When she has to be away, the first lady is often serving as the US President's emotional emissary, as she was in San Francisco, attending the memorial service of Richard Blum, longtime friend of the Bidens.
In her hotel suite at the Intercontinental in San Francisco last weekend, Jill Biden spontaneously scrapped a prepared fundraising pitch she was set to give later that day.
"We don't know where it's going to go. We just don't know. And we're all just holding our breath, aren't we? That something, some answer will come so that we don't get into this world war. It's unbelievable, right? To think that that could happen in our lifetime," she said, the paper in front of her dabbled with handwritten margin notes and cross-throughs."I just have to turn on the TV every morning and pray that Zelensky is still alive.
Biden has the only 24/7 perspective on how the situation with Russian President Vladimir Putin and his invasion is affecting President Joe Biden. Unlike their predecessors, the first couple share a bedroom in the White House, and when there is a so-called"3 a.m. phone call," the first lady is up, too.
When she has to be away, the first lady is often serving as the President's emotional emissary, as she was in San Francisco, attending the memorial service of Richard Blum, longtime friend of the Bidens and husband to California Sen. Dianne Feinstein. However, on a three-day domestic trip this week, which took the first lady to Arizona, Nevada and Kentucky, Biden made a pivot to political and policy messenger, reiterating the themes of the President's State of the Union address.
"This has just been so shocking to all of us," Biden said, before shifting back to her hype-woman role for her husband."In the face of uncertainty, he is unshakable, and I hope you saw that in the State of the Union and when he was on yesterday when he was talking about the oil embargo."
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