First Lady Dr. Jill Biden is Vogue’s August cover star just as election season kicks off in earnest in the United States — and only days after President Joe Biden’s shaky first debate performance rattled the Democratic Party.
On the cover — her second for the fashion magazine — Dr. Biden appears in a cream-colored Ralph Lauren silk tuxedo dress, photographed by veteran fashion photographer Norman Jean Roy.
The accompanying profile, written by Maya Singer, was completed pre-debate, as the Vogue writer shadowed FLOTUS during two April campaign stops in Minnesota: one to speak to the coalition Women for Biden-Harris in Minneapolis, and another to speak to Educators for Biden-Harris.
“We are the first generation in half a century to give our daughters a country with fewer rights than we had,” she said in her speech at the first event, according to Vogue.
“Book bans. Voting laws gutted. Court decisions that strip away our most basic freedoms. But circumstance is not destiny. … When our bodies are on the line, when our daughters’ futures are at stake, when our country and its freedom hang in the balance, we are immovable and unstoppable.”
Following the first presidential debate between President Biden and former President Trump, which was moderated by CNN on June 27, Biden advisers told CNN that his family continued their steadfast support for his bid for reelection.
Vogue reached out to the First Lady following the debate amid calls for the president to step down as the Democratic nominee. She told the magazine that they “will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been president. We will continue to fight.”
