Karen Tumulty: Few first ladies have faced a test with the gravity of the one now facing Jill Biden

First lady Jill Biden at a campaign stop in Michigan this week, during a time of increasing calls for her husband not to seek re-election. Photo: AP

Karen Tumulty
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There could hardly be a more inopportune moment for America’s first lady to be gazing from the cover of Vogue, decked out in a $4,990 Ralph Lauren Collection silk tuxedo dress, along with earrings that cost nearly as much.

More jarring, at a time when so much is riding on the deliberations that are going on between Jill Biden and her husband, is the quote at the bottom of the photo: “We will decide our future.”