RENO, Nev. — Jill Biden rested her elbow on the lectern and cradled her head in her hand. She flashed a knowing smile, then leaned toward the microphone.
“One morning, you just wake up,” the 73-year-old first lady said, her voice dropping for effect, “you look in the mirror and you say, ‘Where did these lines in my face come from?’”
The room chuckled. “Maybe you felt the same way coming here to launch ‘Seniors for Biden,’” she added. More laughs followed.
As campaign audiences go, the Seniors for Biden-Harris event was the right kind of venue for the wife of America’s oldest-ever president to gin up excitement for a potential second term for her husband. The roughly 200 attendees, in various stages of graying, listened attentively in rows of chairs — or, occasionally, wheelchairs and scooters. Jane Fonda, the 87-year-old actor and activist who’s practically synonymous with graceful aging, had introduced the first lady. (Kara Voght)
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