New First Lady Jill Biden – It wasn’t until Biden’s fifth proposal that she said yes.

In the end, Joe Biden led with 18,610 votes in Arizona, 27,530 votes in Nevada, 37,298 in Pennsylvania, it was clear who would become the 46th president of the United States. And with him: who is the 46th First Lady.

Jill Biden grew up in Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. Said of herself she was a “Philly Girl”, she still says it today, when she was 69 years old. She is the oldest of five daughters and once told the Philadelphia Inquirer about her youth: how a boy repeatedly teased his younger sister. He rang his doorbell and patted him. Because her parents, the father worked in the bank, the mother was a housewife, they could not pay the money for the Upper Moreland Swim Club, she climbed the fence at night and did her laps in the moonlight. In Philadelphia, he says, he learned to be independent.

Jill Biden is studying English, works at a community college. In 1975 he met Senator Joe Biden on a blind date his brother had arranged. Joe Biden had lost his first wife and daughter in a car accident three years earlier. He makes five marriage proposals to her and only then does she say yes. Jill Biden wanted to be sure that, in the end, she had to ask herself, “How do you heal a broken family?”

First Lady is not an office to run for. A woman becomes like this the moment her husband takes the oath. She holds the Bible, he raises his hand, so help me God. Since then she is the woman by his side. A few years ago newspapers liked to write about her speeches and her robe (Jackie Kennedy), about her tax policy, and how she had bought new china for the White House (Nancy Reagan) when they appeared together. First lady, that’s a thankless role. At least it can be.

Comforter like Laura? Or cool like Michelle?

Hillary Clinton moved her office from the east wing to the west wing of the White House in 1993, where the president works. In her husband’s first year in office, she took on a political task: she was supposed to deal with health care reform. Hillarycare was a disaster, a 1,342-page plan that few understood, but Clinton followed through.

Laura Bush was supposed to be giving a lecture on early childhood development on the morning of September 11, 2001, when a plane hit the World Trade Center in New York, smoke, flames, a second plane. Laura Bush did not know then that the towers would collapse. But he assured parents to tell their children they were safe. US Weekly magazine called her “Chief Comforter,” an award.

In 2009, Michelle Obama moved into the White House, she was very quiet and very political, and at the latest when she said about Donald Trump and the Republicans in the Democratic Party in 2016: “When they go down, we go up,” many wished herself would run for office.

And Melania Trump? When her husband became president and she became first lady, many wondered how she would handle this position that so many previous women had shown could be more than just smiling and waving. After four years, part of the answer is: Melania Trump hasn’t tried it often herself. Again and again she withdrew for days, the US media searched for her, headline: “Where’s Melania?” You may not even realize that it will soon be gone.

Jill Biden wants to continue working as a teacher

Jill Biden was already in Washington when Joe Biden was Obama’s vice president, knows the White House, the pressure and was also by her husband’s side in the electoral campaign. And sometimes even before him. As Joe Biden spoke in Los Angeles on Super Tuesday, two activists burst onto the stage, but she intervened. Only then did the bodyguards arrive.

At the Democratic Party Conference in August, Jill Biden, who has since received her Ph.D. in Education, was hooked from a classroom. Behind her was a small table, an American flag, on the wall was written in colorful letters: “Attention! Only good humor is allowed here! “Then when it was her husband’s turn, she said,” I’m Joe Biden and I’m Jill’s husband. “Which was a joke. But someone also expressed respect for a woman who at some point started to make things heal. And it hasn’t stopped since.

On Saturday night, Joe Biden made a stop in his hometown of Wilmington. his victory speechIn front of him people who had come in cars, waving flags out the window, sitting on the hood and crying. He said, “Jill Biden will be an excellent first lady.” Honking, clapping, yelling. She will take care of families that have fathers and mothers, sons and daughters in the military. And she will continue to work as a teacher, the first lady to keep her job.

When President-elect Joe Biden finished speaking, the first lady-elect came on stage, waved and waved, you could see her laughing despite the mask, then the family came, then came too. Kamala harris Y her husband Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer who, shortly after the results were known, tweeted a photo of him hugging his wife: “Very proud of you”, two red hearts, two United States flags. The firm’s home page says that it works primarily in California in commercial and real estate litigation. However, it is currently on license.

Together they will have to reunite America.Both Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have said that in their speeches. People reading the New Yorker or scrolling through Breitbart, painting Black Lives Matter signs or waving Confederate flags living on Fifth Avenue or next to a disused steel mill somewhere in Pennsylvania. The 74.5 million who voted for Biden and Harris, the 70.4 million who voted for Trump.

It’s a great job. Some say: it is not possible. But if Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff can at least cope to some extent, then America may even be ready for the next step: the first female president and, by her side, the first first gentleman.

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