Jill Biden backs husband after brutal debate, tells Vogue 'we will continue to fight'

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First lady Jill Biden said Sunday that her family will not allow the president's brutal debate performance to define his presidency and will "continue to fight."

In a quote thrown onto the start of an already completed puff piece story in Vogue, Biden told the magazine that her husband "will always do what's best for the country."

"The debate on June 27 spurred a discussion about whether President Joe Biden should remain the Democratic nominee," Vogue added to Maya Singer's cover story published on Monday. "Dr. Jill Biden, the first lady and Vogue’s August cover subject, has fiercely defended her husband and stood by him. Reached by phone on June 30 at Camp David, where the Biden family had gathered for the weekend, she told Vogue that they ‘will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he’s been president. We will continue to fight.’ President Biden, she added, 'will always do what’s best for the country.'"

"Whatever happens in the weeks and months between now and November, it is Dr. Biden who will remain the president’s closest confidant and advocate," Vogue added.

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