and opponents of racial segregation

The friendship between the two politicians began when Biden, a young senator from Delaware, became the first senator to endorse Carter’s outsider candidacy for the White House in 1976. At the time, Biden was serving his first term in the Senate and had not yet become the powerful figure he would later become. Instead of aligning with influential Democratic colleagues in the Senate, he chose to support Carter and campaigned for him across the U.S. during the primaries. The two politicians shared many similarities. Both were moderate on fiscal and social issues and opponents of racial segregation. Both openly spoke about their faith—Biden as a Roman Catholic and Carter as an evangelical Baptist. Despite occasional disagreements, Biden supported Carter during the 1980 Democratic primaries against Senator Ted Kennedy. Carter supported Biden in his bids for the presidency สล็อต เว็บตรง