In the summer of 1987 Biden was a leading candidate for the 1988 Democratic nomination. At a debate at the Iowa State Fair he closed with lines lifted from a Neil Kinnock ad about being the first in his family to go to university, without saying they were Kinnock’s. He had credited Kinnock on other occasions. The story broke in September. [1]
Within days more came out. Syracuse law school had found in 1965 that he plagiarized five pages of a law review article in a first-year paper; he had failed the course and retaken it. And a video showed him telling a voter he went to law school on a full scholarship, graduated in the top half of his class and earned three degrees. He graduated 76th of 85, had a partial scholarship and had one undergraduate degree, with two majors. He withdrew on 23 September 1987. [1][2]
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