Welcome to Thursday’s edition of Washington Secrets. We have all the chat from last night’s love-in with Jill Biden, and a key Republican leader shrugs off last night’s war powers vote.When Jill Biden took the stage in Washington on Wednesday evening to discuss her new memoir, she knew she was in for an easy ride, waving to friends and colleagues as she sat down.Quite how easy only became clear when Paola Ramos, an MS Now contributor who once worked for Biden, asked her first question.
“My gosh,” she said, trying to quiet the thunderous applause. “I wonder if they even know that it’s your birthday?”
The questions only became softer from there.
Even so, she still managed to stoke a growing feud within the Democratic Party by claiming she had always been honest about her husband’s ability to do the job, and by describing the immediate aftermath of that wreck of a debate in 2024, which ended any chance he had of contesting the election.
The audience lapped up every word.
