Jill Biden, the president’s anchor and the voice that most encourages him to continue with the campaign

The American First Lady, Jill Biden, Not only has he shared almost half a century of life with the president, Joe Biden. She is his confidant, his anchor and the person who has most encouraged him in recent days to continue with his campaign for reelection, despite criticism of his performance in the debate.

Sources close to the campaign tell EFE that the first lady knows that her husband is a fighter and, although she admits that she had a bad night on June 27 against former Republican President Donald Trump (2017-2021), she believes that there is a long road ahead with more than four months until the November elections.

In the days since the debate, Jill has had to deploy her best skills, projecting confidence and normality in every public appearance, while not skimping on praise for her husband.

However, as she herself recounted the day after the debate at a fundraiser in New York, there were also moments of vulnerability. And at the end of the meeting with Trump, Biden turned to his life partner to confess: “You know, Jill, I don’t know what happened, I wasn’t feeling so well.”

In the face of his doubts, she showed confidence. “Look, Joe, we’re not going to let 90 minutes define the four years you’ve been president,” I answer.

That exchange is the most intimate detail yet known about how the president viewed his own performance in the debate, in which his voice sounded hoarser than usual and he occasionally struggled to finish sentences.

Despite criticism and voices from the Democratic Party asking her to step down, Jill is fully convinced that her husband can beat Trump and, in fact, if he couldn’t, she would be the first to tell him so, sources close to the campaign told EFE.

Jill is one of Biden’s top advisors, although he is a very firm person in his convictions and makes his own decisions.

According to those sources, she is the “rock” of his life, which has accompanied him in such difficult moments as the death of his son Beau in 2015 from cancer and the trial this year against his other son Hunter, who has been found guilty of three charges related to the illegal purchase and possession of a weapon.

At Hunter’s trial, the first lady sat in the front row and listened with fortitude as some of the worst moments in the life of the son she raised after the death of his mother, Neilia, Biden’s first wife, who has struggled for years with alcohol and drug addiction, were aired in public.

During the debate, Jill had to endure Trump’s attacks on Hunter and also on her husband, including the comment the Republican made when the president was unable to finish a sentence: “I don’t know what he said at the end of that sentence. I don’t think he even knows.”

After the debate, the presidential couple attended a celebration organized by the campaign, where Jill praised her husband’s performance before enthusiastic supporters. “You answered all the questions, you knew all the facts,” she said, before asking the audience: “And what did Trump do?” to which the crowd responded: “Lie!”.

That moment, captured on video and amplified on social media, has been used by ultra-conservative media outlets such as The Drudge Report to baselessly suggest that the first lady is manipulating the president to keep him in the race for the White House.

In the face of these accusations, Jill, who has avoided any controversy during her three years in the White House, has not been intimidated and has not left her husband’s side in all of his public appearances so far.

Last Friday she accompanied him to a rally in North Carolina, wearing a black dress with the word “Vote” (He voted) blank, and subsequently participated in several fundraising events in New York and New Jersey.

“When Joe falls, he gets up!”she said resolutely on Friday to a group of New York donors. And that is precisely the fighting spirit the couple wants to demonstrate when they return to the White House on Monday.

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