Inside the Final Days of Joe Biden’s V.P. Choice

July 21, 2020

Jill Biden got a root canal. Joe Biden got a new job. In the summer of 2008, the then senator answered his cell phone while waiting for his wife in a dentist’s office near their Wilmington, Delaware, home. When the Bidens returned to their car, Joe told Jill, “Barack called, and asked me to be the vice president.”