Given that President Biden’s “lapses” in speech, acuity and energy were becoming “alarming” to people around him in the months leading up to his politically devastating debate performance last week, it’s hard to know what Jill Biden was thinking when she signed up to be Vogue’s latest cover star. It was “not particularly helpful” for the first lady to appear at this moment in time, Tina Brown, the former editor of Vanity Fair and the New Yorker, . The publication also faced backlash for its Jill Biden story, and not just among Donald Trump supporters.
Responses to for its August cover were overwhelmingly negative, with one person writing, “Read the room, Vogue,” while another said, “This is so absurd! How embarrassing for this magazine.” Vogue’s August issue landed online on Monday — four days after Jill Biden’s 81-year-old husband gave a halting, stumbling debate performance “so disastrous” that there continues to be widespread talk of replacing him on the ticket, author and political journalist Daily, Jill Filipovic . The Jill Biden story also was published the weekend after Jill, Joe and the rest of the Biden family gathered at Camp David to figure out how to “tamp down Democratic anxiety” about her husband’s fitness to beat Trump in November and serve a second term, But even for Democrats hoping that Biden will drop out of the race — amid some reports Wednesday that the Vogue story came with what could be seen as an ominous stat.
