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History will not be kind to Jill Biden.
The August edition of Vogue is out. Jill Biden is on the cover. Shocker, I know. However, the timing of this issue is awkward. It’s a big ole puff piece on Jilly from Philly but it comes out just days after her husband’s disastrous debate performance.
The piece was written earlier in the year. The author writes about campaign events with Jill earlier in the winter and into April. So, the author reached out to Jill at Camp David yesterday to get a statement on the way forward for the Biden campaign.
Reached by phone on June 30 at Camp David, where the Biden family had gathered for the weekend, she told Vogue that they “will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been president. We will continue to fight.” President Biden, she added, “will always do what’s best for the country.”
This tracks with everything else being written about Jill. She isn’t willing to throw in the towel. She wants to remain in the White House. But she is very wrong about Joe Biden doing “what’s best for the country.” If that was true, he wouldn’t be running for re-election and she wouldn’t be insisting that he do so.
Frankly, Jill Biden isn’t a great surrogate for her husband on the campaign trail. You’d think with her 50 years of experience at the side of her husband during his political career, she’d be better at it, but no.
Remember when Jill was doing an event in San Antonio with a Hispanic women’s audience? She was pandering to Hispanic voters but ended up alienating many of them when she compared them to breakfast tacos. That was cringeworthy.
In an event at Nine Mile Brewing, in Bloomington, Minnesota, Jill did it again. The audience was a Minnesota chapter of Women for Biden. About 200 people were in attendance. Outside the private room event, another 200 people were doing what people do in a brewery – drinking beer and watching sports on television.
Jill compared the women to “gurgling brew vats.” Oof.
“We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had,” she tells the Women for Biden crowd a few minutes later. “Book bans. Voting laws gutted. Court decisions that strip away our most basic freedoms.
