{"id":76887,"date":"2020-09-27T22:23:47","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:23:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/delaware-state-university-denies-that-joe-biden-was-a-student\/"},"modified":"2020-09-27T22:23:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T19:23:47","slug":"delaware-state-university-denies-that-joe-biden-was-a-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/delaware-state-university-denies-that-joe-biden-was-a-student\/","title":{"rendered":"#Delaware State University denies that Joe Biden was a student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Delaware State University denies that Joe Biden was a student<\/strong>&#8221;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/09\/Election_2020_Biden_1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Delaware State University has denied that Joe Biden has ever been a student there \u2014 after the presidential candidate\u2019s claim that he \u201cgot started\u201d at the historically black college.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old Democrat made his claim while praising historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) during a town hall event last October before the South Carolina Democratic primary, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=_EHWKRol0lA&amp;ab_channel=GOPWarRoom\">video shows<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI got started out of a HBCU, Delaware State,\u201d he told pupils at <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.f1s.org\/wilson\">Wilson High School in Florence<\/a>, which was founded in 1866 by the Freedmen\u2019s Bureau for Black children seeking an education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow, I don\u2019t want to hear anything negative about Delaware State. They\u2019re my folks,\u201d he told the pupils to chuckles.<\/p>\n<p>However, the politician\u2019s claim came back to haunt him when the university said he had only been a commencement speaker there decades after his start in politics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cVice President Biden did not attend DSU,\u201d the college\u2019s director of <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> service, Carlos Holmes, told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2020\/sep\/25\/joe-bidens-claim-about-attending-historically-blac\/\">The Washington Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he was only a commencement keynote speaker in 2003 and 2016 \u2014 a far cry from the start of the political career for Biden, who has been a Senator for Delaware since 1973.<\/p>\n<p>He was \u201cawarded an honorary doctoral degree\u201d but was never a student, Holmes stressed.<\/p>\n<p>DSU \u2014 founded in 1891 as the State College for Colored Students \u2014 is about 40 miles south of the University of Delaware, where Biden graduated in 1965 with a double major in political <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/sciencee\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"5\" title=\"Science\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">science<\/a> and history.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to study at Syracuse University College of Law \u2014 where he failed a class after being accused of plagiarism.<\/p>\n<p>His career since then has been dogged by accusations of misleading voters, including others over his education.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, he has been dogged by repeated slip-ups \u2014 with President Trump even repeatedly calling for him to be drug tested before any debates.<\/p>\n<p>Biden\u2019s rep did not im<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tely respond to requests for comment.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">For forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more News articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">News category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/09\/27\/delaware-state-university-denies-that-joe-biden-was-a-student\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#Delaware State University denies that Joe Biden was a student&#8221; Delaware State University has denied that Joe Biden has ever been a student there \u2014 after the presidential candidate\u2019s claim that he \u201cgot started\u201d at the historically black college. 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