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 GettyGretchen Whitmer, the Michigan governor seen as one of the Democrats' best prospects to replace Joe Biden, has ruled out running, Politico reported Monday.
But the swing state leader delivered a damning message to the campaign aide whom she called, the outlet's Jonathan Martin reported, saying that the president's debate performance will cost him Michigan.
Whitmer called the campaign chair, Jen O'Malley Dillon Friday, after a day of frenzied speculation that she would be a frontrunner if Biden could be persuaded to quit. The second-term swing state governor, however, told O'Malley Dillon that she "hated" her name being floated and that she was loyal to the president.
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 Mandel Ngan/AFP via GettyThe fallout from President Joe Biden's abysmal debate performance last week reached his wife's ill-timed Vogue cover story Monday, with first lady Jill Biden using the piece to signal that her husband isn't about to quit his re-election race.
In an editor's note at the top of the article, the magazine highlighted that Joe Biden's monumentally dreadful showing against Donald Trump on Thursday had "spurred a discussion" about whether the president should remain the presumptive Democratic nominee.
Speaking from Camp David, where the Biden clan holed up over the weekend, Jill Biden told Vogue that the family "will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he's been president. We will continue to fight." She added that her 81-year-old husband "will always do what's best for the country."
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 Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesJoe Biden's family told him Sunday to fight on after his disastrous debate performance in a verdict delivered at a Camp David gathering for an Annie Leibovitz photoshoot.
The president's wife, children and grandchildren were at the presidential retreat as a new poll showed three out of four voters do not believe the 81-year-old should seek a second term in the wake of Thursday night's mumbling, stumbling performance.
But instead of counseling the president to announce that he would not seek a second term, the Bidens blamed his staff for failing to prepare him to take on Donald Trump, The New York Times reported.
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 Reuters/Kevin LamarqueA beleaguered Joe Biden was holed up in Camp David on Sunday, reportedly preparing to discuss the future of his re-election campaign with close family members—although not, perhaps, with the one he should actually be talking to.
Three days after a disastrous performance in Thursday's first presidential debate against Donald Trump, the 81-year-old faces a torrent of calls—including from friends and former supporters—to drop out of the race for the sake of the nation.
But even those considered genuine Bidenworld "insiders" cannot agree on who might be best-placed to counsel the president as he faces the most consequential decision of his life: his wife of 47 years, Jill Biden; or the woman who has been at his side throughout his long political career, younger sister Valerie Biden Owens.
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