", Owens also spoke of that notion, which she called "the doctrine of resilience," with PBS' Frontline, revealing how her mother taught all four of her kids "that failure would happen in everyone's life, but giving up was unforgivable." Thats what they were doing in South Carolina. [CHEERING] Thank you, Pittsburgh! I mean, if Im sitting here going, Well, I can sit that one out, and Im going to vote, how do you get people that you need to motivate to go and vote? But behind-the-scenes funding for the all-expenses-paid meeting came from SOCAR, the state-owned oil company, amid an image-burnishing effort by Azerbaijans authoritarian leader, Ilham Aliyev. The piling on of Sanders, the possibility of Steyer not doing much, and I looked at Jim Clyburn having come out for Joe Biden, and I did not want to give Bernie a bad send-off in South Carolina. Oh, yeah, Im for Joe Biden! Valerie is Chair of the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware and a partner at Owens Patrick Leadership Seminars. Its a beautiful church. He can squeak, peak, whatever he want to do, as long as he win. And because it doesnt, you had to build something, not for the present but for the future. He continued, "She did the cooking, the shopping, the laundry, and the driving. Ahead of the nuptials, the White House confirmed to The Post that King, 37, and Owens, 42, would be getting married in "a small, family wedding" attended by the president and first lady Jill. Even though Tom Steyer was still his favorite candidate, he felt as if voting for him would be a throwaway. Hair Color: Brown. Have you voted in every presidential ever since? Owens, 42, is a Los Angeles-based attorney and the son of the president's sister and close adviser, Valerie Owens, and her husband, Jack. While there is no clear consensus on Valerie Biden Owens' net worth, some sites have placed it at between $3 and $5 million as of 2020. Reverend Dr. Holt, thank you for inviting me into Gods house today. As deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield told BuzzFeed News in 2020, Owens "is kind of the connective tissue throughout the course of the campaigns from '72 to today. She went from thinking that the candidate she chooses has to appeal to moderate Republicans, to embracing the Sanders framework of how you beat Trump by motivating a cross-section of voters across races and generations. Valerie is one of the president's closest confidantes, having seen her brother through a slew of. I had a brother, who was between me and my sister. Is Joe Biden's sister married to Stephen Owens, whose company owns Dominion Voting Systems? Evan Vucci/AP. Ursuline Academy inducted her to their Distinguished Alumnae Hall of Fame in 2018. Which partially explains why we got that reaction when we said we were talking to Dalhi. On the campaign trail, Ms. Owens often recalled how her brother empowered her as a young girl. Some might ask, Would she have been successful but for her brother? Others might ask the question in reverse.. And we dont need a voice of moderation right now. That man is good to be able to stand. Just a different Pentecostal denomination. The Real Housewives of Orange County alum, 37, did, however, inform her ex-husband, Jim Edmonds, . He put out his hand and said, Come on, Val. Vice President Biden will win. My goal is a movie for "America Huh! There was plenty of money around. A congressional ethics investigation found that participants were lavished with gifts. Neilia and the kids were driving home from buying a Christmas tree when their car "was hit broadside by a tractor-trailer." And I said, 'I don't know, Joey.' Nine out of 10 times, we have the same intuitive reaction to things." Noting that she's "very certain that his stuttering really chiseled who he is," Owens argued that "because of it, he developed a backbone of steel and became a little boy of courage, and a little boy with a great deal of empathy.". As she eases into this late night tranquility, she talks about the miracle of family and opens up about why she founded her successful t-shirt . The first is to restore the soul of the nation. The Daily is made by Theo Balcomb, Andy Mills, Lisa Tobin, Rachel Quester, Lynsea Garrison, Annie Brown, Clare Toeniskoetter, Paige Cowett, Michael Simon Johnson, Brad Fisher, Larissa Anderson, Wendy Dorr, Chris Wood, Jessica Cheung, Alexandra Leigh Young, Jonathan Wolfe, Lisa Chow, Eric Krupke, Marc Georges, Luke Vander Ploeg, Adizah Eghan, Kelly Prime, Julia Longoria, Sindhu Gnanasambandan, Jazmn Aguilera, M.J. Davis Lin, Austin Mitchell, Sayre Quevedo, Neena Pathak, Dan Powell, Dave Shaw, Sydney Harper, Daniel Guillemette, Hans Buetow and Robert Jimison. And this group has decided that there are pieces here, there, there and there that it likes. Ms. Owens campaigns for her brother at a luncheon last October in Hilton Head, S.C. Do the sources know the information? Could winning the crucial black vote in South Carolina change the course of the former vice presidents struggling campaign? Val is kind of the connective tissue throughout the course of the campaigns from '72 to today," deputy campaign manager Kate Bedingfield told BuzzFeed News in 2020, referring to her as Biden's "emotional guardrails.". Ted Kaufman, a one-time Biden aide who succeeded him as a senator, recalled his friends first Senate campaign in 1972. Her position changed for Biden's most recent bid for president, in which she held no formal role. "On the way out the building, my brother looked at me and said, 'She's dead, isn't she?' Im here to earn your support. There was just nothing inspirational about it. Casey Owens joined the Treasury Department as special