United States Election Campaign: Who Will Be the First Lady?

On election night, Jill Biden stood next to her husband on a stage in Delaware, clapped and clapped, her laughter could be seen despite her mask. Behind them American flags. A few hours later, Melania Trump and her husband appeared in front of the cameras at the White House. He declared himself the supposed winner, although millions of ballots are still being tallied – she was so far away from him that the cameras couldn’t see her. No mask.

America is about all counties, all voters, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania. It is not yet clear who will become the 46th president of the US and with him: who will be the 46th First Lady. This can also make a difference for the country.

When most states are counted at the end of election night, Joe Biden is just ahead. And with him his wife, who supported him to the end, in St. Petersburg, Florida, the morning of the election, on Twitter all night. “Keep the faith,” he wrote at 1:19 sharp that night.

Jill Biden was born in New Jersey and later grew up in Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. Said of herself that she was a “Philly Girl”, she still says it today, when she was 69 years old. Jill Biden is the first of five daughters, and when she was 15 she made a living for the first time as a waitress. She studies English, works at a community college, is doing a PhD in education. 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. Jill Biden, in turn, who was still called Jill Jacobs at the time, once said that she had to ask herself, “How do you heal a broken family?” And maybe these are very good prerequisites for a first lady who will have to heal an entire country starting in January 2021. At least if her name is Jill Biden.

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 the newspapers liked to write about her speeches and her robe (Jackie Kennedy), about her tax policy and that she bought china for the White House (Nancy Reagan) when they appeared together. First lady, that’s a thankless role. At least it can be.

Hillary Clinton moved into an office in the west wing of the White House in 1993, and the president works from there. 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 continued. First woman? In 2016 she wanted to sit in the Oval Office herself.

Laura Bush was going to give a talk on early childhood development on the morning of September 11, 2001, but in New York a plane hit the World Trade Center, 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. The magazine “US Weekly” called her “Comforter in Chief”, comforter of the nation, it was an award.

In 2009, Michelle Obama moved into the White House, she was very quiet and very political, and when she later said about the Republicans in 2016: “When they go down, we go up,” many wanted her to run for Democrats. She did not do it. Not yet.

“I have to do this, right?” Last night of the election, little was Melania Trump seen or heard. The map turned Texas red and Oregon blue, Florida red and New Mexico blue, but her last tweet was a video of her leaving the Florida polling place. Not only is there the golf course where her husband lost days and weeks of his presidency, the two are also enrolled there, at the Mar-a-Lago luxury hotel in Palm Beach.

When Donald Trump became president, and she became first lady, one of the many questions was how she would handle this position that so many women before her had shown could be more than just smiling and waving. After four years, part of the answer is: Melania Trump often didn’t even try it herself. Again and again she withdrew for days, the American media searched for her, headline: “Where’s Melania?”

In the middle of the election campaign, a phone call he made in 2018 was made public that could explain his absence. In it he complains to his adviser at the time that he was “working hard” for the Christmas decorations at the White House. “But she doesn’t give a shit about that.” Obviously you are the journalists who only asked about your husband’s immigration policy. She tried to get involved, Melania Trump says, but without success: “There is a procedure and laws.” So she takes care of the Christmas decorations, although she obviously doesn’t feel like it, she says, “I have to do this, right?” And maybe that pretty much sums up her time as first lady.

It looked like this after the El Paso shooting, where a right-wing extremist killed 22 people. For the hospital cameras, Melania Trump held up a baby who had lost his mother and father. The first lady did not console the nation, she mounted a photo with an orphan, then the triumphs flew back. Then, a few days ago, he spoke in Pennsylvania, American flag to American flag, the final impulse of the election campaign. He went to the desk and said, “I don’t always agree with the way you say things.” Pennsylvania is a competitive state, it could have been advertised again correctly. Instead, it seemed, well, like I had to do this.

Jill Biden could help her husband, as she usually does

When Donald Trump announced that he would speak late at night, two journalists and a reporter were sitting in the CNN studio. They said he was probably lying, then he lied, then they said he was lying. A President Biden, who was and is the hope of many, could end these lies and hatred. A First Lady Biden could help you, as is often the case. As Joe Biden spoke in Los Angeles on Super Tuesday, two activists burst onto the stage, but Jill Biden stood in front of her husband. Only then did the bodyguards arrive.

She spoke to him at the August Democratic Conference, and when it was his turn, he said, “I’m Joe Biden and I’m Jill’s husband.” That was a joke. But someone also expressed respect for a woman who at some point began to make things heal and hasn’t stopped since. She has already announced that she would like to continue working as a teacher if her husband wins the election. She would be the first lady to keep her job.

A few days ago, when the analyzes were more optimistic, when many still believed in a Democratic victory, it would have been Joe and Jill Biden’s job to unite this country starting in January. The people whoNew Yorker»Read or read«Breitbart»Scroll, paint Black Lives Matter posters, or hoist Confederate flags living on Fifth Avenue or next to a disused Pennsylvania factory. The task remains the same. But it’s not yet clear if they can start to fix them as well.

Posted: Nov 4, 2020 at 6:01 pm