Jill Biden went to Africa, and all anyone wants to talk about is 2024
It was an incongruous scene. Well over 1,000 Maasai had come to see the strange spectacle that had descended on their land. Many of them brought their cattle. Lositeti is the only water source for 12 villages, each with 1,000 to 1,200 people . And nearly every one of them had a cellphone, pointed at Jill Biden as she soft-shoed The Post’s questions about the president’s possible run in 2024.In many ways, this five-day trip to Africa was emblematic of Biden’s tenure as first lady.
Standing on that arid field in Lositeti two days later, wearing a traditional Maasai beaded necklace with her blue blazer, black sneakers and khakis, Biden seemed determined not to make any more news on that front.
She seemed equally averse to making news with the purported purpose of her trip, as announced by the president in a speech last week in Poland: to highlight how the Russian war in Ukraine is contributing to the food crisis in the Horn of Africa. “Putin tried to starve the world by blocking the ports of the Black Sea to stop Ukraine from exporting its grain.
But in her brief, impromptu statement after seeing the drought area, Jill Biden didn’t reference that issue. Her only mention of the conflict was when she looked into TV cameras and asked for everyone to remember that there are other crises in need of money. “We have to have other countries join us in this global effort to help these people of the region, and unfortunately there is the war in Ukraine,” she said. “There is the earthquake in Turkey.
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