasked with facilitating the transition of power – kept its door closed to him until the last week of November. 3
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