Jill Biden closed out the second night of the Democratic National Convention describing her husband in deeply personal terms as a loving father and supportive husband who rebuilt his life after a family tragedy after the death of his first wife  now be able to heal a deeply divided nation.

Speaking both as an educator who pursued her own career as you Joe Biden worked as a senator in Washington, she compared the fracture she helped heal in her husband’s family after the death of his first wife, Neilia, and 1daughter, Naomi, in a 1972 car accident to the emotional hollowness of America in the time of a pandemic.