I have to take issue with your headline. To say that Joe Biden is Basically the Donald Trump of the Democrats is to me hyperbole. While they are both old white men as you suggest I would say from a resume perspective they are world’s apart. If being an old white man is the issue, then you should, in order to be fair add Bernie Sanders to your list.

I believe there are a lot of diverse, highly qualified candidates running for Democratic President and that’s exciting. That some of them are old and white you’re right — Warren (70), Biden (76), Sanders (77), but let’s see who rises to the top of the pack, based on the democratic process we now have in place to elect a candidate to run against Trump in 2020.

Once we do we’ve all got to throw our weight behind them. If Biden wins he certainly won’t be and isn’t anything like Trump. Here is a factual comparison between the two below fyi.

Here is a quote from CNN regarding Joe Biden:

1968–1970 — Defense attorney for criminal cases in Wilmington, Delaware.

1970–1972 — Serves on the New Castle County Council in Delaware.

1972 — Is first elected to the Senate at age 29, defeating Republican Senator J. Caleb Boggs. Wins re-election in 1978, 1984, 1990, 1996, 2002 and 2008.

1987–1995 — Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary.

June 9, 1987 — Enters the 1988 presidential race, but drops out three months later following reports of plagiarism and false claims about his academic record.

February 1988 — Undergoes surgery to repair an aneurysm in an artery that supplies blood to the brain.

January 20, 1990 — Introduces a bill that becomes the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The act addresses sexual assault and domestic violence. It is signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1994.

2001–2003 — Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

2002 — Votes to authorize military intervention in Iraq, but later becomes a vocal critic of the conflict.

2007–2009 — Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

January 31, 2007 — Files a statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission to run for president.

August 1, 2007 — His memoir, “Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics,” is published.

January 3, 2008 — Announces his withdrawal from the presidential race.

August 23, 2008 — Is named the vice-presidential running mate of Barack Obama.

November 4, 2008 — Is elected vice president of the United States.

January 15, 2009 — Resigns from the US Senate.

January 20, 2009 — Is sworn in as vice president of the United States.

February 7, 2009 — Delivers his first major speech as vice president at a security conference in Germany.

September 1, 2010 — Presides over a ceremony in Iraq to formally mark the end of the US combat mission in Iraq.

November 6, 2012 — President Obama and Biden are re-elected, defeating Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan.

January 20, 2013 — Is sworn in for his second term as vice president of the United States.

October 2, 2014 — Speaking at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, Biden tells attendees that ISIS has been inadvertently strengthened by actions taken by Turkey, the UAE and other Middle Eastern allies to help opposition groups fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

October 4, 2014 — Biden speaks by telephone with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan regarding remarks made at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. He apologizes “for any implication that Turkey or other allies and partners in the region had intentionally supplied or facilitated the growth of ISIL or other violent extremists in Syria.”

October 21, 2015 — Says he will not seek the presidency, announcing that the window for a successful campaign “has closed.”

December 6, 2016 — Doesn’t rule out running for president in 2020, saying “I’m not committing not to run. I’m not committing to anything. I learned a long time ago fate has a strange way of intervening.”

January 12, 2017 — Obama surprises Biden by presenting him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, during a White House ceremony.

February 1, 2017 — Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, launch the Biden Foundation, an organization that will work on seven issues: foreign policy; Biden’s cancer initiative; community colleges and military families; protecting children; equality; ending violence against women; and strengthening the middle class.

February 7, 2017 — Is named the Benjamin Franklin presidential practice professor at the University of Pennsylvania, where he will lead the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement. He will also serve as the founding chair of the University of Delaware’s Biden Institute, the university announces.

March 1, 2017 — Biden receives the Congressional Patriot Award from the Bipartisan Policy Center. He receives the honor in recognition of his work crafting bipartisan legislation with Republicans and Democrats.

November 14, 2017 — Biden’s memoir, “Promise Me Dad: A Year of Hope, Hardship, and Purpose,” is published.

March 26, 2019 — At an event in New York, Biden says that Anita Hill “paid a terrible price” when she testified in 1991 that she had been sexually harassed by now-Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, adding that he regrets he didn’t give Hill the “hearing she deserved.” As the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman at that time, Biden presided over Thomas’ confirmation hearings.

