[466] Democrats credited Biden for their unexpectedly favorable performance,[467] and he celebrated the results as a strong day for democracy.[468]

2023
Discovery of classified documents
Main article: Joe Biden classified documents incident
On November 2, 2022, while packing files at the Penn Biden Center, Biden's attorneys found classified documents dating to his vice presidency in a "locked closet".[469][470] According to the White House, the documents were reported that day to the U.S. National Archives, which recovered the documents the next day.[470] On December 20, a second batch of classified documents was discovered in the garage of Biden's Wilmington, Delaware residence.[471] In January 2023, these findings were made public, and on January 12, Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Robert K. Hur as special counsel to investigate "possible unauthorized removal and retention of classified documents or other records".[472] On January 20, after a 13-hour consensual search by FBI investigators, six more items with classified markings were recovered from Biden's Wilmington residence.[473]

Foreign policy
On February 20, 2023, four days before the anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Biden visited Kyiv and met with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and first lady of Ukraine Olena Zelenska.