New First Lady Jill Biden – Only after Biden’s fifth proposal did she say yes

In the end, Joe Biden was leading 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 it: who is the 46th First Lady.

Jill Biden grew up in Pennsylvania, north of Philadelphia. She said of herself that she was a “Philly Girl”, she still says it today, at 69. She is the eldest of five daughters and once told the Philadelphia Inquirer about her youth: how a boy repeatedly annoyed his younger sister. The bell rang for him, one struck him. Because her parents – her father worked in a bank, her mother was a housewife – couldn’t afford the money for the Upper Moreland Swim Club, she would climb over the fence at night and go for her moonlit rides. In Philadelphia, she says, she learned to be independent.

Jill Biden studies English, works in 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 would have to ask herself, “How do you heal a broken family?”

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

Comforting 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 would have to deal with health reform. Hillarycare was a mess, a 1,342-page plan that few understood, but Clinton continued.

Laura Bush was supposed to give a lecture on early childhood development on the morning of September 11, 2001, when a plane entered 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 reassured the parents by telling their children they were safe. US Weekly magazine called it “Comforter-in-Chief,” an award.

In 2009 Michelle Obama moved to the White House, she was very cold and very political, and at the latest when she said of Donald Trump and the Republicans in the Democratic Party in 2016: “When they go low, we go high”, many they wished she would run to the office herself.

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 greeting. After four years, part of the answer is: Melania Trump hasn’t tried that often herself. Over and over she retired for days, the American 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 vice president under Obama, knows the White House and the pressures, and has also been alongside her husband in the election campaign. And sometimes even before him. While Joe Biden was speaking in Los Angeles on Super Tuesday, two activists burst onto the stage, but she stepped in. Only then did the bodyguards arrive.

At the August Democratic Party Conference, Jill Biden, who has since graduated with a bachelor’s degree in education, was tied by a classroom. Behind her was a small table, a flag of the United States, on the wall was written in large letters: “Warning! Only a good mood is allowed here! “When it was her husband’s turn, she said,” I’m Joe Biden and I’m Jill’s husband. “It was a joke. But someone also expressed respect for a woman who at some point started to heal things. then he never stopped.

On Saturday night, Joe Biden made a stop in his hometown of Wilmington his victory speech, in front of him people who had entered the car, waving flags from the window, sitting on the hood and crying. He said, “Jill Biden will be an excellent first lady.” Horn, applause, whistles. He will take care of families who have fathers and mothers, sons and daughters in the army. And she will continue to work as a teacher, the first woman to keep her job.

When Joe Biden, the president-elect, had finished speaking, the first-lady elect took the stage, greeted and greeted her, you could see her laughing despite the mask, then the family came, then she too came Kamala Harris is her husband Douglas Emhoff, a lawyer who, shortly after the results were released, tweeted a photo of him hugging his wife: “So proud of you,” two red hearts, two US flags. The company’s home page says it works primarily in California in real estate and commercial litigation. However, he is currently on leave.

Together they will have to bring the United States togetherBoth Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said this in their speeches. People reading the New Yorker or scrolling through Breitbart painting Black Lives Matter posters or hoisting Confederate flags living on 5th Avenue or near 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: not possible. But if Joe Biden and Jill Biden, Kamala Harris and Douglas Emhoff do at least to some extent, then the US may well be ready for the next step: the first female president and, alongside her, the first first gentleman.

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