March 29, 2019 — Lucy Flores, the former Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor of Nevada, makes allegations against Biden in an essay for The Cut, an arm of New York magazine, writing that Biden made her feel “uneasy, gross, and confused” in 2014 when, at a campaign rally in Nevada, she says he kissed her on the back of the head.

March 31, 2019 — “In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort,” Biden says in a statement. “And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately. If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention.”

April 3, 2019 — Biden releases a video on Twitter, saying that he will be “more mindful about respecting personal space in the future.” The video comes in the wake of multiple allegations he made women feel uncomfortable in their encounters, including a woman claiming Biden made her feel uncomfortable at a 2009 Connecticut fundraiser and two more women who told the New York Times that Biden made them feel uncomfortable by the way he touched them.

April 25, 2019 — Announces he is running for president in a campaign video posted to social media. Hours later, the Biden Foundation board chair, Ted Kaufman, announces the immediate suspension of all the organization’s operations.

Trump’s resume reported in The Guardian:

Work experience:

Chairman and president, The Trump Organization, 1971–present:

• “The Trump Organization is the world’s only global luxury real estate super-brand”
• Oversees 22,000 employees
• Responsible for Trump-branded residences, offices and hotels across US
• Owns golf courses, battled with residents over opening of a course in Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Host, The Apprentice, The Celebrity Apprentice, 2004–present:

• Hired and fired a number of business hopefuls
• Believed some female contestants were after more than just a job: “All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me — consciously or unconsciously. That’s to be expected.”

Chapter 11 bankruptcy filer, 1991–?:

• Filed on four separate occasions: “I’ve used the laws of this country to pare debt. … We’ll have the company. We’ll throw it into a chapter. We’ll negotiate with the banks. We’ll make a fantastic deal. You know, it’s like on The Apprentice. It’s not personal. It’s just business.”

Writer, 1987–present:

• Trump: The Art of the Deal
• Trump: The Art of Survival
• Trump: The Art of the Comeback
• Trump: The Best Golf Advice I Ever Received

Owner, founder, Trump University, 2005–2010; Trump Entrepreneur Initiative founder, owner, 2010–present:

• Said Trump University was “Ivy League-quality”; students disagreed: “Trump, as far as I can tell, had no real involvement in this program at all, other than collecting money, obviously. The thing’s a joke.”
• New York attorney general brought lawsuit against Trump University in 2013. From the New York Times: “At one seminar, participants were told they would get to have their pictures taken with Mr Trump; it ended up being with a cardboard cutout.”
• Changed name of “school” after New York Education Department said the use of the word “university” was “misleading” and “violates” state law

Founder, Trump Entertainment Resorts, 1995–2009:

• Owned hotels and casinos including the Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, which was under threat of closure in 2014. Trump Entertainment Resorts also owned the Trump Plaza casino, which closed in 2014.

Education

• High school: New York Military Academy, class of 1964.
• Fordham University: 1964–1966. Left because it was not challenging enough: “I decided that as long as I had to be in college, I might as well test myself against the best”.
• Found the best at the University of Pennsylvania: The Wharton School. Graduated in 1968.
• Secured a job straight out of college. At father’s company. Enjoyed a meteoric rise. Took control of the business in 1971.

Political experience

• Thought about running for president in 1987, and in 2000, and in 2008, and in 2012
• Thought about running for New York governor in 2013

Foreign policy

• China, Japan and other countries are “ripping us off”. “We are being outfoxed by every country, every nation all over the world.” Would change this. “It’s about making America great again. I can do it, and nobody else can do it.”
• Proposed taking over Iraq’s oil fields following the Iraq War, and using them to repay US military costs: “In the old days, you know when you had a war, to the victor belong the spoils.”

Potential obstacles

• NBC executives are opposed: “They would love me not to run. Because I get a thing called ratings. And I have a very successful show.”
• And again: “All of the people at NBC are working very, very hard on me. ‘Donald, we’ll give you anything. We’ll do anything you want to do. One year, two years, three years. Please, whatever you want to do.’”

Awards

• Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame, 2007
• Inducted into World Wrestling Entertainment Hall of Fame, 2013