Photos show Trump, Biden throughout the years, and their lives look quite different
Whether you are a supporter of President Donald Trump, Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden or someone else, there’s no doubt the two main candidates have led quite different lives.
We see pictures nearly every day of the nominees on the road, aiming to gain more votes through rallies and small gatherings. However, we thought it might be interesting to take a peek into what their lives looked like in earlier years.
All photos below are copyright Getty Images.
Donald Trump photographed in his boardroom at Trump Tower on 5th Avenue June 17, 2004 in New York City.
Donald Trump, real estate mogul, entrepreneur, and billionaire, relaxes at his home with his wife, Ivana Trump, in August 1987 in Greenwich, Connecticut.
Democratic senators Fritz Hollings and Joe Biden walk through the hallways of the U.S. Capitol Building during a break in the Senate Impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton on Jan. 15, 1999. (Getty Images)
Democratic Senator-elect Joseph Biden, of Delaware, is seen taking his oath of citizenship as he checks in at the office of the Secretary of the Senate. Biden, who just turned 30, would become the youngest senator in Congress when he took his seat in the 93rd Congress on Jan. 3, 1973. Left is William Ridgley, Senate financial officer, and center is Frank Valeo, Secretary of the Senate.
In September of 1988, then-Senator Joe Biden is seen next to a large window in the Senate office buildings, just down from his office.
Sen. Joseph Biden Jr., with his mother, Jean, was re-elected and addressing followers.
Sen. Joe Biden, Chairman of the Senate Judicary Committee, gestures during a hearing on Capitol Hill in 1990.
Supreme Court Justice nominee Judge Clarence Thomas, right, poses with Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Joe Biden in Washington, D.C. on July 9, 1991. (Photo by Mark Reinstein/Corbis via Getty Images)
Sen. Joe Biden of Delaware and his wife, Jill, are surrounded by supporters and representatives of the news media at a rally in Wilmington, Delaware, in 1988. The senator is a candidate for the Democratic Party nomination for the U.S. President in the 1988 national election.
Sen. Joe Biden poses for a portrait in June 1991 in Washington, D.C.
(Original Caption) Casino owner Donald Trump entertains 22 Miss America Pageant contestants on his yacht Trump Princess.
Senator-elect Joseph Biden and wife Nelia cut his 30th birthday cake at a party in Wilmington on Nov. 20, 1972. His son, Hunter, waits for the first piece. Biden, by becoming 30, fulfills the constitutional requirement of senators being 30 years of age when they take office.
During an event at the Mar-a-Lago estate, Venezuelan beauty pageant winner (and later actress and television personality), 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado laughs with American businessman Donald Trump, in Palm Beach, Florida, on Feb. 16, 1997.
(Original Caption) Sen. Joe Biden campaigns in Iowa (Photo by © Shepard Sherbell/CORBIS SABA/Corbis via Getty Images)
Promoter Donald Trump joins presidential hopeful Jesse Jackson at a party at Trump Plaza before the Tyson-Spinks title fight in Atlantic City, New Jersey in 1988.
During a press conference, Sen. Joe Biden announces his withdrawal from the race for the Democratic Party nomination's for President of the United States, on Sept. 23, 1987. Beside him is his wife, teacher Jill Biden.
Donald Trump, the organizer of Miss Universe 1999, is pictured with the Miss USA candidates while hosting a Miss USA launch party. (Photo by © LEFRANC DAVID/CORBIS KIPA/Sygma via Getty Images)
The hearing of Anita Hill before the Senate committee, which included Sen. Joe Biden, chairman of the committee (on the left in the photo). Anita Hill had accused Judge Thomas Clarence of sexual harassment.
From left, American real estate developer Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife), former model Melania Knauss, financier (and future convicted sex offender) Jeffrey Epstein, and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell pose together at the Mar-a-Lago club, Palm Beach, Florida, Feb. 12, 2000. (Photo by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images)
The Senate Judiciary Committee held its second day of hearings on Justice William Rehnquist's nomination to be chief justice. (Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images)
Sen. Joe Biden confers with Sen. Edward Kennedy during a Senate confirmation hearing for Chief Justice nominee William Rehnquist. Kennedy urged rejection of Rehnquist due to an "appalling" civil rights record.
Donald Trump photographed in his boardroom at Trump Tower on 5th Avenue June 17, 2004 in New York City.
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