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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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Chris Lehmann, D.C. bureau chief for The Nation, discusses the ongoing fallout from Thursday's first presidential debate of 2024 and mounting pressure on President Biden to drop out of the race amid questions about his age and mental fitness. "It appears that Biden and his inner circle of advisers are doubling down," says Lehmann. "They took this incredible risk to do this debate … and they're now saying it's a greater risk to change horses."
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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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