Widely regarded as a future Delaware governor and potential national candidate for Democrats, Beau Biden died in May 2015 following a brain cancer diagnosis. Joe Biden is a man -- and a politician -- whose joys and sorrows, whose triumphs and tragedies have always followed hard on one another. Left unsaid was the reason why: Beau's death had left Biden deep in grief for months. It is fitting then that on the biggest day of Joe Biden's political life, he decided to visit his son's grave. Beau, for Joe, represented (and represents) the promise and the pain, the hope and the hopelessness of a life lived.

Source: The Nation November 07, 2020 18:56 UTC