assistant to the senior coordinator for China, also in 2009, and left the government in 2011. In the mid-1970s, Valerie Biden Owens went through a major upheaval in her personal life. The Biden campaign would not disclose Ms. Owens standard speaking fee. It was just a month after Joe Biden lost his son that a terrible tragedy happened in South Carolina. It was a who can win? I really had a searching of the soul in there, and a few things really got me where Im at [INAUDIBLE]. In his memoir Promises to Keep, Biden elaborates on the instrumental role Owens played in holding the family together. The bride, Meghan O'Toole King, is a former "Real Housewife of Orange County" star, who is originally from St. Louis, Missouri. Vogue even went as far as to call her "the Joe Biden whisperer. Owens is the son of the president's sister, Valerie Biden Owens, and her husband, Jack. It is not Ms. Owenss speaking ability, though, but her management and organizational skills that some have credited with propelling her brother to the Senate seat in Delaware. And during a 2020 CNN town hall, he admitted that he still stutters "occasionally, when I find myself really tired," adding, "It has nothing to do with your intelligence quotient. Speaking to Frontline in 2020, Owens recalled some of her tactics from that first low-budget campaign, including enlisting neighborhood kids to hand-deliver 360,000 informational newspapers throughout the state, because they didn't have money for stamps. He doesnt brush his hair. When Neilia died, my sister was the person I trusted completely with my sons.. Im out campaigning for Joe Biden. A 2008 New York Times profile shows just how long, and how consistently, Valerie has held this position. I never want anyone to ever say that money could buy my vote. His leadership PAC also paid $38,974 to Hunter Bidens firm for legal fees in 2005 and 2006. Oh! Owens returns to the University of Delaware periodically to give lectures on politics and her experiences as a woman on the campaign trail. You may not recognize her name or know much about her, but Owens has an equally noteworthy life story, both personal and professional. ", Valerie Biden Owens has been an integral part of Joe Biden's political career. In my spirit, yes, I feel they are. You can control this outcome. Here's what you need to know about one of Biden's closest confidantes. I was building the campaign for Joe," Owens recalled of the campaign. Shoot, if Im normal, that means that youve got your foot on my neck, and Im stuck here screaming, help, help! Sharing a similar sentiment toAP, Owens admittedthat Biden "was bullied" and that "the stutter at the time was horrible for him." I need to mention, Joe is a good guy, but hes only going to bring us back to a place where we were. And off we went. As The New York Times notes, she got divorced, remarried, and had her oldest daughter, Missy, while living with her brother. There was no here is the case for my candidacy. It was lets drive this car looking in the rearview mirror. Who drives that way? And I think everybody in my family thought that. She was an absolutely incredible person," he gushed. Valerie Biden Owens is the first woman in U.S. history to have run a presidential campaign that of her brother, Joseph R. Biden, Jr. She also led his seven straight U.S. Senate victories and has been his principal surrogate on the campaign trail. [7], Owens graduated from Ursuline Academy in Wilmington, Delaware in 1963, and went on to study at the University of Delaware, where she was on the dean's list and was homecoming queen, graduating in 1967. So it started to become conventional wisdom. [CHEERING] Greenville, thank you very much. And the second is to rebuild the backbone of this nation. Valerie and her husband, John T. Owens, have three children, none named Stephen. And youre saying, its all right. Im a reporter. Seriously? Mr. Saunders subsequently got a big appointment director of the Delaware Economic Development Office. I thought that he was the man for the job. But he added, I absolutely know, Joe Biden never got us any campaigns, Mr. White said. And afterwards, I watched, I guess , Thank you, Michigan! She died in a car accident a month later and Ms. Owens moved in with her brother to help raise the two boys. Some has come from billionaire Tom Steyer, the businessman whos invested a lot of time and money in the state, and some has come from Bernie Sanders, who has experienced some success in the early states and is benefiting from name recognition from his last presidential run. Joe Biden has had a lot of hits. Hows it going? It was not the only time she would have her older brothers back. Her many achievements also include impressive keynote addresses at Harvard Law School and around the world, plus being chosen to serve as the Alternate Representative of the United States to the 71st Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations by President Obama. No, that's not true: Valerie Biden Owens is not married to Stephen Owens, according to a Dominion spokeswoman and numerous news accounts about the Biden family.Biden's only sister is married to John (Jack) Owens, who owns a Delaware-based telemedicine company, according to The Washington Post So your daughter did work some magic a little bit? I think people have, for far too long, thought that all black people were this monolithic think block, sort of like the Borg from Star Trek, you know? [11][12] In 2013, Owens traveled with her brother Joe Biden to the Vatican City as an official U.S. delegate for the inauguration of Pope Francis. But that is not true. 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