Jill Biden Is Ready To Be An Excellent First Lady, She Will Help Joe Biden Beat Trump
'Jill Biden is finally ready to be first lady. Can she help her husband beat Trump?' By Jada Yuan, Annie Linskey. The Washington Post, Aug. 17, 2020. - Ed.:
On the chaotic day that Joe Biden called Sen. Kamala D. Harris to ask whether she’d be his running mate, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti’s phone rang. As one of four co-chairs on Biden’s vice-presidential selection committee, Garcetti was one of a handful of people on the planet privy to that extensive and secretive process. On the other end of the line was someone even more involved in the decision: Joe’s wife of 43 years, Jill. So central was Jill Biden’s role in the process that the selection committee had presented their initial findings to the Bidens as a pair.
With Jill’s input, Joe narrowed the field of more than 20 to the 11 whom he then interviewed one on one. Joe called the other contenders to tell them Harris was his choice, and Jill was the one calling the four selection committee co-chairs to tell them the news. The extent of Jill Biden’s influence on big decisions in her husband’s campaign to unseat President Trump is both mysterious and not. “It’s a marriage” is her standard line, which is to say, of course they’ve talked about this, they bounce things off each other all the time, and we don’t get to know the details. (Her staff declined to make her available for an interview.)
-Jill Biden, shown introducing her husband at a 2013 event, is taking an active role in his campaign for president. (Astrid Riecken for The Washington Post)
Here’s something we do know: The Jill Biden who will address the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday night is playing a far more active role in her husband’s campaign than she has in his past two White House bids, in 1988 and 2008, according to close friends and confidants. Though she’s spent eight years in and near the White House, her speech at the virtual convention will probably serve as a reintroduction to voters — a big moment for a potential first lady, even under these circumstances.
And what kind of first lady would she be? By all indications, a hands-on one. “I think she has a combination of Michelle Obama, Eleanor Roosevelt and Hillary Clinton,” said Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO, noting that all three were passionate about education but the latter two operated in the foreground..It’s likely Jill Biden would be a far more public and active first lady than Melania Trump..This time, she’s pitched in on the campaign’s education unity task force, helping merge policy ideas from Sen. Bernie Sanders’s camp and her husband’s. She’s reached out to Hispanic leaders, trying to forge a tie with a group of voters that has been slow to warm to her husband...
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- Being second lady during the Obama presidency was Jill Biden’s second job; she was known to grade her community college students’ papers while flying on diplomatic trips. (Alex Brandon/AP)
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