Jill Biden is unveiled as new Vogue cover star, as first lady is accused of stopping Joe, 81, from stepping down after disastrous debate performance
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Jill Biden graced the cover of Vogue as she's accused of 'elder abuse' by allowing Joe to continue his 2024 reelection campaign despite his disastrous debate.
The first lady covers the August issue of the fashion magazine in a $7,000 outfit, including a white power suit. The photo portrays an image of authority at a time Democrats say she is the only one who can talk Joe Biden off the presidential ticket and reigniting charges from conservatives that the first lady is a real power in the White House.
The glowing piece – which includes a short interview with Biden – was done before the president’s disastrous June 27th debate performance. It focuses on her work as first lady – including her fight for women’s health – and notes her commitment to another term in the White House.
Vogue affixed an editors’ note atop the online story to acknowledge current events. It notes the first lady called in from Camp David over the weekend – where the Biden family was gathered – to double down on her support for the president, brushing off Joe Biden’s fumbles in Thursday night’s debate.
She told Vogue that we ’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.’
Jill Biden graced the cover of Vogue as she's accused of 'elder abuse'
The family was at Camp David over the weekend for what the White House said as a pre-planned photoshoot with legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz.
The timing of the piece is unfortunate.
Democrats continue to question whether the 81-year-old Biden has the ability to do the job as president. Talk continues about replacing him on the ticket and many say Jill Biden is the one who can convince him to exit the race for the good of the country.
Conservatives denounced her as the real power in the White House. And the powerful image on the cover of Vogue brough more accusations against her.
‘At some point, after so many warnings, it starts to look like this is why the Biden family won’t let him leave the race,’ Sara Isgur, at editor at the Dispatch, wrote on X, sharing Jill Biden’s Vogue cover.
‘There has never been a more maniacal, power-obsessed first lady than Jill Biden,’ wrote conservative commentator James Fischback.
‘The idea that folks who’ve fallen in love with the relevance and fame that Biden has brought them will willingly give that up is hilarious,’ wrote Republican operative Matt Gorman.
Over the cover, Jill Biden wears a $2,820 white Ralph Lauren double-breasted coat dress on the cover with $4,550 earrings.
In the article, author Maya Singer writes the first lady missed their planned Soul Cycle session the morning of the cover shoot because she had to be with husband Joe.
In the article, Jill Biden does acknowledge the rigors of campaigning
Her message was one she often says on the campaign trail: that only Joe Biden can save Democracy
‘I’m sorry we didn’t get to exercise,’ she said the first lady told her, noting ‘the plan got nixed so she could spend some time at home — home home, in Wilmington — with her husband.’
‘It’s not that often Joe and I get to have a whole morning together, just coffee, you know, talking,’ Jill Biden says.
One of the charges facing the Biden family is that they’ve kept the real state of Joe Biden’s health hidden by keeping him in Wilmington and keeping residence staff away from him in the White House.
The White House denies the allegations. But the questions about his health are growing.
In the Vogue piece, Singer traveled with Jill Biden on several campaign stops. She also accompanied her to the Columbine Memorial in Colorado and watched her call donors to promote Joe Biden.
Her message was one she often says on the campaign trail: that only Joe Biden can save Democracy.
And Biden has her defenders in the piece.
President Joe Biden looks on as he participates in the first presidential debate
‘I see her as a first lady in the Eleanor Roosevelt mold—getting out into the community, making sure those voices are getting heard in Washington,’ Dr. Jane O’Meara Sanders told the magazine. She is the wife of Senator Bernie Sanders.
In the article, Jill Biden does acknowledge the rigors of campaigning. She has been a regular on the campaign stump, often campaigning more than President Biden.
‘Every campaign is important, and every campaign is hard,’ she says. ‘Each campaign is unique. But this one, the urgency is different. We know what’s at stake. Joe is asking the American people to come together to draw a line in the sand against all this vitriol.’
The Biden family is now in the spotlight for unwelcome reasons – having their role questioned in their protection of the president. Hunter Biden is also said to be urging his father to stay in the race. As are the grandchildren.
The family was at Camp David over the weekend for what the White House said as a pre-planned photoshoot with legendary photographer Annie Leibovitz.
And Jill Biden will remain her family’s fiercest defender.
Anthony Bernal, her senior adviser who has been close to the Bidens for years, told Vogue: ‘Her family means everything to her—so of course, you could say her ‘Philly’ kicks in when her family gets attacked. It’s cruel. What mother wouldn’t feel that? Especially after everything they’ve gone through, all that tragedy and loss.’