Oh dear. Vogue magazine’s August cover dropped this morning and it transpires that its editorial team has decided on a rather curious cover star in the form of, er, Jill Biden. The First Lady has been revealed as the central focus of the summer cover a mere four days after her husband gave a pitiful performance at the presidential candidate debate on Thursday. Talk about bad timing…
President Biden stumbled and mumbled his way through his disastrous debate with Donald Trump last week – so much so that media outlets across the world questioned just how the President could remain the Democratic party’s choice for the 2024 US election. Yet while Democrats across the country try to forget Biden’s chaotic showdown, the First Lady seems determined to remind them of it. Addressing her husband’s humiliating performance, an editor’s note in the magazine states:
The debate on 27 June spurred a discussion about whether President Joe Biden should remain the Democratic nominee.
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