U.S. Joe Biden 2020 Election Donald Trump Former Vice President Joe Biden announced Thursday morning that he would take up his third bid to become president, more than 30 years after his first. This election is considerably different than his previous two. Biden enters the race as the top contender, consistently polling at the top of the field of candidates. And having served as vice president for eight years, he has some of the highest name recognition out there. But what went wrong in Biden’s quickly extinguished two previous campaigns, and how will he avoid the same pitfalls? Biden ran for and lost the Democratic nomination in 1988 and 2008, and he considered running again in 2016 but decided against it after his son, Beau, died of brain cancer one year before the election. The Republican Party quickly jumped on Biden’s history of losing. “Joe Biden has been running for president and losing since the ’80s, 2020 won’t be any different,” wrote Republican National Committee Communications Director Michael Ahrens in a statement. Former Vice President Joe Biden leaves the Stop & Shop after speaking in support of striking union workers on April 18, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. Biden has long emphasized his ties to organized labor, which…