Earlier this year, Beau Biden shocked the political world by deciding not to run for the Delaware Senate seat occupied by his father until 2008.

Had he chosen otherwise, he might have had his Senate campaign disrupted by today’s shocking turn of events:

Biden “was admitted this morning to Christiana Hospital in Newark, Delaware after having what we believe to be a mild stroke, according to a written statement from Dr. Timothy Gardner, medical director of the Center for Heart and Vascular Surgery at Christiana Care Health System in Delaware.
“He is in good spirits and talking with his family at the hospital. He is fully alert, in stable condition and has full motor and speech skills. We expect him to make a complete recovery.”

He’s only 41 years old. Get well, Beau.