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Headline : Joe Biden, the Ultimate D.C. Veteran, Has Never Seen a Campaign Like This

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Reid J. Epstein interviewed every living Republican who ran for the Senate against Joe Biden and reviewed hours of debate footage and television and radio advertisements from Bidenโ€™s campaigns.

In October 1984, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware was invited to address a conservative Baptist church near Wilmington as he campaigned for a third term.

Mr. Biden, hardly the favorite of social conservatives, was in hostile political territory. But as the incumbent, he was given the first speaking slot โ€” and he used it to hold court uninterrupted for nearly an hour. Mr. Bidenโ€™s Republican opponent barely got to introduce himself before time was up for the event, while the dozens of other candidates there for the forum never got a word in.

The episode, from โ€œOnly in Delaware,โ€ a political history of Delaware by Celia Cohen, a longtime Wilmington journalist, illustrates just how easily Mr. Biden was able to sweep challengers to the side โ€” not just in that race, but throughout his Senate career. Incumbency gave him a staggering advantage.

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