Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda to Co-Host Broadway Biden Fundraiser
Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda to Co-Host Broadway Biden Fundraiser
Plus, Jill Biden will team up with Christina Aguilera in social media abortion rights election message.
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Deadline
Hillary Clinton And Lin-Manuel Miranda To Host Joe Biden Broadway Fundraiser Performance Of 'Suffs: The Musical'
March 14, 2024 — Hillary Clinton and Lin-Manuel Miranda will host a Broadway fundraiser for Joe Biden’s presidential campaign next month that will feature a performance of Suffs: The Musical. Read more
The Hill
Jill Biden Teams Up With Christina Aguilera for Abortion-rights Push
March 13, 2024 — First Lady Dr. Jill Biden is teaming up with singer Christina Aguilera in a social media message urging voters to support abortion rights in elections this fall. Read more
East Wing Magazine
She Was Told Studying First Ladies Was ‘Trivial.’ She Did It Anyway.
March 13, 2024 — Why does studying America’s first ladies matter? That was the closing question in episode one of the new The First Ladies podcast that launched last week at the start of Women’s History month. Host Teri Finneman, a journalism professor at the University of Kansas who studies media portrayals of first ladies, sat down with Lisa Burns, a first ladies scholar and Quinnipiac University media studies professor who edited Media Relations and the Modern First Lady, to begin discussing the answer to that question over the course of 14 initial episodes. Read more
Newsweek
Jill Biden Revelations Emerge From Robert Hur Transcript
March 12, 2024 — Jill Biden offered to pay for architecture school for Joe Biden if he would quit politics, Joe Biden told Justice Department investigator Robert Hur. Read more
FOX News
PETA Pressures First Lady Jill Biden to Swap Eggs for Potatoes at Annual Easter Egg Roll: 'Spudtacular'
March 12, 2024 — PETA said that a potato roll 'would be truly inclusive and welcomed by every tot' in a provocative yet gimmicky message. View here
CBS News, KDKA
Pittsburgh-area Carpenter Invited to State of the Union Address as Guest of First Lady Jill Biden
March 9, 2024 — At the Carpenters Pittsburgh Training Center near Robinson on Saturday, Samantha Ervin-Upsher was still buzzing from the excitement of being invited to Thursday's State of the Union in Washington. Read more
Ebony
First Lady Dr. Jill Biden Kicks Off the Women for Biden-Harris Initiative With Multi-City Tour Highlighting Black Women-Owned Businesses
March 9, 2024 — Since the beginning of March, First Lady Dr. Jill Biden has traveled to key battleground states on her tour, Women for Biden-Harris, an organizing program spanning all 50 states that aims to reach and engage with women across the country who can help reelect Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Read more
Yahoo
Melania Trump Stuns In White Power Suit For Formal Dinner With Her Husband and Hungarian PM
March 9, 2024 — Melania Trump recently appeared alongside her husband, Donald Trump, at a formal dinner party held in Mar-a-Lago, where the ex-president played host to autocratic Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán. Read more
Politico
Why Republican and Democratic First Ladies Get Treated Differently
March 8, 2024 — Jill Biden still hasn’t forgotten when Kamala Harris essentially accused Joe Biden of being a segregationist. Melania Trump might not move back to Washington full time if Donald Trump wins the White House in November. And Hillary Clinton’s advisers say she never could have gotten away with how Laura Bush handled the Iraq War. These are just some of the insights Katie Rogers has gleaned after writing a new book on the transformation of the modern first lady. Read more
The Philadelphia Inquirer
President Biden and the First Lady Met With Delco Restaurant Owners in an Unannounced Visit
March 8, 2024 — In an unannounced visit en route to his rally, Biden stopped to meet with brothers Jack and David Cunicelli, the owners of 320 Market Cafe. Read more