Joe Biden on the campaign trail this year with his wife, Jill. She and her former husband were divorced in 1975Joe Biden and his second wife were accused on the eve of the Democratic convention of lying about how they met to conceal an extramarital affair. Their narrative of meeting on a blind date after her separation was challenged by Bill Stevenson, Jill Biden’s first husband, who helped with Mr Biden’s first senate campaign. Mr Stevenson’s intervention threatened to disrupt the party’s carefully choreographed “ghost” convention, planned with speeches from both wings of the party and Republicans to project unity behind Mr Biden. In an online programme designed to avoid the feuding that marred the 2016 event, Bernie Sanders, the left-wing senator who lost to Hillary Clinton four years ago and this year to Mr Biden, featured alongside John Kasich, a former Republican governor

Source: The Times August 17, 2020 16:08 UTC